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Meetings and procedures of Board
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22. (1) The Board shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the performance of its functions but in each 2 month period of each year shall hold at least one meeting.
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(2) The Minister, in consultation with the chairperson of the Board, 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) Any 5 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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(5) The members present at a meeting called under subsection (4) shall choose one of their number to chair the meeting.
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(6) Subject to subsection (5), at a meeting of the Board—
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(a) the chairperson of the Board 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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(7) The quorum for a meeting of the Board shall—
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(a) where subsection (4) applies, be 4 ordinary members and the member chosen under subsection (5) to chair the meeting,
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(b) where subsection (6)(b) applies, be 4 ordinary members and the member chosen under that subsection to chair the meeting, and
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(c) in any other case, be 4 ordinary members and the chairperson.
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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 the members of the Board present and voting on the question, and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairperson of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
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(10) The Garda Commissioner shall not be a member of the Board or a committee of the Board but the Garda Commissioner may, in accordance with procedures specified by the Board or such a committee, attend meetings of the Board or the committee concerned, and may speak, and give advice, at such meetings.
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(11) In addition to a meeting with all participants physically present, the Board may hold or continue a meeting by 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 is 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 procedure by rules or otherwise.
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(14) Non-compliance with the rules of the Board shall not invalidate any decision of the Board.
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