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Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010
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148 Procedure of Panel
(1) Subject to this Law, the procedure of a Ratings Review Panel is in its discretion.
(2) The chairperson of a Panel must convene meetings of the Panel.
(3) A Panel must keep minutes of its deliberations setting out—
(a) the dates and duration of its deliberations; and
(b) its decisions on the review.
(4) The Panel must seek to make decisions by consensus.
(5) In the absence of a consensus, a decision of the Panel is a decision of the majority of the members of the Panel.
(6) If a majority decision is not reached, the Panel is taken to have confirmed the rating levels determined by the Regulatory Authority.