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PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ACT 1969 - SECT 10

Sectional Committees

  (1)   The Committee may appoint three or more members to be a Sectional Committee and may appoint a member to fill a vacancy amongst the members of a Sectional Committee.

  (2)   A member of a Sectional Committee:

  (a)   holds office during the pleasure of the Committee;

  (b)   ceases to hold office if he or she ceases to be a member of the Committee; and

  (c)   may resign that office by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Chair of the Committee.

  (3)   There shall be a Chair and a Deputy Chair of each Sectional Committee, who shall be elected by the members of the Sectional Committee.

  (4)   The Chair or Deputy Chair of a Sectional Committee:

  (a)   holds office during the pleasure of the Sectional Committee;

  (b)   ceases to hold office if he or she ceases to be a member of the Sectional Committee; and

  (c)   may resign his or her office by writing under his or her hand presented at a meeting of the Sectional Committee.

  (5)   The Chair or, in his or her absence, the Deputy Chair, of a Sectional Committee shall preside at all meetings of the Sectional Committee.

  (6)   There shall not be more than two Sectional Committees at the one time.

  (7)   A Sectional Committee or Sectional Committees may sit when the Committee is sitting.

  (8)   At a meeting of a Sectional Committee, a majority of the members of the Sectional Committee form a quorum.

  (9)   The exercise of a power by a Sectional Committee, the Chair of a Sectional Committee or a member of a Sectional Committee is not invalidated by reason only of there being a vacancy or vacancies in the membership of the Sectional Committee.



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