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98. Dealing with special majorities, Shackleton37 emphasizes that "the provisions of the relevant statute or rules must be carefully observed." It illustrates this proposition by quoting from Eynsham, Re: where under an Old Act, a motion was to be "determined by a majority consisting of two-thirds of the votes of the taxpayers present" at a meeting, and 37 were present, the votes of 20 ratepayers in favour of the motion (the remainder abstaining) were deemed to be insufficient to comply with the statute. I believe the two illustrations provided by Shackleton and Roberts squarely answer the issue.