6.1 The Principal Employer shall from time to time nominate one of the Trustees to be their Chairman and to serve for a period ending on the termination of his appointment as a Trustee or such shorter period as the Principal Employer shall specify at the date of such nomination. This is subject to the terms of any agreement entered into by the Principal Employer regarding such nomination.
6.2 The Chairman or any two Trustees together may by written request to the Secretary call for a meeting of the Trustees and such meeting shall be convened by the Secretary within ten working days of receipt of the said request.
6.3 Notices of meetings of the Trustees stating the general nature of the business to be transacted thereat shall be dispatched by the Secretary to the Trustees.
6.4 Subject always to Clause 8.2 the Trustees may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit and in such a way as to comply with the provisions of Part I of the Pensions Act 1995. The Chairman nominated as described above shall take the chair at every meeting of the Trustees at which he is present but in the event of there being no such Chairman present at a meeting of the Trustees the Trustees who are present at that meeting shall choose one of their number to be the Chairman for that meeting.
6.5 All business brought before a meeting of the Trustees shall, except as hereinafter provided, be decided by resolutions passed by a majority of the votes of the Trustees present and voting thereon and in the event of any equality of votes the Chairman of the meeting shall have a second casting vote. Any resolution shall, in order to be passed, require not less than six votes (including the second or casting vote, if any, of the Chairman) given in favour of the resolution.
6.6 The quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Trustees shall be six of the Trustees and provided that there is a quorum the continuing Trustees may act notwithstanding any vacancies in their body.
6.7 A resolution in writing circulated to all the Trustees for the time being in the United Kingdom and signed as approved by all of those Trustees (not being less than six) shall be as effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Trustees and such resolution may consist of two or more documents in similar form each signed by one or more of the Trustees.
6.8 The Trustees shall cause proper minutes to be kept of the proceedings at their meetings which minutes shall be signed by the Chairman of the meeting to which they refer or of the next succeeding meeting and any such minutes so signed shall be evidence of the matters stated therein.