URBAN COUNCILS ACT Chapter 29:15 (a) an investigation has been held in terms of section three hundred and eleven; or (b) all the local authorities concerned consent to the order. (2) Subsection (3) of section two hundred and twenty-four, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to an order under subsection (1) as though it were an agreement referred to in the said subsection. (3) An order under subsection (1)— (a) shall define the powers, rights, duties, liabilities and obligations of the local authorities concerned and the method of defraying the expenses of the combination; and (b) may provide for any other matter or thing which the Minister considers to be necessary or proper to regulate for the better carrying into effect of the order. (4) The Minister, after consultation with all the local authorities concerned, may, by statutory instrument, declare a joint committee appointed in terms of this section to be a body corporate with such name as may be determined by him, and that joint committee shall thereupon be a body corporate, to be known as a joint board, capable of suing and being sued in its own name, and shall have such powers as may be conferred upon it by the order under subsection (1). 226 Provisions as to members and proceedings of joint committees and joint boards (1) The members of a joint committee or joint board established in terms of this Part shall be appointed at such times and in such manner and shall hold office for such period as may be provided in the agreement or order, as the case may be, regulating the combination, and failing any such provision a member shall hold office for such period as may be fixed by the local authority which he represents. (2) Every member of a joint committee or joint board referred to in subsection (1) shall, if he ceases to be a councillor or member of the local authority by whom he was appointed, cease on the expiry of two months thereafter or on the appointment of his successor, whichever first occurs, to be a member of the joint committee or joint board. (3) Unless otherwise provided in the agreement or order regulating the combination referred to in subsection (1)— (a) the joint committee or joint board shall elect a chairman who shall hold office for such period as shall be fixed at the time of his election; (b) the proceedings and place of meeting of the joint committee or joint board shall be such as the joint committee or joint board may determine; (c) the joint committee or joint board may appoint subcommittees and delegate to any subcommittee any of its functions, and every such subcommittee shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, report its proceedings to the joint committee or joint board; (d) the chairman or other person presiding at a meeting of the joint committee or joint board or a subcommittee thereof shall have a casting vote as well as a deliberative vote; (e) the quorum at any meeting of the joint committee or joint board shall be not less than onehalf of the total membership. (4) If at any meeting of a joint committee or joint board referred to in subsection (1) the chairman is absent, the members of the committee or board shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting. PART XVII BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS 227 Matters for which council may make by-laws (1) A council may make by-laws in terms of this Part in relation to any matter specified in the Third Schedule or anything which is incidental to or connected with a matter so specified or for any matter for which in terms of this Act provision may be made in by-laws: Provided that a by-law shall not apply to a mining location as defined in the Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05] or the mining lease referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 4 of that Act unless the by-law specifically purports to apply to the mining location or 85