LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 636 Conduct of meetings

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 636

636 Conduct of meetings

(1) A question at a committee meeting is decided by a majority of the votes of the members present.

(2) Each member present at the meeting has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the member presiding also has a casting vote.

(3) A member present at the meeting who abstains from voting is taken to be have voted for the negative.

(4) The committee may hold meetings, or allow members to take part in its meetings, by using any technology that reasonably allows members to hear and take part in discussions as they happen.

Example of use of technology—

teleconferencing

(5) A member who takes part in a committee meeting under subsection (4) is taken to be present at the meeting.

(6) A resolution is validly made by the committee, even if it is not passed at a committee meeting, if—

(a) notice of the resolution is given under procedures approved by the committee; and

(b) a majority of the committee members give written agreement to the resolution.