The Rural Energy Act

The Board must meet at least four times a year, and may meet more often when needed or expedient for its business.

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: The Rural Energy Act
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Language: en
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The Board must meet at least four times a year, and may meet more often when needed or expedient for its business. The Secretary to the Board must convene all Board meetings. If the Secretary is incapacitated, the Chairman must set the time, place, and date for each meeting. The Secretary must call a special Board meeting when at least five Board members sign a written request. A Board meeting must usually be called with at least five days’ written notice, unless it is a special meeting. Board members with a commercial interest in business being discussed at a meeting must notify the Chairman and Secretary and leave that part of the meeting.

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Short title
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board must meet at least four times a year, and may meet more often when needed or expedient for its business.

1. The Board shall meet at least four times a year and at such other times as may be necessary or expedient for the transaction of its business.
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Application
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AI-assisted research summary: The Secretary to the Board must convene all Board meetings. If the Secretary is incapacitated, the Chairman must set the time, place, and date for each meeting.

2. All meetings of the Board shall be convened by the Secretary to the Board or where the Secretary is incapacitated, the Chairman shall appoint a suitable time, place and date for the holding of each meeting.
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Interpretation
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AI-assisted research summary: The Secretary must call a special Board meeting when at least five Board members sign a written request.

3. The Secretary shall convene a special meeting of the Board on a request in writing signed by not less than five members of the Board for such a meeting and shall cause the meeting to be held within twenty one days of the receipt by him of such request.
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Principles of Rural Energy Development
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AI-assisted research summary: A Board meeting must usually be called with at least five days’ written notice, unless it is a special meeting.

4. Except in the case of a special meeting, a Board meeting shall be convened with at least five days notice in writing, specifying the business to be transacted at the meeting, and written notice of the convening of the meeting shall be given to every member of the Board.
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Role of Minister
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AI-assisted research summary: Board members with a commercial interest in business being discussed at a meeting must notify the Chairman and Secretary and leave that part of the meeting.

5. Any member of the Board with a Commercial interest in any business to be transacted at the meeting shall notify the Chairman and Secretary to the Board and shall excuse himself from that portion of the meeting where that business is discussed.
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Establishment of Agency
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AI-assisted research summary: The Chairman must preside over Board meetings; if the Chairman is absent, the members present must elect one of their number as interim Chairman.

6. The Chairman shall preside at the meeting of the Board and, in the absence of the Chairman, the members present at the meeting shall elect one of their number to be an interim Chairman.
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Objectives of Agency
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AI-assisted research summary: Board meeting minutes must be kept properly, confirmed at the Board’s next meeting, and signed by the Chairman of the meeting.

7. Minutes of each meeting of the Board shall be kept in proper form and shall be confirmed by the Board at its next meeting and signed by the Chairman of the meeting. Quorum and decision making
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Functions of Agency
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AI-assisted research summary: Five members of the Board make a quorum at any meeting.

8. Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting.
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Establishment of Fund
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AI-assisted research summary: Board-authorised acts, matters, and items must be decided by resolution at a Board meeting with a quorum.

9. All acts, matters and items authorised by the Board shall be decided by resolution at a meeting of the Board at which there is a quorum. 82 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE RURAL ENERGY ACT [CAP. 321 R.E. 2023]
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Mandate of Fund
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AI-assisted research summary: A Board decision can be made by majority vote of the members present at a Board meeting.

10. A decision approved by voting by the majority of members present at a meeting of the Board shall be deemed to be a decision of the Board.
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Funding Sources
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AI-assisted research summary: Board members (except ex-official members) each get one vote, and the meeting chairman gets a casting vote if votes are equal.

11. Every member of the Board, excluding ex-official members, shall have one vote and in the event of an equality of votes, the Chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote.
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Special purpose Fund
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AI-assisted research summary: If the Chairman directs it, the Board may make a decision without holding a meeting by circulating the papers and members’ written views. Any member may require that the decision be referred until the matter is considered at a Board meeting.

12. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Schedule, where the Chairman so directs a decision may be made by the Board without a meeting by circulation for the relevant papers among all the members and the expression in writing of their views, but any member shall be entitled to require that any such decision be referred until the subject matter be considered at a meeting of the Board.
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Management of Fund
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board may act even if there are vacancies, as long as the Schedule’s quorum rules are met.

13. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule relating to quorum, the Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership thereof and an act or proceeding of the Board shall not be invalid by reason only of some defect in the appointment of a member or a person who purports to be a member. Power to Regulate Procedure
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Use of Fund
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AI-assisted research summary: The Board may regulate its own procedure and make standing orders about Board meetings and the conduct of its business.

14. The Board shall have power to regulate its own procedure and may from time to time make standing orders providing for all matters relating to the meetings of the Board and the proper conduct of its business. Agency Seal
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Trust Agent
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AI-assisted research summary: Documents are treated as duly executed for the Board if they are sealed with the Board’s seal and signed by one of the listed combinations of officers.

15. All deeds, instruments, contracts and other documents shall be deemed to be duly executed by or on behalf of the Board where sealed with the seal of the Board and signed by- (a) the Chairman and the Secretary of the Board; (b) the Director General and two members of the Board; or (c) one member of the Board and the Secretary, both of whom have been authorised by the Board for that purpose. 83 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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