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Sugar Act, 1978 (Act No. 9 of 1978)

Sugar Industry Agreement, 2000

Chapter 2 : The Sugar Industry Administration Board, The Sugar Industry Appeals Tribunal and Mill Group Boards

17 - 21. Proceedings of Administration Board

 

17. The Administration Board may meet for the despatch of business, adjourn or otherwise regulate its business as it deems fit and an Administration Board member may at any time request the chairperson to convene a meeting of the Administration Board and the chairperson, on receipt of such request, shall convene the requested meeting.

 

18. The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Administration Board shall be all five members or their alternates: Provided that if at any meeting a quorum is not present, the chairperson may adjourn the meeting for not less than seven but not more than 14 days and if the chairperson or acting chairperson and at least one member appointed by the Millers' Association and one member appointed by the Growers' Association are present at such an adjourned meeting, the members then present shall constitute a quorum.

 

19. Questions arising at an Administration Board meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes.

 

20. All applications and representations to the Administration Board shall be made in writing in such form as the Administration Board may determine or approve from time to time. In any application or matter before it, the Administration Board shall inform itself of the facts to be taken into account in the manner as it deems fit, including evidence on affidavit: Provided that it shall not receive oral evidence or representations or hold hearings unless, in its sole discretion, it considers that exceptional circumstances exist in any particular application or matter which require it to hear oral evidence or representations.

 

21. Any notification by the Administration Board of a decision, order, ruling or determination shall be deemed to have been notified to a person—
(a) when it is delivered to him or her personally or to his or her authorised representative; or
(b) five days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) after it is sent to him or her by pre-paid certified or registered mail at the address appointed by him or her for the service of such notification or, failing such appointment, at his or her last known business or residential address.