(c) to prepare and recommend to council environmental plans required in terms of the Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27]; and (d) generally, to co-operate with the Minister in carrying out the objects and purposes of the Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27]. (3) An environment committee shall consist of such number of members as the council may fix in consultation with the Minister, and of those members⎯ (a) half shall be councillors appointed by the council; and (b) half shall be persons other than councillors, appointed by the council in consultation with the Minister. (4) The persons appointed as members of an environment committee in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) shall hold office for such period and subject to such terms and conditions as the council may fix with the approval of the Minister. (5) Persons authorised by the Minister shall be entitled to attend any meeting of an environment committee but shall have no vote on any question to be decided at the meeting. (6) To assist its environment committee in carrying out its functions, a council may, in consultation with the Environment Board established in terms of section 19 of the Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27], and shall, if directed to do so by the Minister— (a) appoint one or more environment subcommittees to exercise functions relating to the environment and natural resources within one or more wards or one or more villages in the council area; and (b) delegate to any such environment subcommittee all or any of the functions of an environment committee. (7) An environment subcommittee appointed in terms of subsection (6) shall consist of the following members— (a) a chairman, who shall be the councillor for the ward or one of the councillors for the wards, as the case may be, for which the subcommittee is established; and (b) a person nominated by the Secretary; and (c) not more than two co-opted members, selected in terms of subsection (8), for every ward or village which falls within the area for which the subcommittee is established; and (d) such other persons as are appointed or elected in terms of regulations made by the Minister with the consent of the Minister responsible for the administration of the Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27]. (8) In order to select the co-opted members for an environment subcommittee in terms of paragraph (c) of subsection (7), the council’s chief executive officer shall call a public meeting of the voters in each ward concerned and, at such meeting, the co-opted members shall be elected in a manner agreed upon by the meeting: 77