Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 17/154)
Character Range: 679252–682010

the matter;
        the member must disclose the nature of the interest to a meeting of the Committee.
       (2) The disclosure must be made as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to the member's knowledge.
       (3) The disclosure must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Committee.
       (4) Sub‑clause (1) applies to interests:
(a) whether direct or indirect, and whether or not pecuniary; and
(b) whether acquired before or after the member's appointment.

    25. Chief Executive and Authority Chair May Attend Meetings
       (1) The Chief Executive and Authority Chair:
(a) may attend, and participate in, any meeting of the Committee; and
(b) are entitled to access to any documents of the Committee that are relevant to such a meeting.
       (2) However, the Chief Executive and the Authority Chair are not entitled to vote on a matter to be decided in the meeting.
       (3) If:
(a) the Chief Executive or Authority Chair has an interest in a matter being considered or about to be considered by the Committee; and
(b) the interest is an interest that could conflict with the proper performance of the functions of his or her office, as those functions relate to his or her attendance at, or participation in, a meeting of the Committee,
        he or she must disclose the nature of the interest to the meeting of the Committee.
       (4) The disclosure must be made as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to his or her knowledge.
       (5) The disclosure must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Committee.
       (6) Sub‑clause (3) applies to interests:
(a) whether direct or indirect, and whether or not pecuniary; and
(b) whether acquired before or after the appointment of the Chief Executive or Authority Chair.
DIVISION 2—FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE

    26. Functions and Powers of the Committee
       (1) The functions of the Committee are:
(a) to advise the Ministerial Council in relation to outcomes and objectives on major policy issues of common interest to the Contracting Governments in relation to the management of the water and other natural resources of the Murray‑Darling Basin, including in relation to the Ministerial Council's role in the provision of critical human water needs, but otherwise only in so far as those issues are not provided for in the Basin Plan;
(b) to give effect to any policy or decision of the Ministerial Council, as required by the Ministerial Council;
(c) to exercise responsibility for high level decision making in relation to river operations, including by setting objectives and outcomes to be achieved by the Authority in relation to river operations;
(d) to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred on