Planning Act 1999
101Meetings of Authority
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101 Meetings of Authority (1) The Chair is to call meetings of the Development Consent Authority necessary for the performance of its functions and the exercise of its powers. (2) The Chair must, within 28 days after receiving a written notice, signed by not less than 2 members of a Division, requiring a meeting of the Division to be held, call a meeting of the Division. (3) At a meeting of a Division of the Development Consent Authority: (a) the Authority is constituted by the Division members and, if he or she is present, the Chair; (b) 3 members constitute a quorum; (c) the Chair, or in the Chair's absence or inability to act, a member elected by the Division members at the meeting is to preside; and (d) questions arising are to be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting and, in the event of an equality of votes, the member presiding over the meeting is to have, in addition to a deliberative vote, a casting vote. (4) The procedures of the Development Consent Authority and of committees of the Development Consent Authority, including but not limited to the calling and conduct of meetings, are to be: (a) as determined from time to time by the Chair; or (b) in the absence of a determination by the Chair in respect of a particular matter – as determined by the member presiding over a particular meeting.