Meetings of Legal Aid Committee
7 Meetings of Legal Aid Committee
A Legal Aid Committee shall hold such meetings as are necessary for the performance of its functions.
Meetings of a Legal Aid Committee shall be convened at any time by the Chairman or, if for any reason the Chairman is unavailable, by the person elected under regulation 4(b) to preside at meetings at which the Chairman is not present.
At a meeting of a Legal Aid Committee, 3 members constitute a quorum.
The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Committee at which he or she is present, and if the Chairman is not present the member elected under regulation 4(b) shall preside.
Questions arising at a meeting of a Legal Aid Committee shall be determined by a majority of the votes of members present and voting.
The member presiding at a meeting of a Legal Aid Committee has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a casting vote.
A Legal Aid Committee may regulate the conduct of proceedings at its meetings as it thinks fit and shall cause minutes of the proceedings to be kept.
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