A174
Ord. No. 39/85
REGIONAL COUNCIL
REGIONAL COUNCIL
Ord. No. 39/85
A175
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27. (1) The principal executive officer of the Regional Council shall be the Regional Services. Director of Regional Services.
Regional Services Department.
Secretary, Deputy
Secretaries and
Assistant
Secretaries.
Interpretation.
Standing orders.
Meetings of the Regional Council.
Minutes.
(2) The Director of Regional Services (or, with the consent of the Chairman, a Deputy Director or an Assistant Director) shall, notwithstanding that he is not a member thereof, attend the meetings of the Regional Council and report on the execution of its decisions and may tender such advice as he thinks fit.
(3) The Director of Regional Services may attend any meeting of a committee or sub-committee.
(4) With the consent of the chairman of any committee or sub-committee a Deputy Director or an Assistant Director may attend any meeting of that committee or sub-committee.
28. The Regional Council shall discharge its functions through the Regional Services Department which shall, under the direction of the Director of Regional Services, do all acts and things necessary for implementing the decisions of the Regional Council or of any committee or sub-committee to which or person to whom the Regional Council may have delegated the exercise of any of its powers under this or any other Ordinance.
29. (1) The Governor shall, after consultation with the Regional Council, appoint a Secretary to the Regional Council.
(2) The Governor may appoint Deputy Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries and such other staff as he may determine to assist the Secretary.
PART VI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL
30. In this Part, except in sections 35(2), 37(1), (2) and (3) and 38, “committee” includes any sub-committee.
31. The Regional Council may make standing orders for regulating its pro- cedure and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such standing orders may make such provision for the preservation of order at meetings as the Regional Council may deem necessary.
32. (1) The Regional Council shall meet at such times as may be laid down in standing orders and may adjourn from time to time.
(2) The Chairman may at any time summon a meeting of the Regional Council. (3) The Chairman shall, on a requisition signed by not less than 3 members of the Regional Council to that effect, summon a meeting of the Council within 7 days of receiving such requisition.
(4) Notice of meeting shall be given by the Secretary to each member of the Regional Council at least 2 clear days before the day of each meeting, except in case of emergency when as long a period of notice as possible shall be given.
(5) Accidental omission to give notice under subsection (4) to any member of the Regional Council shall not affect the validity of a meeting.
(6) The meetings of the Regional Council and any committee shall be held in public unless the Chairman or a chairman of such committee otherwise orders in accordance with a decision of the Regional Council or that committee.
33. (1) Minutes of the proceedings of the Regional Council shall be kept and authenticated in accordance with standing orders.
(2) Until the contrary is proved, a meeting of the Regional Council or of a committee, in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been kept and authenticated in accordance with standing orders, shall be deemed to have been duly
convened and held and all the members present at the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and where the proceedings are proceedings of a committee, the committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.
34. (1) All questions coming or arising before a meeting of the Regional Council shall be decided by a majority of the members present and voting thereon.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall limit the discretion of the Regional Council or any committee to determine any matter by circulating papers, and any papers so circulated may assume the agreement of the Regional Council or such committee to any matter unless a member notifies his disagreement within such time as may be specified in such papers.
Acts of the Regional Council.
35. (1) At any meeting of the Regional Council 9 members shall be a quorum. Quorum. (2) The quorum for any committee of the Regional Council appointed under section 37(1) shall be laid down in standing orders of the Regional Council.
36. The proceedings of the Regional Council or of a committee thereof shall not be invalidated by any vacancy among their number, or by any defect in the election or of the Regional qualification of any member thereof.
Validity of acts
Council.
Appointment of committees and
sub-committees.
37. (1) The Regional Council may, for the better discharge of its functions under this Ordinance, appoint committees which may include persons who are not members of the Regional Council.
(2) The Regional Council shall appoint one of its members to be chairman of any committee appointed under subsection (1).
(3) A committee appointed under this section may, for the better discharge of its functions, appoint sub-committees which may include persons who are not members of the Regional Council or of that committee.
(4) The Regional Council may co-opt to any committee-
(a) the Director of Regional Services;
(b) with the consent of the Director of Regional Services, any officer of the
Regional Services Department;
(c) with the consent of the Chief Secretary, any other public officer,
and any person so co-opted shall serve on such committee.
(5) Every person appointed to any committee who is not a member of the Regional Council and every public officer co-opted to serve on any committee shall be
a member thereof for the purposes of voting and determining a quorum.
38. (1) Subject to subsection (4) the Regional Council may by resolution Delegation of delegate any of its powers and functions to any member of the Regional Council or to powers. any committee of the Regional Council or to any member of any such committee or to any public officer with full powers to enforce any of the provisions of any enactment conferring powers on the Regional Council.
(2) Any committee of the Regional Council may by resolution delegate to any member of such committee or to any sub-committee established by it or to any member of any such sub-committee or to any public officer such powers and functions (including powers to enforce any of the provisions of any enactment conferring powers on the Regional Council) as may have been delegated by the Regional Council to such committee.
(3) In any case where a single member is exercising such delegated powers under the provisions of subsection (1) or (2), if he is not in agreement with a recommenda- tion in writing of a public officer he shall refer such recommendation to the Regional Council, and the Regional Council shall decide whether the recommendation be accepted, modified or rejected.