Each board shall have a teaching appointments committee F1. . . and may appoint such other committees as it considers necessary.

A teaching appointments committee shall be constituted in accordance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 3 F2. . . .

Each board shall prepare and submit to the Department for approval a scheme specifyingF4... the procedure to be followed by its teaching appointments committee F5. . . .

A board may authorise its teaching appointments committee F6. . . and any other committee appointed by it under paragraph (1) to appoint sub-committees for such purposesF7 of the committee as the board may approve and any such sub-committee may contain members who are not members of the board or of the committee which appointed the sub-committee.

A board may authoriseF8... any committee of the board all the members of which are members of the board to perform specific functions on behalf of, and in the name of, the board.

Except as provided by [F9 a scheme under Article 153 of the 1989 Order], a board shall not authorise any committee any member or members of which are not members of the board or a sub-committee to perform functions on behalf of, or in the name of, the board.