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Meetings and procedures of Board
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14. (1) The Board shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the due performance of its functions.
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(2) The Minister shall fix the date, time and place of the first meeting of the Board.
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(3) The chairperson may call a meeting of the Board at any reasonable time.
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(4) Subject to subsection (6), at a meeting of the Board—
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(a) the chairperson shall, where present, chair the meeting, or
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(b) where and so long as the chairperson of the Board is not present or where that office is vacant, the other members of the Board who are present shall choose one of their number to chair the meeting.
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(5) Any 5 or more members of the Board may call a meeting of the Board where the chairperson—
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(a) refuses to call a meeting after being presented with a requisition for that purpose signed by not fewer than 5 members of the Board, or
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(b) without refusing to call a meeting, does not call one within 7 days after being presented with the requisition.
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(6) The members present at a meeting called under subsection (5) shall choose one of their number to chair the meeting.
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(7) The quorum for a meeting of the Board shall, unless the Minister otherwise directs, be 4.
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(8) Each member of the Board present at a meeting of the Board shall have a vote.
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(9) Every question at a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of those members of the Board present and voting on the question and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the person chairing the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
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(10) Subject to subsection (7), the Board may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies among its members.
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(11) The Board may hold or continue a meeting—
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(a) with all participants physically present, or
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(b) with the use of any means of communication by which all the participants can hear and be heard at the same time (in this section referred to as a “remote meeting”).
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(12) A member of the Board who participates in a remote meeting shall be taken for all purposes to have been present at the meeting.
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(13) Subject to this Act, the Board shall regulate its own procedures.
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