New South Wales Consolidated Acts

THOROUGHBRED RACING ACT 1996 - SECT 19

19 Procedure

(1) Racing NSW may regulate its proceedings as it considers appropriate, subject to this section.

(1A) Proceedings in respect of an inquiry conducted by Racing NSW may be conducted in public or in private, or partly in public and partly in private, as Racing NSW may decide.

(1B) In conducting an inquiry, Racing NSW may examine any witness on oath or affirmation, or by use of a statutory declaration.

(2) The quorum for a meeting of Racing NSW is a majority of the appointed members of Racing NSW as constituted for the time being.

(3) The Chairperson or, in the absence of the Chairperson, the Deputy Chairperson is to preside at a meeting of Racing NSW. If neither the Chairperson nor Deputy Chairperson is present at a meeting, the members present may elect one of their number to preside at the meeting. The person presiding at a meeting has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a second or casting vote.

(4) A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of Racing NSW at which a quorum is present is the decision of Racing NSW.