National Workplace Relations Consultative Council Act 2002

The Council must meet:

at least once each year during the period that begins on 1 January and ends on 30 June; and

at least once each year during the period that begins on 1 July and ends on 31 December.

The Minister may, at any time, convene a meeting of the Council and shall do so whenever the holding of a meeting is necessary to comply with subsection (1).

The Minister shall convene a meeting of the Council whenever requested to do so by a majority of the members of the Council.

The Minister shall preside at all meetings of the Council at which the Minister is present, and, in the Minister’s absence from a meeting, the person nominated under subsection 10(1) to attend that meeting in the place of the Minister shall preside.

Subject to this section, the procedure to be followed at a meeting of the Council shall be determined by the Council.