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Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

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Version Superseded: 01/10/1998

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8(1)Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule the Authority shall have power to regulate its own procedure.

(2)The quorum at meetings of the Authority shall be four.

9(1)A member of the Authority who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in any land which is the subject of a transaction entered into or proposed to be entered into by the Authority shall disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Authority; and the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the Authority, and the member shall not take any part in any deliberation or decision of the Authority with respect to the transaction.

(2)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above a general notice given at a meeting of the Authority by a member of the Authority to the effect that he is a member of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction which may, after the date of the notice, be entered into in relation to that company or firm, shall be regarded as a sufficient disclosure of his interest in relation to any such transaction.

(3)A member of the Authority need not attend in person at a meeting of the Authority in order to make any 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 brought up and read at the meeting.

10The proceedings of the Authority shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the number of their members or by any defect in the appointment of any person as a member or chairman or deputy chairman or by any failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph 9 above.

11The seal of the Authority shall be authenticated by the signature of the secretary or of any person authorised by the Authority to act in that behalf.

12A certificate signed by the secretary that any instrument purporting to be made or issued by or on behalf of the Authority was so made or issued shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

13Every document purporting—

(a)to be an instrument made or issued by or on behalf of the Authority and to be sealed with the seal of the Authority authenticated in the manner provided by paragraph 11 above, or to be signed or executed by the secretary or any person authorised by the Authority to act in that behalf, or

(b)to be such a certificate as is mentioned in paragraph 12 above,

shall be received in evidence and be deemed without further proof to be so made or issued or to be such a certifcate, unless the contrary is shown.

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