National Maternity Hospital, Dublin (Charter Amendment) Act, 1936

Meetings of the corporation.

6.—(1) Such part of the provisions of the Charter as provides for meetings of the corporation shall be and is hereby repealed.

(2) In the year 1937 and in every subsequent year on a date not being later than the thirtieth day of June in each year a meeting of the corporation shall be held at the hospital or other convenient place. In addition to the annual meeting special meetings of the corporation may and shall be convened by the honorary secretary or honorary treasurer if and when required by order of the executive committee (by this Act constituted) or on a requisition signed by at least fifteen members of the corporation. At every meeting of the corporation ten members thereof shall constitute a quorum.

(3) At the annual meeting and at every special meeting of the corporation the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin for the time being shall be the chairman thereof or in his absence the Lord Mayor of Dublin for the time being or in the absence of both the Administrator for the time being of the Catholic Parish of Saint Andrew, Westland Row, Dublin. In the absence of all the aforesaid three persons the governors present shall elect one of their number to be chairman of the meeting and in the event of two or moregovernors receiving an equal number of votes the question as to which of them is to be chairman shall be decided by lot.

(4) The annual statement of accounts provided for by the Charter shall be made up to the thirty-first day of December in every year and presented by the executive committee to the next annual meeting.