Singapore legislation
Regulation 7
of Pioneer Generation and Merdeka Generation Funds (Appeals Panel) Regulations 2015
Regulation 7
Proceedings of Panel
Subregulation 1
The Panel —
is not required to meet in person;
is not required to interview any person who seeks the Panel’s determination, but may do so if the Panel considers necessary;
may invite any person who, in the Panel’s opinion, can give information in respect of any particular matter which is likely to be of assistance to the Panel in the determination of any application; and
may hold meetings, or allow its members to take part in meetings, by using the telephone, Internet or any other form of communication that allows reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication amongst the members taking part in the meetings.
Subregulation 2
The proceedings of the Panel are private.
Subregulation 3
The quorum for a meeting of the Panel is 4 members, one of whom has to be the chairperson or deputy chairperson.
Subregulation 4
The chairperson or in the chairperson’s absence, the deputy chairperson, is to preside at any meeting of the Panel (called the presiding member).
Subregulation 5
Any matter for the Panel’s determination is to be decided by a majority of votes of members entitled to vote on the matter.
Subregulation 6
If there is an equality of votes, the presiding member has a casting vote.
Subregulation 7
If the Panel decides that it has to make a decision of a kind without a meeting, the Panel is taken to have made a decision of that kind at a meeting if —
without a meeting, a majority of members entitled to vote on the proposed decision indicate agreement with the decision; and (b)the members have indicated agreement with the decision in accordance with a method determined by the Panel.(c)[Deleted by S 782/2019 wef 01/07/2019]
Subregulation 8
For the purposes of paragraph (7) —
a member is not entitled to vote on a proposed decision if the member would not have been entitled to vote on that proposed decision if the matter had been considered at a meeting of the Panel; and
the decision is taken to be made when the last member who casts the majority vote indicates agreement with the proposed decision.
Subregulation 9
The Appeals Secretariat must keep a record of all decisions made by the Panel under this regulation.