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FISHERIES ADMINISTRATION ACT 1991 - SECT 55

Committees other than management advisory committees

  (1)   A committee (other than a management advisory committee) may be constituted wholly by commissioners or partly by commissioners and partly by other persons.

  (2)   The Authority may determine:

  (a)   the manner in which the committee is to perform its functions; and

  (b)   the procedure to be followed at or in relation to meetings of the committee, including matters with respect to:

  (i)   the convening of meetings of the committee; and

  (ii)   the number of members of the committee who are to constitute a quorum; and

  (iii)   the selection of a member of the committee to preside at meetings of the committee; and

  (iv)   the manner in which questions arising at a meeting of the committee are to be decided.

  (3)   Where:

  (a)   a member of such a committee has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter being considered, or about to be considered, by the committee; and

  (b)   the interest could conflict with the proper performance of the member's duties in relation to the consideration of the matter;

the member must, as soon as practicable after the relevant facts have come to the member's knowledge, disclose the nature of the interest at a meeting of the committee.

  (4)   A disclosure under subsection   ( 3) must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.



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