6(1)A Board may act notwithstanding—
(a)any vacancy among its members, or
(b)that in consequence of one or more vacancies, the elected members cease to form the majority of the total membership of the Board.
(2)At any meeting of a Board the quorum shall be 15 members (10 in the case of the Board for Northern Ireland).
(3)A Board may constitute committees of itself, for the purpose of transacting particular business of the Board.
(4)A Board may appoint as members of such committees persons who are not members of the Board; but not more than one-third of the members of such a committee shall be persons appointed by virtue of this sub-paragraph.
(5)A Board may, by means of standing orders, regulate its own procedure and that of its standing and other committees and may, to such extent and in such cases as may be permitted or required by orders of the Secretary of State and by its standing orders, act through those standing and other committees and through joint committees constituted by or under section 8:
Provided that standing orders shall not be made by a Board so as to conflict with any rules of the Central Council.
(6)No defect in the appointment of any member shall invalidate any proceedings of a Board, or of any of its standing or other committees.