> On 27/10/20 5:00 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> The Government has announced it proposes to make permanent the >> ability of companies to hold online-only virtual AGM meetings ...
On 30/10/20 9:17 am, Tom Worthington wrote: > I am surprised any legislation is needed for this. ... The usual words used to describe the problem are 'legacy issues' and 'failure to use technologically neutral expression'. Corporations Act s.249L Contents of notice of meetings of members http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca2001172/s249l.html (1) A notice of a meeting of a company's members must: (a) set out the place, date and time for the meeting ... Worse still: s.249R Time and place for meetings of members A meeting of a company's members must be held at a reasonable time and place. And the let-out provisions are partial only, i.e. a place must be used: s.249S Technology A company may hold a meeting of its members at 2 or more venues using any technology that gives the members as a whole a reasonable opportunity to participate. Even more so than before my entanglements with legal processes during the last 12 months over the ACS matter, I suggest that the default assumption needs to always be that 'the law is an ass unless clearly demonstrated otherwise, and even then any expensive lawyer will be able to get a judge to overturn the sensibleness and recover ass-ness'. ___________________ > ... I would have thought > that a meeting by video conference is a "meeting". After all this allows > broader access to meetings than a physical room of limited size does. > When President of the ACS I chaired a meeting of our National Council by > video conference. > > Also it is odd that the Federal Government would be keen for other > organizations to have virtual meetings, when it doesn't want to do so > itself. The National Cabinet was postponed because the Prime Minister > did not want to have it without his staff beside him physically in the > room. Also use of virtual or hybrid meetings of parliament has been > limited. > > -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
