Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![A.D. 1894, members of a committee, or otherwise alter the constitution thereof, and fill up or provide for the filling up of vacancies therein, or revoke the appointment thereof and appoint another committee or committees, and lay down rules for the guidance of a committee, who shall act accordingly. 2. A committee may consist wholly of members of the local authority or partly thereof, and partly of other persons, being rated occupiers in the district of the local authority, and otherwise qualified, as the local authority think fit. 3. A local authority may except in so far as it is otherwise provided by order of the Board of Agriculture delegate all or any of their powers, except the power to make a rate, to a committee, with or without conditions or restrictions. 4. A local authority may revoke or alter any power given by them to a committee. 5. A local authority may, if they think fit, appoint and designate one committee as their executive committee. 6. An executive committee shall have all the powers of the local authority, except the power to make a rate, and may, if they think fit, appoint a sub- committee or sub-committees, and delegate to them [except in so far as it is otherwise provided by order of the Board] all or any of the powers of the executive committee, with or without conditions or restrictions, and revoke or alter any such delegation, and appoint the number of members by whom the powers of a sub-committee may be exercised, and add to or diminish the number of the members of a sub-committee, or otherwise alter the constitution thereof, and fill up or provide for the filling up of vacancies therein, or revoke the appointment thereof and appoint another sub-committee or other sub-committees, and lay down rules for the guidance of a sub-committee who shall act accordingly. 7. Proceedings of a committee or sub-committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the committee or sub-committee. 8. In case of the formation of two or more committees, they shall act according to rules laid down for their guidance by the local authority. 9. A committee, and a sub-committee of an executive committee, may elect a chairman of their meetings. 10. If no chairman is elected, or if the chairman so elected is not present at the time appointed for a meeting, the members then present shall choose a chairman for that meeting. 11. A committee or sub-committee may meet and adjourn as they think proper. 12. Every question at a meeting of a committee or sub-committee shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members, including the chairman, present and voting on the question ; and in case of equal division, the chairman shall have a second vote.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2241695x_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
