Section 4.
1The Executive may act notwithstanding a vacancy among their members.
2The quorum of the Executive shall be three and, subject as aforesaid, the Executive may regulate their own procedure.
3The application of the seal of the Executive shall be authenticated by the signature of the secretary of the Executive or some other person authorised by the Executive, either generally or specially, to act for that purpose.
4Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Executive and to be sealed as aforesaid, or to be signed on behalf of the Executive, shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such an instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown.
5(1)A member of the Executive shall hold and vacate his office in accordance with the terms of his appointment and shall, on ceasing to be a member, be eligible for reappointment.
(2)Any member of the Executive may at any time by notice in writing to the Council resign his office.
6(1)A member of the Executive who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Executive shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Executive; and the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the Executive, and the member shall not take any part in any deliberation or decision of the Executive with respect to that contract.
(2)For the purposes of the foregoing sub-paragraph, a general notice given at a meeting of the Executive by a member of the Executive to the effect that he is a member of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract which may, after the date of the notice, be made with that company or firm, shall be regarded as a sufficient disclosure of his interest in relation to any contract so made.
(3)A member of the Executive need not attend in person at a meeting of the Executive in order to make any disclosure which he is required to make under this paragraph if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice which is brought up and read at the meeting.