Hospital Elections Act of 1890 (NSW)

No. XXVIII.

An Act to amend the Law relating* to the Election of Trustees, Treasurers, and Officers of Hospitals. [20t7i December, 1890.]

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the r) E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with )

the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative authority of the same, as follows :—•

1. This Act may be cited as the " Hospital Elections Act of 2. Upon the passing of this Act, the ninth section of the Act eleven Victoria number fifty-nine, and the whole of the Act thirteen Victoria number twenty shall be repealed, but without predjudice to the past operation of any enactment so repealed. 1890. "

3. At any annual or special general meeting for the election of a treasurer and trustees of any public hospital within the meaning and under the operation of the Act eleven Victoria number fifty-nine, and at the annual meeting for the election of all other officers of any such hospital any qualified contributor shall be eligible for election, and shall be proposed and seconded by a qualified con- tributor at such meeting, and in the event of the number of persons proposed being greater than the number required, a vote shall be taken by ballot on the same day in the following week between the hours of ten in the morning and ten in the evening, or at any adjournment of the same meeting.

4. In the event of the number of persons proposed for election being greater than the number required, the Hospital Secretary shall forthwith transmit, by post or otherwise, to every contributor eligible to vote, a ballot-paper, initialled by the Secretary, containing the names of all the persons duly nominated, which ballot-papers, with the names of those persons struck out whom the persons voting desire

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to be struck out, shall be returned, addressed to the Secretary, in a closed envelope, containing the voter's signature inside, and endorsed " Ballot-paper" ; and all such envelopes endorsed as aforesaid shall be opened by the scrutineers to be appointed at any such election meeting, or any adjournment thereof.

5. Any person shall hereafter be qualified to vote at any meeting of contributors to any such hospital for the election of a treasurer, trustees, or any committee, or officers of the said hospital, or on any question brought before any such meeting aforesaid, if he or she shall have actually paid to the hospital a contribution of one pound sterling at the least, on or before the thirty-first of December in the year preceding the annual meeting, or at such meeting, or shall have con- tributed and paid ten pounds in one sum to the said hospital.