Paragraph 14 Meetings

A meeting (including a special meeting) may be summoned at any time by the Chairman or the Trust Secretary at any time or by any two Governors upon not less than one days’ notice being given to the other Governors of the matters to be discussed. Notice of a meeting or of the matters to be discussed at the meeting may be dispensed with by the agreement of a majority of Governors communicated in writing or at the meeting and agreement in writing may be retrospective.

The Governors shall be deemed to be present in meeting if all those due to attend that meeting are able to hear each other by telephone device notwithstanding that they shall not all be physically present in one location.

It shall not be necessary to give notice of any meeting to any Governor who is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom.

A governor who has not been given notice of a meeting or of the matters to be discussed at the meeting, may waive the omission to give notice, in writing or at the meeting, and a waiver in writing may be retrospective.

A special meeting may be summoned to take place immediately after an ordinary meeting.

Except as provided in clause 14(g) below nothing in this clause shall permit the Governors to dispense with the requirement for notice of a meeting to appoint a Governor as set out in clause 10(c) of this Scheme.

An accidental omission to serve notice on any Governor in respect of a meeting shall not invalidate that meeting.

All acts bona fide done by any meeting of the Governors or by any person acting as a Governor shall, notwithstanding that there may have been some defect in the appointment of any such Governor or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them may have been disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and qualified to be a Governor.