the meeting consents to an adjournment, or it appears to the chair of the meeting that an adjournment is necessary to ensure that the business of the meeting is conducted in an orderly manner. The of the meeting must adjourn a General Meeting if directed to do so by Member Representatives holding a simple majority of the nominated voting rights allocated to the Member Representatives present at the meeting. When adjourning a General Meeting, the chair of the meeting must: either specify the time and place to which it is adjourned or state that it is to continue at a time and place to be fixed by the Governing Body; and have regard to any directions as to the time and place of any adjournment which have been given by the meeting. If the continuation of an adjourned meeting is to take place more than 14 days after it was adjourned the Governing Body must give at least 14 clear days’ notice of it (that is, excluding the day of the adjourned meeting and the day on which the notice is given): to the same persons to whom notice of General Meetings is required to be given, and containing the same information which such notice is required to contain. At an adjourned General Meeting only that business that formed the business to be transacted at the original meeting can be transacted. Decision Making at General Meetings Every Member Representative shall have nominated voting rights in the proportions detailed in Clause 3.3.1 of the Constitution: The Chair and Vice-chair of the Governing Body and the Accountable Officer each have one vote at a General Meeting In the case of an equality of votes the chair of the meeting shall be entitled to a casting vote Only the of the Governing Body, the Vice-chair of the Governing Body, the Accountable Officer and the Member Representatives (or their proxies) shall be eligible to vote at a General Meeting. The decision of the Chair of the Governing Body on questions of order, relevancy and regularity and their interpretation of the Constitution, Standing Orders, Scheme of Reservation and Delegation, and Prime Financial Policies at the meeting, shall be final.
the meeting consents to an adjournment, or it appears to the chair of the meeting that an adjournment is necessary to ensure that the business of the meeting is conducted in an orderly manner. The of the meeting must adjourn a General Meeting if directed to do so by Member Representatives holding a simple majority of the nominated voting rights allocated to the Member Representatives present at the meeting. When adjourning a General Meeting, the chair of the meeting must: either specify the time and place to which it is adjourned or state that it is to continue at a time and place to be fixed by the Governing Body; and have regard to any directions as to the time and place of any adjournment which have been given by the meeting. If the continuation of an adjourned meeting is to take place more than 14 days after it was adjourned the Governing Body must give at least 14 clear days’ notice of it (that is, excluding the day of the adjourned meeting and the day on which the notice is given): to the same persons to whom notice of General Meetings is required to be given, and containing the same information which such notice is required to contain. At an adjourned General Meeting only that business that formed the business to be transacted at the original meeting can be transacted. Decision Making at General Meetings Every Member Representative shall have nominated voting rights in the proportions detailed in Clause 3.3.1 of the Constitution: The Chair and Vice-chair of the Governing Body and the Accountable Officer each have one vote at a General Meeting In the case of an equality of votes the chair of the meeting shall be entitled to a casting vote Only the of the Governing Body, the Vice-chair of the Governing Body, the Accountable Officer and the Member Representatives (or their proxies) shall be eligible to vote at a General Meeting. The decision of the Chair of the Governing Body on questions of order, relevancy and regularity and their interpretation of the Constitution, Standing Orders, Scheme of Reservation and Delegation, and Prime Financial Policies at the meeting, shall be final.
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