Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM ACT 2011 - SECT 182

  (1)   The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine the procedures to be followed at or in relation to meetings of the Clinical Advisory Committee, including matters relating to the following:

  (a)   the convening of meetings of the Clinical Advisory Committee;

  (b)   the number of Clinical Advisory Committee members who are to constitute a quorum;

  (c)   the selection of a Clinical Advisory Committee member to preside at meetings of the Clinical Advisory Committee in the absence of the Chair of the Clinical Advisory Committee;

  (d)   the manner in which questions arising at a meeting of the Clinical Advisory Committee are to be decided.

  (2)   A resolution is taken to have been passed at a meeting of the Clinical Advisory Committee if:

  (a)   without meeting, a majority of Clinical Advisory Committee members indicate agreement with the resolution in accordance with the method determined by the Clinical Advisory Committee under subsection   (3); and

  (b)   all Clinical Advisory Committee members were informed of the proposed resolution, or reasonable efforts had been made to inform all Clinical Advisory Committee members of the proposed resolution.

  (3)   Subsection   (2) applies only if the Clinical Advisory Committee:

  (a)   determines that it applies; and

  (b)   determines the method by which Clinical Advisory Committee members are to indicate agreement with resolutions.