(1) The procedure for calling meetings of the Rule Committee and for the
conduct of business at those meetings shall, subject to any procedure that is
prescribed by or under this Act, be as determined by the Rule Committee.
(2)
Five members of the Rule Committee shall form a quorum and any duly convened
meeting of the Rule Committee at which a quorum is present is competent to
transact any business of the Rule Committee and shall have and may exercise
all the powers, authorities, duties and functions of the Rule Committee.
(3)
The chairman of the Rule Committee or, in the absence of the chairman, the
deputy chairman of that Committee shall preside at a meeting of that
Committee.
(4) In the absence from a meeting of the Rule Committee of both
the chairman and the deputy chairman another member of the Rule Committee
elected by the members present shall preside at the meeting.
(5) The person
presiding at a meeting of the Rule Committee has a deliberative vote and, in
the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote.
(6) A decision
supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Rule Committee
at which a quorum is present shall be the decision of that Committee.
(7) The
Chief Judge shall call the first meeting of the Rule Committee in such manner
as the Chief Judge thinks fit and, subject to any decision of that Committee
under subsection (1), may call other meetings of that Committee as and when
the Chief Judge thinks necessary.
(8) The Rule Committee may, if it thinks
fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the
members of the Rule Committee for the time being, and a resolution in writing
approved in writing by a majority of those members is to be taken to be a
decision of the Rule Committee.
