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Section 8: Quorum.
Status not yet checkedThe Law Reform Commission Act, 1975, Sierra Leone
(1)Four of the members of the Commission present shal
form a quorum for all meetings and no business shall be transacted
at any meeting unless there is a quorum at the commencement
of that meeting.
(2) If within half an hour of the time appointed for the
holding of a meeting a quorum is not formed the meeting shall
stand adjourned to such other day, time and place as the Sec
retary after consultation with the chairman, may by notice in
writing to the Commissioners appoint
Chairman 9. The Chairman shall take the chair at every meeting ofDresiding. the commission. If the chairman is not present within fifteen mi
nutes of the time appointed for holding a meeting, the raembers
present shall choose a temporary Chairman from among them
sclves to act for that meeting.
Adjourn 10. The Chairman may, with the consent of any meuting atneat.
which a quorum has been constituted, adjourn the meeting from
time to time and from place to place.
ll. ()Any resolution or decision at any mecting of the Com- Voting.
mission shall be passed or taken by a simple majority of votesof the members prescnt.
(2) Votings at mectings shall be by a show of hands,
the Chairman having a casting vote in the case of a tie in the vo
ting.
(3) Any Commissioner who is present at a meeting when
a resolution is passed or a decision is taken shall be entitled to
abstain or dissent therefrom, and upon his request, shall have
his abstention or dissension and his reasons therefore set out in
the minutes of that meeting.
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