{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-planning-scotland-act-1982/schedule-3/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-planning-scotland-act-1982/schedule-3/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/43",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-planning-scotland-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Schedule 7 (which relates to meetings and proceedings of local authorities)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(2) If the chairman is absent from a meeting of the council, the vice-chairman shall preside.\n(3) If the chairman and vice-chairman are absent from a meeting of the council, another member of the council chosen by the members present shall preside.” ; and\n(b) in paragraph 10—\n(i) for sub-paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(1) Paragraphs 5 to 9 above (except paragraph 7(2)) shall apply in relation to—\n(a) a committee (including a joint committee) of a council and that committee’s members ; or\n(b) a sub-committee of any such committee of a council and that sub-committee’s members,\nas those paragraphs apply in relation to a council and that council’s members.” ; and\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (2), after the word “members” there shall be inserted the words “recorded under paragraph 6 above as having been ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/43/schedule/3/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:56.660748+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."
}