{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/21",
  "legislation_title": "Football Governance Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Committees and procedure of the Board",
  "text": "(1) The Board may determine its own procedure and the procedure of any committee or sub-committee, subject to this paragraph.\n(2) The quorum for a meeting of the Board is to be determined by the chair but a meeting of the Board is not quorate unless—\n(a) the chair or deputy chair is in attendance, and\n(b) (including the chair or deputy chair) at least half of the Board’s members are in attendance.\n(3) A member of the Board may at any time resign from a committee of the Board by giving written notice to the chair.\n(4) The chair may remove a person from membership of a committee of the Board if the chair considers that—\n(a) the person will be unable, for a substantial period, to perform their duties as a member of the committee, or\n(b) because of a particular interest of the member of the committee, it is inappropriate for them to remain a member of the committee.\n(5) Where a person ceases to be a member of a committee of the Board, the chair may select a replacement member of the committee from the Board.\n(6) The validity of proceedings of the Board, or a committee or sub-committee of the Board, is not affected by a vacancy or defective appointment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 100(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/schedule/2/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:55.233089+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}