The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (Establishment, Constitution, and Staff and Other Transfer Provisions) Order 2017

Procedural requirements for meetings and proceedings of the Authority E+W

13.—(1) The first meeting of the Authority is to be held on such day and at such place as may be fixed by the chairperson, who is to have responsibility for convening the meeting.

(2) The chairperson may call a meeting of the Authority at any time.

(3) If a requisition for a meeting, signed by at least two members or one third of the total number of members, whichever is the greater number, is presented to the chairperson, and the chairperson either—

(a) refuses to call a meeting; or

(b) without so refusing, does not within 21 days after the requisition has been presented call a meeting,

those members may forthwith call a meeting.

(4) Before each meeting of the Authority, a notice of the meeting which—

(a) specifies the principal business proposed to be transacted at it; and

(b) is signed by the chairperson or by an officer of the Authority authorised by the chairperson to sign on the chairperson’s behalf,

must be delivered to each member, or sent by post to the member’s last known address, at least seven clear days before the day of the meeting.

(5) The proceedings of any meeting are not invalidated by a failure to deliver such notice to any member.

(6) In the case of a meeting called under sub-paragraph (3) by members, the notice must be signed by those members and no business other than that specified in the notice is to be transacted at the meeting.

(7) At any meeting of the Authority the chairperson or, in the chairperson’s absence, the vice-chairperson (if there is one and the vice-chairperson is present) is to preside.

(8) If the chairperson and any vice-chairperson are absent, such other non-officer member present as the other members present choose for the purpose is to preside.

(9) Every question at a meeting is to be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and competent to vote on the question and, in the case of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting is to have a second or casting vote.

(10) No business is to be transacted at any meeting unless at least three of the members or one third of the membership, whichever is the greater number (the chairperson being included for this purpose in the reckoning), is present.

(11) Minutes of the proceedings of a meeting must be prepared recording the names of the members present at that meeting, and signed at the next ensuing meeting by the person presiding at that next meeting.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 13 in force at 1.11.2017, see art. 1(1)