368AGoverning Board may appoint presiding person if Chairperson and deputy Chairperson absent

368A Governing Board may appoint presiding person if Chairperson and deputy Chairperson absent (1) This section applies in relation to a meeting of the Governing Board if— (a) the Chairperson and the deputy Chairperson (including any member appointed to act as Chairperson or deputy Chairperson under section 366) are absent; or (b) the office of Chairperson and the office of deputy Chairperson are vacant. (2) A majority of the members of the Governing Board for the time being constitutes a quorum of the Governing Board. (3) The members of the Governing Board must, by a majority of votes of the members present and voting at the meeting, appoint one member of the Governing Board to preside at the meeting. (4) The member appointed under subsection (3)— (a) is taken to be acting as Chairperson during the meeting; and (b) has and may exercise all the powers, and must perform all the duties and functions, of the Chairperson during the meeting; and (c) is not entitled to be paid any remuneration or allowance to which the Chairperson would have been entitled merely because the member is acting as Chairperson during the meeting. S. 17 renumbered as s. 369 by No. 39/2018 s. 22.