Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Transport Accident Act 1986 - SECT 20

Proceedings of the Board

20. Proceedings of the Board



(1) Subject to subsection (2), meetings of the Board must be held at such
times and places as the Board determines.

(2) The Chairperson may at any time convene a meeting but must do so when
requested by a Director.

(3) The Chairperson, or in his or her absence, the acting Chairperson, or in
the absence of both the Chairperson and the acting Chairperson, a Director
appointed by the Board, is to preside at a meeting of the Board.

(4) A majority of the Directors for the time being constitutes a quorum 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) A question arising at a meeting is to be determined by a majority of votes
of Directors able to vote on that question and, if voting is equal, the person
presiding has a casting, as well as a deliberative, vote.

(6A) Despite subsection (4), a question is to be taken to have been determined
under subsection (6) if the majority is constituted by not less than 3
Directors.

(7) The Board must ensure that minutes are kept of each of its meetings.

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