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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/great-yarmouth-port-authority-constitution-harbour-revision-order-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1395",
  "legislation_title": "The Great Yarmouth Port Authority (Constitution) Harbour Revision Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/great-yarmouth-port-authority-constitution-harbour-revision-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) If the Board is satisfied that a Member (other than the harbour master or the Clerk) including the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson—\n(a) has been absent from meetings of the Board for eight consecutive months or more without the permission of the Board;\n(b) has become bankrupt or has made an arrangement with that Member’s creditors;\n(c) is incapacitated by physical or mental illness from discharging the functions of a Member;\n(d) has knowingly failed in a material respect to act in that Member’s capacity as a Member independently of any particular interest;\n(e) has been convicted of a criminal offence;\n(f) has failed to declare a conflict of interest or otherwise acted improperly; or\n(g) persistently acts in a manner calculated seriously to impede or prejudice the carrying on of the business of the Port Authority; or\n(h) appears to a majority of the Board to be unable, unfit or unwilling adequately to discharge that Member’s functions as a Member;\nthe Board may by resolution declare that Member’s office as a Member to be vacant, and the office becomes vacant.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) above the attendance of a Member at a meeting of any committee of the Board of which that Member is a Member is to be treated as attendance at a meeting of the Board.\n(3) A resolution under sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) is extraordinary business for the purpose of section 43 of the Commissioners Clauses Act 1847; and\n(b) is not effective unless passed by a majority of the whole number of the Members.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1395/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
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  "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."
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