Article 115B Small accidental failures to be disregardedF1

(1)

If—

(a)

in relation to a ballot there is a failure (or there are failures) to comply with a provision mentioned in paragraph (2) or with more than one of those provisions; and

(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,

the failure (or failures) shall be disregardedF2 for all purposes (including, in particular, those of Article 115A(c)).

(2)

The provisions are Article 108(1), Article 111(2) and Article 111(4).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1999 NI 9
F2: 2004 NI 19

Notes on the whole Order

Textual amendments

F1: functions transf. by SR 1999/481