Subject to the articles, anything sent or supplied by or to the Party under the articles may be sent or supplied in any way in which the Companies Act 2006 provides for documents or information which are authorised or required by any provision of that act to be sent or supplied by or to the Party.
Any notice, document or information (including a Trusteeship form) which is sent or supplied by the Party shall be delivered by hand or sent by first class post or recorded delivery or by e-mail.
It shall be deemed to have been delivered:
- if delivered by hand: on the day of delivery;
- if sent by post to the correct address: within 72 hours of posting;
- if sent by e-mail to the address from which the receiving party has last sent e-mail: within 48 hours if no notice of non-receipt has been received by the sender.
In proving such receipt it shall be sufficient to show that such notice, document or information was properly addressed and, in the case of post, pre-paid and posted.
The accidental failure to send, or the non-receipt by any person entitled to, any notice of or other document or information relating to any meeting or other proceeding shall not invalidate that meeting or proceeding.
Subject to the articles, any notice or document to be sent or supplied to a Party Secretary in connection with the taking of decisions by Party Secretaries may also be sent or supplied by the means by which that Party Secretary has asked to be sent or supplied with such notices or documents for the time being.
A Party Secretary may agree with the Party that notices, documents or information sent to that Party Secretary in a particular way are to be deemed to have been received within a specified time of their being sent, and for the specified time to be less than that provided in this article.
Except as provided by law or authorised by the Party Secretaries or an ordinary resolution of the Secreterial Committee, no person is entitled to inspect any of the Party's accounting or other records or documents merely by virtue of being a Member. However, the Committee is urged to be reasonable and apply transparency wherever that will not harm the Membership, and the Committee of Resolutions is authorised to override the decisions of the Secretarial Committee if advised to do so by the Secretary of the Financial Working Group or any other Treasury member.