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A226

Ord. No. 56/77

Meetings of Council.

Committees.

Disclosure of member's interest.

CONSUMER COUNCIL

(3) The Chairman and any other member appointed under subsection (1)(c) may at any time—

(a) resign his office by notice to the Governor; or

(b) be removed therefrom by the Governor for permanent incapacity

or other sufficient cause;

and upon such resignation or removal the term for which he was appointed shall be deemed to have expired.

(4) Where the Chairman or any other member appointed under sub- section (1c) is precluded by temporary incapacity or other cause from exercising his functions as such for any period the Governor may appoint another person to act in place of the Chairman or other member during such period with all such rights, powers, duties or liabilities as if he had been appointed under subsection (1).

(5) The Executive Director may authorize any other officer of the Council to attend a meeting in his stead, and in that case such officer shall be deemed for all purposes to be a member of the Council.

(6) Where any question arises under subsection (3) or (4) as to whether any incapacity or cause exists or whether any incapacity is temporary or permanent or any cause sufficient, the decision of the Governor thereon shall be final.

7.

(1) Meetings of the Council shall be held at such times and places as the Council or the Chairman may from time to time appoint.

(2) The following procedural provisions shall apply to every meeting of the Council and subject thereto the Council may regulate its own procedure-

(a) 8 members shall form a quorum;

(b) the Chairman or acting Chairman shall preside or, if both are absent or disqualified under section 9(c), the members present shall appoint one of their number to preside;

(c) every question shall be determined by a majority of votes of

the members present and voting thereon;

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(d) in the event of an equality of votes the member presiding shall

have a casting vote in addition to his ordinary vote.

8. (1) The Council may appoint committees and may delegate to them the exercise and performance of any of its powers and functions except this power of delegation.

(2) Persons who are not members of the Council are eligible for appointment to committees.

(3) Subject to the terms of any delegation by the Council, every committee-

(a) may exercise and perform the delegated powers and functions

with the same effect as if it were the Council itself;

(b) shall be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms

of the delegation in the absence of proof to the contrary;

(c) may regulate its own procedure.

9. If a member of the Council, or of any committee of the Council, has a direct or indirect commercial interest in any matter under discussion at a meeting of the Council or of the committee, being an interest greater