CGOV.14:5.1 - The proposed majority cannot adopt itself

This constructed example supplies all rules used in the comparison; they are not offered as a jurisdiction’s law. OrisCo has one hundred voting units. Its current amendment rule requires at least seventy-five favourable units and, for a delegation change, consent of at least two-thirds of a thirty-unit class. An adopted amendment takes effect on registration. The current executive commitment limit is fifty. The approved budget covers the proposed seventy-unit commitment; no other spending or consent condition is outstanding.

A proposed amendment raises that limit to eighty and lowers the future amendment majority to sixty. Seventy units support it, including twenty of the protected class. The class condition is met, but the current seventy-five-unit condition is not. The proposed sixty-unit rule cannot authorize its own adoption. The executive limit remains fifty.

A later properly performed decision receives eighty favourable units, including the same twenty class units. All other stipulated adoption conditions are met. The amendment is approved on Monday and registered on Friday. A commitment of seventy on Thursday remains outside the executive’s delegation. It must wait or use another authority that actually exists.

On Friday the amended delegation becomes effective. The purchasing service still rejects commitments above fifty. That is now an operating mismatch with the effective delegation. The authorized administrator changes the service permission under the normal access procedure. The executive then enters the seventy-unit commitment within the amended power and the unchanged budget conditions. Updating the service did not itself confer that power.