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Meetings of Advisory Board
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544. (1) The Advisory Board shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the due performance of its functions, but in each year shall hold not less than one meeting in each period of 6 months.
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(2) The Advisory Board may hold or continue a meeting by the use of any means of communication by which all the participants can hear and be heard at the same time.
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(3) The chairperson of the Advisory Board shall fix the date, time and, subject to subsection (2), place of the first meeting of the Board.
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(4) The quorum for a meeting of the Advisory Board shall be 3.
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(5) At a meeting of the Advisory Board—
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(a) the chairperson of the Advisory Board shall, if present, be the chairperson of the meeting, and
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(b) if and so long as the chairperson of the Advisory Board is not present or if the office of the chairperson is vacant, the members of the Advisory Board who are present shall choose one of their number to act as the chairperson of the meeting.
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(6) Each member of the Advisory Board present at a meeting of the Advisory Board shall have a vote.
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(7) At a meeting of the Advisory Board, a question on which a vote is required shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members of the Advisory Board present and voting on the question and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairperson of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
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(8) Subject to this Act, the Advisory Board may determine its own procedures.
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(9) The Advisory Board may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies among its members.
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