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Clause 22 - Quorum at General Meeting

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  1. At any general meeting the number of members required to constitute a quorum shall be double the number of members presently on the management committee plus one (1).
  2. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business.

2A.  For the purposes of this rule: "Member" includes a person attending as a proxy or as representing a corporation which is a member.

  1. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the commencement of a general meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members of the management committee or the association, shall lapse.

3A.  In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place, or to such other day and at such other time and place as the management committee may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the members present shall be a quorum.

  1. The chairperson may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
  2. When a meeting is adjourned for thirty (30) days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting.
  3. Save as aforesaid it will not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment of the business transacted at an adjourned meeting.

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