Local Government (Meeting Procedures) Regulations 2025
25Addressing council meeting
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25 Addressing council meeting
(1) At a council meeting, a person is to refer to the chairperson by the chairperson’s title.
(2) If 2 or more councillors wish to address a meeting of the council, the chairperson is to decide the order in which they are to do so.
(3) If a councillor is addressing a meeting of a council, another councillor is not to converse aloud, interrupt the speaker or interject, except to call attention to a point of order or to call attention to the want of a quorum.
(4) The council may resolve that this regulation applies to a council committee meeting.