Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Council may,
from time to time, appoint a committee or committees to investigate and advise
the Council on any aspect of its functions or to carry out such of the
functions and duties, or exercise such of the powers, of the Council as the
Council may, subject to subsection (5) determine.
(2) The carrying out
of any duty or the exercise of any power by a committee does not relieve the
Council of the responsibility for the decisions of that committee.
(3) A committee
consists of a Chairperson and such other persons as the Council appoints, but
so that in every case not less than one of the persons appointed to the
committee shall be a person who is a member of the Council.
(4) Each committee
shall report to the Council on its activities at such times as the Council
directs.
(5) Subject
to —
(a) the
directions of the Minister and of the Council;
(b) the
terms of any delegation under section 22(1) or (3);
(c) this
Act and the Interpretation Act 1984 ,
each committee may
determine its own procedures, but in default of any such determination
section 24 shall have effect in relation to the proceedings of a
committee as if a reference in that section to the Minister were a reference
to the Chairperson, a reference to the Council were a reference to the
committee, a reference to the Chairperson were a reference to the Chairperson
of the committee, and a reference to a member were a reference to a person
appointed to the committee.