29LCouncil meetings

29L  Council meetings  (1) The Council President must convene the meetings that the Council President thinks are necessary to perform the Council’s functions efficiently.  (2) The meetings must be held in places determined by the Council President.  (3) The Council President must preside at any meeting that he or she attends.  (4) If the Council President is absent from a meeting, a Councillor chosen by the Councillors at the meeting must preside.  (5) The Councillor presiding at a meeting may give directions on the procedure to be followed in relation to the meeting.  (6) The quorum for a meeting is 3 Councillors (including the Council President).  (7) At a meeting, a question must be decided by a majority of votes of the Councillors present and voting. The Councillor presiding has a deliberative vote, and a casting vote if the deliberative votes are equally divided. 29LA  Resolutions without meetings  (1) If all Councillors (other than those that must not sign a document because of subsection (3)) sign a document containing a statement that they are in favour of a resolution in terms set out in the document, then a resolution in those terms is taken to have been passed at a duly constituted meeting of the Council held on the day the document was signed, or, if the members sign the document on different days, on the last of those days.  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), 2 or more separate documents containing statements in identical terms each of which is signed by one or more Councillors are together taken to constitute one document containing a statement in those terms signed by those Councillors on the respective days on which they signed the separate documents.  (3) A Councillor must not sign a document containing a statement in favour of a resolution if the resolution concerns a matter in which the Councillor has any pecuniary interest, being an interest that could conflict with the proper performance of the Councillor’s functions in relation to any matter.