Queensland Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENT OF QUEENSLAND ACT 2001 - SECT 20

20 How the proxy votes

(1) The proxy is to vote by declaring to the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, as the case may be, during the taking of the votes on the division, that the proxy votes as and for the absent member for the ‘ayes’ or for the ‘noes’.

(2) If the vote is for the ‘ayes’, the tellers for the ‘ayes’ must count it accordingly, and, if the vote is for the ‘noes’, the tellers for the ‘noes’ must count it accordingly.

(3) A vote so declared is as effectual as if the absent member had been personally present in the Assembly on the taking of the votes on the division and had voted on the side of the question for which the member’s vote has been so declared by proxy.

(4) A member who, as a proxy, votes as and for the absent member, and does not vote in the member’s own right, must declare the vote as and for the absent member from outside the bar of the Assembly.

(5) If the member declares the vote as and for the absent member within the bar, the member must be taken to vote also in the member’s own right on the side of the question which the member’s place in the division indicates.