13Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

#### 13 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone 13 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone > > (1) The Committee may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Committee 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 Committee. > > > (2) The Committee 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. > > > (3) For the purposes of— > > > > > (a) the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or > > > > > (b) 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 Committee. > > > (4) A resolution approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations, to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Committee. > > > (5) Papers may be circulated among the members for the purposes of subclause (1) by facsimile or other transmission of the information in the papers concerned.