New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GENERAL) REGULATION 2005 - REG 259

259 Committee of the whole

(1) All the provisions of this Regulation relating to meetings of a council, so far as they are applicable, extend to and govern the proceedings of the council when in committee of the whole, except the provision limiting the number and duration of speeches.

(2) The general manager or, in the absence of the general manager, an employee of the council designated by the general manager is responsible for reporting to the council proceedings in committee of the whole. It is not necessary to report the proceedings in full but any recommendations of the committee must be reported.

(3) The council must ensure that a report of the proceedings (including any recommendations of the committee) is recorded in the council’s minutes. However, the council is not taken to have adopted the report until a motion for adoption has been made and passed.