12Transaction of business outside meetings or by electronic means

12 Transaction of business outside meetings or by electronic means

12 Transaction of business outside meetings or by electronic means

(1) The Board may, if it thinks fit, transact its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Board for the time being, and a written resolution 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.

(2) The Board may, if it thinks fit, transact its business at a meeting at which members, or some members, participate by telephone or other electronic means, but only if a 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 subsection (1), or

(b) a meeting held in accordance with subsection (2),

the Chairperson and each other member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the Board.

(4) A resolution approved under subsection (1) is, subject to this regulation, to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Board.

(5) Papers may be circulated among the members by electronic means for the purposes of subsection (1).