Chapter 29:15 URBAN COUNCILS ACT (2) Every council shall appoint a finance committee which shall be responsible for regulating the financial affairs of the council in accordance with the standing orders and by-laws of the council. (3) Every council shall appoint a health and housing committee which shall be responsible for health and housing matters relating to the council. (4) Every council shall appoint an environmental management committee which shall be responsible for environmental matters relating to the council. (5) Where a council has appointed a health committee in terms of section 15 of the Public Health Act [Chapter 15:09], subsections (5) to (10) of this section and section one hundred and four, and any by-laws made by the council that are applicable to its committees generally, shall apply in relation to that health committee, subject to any regulations made in terms of section 15 of the Public Health Act [Chapter 15:09]. (6) Every standing committee shall, at its first meeting after the appointment of the members thereto, elect one of its members to be chairman and one of its members to be vice-chairman thereof, and may at any time, if the person elected as chairman or vice-chairman ceases to be a member of that committee, elect a member to replace him. (7) A member of a standing committee shall cease to be a member thereof forthwith— (a) after the general election held for the council; or (b) if he ceases to be councillor. (8) At every meeting referred to in subsection (1) of section one hundred and three a council shall which has appointed standing committees review the work of each standing committee during the previous year and shall reappoint such standing committees or appoint different standing committees in terms of subsection (1). (9) A standing committee shall consist of such number of members, being not less than three, as the council may determine. (10) Subject to subsection (11), no person, other than the members of, and the secretary to, a standing committee and the town clerk shall be present at a meeting of that standing committee: Provided that if— (a) the attendance of any employee of the council is required by the town clerk; or (b) the chairman of the standing committee has invited an employee or other person to attend a meeting in connection with the consideration of any matter; that employee or other person may attend the meeting. (11) If the mayor is not a member of a standing committee he or, in his absence, the deputy mayor or acting mayor shall be entitled to attend and to participate in any discussion at a meeting of a standing committee but he shall not be entitled to vote on any matter before that standing committee. 97 Audit committee (1) Every council shall appoint an audit committee. (2) No member of the executive committee including the chairman and vice-chairman, shall be a member of, nor be entitled to attend any meeting, of the audit committee. (3) No person other than the members of the audit committee and the external auditors of council shall attend any meeting of the audit committee: Provided that if the audit committee requires the attendance of any employee or other person at its meeting, that person or other person shall attend the meeting. (4) Where an employee or any other person fails, without just cause, to comply with any requirement to attend an audit committee meeting in terms of subsection (3), he 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 amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001.] 98 Functions of audit committee (1) The functions of the audit committee shall be— 34