Conservation Act 1987

New Zealand Conservation Authority and Conservation Boards - Conservation Boards

6T: Meetings of Boards

You could also call this:

"How Conservation Boards have meetings and make decisions"

When you are part of a Conservation Board, you will have meetings. The Minister decides when and where the first meeting is held. After that, the Board or the chairperson decides when and where the next meetings are.

You can have a special meeting if three or more members ask for it in writing. The chairperson will call this meeting. For a meeting to be valid, most of the members must be there.

When you vote on something at a meeting, it is decided by the majority of members who are present and voting. The chairperson gets to vote like everyone else, and if there is a tie, they get a special vote to break the tie. If someone is missing from the Board, it does not stop the Board from making decisions.

The Board can decide how it wants to run its meetings, as long as it follows the rules of the Conservation Act. You can look at the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 for more information.

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Conservation Boards

6TMeetings of Boards

  1. The first meeting of each Board shall be held at a time and place to be appointed by the Minister, and subsequent meetings shall be held at such times and places as the Board or the chairperson from time to time appoints.

  2. A special meeting shall be called by the chairperson whenever 3 or more members so request in writing.

  3. At any meeting of a Board, a majority of the members in office shall form a quorum and no business shall be transacted at any meeting unless such a quorum is present.

  4. Every question before any meeting of a Board shall be determined by a majority of the members present and voting on the question.

  5. At any meeting of a Board, the chairperson of that meeting shall have a deliberative vote and, in the case of an equality of votes, shall also have a casting vote.

  6. The powers of a Board shall not be affected by any vacancy in its membership, nor shall the proceedings of a Board be invalidated merely because of the subsequent discovery that some defect existed in the appointment of any member.

  7. Subject to the provisions of this Act, each Board may regulate its procedure in such manner as it thinks fit.

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  • Section 6T: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).