Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ACT 2005 - SECT 167

  (1)   The Indigenous Business Australia Chairperson shall convene such meetings of the Indigenous Business Australia Board as, in the Chairperson's opinion, are necessary for the efficient performance of the Indigenous Business Australia Board's responsibilities.

  (2)   At a meeting of the Indigenous Business Australia Board a quorum is constituted by 5 Indigenous Business Australia Directors.

  (3)   Where:

  (a)   an Indigenous Business Australia Director who is present at a meeting is required by rules made for the purposes of section   29 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 not to be present during the deliberations, or to take part in any decision, of Indigenous Business Australia Board with respect to a particular matter; and

  (b)   when Indigenous Business Australia Director leaves the meeting there is no longer a quorum present;

Indigenous Business Australia Directors remaining at the meeting constitute a quorum for the purpose of any deliberation or decision at that meeting with respect to that matter.

  (4)   The Indigenous Business Australia Chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the Indigenous Business Australia Board at which he or she is present.

  (5)   If the Indigenous Business Australia Chairperson is not present at a meeting of the Indigenous Business Australia Board:

  (a)   if the Deputy Chairperson of the Indigenous Business Australia Board is present, the Deputy Chairperson of the Indigenous Business Australia Board shall preside at the meeting; and

  (b)   in any other case, the Indigenous Business Australia Directors present shall elect one of their number to preside at the meeting.

  (6)   Questions arising at a meeting of the Indigenous Business Australia Board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the Indigenous Business Australia Directors present and voting.

  (7)   The person presiding at a meeting of the Indigenous Business Australia Board has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote.

  (8)   The Indigenous Business Australia Board may regulate the conduct of proceedings at its meetings as it thinks fit and shall cause minutes of those proceedings to be kept.

  (9)   If the Indigenous Business Australia Board so determines, an Indigenous Business Australia Director may participate in, and form part of a quorum at, a meeting of the Indigenous Business Australia Board by means of any of the following methods of communication:

  (a)   telephone;

  (b)   closed circuit television;

  (c)   another method of communication determined by the Indigenous Business Australia Board.

  (10)   A determination of the Indigenous Business Australia Board under subsection   ( 9) may be made in respect of a particular meeting, or in respect of all meetings, of the Indigenous Business Australia Board.

  (11)   An Indigenous Business Australia Director who participates in a meeting as provided by subsection   ( 9) shall be taken for the purposes of this section and rules made for the purposes of section   29 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (which deals with the duty to disclose interests) to be present at the meeting.