254E
CurrentProcedure at meetings
Chapter 8Administration
Part 2Local government meetings and committees
Division 1ARequirements for local government meetings generally
254E Procedure at meetings
(1)
Business may be conducted at a local government meeting only if a quorum is present.
(2)
At a local government meeting—
(a)
a question is decided by a majority of the votes of the councillors or committee members present; and
(b)
subject to chapter 5B of the Act, each councillor or committee member present has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the person presiding at the meeting has a casting vote; and
(c)
if a councillor or committee member present and entitled to vote fails to vote, the councillor or member is taken to have voted in the negative.
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