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Ord. No. 13/88

DISTRICT BOARDS (AMENDMENT)

unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the Board prior to the commencement of that perid and

(b) by inserting after subsection (2) the following-

Amendment of section 14.

5.

"(3) When the holder of the office for the time being of Chairman of a Rural Committee referred to in section 6(1)(b) fails throughout a period of 6 consecutive months to attend any meeting of the Board by reason of the prolonged illness of that person the Board may subsequently excuse the failure if that person seeks the approval of the Board within one month of his having recovered or substantially recovered from that illness.

(4) The period referred to in subsections (1)(ƒ) and (3) shall commence on the day next following the date of the meeting of a Board at which the member who is a member by virtue of section 6(1)(b) is first absent.".

Section 14 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by being renumbered as subsection (1);

(b) in subsection (1), by deleting paragraph (ea) and substituting the

following-

"(ea) subject to subsection (2), other than a member who is a member by virtue of section 6(1)(b), fails throughout a period of 6 consecutive months to attend any meeting of the Board unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the Board prior to the commencement of that period;"; and

(c) by inserting after subsection (1) the following-

Amendment of section 15.

6.

"(2) When a member fails throughout a period of 6 consecutive months to attend any meeting of the Board by reason of the prolonged illness of that member the Board may subsequently excuse the failure if that member seeks the approval of the Board within one month of his having recovered or substantially recovered from that illness.

(3) The period referred to in subsections (1)(ea) and (2) shall commence on the day next following the date of the meeting of a Board at which the member is first absent.".

Section 15 of the principal Ordinance is amended--

(a) in subsection (5A), by inserting after "(1)" the following-

"or at any other meeting of the Board at which a new Chairman is to be elected"; and

(b) by deleting subsection (6).