{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-of-committees-and-right-to-preside-rules-2007/rule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-of-committees-and-right-to-preside-rules-2007/rule-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1611",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-of-committees-and-right-to-preside-rules-2007",
  "path": "rule/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Conduct of ballots",
  "text": "(1) Where there is an equality of votes between any candidates in a ballot and the addition of a vote would entitle one of them to be elected the justices’ clerk shall decide between the candidates by lot.\n(2) Where a ballot paper is returned unmarked or marked in such a manner that there is a doubt as to the identity of the justice or justices for whom the vote is cast the ballot paper or the vote, as the case may be, shall be rejected when the votes are counted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/709",
      "affecting_title": "The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1611/rule/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:34:33.176379+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."
}