{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-council-election-scheme-rules-order-of-council-2004/schedule/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-council-election-scheme-rules-order-of-council-2004/schedule/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3318",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Professions Council (Election Scheme) Rules Order of Council 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-council-election-scheme-rules-order-of-council-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Declaration of Election",
  "text": "(1) Immediately after the polling day the Independent Scrutineer shall cause—\n(a) the ballot papers to be withdrawn from the envelopes and for the votes validly cast for each candidate to be counted;\n(b) the electronic votes validly cast for each candidate to be counted; and\n(c) the total votes validly cast for each candidate to be calculated.\n(2) A vote shall be deemed to have validly cast if, but only if, it has been cast in accordance with these Rules.\n(3) If in any poll the same number of votes is cast for each of two or more candidates, the Returning Officer shall, where necessary to decide the result of the election, determine by lot which of the candidates shall be deemed to have obtained the highest or the next highest number of votes for the purposes of these Rules.\n(4) When the Returning Officer declares the result of an election, he shall certify in writing—\n(a) the name of each person elected and that person’s home country;\n(b) if a poll has been held, the names and home countries of all other candidates, the total number of votes cast and the numbers of votes cast respectively for the persons elected and for every other candidate; and\n(c) whether, having regard to all the results that he is certifying, a Council comprising the persons elected as registrant members and alternate members, when taken together with any continuing registrant members and alternate members, would meet the home country representation requrirement and if not, which home country would not be represented,\nand shall present the certificate to the Council at their next meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3318/schedule/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:14.122788+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."
}