23.—(1) The meetings and proceedings of the Trust must be conducted in accordance with the rules set out in Schedule 2 and with standing orders made under paragraph (2).
(2) Subject to Schedule 2 and to regulation 24 the Trust must make and may vary or revoke standing orders for the regulation of its proceedings and business and provision may be made in such standing orders for the suspension of them.
(3) The Trust may make, vary and revoke standing orders relating to the quorum, proceedings and place of meetings of a committee or sub-committee but, subject to regulation 24 and to any such standing orders, the quorum, proceedings and place of meeting will be such as the committee or sub-committee may determine.
(4) The proceedings of the Trust will not be invalidated by any vacancy in its membership or by any defect in a director’s appointment.