A board resolution is the written record of a decision the directors took. Most rejected ones fail on the same three points: the authority to decide, the exact wording of what was decided, and evidence the meeting was quorate.
A board resolution is a short written document recording a decision formally taken by a company’s directors — appointing an officer, approving a contract, changing a registered address, authorising a signatory. It is not the meeting record itself; the minutes describe the discussion, the resolution states the decision in the words the company will be held to. Third parties who ask for one — banks, registrars, buyers, funders — are not reading it for the reasoning. They are checking that the people who signed it had the power to decide, and that what was decided is stated precisely enough to act on.
Which is why resolutions get sent back. The decision was real, the directors did agree, and the document still fails because it says the board approved the lease rather than naming the property, the term and who may sign.
Vague operative language is the single biggest cause of a resolution being refused. "The board approved the banking arrangements" tells a bank nothing it can act on; the bank needs to know which account, at which institution, opened by whom, with which people authorised to operate it and under what limits. The same applies to a registrar asked to record a change: the old detail and the new one both have to appear. Write the resolution as though the reader has no other document, because often that is exactly the case.
A resolution is dated when the decision was taken, not when somebody got round to writing it up. If those dates differ, say so — a resolution dated after the act it authorises is a problem that grows quietly until someone examines it in a due diligence process.
A decision taken at a convened meeting requires a quorum and is recorded in the board meeting minutes template alongside the discussion. A written resolution skips the meeting: it is circulated and signed by the directors, usually all of them, and takes effect once the last signature arrives. Written resolutions are ordinary practice for routine approvals and are faster, but they leave no record of anything considered and rejected — so for a decision that may later be scrutinised, a meeting with proper minutes protects the directors better than a signature sheet does.
A board resolution is passed by the directors. Some decisions are not theirs to take — amending the constitution, issuing new shares beyond an existing authority, removing a director, approving certain related-party transactions — and require a shareholder resolution instead, sometimes at a specified majority. Passing the wrong one is not a formatting error: the decision may simply be invalid. When a matter sits near that boundary, the company’s articles and any shareholders agreement decide which is required, and both are worth reading before drafting rather than after.
Resolutions are consulted years later, usually in a hurry, by someone verifying that a signature on an old contract was authorised. Ettex Docs holds the drafts and the version history, so the wording that was approved is distinguishable from the wording someone edited afterwards; the signed copies and the register of what each one authorised sit in Ettex Records, and where every director has to sign a written resolution, Ettex Signature collects the signatures without a round of scanning.
To be direct about the limits: this is document and record keeping, not company secretarial software. There is no statutory filing, no automatic registrar submission and no legal check that a given decision needs a board rather than a shareholder resolution. For anything unusual, the articles and a lawyer decide that, not a template.
A written document recording a decision formally taken by a company’s directors, stated in operative language and signed by the chair or company secretary. It is separate from the minutes, which record the discussion.
At a meeting, no — the chair signs on behalf of a quorate board. A written resolution passed without a meeting normally requires the signature of every director entitled to vote, unless the articles say otherwise.
Usually not, though the change it authorises often does — a change of registered office or of directors is filed with the registrar. The resolution itself is kept in the company’s own records and produced on request.
Minutes record what happened at the meeting, including matters considered and not approved. A resolution states one decision in the exact words the company is bound by, and is the document a third party asks for.
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