{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-1999/schedule-3/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-1999/schedule-3/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/26",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Relations Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 232A there shall be inserted—\n“ Small accidental failures to be disregarded.\n232B (1) If—\n(a) in relation to a ballot there is a failure (or there are failures) to comply with a provision mentioned in subsection (2) or with more than one of those provisions, and\n(b) the failure is accidental and on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot or, as the case may be, the failures are accidental and taken together are on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot,\nthe failure (or failures) shall be disregarded.\n(2) The provisions are section 227(1), section 230(2) and section 230(2A).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/26/schedule/3/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:14.050329+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."
}