In these Rules—

• “due date” has the meaning given in rule 3(1);

• “elector” means a person who, on the day 28 days before the nomination day determined in accordance with rule 5(1), is registered in that part of the register to which an election relates;

• “electronic address” means any number or address used for the purpose of receiving communications which are sent electronically, the processing of which on receipt is intended to produce writing or images;

• “expenditure” has the meaning given in rule 14(2);

• “home country” means England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland;

• “home country representation requirement” means the requirement in paragraph 2(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Order that, of the registrant members and alternate members, at least one member shall be appointed from each of the home countries and that member shall live or work wholly or mainly in the country concerned;

• “Independent Scrutineer” means the person appointed in accordance with rule 4;

• “nomination day” shall be construed in accordance with rules 5(1) and 13(2)(a);

• “the Order” means the Health Professions Order 2001;

• “percentage differential vote” means the difference, expressed as a percentage, between the percentage of votes cast for a candidate and the percentage of votes which that candidate would have received if each candidate from his part of the register had received an equal share of the votes cast;

• “polling day” shall be construed in accordance with rules 8(2) and 13(2)(b); and

• “Returning Officer” shall be construed in accordance with rule 3.

Any requirement in these rules for any material to be received by the Returning Officer by a fixed date means that it shall be valid only if delivered to or received by post at the offices of the Council not later than 5 p.m. on that date unless (other than in the case of a nomination form required by rule 5(6), a consent to nomination required by rule 6(1), the withdrawal of a nomination under rule 7 or a return of election expenses under rule 15) it is sent electronically to the Returning Officer by the fixed date.