Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 288

288 Conduct of meetings

(1) A question at a reference committee meeting is decided by a majority of the votes of the members present.

(2) Each member present at the meeting has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the member presiding also has a casting vote.

(3) A member present at the meeting who abstains from voting is taken to have voted for the negative.

(4) The reference committee may hold meetings, or allow members to take part in its meetings, by using any technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication between members taking part in the meeting.

Example of technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication—

teleconferencing

(5) A member who takes part in a reference committee meeting under subsection (4) is taken to be present at the meeting.

(6) A resolution is validly made by the reference committee, even if it is not passed at a reference committee meeting, if—

(a) a majority of the members gives written agreement to the resolution; and

(b) notice of the resolution is given under procedures approved by the reference committee.