Construction Industry Development Board Act, 2000 (Act No. 38 of 2000)Chapter Two : Construction Industry Development Board12. Meetings |
| (1) | The Board must meet at least four times a year. |
| (2) | The chairperson of the Board or, in his or her absence, the deputy chairperson, must give each member of the Board 14 days written notice of the time, date and place of the meeting and the matters to be discussed. |
| (3) | The chairperson or, in his or her absence, the deputy chairperson presides at meetings of the Board. |
| (4) | In the absence of both the chairperson and the deputy chairperson, a member of the Board, elected by the members present, presides at meetings of the Board. |
| (5) | The chairperson or, in his or her absence, the deputy chairperson, may at any time call an additional meeting of the Board. |
| (6) | The Board must keep a register of attendance and minutes of its meetings and must circulate copies thereof to the members of the Board within two weeks after the meeting to which it relates. |
| (7) | The minutes, when confirmed at the next meeting and signed by the person who chairs that meeting, are a true and correct record of the proceedings. |
| (8) | The quorum for a meeting of the Board is a majority of its members. |
| (9) | A decision of the majority of the members of the Board present, at any meeting, constitutes a decision of the Board. |
| (10) | In the event of an equal number of votes, the person presiding at the meeting has a casting vote in addition to that person’s deliberative vote. |
| (11) | A decision taken by the Board or an act performed under the authority of the Board is not invalid by reason only of a vacancy on the Board or because a person who is 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 authorised, if the decision was taken or the act was authorised in good faith by the requisite majority of the members of the Board who were present at the time and entitled to vote as members. |