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6.—(2) The Board shall have an office at which communications and notices will at all times be received and shall notify the Minister of the address and of any change in the address thereof.
7. The Board may employ a secretary and such other officers and employees and engage the services of such persons as they think fit and may enter into such agreements, acquire such property and do such things as may, in their opinion, be necessary or desirable for the purpose of discharging any of their functions and may sell or otherwise dispose of any property acquired by them which they do not need for such purpose and, without prejudice to the generality of this provision, may–
(a)acquire any interest in a body corporate;
(b)form or take part in forming a body corporate;
(c)transfer to any such body corporate any of their assets and arrange for it to discharge any of their liabilities.
8. The Board may pay to any member of the Board any such travelling and out–of–pocket expenses as have, in the opinion of the Board, been reasonably incurred by him in connection with the business of the Board.
8A. The Board, to the intent that so far as practicable their commercial activities may be put on an equal footing with the activities of independent commercial undertakings, shall place their commercial activities under a system of financial management and administration which is separately accountable from the system of financial management and administration for the Board’s other activities.
20. The Board may appoint committees consisting of such members of the Board and such other persons as they may determine and, subject to the provisions of this Scheme with respect to the application of the common seal of the Board, may delegate to any committee appointed by them any of the powers of the Board, except a power in connection with the borrowing of money.
25. All acts done at any meeting of the Board or of any committee appointed by them shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment, election or qualification of a person purporting to be a member of the Board or of the committee, or that a member of the Board had voted upon any question upon which he was not entitled to vote, be as valid as if that defect had not existed or such member had been entitled to vote.
26. Minutes shall be kept of the proceedings of the Board and of every committee thereof, and any such minutes shall, if signed by a person purporting to have acted as chairman of the meeting to which the minutes relate or of a meeting at which they were read, be evidence of the proceedings at the first–mentioned meeting, and the meeting to which any such minutes related shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been regularly convened and constituted.
27. For the purpose of any proceedings a copy, purporting to be certified in writing by the chairman or vice–chairman or secretary of the Board to be a true copy, of the minutes or any parts of the minutes of any meeting of the Board or any committee of the Board shall be evidence of such of the proceedings at the said meeting as such minutes or parts of the minutes purport to relate to and, until the contrary be proved, the meeting shall be presumed to have been regularly convened and constituted.
28. The common seal of the Board shall not be applied to any document except by the authority of the Board, and the application of the seal shall be attested by the chairman, or vice– chairman, and at least one other member of the Board and by the Secretary.
29. Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or executed by a person not being a body corporate, would not be required to be under seal, may be entered into or executed on behalf of the Board by any person authorised by them in that behalf, either generally or specially.
30. No contract to which the Board is a party shall be avoided by reason only that a member of the Board is also a party thereto or is interested therein, and a member of the Board who is a party to, or interested in, such a contract shall not, by reason only that he is a member of the Board, be liable to account to the Board for any profit realised by him by reason of the contract; but a member of the Board must forthwith disclose to the Board any interest which he has or acquires in any contract whatsoever, if such interest in any way conflicts with his duty as a member of the Board, and shall not vote upon any question relating to the contract, and if he does vote, his vote shall not be counted; but he shall, nevertheless, be taken into account for the purpose of constituting a quorum of the Board or of any committee appointed by them:
Provided that a member of the Board shall not be precluded from voting on a question relating to–
(a)the general policy of the Board with respect to any matter by reason only that the determination of that question will or may affect contracts which have been, or may thereafter be, entered into by him with the Board;
(b)any contract for the provision of remuneration, allowances or gratuities which the Board are empowered to effect by virtue of regulation 8(3).
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