Crown Agents Act 1979

Proceedings

10The quorum of the Crown Agents and the arrangements relating to their meetings shall be such as the Crown Agents may determine.

11(1)A member who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Crown Agents (whether as agents or in their own right), or in any other matter whatsoever which falls to be considered by them, shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Crown Agents, and the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

(2)The member shall not—

(a)in the case of any such contract, take part in any deliberation or decision of the Crown Agents with respect to the contract; and

(b)in the case of any other matter, take part in any deliberation or decision of the Crown Agents with respect to the matter if the Crown Agents decide that the interest in question might prejudicially affect the member's consideration of the matter.

(3)For the purposes of this paragraph, a notice given by a member at a meeting of the Crown Agents to the effect that he is a member of a specified body corporate or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract which is made with the body corporate or firm after the date of the notice, and in any other matter whatsoever concerning the body corporate or firm which falls to be considered by the Crown Agents after that date, shall be a sufficient disclosure of his interest.

(4)A member need not attend in person at a meeting of the Crown Agents in order to make a disclosure which he is required to make under this paragraph, if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice which is taken into consideration and read at such a meeting.

12The validity of any proceedings of the Crown Agents shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members or by any defect in the appointment of a member or by any failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph 11.