Preliminary standing orders
3.—(1) Standing orders for the first meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority shall be prepared by the clerk to that Authority.
(2) The standing orders prepared in accordance with paragraph (1) shall provide for:
(a)giving notice of the meeting;
(b)preparation of the agenda for the meeting;
(c)election of a chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority;
(d)declaration of the result of that election;
(e)the meeting to be chaired by the clerk to that Authority until that result has been declared; and
(f)preparation of minutes of the meeting.
(3) Standing orders for the regulation of any business of the Metropolitan Police Authority which, by reason of the urgency of that business, the clerk to that Authority considers it to be necessary or expedient to transact on or before the date of the first meeting of that Authority shall be prepared by the clerk to that Authority.
(4) In this article “the clerk to that Authority” means the person who is, by virtue of his appointment under section 407 of the 1999 Act, for the time being clerk to the Metropolitan Police Authority.