Queensland Consolidated Acts

PENALTIES AND SENTENCES ACT 1992 - SECT 203G

203G Conduct of meetings

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

(2) Each member present at a meeting has a vote on each question to be decided.

(3) If there is an equality of votes at a meeting, the member presiding at the meeting also has a casting vote.

(4) A member present at a meeting may abstain from voting.

(5) A meeting may be held using any technology allowing reasonably contemporaneous and continuous communication between members.

Example of use of technology—

teleconferencing

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