Clause 6

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) All the powers, functions and duties of the Board may be exercised, discharged and performed by any committee of the Board consisting of not less than 3 members of the Board, at least one of whom shall be the Chairman or a Deputy Chairman of the Board.(1A) Any act, finding or decision of any such committee shall be deemed to be the act, finding or decision of the Board.”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsections:“(3) Meetings of a committee shall be presided by —

where the Chairman of the Board is a member of the committee, the Chairman; and

where the Chairman of the Board is not a member of the committee and —

there is only one Deputy Chairman of the Board on the committee, the Deputy Chairman; or

there is more than one Deputy Chairman of the Board on the committee, such Deputy Chairman as the Chairman may determine.(4) Where the Chairman or any Deputy Chairman of the Board, as the case may be, is absent from any meeting of a committee at which he ought under subsection (3) to be presiding, the meeting shall be presided by —

where there is only one Deputy Chairman who is a member of the committee present, the Deputy Chairman;

where there is more than one Deputy Chairman who is a member of the committee present, such Deputy Chairman as may be chosen by the Deputy Chairmen present; and

where there is no Deputy Chairman who is a member of the committee present, such member as may be chosen by the members present.”.