Queensland Consolidated Regulations

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION 2012 - REG 254E

254E Procedure at meetings

(1) Business may be conducted at a local government meeting only if a quorum is present.

(2) At a local government meeting—

(a) a question is decided by a majority of the votes of the councillors or committee members present; and

(b) subject to chapter 5B of the Act , each councillor or committee member present has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the person presiding at the meeting has a casting vote; and

(c) if a councillor or committee member present and entitled to vote fails to vote, the councillor or member is taken to have voted in the negative.