Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Aboriginal Lands Act 1970 - SECT 22

General meetings

22. General meetings



(1) The Minister shall call the first general meeting of a Trust for a date
being not more than three months after the appointed day.

(2) Subject to subsection (1), every general meeting of a Trust shall be
called by the Secretary.

(3) The Secretary of a Trust shall call a general meeting of the Trust if
called upon to do so by a requisition in writing under the hands of not less
than one-quarter of those members of the Trust who are not infants.

(4) General meetings of a Trust shall be called by giving at least fourteen
days' notice of the meeting in writing to every member of the Trust (not being
an infant) who has a place of address shown against his name in the register
of members.

(5) Any such notice may be sent by post to a member at the place of address
shown against his name in the register of members.

(6) The accidental failure to send or failure to receive any such notice shall
not invalidate anything done at any general meeting.

(7) A Trust may hold a general meeting at any time.

(8) A Trust shall hold an annual general meeting within six months after the
end of each financial year, but a Trust shall not be obliged to hold its first
annual general meeting until the Trust has been in existence for a full
financial year.