New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION AND PRINCIPLES OF MULTICULTURALISM ACT 2000 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Provisions relating to procedure of Commission

(Section 7 (3))

1 Definition

In this Schedule:
"commissioner" means any commissioner of the Commission, including the Chairperson.

2 General procedure

The procedure for the calling of meetings of the Commission and for the conduct of business at those meetings is, subject to this Act and the regulations, to be as determined by the Commission.

3 Quorum

The quorum for a meeting of the Commission is a majority of commissioners for the time being.

4 Presiding member

(1) The Chairperson or, in the absence of the Chairperson, the Deputy Chairperson is to preside at a meeting of the Commission.

Note: The reference to the Chairperson does not include an acting Chairperson-see clause 2 of Schedule 1.

(2) In the absence of both the Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson, another commissioner elected to chair the meeting by the commissioners present at the meeting is to preside at the meeting.

(3) The person presiding at any meeting of the Commission has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a second or casting vote.

5 Voting

A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Commission at which a quorum is present is the decision of the Commission.

6 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

(1) The Commission may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the commissioners for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of those commissioners is taken to be a decision of the Commission.

(2) The Commission may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business at a meeting at which the commissioners (or some of them) participate by telephone, closed-circuit television or other means, but only if any commissioner who speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other commissioners.

(3) For the purposes of:

(a) the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or

(b) a meeting held in accordance with subclause (2),

the Chairperson and each commissioner have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the Commission.

(4) A resolution approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations, to be recorded in the minutes of the Commission.

(5) Papers may be circulated among the commissioners for the purposes of subclause (1) by facsimile or other transmission of the information in the papers concerned.

7 Attendance by non-members

(1) A person authorised by the Commission or the Chairperson may attend a meeting of the Commission, and may participate in the meeting to the extent that the Commission determines.

(2) A person attending a meeting of the Commission under this clause cannot cast a vote at the meeting.

8 First meeting

The Minister is to call the first meeting of the Commission in such manner as the Minister thinks fit.