Medical Registration Act |
Medical Council (Election of Members) Regulations |
Rg 1 |
REVISED EDITION 1990 |
(25th March 1992) |
[15th January 1954] |
Citation |
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Council (Election of Members) Regulations. |
Returning Officer |
2. The President of the Medical Council, or any other person whom the Medical Council may from time to time appoint, shall be the Returning Officer for the purpose of these Regulations. |
Vacancies |
3. Whenever there is any vacancy on the Medical Council for registered medical practitioners to be elected under section 4(1)(d) of the Medical Registration Act, the Returning Officer shall within 30 days of any such vacancy occurring cause to be published a notice calling for the nomination to him of candidates to fill the vacancy, and shall cause nomination forms to be sent together with the notice to every registered medical practitioner resident in Singapore. The notice shall be, as nearly as may be, in Form A in the Schedule, or to the like effect. |
Nomination paper |
4. A nomination shall be made in Form B in the Schedule and forwarded to the Returning Officer. |
Time of acceptance of nomination |
5. No nominations shall be accepted by the Returning Officer unless received by him not later than 21 days after the date of the publication of the notice under regulation 3. |
Vacancies filled by number of nominations |
6. If the Returning Officer receives no more valid nominations than there are vacancies to be filled, he shall declare the candidates nominated to be elected and shall report accordingly to the Medical Council at its next meeting. |
Vacancies exceeded by nominations |
7. If the Returning Officer receives more valid nominations than there are vacancies to be filled, he shall send by post to every registered medical practitioner in Singapore the following documents:
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Voting for candidates for vacancies only |
8. A registered medical practitioner may vote for not more candidates than there are vacancies to be filled, by placing a mark on the ballot paper against the names of the candidates for whom he desires to vote. He should then enclose the ballot paper in Envelope A which he should sign in the presence of a witness, who should be either a registered medical practitioner, a Justice of the Peace, or an advocate and solicitor, and the witness should sign Envelope A accordingly. Envelope A should be enclosed in Envelope B which should be forwarded to the Returning Officer. |
Notice |
Procedure |
10.—(1) Those Envelopes A which are not rejected shall be opened and the ballot papers extracted still folded and placed in a suitable receptacle.
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Counting of votes |
11.—(1) The Returning Officer shall cause the votes given to each candidate to be counted and shall declare to be elected by notice in such newspapers as he considers fit the candidate or candidates with the highest numbers of votes.
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Sealing of papers |
12. The opened Envelopes A and the ballot papers counted shall be sealed in separate parcels. |
Retention of sealed parcels |
13. Subject to any directions that the President of the Medical Council may give, such sealed parcels shall be retained by the Medical Council for one year and shall then be destroyed with the seal unbroken. |
Appeals |
14. Any question whether a person is a registered medical practitioner, or whether a candidate has been validly nominated or whether a vote may be counted shall be decided by the Returning Officer and any decision of his under these Regulations shall be final and conclusive:
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Complaints |
15. Any complaint that a candidate or any person on his behalf has used corrupt methods or undue influence in order to secure the election of that candidate and any complaint that any person has used corrupt methods or undue influence in order to secure the rejection of a candidate shall be made to the Medical Council who may investigate the complaint and take such action (including declaring the election void in whole or in part) as it may think fit. |