28Meetings

#### 28 Meetings (1) Subject to this section, the Chair shall convene such meetings of the Commission as are, in his or her opinion, necessary for the efficient conduct of its affairs. (2) The quorum for a meeting shall be 5 members. (3) A question arising at a meeting of the Commission shall be decided by a majority of the votes of members present and voting. (4) The Chair shall preside at all meetings at which he or she is present. (5) In the event of the absence of the Chair from a meeting, the most senior Deputy Chair present (see section 19 for the rules as to seniority of Deputy Chairs) shall preside at that meeting. (6) In the event of the absence of the Chair, the First Deputy Chair of the Commission and the Second Deputy Chair of the Commission from a meeting, the members present shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting and the person so elected shall preside accordingly. (7) At a meeting, the Chair or other member presiding has a deliberative vote and, in the event of votes being equal, has a casting vote. (8) The Commission may regulate and conduct the proceedings at its meetings as it thinks fit and shall keep minutes of those proceedings. (9) If the Commission so determines, a member of the Commission may participate in, and form part of a quorum at, a meeting of the Commission by means of any of the following methods of communication: (a) telephone; (b) closed circuit television; (c) another method of communication determined by the Commission. (10) A determination of the Commission under subsection (9) may be made in respect of a particular meeting, or in respect of all meetings of the Commission. (11) A member of the Commission who participates in a meeting as provided by subsection (9) shall be taken for the purposes of this Part to be present at the meeting. (12) If the Commission so determines, a resolution shall be taken to have been passed at a meeting of the Commission if, without meeting, a majority of the number of members who would, if present at a meeting of the Commission and entitled to vote on the resolution at that meeting, have constituted a quorum of the Commission indicate agreement with the resolution in accordance with the method determined by the Commission.