1. In terms of Section 32 of the Housing Development Agency Act, 2008 the Minister does not have the requisite powers to impose criminal penalties. It is therefore recommended that draft regulation 13 should be omitted. 2. Draft regulations 5(1) (a) and (b) to be amended. It is recommended that: . the plural "members" be used as the provision currently appears to allow the adjournment of a meeting with one member's consent. . the form of the verb "directs" must be corrected to "direct". 3. Draft regulation 6(2); which provides for the appointment of a member of the Board from amongst the members present to preside at the meeting in the absence of the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, or an appointee by the Minister; appears to contradict section 9(3) of the Act. Draft regulation 6(2) must therefore be read with section 9(3) of the Act, which provides that executive members may not be the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson of the Board or members of any committee of the Board. Section 9(5) of the Act regulates the same matter as is raised by draft regulation 6(2). Draft regulation 6(2) should therefore be omitted. 4. The numbering after draft regulation 9 requires correction in that it does not contain regulations 10 and 11.