Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc
17 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc
The Authority may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Authority for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of those members is to be regarded as a decision of the Authority.
The Authority may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business at a meeting at which members (or some members) participate by telephone, closed-circuit television or other means, but only if any member who speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other members.
For the purpose of—
the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or
a meeting held in accordance with subclause (2),
the Chairperson and each member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the Authority.
A resolution approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations, to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Authority.
Papers may be circulated among members for the purposes of subclause (1) by facsimile, email or other transmission of the information in the papers concerned.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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