EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 2.6.74 Procedure of committee, panel or body
EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 2.6.74
Procedure of committee, panel or body(1) The Chairperson must preside at a meeting of a committee, hearing panel or body established under this Part at which he or she is present.
(2) If the Chairperson is not present at a meeting the members present may elect a member to preside at the meeting.
(3) A question arising at a meeting is to be decided by a majority of votes and the person presiding at the meeting has a deliberative vote and a second or casting vote.
(4) A majority of the members of the committee, hearing panel or body currently holding office constitutes a quorum.
S. 2.6.74(5) amended by No. 27/2010 s. 56.
(5) If a member of a hearing panel is unable to attend a meeting of the panel that is conducting a hearing or part of a hearing under Division 12, the remaining members of that hearing panel may continue to conduct the hearing or that part of the hearing if a quorum of members is present.
(6) Subject to this Act a committee, hearing panel or body established under this Part may regulate its own proceedings.