South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts29—Procedures of State First Nations Voice
(1) Subject to this Act, a quorum of the State First Nations Voice consists of one half the total number of its members (ignoring any fraction resulting from the division) plus 1.
(2) Subject to this section, the State First Nations Voice must meet not less than 4, and not more than 6, times in each year.
(3) The State First Nations Voice may, with the approval of the Minister, meet more than 6 times in a year.
(4) The joint presiding members will preside at a meeting of the State First Nations Voice and, in the absence of 1 of the joint presiding members, the remaining joint presiding member will preside and, in the absence of both joint presiding members, a member chosen by the members present at the meeting will preside.
(5) A question arising for decision at a meeting of the State First Nations Voice will be decided by a majority of the votes cast by the members present at the meeting.
(6) Each member present at a meeting of the State First Nations Voice will be entitled to 1 vote on any question arising for decision at the meeting and, if the votes are equal, the question will be decided in accordance with procedures determined by the State First Nations Voice.
(7) A meeting of the State First Nations Voice may be conducted remotely using 1 or both of the following means of communication:
(a) audio visual;
(b) audio,
and a member who participates in a meeting in accordance with this subsection is taken to be present at the meeting, and to form part of any quorum for the meeting, even if the member is not physically present at the same place as another member participating in the meeting.
(8) To avoid doubt, a meeting of the State First Nations Voice may be conducted by members attending in person, attending by audio visual or audio means, or by a combination of both.
(9) A member of the State First Nations Voice may, by written instrument, appoint 1 member of the Local First Nations Voice to which the office of the member relates (whether or not they are a member of the State First Nations Voice) to act as the member's proxy at a meeting specified in the instrument of appointment (however a proxy so appointed must be of a gender that ensures that the representatives of the Local First Nations Voice present at the meeting are of different genders).
(10) A First Nations person appointed to act as a proxy for a member at a specified meeting may only so act if the First Nations person—
(a) is present at the specified meeting; and
(b) exercises the proxy vote at the meeting in accordance with any instructions of the appointing member in the instrument of appointment.
(11) A member of the State First Nations Voice is not entitled to additional remuneration for acting as a proxy (however a proxy who is not a member of the State First Nations Voice is entitled to receive such remuneration, allowances and expenses as the appointing member would have received had they attended the meeting).
(12) To avoid doubt, a proxy vote that is exercised other than in accordance with this section is void and of no effect.
(13) The State First Nations Voice must have accurate minutes kept of its meetings.
(14) Subject to this Act, the State First Nations Voice may determine its own procedures.