Electoral Reform Act 2022

Meetings and procedure

14. (1) The Commission shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the due performance of its functions but in each year it shall hold not less than one meeting in each period of 3 months.

(2) The Commission may publish, on its website, all or any of the following:

(a) agendas for its meetings and those of a committee;

(b) the papers relating to those meetings;

(c) reports of those meetings.

(3) At a meeting of the Commission—

(a) if the Chairperson is present, he or she shall be the chairperson of the meeting,

(b) if the Chairperson is not present or if the office of Chairperson is vacant, the deputy Chairperson shall, if he or she is present, act as the chairperson of the meeting, or

(c) if and so long as the Chairperson and deputy Chairperson are not present, the members of the Commission who are present shall choose one of their number to act as the chairperson of the meeting.

(4) At a meeting of the Commission, a question on which a vote is required shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members of the Commission present and voting on the question and, in the case of an equal division of the votes, the chairperson of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

(5) The quorum for a meeting of the Commission shall be 4 or such other number, not being less than 4, as the Commission may determine.

(6) Subject to this Act, the Commission shall regulate its own procedures.