Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE - SECT 6

Subcommittees

(1) The Committee may establish subcommittees and appoint the members thereof,
which may include persons who are not members of the Committee, and the
Committee shall appoint a chairman for each subcommittee.

(2) Any matter may be referred by the Chairman of the Committee to a
subcommittee.

(3) The Chairman of the Committee shall have the right to attend at any
meeting of any subcommittee, whether or not he was appointed as a member of
that subcommittee.

(4) The Chairman of the Committee or the chairman of a subcommittee may
convene a meeting of the subcommittee.

(5) Not less than 1/4 of the members of a subcommittee shall form a quorum at
any meeting of the subcommittee but, in any case, a quorum of the subcommittee
shall not be less than 2 members.

(6) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a subcommittee may co-opt additional
persons as members of the subcommittee, and shall at all times furnish the
Chairman of the Committee with particulars of all persons co-opted.

(7) Upon the conclusion of its deliberations a subcommittee shall prepare a
report covering all aspects of its work for the consideration of the
Committee, which report shall be forwarded to the Chairman and the secretary
of the Committee for inclusion on the agenda of the next meeting of the
Committee.

(8) Part VII of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance ( Cap 1)
shall apply to a subcommittee and appointments to the subcommittee-

   (a)  as if the subcommittee were a committee;

   (b)  except in so far as that Part is inconsistent with the provisions of
        this Ordinance.