Questions arising at any Meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes and in case of any equality of votes the Chairman shall have a casting vote.
33 Questions arising at any Meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes and in case of any equality of votes the Chairman shall have a casting vote.
34. The Committee may delegate any of its powers to sub-committees consisting of two or more members of the Committee. Every such sub-committee shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated confirm to any regulations that may from time to time be imposed upon it by the Committee. Any such sub-committee may with the approval of the Committee appoint any person a member of such sub-committee.
35. The Meetings and proceedings of any such sub-committee shall be governed by the provisions herein contained for regulating the Meeting and proceedings of the Committee so far as the same are applicable thereto and are not superseded by any regulations made by the Committee under the last preceding Clause.
36. All acts done by any Meeting of the Committee or by any sub-committee shall notwithstanding that it shall afterwards be discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of all or any of the members be valid as if such member or members had been duly appointed.
VACATION OF OFFICE BY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEE
37. (a) The office of a member of the Council shall become vacant-
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if he becomes of unsound mind or a person whose person or estate is liable to be dealt with in any way under the law relating to mental health;
if by notice in writing to the Branch he resigns;
if the Council by a majority of two thirds of such of its members who shall be present at a Meeting duly convened for the purpose shall resolve that such member shall retire.
The office of a member of the Committee shall become vacant:
if he becomes of unsound mind or a person whose person or estate is liable to be dealt with in any way under the law relating to mental health;
if he is absent from three consecutive Meetings of the Committee without leave and the Committee determines that his office shall become vacant;
if by notice in writing to the Branch he resigns;
if the Committee by a majority of two-thirds of such of its members who shall be present at a Meeting duly convened for the purpose shall resolve that such member shall retire;
if his office become vacant pursuant to Clause 29.
RETIREMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEE
38. (a) At each Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Council one third of the lay members of the Council holding office under Clause 4(e) and one third of the members of the Committee other than ex officio members shall retire from office.
If the number of the aforesaid lay members of the Council or the members of the Committee other than ex officio members is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest the one-third referred to in sub-clause 38(a) shall retire from office.
39. Subject to Clause 4 the one-third or other nearest number to retire in each year shall be those who have been longest in office since their last election and as between two or more who have been in office an equal length of time the member to retire shall in default of agreement between them to be determined by lot. The length of time a member has been in office shall be computed from his last election or appointment where he has previously vacated office. A retiring member shall be eligible for re-election. For the purpose of this rule the length of time a member has been in office will include the period during which he has been a member of the Council or Committee of the Branch prior to the coming into operation of these By-laws.
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40. Subject to Clauses 4, 29 and 30 the Council at any Annual Ordinary General Meeting thereof at which any members of the Council or Committee retire in manner aforesaid may fill up the vacated offices by electing a like number of persons to be members of the Council or Committee (as the case may be).
41. If at any Annual Ordinary Meeting of the Council at which an election of members of the Council or Committee ought to take place the places of the retiring members are not filled the retiring members of the Council or Committee or such of them as have not had their places filled shall if willing to continue in office until the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Council in the next year and so on and from year to year until their places are filled unless (in the case of the Committee) it shall be determined at such Meeting on due notice to reduce the number of the members of the Committee.
42. The Council may from time to time increase or reduce the number of the members of the Committee and may also determine in what rotation such increased or reduced number is to go out of office.
43. A person who is a retiring member of the Committee or who is recommended by the Committee for election shall be eligible for re-election or election to the Committee as the case may be. No other person shall be eligible for election as a member of the Committee unless he is proposed by some member of the Council and he or the member of the Council proposing him has, at least seven clear days before the Meeting, left with the General Secretary of the Branch a nomination in writing duly signed by the member of the Council and the candidate.
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