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Section 229: Voting paper.

Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 · 1992 c. 52View on legislation.gov.uk

Part V: Industrial action

The method of voting in a ballot must be by the marking of a voting paper by the person voting.

The voting paper must contain at least one of the following questions—

a question (however framed) which requires the person answering it to say, by answering "Yes" or "No", whether he is prepared to take part or, as the case may be, to continue to take part in a strike;
a question (however framed) which requires the person answering it to say, by answering "Yes" or "No", whether he is prepared to take part or, as the case may be, to continue to take part in industrial action short of a strike.

For the purposes of subsection (2) an overtime ban and a call-out ban constitute industrial action short of a strike.

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The voting paper must specify who, in the event of a vote in favour of industrial action, is authorised for the purposes of section 233 to call upon members to take part or continue to take part in the industrial action.

The following statement must (without being qualified or commented upon by anything else on the voting paper) appear on every voting paper—

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