Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc
13 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc
The Panel may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Panel 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 Panel.
The Panel 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 purposes of—
the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or
a meeting held in accordance with subclause (2),
the chairperson and each member of the Panel have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the Panel.
A resolution approved under subclause (1) is to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Panel.
Papers may be circulated among the members for the purposes of subclause (1) by electronic transmission of the information in the papers concerned.
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