Paragraph

“Recording of votes

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(1)

Where immediately after a vote is taken at a meeting of a relevant body any member of that body so requires, there must be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of that meeting whether that person cast a vote for the question or against the question or whether that person abstained from voting.

(2)

In this paragraph “relevant body” (“Corff perthnasol”) means the relevant authority, a committee or sub-committee of the relevant authority or a relevant joint committee or sub-committee of such a committee.

Signing minutes- extraordinary meetings

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Where in relation to any meeting of the relevant authority the next such meeting is a meeting called under paragraph 3 (extraordinary meetings) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972, the next following meeting of the relevant authority (being a meeting called otherwise than under that paragraph) must be treated as a suitable meeting for the purposes of paragraph 41(1) and (2) (signing of minutes) of that Schedule M1.”