A committee of inspection cannot by resolution adopt a procedure that dispenses with the express statutory requirement under s 549(3) that a majority of members be present at a meeting for the committee to act. Section 1322 of the Corporations Act cannot validate a purported act of a committee conferring upon itself a power not conferred by the Act. A liquidator's dealings with the media in circumstances of personal acrimony, investigations into committee members' associations without adequate evidentiary basis, and time spent responding to an ASIC review of the liquidator's own conduct are not within the liquidator's functions for remuneration purposes.
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