9.—(1) No act or proceedings of the Authority, or of any committee of their number, shall be invalid or illegal in consequence only of there being any vacancy in the number of members at the time of such act or proceeding.
(2) All acts and proceedings of the Authority, or of any committee of their number, or of any person acting as a member, even if it is later found that there was some defect in the appointment of such member or persons acting as members, or that they or any of them had become disqualified, shall be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a member.
(3) The Authority may at a meeting of the Authority require all members to provide details of all sources of income, business interests, securities held, interest in any land in the vicinity of the harbour or any other matter which may reasonably be conceived as having the potential to lead to a conflict of interest with the duties of a member. Knowledge of any such information provided shall be confined to the Chair, or in their absence the Vice Chair, and to the Chief Executive subject to the proviso that, where in the opinion of the Chair or Vice Chair after consultation with the Chief Executive there exists an actual or potential conflict of interest, they shall, after consultation with the member or members concerned, be entitled to provide the Authority with such information in relation to the said member or members as they may consider relevant.
(4) The Authority may pay to each member such reasonable remuneration, allowances and expenses as the Authority may from time to time determine.
(5) The Authority shall appoint a Chief Executive and such other persons as from time to time it thinks necessary or desirable for and incidental to the performance of its functions and pay to them such remuneration as the Authority thinks fit.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this Order the Authority shall have power to regulate its own procedure.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 9 in force at 1.3.2019, see art. 1(1)