Government Gazette 29 December 2004
No.3361
Act No. 27, 2004
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NATIONAL HERITAGE ACT, 2004
may at any time convene a special meeting of the Council.
(4)
The Chairperson or, in the absence of the Chairperson, the Vice-Chairperson,
must preside at a meeting of the Council.
(5) If neither the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson are present at a meeting the
members present must elect a member to preside at that meeting.
(6)
At a meeting of the Council
(a)
a majority of the members of the Council forms a quorum;
(b)
all questions are decided by a majority of votes ofthe members present and
voting; and
(c)
the member presiding has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality
of votes, also a casting vote.
(7) The Council may invite any person who has expert knowledge of a matter
before the Council for determination to attend the meeting and take part in discussions in
relation to that matter, but that person has no vote.
(8) An act or decision of the Council is not invalid only because of a defect or
irregularity in or in connection with the appointment of a member of the Council.
(9)
The Council
(a)
may regulate its own proceedings;
(b)
must cause minutes of proceedings
Council to be kept.
and
and decisions at each meeting of the
Committees
12. (1)
The Council may establish one or more committees
(a)
consisting solely of members of the Council, to carry out any functions of
the Council delegated or assigned to it by the Council; or
(b)
consisting of members only, or members and other persons as the Council
may determine, to investigate and make recommendations to the Council
on any matter referred to it by the Council.
(2)
The Council must designate a member of the Council to be the chairperson
of a committee.
(3)
The Chairperson of the Council may attend a meeting of a committee of
which he or she is not a member and may take part and vote in the proceedings thereof as
if he or she were appointed as a member thereof.
(4)
The Council may at any time dissolve or reconstitute ~ committee.
(5)
The Council is not divested or relieved from a power or duty which has
been delegated or assigned to a committee.
(6)
A decision of a committee in the exercise of a power delegated to it is subject
to approval by the Council, and the Council may at any time vary or set aside the decision.