Regulation 6 Meetings and procedure
The Board must meet at least four times a year and otherwise whenever convened by the chairperson.
Without prejudice to the discretion of the chairperson to call a meeting whenever they think fit, the chairperson must call a meeting when required to do so by a majority of the voting members of the Board.
The voting members of the Board are each entitled to vote on the matters before the Board requiring a resolution, including (in particular)—
any advice and recommendations of the Board to the Scottish Ministers,
the content of the work programme required by regulation 8, and
the content of the annual report required by regulation 10.
Subject to paragraph (5), the non-voting members of the Board are not entitled to vote on the matters referred to in paragraph (3).
The chairperson has a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes.
The quorum for all meetings of the Board is a majority of the current voting membership of the Board.
A resolution is passed when a majority of the voting members attending the meeting have voted in favour of it.
Minutes must be kept of the proceedings of every meeting of the Board and must include a record of any resolution passed by the Board.
Where a voting member does not agree with a resolution of the Board under paragraph (7), the voting member may communicate their dissenting opinion to the Scottish Ministers on an individual basis or acting collectively with other dissenting voting members.