Land Drainage Act 1976

Proceedings

12 The proceedings of a board shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership, or by any defect in the appointment or qualification of any member of the board.

13 A board may, with the approval of the Minister, make rules—

(a) for regulating the proceedings, including quorum, place of meetings and notices to be given of meetings, of the board;

(b) with respect to the appointment of a chairman and a vice-chairman ;

(c) for enabling the board to constitute committees ; and

(d) for authorising the delegation to committees of any of the powers of the board and for regulating the proceedings, including quorum, place of meeting and notices to be given of meetings, of committees.

14 The first meeting of a board shall be held on such day and at such time and place as may be fixed by the Minister, and the Minister shall cause notice of the meeting to be sent by post to each member of the board not less than 14 days before the appointed day.

15 A minute of the proceedings of a meeting of a board or of a committee of a board, purporting to be signed at that or the next ensuing meeting by a person describing himself as, or appearing to be, the chairman of the meeting to the proceedings of which the minute relates, shall be evidence of the proceedings and shall be received in evidence without further proof, and until the contrary is proved every meeting in respect of the proceedings of which a minute has been so signed shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held and all the proceedings had at the meeting to have been duly had, and where the proceedings are the proceedings of a committee the committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minute.

16 Any member of a board shall, if he is interested in any company with which the board has or proposes to make any contract, disclose to the board the fact and nature of his interest, and shall take no part in any deliberation or decision of the board relating to such contract; and such disclosure shall be forthwith recorded in the minutes of the board.