This section provides for a Board and its membership.
	Subsection (1) places a duty on the Commander to establish and maintain a Board to assist the Commander in the exercise of the Commander’s functions.
	Subsection (2) requires that board (referred to in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of this Act as ‘the Board’) to operate under the name which is specified from time to time by the Commander.
	Subsection (3) requires a) the Commander to be the chair of the Board; and b) one or more representatives nominated by each partner authority which the Commander has for the time being determined should nominate one or more representatives to the Board (see also subsection (4)).
	Subsection (5) allows the Commander to invite any public authority than a partner authority to nominate one or more representatives of that authority to attend a particular meeting of the Board.
	Subsection (6) requires the Commander to hold meetings of the Board at such intervals as the Commander thinks appropriate.
	Subsection (7) provides that, where a person is required to nominate a representative as a member of the Board, the person (a) must take reasonable steps to ensure that the representative attends meetings of the Board; and (b) may, if the representative is unable to attend a particular meeting, arrange for another representative of that person to attend as a member of the Board in that representative’s place.
Part 1: Border Security Chapter 1: The Border Security Commander Section 6: The Board