MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 52 Procedure of the Authority

MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 52

    (1)     Meetings of the Authority are to be held at the times and places determined by the Authority.

    (2)     The Authority may permit its members to participate in a particular meeting or in all meetings, by telephone, closed-circuit television or other means of communication.

    (3)     A member who participates in a meeting under permission under subsection (2) is to be taken to be present at the meeting.

    (4)     At a meeting of the Authority the person who must preside is—

        (a)     its chairperson; or

        (b)     if the chairperson is absent, the deputy chairperson; or

        (c)     if the chairperson and deputy chairperson are absent, a member elected to preside by the members present at the meeting.

    (5)     The decision of the Authority at a meeting is the decision of the majority of votes cast at a meeting at which a quorum is present.

    (6)     The person presiding at a meeting of the Authority has a deliberative vote and also, if the voting is equal, a casting vote.

    (7)     6 members of the Authority constitute a quorum.

    (8)     The Authority must keep a record of its own proceedings.

    (9)     Subject to this Act, the Authority may regulate its own proceedings.