Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ACT 2005 - SECT 192J

Chairperson to convene meetings

  (1)   The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Chairperson must convene such meetings of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board as, in his or her opinion, are necessary for the efficient performance of the Board's responsibilities.

Quorum

  (2)   At a meeting of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board, a quorum is constituted by 4 Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Directors.

Quorum if Director excluded

  (3)   If:

  (a)   an Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Director who is present at a meeting is required by rules made for the purposes of section   29 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 not to be present during the deliberations, or to take part   in any decision, of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board with respect to a particular matter; and

  (b)   when the Director leaves the meeting there is no longer a quorum present;

the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Directors remaining at the meeting constitute a quorum for the purpose of any deliberation or decision at that meeting with respect to that matter.

Chairperson to preside at meetings

  (4)   The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Chairperson is to preside at all meetings of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board at which he or she is present.

Arrangements if Chairperson not present at a meeting

  (5)   If the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Chairperson is not present at a meeting of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board:

  (a)   if the Deputy Chairperson of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board is present--the Deputy Chairperson is to preside at the meeting; and

  (b)   in any other case--the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Directors present must elect one of their number to preside at the meeting.

Voting

  (6)   Questions arising at a meeting of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board are to be determined by a majority of the votes of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Directors present and voting.

Deliberative vote

  (7)   The person presiding at a meeting of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote.

Procedure and minutes

  (8)   The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board:

  (a)   may regulate the conduct of proceedings at its meetings as it thinks fit; and

  (b)   must cause minutes of those proceedings to be kept.

Note:   Section   33B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 provides for participation in meetings by telephone etc.