(1) In this Act "Summary Approval Procedure" means the procedure whereby the following conditions are satisfied: (a) authority for the carrying on of the restricted activity has been conferred by - (i) other than in the case of a merger, a special resolution of the company; or (ii) in the case of a merger, a resolution of each of the merging companies which every member of the company entitled to vote at a general meeting of it has voted in favour of (a "unanimous resolution"); being a special resolution or unanimous resolution passed not more than, subject to subsections (2) and (3), 12 months prior to the commencement of the carrying on by the company, or as the case may be, by each of the merging companies of the activity; and (b) either - (i) the company or, as the case may be, each of the merging companies has forwarded with each notice of the meeting at which the special resolution or other foregoing resolution is to be considered, or