Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES ADMINISTRATION ACT 1991 - SECT 25

  (1)   The Commission is taken to have made a decision at a meeting if:

  (a)   without meeting, a majority of the commissioners entitled to vote on the proposed decision indicate agreement with the decision; and

  (b)   that agreement is indicated in accordance with the method determined by the Commission under subsection   ( 2); and

  (c)   all the commissioners were informed of the proposed decision, or reasonable efforts were made to inform all the commissioners of the proposed decision.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) applies if the Commission:

  (a)   has determined that it may make decisions of that kind without a meeting; and

  (b)   has determined the method by which commissioners are to indicate agreement with proposed decisions.

  (3)   For the purposes of paragraph   ( 1)(a), a commissioner is not entitled to vote on a proposed decision if the commissioner would not have been entitled to vote on that proposal if the matter had been considered at a meeting of the Commission.

  (4)   The Commission must keep a record of decisions made in accordance with this section.