Part 2

The community right to buy
Chapter 4

Procedure after activation of right to buy

Ballot procedure
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1
The ballot shall be conducted as prescribed; and the provisions prescribed shall include provision for the ascertainment and publication of the number of persons eligible to vote in the ballot, the number who did so and the numbers of valid votes respectively cast for and against the proposition mentioned in section 51(2)(b) above.
2
If the ballot is not so conducted, the right to buy of the community body conducting it is extinguished.
3
The community body which conducts a ballot shall, within the period set out in subsection (4) below and in the prescribed form of return, notify—
a
the result;
b
the number of persons eligible to vote;
c
the number who voted; and
d
the number who voted in favour of the proposition mentioned in section 51(2)(b) above,
to Ministers.
4
The period referred to in subsection (3) above is the period of 28 days beginning with the date—
a
when the valuer notified the community body under section 60(2) below of the assessed value of the land and any moveable property; or
b
where the price assessed by the appointed valuer is the subject of appeal, the date on which the price is determined on appeal as mentioned in subsection (2) of section 56 below or settled as mentioned in subsection (2)(a) of that section.