After section 232A there shall be inserted—

“232B 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.

(2)

The provisions are section 227(1), section 230(2) and section 230(2A).”