Corporate Governance · glossary
The written call to a board meeting, giving its time, place and business. Ordinary business needs seven clear days. For urgent business the chair may give 48 hours, or less if delay would harm the company, and the reason goes in the notice and the minute. Charter §4.2 · Charter §4.3 · Chapter 6 · Chapter 8
Explained in Chapter 6, Meetings, Quorum and the Decision That Did Not Count, of Corporate Governance.
Any director may call a meeting on reasonable notice (Article 9). The Charter says what reasonable means. The Company Secretary gives every director at least seven clear days' written notice, stating the time, the place and the business (paragraph 4.2). Clear days are calendar days, not counting the day of the notice or the day of the meeting.Read Chapter 6, Meetings, Quorum and the Decision That Did Not Count →
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