Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Committee may meet at such times and at such places within Australia or within an external Territory as the Committee, by resolution, determines or, subject to any resolution of the Committee, as the Chair determines, but shall not meet at any place outside Australia and the external Territories.
(2) Five members may make a request in writing signed by them to the Chair to convene a meeting of the Committee for a specified purpose.
(3) Upon receiving a request under the last preceding subsection, the Chair shall:
(a) determine a time and place for the holding of the meeting, being a time on a day not later than fourteen days after the day on which he or she received the request; and
(b) by such means as he or she thinks fit, inform each member of the time, date and place of the meeting and of the purpose of the meeting.
(4) The Committee may meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament.
(5) The Committee shall not meet or transact business on a sitting day of either House of the Parliament during the time of the sitting, except by leave of that House.