Memorandum of Association

69 The Council may delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of such persons as the Council may think fit. All such committees shall, in the exercise of powers so delegated, conform to any regulations imposed on them by the Council. The meetings and proceedings of all committees shall be governed by the provisions of the Articles for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Council so far as applicable and except where these Articles or any regulations of the Council otherwise provide. All committees shall fully report their acts and proceedings to the Council as soon as is reasonably practicable.

70 All acts bona fide done by the Council or any of its committees, or by any person acting as a member of Council, shall, despite the later discovery that there was some defect in the appointment or continuance in office of any member of Council or of any committee or that any member of Council was disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed, had duly continued in office and was qualified to be a member of Council or member of the relevant committee.

71 The Council shall cause proper minutes to be made of the proceedings of all meetings of the Society, the Council and its committees, and all business transacted at such meetings. Any such minutes, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of the meeting or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting, shall be sufficient evidence without any further proof of the facts stated in the minutes.

72 The Council may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its body, but, if and so long as its number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to the Articles as the necessary quorum of members of the Council, the Council may act for the purpose of increasing the number of members of Council to that number or of summoning a General Meeting of the Society but for no other purpose.

3 A resolution in writing of the Council or of any of its committees signed or approved by letter or electronic communication by all the members of Council or all the members of the committee entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the Council or of its committees shall be as valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Council or (as the case may be) its committees duly convened and held. Such a resolution may consist of several documents in the same form, each signed or approved by one or more members of Council or members of the committees of the Council, as the case may be.