How questions are to be decided and quorum
12 How questions are to be decided and quorum
Sch. 1 cl. 12(1) substituted by No. 73/2012 s. 104.
No question must be decided at any meeting of the Council unless there is a quorum of at least the majority of members holding office for the time being other than a member who is on leave of absence granted under clause 4A
Subject to any university statute made under subclause (3), all questions which come before any meeting of the Council must be decided by the majority of the members present.
Subject to there being a quorum as required by subclause (1), the Council, by university statute, may provide that certain resolutions, or resolutions of certain classes, have effect only if passed by a specified majority of members or of members present and voting.
The Chairperson at any meeting has—
a vote; and
in the case of an equality of votes, a casting vote.
Subject to this Act, the university statutes and the university regulations, the Council may regulate its own proceedings.
The statute text is free to read above. View Pro plans to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.