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(2)
where no determination has been made by the National Board under rule
3.16(b)(1), 15 members of the Branch,
present at the meeting.
(c)
A Non Financial Member must not be considered for the purpose of determining
whether a quorum is present under this rule 3.16.
(d)
If a quorum is not present within the period of time determined in accordance with
rule 3.16(e) after the time appointed for a Branch General Meeting:
(1)
where the meeting was convened upon the requisition of Branch members,
the meeting must be dissolved;
(2)
in any other case:
(A)
the meeting stands adjourned to such day, and at such time and place,
as the Branch Committee determines or, if no determination is made
by the Branch Committee, to the same day in the next week at the
same time and place; and
(B)
if, at the adjourned meeting, a quorum is not present within the period
of time determined in accordance with rule 3.16(e) after the time
appointed for the meeting, the members present constitute a quorum.
(e)
For the purposes of rule 3.16(d), the period of time is:
(1)
that period of time determined by the National Board from time to time on
the recommendation of the relevant Branch Committee; or
(2)
where no determination has been made by the National Board under rule
3.16(e)(1), 30 minutes.
3.17 Chairperson of General Meetings of a Branch
(a)
The Branch President must preside as chairperson at each Branch General Meeting.
(b)
If at a Branch General Meeting:
(1)
there is no Branch President;
(2)
the Branch President is not present within the period of time determined in
accordance with rule 3.17(c) after the time appointed for the meeting; or
(3)
the Branch President is present within that time but is not willing to act as
chairperson of the meeting,
the Branch Vice President (if any) must preside as chairperson at the Branch General
Meeting unless at the Branch General Meeting:
(4)
there is no Branch Vice President; or
(5)
the Branch Vice President is not present within the period of time determined
in accordance with rule 3.17(c) after the time appointed for the meeting; or
(6)
the Branch Vice President is present within that time but is not willing to act
as chairperson of the meeting,
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in which case the members present must elect as chairperson of the meeting a
member, but not a Non Financial Member, of the Branch who is present and willing
to act.
(c)
For the purposes of rule 3.17(b), the period of time is:
(1)
that period of time determined by the National Board from time to time on
the recommendation of the relevant Branch Committee; or
(2)
where no determination has been made by the National Board under rule
3.17(c)(1), 30 minutes.
(d)
Nothing in this rule 3.17 prevents a portion of a Branch General Meeting being
chaired by a person, other than the chairperson, with the consent of the Branch
General Meeting.
3.18 Conduct of General Meetings
(a)
A Branch General Meeting may adopt standing orders for the conduct of business at
general meetings of that branch.
(b)
Standing orders adopted by a Branch General Meeting under rule 3.18(a):
(1)
continue to operate until amended or rescinded at a subsequent general
meeting of that Branch; and
(2)
must be consistent with this Constitution, which must be interpreted so as to
promote and not restrict the operation of the standing orders.
(c)
Any question arising at a Branch General Meeting relating to the order of business,
procedure or conduct of the meeting must be referred to the person then chairing the
meeting, whose decision is final.
(d)
The person chairing a Branch General Meeting may, and must if so directed by the
meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no
business may be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left
unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
(e)
It is not necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be
transacted at an adjourned meeting unless at the adjourned meeting (before
adjournment) a resolution is passed requiring notice of the adjournment to be given.
3.19 Decisions at Branch General Meetings
(a)
Questions arising at a Branch General Meeting are to be decided by:
(1)
the number of votes determined by the National Board from time to time on
the recommendation of the relevant Branch Committee; or
(2)
where no determination has been made by the National Board under rule
3.19(a)(1), a majority of votes cast by the Branch members present (whether
in person or by proxy) and entitled to vote at the meeting and any such
decision is for all purposes a decision of the members.
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(b)
A member is not entitled to vote at a Branch General Meeting if he or she is a Non
Financial Member.
(c)
In the case of an equality of votes upon any proposed resolution the person chairing
the meeting, in addition to his or her deliberative vote, has a casting vote (unless
otherwise determined by the National Board from time to time on the
recommendation of the relevant Branch Committee).
(d)
A resolution put to the vote of a Branch General Meeting must be decided on a show
of hands unless a poll is demanded before or immediately after the declaration of the
result of the show of hands:
(1)
by the person chairing the meeting; or
(2)
by:
(A)
the number of members of that branch determined by the National
Board from time to time on the recommendation of the relevant
Branch Committee; or
(B)
where no determination has been made by the National Board under
rule 3.19(d)(2)(A) the Branch President or at least 3 members of the
Branch,
present and entitled to vote at the meeting.
(e)
A demand for a poll does not prevent the continuance of a Branch General Meeting
for the transaction of any business other than the question on which the poll has been
demanded.
(f)
Unless a poll is duly demanded, a declaration by the person chairing a Branch
General Meeting that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried or carried
unanimously, or carried by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in
the book containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Branch, is conclusive
evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded
in favour of or against the resolution.
(g)
If a poll is duly demanded at a Branch General Meeting, it will be taken in such
manner and either at once or after an interval or adjournment or otherwise as the
person chairing the meeting directs, and the result of the poll will be the resolution of
the meeting at which the poll was demanded.
(h)
A poll demanded at a Branch General Meeting on the election of a person chairing
the meeting or on a question of adjournment must be taken immediately.
(i)
The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.
3.20 Voting rights
(a)
Subject to these rules, at a Branch General Meeting, every member of that Branch
present and entitled to vote has one vote.
(b)
A proxy is entitled to:
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