{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/middlesbrough-college-government-regulations-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/middlesbrough-college-government-regulations-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1342",
  "legislation_title": "The Middlesbrough College (Government) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/middlesbrough-college-government-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Quorum",
  "text": "(1) Meetings of the Corporation shall be quorate if 40% or more members are present including at least 40% of the total number of business members. In the case of a Corporation with between 10 and 20 members and with the minimum number of business members, the table set out below gives the number of members and business members necessary for a quorum.\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nTotal membership of the Corporation\nNumber of members that constitute a quorum\nMinimum number of business members that must be included in the number in column (2)\n10\n4\n2\n11 or 12\n5\n3\n13 or 14\n6\n3\n15\n6\n4\n16 or 17\n7\n4\n18, 19 or 20\n8\n4\n(2) If the number of members assembled for a meeting of the Corporation does not constitute a quorum therefor, the meeting shall not be held. If in the course of a meeting of the Corporation the number of members thereof present ceases to constitute a quorum, the meeting shall be terminated forthwith.\n(3) If for lack of quorum a meeting cannot be held or, as the case may be, cannot continue, the Chairman shall, if he thinks fit, cause a special meeting to be summoned as soon as conveniently may be.\n(4) If a meeting is quorate, but the members present who are business members are in a minority, a majority of such members present shall have the right to decide that an item of business be deferred to a subsequent meeting. No item may be so deferred more than once under this provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/481",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Bankruptcy) and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1342/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
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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."
}