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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-constitution-order-2008/schedule/paragraph-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-constitution-order-2008/schedule/paragraph-44.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2846",
  "legislation_title": "The Falkland Islands Constitution Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/falkland-islands-constitution-order-2008",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/44",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Voting",
  "text": "(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Constitution, any question proposed for decision at a sitting of the Legislative Assembly shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the elected members present and voting.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3), the person presiding at a sitting of the Legislative Assembly shall not vote unless on any question the votes are equally divided, in which case he or she shall have and shall exercise a casting vote.\n(3) The person presiding shall have a casting vote if he or she is an elected member of the Legislative Assembly; and if on any question before the Assembly the votes of the members are equally divided and the person presiding is not an elected member, the motion shall be declared lost.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/181",
      "affecting_title": "The Emergency Powers (Overseas Territories) Order 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/780",
      "affecting_title": "The Overseas Territories (Constitutional Modifications) Order 2020"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2846/schedule/paragraph/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:38.073834+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."
}