The meetings and proceedings of the management team and any committee shall be conducted in accordance with the standing orders made pursuant to regulation 10.

At every meeting of the management team, the chairperson, if present, shall preside.

If the chairperson is absent from any meeting, the vice-chairperson, if present, shall preside, and if the chairperson and vice-chairperson are both absent, the members present at the meeting shall elect from among themselves a trustee to act as chairperson for that meeting.

All acts of, and all questions coming and arising before, the management team shall be done and decided by a majority of the members of the management team present and voting at a meeting of the management team and, in the case of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

The proceedings of the management team or of any committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in its membership or by any defect in the appointment of any director or member of such committee.