Section 5Part 0 — SCHEDULE - THE COUNCIL OF OLDER PERSONS
Procedure and meetings
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The Council shall meet a minimum of twelve times per year, but may meet as often as necessary and practical and the Council may decide its own procedures, except so far as its procedures are prescribed by this Law.
Members of the Council who are appointed under paragraph 1(1)(a) or (b) shall each have one vote; and decisions of the Council shall be adopted by a simple majority of the votes of the members present and voting except that in the case of an equality of votes the Chairperson shall, in addition to his regular vote, have a casting vote.
At every meeting of the Council, a quorum shall consist of a simple majority of eight members.
The Council may act notwithstanding that a vacancy exists among the members and in the absence of the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson, the members present shall elect one of their members to preside as Chairperson at that meeting.
The deliberations of the Council shall be confidential but the Council shall cause any decision which affects the members of the public to be published in the Gazette, on a website or in a newspaper of the Islands.
If a member of the Council has any personal or pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, in any matter which is to be determined by the Council, the member shall, if present at the meeting of the Council at which such matter is to be determined, as soon as practicable after the commencement thereof, disclose the fact and leave the meeting, and shall not take part in the consideration or discussion of such matter or vote on any question with respect thereto.