(4) Any person who is aggrieved by a decision of a committee or employee to whom any powers have been delegated in terms of subsection (2) may, within thirty days of the decision, bring the matter in writing to the attention of the council or board concerned. (5) The delegation in term s of subsection (2) shall not preclude the council or board itself exercising the powers so delegated and the council or board concerned may amend or rescind any decision of a committee or employee in the exercise of the powers delegated to it or him, as the case may be, and may give any other decision in place thereof. 8 Meetings of and evidence before licensing authority (1) Subject to this Act and, in the case of a local authority, to the law under which that local authority is constituted, a licensing authority may meet for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings and proceedings as it thinks fit, so however, that at least one meeting in each month of the year shall be held for the consideration of applications if there is business to dis patch. (2) A licensing authority shall display in a conspicuous position at its principal office a notice giving the date and time throughout the year when such licensing authority will consider applications. (3) A record of the proceedings in public of a licensing authority at every meeting shall— (a) be kept and filed at its principal office; (b) be open for the inspection of the public on payment of such fee as may be prescribed. 9 Disqualification from sitting as member of licensing authority (1) No person shall sit as a member of or act as a licensing authority at the hearing of any application in which he is personally interested, directly or indirectly, or in which his spouse, partner or relative, within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity, is directly or indirectly interested or in which any company of which he is a director, manager, officer, employee or agent is directly or indirectly interested. (2) The fact that a person is the holder of a licence shall not of itself disqualify him from sitting as a member or acting as a licensing authority. 10 E v i d e n c e before licensing authority (1) When a licensing authority deems it necessary to take evidence respecting any question to be determined by it such evidence shall be given on oath to be administered by the person presiding at the meeting and shall be recorded. (2) A licensing authority may by written notice under the hand of the town clerk or secretary, as the case may be, require the attendance before it of any person who, in the opinion of the licensing authority, is able to testify as to any matter which the licensing authority has to determine. (3) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to attend and give evidence before a licen sing authority or the Administrative Court at a time and place specified in a notice given to him in terms of subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection as inserted by Section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] PART IV ISSUE AND RENEWAL OF LICENCES 11 Form of licences (1) A licence issued or renewed in terms of this Act shall— (a) be in the prescribed form; (b) specify the name of the person to whom the licence has been issued; (c) specify the trade or business and the class or type of goods to which the licence relates; (d) specify the premises to which the licence relates; (e) specify the number, situation, class or type of the vending machine or machines to which the licence relates; (f) specify any condition, restriction or requirement subject to which the licence has been granted. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the Minister may, by notice in a statutory instrument, specify classes of goods identified numerically or in any other way and may in like manner revoke or amend any such notice. (3) Where the Minister has specified a class of goods in a notice made in terms of subsection (2) any reference in a licence to that class shall be deemed to be a reference to the class of goods so specified. (4) Nothing in subsection (2) or (3) contained shall be construed as derogating from the right of a licensing authority to issue a licence in respect of goods other than those specified as a class in a notice made in terms of subsection (2).