{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-232B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-232B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/52",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992",
  "path": "section/232B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "232B",
  "heading": "Small accidental failures to be disregarded.",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) in relation to a ballot there is a failure (or there are failures) to comply with a provision mentioned in subsection (2) or with more than one of those provisions, and\n(b) the failure is accidental and on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot or, as the case may be, the failures are accidental and taken together are on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot,\nthe failure (or failures) shall be disregarded for all purposes (including, in particular, those of section 232A(c)).\n(2) The provisions are—\n(a) section 226B(5) (requirement to send contact information to scrutineer);\n(b) section 227(1) (entitlement to vote in ballot);\n(c) section 228B(3) (requirement to provide a convenient opportunity to vote);\n(d) section 228C(2)(c) (requirement to send provision concerning how votes are counted where a person casts multiple votes with voting materials);\n(e) section 228C(2)(d) (requirement to send provision concerning how votes are counted where a person casts multiple votes with workplace voting notice);\n(f) section 230(2) (requirement to send voting paper);\n(g) section 230(2B) (requirement to make voting paper available to merchant seaman);\n(h) section 230D (requirement to send workplace voting notice);\n(i) section 230E(1) (requirement to set up voting stations);\n(j) section 230E(2) (requirement for voting station to be near workplaces it serves);\n(k) section 230E(4)(c) (requirement to provide voting papers for workplace voting);\n(l) paragraph 12(1) of Schedule A1A (requirement to send electronic voting materials);\n(m) paragraph 12(4) of Schedule A1A (requirement to use contact information provided by trade union);\n(n) paragraph 14(1) of Schedule A1A (requirement to send hybrid voting materials);\n(o) paragraph 16(5) of Schedule A1A (requirement to make hybrid voting materials available to merchant seaman).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 232B inserted (18.9.2000) by 1999 c. 26, s. 4, Sch. 3 paras. 1, 9; S.I. 2000/2242, art. 2(2) (with transitional provisions in art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 232B(1) inserted (6.4.2005) by Employment Relations Act 2004 (c. 24), ss. 24(1)(a), 59(2)-(4); S.I. 2005/872, art. 4, Sch. (with arts. 6-21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 232B(2) substituted (25.8.2026) by The Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/881), arts. 1(3), 7(15) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/232B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:34.194369+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."
}