New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (CITY OF SYDNEY BOUNDARIES) ACT 1967 - SECT 16

16 Staff Joint Committee

(1) There shall be constituted a joint committee, which shall be called the Staff Joint Committee, and which shall consist of six members as follows:

(a) the Under Secretary of the Department of Local Government, or his nominee, who shall convene all meetings of the Staff Joint Committee and shall be chairman of the meetings,

(b) the Town Clerk of the Council of the City of Sydney or, in the absence through sickness or other good cause of the Town Clerk, his nominee,

(c) a Commissioner, or a servant of the Council of the City of Sydney, nominated by the Commissioners and appointed by the Minister,

(d) a person employed by a municipal, shire or county council, who shall be a person who holds a prescribed certificate, and, at the date of his appointment, holds office as a council clerk, and who shall be nominated by the Local Government Association of New South Wales and appointed by the Minister,

(e) a person nominated by the Local Government Association of New South Wales and appointed by the Minister, and

(f) the General Secretary of The Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees’ Union of Australia, New South Wales Division or, in the absence through sickness or other good cause of the General Secretary, his nominee.

(2) If a nomination is not made within thirty days after the day upon which the Under Secretary of the Department of Local Government has, in writing, called for nominations to fill any position referred to in paragraph (c), (d) or (e) of subsection one of this section, the Minister may appoint any person to fill that position.

(3) Four members of the Staff Joint Committee, one of whom shall be the chairman, shall form a quorum.

(4) Where the voting on any question at a meeting of the Staff Joint Committee is equal the chairman shall, in addition to his original vote, have a second or casting vote.