{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smart-meter-communication-licensee-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2020/article-146",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/629",
  "legislation_title": "The Smart Meter Communication Licensee Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smart-meter-communication-licensee-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2020",
  "path": "article/146",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "146",
  "heading": "Use of proxies by the chair",
  "text": "(1) Where a proxy appoints the chair (however described in the proxy) as proxy-holder the chair may not refuse to be the proxy-holder.\n(2) Where the SMCL administrator is appointed as proxy-holder but another person acts as chair of the meeting, that other person may use the proxies as if that person were the proxy-holder.\n(3) Where the chair holds a proxy which includes a requirement to vote for a particular resolution and no other person proposes that resolution—\n(a) the chair must propose it unless the chair considers that there is good reason for not doing so; and\n(b) if the chair does not propose it, the chair must as soon as reasonably practicable after the meeting deliver a notice of the reason why that was not done to the person making the proxy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/629/article/146",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:12.067094+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."
}