Victorian Numbered Acts

SERIOUS OFFENDERS ACT 2018 (NO. 27 OF 2018) - SECT 298

    (1)     The Authority is to meet at the times and places that are fixed by the chairperson.

    (2)     The following questions which may arise before the Authority are to be decided by the person presiding at a meeting of the Authority—

        (a)     whether a question is a question of fact or of law;

        (b)     any question determined to be a question of law.

    (3)     A question is not to be decided at a meeting of the Authority unless—

        (a)     at least one of the following is present—

              (i)     the chairperson or acting chairperson;

              (ii)     the deputy chairperson or acting deputy chairperson; and

        (b)     at least 2 other members of the Authority are present.

    (4)     The decision of a majority of the members present at a meeting of the Authority on a question arising at the meeting (other than a question which under subsection (2) is to be decided by the person presiding at the meeting alone) is the decision of the Authority on that matter.

    (5)     If there is an equality of votes on a question arising at a meeting of the Authority, the person presiding at the meeting has a second or casting vote.