{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-joint-boards-scotland-order-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-joint-boards-scotland-order-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2589",
  "legislation_title": "The Valuation Joint Boards (Scotland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-joint-boards-scotland-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Conveners and depute conveners",
  "text": "(1) Each board shall appoint from its membership a convener and depute convener, but the convener and depute convener shall not, at any time, be members of the same constituent authority.\n(2) The convener and depute convener of a board shall each hold office until whichever is the earlier of—\n(a) the date of the ordinary election next following the date of his appointment; and\n(b) the date of his ceasing to be a member of the board.\n(3) The convener, or in his absence the depute convener, shall preside at all meetings of a board, but where both the convener and the depute convener are absent from any meeting the members present shall appoint a convener for that meeting.\n(4) In the event of an equality of votes at a meeting, the convener of that meeting shall, subject to sub-paragraph (5) below, have a casting vote as well as a deliberative vote.\n(5) Where there is an equality of votes at a meeting and the matter which is the subject of the vote relates to the appointment of a member of the board to any particular office or sub-committee of the board, the decision shall be by lot.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2589/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:34.186008+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."
}