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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dundee-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-1992/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1435",
  "legislation_title": "The Dundee Port Authority Harbour Revision Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dundee-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-1992",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Poll",
  "text": "(1) On the day appointed for the election, the returning officer shall ascertain the number of votes cast for each candidate and shall declare elected the candidate receiving the highest number of votes.\n(2) Where, after the counting of the votes (including any re-count) is completed, an equality of votes is found to exist between any candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the returning office shall forthwith decide that candidate by lot, and proceed as if the candidate on whom the lot falls had received an additional vote.\n(3) A declaration by the returning officer of the election of any candidate shall be evidence of that fact.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1435/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:21:09.615866+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."
}