Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

121 Provisions as to members and proceedings of joint committees and joint boards.

(1) The members of a joint committee or joint board shall be appointed at such times and in such manner and shall hold office for such period as may be provided in the agreement or order regulating the combination, and failing any such provisions the members of a joint committee or joint board appointed by a local authority shall hold office for such period as may be fixed by that authority.

(2) Every member of a joint committee or joint board who at the time of his appointment is a member of the local authority by whom he is appointed, shall, if he ceases to be a member of that authority, cease on the expiry of two months thereafter or on the appointment of his successor, whichever shall first occur, to be a member of the joint committee or joint board.

(3) Subject to the provisions of the agreement or order regulating the combination—

(a) the joint committee or joint board shall elect a chairman who shall hold office for such period as shall be fixed at the time of his election;

(b) the quorum, proceedings and place of meeting of the joint committee or joint board shall be such as the joint committee or joint board may determine;

(c) the joint committee or joint board may appoint subcommittees and delegate to any such sub-committee any of their functions, and every such sub-committee shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, report its proceedings to the joint committee or joint board; and

(d) the chairman or other person presiding at a meeting of the joint committee or joint board or a sub-committee thereof shall have a casting vote as well as a deliberative vote.

(4) Where the chairman of a joint committee or joint board falls to be elected by the joint committee or joint board, then, at any meeting of the committee or board until the chairman is elected, such member of the committee or board as shall be selected by the meeting shall preside.

(5) Nothing in this section shall apply in the case of a joint board established under a local Act unless the Secretary of State on the application of the joint board by order otherwise directs, but save as aforesaid, the provisions of this section shall apply whether the joint committee or joint board is appointed under this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order, but subject in the case of a joint committee or joint board appointed under any other enactment or any statutory order to the provisions of that enactment or order.