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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ACT 1991 - SECT 13

Resolutions without meetings

  (1)   The Chancellor or Pro - Chancellor (if he or she is a member of the Council) may, in writing, request members to pass a resolution without a meeting.

  (2)   A copy of the request and the text of the proposed resolution, must be sent to each member of the Council.

  (3)   Subject to subsection   ( 4), the resolution is passed if each of a majority of the members of the Council eligible to vote on that resolution signs a document containing the text of the resolution and returns it to the Chancellor or Pro - Chancellor (if he or she is a member of the Council).

  (4)   If the proposed resolution deals with whether a member of the Council has breached his or her duties under Subdivision A of Division   3 of Part   2 - 2 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 as a member of the Council, the resolution is passed if each of at least a two - thirds majority of the members of the Council eligible to vote on that resolution:

  (a)   signs a document containing the text of the resolution; and

  (b)   returns it to the Chancellor or Pro - Chancellor (if he or she is a member of the Council).

  (5)   For the purposes of this section, a member of the Council is not eligible to vote on a resolution if:

  (a)   the resolution relates to a matter in which the member has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest; or

  (b)   if the resolution deals with whether a member of the Council has breached his or her duties under Subdivision A of Division   3 of Part   2 - 2 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 as a member of the Council--he or she is the member to whom the resolution relates.



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