ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 383 Procedure of a Board

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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 383

Procedure of a Board

(1): The regulations may provide for:

(a): matters relating to the operation of a Board, including:

(i): procedures for convening meetings of the Board; and
(ii): procedures for determining who is to preside at a meeting of the Board; and
(iii): determining who may attend a meeting of the Board; and
(iv): the constitution of a quorum for a meeting of the Board; and
(v): procedures relating to a member's interest in matters being dealt with by the Board; and
(vi): the way in which matters are to be resolved by the Board; and

(b): the appointment and rights of a deputy of a member of a Board.

(2): The regulations may allow a Board to determine a matter relating to the operation of the Board for which the regulations may provide.
(3): If there are no regulations in force, a Board may operate in the way it determines.
(4): A meeting of a Board for a Commonwealth reserve consisting wholly of indigenous people's land:

(a): must not start; and
(b): must not continue;

unless the majority of the members of the Board present are persons nominated by the traditional owners of the indigenous people's land for appointment as members.

(5): Subsection (4) has effect despite subsections (1), (2) and (3).

Subdivision G—Special rules for some Commonwealth reserves in the Northern Territory or Jervis Bay Territory

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