To enable it to make such recommendation the Committee shall appoint an Advisory Committee from amongst its members.
47 To enable it to make such recommendation the Committee shall appoint an Advisory Committee from amongst its members.
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48. (a) The General Secretary of the Branch shall notify all persons who hold any one of the following offices, that is to say:
A member of the Committee;
A Branch Commissioner
An Area Commissioner;
A Regional Commissioner-
that the Advisory Committee is about to consider a recommendation for the office of Chief Commissioner Designate and shall invite those persons to submit nominations by the method set out in Clause 49.
Save as provided in Clauses 52 and 55 such recommendations shall be made as nearly as possible six months prior to the date upon which the person for the time being holding the office of Chief Commissioner is due to relinquish that office. The date upon which such recommendation is to be made is hereinafter referred to as "the recommendation date".
49. (a) Thirty days prior to the recommendation date (or within seven days after the occurrence of the events referred to in Clauses 52 and 55) the General Secretary shall forward to each of the persons referred to in Clause 48 a nomination form in a form and containing such information as the Committee may from time to time require with advice that in order to be valid the form duly completed shall be lodged with the General Secretary by a specified date, which date shall be not less than fourteen nor more than twenty-one days thereafter.
Any nomination shall be in the form provided for in sub-clause (a) of this Clause signed by the person submitting the same, and the person so nominated shall endorse upon the nomination form a statement of his willingness to accept the office.
The nomination form duly completed as set out in sub-clause (b) of this Clause shall be forwarded to the General Secretary by the specified date, in a sealed envelope marked on the face thereof "Confidential-Nomination of the Chief Commissioner Designate".
The Advisory Committee shall consider the names submitted, and table the nomination forms at a Meeting of the Committee, together with its recommendation.
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The Committee shall then determine the person who shall be recommended for approval pursuant to Clause 50. In so doing it shall accept or reject the recommendation of the Advisory Committee. In the event the Committee rejects the recommendation of the Advisory Committee it may decide upon one other of the names submitted, if there be any others; and if it does not so decide shall refer the matter back to the Advisory Committee for further recommendation.
If any of the members of the Committee is amongst those nominated, such member or members shall retire from the Meeting of the Committee during the period the Committee is deliberating upon the matter referred to in sub-clause (e) of this Clause.
50. The President on behalf of the Committee shall advise the Chief Scout the name of the person recommended by the Committee for appointment as Chief Commissioner Designate immediately following such recommendation and shall seek his approval. Upon such approval the person so recommended shall act as Chief Commissioner Designate.
51. The Chief Commissioner Designate, whilst holding office shall act as a Deputy of the Chief Commissioner, with such powers as the latter may delegate to him and notwithstanding that at the same time there may be another person also acting as Deputy Chief Commissioner.
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