Section 189
1Regulations may make provision with respect to—
(a)the appointment,
(b)the tenure of office, and
(c)the vacation of office,
of the members of any standing advisory committee.
2The Welsh Ministers must appoint a secretary to each standing advisory committee.
3Each standing advisory committee may appoint such sub-committees as it considers appropriate, and as are approved by the Welsh Ministers, to consider and report on questions referred to it by the standing advisory committee.
4Any such sub-committee may include persons who are not members of the standing advisory committee.
5Each standing advisory committee must elect one of the members of the committee to be chairman of the committee.
6Each standing advisory committee has power to regulate its own procedure.
7The proceedings of a standing advisory committee are not invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the committee, or by any defect in a member’s appointment or qualification.
8The Welsh Ministers may make such payments in respect of expenses incurred by a standing advisory committee as they may determine.
9The Welsh Ministers may pay to the members of a standing advisory committee, or a sub-committee of a standing advisory committee, such travelling and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remunerative time, as they may determine.
10Payments under this Schedule are subject to such conditions as to records, certificates, or otherwise as the Welsh Ministers may determine.