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S.I. 1964/Number
4455

Table

Qualifications of Candidates and Electors

Number of
persons to
be elected
Qualifications
ofpersons
to be elected
Qualifications of persons
entitled to nominate and
take part in election
15

(one from each of the 15 areas determined by the Minister being the Regional Hospital Areas[1] for the purposes of the National Health Service Act 1946[2]), viz.:

  1. Newcastle
  2. Leeds
  3. Sheffield
  4. East Anglian
  5. North West Metropolitan
  6. North Metropolitan
  7. South East Metropolitan
  8. South West Metropolitan
  9. Oxford
  10. South Western
  11. Welsh
  12. Birmingham
  13. Manchester
  14. Liverpool
  15. Wessex
Registered general nurses (i.e. nurses registered in the general part of the Register), who on the date fixed for the last date for the receipt of nomination papers are engaged in the area for which they are purpose of the election as the candidates for election in nursing or in other work for which the employment of a registered nurse is requisite or for which a registered nurse is commonly employed. Registered general nurses (i.e. nurses registered in the general part of the Register), and registered fever nurses.
1 Registered mental nurse, being a man Registered mental nurses.
1 Registered mental nurse, being a woman
1 Registered sick children's nurse Registered sick children's nurses.

(2) In order to be eligible for election under this Scheme or to be entitled to nominate for and take part in the election, a person must have the requisite qualifications on the date fixed by the Returning Officer under paragraph 4 of this Scheme as the last day on which nomination papers are to be received.

  1. See the National Health Service (Determination of Regional Hospital Areas) Order 1946 (S.R. & 0. 1946/2158 ( Rev. XV, p. 515 : 1946 I, p . 1056 ) as amended (S.I. 1955/401, 1956/1484, 1958/2093, 1963/1125 ( 1955 I, p. 1262 ; 1956 I, p . 1511; 1958 II, p. 1540; 1963 II, p. 1912)) .
  2. 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 81.