Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 60O

60O Conduct of meetings

(1) A question at a board meeting is decided by a majority of the votes of the members present.

(2) Each member present at the meeting has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the member presiding also has a casting vote.

(3) A member present at the meeting who abstains from voting is taken to have voted for the negative.

(4) The board may hold meetings, or allow members to take part in its meetings, by using any technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication between persons taking part in the meeting.

Example of technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication—

teleconferencing

(5) A person who takes part in a board meeting under subsection (4) is taken to be present at the meeting.

(6) A resolution is validly made by the board even if it is not passed at a board meeting if—

(a) a majority of the board members gives written agreement to the resolution; and

(b) notice of the resolution is given under procedures approved by the board.