14Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc

14 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone etc

14 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 shall be 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 (or some 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 subclause (1), or

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

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

(4) A resolution approved under subclause (1) shall, subject to the regulations, be recorded in the minutes of the Board.

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