# Scrabster (Forward Supply Base) Harbour Revision Order 1998, Paragraph 5


For Section VIII (Trustees may appoint Committees) there shall be substituted the following section:—
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Election of Management Committee
VIII The Trustees shall have power to elect a Management Committee comprising not less than 3 nor more than 16 Trustees. The Management Committee shall subject as hereinafter provided be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the Trustees. Not less than 42 days before the Annual General Meeting the Clerk to the Trustees shall notify the Trustees of the election of the Management Committee by means of an advertisement in a paper circulating in Caithness. Any nominations for the Management Committee shall be in writing, signed by at least two Trustees, and shall be lodged with the Clerk to the Trustees within 14 days after publication of the advertisement. No Trustee shall be eligible for election to the Management Committee if he shall have attained the age of 70. The Clerk to the Trustees shall notify the Trustees of the nominations by means of an advertisement in a paper circulating in Caithness at least 7 days before the Annual General Meeting. Provided that the Management Committee may by resolution appoint any Trustee who has not yet attained the age of 70 to be a member of the Management Committee, either to fill a vacancy or as an additional member of the Management Committee provided that such appointment does not cause the number of members of the Management Committee to exceed 16.
At any meeting of the Trustees at which the election of Trustees to the Management Committee falls to be considered, a separate Resolution shall be put to the meeting for the election of each person validly nominated for election to the Management Committee and each Trustee who is present at the meeting shall have a single vote which may be cast for or against each such Resolution. If, after Resolutions have been put to the meeting for the election of each Trustee who has been validly nominated for election, more Trustees would have been elected to the Management Committee than there are vacancies, those Trustees elected to the Management Committee shall be the Trustees in whose favour the most votes have been cast (after deducting in each case the number of votes cast against such Trustee). Provided that if it is necessary, in order to fill a vacancy, to choose between Trustees in whose favour an equal number of votes have been cast (after deducting in each case the number of votes cast against such Trustee), the choice between such Trustees shall be made by lot, in a manner determined by the Preses of the meeting.
Subject to any requirement of this Act for any matter to be dealt with by a meeting of the Trustees and subject also to any restriction imposed in any Resolution of the Trustees appointing the Management Committee, the Management Committee shall be entitled in the name of the Trust to exercise all powers conferred on the Trust by this Act or otherwise. The members of the Management Committee shall retire at the end of the Annual General Meeting next following their election or appointment and shall be eligible for re-election provided that they have not attained the age of 70. The Management Committee may elect from its number a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman and may confer upon such Chairman and Vice-Chairman such powers as the Management Committee may determine. The Management committee may appoint Sub-Committees of such number of persons (whether or not members of the Management Committee) and having such powers and duties as the Management Committee may determine provided that a majority of the members of any such Sub-Committee shall be Trustees and the quorum for any meeting of any such Sub-Committee shall be at least two Trustees personally present.
Each meeting of the Management Committee shall be chaired by the Chairman (if any), whom failing the Vice-Chairman (if any) whom failing such member of the Management Committee as the Management Committee shall elect in relation to such meeting. The Chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote in the event of an equality of votes, in addition to his vote as a member of the meeting
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1221/schedule/2/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/scrabster-forward-supply-base-harbour-revision-order-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-5
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