Chapter:	460	Title:	SECURITY AND GUARDING SERVICES ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 208 of 2000
Section:	5A	Heading:	Transaction of business by the circulation of papers	Version Date:	15/06/2000

(1) The Authority may transact any of its business, other than business specified in subsection (4), by the circulation of papers; and, subject to subsections (2) and (3), a resolution in writing which is approved in writing by a majority of the members of the Authority shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been a resolution passed at a meeting of the Authority by the votes of the members so approving the resolution in writing.
(2) Any member of the Authority may, by notice in writing to the Secretary within 7 days after the date on which the Secretary circulates the papers, require any business which is being transacted by circulation of papers to be transacted at a meeting of the Authority.
(3) Where, in respect of any business being transacted by the circulation of papers, a notice is given to the Secretary under subsection (2), any resolution approved in writing under subsection (1) in respect of the business shall be void.
(4) This section does not apply to the following business of the Authority-

(a) an application for a variation of the conditions of a permit under section 16;
(b) an application for a revocation or suspension of a permit under section 18;
(c) an application for a revocation of a licence under section 25;
(d) an application for a licence, an application for renewal of a licence or an application for variation of the conditions of a licence except as provided in section 20 or that section as applied by section 23(4), or in section 24 or 24A (as the case may be).