Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MARITIME COLLEGE ACT 1978 No. 54, 1978 - SECT 22

22. (1) The Chairman or, if the Chairman is not available, the Deputy
Chairman-

   (a)  may convene a meeting of the Council;

   (b)  shall, on receipt of a written request signed by not less than 4
        members, convene a meeting of the Council; and

   (c)  shall comply with any resolution of the Council with respect to the
        convening of meetings of the Council.

(2) If neither the Chairman nor the Deputy Chairman is available, the Minister
may convene a meeting of the Council.

(3) The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Council at which he is
present.

(4) Where the Chairman is not present at a meeting of the Council-

   (a)  the Deputy Chairman shall preside at that meeting; or

   (b)  if the Deputy Chairman is not present, the members present shall
        choose one of their number to preside at that meeting.

(5) At a meeting of the Council, a majority of the members for the time being
constitute a quorum.

(6) Subject to sub-section (7), questions arising at a meeting of the Council
shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and
voting, and, for this purpose, the member presiding at the meeting has a
deliberative vote only.

(7) In the event of an equality of votes on a motion proposed at a meeting of
the Council, the motion shall not be passed, but, if the same motion is
proposed at the next meeting of the Council held on a subsequent day and there
is again an equality of votes, the member presiding at that meeting has a
casting vote on that motion.

(8) The Council may regulate the conduct of proceedings at its meetings as it
thinks fit and shall keep minutes of those proceedings.

(9) Where the office of Chairman or Deputy Chairman is vacant, this section
has effect as if there were a holder of that office but he were unavailable.