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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-transport-partnerships-establishment-constitution-and-membership-scotland-order-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2005/0110697588",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Transport Partnerships (Establishment, Constitution and Membership) (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-transport-partnerships-establishment-constitution-and-membership-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Chairpersons and Deputy Chairpersons",
  "text": "(1) Each Partnership shall appoint from its membership a Chairperson and such number of Deputy Chairpersons as they consider appropriate.\n(2) Subject to sub paragraph (3) below, the Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of a Partnership shall each hold office for a period to be determined by the Partnership not exceeding two full council terms.\n(3) If, prior to the end of their period of appointment, a Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson of a Partnership ceases to be a member of the Partnership, they shall immediately cease to hold office.\n(4) The Chairperson, or in the Chairperson’s absence a Deputy Chairperson, shall preside at all meetings of a Partnership, but where both the Chairperson and all Deputy Chairpersons are absent from any meeting the members present shall appoint a Chairperson for that meeting.\n(5) In the event of an equality of votes at a meeting, the Chairperson of that meeting shall, subject to sub paragraph (6) below, have a casting vote as well as a deliberative vote.\n(6) Where there is an equality of votes at a meeting and the matter which is the subject of the vote relates to the appointment of a member of the Partnership to any particular office, committee or sub committee of the Partnership, the decision shall be by lot.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2005/0110697588/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:39.849108+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."
}