Commission To Inquire Into Child Abuse Act, 2000

Meetings and procedure of Commission.

7.—(1) The Commission shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the performance of its functions.

(2) The Chairperson shall fix the date, time and place of the first meeting of the Commission.

(3) A meeting of the Commission or a part of such a meeting may, if the Commission considers it appropriate, having had regard to the desirability of holding such meetings in public, be held otherwise than in public.

(4) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Commission shall regulate, by standing orders or otherwise, the procedure and business of the Commission.

(5) The Commission may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies among its members.

(6) The Commission shall make such arrangements as it considers appropriate for the making of as complete a record as is practicable of the proceedings of the Commission and the Committees and, in relation to the custody, and the disposal (otherwise than in a manner that would contravene the National Archives Act, 1986 ), after the dissolution of those bodies, of the documents of the Commission or a Committee and of copies of any documents given in evidence to the Commission or a Committee.