New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME COMMISSION ACT 1985 - SCHEDULE 3

SCHEDULE 3 – Provisions relating to the procedure of the Management Committee

(Section 24 (7))

1 Meetings of Committee

(1) Meetings of the Management Committee shall be held at such times and places as are from time to time agreed upon by the members of the Committee.

(2) The procedure for the calling of meetings of the Management Committee and for the conduct of business at those meetings shall, subject to this Act, be as determined by the Committee.

2 Quorum

The quorum for a meeting of the Management Committee is 3 members.

3 Presiding member

(1) The Minister for Police or, in the absence of that Minister, another member of the Management Committee elected as the presiding member for the meeting by the members present shall preside at a meeting of the Committee.

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

4 Voting

A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Management Committee at which a quorum is present shall be the decision of the Committee.

5 Minutes

The Management Committee shall cause full and accurate minutes to be kept of the proceedings of each meeting of the Committee.

7 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc

(1) The Management Committee may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Committee for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by at least 3 of those members is taken to be a decision of the Management Committee.

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

(3) For the purposes of:

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

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

the Chairperson of the Management Committee and each other member have the same voting rights they have at an ordinary meeting of the Management Committee.

(4) A decision approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations, to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Management Committee.

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