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FISHERIES ADMINISTRATION ACT 1991 - SECT 65A

Decisions without meetings

  (1)   A management advisory committee is taken to have made a decision at a meeting if:

  (a)   without meeting, a majority of the members of the committee 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 committee under subsection   ( 2); and

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

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) applies if the management advisory committee:

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

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

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

  (4)   A management advisory committee must keep a record of decisions made in accordance with this section.



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