20Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

20 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

20 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone

(1) Racing NSW may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all of its members, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of the appointed members is taken to be a decision of Racing NSW.

Email may be used to circulate papers among members and a resolution approved by email is taken to have been approved in writing.

(2) Racing NSW 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 a member who speaks on a matter at 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 other member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of Racing NSW.

(4) A resolution approved under subsection (1) is to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of Racing NSW.

(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.

s 20: Am 1997 No 24, Sch 1 [5]; 1999 No 66, Sch 1 [19]; 2008 No 63, Sch 1 [24] [25].