Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation may pass a resolution without a general meeting being held if all the members entitled to vote on the resolution sign a document containing a statement that they are in favour of the resolution set out in the document. Each member of a joint membership must sign.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a resolution to remove an auditor.
(3) Separate copies of a document may be used for signing by members if the wording of the resolution and statement is identical in each copy.
(4) The resolution is passed when the last member signs.
(5) An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation that passes a resolution under this section without holding a meeting satisfies any requirement in this Act:
(a) to give members information or a document relating to the resolution--by giving members that information or document with the document to be signed; and
(b) to lodge with the Registrar a copy of a notice of meeting to consider the resolution--by lodging a copy of the document to be signed by members; and
(c) to lodge a copy of a document that accompanies a notice of meeting to consider the resolution--by lodging a copy of the information or documents referred to in paragraph (a).
(6) The passage of the resolution satisfies any requirement in this Act, or the corporation's constitution, that the resolution be passed at a general meeting.
(7) This section does not affect any rule of law relating to the assent of members not given at a general meeting.
Note 1: Passage of a resolution under this section must be recorded in the corporation's minute books (see section 220 - 5).
Note 2: A body corporate representative may sign a circulating resolution (see section 201 - 110).