{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-meetings-and-procedure-regulations-1987/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-meetings-and-procedure-regulations-1987/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/862",
  "legislation_title": "The Wages Councils (Meetings and Procedure) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-meetings-and-procedure-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Voting",
  "text": "(1) If the chairman of a meeting of a wages council thinks fit, or if more than half of the representative members present who represent employers, or who represent workers, request, a vote of the representative members shall be taken by sides and the vote of the majority of representative members present on each side shall be the vote of that side.\n(2) On such a vote, the independent members shall not vote but in the event of the vote resulting in a disagreement between the two sides, the question may be decided by the majority vote of the independent members present or, if the chairman is the only independent member present, by the vote of the chairman.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/862/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:45.813713+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."
}