New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The presiding member shall preside at all meetings of the Commission at which that person is present.
(2) In the absence of both the presiding member and the deputy presiding member from any meeting, the members present shall appoint one of their number to be the presiding member for that meeting.
(3) Meetings of the Commission shall be held at such times and places as the Commission or the presiding member may from time to time appoint.
(4) A special meeting of the Commission may at any time be convened by the presiding member, and the presiding member shall call a special meeting, whenever requested to do so in writing by not less than 2 members of the Commission.
(5) Not less than 7 clear days' notice of every special meeting and of the business to be transacted at the meeting shall be given to each member for the time being in New Zealand, and no business other than that specified in the notice shall be transacted at the meeting.
(6) At any meeting of the Commission the quorum shall be 5 members.
(7) Every question before any meeting of the Commission shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on it:
Provided that a resolution signed, or assented to in writing by letter, telegram, telex message, or other method of communication, by every member of the Commission who is for the time being in New Zealand, being together in number not less than half of the membership for the time being of the Commission, shall have the same effect as a resolution duly passed at a meeting of the Commission.
(8) At any meeting of the Commission the person for the time being acting as presiding member shall have a deliberative vote, and, in the case of an equality of votes, shall also have a casting vote.
(9) Subject to this Act and to the rules of the Commission made under section 20 of this Act, the Commission may regulate its own procedure.
This Act was repealed as from 1 January 2003, by section 63 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 38). See clause 2 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act Commencement Order 2002 (SR 2002/376).
Subsection (6) was substituted, as from 1 July 1992, by section 6 Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 18).