# Employment Relations Act 1999, Paragraph 9


After section 232A there shall be inserted—
“ Small accidental failures to be disregarded.
232B (1) If—
(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
(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,
the failure (or failures) shall be disregarded.
(2) The provisions are section 227(1), section 230(2) and section 230(2A).”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/26/schedule/3/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-1999/schedule-3/paragraph-9
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