{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-rules-1991/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1405",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-courts-constitution-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Conduct of ballots generally",
  "text": "(1) Where, under a ballot conducted under any provision of these Rules, there is an equality of votes between any candidates, and the addition of a vote would entitle one of them to be elected, the justices' clerk shall forthwith decide between those candidates by lot.\n(2) Where, under a ballot conducted under any provision of these Rules, a ballot paper is returned unmarked or it is marked in such a manner that there is a doubt as to the identity of the justice or justices for whom the vote is cast, the ballot paper or the vote, as the case may be, shall be rejected when the votes are counted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1405/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:39.702744+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."
}