Ground Water (Qualco-Sunlands) Control Act 2000

Subject to this section, each member of the Trust is entitled to vote at meetings of the Trust.

A member may nominate another person to attend a meeting instead of the member and to vote at the meeting on his or her behalf.

Where two or more persons are members of the Trust by reason of their ownership of the same irrigated property, a person must be nominated by both or all of them to vote on their behalf.

A nomination referred to in subsections (2) and (3) must be made by written notice to the Trust and may be revoked by the member, or all of the members, concerned by subsequent written notice to the Trust.

Where a person who is not a member of the Trust has been nominated by a member or members to attend and vote at a meeting of the Trust, that person must be regarded as a member of the Trust for the purposes of proceedings at the meeting.

Subject to subsection (7), the values of votes at meetings of the Trust will be in proportion to the amount of the respective waterlogging and salinity risk management allocations attached to the land owned by the members voting.

The basis for determining the values of votes can be changed by a resolution of the Trust if the following requirements are complied with:

twenty one days notice of the proposed resolution must have been given to the members; and

the number of votes supporting the resolution must exceed one half of the number of members who are entitled to attend and vote on the resolution; and

the value of votes supporting the resolution must exceed one half of the total value of the votes that could be cast at the meeting if all members of the Trust had attended and voted on the resolution.

Where an irrigation authority is a member of the Trust, a person who is the owner of an irrigated property within the meaning of the