19.—(1) The meetings and proceedings of an NHS trust shall be conducted in accordance with the rules set out in the Schedule to these Regulations and with Standing Orders made under paragraph (2).
(2) Subject to those rules and to regulation 20 an NHS trust shall make and may vary or revoke Standing Orders for the regulation of its proceedings and business and provision may be made in such Standing Orders for the suspension of them.
(3) An NHS trust may make, vary and revoke Standing Orders relating to the quorum, proceedings and place of meetings of a committee or sub committee but, subject to regulation 20 and to any such Standing Orders, the quorum, proceedings and place of meeting shall be such as the committee or sub-committee may determine.
(4) The proceedings of an NHS trust shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in its membership or by any defect in a director’s appointment.