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Requisition by Council that a particular thing be done.
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19.—(1) The Council, at a meeting specially summoned for the purpose under this section, may by resolution proposed and passed in accordance with this section require any particular act, matter, or thing specifically mentioned in such resolution and which the Corporation or the manager can lawfully do, to be done in relation to any of the powers, functions, and duties of the Corporation which are not for the time being reserved functions.
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(2) Notice of the intention to propose any such resolution as is authorised by the foregoing sub-section of this section shall be given in writing to the manager and shall be signed by not less than seven members of the Council and shall contain a copy of such resolution and shall specify a day (not less than seven nor more than fourteen days after the day on which such notice is received by the manager) for the holding of the meeting of the Council at which such resolution is to be proposed and considered.
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(3) Whenever the manager receives any such notice as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section of this section, he shall as soon as possible send a copy of such notice to every member of the Council and shall summon a special meeting of the Council for the date specified in that behalf in such notice at the usual hour for meetings of the Council.
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(4) When a resolution of which notice has been given under this section has been proposed at the meeting of the Council summoned for the purpose under this section, the Council and the manager shall consider such resolution and if after such consideration the Council pass such resolution and the number of members voting for such resolution exceeds either half the total membership of the Council, or two-thirds of the members present and voting, the manager shall, if and when and so far as money for the purpose is or has been provided, do in accordance with such resolution the act, matter, or thing which is required by such resolution to be done.
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(5) A resolution passed under this section shall not be so expressed as to apply or extend—
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(a) to the exercise or performance of any power, function, or duty of the Corporation generally or to every case or occasion of the exercise or performance of any such power, function, or duty or to a number or class of such cases or occasions so extended as to be substantially or in effect every case or occasion on which such power, function, or duty is exercised or performed, nor
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(b) to the exercise or performance of any power, or duty conferred or imposed on the manager by or under this Act in relation to the officers or servants of the Corporation or the control, supervision, service, remuneration, privileges, or superannuation of such officers or servants or any of them.
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Any resolution purporting to be passed by the Council under this section which contravenes this sub-section shall be void and of no effect.
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(6) In the event of any dispute arising between the Council and the manager as to whether or not any resolution passed by the Council under this section contravenes the provisions of sub-section (5) hereof, the matter shall be referred for decision to the Minister.
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