Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868

31Preparation of First Register under this Act. Revision by Registrar and Assistant Registars. Authentication by the Vice-Chancellor. Register to be conclusive.

On the first Day of October One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight the Registrar shall proceed to make up from the Registration Book an alphabetical Register of Members of General Council, which Register shall be in the Form of Schedule (F.) to this Act annexed, and shall be completed within Fifteen Days ; but no Names shall be included therein which have not been entered in the Registration Book before the said First Day of October ; and the said Register, having been completed by the Registrar as aforesaid, shall forthwith be revised and so far as necessary corrected by him, with the Assistance of Two Members of the General Council acting as Assistant Registrars, and who shall have been nominated and appointed for that Purpose by the University Court at a Meeting to be held of such Court on or before the said First Day of October ; and the Revision or Correction shall be completed and a Copy of the Register, with the Names numbered from One onwards in regular Order, shall be signed by the Registrar and Assistant Registrars on or before the Twenty-first Day of October following ; and the Copy so signed shall thereafter be submitted by the Registrar to the Vice-Chancellor, and shall be authenticated by his Signature on every Page thereof, on or before the Twenty-fifth Day of October next ensuing; and the Register so authenticated shall, so far as it remains unaltered by the University Court as herein-after provided, be conclusive of the Right of Persons to be Members of the General Council from the Twenty-sixth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight to the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, both Days inclusive : Provided always, that at any Meeting of or Election by the General Council of any University appointed to take place on or before the said Twenty-sixth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight the Registration Book for such University, as it stood on the Thirtieth Day of September immediately preceding, shall be conclusive Evidence of the Right of all Persons whose Names shall be entered therein to be Members of such General Council until the Fifth Day of November following.