Deer (Scotland) Act 1959

Section 1.

FIRST SCHEDULE Provisions as to the Red Deer Commission

Constitution of the Commission

1 The Commission shall be a body corporate and shall have a common seal.

2 Every member of the Commission shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the teams of the instrument under which he is appointed, but notwithstanding anything in such an instrument any member of the Commission may resign his office by a notice given under his hand to the Secretary of State, and a member of the Commission who ceases to hold office shall be eligible for reappointment to the Commission.

3 Part II of the First Schedule to the House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1957 (which specifies certain commissions, tribunals and other bodies, all members of which are disqualified under that Act), shall have effect, in its application to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as if after the entry relating to the Pig Industry Development Authority there were inserted the following entry:—

• “The Red Deer Commission”.

4 The Secretary of State shall pay—

(a) to the Chairman of the Commission such remuneration and such allowances, and

(b) to the other members of the Commission such allowances as he may with the approval of the Treasury determine.

5 The Commission may pay to the members of any panel appointed in pursuance of section two of this Act the like allowances as are payable by the Secretary of State to members of the Commission under the last foregoing paragraph.

Meetings and Proceedings of the Commission

6 The quorum of the Commission shall be five or such larger number as the Commission may from time to time determine.

7 The proceedings of the Commission shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the Commission or by any defect in the appointment of any member thereof.

8 If at any meeting of the Commission the votes are equally divided on any question, the person acting as chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

9 Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, the Commission shall have power to regulate their own procedure and that of any panel appointed by them.

Office, Officers and Servants

10 The Commission shall have an office at which communications and notices will be received.

11 The Secretary of State may provide the services of such officers and servants as the Commission may require.

Instruments executed or issued by the Commission

12 The application of the seal of the Commission to any document shall be attested by at least one member of the Commission and by the person for the time being acting as secretary of the Commission.

13 Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Commission and to be sealed and attested as aforesaid or to be duly signed on behalf of the Commission shall be received in evidence and shall be deemed to be such an instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown.