Keep River National Park Local Management Committee Regulations 1992

The Chairman shall call such meetings of the Committee as are necessary for the exercise of its powers and the performance of its functions, but the number of meetings shall be not less than one in each calendar year.

At any time:

the Minister may direct; or

not less than 3 members may request,

the Chairman to call a meeting of the Committee and the Chairman shall call a meeting accordingly.

At a meeting of the Committee:

the Chairman, if present, shall preside or, if the Chairman is not present, the members present shall elect one of their number to preside;

subject to subregulation (4), 3 members, of whom one only may be a member appointed under regulation 4(1)(b), constitute a quorum;

questions arising shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and, in the event of an equality of votes, the person presiding shall have a casting vote as well as a deliberative vote; and

subject to these Regulations, the Committee shall determine the procedures to be followed at or in connection with the meeting.

A member may, in writing under the member's hand or with the member's authority, give to another member a general authority to vote for the first-mentioned member at a meeting of the Committee and the member given the authority may vote for the first-mentioned member at the meeting and shall, for the purposes of subregulation

(b), be counted towards a quorum as though he or she were also the first-mentioned member, but the authorised member shall not vote on behalf of more than one member and may be counted in place of one member only with the same qualification.

The Committee shall cause records of the Committee's meetings to be kept and, as soon as practicable after each meeting, shall cause a copy of the minutes of the meeting to be given to each member and to the Minister.

A member may require the Committee to admit to a meeting of the

Committee such persons as the member considers necessary to advise the member on matters being considered at the meeting and may require the Committee to allow such persons, or any of them, to address the meeting on the member's behalf, and the Committee shall admit those persons and allow them to address the meeting accordingly.

A person admitted under subregulation (6) to a meeting of the

Committee shall not vote on a matter at the meeting.