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General meetings—procedure and quorum
Information on this page has been taken directly from: Associations Incorporations Regulations 1991. Model rules Schedule 1, General meetings Part 1.4, Section 25.
General meetings—procedure and quorum
(1) No item of business may be transacted at a general meeting unless a
quorum of members entitled under these rules to vote is present
during the time the meeting is considering that item.
(2) Five members present in person (who are entitled under these rules
to vote at a general meeting) constitute a quorum for the transaction
of the business of a general meeting.
(3) If within 30 minutes after the appointed time for the start of a
general meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting if called on the
requisition of members is dissolved and in any other case stands
adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time
and (unless another place is specified at the time of adjournment by
the person presiding at the meeting or communicated by written
notice to members given before the day to which the meeting is
adjourned) at the same place.
(4) If at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within
30 minutes after the time appointed for the start of the meeting, the
members present (being not less than 3) constitute a quorum.
Page updated: 30 March 2010

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