Meetings of the Board

(1) Subject to any other provisions of this Act, the Board may regulate its own procedure. (2) The Board shall meet at least once every three months, at such place and time as the Board may determine. (3) The Board may exercise its functions notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership, as long as such vacancies do not exceed three in number. (4) Meetings of the Board shall be convened by the Chairperson or, in his absence, by the Deputy Chairperson, either on his own initiative or at the written request of any three of the other members of the Board. (5) Decisions of the Board shall be taken by a simple majority of votes of the members present and voting, and in the event of an equality of votes, the Chairperson or other person presiding at that meeting shall have a second or casting vote. 17 (6) A quorum for any meeting of the Board shall be six Directors, of whom one shall be the Director-General. (7) Subject to the provisions of this section, no act or proceeding of the Board shall be held invalid merely by reason of any vacancy among its members.