Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006

Committees, consultants and advisers to Authority.

17.— (1) Subject to the approval of the Minister, the Authority may from time to time appoint such and so many advisory committees and such and so many consultants or advisers as it may consider necessary to assist it in the performance of its functions.

(2) The appointment of a person to an advisory committee or as a consultant or adviser is for such period and subject to such terms and conditions as the Authority may consider appropriate.

(3) Any fees or expenses payable to a member of an advisory committee or to a consultant or an adviser must be agreed by the Minister with the prior consent of the Minister for Finance.

(4) An advisory committee must include persons who have special knowledge and experience related to the purposes of the committee concerned.

(5) The Authority may at any time dissolve an advisory committee.

(6) The Authority shall ensure the maintenance of an appropriate balance as between men and women in an advisory committee's membership.

(7) The Authority may engage under contract such, and such number of, persons to provide such services to the Authority under such terms and conditions as may, with the approval of the Minister and the consent of the Minister for Finance, be determined by the Authority.