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9Subject to section 5 of this Act, the quorum of the Authority and the arrangements relating to meetings of the Authority shall be such as the Authority may determine.
10(1)A member who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Authority, or in any other matter whatsoever which falls to be considered by the Authority, shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Authority and the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting ; and the member shall not—
(a)in the case of a contract, take part in any deliberation or decision of the Authority with respect to the contract; and
(b)in the case of any other matter, take part in any deliberation or decision of the Authority with respect to the matter if the Authority decides that the interest in question might affect prejudicially the member's consideration of the matter.
(2)A notice given by a member at a meeting of the Authority to the effect that he is a member of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract which is made after the date of the notice with the company or firm shall, for the purposes of the preceding sub-paragraph, be a sufficient disclosure of his interest in relation to any contract so made.
(3)A member need not attend in person at a meeting of the Authority in order to make a disclosure which he is required to make under this paragraph if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice which is taken into consideration and read at such a meeting.
11The validity of any proceedings of the Authority shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members or by any defect in the appointment of a member or by any failure to comply with the requirements of the preceding paragraph.
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