The Police Federation Regulations 1969

SCHEDULE 3 ELECTIONS, ETC

1.  This Schedule shall apply in relation to the following bodies (hereafter in this Schedule referred to as “specified bodies”):—

• any branch board;

• each central conference;

• the conferences arrangement committee;

• each central committee.

2.  An election to a specified body shall be by secret ballot.

3.  At any such election each person qualified to take part therein shall be entitled to give the like number of votes as there are vacancies to be filled but shall not give more than one vote for any one candidate.

4.  Where at any such election an equality of votes is found to exist between any candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle any of those candidates to be declared elected, the decision between those candidates shall be reached by lot and the candidate on whom the lot falls shall be declared elected.

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, rules may be made by the appropriate rule-making body mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) as respects—

(a) the conduct of elections to a specified body, and

(b) the circumstances and manner in which casual vacancies thereon are to be filled, whether the vacancy occurs as a result of the death or resignation of a person or in consequence of any provision of these Regulations.

(2) The appropriate rule-making body shall be—

(a) in relation to a branch board, that board;

(b) in relation to the election of male delegates to a central conference by a particular branch board and to casual vacancies among those delegates, that board;

(c) in relation to the election of female delegates to a central conference and casual vacancies among those delegates, the joint central committee;

(d) in relation to the conferences arrangements committee, the joint central conference;

(e) in relation to the election of members of a central committee by a central conference and casual vacancies among those members, that central conference.