Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1992 - SECT 27

Holding meetings

             (1)  The Chair of the Advisory Board may hold such meetings of the Advisory Board as are necessary for the efficient performance of the Advisory Board's function.

Procedure of meetings

             (2)  Subject to subsection (4), the Chief Executive Officer may, by writing, determine matters relating to the operation of the Advisory Board.

             (3)  Subject to subsection (4), if no determination is in force for the purposes of subsection (2), the Advisory Board may operate in the way it determines.

             (4)  The Chair must ensure that minutes of meetings are kept.

Disclosure of interest by a Board member

             (5)  If a Board member has a direct or indirect financial interest in a matter being considered, or about to be considered, at a meeting, being an interest that could conflict with the proper performance of the Advisory Board's function, then the Board member must disclose that interest to the other Board members as soon as practicable.

Disclosure to be recorded in the minutes of the meeting

             (6)  Any disclosure under subsection (5), and any decision made by the Board in relation to the disclosure, must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

Attendance by Chief Executive Officer

             (7)  The Chair of the Advisory Board may invite the Chief Executive Officer to attend all or part of an Advisory Board meeting.

Determination not a legislative instrument

             (8)  A determination made under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.