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Geoscience Act, 1993 (Act No. 100 of 1993)

17. Meetings of Board

[Heading of section 17 substituted by section 17 of Act No. 16 of 2010]

 

(1) The meetings of the Board shall be held at such times and places as the Board may determine: Provided that the first meeting shall be held at such time and place as the chairperson may determine.

 

(2) The chairperson, or in his or her absence the deputy chairperson, may at any time in his or her discretion call a special meeting of the Board, which shall be held at such time and place as the chairperson or the deputy chairperson, as the case may be, may direct.

 

(3) The quorum for a meeting of the Board shall be a majority of its members.

 

(4) A decision of the Board shall be taken by resolution of a majority of the members present at any meeting of the Board and, in the event of an equality of votes on any matter, the person presiding at such meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to his or her deliberative vote as a member of the Board.

 

(5) No decision taken by or act performed under the authority of the Board shall be invalid by reason only of a casual vacancy on the Board or of the fact that a person who was not entitled to sit as a member of the Board, sat as a member at the time when the decision was taken or the act was authorized, if the decision was taken or the act was authorized by the requisite majority of the members of the Board who were present at the time and entitled to sit as members.

 

(6) For the purposes of this section "member" shall include an alternate member present at a particular meeting of the Board during the absence, or a vacancy in the office, of the member for whom he or she has been appointed.

 

(7) The Board may with the approval of the Minister accord observer status at any meeting of the Board to designated representatives of any person, institution, government or administration on whose behalf the Council is doing or has done geoscientific research or is performing or has performed generic geological functions in terms of section 8.