Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The council shall meet at such times and places and conduct its business in such way as is prescribed or, so far as not prescribed, as it determines from time to time.
(2) Any 6 members of the council shall be a quorum for the purpose of a meeting of the council and shall be competent to transact the business of the council and to discharge the functions of the council under this Act.
(3) The chairperson of the council, or if the chairperson is not present, the deputy chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the council.
(3A) If both the chairperson and the deputy chairperson are absent from a meeting of the council the members present at the meeting shall elect a member from amongst those present to preside at the meeting during the absence of the chairperson and the deputy chairperson and whilst so doing the person so elected shall be taken to be chairperson of the council.
(4) A matter before a meeting of the council shall be determined by vote of the majority of the members of the council present and voting on the matter in question and in the event of an equality of votes the person who presides at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
(5) A member of the council who, being present at a meeting and entitled to vote on a matter, abstains from voting on the matter shall be taken to have voted in the negative.