Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The chairperson of a council:
(a) must call such meetings of the council as are necessary for the exercise of its powers and the performance of its functions, but so that the interval between one meeting and the next does not exceed 4 months; and
(b) where requested to do so by a notice signed by not less than one third of the members for the time being holding office, must call a special meeting of the council within 7 days after that on which the chairperson receives the notice.
(2) Where there is no chairperson, or the chairperson is for any reason not available for subsection (1), references in that subsection to the chairperson include references to the vice-chairperson.
(3) The Minister may if he or she considers it necessary to do so call a meeting of a council.
(4) A meeting of a council is to be presided over by the chairperson or, in the chairperson's absence, by the vice-chairperson or, in the absence of both the chairperson and the vice-chairperson, by a member elected for the purpose by the members present at the meeting.
(5) At a meeting of a council, 50% of the members for the time being holding office constitute a quorum.
(6) Questions arising at a meeting of a council are to be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting, and:
(a) in the event of there being an equality of votes on a question, the matter must be deferred for consideration at the next meeting of the council held on a subsequent day; and
(b) if at that next meeting the same question is put and there is again an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting has a casting vote.
(7) Subject to this Part and any by-laws of the college, a council may itself determine the procedure to be followed at or in connection with its meetings.