Industrial Training Act 1964

Section 1.

SCHEDULE Industrial Training Boards

1 An industrial training board shall be a body corporate, by such name as may be specified in the industrial training order.

2 The members of an industrial training board shall be appointed by the Minister.

3 An industrial training board shall consist of a chairman, who shall be a person appearing to the Minister to have industrial or commercial experience, and—

(a) an equal number of persons appointed after consultation with such organisations or associations of organisations representative of employers engaging in the industry and of persons employed in the industry respectively as appear to the Minister to be appropriate ;

(b) persons appointed after consultation with the Secretary of State and the Minister of Education ;

and, if the Minister thinks fit to appoint as deputy chairman a person appearing to him to have industrial or commercial experience, the deputy chairman so appointed ; and references in the following provisions of this Schedule to a chairman shall include a deputy chairman.

4 An industrial training board shall pay to its chairman such remuneration (if any) as the Minister may from time to time with the approval of the Treasury determine.

5 The chairman and the members appointed as mentioned in paragraph 3(b) of this Schedule shall not vote on any matter relating to the imposition of a levy.

6 (1) The Minister, the Secretary of State, the Minister of Education and, if the Minister thinks fit in a particular case, such other Ministers in charge of government departments as he may specify may each appoint one person to attend the meetings of an industrial training board, and any person so appointed shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings of the board and receive copies of all documents distributed to its members, but shall have no vote.

(2) If the Minister thinks fit in any particular case he may authorise the Iron and Steel Board to appoint one person under this paragraph in addition to the persons so appointed by the Ministers mentioned therein.

7 An industrial training order may make provision with respect to—

(a) the tenure of office of the members of the board ;

(b) the quorum and, subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Schedule, the proceedings and meetings of the board ;

(c) the execution of instruments by and on behalf of the board and the proof of documents purporting to be executed, issued or signed by the board or a member, officer or servant thereof; and any provision made by virtue of sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph may enable votes to be cast by proxy.

8 Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 and to any provision made by virtue of paragraph 7 of this Schedule, a board shall have power to regulate its own procedure.

9 The proceedings of an industrial training board shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the board or by any defect in the appointment of any member.

10 A board may appoint such officers and servants, upon such terms as to remuneration, pension rights and other conditions of service, as the board may determine and, in the case of pension rights, the Minister may approve.

11 A board may pay to its members such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as the board may determine.

12 For the purposes of this Schedule any body established for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking shall be treated as if it were an organisation representative of employers.

Table of Statutes referred to in this Act

Short Title	Session and Chapter
Education Act 1944	7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 31
National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946	9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62
Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947	10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 40
Companies Act 1948	11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 38
Employment and Training Act 1948	11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 46
House of Commons Disqualification Act 1957	5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 20
Education (Scotland) Act 1962	10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 47