11Filling vacancies in council

#### 11 Filling vacancies in council 11 Filling vacancies in council > If a vacancy occurs in the office of a councillor in the interval between the annual meetings of the Synod of The Uniting Church in Australia in New South Wales, the remaining councillors may, at a duly constituted meeting of the said council, elect in such manner as they shall think fit a qualified minister or a person not being an ordained minister of the said church as the case may require to fill the vacancy, but no temporary vacancy or vacancies in the office of councillor or councillors shall be deemed in any way to affect the constitution of the college or its privileges or status as an incorporated body. Any person so elected to fill any such vacancy shall be entitled to retain office for the remainder of the period for which his predecessor was elected. At any meeting of such council nine members shall form a quorum. > > **s 11:** Am Newington College Council (Amendment) Act 1949, sec 2 (e); 1977 No 47, Sch 3, cl 2 (f).