51Chairman, secretary and treasurer of committee

51 Chairman, secretary and treasurer of committee (1) The committee-men shall, at the first meeting of a committee after they assume office, appoint a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer of the committee. (2) A person: (a) shall not be appointed to an office referred to in subsection (1) unless he is a committee-man; and (b) may be appointed to one or more of those offices.

Unit Titles Act 1975 63 (3) A person appointed to an office referred to in subsection (1) shall hold office until: (a) he ceases to be a committee-man; (b) the receipt by the corporation from him of notice in writing of his resignation from that office; or (c) another person is appointed by the committee to hold that office, whichever first occurs. (4) The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the committee at which he is present and, if he is absent from a meeting, the committee-men present at that meeting shall appoint one of their number to preside at that meeting during the absence of the chairman. (5) A person shall not exercise the powers, or perform any of the authorities, duties or functions of the corporation or the treasurer of the corporation, being powers, authorities, duties or functions relating to the receipt or expenditure of, or accounting for, moneys, or the keeping of the books of account, of the corporation, unless he is: (a) a member of the corporation or a committee-man and is the treasurer of the corporation or of the committee; or (b) a person with whom the treasurer of the corporation is required by an order of the committee to jointly exercise that power or perform jointly that authority, duty or function, and who is enabling the treasurer to comply with the order. (6) The treasurer of a corporation may delegate the exercise of any of his powers (other than this power of delegation), or the performance of any of his authorities, duties or functions as treasurer, the delegation of which is specifically approved by the committee, to another committee-man so approved, subject to such limitations as to time or otherwise as are so approved and, while a delegate is acting in accordance with the delegation, he shall be deemed to be the treasurer of the corporation. (7) The committee of a corporation, may by notice in writing served on the treasurer of the corporation, order that he shall not exercise any of his powers, or perform any of his authorities, duties or functions that are specified in the notice, unless he does so jointly with another person so specified.

Unit Titles Act 1975 64 (8) A person who has possession or control of any: (a) records, books of account or keys belonging to a corporation; or (b) other property of a corporation, shall, within 7 days after service on him of notice of a resolution of the committee requiring him to do so, deliver those records, books of account or keys or that other property to a committee-man specified in the notice. Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units.