Estate Agency Affairs Act, 1976 (Act No. 112 of 1976)

Chapter I : Estate Agents Board

4. Meetings of board

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1)The board shall meet for the first time at a time and place determined by the Minister and thereafter at least once in each financial year at such times and places as the chairman or, in his absence, the vice-chairman may determine.

 

2)The chairman or, in his absence, the vice-chairman may at any time of his own accord or at the written request of not fewer than six members convene a special meeting of the board.

 

3)A notice convening a special meeting of the board shall state the purpose of such meeting.

 

4)The quorum for any meeting of the board shall be six members thereof.

 

5)The decision of a majority of the members of the board present at a meeting of the board shall constitute the decision of the board, and in the event of an equality of votes on any matter, the person presiding at the meeting in question shall have a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote.

 

6)No decision taken by the board or act performed under the authority of the board shall be invalid merely by reason of a vacancy on the board or of the fact that any person not entitled to sit as a member of the board, sat as a member of the board at the time the decision was taken or the act was authorized, if the decision was taken or the act was authorized by the majority of the members of the board present at the time and who were entitled to sit as members of the board.