INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ACT. 
Suspension of 
Director. 
Quorum of 
_ Directors, 
* Directors to 
devote whole 
time to their 
duties. 
The Advisory 
Councils. 
(2.) The salaries of the Directors shall be paid out of 
moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose. 
(3.) Travelling expenses as prescribed shall be paid to each 
Director on account of his expenses in travelling in the 
discharge of the duties of his office. 
_ 8.—(1.) The Minister may at any time suspend a Director 
from his office for incapacity, incompetence or misbehaviour. 
(2.) If a Director is so suspended the Governor-General 
may appoint a Board of Inquiry (consisting of three persons, 
one of whom shall be the Chairman of the Board, and any 
two of whom may exercise all the powers of the Board) for 
investigation and report upon the charge of incapacity, 
incompetence or misbehaviour preferred by the Minister. 
(3.) If the Director does not admit the truth of the charge 
preferred against him, the Board of Inquiry shall inquire 
into the truth of the charge, and, after fully hearing the 
case, shall report to the Governor-General their opinion 
thereon. 
(4.) If the charge is admitted or is found by the Board of 
Inquiry to be proved, the Governor-General may, if he thinks 
fit, call upon the Director to retire from his office, and he 
shall retire accordingly. 
(5.) If the charge is found by the Board of Inquiry not to 
be proved, the suspension shall be immediately removed by the 
Minister. 
(6.) Save as in this section provided, a Director shall not 
be removed from office during the term for which he was 
appointed. 
9.—(1.) For the conduct of business any two Directors 
shall be a quorum, and shall have, subject to sub-section (3.) 
of this section, all the powers of the Institute. 
(2.) At a meeting of the Directors the decision of the 
majority shall prevail. 
(3.) If, at any meeting of the Directors at which only two 
Directors are present those Directors differ in opinion upon 
any matter, the determination of the matter shall be post- 
poned until all the Directors are present. 
10. The Directors shall devote the whole of their time to 
the performance of their duties, and no Director shall accept 
or hold any paid employment outside the duties of his office. 
as a Director or be a director of a company. 
Part III.—Tuxr Srare Apvisory Councirs or Scrence 
; anp Inpustry. 
11—(1.) An Advisory Council representing science and 
the principal primary and secondary industries shall be 
' .appointed in each State and shall advise the Directors with 
respect to the affairs of the Institute. 
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