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A reminder first of all of the way in which the STV would work in
parliamentary constituencies.
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Each constituency would return from three to nine members, five being
generally regarded as the optimum number.
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Every elector would have one vote.   It would not be cast by marking the
familiar X opposite the name of a single candidate.   Instead it would be
an expression of preferences, indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite
the name of the first-preferred candidate, the figure 2 opposite the name
of the second-preferred and so on.   The preferences could include as many
or as few of the candidates as the voter wished.
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A candidate would be elected not by securing a plurality of votes but by
securing a quota of votes.   A quota is established by dividing the total
number of valid votes by the number of members to be elected plus one, and
rounding up or adding one to the quotient.  In the framework of the STV
this apparently strange formula is rational.   In a typical United Kingdom
five-member constituency 250,000 votes might be cast.   The quota would
then be 250,000 divided by five-plus-one, i.e. 41,667.   No more than five
candidates could be credited with more than 41,667 votes each.   The quota
is the smallest number of votes to allow five candidates to be elected and
is just big enough to prevent the election of more than five.
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When the first-preference votes are counted any candidate who has secured
a quota is declared elected.
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After that - or if there are no such candidates - transfers come into
operation, entailing fresh counts.   Votes are successively transferred
from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and
from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the
relevant count.  Votes are transferred to the candidate next in the
voter's order of preference who has neither been already elected or
excluded, i.e. to the next "continuing candidate", as the STV jargon has
it.
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A company is regarded as dormant: in any period during which no
transaction occurs which must be recorded in the company's books, and if
it can claim small company exemptions under s.246, or could have but for
belonging to an ineligible group, and is not required to produce group
accounts.
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Advantage can be taken of the filing exemptions as a small company
provided that the appropriate note is included on the balance sheet.
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Disclose the names of persons who were directors at any time during the
year.
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Give details for directors at the year end of interests in shares and
debentures of any group company at the year end and at the beginning of
the year or subsequent date of appointment.
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Directors' report to be approved by the board of directors and signed on
behalf of the board by a director or the secretary of the company.   State
the name of the signatory.
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The balance sheet of the company must contain a statement from the
directors, immediately above the signature, that the company has been
dormant throughout the financial year.
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The balance sheet should be signed by a director on behalf of the board.
State the name of the signatory.
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Disclose the date on which the accounts were formally approved by the
board.
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A dormant company may pass a special resolution not to appoint auditors.
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Shaped curtains fitted to arched windows can not be operational.  The heading
must be fixed to the arch, and the curtains are draped back and held open with
tie bands.  This treatment gives a lovely shape both day and night.  It is
also possible to use festoon or ruched blinds at this type of window, but they
would only draw up satisfactorily as far as the level at the bottom of the
arch.  For a very simple treatment, dress only the rectangular section below
the arch, leaving the top uncovered.
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 Doors that swing inwards present the problem of curtain fabric interfering
with the operation of the doors.  One of the most practical treatments with a