Judicial Appointments Commission Act 2023

Remote meetings of Commission and committees

17. (1) Meetings of the Commission or of a committee may consist of a conference between some or all of the members of the Commission or committee, as the case may be, who are not all in one place, but each of whom is able (directly or by means of electronic communications technology) to speak to each of the others and to be heard by each of the others.

(2) Any decision made, vote taken or other act done by means of a conference referred to in subsection (1) shall be as good and effectual as a decision made, vote taken or other act done by the members concerned would have been if such had been made, taken or done by those members in a meeting of them held in person.

(3) In this section, “electronic communications technology”, means, in relation to a meeting, technology that enables real time transmission and real time two-way audio visual or audio communication.