SCHEDULES

Schedule 1 The Boards

Part II Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Proceedings

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1

The Board may regulate their own procedure (including, subject to sub-paragraph (8), quorum).

2

In doing so, they may make arrangements for any of their functions, other than the power to acquire or dispose of land, to be discharged by committees.

3

Any committee shall be appointed, and may be dissolved, by the Board.

4

A committee may include as members persons who are not trustees, but the chairman must be a trustee.

5

A committee shall act in accordance with such directions as the Board may make from time to time.

6

The arrangements may provide for anything done by a committee to have effect as if done by the Board.

7

The quorum for meetings of the Board shall not at any time be less than three.

8

The validity of any proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among the trustees or by any defect in the appointment of any trustee.