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CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 266

Conduct of meetings

266 Conduct of meetings

(1) A question at a commission meeting is decided by a majority of the votes of the commissioners present.
(2) Each commissioner present at the meeting has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the person presiding also has a casting vote.
(3) A commissioner present at the meeting who abstains from voting is taken to have voted for the negative.
(4) The commission may hold meetings, or allow commissioners or officers mentioned in section 262 to take part in its meetings, by using any technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication between persons taking part in the meeting.
Example of technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication—
teleconferencing
(5) A person who takes part in a commission meeting under subsection (4) is taken to be present at the meeting.
(6) A resolution is validly made by the commission, even if it is not passed at a commission meeting, if—
(a) a majority of the commissioners gives written agreement to the resolution; and
(b) notice of the resolution is given under procedures approved by the commission.



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