(1) If the Directors for the time being (other than a Director who is absent from Australia when the other Directors sign) sign a document containing a statement that those Directors are in favour of a resolution in terms set out in the document, a resolution in those terms is to be taken to have been passed at a meeting of the Board held on the day on which the document is signed or, if the Directors do not sign it on the same day, on the day on which the last Director to sign signs the document.
(2) If a resolution is, under subsection (1), taken to have been passed at a meeting of the Board, each Director must be advised as soon as practicable and given a copy of the terms of the resolution.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), two or more separate documents containing a statement in identical terms, each of which is signed by one or more Directors, is to be taken to constitute one document.
S. 20A(4) inserted by No. 84/2000 s. 7(3).
(4) Subsections (6) and (6A) of section 20 apply in respect of the making of a resolution under this section.
S. 21 substituted by No. 84/1994 s. 24.