445Meetings of the Youth Parole Board

445 Meetings of the Youth Parole Board S. 445(1) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 52(1). (1) The Youth Parole Board must meet at the times and places that are fixed by the regulations or, if no times or places are so fixed, at the times and places that are determined by the chairperson or an acting chairperson. S. 445(2) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 52(2). (2) The chairperson or, in the chairperson's absence, an acting chairperson, must preside at every meeting of the Youth Parole Board. S. 445(3) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 52(3). (3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), a quorum of the Youth Parole Board consists of the chairperson or an acting chairperson and one other member. S. 445(4) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 52(4). (4) A female member (including as an acting chairperson) of the Youth Parole Board must be present at any meeting of the Board at which consideration is being given to the release on parole of a female person. S. 445(5) substituted by No. 61/2014 s. 107, amended by No. 43/2020 s. 52(5). (5) A quorum at any meeting of the Youth Parole Board consists of the chairperson or an acting chairperson and two other persons if consideration is being given to— (a) the transfer to a prison of a person detained in a youth justice centre; or (b) the transfer to a youth justice centre of a person detained in a youth residential centre. (6) The following questions which may arise at a meeting of the Youth Parole Board are to be determined by the person presiding at the meeting alone— (a) whether a question is a question of law; (b) any question determined to be a question of law. (7) A question (other than a question referred to in subsection (6)) arising at a meeting of the Youth Parole Board must be determined by a majority of votes and, if the votes are equal, the person presiding has a casting vote. (8) Subject to this Act and the regulations, the Board may regulate its own procedure.