DENTISTS ACT
CHAPTER 94

FIRST SCHEDULE

1. Voting papers must be obtained from the registrar and votes must be given by closed voting papers in the following form, or of similar effect:
   COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGEONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
   Voting paper, Election for Members of the Council,
   District No. ....................
   members entitled to be elected.
   I, [name in full], of [city or town], British Columbia, registered and licensed member of the college, declare:
   (1) That the signature here is my proper handwriting.
   (2) That I vote for the person or persons whose name or names appear below as member or members of the council.
   (3) That I have signed no other voting paper at this election. Dated at ....................................,
   .................................. [month, day, year].
   (Signed) .........................................................
   (Tear off lower portion and seal in the enclosed envelope marked "Voting paper".)
   .............................................................................................
   Election for Members of the Council, District No . .........
   Name of candidate........................... .
   Name of candidate........................... .
   Name of candidate........................... .
   Name of candidate........................... .
2. The registrar must receive voting papers until 5 p.m. on the day of the election, and a voting paper received after that hour must not be counted.
3. The council must appoint 3 members of the college to open the voting papers, count the votes, and report the result to the registrar, who must record the results in a book provided by the college for that purpose.
4. A person entitled to vote at an election for members of the council is entitled to be present at the opening and scrutinizing of the voting papers.
5. Votes cast for a person who is ineligible to be a member of the council are void, and the election must be declared as if those votes had not been cast.
6. If a voter places more than the number of names of persons necessary to be elected at an election on his or her voting paper, the first name or names only of those persons eligible to be elected must be taken up to the number to be elected.
7. The person or persons having the highest number of votes, according as one or more members have to be elected at the election, is or are, subject to provisions as to the happening and filling of vacancies, the member or members of the council.
8. If there is a tie vote between 2 or more persons, a new election must be held to determine which of those persons is elected, and the new election must be held 14 days after the date of the previous election, and this Schedule applies.
9. On completion of the scrutiny, the registrar must at once declare the result of the election, and must publish the names of the persons elected in the Gazette for one issue.
10. The council may make rules it considers expedient, consistent with the Act and Schedule, for regulating the procedure at elections and under this Schedule.
11. A person must not sign the name of another person to any voting paper, or alter, or add to, or falsify, or fill up a blank in a voting paper signed by another person, or deliver or cause to be delivered to the registrar any false voting paper, or any voting paper that has been added to or falsified, or in which a blank has been filled up after it was signed.
12. If there is no registrar when an election under the Act is to be held, or if the registrar is unable, from unavoidable cause, to act at the election, the president of the college must appoint some other person to act as registrar and the person appointed must perform all the duties of the registrar as prescribed by this Schedule.
13. The voting papers belonging to an election and all other papers in connection with the election, must be retained by the registrar and must not be destroyed until after the next regular election.

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