Attachment 3 - Charitable Status Documents

6.2   Council Composition
      (a)   The Council comprises the members of EREA appointed pursuant to the Statutes from
            time to time.
      (b)   The Council must appoint a Council President, Deputy President and Treasurer by
            majority resolution.
      (c)   The Council President, Deputy President and Treasurer may be removed by majority
            resolution.
      (d)   If the position of President becomes vacant during a term of appointment, the Deputy
            President will assume the role of President until the Council appoints a new President.
      (e)   If the President is absent or unable or unwilling to act, the Deputy President will act in
            the place of the President.
6.3   Convening General Meetings
      (a)   A General Meeting of the Council may be convened by the Council President at any
            time or at the request of the Board.
      (b)   21 days’ notice of General Meetings must be given to Councillors (excluding the day on
            which the notice is served or deemed to be served and the day of the meeting). Council
            may waive this requirement by unanimous resolution.
      (c)   The notice of General Meeting must state the place, day and the hour of meeting and
            where there is special business the general nature of that business.
      (d)   An Annual General Meeting of the Council must be held within six (6) months after the
            expiration of each Financial Year.
      (e)   The business of an Annual General Meeting may include the following, even if not
            referred to in the notice of meeting:
            (i)     consideration of the audited annual financial accounts;
            (ii)    appointment or removal of Board Members;
            (iii)   appointment, removal and remuneration of the Auditor;
            (iv)    report of the President;
            (v)     Report of the Chair, which must include a finance report and a particular report as
                    to how the operation of the Association has been consistent with the Statutes and
                    achieved the carrying on of the ministry of Catholic education.
      (f)   Any other business, at an Annual General Meeting or a General Meeting, shall be
            considered to be special business.
6.4   Adjournment
      (a)   The President may, with the consent of the Councillors present (and must if so directed
            by the Councillors present), adjourn a General Meeting.
      (b)   No business may be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left
            unfinished at the original meeting.
      (c)   If a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting must
            be given as in the case of an original meeting. Otherwise it is not necessary to give
            notice of an adjournment or the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
6.5   Quorum
      (a)   No business shall be transacted at any General Meeting unless a quorum of Councillors
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 Trustees of Edmund Rice Education Australia Adopted by TEREA AGM 22 June 2021      Page 8 of 16