20Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc.

##### 20 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc. (1) The Board may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Board 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 Board. (2) The Board may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business at a meeting at which 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 subsection (1); or (b) a meeting held in accordance with subsection (2); the Chairperson and each member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the Board. (4) A resolution approved under subsection (1) is to be recorded by the Board. (5) Papers may be circulated among members for the purposes of subsection (1) by facsimile or other transmission of the information in the papers concerned.