Section 5Part 0 —
Meetings of Commission
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The Commission shall meet as often as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions and shall, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, meet at least ten times in any one year.
Five members present at any meeting of the Commission shall constitute a quorum.
At any meeting of the Commission, in the absence of the Chairman the Deputy Chairman shall take the chair and in the absence both the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman the members present shall elect one of their number to take the chair.
Every question or matter to be determined by the Commission at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on that question or matter.
In the event of an equal division of votes the chairman of the meeting may give a second or casting vote.
Subject to this section, the Commission shall have power to regulate its own procedure.
The Commission may act notwithstanding that a vacancy exists among the members and shall have power to —
act by sub-committee; and
delegate any of its duties and powers from time to time to such sub-committees and to any of their own number and to the public officers of the Commission,
except that where the Commission, sets up a sub-committee which consists of members other than members or the public officers of the Commission, it may only act or delegate its duties or powers to such sub-committee with the approval of the Cabinet.
Where a member of the Commission has a direct pecuniary interest in any matter being considered by the Commission and is present at a meeting of the Commission at which the matter is the subject of consideration, at the meeting and as soon as practicable after its commencement he shall disclose the fact and shall not take part in the consideration or discussion of the matter or vote on any question with respect to it, and shall be excluded from the meeting for the duration of the consideration, discussion and voting procedure.
A member who fails to comply with subsection (8) commits an offence and is liable —
on summary conviction to a fine of twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years; or
on conviction on indictment to a fine of fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for five years,
unless he proves that he did not know that the matter in which he had a direct pecuniary interest was the subject of consideration at that meeting.
A disclosure under subsection (8) shall be recorded in the minutes of the Commission.
No act or proceeding of the Commission shall be questioned on the ground that a member has contravened this section.