Section 5: Common provisions

Article L. 4125-1, the first three paragraphs of Article L. 4125-2, Articles L. 4125-3, L. 4125-3-1, L. 4125-4, L. 4125-5, L. 4125-7 and L. 4125-8 and L. 4126-1 to L. 4126-6 are applicable to the nursing profession under conditions laid down by regulation.

Subject to the provisions of article L. 4124-6 and articles L. 145-5-2 and L. 145-5-3 of the Social Security Code, only nurses of French nationality or nationals of one of the Member States of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who are registered with the Association may stand for election.

Where it transpires, subsequent to his election, that an elected member of a Council of the Bar, a Disciplinary Chamber or a Social Insurance Section has been subject, before or after his election, to one of the sanctions referred to in 3° and 4° of article L. 4124-6 of this Code and in 3° and 4° of article L. 145-5-2 of the Social Security Code, he shall be automatically declared…

If an elected member ceases to hold office for any reason whatsoever, he is immediately replaced by a substitute. If there is no substitute, a supplementary election is held to fill the vacant seat as from the date on which the vacancy is established. The member thus elected shall remain in office until the date on which the term of office of the member he replaces would have expired. The…

The members of the nurses’ association councils are elected in a single-round majority binominal ballot. Each pair is made up of candidates of different genders. If the Council of the Order has an uneven number of members, the member of the last elected pair drawn by lot is considered to be elected. Elected substitutes shall be of the same gender as the member they are deputising for. Notwithstanding the preceding…

Councils are elected by a majority of the members present or having voted by post or electronically. A decree in the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the composition of the various councils and disciplinary chambers of the Nurses’ Association, the duration and frequency of renewal of the terms of office of their members, their operating rules and the principles governing elections to these bodies. The procedures for elections by electronic means…