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- 19 No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present either in person or by telephone or video conference facility. Four persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted, each being a Member, shall be a quorum.
- 20 If such a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, or if during a meeting such a quorum ceases to be present, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such other time as the Committee may determine.
- 21 The Chairman, if any, of the Committee or in her absence some other Committee Member nominated by the Committee shall preside as chairman of the meeting, but if neither the chairman nor such other Committee Member (if any) be present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting and willing to act, the Committee Members present shall elect one of their number to be chairman and, if there is only one Committee Member present and willing to act, she shall be chairman.
- 22 If no Committee Member is willing to act as chairman, or if no Committee Member is present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Members present and entitled to vote shall choose one of their numbers to be chairman.
- 23 The chairman may, with the consent of a meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than business which might properly have been transacted at the meeting had the adjournment not taken place. When a meeting is adjourned for 14 days or more, at least 7 days’ notice shall be given specifying the time and place of the adjourned meeting and the general nature of the business to be transacted. Otherwise it shall not be necessary to give any such notice.
- 24 A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands. Every Member shall be entitled to one vote but in the case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall be entitled to a casting vote in addition to any other vote she may have.
- 25 No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is tendered and every vote not disallowed at the meeting shall be valid. Any objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
- 26 A Member may appoint a proxy to attend meetings in her place and to vote on her behalf. The proxy form must be in writing and signed by the Member or by another person under a power of attorney granted by a Member. A proxy need not be a Member.
- 27 A vote given by a proxy for a Member remains valid despite the previous revocation of the proxy unless notice of revocation was received by the chairman before the start of the meeting or adjourned meeting in question.
- 28 No Member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting if any money owing from her to NAWIC is overdue.
- 29 A resolution in writing executed or approved in writing by or on behalf of 5 percent of the Members who would have been entitled to vote upon it if it had been proposed at a general meeting at which she was present shall be as effectual as if it had been passed at a general meeting duly convened and held and may consist of several instruments in the like form each executed or approved in writing by or on behalf of one or more Members.
- 30 A Member or her proxy may participate in a general meeting through the medium of conference telephone, audio-visual communication or similar form of communication equipment notwithstanding that the Members present may not all be meeting in one particular place if all persons participating in the meeting are able to hear and speak to each other throughout the meeting. A person participating in this way is deemed to be present in person at the meeting and is counted in a quorum and entitled to vote. The meeting is deemed to take place where the largest group of those participating is assembled or, if there is no such group, where the chairman of the meeting then is. A resolution made by a majority of the Members pursuant to this Rule shall be as valid as it would have been if made by them at a meeting duly convened and held.
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