Presidents of the Association shall ex officio be members of the Council and entitled to vote.
12. Each Association that has been affiliated to this Association for the last three years, and has fifty or more Clubs which have been members thereof for at least one year, shall be entitled to send a representative to the Council, who must be elected as herein provided, and shall not be changed except by previous consent of the Council. Every Association claiming to return a representative to the Council, shall, during the month of June in each year, forward the name and address of such representative to the Secretary, together with a return in accordance with form C. Where Associations overlap each other, the senior Association shall have jurisdiction over a Club which is a member of that and another Association. The Secretary, on ascertaining the correctness of the claims, shall declare such representative duly elected. Any subsequent claims shall be submitted to the Council. The Clubs playing Association Football at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge shall collectively be deemed to be Associations within these Rules, and each University Association shall be entitled annually to appoint a Representative to the Council, but such Representative may not be changed during the year, except with the previous consent of the Council. The Council shall have power annually to elect to the Council a Representative of the Public School Clubs of the country.
13. The Secretary shall, immediately after the meeting held according to Article 42, send a form of nomination, with a list of all the Divisions and the Clubs composing them, to each Club belonging to this Association, and such form shall be duly filled up and returned to the Secretary on or before a date to be therein named (not being less than seven nor more than fourteen days after the date upon which the same shall be so sent by the Secretary).
14. Every candidate shall be nominated by three Clubs on form F. Such nomination shall be signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Committee of each Club for and on behalf of their Clubs. If only one candidate is nominated for a division, the Secretary shall declare him elected. If more than one candidate is nominated for any division the Secretary shall forthwith, after the time fixed for the close of the nominations, send a list of the candidates nominated and a form of voting paper to each Club in every such division, and such voting paper shall be duly filled up and returned to the Secretary on or before a date to be therein named (not being less than three
