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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-4/chapter-3/article-4n19",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/347",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018",
  "path": "part/4/chapter/3/article/4n19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4.18",
  "heading": "Decisions on nomination",
  "text": "(1) In the case of a decision on the nomination of a liquidator—\n(a) if on any vote there are 2 nominees, the person who obtains the most support is appointed;\n(b) if there are 3 or more nominees, and one of them has a clear majority over both or all the others together, that one is appointed; and\n(c) in any other case, the convener or chair must continue to take votes (disregarding at each vote any nominee who has withdrawn and, if no nominee has withdrawn, the nominee who obtained the least support last time) until a clear majority is obtained for any one nominee.\n(2) The convener or chair may at any time put to the meeting a resolution for the joint nomination of any 2 or more nominees.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/347/part/4/chapter/3/article/4n19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:16.461516+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."
}