National Energy Act, 2008 (Act No. 34 of 2008)Chapter 4 : South African National Energy Development Institute10. Meetings of Board of South African National Energy Development Institute |
1) | The meetings of the Board must be held at such times and places as determined by the Chairperson of the Board. |
2) | The Chairperson, or in his or her absence the Deputy Chairperson, may at any time call a special meeting of the Board, which must be held at such time and place as the Chairperson or the Deputy Chairperson, as the case may be, may direct. |
3) | The quorum for a meeting of the Board is the majority of its members. |
4) | A decision of the Board is taken by resolution of the majority of the members present at any meeting of the Board and, in the event of an equality of votes on any matter, the person presiding at the meeting in question shall have a casting vote in addition to his or her deliberative vote as a member of the Board. |
5) | No decision taken by or act performed under the authority of the Board shall be invalid by reason only of— |
a) | a vacancy on the Board; or |
b) | the fact that a person who was not entitled to sit as a member of the Board, sat as a member at the time when the decision was taken or the act was authorized, |
if the decision was taken or the act was authorised by the requisite majority of the members of the Board who were present at the time and entitled to sit as members.