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Attachment 3 - Charitable Status Documents
suit that shall be brought and maintained for anything done or omitted pursuant to the
duties imposed as a Councillor, Board Member or Committee Member, provided that
such indemnity shall not apply in respect of any fraudulent or criminal act or omission
by that individual.
(b) Every officer of the Association will be indemnified out of the property of the Association
against any liability incurred in that capacity to another person other than to the
Association unless the liability arises out of conduct involving a lack of good faith.
(c) A liability in clause 10(a) and 10(b) includes, but is not limited to, any loss, cost or
expense suffered or incurred by the officer, Councillor, Board Member or Committee
Member:
(i) in defending any criminal proceedings in which that person is acquitted;
(ii) in defending any civil proceedings where the person has acted in good faith; and
(iii) in connection with an application in relation to such proceedings, in which the
Court grants relief to that person.
(d) The Association may pay the premiums on any policy of insurance in relation to any
liability of an officer, Councillor, Board Member or Committee Member, to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
11. Meeting using technology
(a) Meetings under this Constitution may be held using telephone, audio-visual link up or
other instantaneous communication medium, or, if consented to by all Councillors,
Board Members or Committee Members (as the case may be), other technology. The
consent may be a standing one. A Councillor, Board Member or Committee Member
may only withdraw their consent within a reasonable period before the meeting.
(b) If a meeting is held using any technology and all the Councillors, Board Members or
Committee Members as the case may be take part in the meeting, they will be treated
as having consented to the use of the technology for that meeting.
(c) The following provisions apply to a meeting by technology:
(i) each of the participants taking part in the meeting must be able to hear and be
heard by each of the other participants taking part in the meeting; and
(ii) at the commencement of the meeting each participant must announce his or her
presence to all the other participants taking part in the meeting.
(d) A participant may not leave a technology meeting by disconnecting the participant’s link
to the meeting unless that participant has previously notified the chair of the meeting.
(e) A participant is conclusively presumed to have been present and to have formed part
of a quorum at all times during a technology meeting unless that participant has
previously obtained the express consent of the chair to leave the meeting.
12. Notices
Without prejudice to any other method of giving notice, it shall be sufficient compliance with
any provision of the Constitution requiring notice to be given if, with observance of the
required time, notice is given:
(a) in a document delivered to the individual in person;
(b) in a pre-paid letter or other document addressed and posted to the individual’s last
known address two (2) days prior to the date by which notice must be given; or
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Trustees of Edmund Rice Education Australia Adopted by TEREA AGM 22 June 2021 Page 15 of 16
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