Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Authority shall meet at least once in three months ordinarily at the office of the Authority or at such other place as the Chairman may decide and shall, subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2), (3) and (4), observe such procedure in regard to the transaction of business at its meetings as may be prescribed by regulations. (2) The Chairman or in his absence any member chosen by the members present from among themselves shall preside at a meeting of the Authority. (3) If any member, being the representative of the Kerala, Agricultural University, or an officer of the Government (other than the Chairman of the authority), is unable to attend any meeting of the Authority, he may under intimation to the Chairman authorise his immediate subordinate officer in writing to attend the meeting. (4) All question at a meeting of the Authority shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting and, in the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman or, in his absence, the member presiding shall have a second or casting vote. (5) The quorum for a meeting of the authority shall be five. (6) The Authority may associate with itself, in such manner and for such purposes as may be prescribed by regulations, any person whose assistance or advice it may desire in the performance of any of its functions under the Act, and the person so associated shall have the right to take part in the meetings of the authority relating to that purpose but shall not be entitled to vote.