Second Schedule.

Rules respecting Election of Members of a School Board.

1. The election of a school board shall be held at such time and in such manner and in accordance with such regulations as the Education Department may from time to time by order prescribe; and the Education Department may by order appoint or direct the appointment and make regulations as to the duties, remuneration, and expenses of any officers requisite for the purpose of such election, and do and make regulations respecting all other necessary things preliminary or incidental to such election, and revoke or alter any previous order, whether confirmed by or made in pursuance of this Act.

Provided as follows:

(a.)	The candidates at every election shall be nominated in writing:
(b.)	Any poll shall, so far as circumstances admit, be conducted in like manner in which the poll at a contested municipal election is directed by the Ballot Act, 1872, to be conducted; and, subject to any exceptions or modifications contained in any order of the Education Department 35 & 36 Vict. c. 33. made in pursuance of this Act, the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apply in the case of the election of a school board in like page 21 manner as if the provisions thereof were herein enacted with the substitution of "school board election" for "municipal election:"
(c.)	In a parish which is not situate in the city of London or in a borough, other than the borough of Oxford, the book containing the last rate made for such parish more than one month previously to any date shall be the register of the ratepayers entitled to vote in such parish at that date; and every ratepayer whose name appears in such rate book shall be entitled to vote unless he is disqualified for voting, and no person shall be entitled to vote whose name does not so appear.

2. Elections to fill casual vacancies in the metropolis and elsewhere shall be held only on the day in the year appointed or prescribed for the election of members, unless the Education Department order an election to be held on some other day, in pursuance of the rule numbered sixteen in the first part of the second schedule to the principal Act.

3. An order made in pursuance of this schedule shall, save as otherwise provided by such order, apply to all school boards.