31Committees

31 Committees

(1) The Board may establish committees to advise or assist in the performance of the Council’s functions or the Board’s functions. (1A) If the terms of reference of a committee include providing advice, or making recommendations, about policy, or the provision of financial assistance or guarantees, in relation to the arts (or any of the arts), the Board must ensure that the members of the committee include at least one person who has relevant experience in the arts. (2) A committee may be constituted: (a) wholly by Board members; or (b) wholly by persons who are not Board members; or (c) partly by Board members and partly by other persons. (3) The Board may determine, in relation to a committee established under this section: (a) the committee’s terms of reference; and (b) the terms and conditions of appointment of the members of the committee; and (c) the procedures to be followed by the committee. (4) The Board may give directions to a committee in relation to the advice or assistance that the committee is to provide to the Board. The committee must comply with those directions. (5) If a direction given to a committee under subsection (4) is in writing, the direction is not a legislative instrument.