Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00490:section:260
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00490
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 260
Character Range: 352766–354960

260  Procedures
 (1) The regulations or the legislative rules may prescribe the procedures to be followed at or in relation to meetings of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, including matters relating to the following:
 (a) the convening of meetings of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee;
 (b) the number of Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee members who are to constitute a quorum;
 (c) the selection of an Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee member to preside at meetings of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee in the absence of the Chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee;
 (d) the manner in which questions arising at a meeting of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee are to be decided.
 (2) A resolution is taken to have been passed at a meeting of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee if:
 (a) without meeting, a majority of Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee members indicate agreement with the resolution in accordance with the method determined by the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee under subsection (3); and
 (b) all Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee members were informed of the proposed resolution, or reasonable efforts had been made to inform all Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee members of the proposed resolution.
 (3) Subsection (2) applies only if the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee:
 (a) determines that it applies; and
 (b) determines the method by which Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee members are to indicate agreement with resolutions.
 (4) If an Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee member is an APS employee in the Department, the member:
 (a) is not entitled to vote for a resolution at a meeting of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee; and
 (b) is not entitled to indicate agreement with a resolution as mentioned in paragraph (2)(a); and
 (c) is not to be counted for the purposes of determining whether a majority of Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee members:
 (i) have voted for a resolution at a meeting of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee; or
 (ii) have indicated agreement with a resolution as mentioned in paragraph (2)(a).