Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Chinatown Historic Precinct Act 1984 - SECT 8

Proceedings of the Committee

8. Proceedings of the Committee



(1) Subject to this Act, the Committee may regulate its own proceedings.

(2) The Committee shall meet at the times and places fixed by the Chairman.

(3) The Chairman shall preside at a meeting of the Committee at which the
Chairman is present and if the Chairman is not present the members present
shall elect one of their number to preside.

(4) A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum.

(5) Subject to the presence of a quorum the Committee may act notwithstanding
any vacancy in its membership.

(6) The powers and functions of the Committee may be exercised in accordance
with a majority of votes of the members present at any meeting and in the
event of an equality of votes the person presiding shall have an additional or
casting vote.

(7) An act or decision of the Committee shall not be invalid by reason only
of-

   (a)  a defect or irregularity in or in connexion with the appointment of a
        member;

   (b)  a vacancy in the membership of the Committee including a vacancy
        arising because of the failure to appoint an original member; or

   (c)  in the case of a person appointed to act in the place of a member, on
        the ground that the occasion for so acting had not arisen or had
        ceased.