Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMPANIES AND SECURITIES LEGISLATION (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 192 of 1985 - SECT 158

158. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-sections:

"(3A) If all the members of the Commission who are neither absent from duty
nor absent from Australia so agree, a meeting, or a part of a meeting, of the
Commission may be held by means of any of, or by means of a combination of any
2 or more of, the following methods of communication:

   (a)  telephone;

   (b)  closed-circuit television;

   (c)  a method or methods of communication approved by the Commission for
        the purposes of that meeting.

"(3B) All the members of the Commission who take part in a meeting held as
mentioned in sub-section (3A) shall be deemed, for the purposes of this
section, to have been present at the meeting, notwithstanding that they were
not all present at the same place at the time when the meeting was so held.";
and

   (b)  by adding at the end of sub-section (7) "at the meeting".