Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.

A.—s.

(2.) Every Board established under any of the compiled Acts and existing at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be established under this Act, and the|members thereof then in office shall so continue until the expiry of their ordinary term of office under such 5 compiled Act or until their successors are elected under this Act, but they shall be eligible for re-election. ' 39. With respect to the ordinary election of the members of the Board (other than the Chairman) the following provisions shall apply :— (a.) The Clerk shall act as Returning Officer, and shall do all things Iq necessary for the proper conduct of the election. (b.) The first ordinary election shall be held within not less than twenty nor more than thirty days after the constitution of the district in the case of districts hereafter constituted, and before the expiry of the current ordinary term of office in 15 the case of existing Boards. (c.) Each subsequent ordinary election shall in every case be held within not less than twenty nor more than thirty days before the expiry of the current ordinary term of office. (d.) The Governor may from time to time extend the period within 20 which any election shall be held for such time as he thinks fit, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding. (<?.) The Returning Officer shall give fourteen days' notice, in one or more newspapers circulating in the district, of the day 25 and place of election. (/.) For the purposes of each election the Registrar shall compile and supply to the Returning Officer a roll setting forth the name of every industrial union entitled to vote, and every such union, but no other, shall be entitled to vote accordingly. 30 (g.) The roll shall be supplied as aforesaid not less than fourteen days before the day fixed for the election, and shall be open for free public inspection at the office of the Clerk during office hours, from the day on which it is received by the Clerk until the day of the election. 35 (h.) Persons shall be nominated for election in such manner as the rules of the nominating industrial union prescribe, or, if there is no such rule, nominations shall be made in writing under the seal of the union and the hand of its chairman or secretary. (i.) An industrial union not entitled to vote shall not be entitled to 40 nominate. (j.) Each nomination shall be lodged with the Returning Officer not later than five o'clock in the afternoon of the fourth day before the day of election, and shall be accompanied by the written consent of the person nominated. 45 (k.) Forms of nomination shall be provided by the Returning Officer on application to him for that purpose. (I.) The Returning Officer shall give notice of the names of all persons validly nominated, by affixing a list thereof on the outside of the door of his office during the three days next 50 preceding the day of election. (m.) If it appears that the number of persons validly nominated does not exceed the number to be elected, the Returning Officer shall at once declare such persons elected.

Existing Boards continued in office. 1900, No. 51, sec. 37

Provisions for ordinary eleotions. Ibid, sec 38

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