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In the ACT, the chair is exempt from the proxy limit.
I can’t find anything similar in the NSW legislation.
As far as I know NSW does not have ‘absentee’ voting. We do have electronic voting, which would obviously solve this problem, but the SM has never organised for the appropriate resolution to be put at an AGM, and previous committees have not been proactive in considering how changes to the legislation will affect them. My list of things the SM has not been doing properly is growing quite long.
I have an emergency solution to the current problem, if it’s needed. The Committee will cross-nominate each other. That is, each committee member will be ‘present’ at the meeting by virtue of having submitted a proxy form, and will therefore be eligible to be nominated as a proxy holder for another committee member. Then we only need two others to do the same thing and we will have a quorum. But I would like to avoid that if possible.