(1) The presiding member of the Advisory Board shall be the Secretary for War Pensions who shall preside at all meetings of the Advisory Board at which he or she is present.
(2) In the absence of the presiding member from any meeting of the Advisory Board, the person appointed to attend the meeting in the presiding member’s place pursuant to section 5E(1) shall be the presiding member for that meeting.
(3) In the absence from any meeting of both the presiding member and any person appointed to attend the meeting in the presiding member’s place, the members present shall appoint one of their number to be the presiding member for that meeting.
Section 5D: inserted, on 1 April 1989, by section 4 of the War Pensions Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 148).