Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2014C00538:section:8:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2014C00538
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 5/15)
Character Range: 14109–16799

1st July;
      (b) the expression "in writing" includes any mode of representing or reproducing words and figures in a written form; and
      (c) except where inconsistent with the context, words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular.
     4(1) The Australian Loan Council created under the Principal Agreement is continued in existence hereunder but so that it shall consist of one representative of the Commonwealth who shall be—
      (a) the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth; or
      (b) a Minister or other person nominated in writing by the Prime Minister,
      and one representative of each State who shall be—
      (c) the Premier of that State; or
      (d) a Minister or other person nominated in writing by the Premier of that State,
provided that the nomination of the Minister shall be deemed to include another Minister of the Commonwealth or of the State, as the case may be, who is for the time being acting for the Minister nominated and references in this clause to a representative shall be read so as to include a Minister who is so acting.
     (2) Any nomination of a substitute representative of the Commonwealth or of a State shall be tabled at the meeting of the Loan Council next succeeding the nomination.
     (3) The representative of the Commonwealth on the Loan Council shall hold office during the pleasure of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth and a representative of a State shall hold office during the pleasure of his or her Premier.
     (4) The representative of the Commonwealth shall be the Chair of the Loan Council.
     (5) A decision in which all the representatives for the time being of the Loan Council concur shall be not affected by any vacancy then existing among the representatives.
     (6) A meeting of the Loan Council may at any time be convened by the representative of the Commonwealth, and shall be so convened upon the request of at least four State representatives.
     (7) A majority of the representatives of the Loan Council shall constitute a quorum of the Loan Council for the exercise of its powers at any meeting, provided that—
      (a) a representative may at any time appoint in writing a deputy to act in his absence, and any deputy so appointed may in the absence of the representative exercise all the powers and functions of the representative and his or her presence shall be deemed the presence of the representative; and
      (b) an absent representative who has not appointed a deputy may vote by letter, telegram, or by facsimile and in such case that representative shall be counted as being present in relation only to the questions on which he or she