{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-information-and-consultation-of-employees-regulations-2004/schedule-2/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-information-and-consultation-of-employees-regulations-2004/schedule-2/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110505107",
  "legislation_title": "The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-information-and-consultation-of-employees-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Conduct of the ballot",
  "text": "A ballot supervisor must publish an ineffective ballot report in such manner as to make it available to the employer and, so far as reasonably practicable, the employees entitled to vote in the ballot and the persons who stood as candidates in the ballot.\n14. Where a ballot supervisor publishes an ineffective ballot report, the outcome of the ballot shall be of no effect and—\n(a) if there has been a single ballot or an ineffective ballot report has been published in respect of every separate ballot, the outcome of the ballot or ballots shall be of no effect and the employer shall again be under the obligation in regulation 19;\n(b) if there have been separate ballots and sub-paragraph (a) does not apply—\n(i) the employer shall arrange for the separate ballot or ballots in respect of which an ineffective ballot report has been issued to be reheld in accordance with regulation 19, and\n(ii) no such ballot shall have effect until it has been reheld and no ineffective ballot report has been published in respect of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110505107/schedule/2/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:28.038777+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}