Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 19 of 1982)

10. Meetings of council
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(1)The council shall meet at least three times every year at such places as the president may determine, and shall in addition hold any special meeting referred to in subsection (2).

 

(2)

(a)A special meeting of the council shall be convened by the president at the written request of the Minister or of at least three members of the council.
(b)A special meeting shall be held at such place as the president may determine, within 30 days after the date of receipt of such request by the president.
(c)A request referred to in paragraph (a) shall clearly state the purpose for which the meeting in question is to be convened.

 

(3)The majority of the members of the council shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of the council.

 

(4)The president, or in his or her absence the vice-president, of the council shall preside at all meetings of the council at which he or she is present, and if both the president and the vice-president are absent from any meeting, the members present shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting, and the person so elected may during that meeting perform all the functions and exercise all the powers of the president.

 

(5)The person presiding at a meeting of the council shall determine the procedure at the meeting.

 

(6)The decision of a majority of the members of the council present at any meeting thereof shall constitute the decision of the council: Provided that in the event of an equality of votes the member presiding at that meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to his or her deliberative vote.

 

(7)No decision taken by the council or act performed under authority of the council shall be invalid by reason only of an interim vacancy on the council or by reason of the fact that a person who is not entitled to sit as a member of the council 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 council who were present at the time and entitled to sit as members.