In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 36 of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 (48 of 1970), the Central Council of Indian Medicine with the previous sanction of the Central Government hereby makes the following regulations namely : -

1. Short Title

These regulations may be called the Central Council of Indian Medicine (Election of President and Vice-President) Regulations, 1971.

 

2. Definitions

In these regulations; unless the context otherwise requires :-

(a) 'Council' means the Central Council of Indian Medicine.

(b) 'Member' means a member either elected under sub-section (a) & (b) of Section 3 of the Act or nominated by the Central Govern­ment under sub-section (c) of Section 3.

(c) 'President' means the President of the Central Council under sub-section (2) of Section (3) of the Act.

(d) 'Vice-President' means one of the Vice-Presidents elected under sub-section (3) of Section 3 of the Act.

 

3. Election of President

      (1) The President of the Central Council shall be elected by members of the Council present at the            time of election, from amongst them­selves....              

       (2) The date, time and place of election shall be intimated to each of the member of the Council by
           the Secretary of the Council, who shall also perform the functions of the Returning Officer for this
           purpose.

(3) (i) Any member present would be entitled to propose the name of any other member present,
    for election as the President.

 (ii)The proposal shall be required to be seconded by a member other than the proposer or the      one whose name is proposed;

Provided that one member will be entitled to propose or second only one name.

(4) Any candidate may withdraw his candidature before the actual election.

 

(5) If the name of only one candidate is duly proposed and seconded, the Returning Officer shall forthwith declare, in Form 'B' such candidate as duly elected.

 (6) If the number of candidates duly proposed and seconded exceeds one, an election shall be held by  secret ballot.

 (7) Before the commencement of the election, the Returning Officer shall invite the mem­bers to  inspect the ballot box, in case they like to do so, and he shall then look the ballot box.

 (8) (i) At the time of actual election, the mem­bers present in the meeting shall, one by one, sign     against their names in the list containing names of all the members in alphabetical order and     placed along­side the ballot box.

 (ii) After a member has signed his name in the list afore mentioned, he shall be given a ballot paper  in form 'A' which he shall drop into the ballot box after affixing thereon a cross ( X ) mark  against the name of the candidate of his choice.