Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) The Youth Parole Board must meet at the times and places that are fixed by the regulations or, if no times or places are so fixed, at the times and places that are determined by the chairperson.
(2) The chairperson or, in the chairperson's absence, the acting chairperson, must preside at every meeting of the Youth Parole Board.
(3) Subject to sub-sections (4) and (5), a quorum of the Youth Parole Board consists of the chairperson and one other member.
(4) A female member of the Youth Parole Board must be present at any meeting of the Board at which consideration is being given to the release on parole of a female person.
(5) A quorum at any meeting of the Youth Parole Board at which consideration is being given to the transfer to a prison of a person detained in a youth justice centre consists of the chairperson and two other persons.
(6) The following questions which may arise at a meeting of the Youth Parole Board are to be determined by the person presiding at the meeting alone—
(a) whether a question is a question of law;
(b) any question determined to be a question of law.
(7) A question (other than a question referred to in sub-section (6)) arising at a meeting of the Youth Parole Board must be determined by a majority of votes and, if the votes are equal, the person presiding has a casting vote.
(8) Subject to this Act and the regulations, the Board may regulate its own procedure.