Water Services Act 2017
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Meetings and procedures of Advisory Body | ||
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50. (1) The Advisory Body shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the performance of its functions. | ||
(2) Subject to this Part, the Advisory Body shall regulate, by standing orders or otherwise, its procedure (including its procedure for electronic meetings) and business, including the keeping of a record of its meetings and of decisions taken. | ||
(3) The Advisory Body 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 an “electronic meeting”). | ||
(4) A member of the Advisory Body who participates in an electronic meeting is taken for all purposes to have been present at the meeting. | ||
(5) The quorum for a meeting of the Advisory Body shall be 3. | ||
(6) The Advisory Body may act notwithstanding any vacancies in its membership, and its proceedings shall not be invalidated by any such vacancies, subject to a quorum as set out in subsection (5) being present. | ||
(7) At a meeting of the Advisory Body, the chairperson of the Advisory Body appointed under section 45 (2) shall, if present, be chairperson of the meeting, but if the chairperson of the Advisory Body is not present at a meeting or if the office of such chairperson is vacant then the members of the Advisory Body present at the meeting shall choose one of their number to be chairperson of the meeting. |