Statistics Act, 1999
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Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)NoticesInstitutional Statute of North West UniversityChapter 2 : Governance and Other Structures21. Meetings and procedures |
FACULTY BOARDS
| (1) | A faculty board must meet at least twice per semester at the times determined in the annual university calendar. |
| (2) | The executive dean may convene an extraordinary meeting of the faculty board, and must do so at the written request of at least one third of the members of the faculty board. |
| (3) | The executive dean of a faculty board is the chairperson of that faculty board. |
| (4) | In the absence of the executive dean, a deputy dean, acts as chairperson for the meeting concerned. If there is no deputy dean, or the deputy dean is also absent, the members of a faculty board must elect from among their members a chairperson for that meeting. |
| (5) |
| (a) | The quorum for a meeting of a faculty board is fifty percent plus one of all the members. |
| (b) | If for any reason there is no quorum, the meeting is adjourned after one hour to a date not more than 14 calendar days later, at which meeting the members present form a quorum. |
| (c) | The registrar must promptly give each member notice of the date, time and place of the meeting contemplated in subparagraph (b). |
| (6) | A faculty board takes decisions by a majority of votes of members present, each member having one vote. In the event of an equality of votes, the chairperson may exercise a casting vote. |
| (7) | A faculty board determines the procedures for its meetings in accordance with the rules. |
