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Where at a meeting of a local authority or a joint committee or joint board or any committee or sub-committee thereof held under this Act or held under any other enactment or any statutory order which does not contain any provision on the subject an equal number of votes is given for two or more persons—
(a)in the election of a member of the authority, joint committee, joint board, committee or sub-committee to any office or of a person to be a member of any committee or sub-committee; or
(b)in the selection of a member of the authority, joint committee, joint board, committee or sub-committee to preside in the absence of the chairman (by whatever name he may be known); or
(c)in the election by a local authority of a person to fill a casual vacancy on the authority,
the meeting shall determine by lot which of the persons, for whom an equal number of votes is given, shall be elected or selected, as the case may be.
(1)The Secretary of State before making an order under this Part of this Act shall cause a draft of the proposed order or a notice setting forth the place at which and the period during which a copy of the draft may be inspected free of charge to be published in such manner as he shall determine in order to make the same known to all persons interested and shall consider any objections and representations respecting the proposed order and may if he sees fit to do so cause a local inquiry to be held.
(2)Any order made by the Secretary of State under this Part of this Act or a notice setting forth the place at which and the period during which a copy of the order may be inspected free of charge shall as soon as may be be published by the clerk of the local authority to whom the order applies in the Edinburgh Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in the area to which the order relates.
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