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(1) Subject to this
section the owner of each irrigated property included in a
private irrigation district is entitled to vote at meetings of the trust.
(2) An owner may
nominate another person to attend and vote at meetings on his or her behalf.
(3) Where there are
two or more owners of one property, a person must be nominated by all of them
to vote on their behalf.
(4) A nomination
referred to in subsections (2) and (3) must be made by written notice to
the trust and may be revoked by the owner, or all of the owners, by subsequent
written notice to the trust.
(5) Where a person who
is not a member of the trust has been nominated by a member or members to
attend and vote at a meeting of the trust, that person must be regarded as a
member of the trust for the purposes of proceedings at the meeting.
(6) Subject to
subsection (10), in the case of the trust of an irrigation district
established, formed by merger or converted from a government
irrigation district under this Act, the values of votes at meetings of the
trust will be in proportion to the respective water allocations of the
properties comprising the irrigation district.
(7) Subject to
subsection (10), votes at a meeting of a trust of an irrigation district
that had been a private irrigation area under the Irrigation on Private
Property Act 1939 or The Ramco Heights Irrigation Area Act 1963 will
have the same values that votes at a meeting of the board of management of the
area would have had if such a meeting had been held immediately before the
commencement of this Act.
(8) Subject to
subsection (10), votes at meetings of Pyap Irrigation Trust Incorporated
constituted by this Act will have the same values that votes at a meeting of
Pyap Irrigation Trust would have had if such a meeting had been held
immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(9) Subject to
subsection (10), votes at meetings of Lyrup Village Settlement
Trust Incorporated constituted by this Act will have the same values that
votes at a meeting of the Lyrup Village Association would have had if such a
meeting had been held immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(10) The basis for
determining the values of votes can be changed but only by resolution of the
trust of which 21 days notice has been given.
(11) A resolution
referred to in subsection (10) must be supported by 80 per cent or more
of the number of votes cast at the meeting.