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5.—(1) An industrial training board may—N.I.
(a)appoint such committees as appear to it to be appropriate; or
(b)join with one or more other industrial training boards in appointing joint committees consisting of such persons as may be determined by the boards;
and delegate to any such committee, to such extent and subject to such conditions as may be stated in proposals submitted to and approved by the Department, any of the functions conferred on the board by this Order.
(2) An industrial training board shall appoint a committee for the purposes of Article 26(4) and (5) (consideration of decisions on remission).
(3) A committee need not include any member of an industrial training board.
(4) The Department, the Department of Education and, if the Department thinks fit in any particular case, any other government department may each appoint one person to attend meetings of any committee.
(5) Persons appointed under sub-paragraph (4) shall be entitled to participate in the proceedings of the committee and to receive copies of all documents distributed to the members of the committee but shall not have the right to vote in any such proceedings.
(6) A committee may, subject to any directions of the industrial training board, regulate its own procedure and business (and, accordingly, may fix a quorum).
6.—(1) An industrial training board may pay or, as the case may be, join in paying to the members of a committee who are not members of the board—N.I.
(a)such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as the board may determine; and
(b)such allowances for loss of remunerative time as the Department may, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, determine.
(2) An industrial training board may pay or, as the case may be, join in paying to the chairman of any committee to which any of the functions of the board are delegated and to the chairman of the committee appointed under paragraph 5(2) such remuneration as the board may determine.
(3) An industrial training board may make or, as the case may be, join in making, such arrangements for the payment of pensions, superannuation allowances and gratuities to or in respect of the chairman of any committee to which any of the functions of the board are delegated and to the chairman of the committee appointed under paragraph 5(2) as the board may determine.
(4) Where a person ceases to be the chairman of any committee to which any of the functions of the board are delegated or the chairman of the committee appointed under paragraph 5(2) otherwise than on the expiry of his term of office, and it appears to the board that there are special circumstances which make it right for him to receive compensation, the board may make or, as the case may be, join in making him a payment of such amount as the board may determine.