Meetings and proceedings of Board
Schedule 2 Meetings and proceedings of Board
section 7
1. Meetings
(1) The President shall call such meetings of the Board as are necessary for the exercise of its powers and the performance of its functions.
(2) The Minister may, at any time, direct the President to convene a meeting of the Board and the President shall convene a meeting in accordance with the direction.
(3) At a meeting of the Board, the President or, in his or her absence the Vice-President, shall preside and in the absence of both, the members shall elect one of their number to act as President and that person may exercise the powers and shall perform the functions of the President for that meeting.
(4) The quorum for a meeting of the Board is 3, of whom one shall be an elected member.
(5) Questions arising at a meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting, and the member presiding at the meeting shall have both a deliberative vote and a casting vote.
(6) The President may invite a person to attend a meeting of the Board for the purpose of assisting or advising the Board in its deliberations, but a person attending by invitation is not included towards a quorum for the meeting and is not entitled to vote.
(7) Where a meeting of the Board is concerned with a matter arising under Part 5 in relation to a member, the member shall not be present at the meeting in his or her capacity as a member, and shall not act in that capacity in respect of the matter.
(8) The Board shall cause to be kept full and accurate minutes of its meetings.
(9) Subject to this clause, the procedure at meetings of the Board shall be as decided by the Board.
2. Committees
The Board may establish a committee to advise it on a matter.
(2) The Board may appoint persons who are not members to be members of a committee, but the membership of a committee shall comprise at least one member of the Board.
3. Validity of proceedings
A proceeding or decision of the Board is not invalid by reason only of:
(a) a defect or irregularity relating to the appointment of a member or a deputy of a member; or
(b) a deputy of a member having acted in the place of the member when the occasion for him or her to do so had not arisen or had ceased.
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