Procedures of the Courts Council
15 Procedures of the Courts Council
The Courts Council must meet at least 4 times in each calendar year.
If requested to do so by a judicial member of the Courts Council, the Chair must convene a meeting of the Courts Council for the purpose of considering any matter raised by the judicial member.
A quorum for a meeting of the Courts Council is the presence of 4 Council members one of whom must be the Chief Justice.
Subject to section 16(2), a question arising at a meeting of the Courts Council is decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on the question.
In the event of the vote on a question being tied, the Chair has a casting vote in addition to a deliberative vote.
Subject to this Act, the Courts Council may regulate its own procedures and those of any committee formed by the Courts Council.
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