Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00117:section:10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00117
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10
Character Range: 223217–225043

10  Meetings
 (1) Meetings of the Committee are to be held at such times and places as the Committee determines.
 (2) A meeting of the Committee may be convened by the Presiding Member.
 (3) Two members constitute a quorum at the meeting of the Committee.
Note: A different quorum may be prescribed by the regulations if the Committee has more than 3 members. (See subclause (10).)
 (4) The presiding Member is to preside at all meetings of the Committee at which he or she is present.
 (5) If the Presiding Member is not present at a meeting of the Committee, the members of the Committee who are present must elect one of them to preside at the meeting.
 (6) Subject to subclause (7), a question arising at a meeting of the Committee is to be decided by a majority of the votes of the members of the Committee.
 (7) If only 2 members are present at a meeting of the Committee and those members are unable to agree on a question, the question is to be deferred until a meeting at which 3 members are present.
Note: A different process for resolving questions may be prescribed by the regulations if the Committee has more than 3 members. (See subclause (10).)
 (8) The Committee must keep minutes of its proceedings.
 (9) The minutes must record each decision made by the Committee and the reasons for the decision.
 (10) If one or more members are prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(d):
 (a) the number of members that constitutes a quorum at a meeting of the Committee is the number (being a number greater than 2) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; and
 (b) if members who are present at a meeting of the Committee are unable to agree on a question, the process that is to apply is the process prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.