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Co-operatives (Adoption of National Law) Act 2012
246Resolution by circulation of document—fewer than 50 members
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#### 246 Resolution by circulation of document—fewer than 50 members
246 Resolution by circulation of document—fewer than 50 members
> > (1) If all the members of a co-operative have signed a document that sets out the terms of a resolution and contains a statement that they are in favour of the resolution, the resolution is taken to have been passed at a general meeting of the co-operative.
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> > (2) The meeting is taken to have been held—
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> > > (a) if all the members signed the document on the one day—on the day the document was signed, at the time the document was signed by the last member to sign; or
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> > > (b) if the members signed the document on different days—on the day, and at the time, the document was signed by the last member to sign.
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> > (3) The document need not exist as a single document, but may exist in the form of 2 or more documents in identical terms.
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> > (4) The document is taken to constitute a minute of the general meeting.
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> > (5) Anything attached to the document and signed by the members signing the document is taken to have been laid before the co-operative at the general meeting.
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> > (6) The document is signed by all members of a co-operative only if the document is signed by each person who was a member of the co-operative at the time the document was signed by the last member to sign.
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> > (7) Nothing in this section affects or limits any rule of law about the effectiveness of the assent of members of a co-operative given to a document, or to an act, matter or thing, otherwise than at a general meeting of the co-operative.