(1)The Council may set up a committee for any purpose (other than a purpose for which the Council are required to set up a committee under this Act) and may delegate to a committee set up under this section, with or without restrictions or conditions, as they think fit, any functions exercisable by them except the following—
(a)the power to make rules under this Act,
(b)any functions expressly conferred by this Act on any committee set up under any of the foregoing provisions of this Act, and
(c)subject to any express provision for delegation in the rules, any functions expressly conferred on the Council by rules under this Act.
(2)The number of members of a committee set up under this section and their term of office shall be fixed by the Council.
(3)A committee set up under this Act may include persons who are not members of the Council, but at least two-thirds of the members of every such committee shall be members of the Council.
(4)Every member of a committee set up under this Act who at the time of his appointment was a member of the Council shall, upon ceasing to be a member of the Council, also cease to be a member of the committee:
Provided that for the purposes of this subsection a member of the Council shall not be deemed to have ceased by reason of retirement to be a member thereof if he has again been nominated or elected a member thereof not later than the day of his retirement.