20Meetings

##### 20 Meetings (1) The Commission shall hold such meetings as are necessary for the performance of its functions. (2) The Chair may at any time convene a meeting and shall ensure that at least 4 meetings are held in each year. (3) Where the Minister requests the Chair to do so, the Chair shall forthwith convene a meeting. (4) At a meeting, a quorum is constituted by a number of Commissioners equal to a majority of the Commissioners for the time being holding office. (5) The Chair shall preside at all meetings at which he or she is present. (6) If the Chair is not present at a meeting, the Commissioners present shall elect one of their number to preside at the meeting. (7) Questions arising at a meeting shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the Commissioners present and voting but the vote shall be void and of no effect unless the majority of deliberative votes are made by Commissioners referred to in subsection 12(3). (8) The person presiding at a meeting has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote. (9) In relation to a time when a person is acting as Chair, references in this section to the Chair shall be read as references to that person. (10) If the Commission so determines, a Commissioner 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. (11) A determination of the Commission under subsection (10) may be made in respect of a particular meeting, or in respect of all meetings of the Commission. (12) A Commissioner who participates in a meeting as provided by subsection (10) shall be taken for the purposes of this Part to be present at the meeting. (13) 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 Commissioners 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.