Public and Educational Lending Rights (Better Income for Authors) Act 2026
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31 Decisions without meetings
(1) The Committee is taken to have made a decision at a meeting if:
(a) without meeting, a majority of the members of the Committee entitled to vote on the proposed decision indicate agreement with the decision; and
(b) that agreement is indicated in accordance with the method determined by the Committee under subsection (2); and
(c) all the members of the Committee were informed of the proposed decision or reasonable efforts were made to inform all the members of the Committee of the proposed decision.
(2) Subsection (1) applies only if the Committee:
(a) has determined that it may make decisions of that kind without meeting; and
(b) has determined the method by which members of the Committee are to indicate agreement with proposed decisions.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a member is not entitled to vote on a proposed decision if the member would not have been entitled to vote on that proposal if the matter had been considered at a meeting of the Committee.
(4) The Committee must keep a record of decisions made in accordance with this section.