Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIA COUNCIL AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 24 of 1991 - SECT 9

9. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsections:

"(10) If the Council so determines, a member of the Council may participate
in, and form part of a quorum at, a meeting of the Council by means of any of
the following methods of communication:

   (a)  telephone;

   (b)  closed circuit television;

   (c)  another method of communication determined by the Council.

"(11) A determination of the Council under subsection (10) may be made in
respect of a particular meeting, or in respect of all meetings, of the
Council.

"(12) A member of the Council who participates in a meeting as provided by
subsection (10) is taken for the purposes of this Part to be present at the
meeting.

"(13) If the Council so determines, a resolution must be taken to have been
passed at a meeting of the Council if, without meeting, a majority of the
number of members who would, if present at a meeting of the Council and
entitled to vote on the resolution at that meeting, have constituted a quorum
of the Council indicate agreement with the resolution in accordance with the
method determined by the Council.".