Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020
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Remote meetings of unincorporated body | ||
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30. (1) For the duration of the interim period, and notwithstanding anything contained in the rules (howsoever described) of the body, the validity of a meeting of the members of an unincorporated body, or of a vote taken, decision made or other act done by such members at a meeting, shall not be affected by virtue only of the fact that the meeting concerned was held in accordance with subsection (2) and not held in person. | ||
(2) A meeting referred to in subsection (1) is held in accordance with this subsection where the members participating in the meeting are not all in the one place, but each member is able, directly or by means of electronic communications technology, to speak to, and to be heard by, each of the other members. | ||
(3) The Government may, on the request of the Minister made after consultation with the Minister for Health, from time to time, by order extend the interim period for such period as they consider appropriate if they are satisfied that the making of such order is in the public interest having regard to the— | ||
(a) threat to public health presented by Covid-19, | ||
(b) highly contagious nature of that disease, and | ||
(c) need, in order to prevent, limit, minimize or slow the spread of Covid-19, to ensure that unnecessary physical contact between persons is avoided. | ||
(4) In this section— | ||
“Covid-19” means a disease caused by infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2 and specified as an infectious disease in accordance with Regulation 6 of, and the Schedule to, the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 ( S.I. No. 390 of 1981 ) or any variant of the disease so specified as an infectious disease in those Regulations; | ||
“electronic communications technology”, in relation to a meeting referred to in subsection (1), means technology that enables real time transmission and real time two-way audio-visual or audio communication; | ||
“interim period” means— | ||
(a) the period of 3 months commencing on the coming into operation of this section, or | ||
(b) such other period (if any) as may be specified by order under subsection (3). |