Appointment of alternates

Where any board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body is established by or under any Act, any person who is empowered by such Act to appoint any or all of the members thereof may, (a) appoint one or more duly qualified persons to be alternate members of the same, and any one such alternate member may attend any meeting of the same when a substantive member is temporarily unable to attend for any reason; and (b) appoint a duly qualified person to be temporary member of the same in the place of any substantive member who is precluded by illness, absence from Belize or any other cause from exercising his functions as such, and when attending any meeting of such board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body, such 32 alternate or temporary member shall be deemed for all purposes to be a member of the same. etc., not effected