The Investment Bank Special Administration (Scotland) Rules 2011

Resolutions otherwise than at a meeting

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94.—(1) In accordance with this rule, the administrator may seek to obtain the agreement of members of the creditors’ committee to a resolution by sending to every member (or a member’s representative designated for the purpose) a copy of the proposed resolution.

(2) Where the administrator makes use of the procedure allowed by this rule, the administrator shall send out to members of the committee or their representatives (as the case may be) a statement incorporating a copy of any proposed resolution on which a decision is sought, which shall be set out in such a way that agreement with or dissent from each separate resolution may be indicated by the recipient on the copy so sent.

(3) The FSA shall also be sent a statement under paragraph (2).

(4) In a special administration (bank administration), if the statement referred to in paragraph (2) is sent out before the Bank of England has given the Objective A Achievement Notice, the Bank of England shall also be sent the statement.

(5) Any member of the committee may, within 7 business days from the date of the administrator sending out a resolution, require the administrator to summon a meeting of the committee to consider the matters raised by the resolution.

(6) In the absence of such a requirement, the resolution is deemed to have been passed by the committee if and when the administrator is notified in writing by a majority of the members that they concur with it.

(7) A copy of every resolution passed under this rule, and a note that the committee’s concurrence was obtained, shall be kept in the sederunt book.