Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Amendment Act 1879

5 Provisions in regard to a county valuation committee

The following provisions shall have effect with respect to the appointment and proceedings of a county valuation committee; that is to say,

(1) The commissioners of supply shall annually at their statutory meeting on the thirtieth day of April, or on the day substituted therefor, hi terms of the Act passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-eight, or at any adjournment thereof, appoint from among themselves a county valuation committee, or they may appoint more than one such committee, and assign to any such committee such area of jurisdiction as they may think expedient:

(2) A county valuation committee shall consist of not less than five nor more than twenty members:

(3) A county valuation committee may from time to time fix the times and places of their meetings, of which notice shall be given by the clerk of supply of the county, in the same manner as notice is for the time given of meetings of the commissioners of supply:

(4) The quorum of a county valuation committee shall be three members:

(5) Any vacancy arising in any such committee from death, resignation, or other cause, may be from time to time filled up by the committee; Any such committee may, if a quorum exists, act, notwithstanding vacancies therein:

(6) A county valuation committee shall continue in office until another such committee is appointed as herein-before provided:

The members of a committee retiring may be re-appointed:

(7) A county valuation committee shall have power to elect one of their own number to act as chairman during their tenure of office, and until a chairman is appointed, and in case of his absence from any meeting, the committee shall elect one of their members present at the meeting to act as chairman of that meeting; and in the event of an equal division of the committee, the chairman shall have a second vote:

(8) The clerk of supply of the county shall be the clerk of the county valuation committee, or of each such committee if there be more than one, and shall perform all such duties in relation to any such committee or committees as he is required by law to perform in relation to the commissioners of supply in general meeting assembled.