9ATransaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

9A Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

9A Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

(1) The trustees may, if they think fit, transact any of their business by the circulation of papers among all the trustees for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of those trustees is taken to be a decision of the trustees.

(2) The trustees may, if they think fit, transact any of their business at a meeting at which trustees (or some trustees) participate by telephone, closed-circuit television or other means, but only if any trustee who speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other trustees.

(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 President and each trustee have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the trustees.

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

(5) Papers may be circulated among the trustees for the purposes of subsection (1) by facsimile or other transmission of the information in the papers concerned.

s 9A: Ins 2005 No 64, Sch 1.21 [2].