Meetings held before the end of 31 December 2021

2.  The 2001 Regulations are to be read as if after regulation 2 there were inserted—

“Remote attendance at meetings

2A.— (1) A meeting of a forum or a committee of a forum may be held by means of any equipment or any other facility which enables persons who are not in the same place to speak to and to be heard by each other (whether or not the equipment or facility also enables those persons to see each other).

(2) In these Regulations, references to the attendance or presence of a person at a meeting includes, in relation to a meeting which is held by the means described in paragraph (1), attendance by the use of those means.”