Nominations are required for the election of two Councillors (see page 7) which will take place at the Annual General Meeting on 6 April 2005. Nomination Forms are available from the Secretary and nominations should be sent on these or in the format required to the Secretary by 9 February 2005. Please submit the names and signatures of the nominee, with a proposer and seconder, who should all be paid up members of the Branch. In the event of the Secretary receiving more nominations than vacancies there will be a postal ballot. The Constitution states that ballot papers must then be sent to all paid-up members, including a short biography (less than 200 words)of each nominee, by 9 March 2005. Ballot papers must be delivered to the Secretary not less than 10 days prior to the Annual General Meeting. The result of any postal ballot will be determined by the method of the Single Transferable Vote (as published by the Electoral Reform Society, 1976).

The result of the election will be announced at the AGM to be held on Wednesday 6 April 2005 at 8.45 am.

The current membership of the Council and existing Committees is presented below: