For practical compliance, the council must ensure it makes an election policy under s 26AA, publish it on the university’s website, and conduct all council elections in accordance with that policy. The election policy must include provisions for integrity and security of the voting system, ensuring only eligible voters can vote, preventing multiple voting, secret ballot, no improper influence, procedures for voting and issuing ballots, and processes for notifying election periods, nominations, publishing results, and resolving complaints (s 26AA(2)). The council must also comply with the requirement to adopt an annual budget for the next year (s 55(1)), control spending as nearly as possible within the budget (s 55(3)), and undertake an annual review of bequests, donations, and special grants (s 55(4)). Financial compliance with the Financial Accountability Act 2009 and the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982 is mandatory (ss 50-51). For trust property, the council may consider whether any donor’s purpose has become obsolete or impractical; if so, it may set up a scheme to redirect the property to a similar purpose, but must do so in writing and give copies to anyone who asks (ss 42-45). The council must ensure that the designated purpose is as nearly similar as practicable to the donor’s purpose and can practically and conveniently be achieved (s 43). For state land, the university must only grant interests by lease and must comply with the Land Act 1994 (s 49). Members of the council must be vigilant about their duties under s 26A: they must act honestly and in the best interests of the university, exercise reasonable skill, care, and diligence, disclose conflicts of interest, and not make improper use of their position or information. The council should maintain a register of conflicts and ensure that members are aware of their disclosure obligations. For new members, the council and Minister must check eligibility, including any potential disqualification under the Corporations Act or indictable offence convictions. The 12-year cumulative term limit must be tracked for each elected, appointed, and additional member, and a resolution of the majority of members is required if an exception is sought (s 23(2)-(3)). The council must also ensure that any person who becomes disqualified or convicted discloses this immediately under s 62D, and that the resulting notice is handled confidentially and destroyed when no longer needed (ss 62D, 62E). For police checks, the council and Minister must obtain written consent before requesting a criminal history report from the police commissioner, and must destroy the report as soon as it is no longer needed (s 62B). The university must also ensure that security officers and authorised persons are properly appointed in writing, issued identity cards, and that their powers are limited if necessary by conditions or notices (Schedule 1, ss 1-3). Those officers must produce their identity cards when exercising powers (Schedule 1, s 4). For traffic control, regulatory notices must be erected at vehicular entrances, must state the limits of the area, and may state the penalty; if they do not state the penalty, information notices must be erected at entrances (Schedule 1, ss 6-7). The university must maintain a process for seizing, holding, notifying owners, and selling abandoned or illegally parked vehicles, including applying proceeds correctly (Schedule 1, ss 8-10). Finally, the council must ensure that any delegation of its powers complies with s 11: it may delegate to an appropriately qualified member of council, a committee that includes at least one council member, or an appropriately qualified staff member, but the delegation cannot include the power to make an election policy or adopt the annual budget (s 11(2)). Subdelegation by the vice-chancellor is permitted only if the original delegation from the council allows it (s 11(3)). The council should maintain a register of delegations and review compliance periodically.