Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Accident Compensation Act 1985 - SECT 28

Meetings of the Board

28. Meetings of the Board



(1) The Chairperson-

   (a)  may at any time; and

   (b)  must at least 10 times in each calendar year-

convene a meeting of the Board to be held at a place and time determined by
the Chairperson.

(1A) The Board may transact any of its business at a meeting at which the
Directors or any of the Directors participate by telephone, closed-circuit
television or in any other similar way.

(2) The Chairperson must preside at any meeting of the Board at which the
Chairperson is present.

(3) If the Chairperson is not present at the time fixed for the commencement
of a meeting of the Board-

   (a)  the acting Chairperson must preside; or

   (b)  if there is no acting Chairperson, the Directors present at the
        meeting must elect a Director to preside.

(4) A majority of Directors in office at the time constitute a quorum at a
meeting of the Board.

(5) Subject to the presence of a quorum the Board may act notwithstanding any
vacancy in the office of a Director.

(6) Every question arising at a meeting of the Board is to be determined by a
majority of votes of the Directors present and voting on the question.

(7) In the event of an equality of votes on any question at a meeting of the
Board the Chairperson or other person presiding at that meeting has a second
or casting vote.

(8) Subject to this Act, the Board may regulate its own procedure.

(9) An act or decision of the Board is not invalid by reason only-

   (a)  of a vacancy in the office of a Director; or

   (b)  of any defect or irregularity in or in connection with the appointment
        of a Director; or

   (c)  in the case of a person appointed to act as Chairperson or as a
        Director, that the occasion for so acting has not arisen or has
        ceased.