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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 12 Hansard (25 November) . . Page.. 3764 ..
MS TUCKER (continuing):
(b) that the Minister directs by notice in writing given to the chairperson or the deputy chairperson.
"(2) If the chairperson or the deputy chairperson proposes to call a meeting of the trust, he or she must, not later than 5 days before the date of the proposed meeting, give each member a notice in writing setting out-
(a) the date, time and place of the meeting; and
(b) the matters to be considered at the meeting.
"221P Procedure at meetings
"(1) The chairperson must preside at each trust meeting at which he or she is present."(2) If the chairperson is not present at a meeting, the deputy chairperson must preside.
"(3) If the chairperson and the deputy chairperson are both absent from a meeting, the members present must elect a member present to preside.
"(4) The member presiding at a meeting may give directions about the procedure to be followed at the meeting.
"(5) Questions arising at a meeting are decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting.
"(6) The member presiding at a meeting has a deliberative vote and, if the votes are equal, a casting vote.
"(7) The trust must keep minutes of its proceedings.
"221Q Quorum
At a meeting of the trust, a majority of the members currently appointed to the trust constitutes a quorum."221R Trust's annual report
"(1) The trust is taken to be a public authority for the Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act 1995 that is required to provide a report under paragraph 8 (5) (a) of that Act."(2) A report in relation to a period must include particulars of the following for the period:
(a) progress in achieving nature and land conservation on rural leases;
(b) progress in the negotiation of land management agreements and issues raised in the negotiations;
(c) public and private expenditure on nature conservation and land management activities on rural leases and further expenditure that is desirable;
(d) monitoring of the implementation of land management agreements;
(e) complaints, disputes and enforcement actions regarding land management agreements.".
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