Advanced Search

Botswana Power Corporation - Meetings And Proceedings Of The Corporation (Ss 8-10)

Subscribe to a Global-Regulation Premium Membership Today!

Key Benefits:

Subscribe Now for only USD$40 per month.

 

8.       Presiding officer

 

            The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, or in the absence of both, a member elected by the Corporation, shall preside at all meetings of the Corporation, and the vice-chairman or person presiding at any meeting shall with respect to such meeting or any business transacted thereat have all the powers of, and be deemed to be, the chairman of the Corporation under this Act.

 

9.       Meetings

 

            (1) The Corporation shall hold ordinary meetings as and when necessary, so however, that ordinary meetings are held at intervals not exceeding three months.

            (2) Ordinary meetings of the Corporation shall be convened by the chairman at such times and at such places as he may in his discretion deem fit.

            (3) The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall at any time convene a special meeting of the Corporation upon receipt of a requisition signed by two members calling upon him to do so, and such special meeting shall be held not later than one month after receipt of such requisition.

            (4) The chairman shall have a casting as well as a deliberative vote; subject thereto, the decision of the majority of the members present and voting at any meeting of the Corporation shall be deemed to be the decision of the Corporation.

            (5) Any member of the Corporation who has an interest, or whose spouse has an interest, in any company or undertaking with which the Corporation proposes to make a contract, or has an interest in any contract which the Corporation proposes to make, shall disclose the nature of his interest, and shall not vote or take any part in the proceedings of the Corporation relating to such contract.

            (6) At any meeting of the Corporation a quorum shall be constituted by not less than one half of the members, including the chairman, of the Corporation.

            (7) No act, decision or proceeding of the Corporation shall be questioned on account of any vacancy in the membership thereof, or on account of the appointment of any member of the Corporation being defective, if the act was done or authorized or the decision was taken or the proceeding took place by or in accordance with a majority vote of the persons who at the time were entitled to act as members.

            (8) The Corporation may from time to time make standing orders providing for the regulation of-

     (a)     the meetings of the Corporation;

     (b)     the conduct of its business and other operations in carrying out its functions; and

     (c)     the duties of its officers, employees and agents.

 

10.     Signification of documents

 

            All documents made by, and all decisions of, the Corporation may be signified under the hand of the chairman of the Corporation, or the secretary to the Corporation, or any member or senior officer of the Corporation generally or specially authorized in that behalf.