New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsIn this Schedule--
"appointed member" means a person who is appointed by the Departmental Chief
Executive under section 400J(2)(f) as a member of the Project Review
Committee.
"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Project Review Committee.
"member" means any member of the Project Review Committee.
Subject to this Schedule, an appointed member holds office for such period as is specified in the member's instrument of appointment.
Appointed members hold office as part-time members.
An appointed member is entitled to be paid such remuneration (including travelling and subsistence allowances) as the Minister may from time to time determine in respect of the member.
(1) The Departmental Chief Executive may remove an appointed member from office at any time.
(2) A person is not entitled to any compensation if the person is removed from office under subclause (1).
(1) If--(a) a member has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter being considered or about to be considered at a meeting of the Project Review Committee, and(b) the interest appears to raise a conflict with the proper performance of the member's duties in relation to the consideration of the matter,the member must, as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to the member's knowledge, disclose the nature of the interest at a meeting of the Committee.
(2) A disclosure by a member at a meeting of the Project Review Committee that the member--(a) is a member, or is in the employment, of a specified company or other body, or(b) is a partner, or is in the employment, of a specified person, or(c) has some other specified interest relating to a specified company or other body or to a specified person,is a sufficient disclosure of the nature of the interest in any matter relating to that company or other body or to that person which may arise after the date of the disclosure and which is required to be disclosed under subclause (1).
(3) Particulars of any disclosure made under this clause must be recorded by the Project Review Committee in a book kept for the purpose and that book must be open at all reasonable hours to inspection by any person on payment of the fee determined by the Departmental Chief Executive.
(4) After a member has disclosed the nature of an interest in any matter, the member must not, unless the Minister or the Project Review Committee otherwise determines--(a) be present during any deliberation of the Project Review Committee with respect to the matter, or(b) take part in any decision of the Committee with respect to the matter.
(5) For the purposes of the making of a determination by the Project Review Committee under subclause (4), a member who has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter to which the disclosure relates must not--(a) be present during any deliberation of the Committee for the purpose of making the determination, or(b) take part in the making by the Committee of the determination.
(6) A contravention of this clause does not invalidate any decision of the Project Review Committee.
(1) The provisions of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 relating to the employment of Public Service employees do not apply to an appointed member.
(2) If by or under any Act provision is made--(a) requiring a person who is the holder of a specified office to devote the whole of his or her time to the duties of that office, or(b) prohibiting the person from engaging in employment outside the duties of that office,the provision does not operate to disqualify the person from holding that office and also the office of an appointed member or from accepting and retaining any remuneration payable to the person under this Act as a member.
A matter or thing done or omitted to be done by the Project Review Committee, a member of the Project Review Committee or a person acting under the direction of the Project Review Committee does not, if the matter or thing was done or omitted to be done in good faith for the purpose of executing this or any other Act, subject a member or a person so acting personally to any action, liability, claim or demand.
The procedure for the calling of meetings of the Project Review Committee and for the conduct of business at those meetings is, subject to this Act and the regulations, to be as determined by the Chairperson.
The quorum for a meeting of the Project Review Committee is a majority of the members referred to in section 400J(2)(a)-(e).
(1) The Chairperson (or, in the absence of the Chairperson, a person elected by the members of the Project Review Committee who are present at a meeting of the Committee) is to preside at a meeting of the Committee.
(2) The presiding member has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a second or casting vote.
A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Project Review Committee at which a quorum is present is the decision of the Committee.
(1) The Project Review Committee may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Committee for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of those members is taken to be a decision of the Committee.
(2) The Project Review Committee may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business at a meeting at which members (or some members) participate by telephone, email, closed-circuit television or any other means, but only if any member who speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other members.
(3) For the purposes of--(a) the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or(b) a meeting held in accordance with subclause (2),the Chairperson and each member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the Project Review Committee.
(4) A resolution approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations, to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Project Review Committee.
(5) Papers may be circulated among the members for the purposes of subclause (1) by facsimile, email or other transmission of the information in the papers concerned.