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Procedure at meetings.
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19.—(1) The quorum for a meeting of the hospital board shall be four.
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(2) At a meeting of the hospital board—
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(a) the chairman of the hospital board shall, if he is present, be chairman of the meeting;
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(b) if the chairman of the hospital board is not present or if the office of chairman is vacant, the vice-chairman of the hospital board shall, if he is present, be chairman of the meeting;
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(c) if the chairman of the hospital board is not present or if the office of chairman is vacant and the vice-chairman is not present or the office of vice-chairman is vacant, the members of the hospital board who are present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
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(3) Every question at a meeting of the hospital board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote save where the question is the election of the chairman.
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(4) The hospital board may act, notwithstanding one or more vacancies amongst its members.
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(5) Where—
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(a) the Corporation, the board of health or the extraordinary members electorate purport to elect a person a member of the hospital board, and
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(b) such person acts as such member, and
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(c) there was any informality (including want of qualification on the part of such person) in the purported election of such person,
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then the acts and proceedings of such person shall, for the purposes of the proceedings of the hospital board but not further or otherwise, be as valid and effectual as if there had been no such informality.
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(6) Where a person duly elected as a member of the hospital board becomes disqualified for being a member of the hospital board, then the acts and proceedings of such person after his becoming disqualified shall, for the purposes of the proceedings of the hospital board but not further or otherwise, be as valid and effectual as if he had not become so disqualified.
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(7) The Minister may, by regulations made by him under this Act, regulate the procedure and business of the hospital board.
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(8) Subject to the provisions of this Act and any regulations made thereunder, the hospital board shall regulate, by standing orders or otherwise, the procedure and business of the hospital board.
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