Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Victorian Law Reform Commission Act 2000 - SECT 14

Meetings of a Division

14. Meetings of a Division



(1) A meeting of a Division must be convened and presided over by the
chairperson (if he or she is a member of the Division) or in any other case by
a member of the Division appointed for the purpose by the chairperson.

(2) In the event of the absence from a meeting of a Division of the member who
is to preside under subsection (1), the members present may elect one of their
number to preside at that meeting.

(3) The quorum for a meeting of a Division is 2.

(4) A question arising at a meeting of a Division is determined by a majority
of the votes of the members of the Division present and voting on the
question.





(5) The person presiding at a meeting of a Division has a deliberative vote.

(6) If at a meeting of a Division at which only 2 members are present, those
members differ in opinion on a question, the member presiding must postpone
the determination of that question to a meeting of the Division at which more
than 2 members of the Division are present.

(7) In the event of an equality of votes on any question at a meeting of the
Division at which more than 2 members are present, the member presiding has a
second or casting vote.

(8) Subject to this Act, a Division may regulate its own procedure.