In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires.-
(a) “Act” means the Karnataka Homoeopathic Practitioners Act, 1961.
(b) “form” means a form appended to these rules.
(c) “section” means a section of the Act.
PART II ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD [3. Election Roll for election of Members.- (1)The Registrar who shall be the Returning Officer for the purposes of election of members to the Board under sub-section (2) of section 3 shall prepare the preliminary electoral roll. The names of Registered Practitioners entered in part A and part B contained in the list of practitioners published under section 34 shall
1. Substituted by Notification G.S.R.7 dated:4-12-1973.
be arranged in alphabetical order in respect of each part. The names of such registered practitioners in respect of part A and part B shall constitute the preliminary electoral for the purposes of election of members from among the practitioners whose names are entered in part A or part B as the case may be and shall be published in the Officer Gazette:
Provided that in the case of elections to be held for the first time under the Act, the names of registered practitioners found in part A and part B of the register of practitioners maintained under section 22 shall be arranged in alphabetical order in respect of each part. The names of such registered practitioners in respect of part A and part B shall constitute the preliminary electoral roll for purposes of election of members from among the practitioners whose names are entered in part A and part B in the register as the case may be and shall be published on the notice board of the officer of the Board and at such other place or place, as my be specified by the Returning Officer for the purpose; and the fact of such publication of the preliminary electoral roll on the notice board shall be simultaneously announced by notice published in Kannada and English in the newspapers having the largest circulation in the State also specifying in such notice the last date within claims and objections relating to the entries or omissions in the preliminary electoral roll should be preferred.
(2) The Returning Officer shall prepare and publish in the Official Gazette on a date to be fixed by the State Government the preliminary electoral roll in Form I containing the names of all the electors for the electorate as indicated under sub-rule (1)
(3) The Returning Officer shall simultaneously publish a notice in the Official Gazette specifying the mode in which and the time within which claims and objections relating to the entries or omissions in the preliminary electoral roll shall be preferred.
(4) On or after the date fixed for the receipt of claims and objections, the Returning Officer shall pass orders in writing on each claim or objection and revise the preliminary electoral roll in respect of part A and part B of the Register in accordance with such orders and the rolls as so revised shall be published in the Official Gazette as the final electoral roll for the election of members to the seats allotted to practitioners whose names are entered in part A part B of the register, as the case may be.]