{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-wales-regulations-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-wales-regulations-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-30.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/2680",
  "legislation_title": "The RTM Companies (Model Articles) (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rtm-companies-model-articles-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Chairing general meetings",
  "text": "(1) If the directors have appointed a chair, the chair is to preside over general meetings if present and willing to do so.\n(2) If the directors have not appointed a chair, or if the chair is unwilling to preside over the meeting or is not present within ten minutes of the time at which a meeting was due to start—\n(a) the directors present, or\n(b) (if no directors are present), the meeting,\nmust appoint a director or member to act as chair of the meeting, and the appointment of the chair must be the first business of the meeting.\n(3) The person acting as chair of a meeting in accordance with this article is referred to as “the chair of the meeting”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 art. 30 in force at 30.11.2011, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/2680/schedule/1/paragraph/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:59.854695+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."
}