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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.
Secretary,
Deputy
Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries.
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 procedure 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
Interpretation.
Standing orders.
Meetings of the Regional Council.
Minutes.