Paragraph 4 Chairpersons and Deputy Chairpersons

Each Partnership shall appoint from its membership a Chairperson and such number of Deputy Chairpersons as they consider appropriate.

Subject to sub paragraph (3) below, the Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of a Partnership shall each hold office for a period to be determined by the Partnership not exceeding two full council terms.

If, prior to the end of their period of appointment, a Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson of a Partnership ceases to be a member of the Partnership, they shall immediately cease to hold office.

The Chairperson, or in the Chairperson’s absence a Deputy Chairperson, shall preside at all meetings of a Partnership, but where both the Chairperson and all Deputy Chairpersons are absent from any meeting the members present shall appoint a Chairperson for that meeting.

In the event of an equality of votes at a meeting, the Chairperson of that meeting shall, subject to sub paragraph (6) below, have a casting vote as well as a deliberative vote.

Where there is an equality of votes at a meeting and the matter which is the subject of the vote relates to the appointment of a member of the Partnership to any particular office, committee or sub committee of the Partnership, the decision shall be by lot.