Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Children and Young Persons Act 1989 - SECT 207

Meetings of the Youth Residential Board

207. Meetings of the Youth Residential Board



(1) The Youth Residential 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 Residential Board.

(3) Subject to sub-sections (4) and (5), a quorum of the
Youth Residential Board consists of the chairperson and one other member.

(4) A female member of the Youth Residential 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 Residential Board at which
consideration is being given to the transfer to a youth training centre of a
person detained in a youth residential centre consists of the chairperson and
two other persons.

(6) The following questions which may arise at a meeting of the
Youth Residential 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 Residential 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.