Part V Industrial action
Requirement of ballot before action by trade union
232BF1 Small accidental failures to be disregarded.
1
If—
a
in relation to a ballot there is a failure (or there are failures) to comply with a provision mentioned in subsection (2) or with more than one of those provisions, and
b
the failure is accidental and on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot or, as the case may be, the failures are accidental and taken together are on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot,
the failure (or failures) shall be disregarded F2for all purposes (including, in particular, those of section 232A(c)).
2
The provisions are section 227(1), section 230(2) and section F3230(2B).