{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/schedule-5A/part-3/chapter-n16/crossheading-article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/schedule-5A/part-3/chapter-n16/crossheading-article-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/5A/part/3/chapter/n16/crossheading/article-33",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 33",
  "text": "The following provisions shall apply to voting in the Assembly:\n(a) each member shall have one vote;\n(b) except as otherwise provided in article 34, decisions of the Assembly shall be made by a majority vote of the members present and voting;\n(c) decisions where a two-thirds majority is required shall be a two-thirds majority vote of members present; and\n(d) for the purpose of this article the phrase “members present” means “members present at the meeting at the time of the vote”, and the phrase “members present and voting” means “members present and casting an affirmative or negative vote”. Members who abstain from voting shall be considered as not voting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5A inserted (17.7.1997) by 1997 c. 28, s. 14(2), Sch. 3; S.I. 1997/1539, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/schedule/5A/part/3/chapter/n16/crossheading/article-33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:07.847944+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."
}