Meetings Kinds of Meetings Types of Resolutions; Notice, Quorum, Poll, Chairman, Proxy; Meeting and Agenda; Voting and its types-vote on show of hands, Poll, E-Voting, Postal ballot; Circulation of Members' Resolutions etc.; Signing and Inspection of Minutes

Your housing society calls its annual general meeting. Notices go out, a handful of members turn up, someone proposes a resolution, a show of hands is taken and the secretary writes the minutes. A company runs on the same skeleton, only with legal consequences attached to each step. A notice that is too short, a quorum that is missing, or a resolution passed by the wrong majority can make a decision open to challenge. So the question is simple: what must a company do, step by step, for a meeting of its members or its board to bind everyone?

In two minutes

A company acts through meetings and resolutions; the Act fixes who must be given notice, how many must be present, how votes are counted (hands, poll, electronic means, postal ballot), what majority makes a resolution ordinary or special, and how minutes are signed, kept and inspected.

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