Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 154

154. (1) If a majority of the members sign a document containing a statement
that they are in favour of a resolution in terms set out in the document, a
resolution in those terms is taken to have been passed at a duly constituted
meeting held:

   (a)  on the day the document was signed; or

   (b)  if the members sign the document on different days-on the last of
        those days.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), 2 or more separate documents
containing statements in identical terms each of which is signed by one or
more members are together taken to be one document containing a statement in
those terms signed by those members on the respective days on which they
signed the separate documents.

(3) If the resolution is about a matter in which a member would, for the
purposes of section 156, be taken to have an interest, the member:

   (a)  must not sign a document containing a statement in favour of the
        resolution; and

   (b)  must disclose the nature of the interest to the Chairperson.

(4) Any member to whom subsection (3) applies in connection with the
resolution is taken not to be a member for the purposes of calculating the
number of members that would constitute a majority under subsection (1) in
connection with the resolution.