Queensland Numbered Acts

PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE ACT 2018 - SECT 128

128 Conducting meetings

(1) A question at a meeting of the council is to be decided by a majority of the votes of members at the meeting.

(2) Each member 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 who is at a meeting but abstains from voting is taken to have voted for the negative.

(4) A meeting may be held by using any technology that reasonably allows members to hear and take part in discussions as they happen.

Example of use of technology—

teleconferencing

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

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

(a) notice of the resolution is given under procedures approved by the council; and

(b) a majority of the members agree in writing to the resolution.