Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc
20 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc
The board may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the board members of the board for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of those members is taken to be a decision of the board made at a meeting of the board.
The board may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business at a meeting at which board members (or some board members) participate by telephone or other electronic means, but only if any member who speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other members.
For the purposes of—
the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or
a meeting held in accordance with subclause (2),
the Chairperson and each other board member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the board.
A resolution approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations, to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the board.
Papers may be circulated among the board members for the purposes of subclause (1) by electronic means.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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