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Legal Profession Act Excerpt
Board of directors
120(1) The affairs of the Foundation shall be conducted by a board of directors composed of
- (a) the Minister or a person designated by the Minister to act in the Minister's absence;
- (b) 2 persons appointed by the Minister who are not members of the Society;
- (c) 2 persons appointed by the Benchers of whom
- (i) one shall be a Bencher, and
- (ii) one shall be a member of the Society who is not a Bencher;
- (d) 2 persons, one of whom is a member of the Society and one of whom is not a member of the Society, appointed by the other directors of the Foundation.
(2) The terms of office of the directors of the Foundation are as follows:
- (a) a member of the Society appointed as a director holds office as a director until the first meeting of the Benchers in the year following the next regular election of Benchers held after that member's appointment;
- (b) any other person appointed as a director holds office as a director for 2 years from the date of that person's appointment.
(3) The Minister shall, by order, designate one director as chair.
(4) A quorum of the board consists of 4 directors.
(5) The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy on the board.
(6) No act done by the authority of the board is invalid in consequence of any defect that is afterwards discovered in the appointment of the directors.
(7) An appointed director may resign from office on giving one month's notice in writing to the board of the director's intention to do so, and the director's
resignation takes effect on the expiration of the notice or on its earlier acceptance by the board.
(8) The office of a director shall be vacated if the director ceases to hold the qualifications necessary for the director's appointment.
- 1990 cL-9.1 s117;1994 cG-8.5 s89
118 and 119 Objects | 120 Board of directors | 121 Bylaws | 122 and 123 Application of funds
| 124 Annual Report | 125 Borrowing | 126 Trust accounts
| 127 Dissolution of Foundation | 128 Protection from liability
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