s 5 Compulsory voting
5.—(1) Every registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate on the day of election of candidates as members of the Board under section 4(2)(c) must vote for the election of those members at the time and in the manner prescribed, if any.[27/2005] (2) Every registered professional engineer who is required to vote for the election of the members of the Board in accordance with subsection (1) and who fails to do so is not entitled to apply for a practising certificate unless he or she —(a) satisfies the Registrar that he or she had a good and sufficient reason for not voting at the election; or (b) pays to the Board a penalty prescribed by the Board.[4A [27/2005]