New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated Acts(Section 3)
Every meeting of the Church to be convened for directing or fulfilling any of the purposes of this Act shall be called by a notice of the object of such meeting together with the day, hour and place of holding of such meeting which notice shall be signed by the pastor for the time being or in case of his neglect for fourteen days or absolute refusal after request in writing made by five members of the Church or in case of there being no pastor then by the same number of members and be posted on the door of the church building used for public worship on the hereditaments hereby vested or hereafter acquired on at least two successive Sundays immediately preceding the day on which such meeting shall be appointed to take place and shall if practicable be read during some part of each of the public services held on the same two Sundays in the church building and no direction shall be considered to have been given until such meeting shall have been called in the way prescribed and the majority of the church members present and voting at such meeting shall have passed a vote or votes in accordance with the proposed object and presented a request in writing under the signature of the chairman of the meeting so held to the Trustees.
Only the members present at any such meeting of the age of eighteen years and upwards shall be allowed to vote and no person who shall not have been a member of the Church and shall not have been so inscribed on the church books for the space of three calendar months immediately prior to such meeting shall be entitled to vote or take any part in any of the church matters aforesaid.
The chairman of every such meeting as aforesaid shall be the pastor of the Church or in the case of his refusal absence or incapacity or of there being no pastor then a person chosen by the major part of the members present at the meeting and the chairman of such meeting shall not have a deliberative vote but in case of an equality of votes on any question shall have a casting vote.