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Gambling Act 2003

Schedule 3: Gambling Commission

You could also call this:

"Rules for the Gambling Commission Meetings"

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You are part of the Gambling Commission, which is empowered by s 234. This schedule applies to you and to a division of the Gambling Commission. You have rules to follow for your meetings. The Chief Gambling Commissioner decides when and where meetings are held. You can meet in private or in public, and you must give notice of public meetings to people who are likely to be interested. At your meetings, you need at least 3 Gambling Commissioners, including the Chief Gambling Commissioner, to make decisions. The Chief Gambling Commissioner is in charge of the meetings, but if they are not there, you appoint someone else to be in charge. You make decisions by voting, and the Chief Gambling Commissioner has an extra vote if there is a tie. You can also make decisions in writing if all Gambling Commissioners agree.

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3Gambling Commission Empowered by s 234

1Application

  1. This schedule applies to the Gambling Commission and to a division of the Gambling Commission.

2Meetings

  1. The Gambling Commission may regulate its procedure as it thinks fit.

  2. Gambling Commission meetings are held at times and places decided by the Chief Gambling Commissioner.

  3. The Gambling Commission may meet in private or in public as the Chief Gambling Commissioner decides.

  4. The Gambling Commission must give notice of public meetings of the Gambling Commission to persons likely to be interested in the subject matter of the meeting, in whatever way it thinks appropriate.

  5. At all Gambling Commission meetings (but not at meetings of a division of the Gambling Commission) the quorum necessary for the transaction of business is 3 Gambling Commissioners, including the Chief Gambling Commissioner or a Gambling Commissioner acting for the Chief Gambling Commissioner.

  6. The Chief Gambling Commissioner presides at all meetings of the Gambling Commission at which the Chief Gambling Commissioner is present.

  7. If the Chief Gambling Commissioner is not at a meeting, the Gambling Commissioners present must appoint one of their number to be the chairperson of that meeting.

3Voting

  1. All questions arising at a meeting of the Gambling Commission must be decided by a majority of votes of the Gambling Commissioners present and voting.

  2. The Chief Gambling Commissioner (or any chairperson appointed in the absence of the Chief Gambling Commissioner) has a deliberative vote and, if there is equal voting, also has a casting vote.

  3. A resolution in writing signed, or assented to by telegraphic or electronic means, by all Gambling Commissioners is valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Gambling Commission duly called and constituted.