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<Text>Schedule 1 of the 1993 Act (the Crofting Commission) is modified as follows.</Text>
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<Text>In paragraph 12, after sub-paragraph (2) insert—</Text>
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<Text>The Commission must appoint a chair for each of their committees.</Text>
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<Text>In paragraph 13—</Text>
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<Text>for sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) substitute—</Text>
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<Text>The chair of the Commission may delegate the chairing of a meeting of the Commission (or a part of such a meeting) to another member.</Text>
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<Text>The chair of a committee may delegate the chairing of a meeting of the committee (or a part of such meeting) to another member of the committee.</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>in sub-paragraph (4), after “vote” insert <InlineAmendment>“(but a person chairing only part of a meeting does not have a casting vote in respect of that part)”</InlineAmendment>.</Text>
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