Schedule 1: The Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body Part 2: Powers, procedure, reporting etc. Procedure
Paragraph 23 allows the Sponsor Body to regulate its own procedures, and those of its committees and sub-committees. Sub-paragraph (2) makes it clear that proceedings of the Sponsor Body will not be invalidated by member vacancies or defective appointments.
	Paragraph 24 makes provision for the quorum for a meeting of the Sponsor Body. The quorum is five members, including at least two external members and two Parliamentary members. The Clerk of the Parliaments and the Clerk of the House of Commons, or their representatives, may attend and participate in such meetings. A temporary chair may be appointed in respect of a particular meeting, in the absence of any appointed chair. (For the avoidance of doubt, such a temporary chair is not an ‘interim chair’, for which separate provision is made at paragraph 14).