During five years in the chair of my scheme, I did chair meetings but was always aware of the difficulty in that I was also in the position of speaking to most matters before the Executive and, in many cases, leading the discussion. It was hard to do.
My successor has elected to delegate the formal chairing of the meeting to the Managing Agent (who does the job with efficiency born of training and experience) but he still leads the discussion on most items and takes an active and constructive part in our deliberations. I think there could be scope in the Act or Regulations to formalise such an arrangement – always on a mutually agreed basis.