Section 2 Manner of voting on, and majority required for resolution.

Section 1 of this Act shall apply in relation to every amalgamation or transfer of engagements notwithstanding anything in the rules of any of the trade unions concerned or in the following provisions of this section.

For the purposes of the passing of a resolution to approve an instrument of amalgamation or transfer, the committee of management or other governing body of a trade union shall, unless the rules of that union expressly provide that this subsection shall not apply in relation to that union, have power, notwithstanding anything in the rules of the union, to arrange for a vote of the members of that union to be taken in any manner which that body think fit.

Where, in the case of a trade union, a vote is taken (whether under arrangements made under subsection (2) of this section or under provisions in the rules of the union) on a resolution to approve an instrument of amalgamation or transfer, a simple majority of the votes recorded shall be sufficient to pass the resolution, notwithstanding anything in the rules of the union and, in particular, notwithstanding anything in those rules which, but for this subsection, would require the resolution—