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Thoroughbred Racing Act 1996
20Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone
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#### 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.
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> > Email may be used to circulate papers among members and a resolution approved by email is taken to have been approved in writing.
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> > (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.
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> > (3) For the purposes of—
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> > > (a) the approval of a resolution under subsection (1), or
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> > > (b) a meeting held in accordance with subsection (2),
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> > the Chairperson and each other member have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of Racing NSW.
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> > (4) A resolution approved under subsection (1) is to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of Racing NSW.
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> > (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.
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> **s 20:** Am 1997 No 24, Sch 1 \[5\]; 1999 No 66, Sch 1 \[19\]; 2008 No 63, Sch 1 \[24\] \[25\].