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Chapter: | 167
 | Title: | DOGS AND CATS ORDINANCE | Gazette Number: | L.N. 153 of 1999 |
| Section: | 14 | Heading: | Meetings of the Board | Version Date: | 11/06/1999 |
(1) (a) The members of the Board shall elect from amongst themselves a person to act as the Chairman.
- (b) If the person elected under paragraph (a) is temporarily precluded by illness or any other cause from exercising his functions as the Chairman for any period, the members of the Board shall elect from amongst themselves another person to act as the Chairman during that period.
(c) At any meeting of the Board-
- (i) the person elected under paragraph (a);
(ii) where for the time being another person has been elected to act as the Chairman under paragraph (b), that other person; or
(iii) where the person referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii), as the case may be, is absent, the person elected by the members of the Board present at the meeting from amongst themselves to act as the Chairman,
- shall preside at the meeting as the Chairman of the Board.
- (3) (a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), the Chairman may at any time convene a meeting of the Board to be held at such time and place as he may specify by notice in writing served on the members of the Board.
- (b) Upon requisition in writing of not less than 2 members of the Board, the Chairman shall, not later than 7 days after receipt of the requisition, convene a meeting of the Board to be held at such time and place as he may specify by notice in writing served on the members of the Board.
(c) The Chairman shall, not later than 7 days after receipt of a notice of any application made to the Board under any regulation made under section 3(2)(g), convene a meeting of the Board to be held at such time and place as he may specify by notice in writing served on the members of the Board, so as to determine the application.
(5) The Board shall not at any of its meetings consist of a majority of members who are public officers, and any public officer acting as a member of the Board shall in exercising his functions as such a member-
- (a) act in his personal capacity only; and
(b) not be subject to any direction to which he might otherwise be subject in his capacity as a public officer.