Section 2: Meetings of Board

2. Meetings of Board (1) The Board shall meet as often as necessary but at least once every month. (2) At a meeting of the Board, 6 members shall constitute a quorum and no business may be transacted at a meeting of the Board unless there is a quorum. (3) (a) The President shall preside at a meeting of the Board. (b) Where the President is absent from a meeting of the Board, the members present shall elect, from among themselves, another member to preside that meeting. (4) (a) Where any member, or any person related to the member by blood or marriage, has a pecuniary or other material interest in relation to any matter before a meeting of the Board, that member— (i) shall disclose the nature of the interest before or at the meeting of the Board convened to discuss that matter; and (ii) shall not take part in any deliberations of the meeting of the Board relating to that matter. (b) A disclosure of interest made under subparagraph (a) (i) shall be recorded in the minutes of proceedings of the meeting of the Board by the Secretary to the Board. (5) Each member present at a meeting of the Board shall be entitled to one vote on a matter arising for decision at the meeting and the person presiding at the meeting shall, in the event of an equality of votes, have a casting vote. (6) A decision carried by a majority of the votes cast by the members present and voting at a meeting shall be a decision of the Board. (7) The Board shall regulate its meetings and proceedings in such manner as it may determine. U6A – 17 [Issue 4] Université des Mascareignes Act