10 Government Gazette 25 August 2016 Act No. 8, 2016 6105 BUSINESS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AUTHORITY ACT, 2016 (7) The chairperson of the Board must cause minutes to be kept of every meeting of the Board after having been approved by the members. (8) The Board may invite any person to attend and participate in the deliberations of a meeting of the Board, but such person has no right to vote. (9) The chairperson of the Board presides at meetings of the Board and in his or her absence the deputy chairperson and, in the absence of both the chairperson and the deputy chairperson, the members present must elect from their number a member to preside at the meeting. (10) The Board may transact a business of urgent nature which cannot be kept pending till the next meeting by circulating, in a manner determined by the Board, the matter together with proposed solution, if any, among all members, and (a) any resolution so circulated and approved by a majority of the members is as effective and binding as if such resolution had been passed at a meeting of the Board; (b) the business so transacted and the resolution so circulated and approved must be reported and recorded in the minutes of the next meeting of the Board; and (c) section 23(1), (2) and (3) applies with necessary changes to this subsection. (11) A decision by the Board or an act performed on the authority of the Board is not invalid merely by reason of (a) a vacancy in the membership of the Board; or (b) the fact that a person who is not entitled to attend a meeting of the Board was in attendance when the decision was taken or the act was authorised, if the decision was taken or the act was authorised by the required majority of the members present and entitled to sit as members and to vote at the meeting of the Board. Committees of Board 13. (1) The Board may establish any committee to exercise such powers or perform such functions as the Board may delegate or assign to such committee and (a) must appoint a member to be the chairperson of a committee; and (b) may appoint persons who are not members to be members of a committee. (2) The Board may at any time dissolve or reconstitute a committee.