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Fisheries Administration Act 1991
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#### 58 Powers of management advisory committee etc.
(1) Subject to section 59, a management advisory committee has power to do, on behalf of the Authority, all things necessary or convenient to be done for, or in connection with, the performance of its functions.
(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), a management advisory committee:
(a) may establish sub‑committees, consisting of such persons (whether members of the management advisory committee or not) as the management advisory committee determines, to advise it in the performance of its functions and the exercise of its powers; and
(b) may abolish any such sub‑committee.
(1B) A management advisory committee may determine:
(a) the manner in which a sub‑committee established by the management advisory committee is to perform its functions; and
(b) the procedure to be followed at or in relation to meetings of the sub‑committee, including matters with respect to:
(i) the convening of meetings of the sub‑committee; and
(ii) the number of members of the sub‑committee who are to constitute a quorum; and
(iii) the selection of a member of the sub‑committee to preside at meetings of the sub‑committee; and
(iv) the manner in which questions arising at a meeting of the sub‑committee are to be decided.
(2) All acts and things properly done in the name of, or on behalf of, the Authority by a management advisory committee are taken to have been done by the Authority.