PROTECTION OF MOVABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE ACT 1986 - SECT 21B Certain resolutions may be made without meetings

PROTECTION OF MOVABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE ACT 1986 - SECT 21B

  (1)   If all the members of the Committee (other than any member to whom subsection   (3) applies) sign a document containing a statement that they support a recommendation or report made, in the terms set out in the document, in relation to an application made under section   10 or 10A, a recommendation or report in those terms is taken to have been adopted by a duly constituted meeting of the Committee held on the day the document was signed, or if the members sign the document on different days, on the last of those days.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), 2 or more separate documents containing statements in identical terms, each of which is signed by one or more members, are together taken to constitute one document containing a statement in those terms signed by those members on the respective days on which they signed the separate documents.

  (3)   A member must not sign a document containing a statement in favour of the recommendation or report if it is in respect of a matter in which the member would, for the purposes of section   20, be taken to have a direct or indirect pecuniary interest.

  (4)   This section does not apply to a document that less than 5 members of the Committee are eligible to sign.