Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

Decision on questions.

4 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order that may be applicable and to any provisions of standing orders relating to the suspension of such orders, all acts of, and all questions coming and arising before, a local authority or any committee or sub-committee of a focal authority shall be done and decided by a majority of the members of the authority or committee or sub-committee, as the case may be, present and voting at a meeting of the authority or committee or sub-committee, as the case may be:

Provided that any decision to transact at an ordinary meeting of a local authority or of any committee or sub-committee thereof business of which notice has not been given shall not, if standing orders made by the local authority so provide, be arrived at except by such majority greater than a bare majority as may be specified.

(2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, in the case of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting vote.