#55239
WA
Flatchatter

    Not only do motions not need to be seconded, neither the chair nor the council have the authority which Sir Humphrey implies exists.

    Sir Humphrey wrote:
    Normal meeting procedure includes that a motion proposed by one person should be seconded by another member. If a person proposes a motion and nobody seconds it, the chair is entitled to decline to put the motion up for a debate and a vote and to move on with the meeting agenda… If the serial motion proposer has no seconder, the chair is entitled to refuse to put the matter on the agenda for the meeting.

    I believe the above is entirely incorrect

    General meetings

    The agenda includes every motion that is to be considered at the meeting. The motions are on that agenda because they have been proposed in accordance with the Act. The owner put it in before the required submission date, the committee proposed it at any stage, or they are statutory motions that must go on the agenda every time (as example, confirmation of the minutes of the last meeting).

    There is no reason for someone to propose it and second it at the meeting itself.  There is nothing under either BCCM Act or any Module that requires a seconder. If that was required, it would mean that the single owner voicing opposition to a particular position without the support of any other owner could not be heard, and that is not what the BCCM Act is about.

    https://hyneslegal.com.au/news/seconding-motions-is-that-really-necessary/