Arcus v Castle and Wellington Hospital Board - [1954] NZLR 122

Hospitals — Hospital Board — Requisition for Special Meeting — Right to Requisition given by Statute and not by Standing Orders — Non-compliance with Standing Order as to stating Place of Meeting not invalidating Requisition calling Special Meeting — Board entitled to consider, for Third Time, Question whereon Board evenly divided twice previously — By-law providing Chairman's Decision on Point of Order Final — Such By-law operating to make Chairman's Order Final only on Conduct and Control of Debates — Chairman's Determination at Outset that Meeting not validly called not Point of Order — Chairman, by taking Chair, recognizing Meeting validly called — Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, s 30.