Housing Act, 1966

Committees.

110.—(1) A housing authority may, if they think fit—

(a) establish a committee consisting of such number of their members as they may think fit for purposes connected with the performance of any of their functions under this Act,

(b) make and carry out an agreement with another housing authority to establish a committee (in this section referred to as a joint committee) in accordance with subsection (2) of this section, consisting of so many persons as the parties to the agreement think fit, for purposes connected with the functions under this Act which are common to both parties to the agreement.

(2) Every joint committee shall be composed either wholly of persons who are members of an authority who are a party to the relevant agreement under subsection (1) of this section or partly of persons who are and partly of persons who are not members of such an authority, provided that in case the joint committee is composed both of persons who are and persons who are not members of such an authority, the members of the joint committee who are not members of such an authority, shall not exceed in number one-third of the total number of members of the joint committee.

(3) The parties to an agreement under subsection (1) of this section may include in the agreement provisions relating to the sharing of the cost of performing the functions under this Act to which the agreement relates, and may carry out any such provisions.

(4) Where any agreement has been made under this section, the parties thereto may terminate the agreement at any time if they so agree.