Church Commissioners Measure 1947 No. 2

Section 7(1).

SCHEDULE IV U.K. General Provisions relating to the Commissioners, the Board and Committees

1 The proceedings of the Commissioners, the Board or a committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership thereof, or by any defect in the qualification, appointment or nomination of any member.

2 When an appointed or nominated Commissioner proposes to retire, his intention so to do shall be notified by him in writing to the secretary of the Commissioners, who shall forthwith give notice to the person or body by whom such Commissioner was appointed or nominated.

[F1 3 Casual vacancies among appointed or nominated Commissioners or among appointed members of the General Purposes Committee or the Assets Committee may be filled by the person or body by whom the Commissioner or member vacating office was appointed or nominated. Casual vacancies among members of the Board or a committee appointed by the Board may be filled by the Board.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Para. 3 substituted by Church Commissioners Measure 1964 (No. 8), s. 2(1)(e)

4 Any person appointed or nominated to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the term (if any) for which his predecessor was appointed or nominated.

5 At any meeting of the Commissioners, the Board or a committee, every question shall be decided by a majority of the votes of members present and voting on that question and in the case of equality of votes, the member presiding shall have a second or casting vote:

Provided that, if at the inaugural or any annual general meeting the Commissioners so decide, the Commissioners who are to serve as members of the Board, . . . . . . F2 , may be chosen at that meeting by ballot, or (notwithstanding anything contained in this Measure) within fourteen days after that meeting by means of voting papers issued and returned by post.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words repealed by Church Commissioners Measure 1964 (No. 8), s. 2(1)(f)

6 U.K. Minutes of the proceedings of the Commissioners or of the Board signed at the same or the next meeting by a member describing himself, or appearing to be, the person presiding at the meeting at which the minutes are signed, shall be received in evidence without further proof, and, until the contrary is proved, every meeting of the Commissioners or of the Board, in respect of the proceedings whereof minutes have been so signed shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held.

7 The provisions of this Schedule relating to Committees shall in their application to the [F3 General Purposes Committee and the Assets Committee] have effect subject to any special provisions with respect thereto contained in this Measure.

Textual Amendments

F3 Words substituted by Church Commissioners Measure 1964 (No. 8), s. 2(1)(f)