Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) The functions of the committee are:
(a) to conduct the business of Convocation for and on behalf of Convocation;
(b) to convene and conduct the meetings of Convocation; and
(c) to report on its operations at each meeting of Convocation.
(2) The committee shall have the powers necessary to carry out its functions.
(3) The committee shall act in accordance with resolutions, if any, of a meeting of Convocation.
(4) The quorum at a meeting of the committee is four.
(5) Where the chairman of the committee is not present at a meeting of the committee the members present shall appoint one of them to be chairman for the purposes of that meeting.
(6) In relation to a question before a meeting of the committee:
(a) voting is by a show of hands;
(b) each member who is present is entitled to a vote; and
(c) such a question is decided by the majority of votes of the members present and, in the case of an equality of votes, the chairman of the meeting has a casting vote.
(7) The committee may, as it thinks fit, establish subcommittees and appoint members to, and remove members from, those subcommittees.
(8) The committee or a subcommittee, if any, shall meet as often as the members of the committee or subcommittee determine.
(9) The procedures for the conduct of a meeting of the committee or a subcommittee, if any, shall except as otherwise provided by these by-laws, be as determined from time to time by the members of the committee or subcommittee.
(10) The office of a member of the committee becomes vacant if the member resigns in writing or is absent without leave from three consecutive meetings of the committee.
(11) The committee may, as it thinks fit, fill not more than two vacancies in its membership by co-opting members of Convocation and those members' terms of office shall terminate at the next general meeting of Convocation.
(12) A past member of the committee may stand for re-election to the committee.
(13) The committee shall cause minutes to be kept of its meetings.