Acts of the Council.
Quorum.
Validity of acts of the Council.
Appointmeat
of committees.
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(2) Until the contrary is proved, a meeting of the Council or of a committee thereof, 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.
32. (1) All questions coming or arising before a meeting of the Council or of the standing committee shall be decided by a majority of the members present and voting thereon.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be deemed to limit the discretion of the Council or of any committee thereof to deter- mine any matter by the circulation of papers.
33. (1) At any meeting of the Council or of the standing committee five members shall be a quorum,
(2) The quorum for any committee of the Council appointed under section 35(1) shall be laid down in standing orders of the Council.
34. The proceedings of the Council or of a committee thereof shall not be invalidated by any vacancy among their number, or by any defect in the election or qualification of any member thereof.
35. (1) The Council may appoint committees which may include persons who are not members of the Council.
(2) At least two-thirds of the members of each committee shall be members of the Council, one of whom shall be elected as Chairman of the committee and as such shall have an original vote and, if the votes be equal, a casting vole.
(3) The Council may co-opt to any committee
(a) the Director of Urban Services;
(b) the Assistant Director (Hygiene) in the Urban Services
Department;
(c) with the consent of the Director of Urban Services, any
officer of the Urban Services Department;
(d) with the consent of the Colonial Secretary, any other
public officer,
and any person so co-opted shall serve on such committee.
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(4) Every person appointed to any committee who is not a member of the 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.
36. (1) Subject to subsection (4) the Council may by resolu- tion delegate any of its powers and functions to any member of the Council or to any committee of the 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 Council
(2) Any committee of the Council may by resolution delegate to any member of such committee or to any public officer such power and authority to enforce any of the provisions of any enactment conferring powers on the Council as may have been delegated by the Council to such committee.
(3) In any case where single member is exercising such delegated powers under the provisions of subsections (1) and (2), if he is not in agreement with a recommendation in writing of the appropriate public officer he shall refer such recommendation to the appropriate Select Committee or to the Council, and the Committee or the Council, as the case may be, shall decide whether the recommendation be accepted, modified or rejected.
(4) No delegation under subsection (1) or (2) shall authorize the exercise of any power-
(a) to approve the annual list of works or estimates of
income or expenditure of the Council;
(b) to raise any loan under section 42(1);
(c) to authorize the annual report or statements of revenue and expenditure and of assets and liabilities of the Council;
(d) to make any by-law or regulation; or
(e) to invest surplus funds of the Council under section 43
other than in a current account with a licensed bank.
PART VII
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
37. (1) The accounts of the Council shall be prepared in such form, and maintained in such manoer as the Accountant General may direct
Delegation of POWCTS,
Accounts of the Council.