Education (Scotland) Act 1980

Procedure S

1 The committee may, from time to time—

(a) appoint from among its own members, a sub-committee—

(i) to discharge such of the functions of the committee as the committee may specify; or

(ii) to advise the committee on any matter relating to the discharge of the functions of the committee:

Provided that any person so appointed shall, upon ceasing to be a member of the committee, cease also to be a member of the sub-committee;

(b) appoint a chairman from among its own members and revoke the appointment of his predecessor, if any;

(c) subject to the provisions of this Act, make, vary or revoke standing orders—

(i) regulating the quorum, procedure and place of meeting of the committee or of any of its sub-committees; or

(ii) regulating the manner in which any dispute relating to procedure, or the interpretation of standing orders made under this sub-paragraph or the following paragraph, is to be resolved;

but subject to any such standing orders and to the provisions of this Act the quorum, procedure and place of meeting of the committee or of any of its sub-committees shall be such as the committee, or in respect of itself the sub-committee, may determine.

2 Subject to any standing orders made under paragraph 1(c) above by the committee, a sub-committee appointed under paragraph 1(a) above may from time to time do anything in respect of itself that the committee may, under paragraph 1(b) or (c)(i) above, do in respect of the committee; but the power which the committee has under paragraph 1(c) above to vary or revoke standing orders shall include the power to vary or revoke standing orders made by any of its sub-committees.