Hairdressers (Registration) Act 1964

PART II Supplementary provisions relating to the Hairdressing Council

4 The Hairdressing Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

5 The first members of the Hairdressing Council shall be appointed within six months of the passing of this Act.

6 (1) Of the members first appointed under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule one-fourth shall retire on the thirty-first day of December in each of the years 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968.

(2) The term of office of the members subsequently appointed under those sub-paragraphs shall be four years.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph the order of retirement of members shall be determined in default of agreement by lot at a meeting of the Council within four months after the first meeting of the Council, the lots being drawn under the direction of the person presiding at the meeting.

7 The term of office of the members appointed under sub-paragraphs (3) to (5) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be three years.

8 A member of the Hairdressing Council may at any time by notice in writing addressed to the registrar resign his office.

9 (1) A person appointed to fill a casual vacancy among the members of the Council shall hold office during the remainder of the term of office of the person in whose place he is appointed.

(2) Any vacancy other than a casual vacancy in the membership of the Hairdressing Council shall be filled before the date on which the vacancy will occur.

10 (1) The Hairdressing Council shall have power to do anything which in their opinion is calculated to facilitate the proper discharge of their functions.

(2) The Council shall, in particular, have power:—

(a) to appoint, in addition to a registrar, such officers and servants as the Council may determine ;

(b) to pay to the members of the Council or their committees such fees for attendance at meetings of the Council or their committees and such travelling and subsistence allowances while attending such meetings or while on any other business of the Council as the Council may determine ;

(c) to pay to their officers and servants such remuneration as the Council may determine ;

(d) as regards any officers or servants in whose case they may determine to do so, to pay to, or in respect of them, such pensions and gratuities, or provide and maintain for them such superannuation .schemes (whether contributory or not), as the Council may determine.

(3) The powers of the Council may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy, and no proceedings of the Council shall be invalidated by any defect in the appointment of a member.

11 The Hairdressing Council may make regulations for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Council.

12 No business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Hairdressing Council unless at least five members are present.