Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 383

  (1)   The regulations may provide for:

  (a)   matters relating to the operation of a Board, including:

  (i)   procedures for convening meetings of the Board; and

  (ii)   procedures for determining who is to preside at a meeting of the Board; and

  (iii)   determining who may attend a meeting of the Board; and

  (iv)   the constitution of a quorum for a meeting of the Board; and

  (v)   procedures relating to a member's interest in matters being dealt with by the Board; and

  (vi)   the way in which matters are to be resolved by the Board; and

  (b)   the appointment and rights of a deputy of a member of a Board.

  (2)   The regulations may allow a Board to determine a matter relating to the operation of the Board for which the regulations may provide.

  (3)   If there are no regulations in force, a Board may operate in the way it determines.

  (4)   A meeting of a Board for a Commonwealth reserve consisting wholly of indigenous people's land:

  (a)   must not start; and

  (b)   must not continue;

unless the majority of the members of the Board present are persons nominated by the traditional owners of the indigenous people's land for appointment as members.

  (5)   Subsection   (4) has effect despite subsections   (1), (2) and (3).