Hong Kong Ordinances

HONG KONG PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE - SECT 11

Meetings of the Council

(1) Meetings of the Council shall be held at such times and places as the
Chairman may from time to time appoint.

(2) The Chairman shall, if requested by notice in writing signed by not fewer
than 4 members of the Council, convene a meeting of the Council within 14 days
of that notice.

(3) At all meetings of the Council a majority of the members shall form a
quorum.

(4) All questions arising at any meeting of the Council shall be decided by a
majority of votes of the members present and voting thereon.

(5) Subject to this Ordinance, the Council may by resolution make rules for
the procedure at and conduct of its meetings.

(6) If a member is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a matter
under discussion at a meeting of the Council-

   (a)  he shall disclose the nature of his interest at the meeting;

   (b)  the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the Council;

   (c)  the member presiding at the meeting may at his discretion require the
        member who has disclosed the interest to withdraw from the meeting;
        and

   (d)  in the event that the member who has disclosed the interest is the
        member presiding at the meeting, the other members present may, by a
        majority of votes, require him to withdraw from the meeting, and (in
        the absence of the Deputy Chairman) appoint one of their number to
        preside at the meeting during his absence. (Added 67 of 1993 s. 5)