Audit Office Act [Chapter 22:18] (No. 12 of 2009) constituted meeting of the members and shall be incorporated into the minutes of the next succeeding meeting of the Commission: Provided that, if a member requires that such a proposal be placed before a meeting of the Commission, this subparagraph shall not apply to the proposal. (12) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the procedure for the convening and conduct of meetings of the Commission shall be as fixed from time to time by the Commission. Committees of Commission 7. (1) For the better exercise of its functions, the Commission may establish one or more committees in which the Commission may vest such of its functions as it considers appropriate. (2) The vesting of a function in a committee in terms of subparagraph (1)— (a) may be made absolutely or subject to conditions and may be amended or withdrawn at any time; and (b) shall not divest the Commission of that function; and the Commission may amend or rescind any decision of the committee in the exercise of that function. (3) On the establishment of a committee under subparagraph (1) the Commission— (a) shall appoint at least one of its members as a member of the committee, and that member or one of those members, as the case may be, shall be chairperson of the committee; and (b) may appoint as members of the committee persons who are not members of the Commission and may fix the terms and conditions of their appointment. (4) Meetings of a committee may be convened at any time and at any place by the Chairperson of the Commission or of the committee concerned. (5) If the chairperson of a committee is absent from a meeting of the committee, the members present may elect one of their number to preside at that meeting as chairperson. (6) A majority of members of a committee shall form a quorum at any meeting of a committee. (7) Anything authorised to or required to be done by a committee may be decided by a majority vote at a meeting of the committee at which a quorum is present. (8) At all meetings of a committee each member present shall have one vote on each question before the committee: Provided that, in the event of an equality of votes, the chairperson or person presiding at the meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to his or her deliberative vote. (9) Subject to this paragraph, the procedure to be followed at any meeting of a committee shall be as fixed by the Commission. Minutes of proceedings 8. (1) The Commission shall cause minutes to be taken at its meetings and the meetings of its committees and enter them in books kept for the purpose. (2) Any minutes referred to in subparagraph (1) which purport to be signed by the person presiding at the meeting to which the minutes relate or by the person presiding at the next following meeting of the Commission or the committee concerned, as the case may be, shall be accepted for all purposes as prima facie evidence of the proceedings and decisions taken at the meeting concerned. (3) The Commission and any committee of the Commission shall cause copies of all minutes that have been signed as provided in subparagraph (2) to be sent to the Minister for his or her information. - 21 -