26Working parties

#### 26 Working parties (1) A committee of the Commission may, with the approval of the Commission, constitute such sub‑committees, to be known as working parties, as it thinks necessary for the purpose of this Act. (2) A working party may be constituted wholly by members of the committee or partly by members of the committee and partly by other persons. (3) Where a committee constitutes a working party, the committee may determine: (a) the manner in which the working party is to perform its functions; and (b) the procedure to be followed at or in relation to meetings of the working party, including matters with respect to: (i) the convening of meetings of the working party; (ii) the number of members of the working party that constitutes a quorum; (iii) the selection of a member of the working party to preside at meetings of the working party at which the chairperson of the working party is not present; and (iv) the manner in which questions arising at a meeting of the working party are to be decided. (4) A working party shall keep minutes of its proceedings.