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The Hong Kong Association of Banks By-laws
[1981 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Chairman of Committee meetings.
Voting at meetings of the Committee.
Adjournments of meetings of the Committee.
Minutes of meetings.
Custody of the Common Seal.
10. (1) The Chairman, or in his absence the Vice-Chairman, shall be chairman at a meeting of the Committee.
(2) If, 15 minutes after the time appointed for any meeting of the Committee, neither the Chairman nor the Vice-Chairman is present, the members of the Committee may elect one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
11. (1) Subject to section 21(1) of the Ordinance, a question arising at a meeting of the Committee shall be decided by a majority vote of the members present and voting.
(2) At a meeting of the Committee each member present shall have one vote, and in the event of an equality of votes the Chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
12. (1) A meeting of the Committee may be adjourned from time to time and place to place, but no business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting which was adjourned.
(2) It shall not be necessary to give notice of an adjourned meeting unless the meeting which was adjourned has so directed.
13. Minutes of meetings of the Committee and all sub-committees thereof shall be entered in the records kept by the Secretary for that purpose, and any such minutes, if purporting to be signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings were held, or by the Chairman of the next succeeding meeting, shall be evidence of the proceedings.
14. (1) The Committee shall provide for the safe custody of the Common Seal of the Association.
(2) Subject to section 3(3) of the Ordinance, the Common Seal of the Association shall not be used or affixed to any instrument except on the authority of a resolution of the Committee or of a sealing sub-committee appointed by the Committee for that purpose.
Term of office of elected members of Consultative Council.
PART II
THE CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL
15. All elected members of the Consultative Council shall be elected at the Association's annual general meeting and shall retire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting after the meeting at which they were elected but, subject to section 9(1)(b) and (4) of the Ordinance, shall be eligible for re-election.