Meetings of a Division
14 Meetings of a Division
A meeting of a Division must be convened and presided over by the chairperson (if he or she is a member of the Division) or in any other case by a member of the Division appointed for the purpose by the chairperson.
In the event of the absence from a meeting of a Division of the member who is to preside under subsection (1), the members present may elect one of their number to preside at that meeting.
The quorum for a meeting of a Division is 2.
A question arising at a meeting of a Division is determined by a majority of the votes of the members of the Division present and voting on the question.
The person presiding at a meeting of a Division has a deliberative vote.
If at a meeting of a Division at which only 2 members are present, those members differ in opinion on a question, the member presiding must postpone the determination of that question to a meeting of the Division at which more than 2 members of the Division are present.
In the event of an equality of votes on any question at a meeting of the Division at which more than 2 members are present, the member presiding has a second or casting vote.
Subject to this Act, a Division may regulate its own procedure.
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