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Paragraph 4

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(1)

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), every question at a meeting shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and competent to vote on the question and, in the case of an equality of votes, the chairman or, in his absence, the person presiding at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

(2)

Where more than one person has been appointed as an officer member jointly—

(a)

those persons shall be entitled to attend meetings;

(b)

one of those persons shall be entitled to vote where they are in agreement as to how the vote should be cast;

(c)

where they are not in agreement as to how that vote shall be cast, no vote shall be cast;

(d)

the presence of one or all of these persons shall count as the presence of one person for the purposes of this Schedule, any directions issued by the Secretary of State and Standing Orders made under regulation 14(2).