Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) For the purposes of managing the Tasmanian Museum and for the other purposes of this Act, there shall be a board of trustees.
(2) This board shall consist of –
(a) four persons appointed by the Governor to hold office during his pleasure;
(b) two persons elected in each year by the Council of the Royal Society of Tasmania, as it may determine, who shall hold office until their successors are elected; and
(c) one person appointed annually by the Council of the City of Hobart in a manner determined by it.
(3) The trustees shall, in each year, at their first meeting after their election, appoint one of their number to be chairman of the trustees, who shall, subject to section 4B, hold office as such chairman until his successor is appointed.
(4) If the chairman is absent from any meeting of the trustees at the time appointed for the holding thereof, the trustees present shall appoint one of their number to act as chairman at such meeting.
(5) At each meeting of the trustees, three trustees shall form a quorum, and all questions shall be decided by a majority of the trustees present; and in the case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a casting vote.
(6) The common seal of the trustees shall not be affixed to any deed, contract, agreement, or other document except by authority of a resolution of the trustees, and in the presence of two or more of the trustees, who shall sign an attestation to the effect that the seal was so affixed or attached in their presence.
(7) Subject to this Act, the trustees shall regulate their own procedure.