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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2282 ..

MR WOOD (continuing):

(25) If an adjourned meeting is unable to continue for any reason and the chairperson is satisfied that the members of staff are not likely, at a further adjourned meeting, to vote on the question that the office of the staff director be declared vacant, the chairperson shall close the meeting.

(26) Subject to subclause (30), a notice for the purpose of subclause (2) shall specify the purpose, date, time and place of the meeting.

(27) If a meeting is adjourned for any reason and the date, time and place for resumption of the meeting are not announced at the time of the adjournment, the chairperson of that meeting shall, as soon as practicable after the meeting -

(a) fix a date for holding the adjourned meeting (being a date no more than 21 days after the day of the adjournment) and a time and place, in accordance with subclause (30); and

(b) notify the date, time and place of the meeting to the members of staff by taking reasonable steps to ensure that a notice for that purpose is prominently displayed at the place of business of the Company and at each of its agencies.

(28) If the chairperson at the meeting referred to in subclause (27) was a person other than the union Secretary and the union Secretary is satisfied that it is necessary to do so, the union Secretary may carry out the duties imposed on the chairperson under that subclause.

(29) The staff director, in writing to the union Secretary, may consent to a shorter period of notice than the period referred to in subclause (4).

(30) The person fixing the date, time and place of a meeting shall take reasonable steps to ensure, as far as practicable, that -

(a) the staff director would be able to attend the meeting on the date, time and place proposed for the meeting; and

(b) the date, time and place proposed for the meeting would be a date and time when staff members are available to attend and the place of the meeting would be reasonably accessible to staff members.

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