National Portrait Gallery of Australia Act 2012
29Decisions without meetings
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29 Decisions without meetings
(1) The Board is taken to have made a decision at a meeting if: (a) without meeting, a majority of the current Board members entitled to vote on the proposed decision indicate agreement with the decision; and (b) that agreement is indicated in accordance with the method determined by the Board under subsection (2); and (c) all the current Board members were informed of the proposed decision, or reasonable efforts were made to inform all the current Board members of the proposed decision. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply unless the Board: (a) has determined that it may make decisions of that kind without meeting; and (b) has determined the method by which Board members are to indicate agreement with proposed decisions. (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a Board member is not entitled to vote on a proposed decision if the Board member would not have been entitled to vote on that proposal if the matter had been considered at a meeting of the Board. (4) The Board must keep a record of decisions made in accordance with this section.