Regulation 8 Decision of meetings of the Authority

(1) If a Member has an interest in any item of business to be transacted at a meeting, he shall not participate or vote on such item and in such case, the decision on such item shall be taken by majority of the votes of other Members attending the meeting.

(2) The Chairperson or the other Member presiding over the meeting shall endeavour at all times to arrive at decisions or recommendations through a consensus among Members and voting shall be resorted to if attempts to arrive at a consensus fail. In the event of equality of votes, the Chairperson, or, in his absence, the presiding Member, shall have a casting vote.

(3) Votes on every item of business to be transacted at a meeting of the Authority shall be taken by a show of hands.

(4) All decisions of the Authority shall be signed by the Member-Secretary of the Authority.

(5) Decisions taken at every meeting of the Authority shall be published on the website of Authority unless the Chairperson determines otherwise on grounds of ensuring confidentiality.