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Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993 (Act No. 87 of 1993)

9. Meetings of Council

 

(1) Meetings of the Council shall be held on such dates and at such times and places as the chairperson of the Council may determine.

 

(2) The chairperson of the Council may at any time convene a special meeting of the Council by giving notice to the other members of the date, time and place thereof.

 

(3) If the chairperson is absent from a meeting of the Council, the vice-chairperson shall preside at that meeting, and if both the chairperson and vice-chairperson are absent from a meeting of the Council, the members present shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting.

[Section 9(3) substituted by section 2 of Act 50 of 1995]

 

(4) The quorum for a meeting of the Council shall be the majority of the members of the Council.

 

(5) A decision of the Council shall be taken by a majority of the votes of the members present at a meeting of the Council, and in the event of an equality of votes on any matter, the person presiding at the meeting concerned shall have a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote.

 

(6) No decision of the Council or act performed under the authority of the Council, shall be invalid merely by reason of a vacancy on the Council or of the fact that any person not entitled to sit as a member 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 present at the meeting and who were entitled to sit as members.