The triennial election shall be deemed to have taken place on the day fixed for the election. 19. The returning officer shall publish notice of the result of the poll and of the names of the persons elected, with their places of abode and descriptions. He shall also forthwith transmit a copy of such notice to the Education Department, and shall keep the ballot papers for six months, subject to the directions of the Education Department. 20. The expenses of the election and of taking the poll, and the remuneration to the returning officer and his assistants (if any), shall be paid by the school board out of the school fund. Provided that if any question shall arise between the returning officer and the school board as to his bill for expenses or remuneration, such bill shall be referred to the Education Department, whose decision thereon shall be final and conclusive (10). 21. Notices and other matters required by these regulations to be published shall be published in like manner as public notices are usually published in the parishes to which they relate (11). Parish of FORM OF NOTICE. TRIENNIAL ELECTION OF A SCHOOL BOARD IN A PARISH. Notice is hereby given 1. That the triennial election of a school board for this parish will take place on the day of 18 2. That the number of persons to be elected as members of the school board is 3. That any two ratepapers entitled to vote in this election may nominate any one person of full age, but no more, as a candidate, by sending to or delivering at (office or place to be specified) a nomination paper. A ratepayer may not join more than once in nominating a candidate in the election. The nomination paper must be dated and subscribed by the two ratepayers, and must contain the Christian names, surnames, (10) As to the scale of charges in respect of expenses and remuneration which has been prescribed by the Education Department for school board elections, see circular letter of the Department, which is set forth in notes to Rule 1 in Second Schedule to the 36 & 37 Vict., c. 86, p. 257. (11) As to the publication of notices, see note, p. 506. places of abode, and descriptions of the subscribers, and of the candidate nominated. No nomination paper will be received after four o'clock in the afternoon of the day of 4. That public notice will be given of the list of candidates on or before the day of 5. That any candidate may be withdrawn by delivering at (office or place to be specified), not later than four o'clock in the afternoon of the day of a notice of withdrawal signed by the candidate and addressed to the returning officer. 6. Notice of the boundaries of the polling-districts, and of the number and situation of the polling-stations, will be published on or before the day of Each voter must vote in the polling-district in which the property in respect of which he is rated is situate, and if it is situate in more than one polling-district, in any one of such pollingdistricts. 7. The poll will be open from till 8 P.M. 8. Every ratepayer of the parish whose name appears in the book containing the rate made on the day of is entitled to vote in the election. Paragraph I. (c) of the second schedule to the Elementary Education Act, 1873, provides that "in a parish which is not situate in the City of London, or in a borough, other than the borough of Oxford, the book containing the last rate made for such parish more than one month previously to any date shall be the register of the ratepayers entitled to vote in such parish at that date; and every ratepayer whose name appears in such rate-book shall be entitled to vote unless he is disqualified for voting, and no person shall be entitled to vote whose name does not so appear.” 9. The voting shall be by ballot. 10. That in this parish each voter has votes, all of which he may give to one candidate, or he may distribute all or some of them among the candidates as he thinks fit. Dated this day of 18 (State office or address.) Returning Officer. FIRST ELECTIONS OF SCHOOL BOARDS IN UNITED DISTRICTS. No general regulations have been made by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education with respect to the first election of a school board for a united district. A special order is made in each case; but when the united district consists of parishes for which no board has been previously elected, the regulations as to the election are similar to those for the first election of a school board for a parish (see p. 501). REGULATIONS AS TO TRIENNIAL ELECTIONS IN Triennial Election of School Board in United District not At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on the 25th day of October, 1886, the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education made a general order regulating the triennial election of a school board in a united district not including a borough. Article 2 of the order provides that "the returning officer shall be the clerk of the union of which a parish in the united district (to be selected by the Education Department) forms part, or the person for the time being discharging the duties of such clerk." Article 12 provides that the returning officer shall determine the number and situation of the polling-stations, and shall publish the same not less than three clear days before the day fixed for the election. Article 17 requires, with regard to the question which may be put to the voter at the time of his applying for a ballot paper, as to his being the person whose name appears in the rate book, that the question shall be as follows: (1.) Are you the person whose name appears as A. B. in the book containing the rate made for the parish of [name it] on the and rated therein for the property described as day of [specify date and property in rate book]? The form of notice of the election is modified to meet the case when the dates on which rates were made vary in the parishes included in the united district, and requires that the notice shall show in respect of each parish the date of the rate which qualifies persons to vote. In all other particulars, with the exception of "united district" being substituted for "parish," the regulations are similar to those applicable to the triennial election of a school board in a parish (see p. 508). Triennial Election of School Board in United District including Borough and one or more Parishes. The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education also made on the 25th day of May, 1886, a general order regulating the triennial election of a school board comprising a borough and one or more parishes." This order is similar to that with regard to triennial elections of school boards for united districts not comprising a municipal borough, except in the case of the following articles: 2. The returning officer shall be the mayor of the borough comprised in the united district, or other officer appointed by him. 6. After publication of the notice, but not less than ten clear days before the day fixed for the triennial election, any two persons whose names are on the burgess roll of the borough, or any two persons who are ratepayers in any one of the parishes above mentioned, and entitled to vote in the election of members of the school board for the united district, may nominate as a candidate any one person of full age, by sending to, or delivering at, the appointed place, a nomination paper, subscribed by such two persons as aforesaid, and stating the Christian name and surname, with the place of abode and description of each subscriber, and of the candidate nominated; and the returning officer shall send, forthwith, notice of such nomination to each candidate. A person shall not join more than once in nominating a candidate in the election. 13. If the borough is divided into wards, each voter shall give his vote in the ward in which the property in respect of which he is entitled to vote is situate, and if it is situate in more than one ward, he shall vote in any one of the wards in which it is situate. 14. With respect to the parish or parishes, or parts thereof outside the borough, the returning officer may cause such parish or parishes, or parts thereof to be divided into polling-districts. The said returning officer shall cause the boundaries of such districts, and the number and situation of the polling-stations to be published not less than three clear days before the day fixed for the election. 15. If such parish or parishes, or parts thereof, are divided into polling-districts, each voter shall give his vote in the pollingdistrict in which the property in respect of which he is entitled to vote is situate, and if it is situate in more than one pollingdistrict, he shall vote in any one of the polling-districts in which it is situate. 17. The poll shall commence at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. 19. The person presiding at the poll may, and if required by any two voters shall, put to any voter at the time of his applying for a ballot paper, but not afterwards, the following questions, or one of them, but no other: or in (1.) Are you the person whose name appears as A. B. on the day of and rated therein for the property described as rate book]? (2.) Have you already voted at the present election ? And no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he has answered the same. 21. The returning officer shall publish notice of the result of the poll and of the names of the persons elected, with their places of abode and descriptions. He shall also forthwith transmit a copy of such notice to the Education Department, and deliver the ballot papers to the town clerk, to be kept for six months among the records of the borough, and section 64 (b) of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apply as if it were inserted in this order. The form of notice of the election is modified in accordance with these articles. Triennial Election of Members by a Contributory District. The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education also made on the 25th day of May, 1886, a general order regulating the triennial election of members by a contributory district. |