Ballot procedure meaning

In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Business, investment and non-sponsored work Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Preventing illegal working Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments—Immigration calendar and Immigration White Paper Our Immigration calendar highlights the principal forthcoming changes of interest to business immigration advisers. In addition, our Practice Note: Immigration White Paper 2025—summary, tracker and resources offers a refreshed, wide-angled overview of activity around the May 2025 White Paper, ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’, including the ‘Earned settlement’ plans. It sets out the headline reforms for business immigration practitioners, comments on their potential effects, and continuously monitors progress on delivery. You will also find links to supporting materials. UK immigration control: how it works House of Commons Library publishes research briefing on history of asylum appeals in the UK The House of Commons Library has released a...

Updated on 28 February 2023 Information on the ballot procedure was made public 13 months after the Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) was widened to include citizens of India and Iceland on 1 January 2023 (via the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, HC 617). Under the YMS, 3,000 places per year are allocated to Indian nationals. This expansion was made further to the UK/Indian Migration and Mobility Partnership, signed in May 2021. The requirements are set out on a new guidance webpage...

This Practice Note outlines how to accept a takeover offer in respect of shares held through CREST. It does not include an introduction to CREST or uncertificated securities, nor practical steps for transferring CREST holdings. For guidance on those topics, including a primer on key terms, see Practice Note: CREST and uncertificated shares—an introduction. For information on the conduct of different shareholder and general corporate actions within CREST, see Practice Note: CREST—shareholder and general corporate actions. For an explanation of the procedure for launching a rights issue via CREST, see Practice Note: CREST—rights issues. For an explanation of the process for implementing an open offer in CREST, see Practice Note: CREST—open offers. Takeover offers in CREST Takeover offers are largely beyond the remit of this Practice Note; however, this Note explains how acceptance can be given for CREST-held shares. It does not specifically cover takeovers carried out by a scheme of arrangement, but the shareholder ballot on the scheme would be dealt with in the same manner as...

This Practice Note offers an overview of the Scottish Parliament. It outlines how its members are elected and how it uses its power to make laws. In that setting, it also sets out how the Scottish government is formed, and the roles it performs. Which voting system is used in Scottish Parliament elections? Elected representatives in the Scottish Parliament are called Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The voting method in use, the Additional Member System, blends a straightforward ‘first past the post’ constituency ballot with a proportional element. On election day, every voter has two votes: one for an MSP to represent the voter’s constituency (eg Edinburgh Central), and another for a political party or individual on a regional list (eg the region of Lothian) There are 73 constituency Members and 56 regional Members. The ‘first past the post’ system selects the MSP for each constituency. Afterwards, the ‘list’ votes are used to allocate MSPs to parties (and individuals)...

Large scale voluntary v small scale voluntary transfers Large scale voluntary transfer (LSVT) refers to moving all, or a significant proportion, of a local housing authority’s (LHA) dwellings to a typically newly formed private registered provider (RP) of social housing, which is entered on and overseen by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) in England. See Practice Note: Regulation of social housing in England. An LSVT ordinarily involves the disposal of 500 or more occupied and leasehold homes by the authority. An LSVT may cover the entire existing portfolio held by an LHA, or only part of it; the latter is termed a partial stock transfer by practitioners in practice. A small scale voluntary transfer (SSVT) means transferring 499 or fewer occupied and leasehold units usually within five years or less. An LHA proposing an SSVT must broadly follow the same procedure as for an LSVT to progress. However, there is generally potential to streamline the application requirements for an LSVT in appropriate cases. The transfer cannot proceed unless...