CHAIRMAN'S ONE VOTE
The right of the chairman of a meeting to exercise a casting vote was explained at the annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society last evening. At an earlier meeting the chairman, Sir Ernest Davis, exercised a casting vote, and as there was a difference of opinion as to his right to do so a legal opinion was obtained.
This states that the rule covering the question of the chairman's casting vote is that unless the constitution expressly provides for a chairman to have a casting as well as a deliberate vote, he has no casting vote. The rules in matters of this kind are based on the proceedings of the House of Lords, and this particular rule is in accordance with that procedure.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 108, 8 May 1943, Page 7
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