As Secretary dealing with the work of an important Committee:

(a) Explain how you could find out quickly the date of the meeting on which a certain topic was first discussed.

(b) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a loose-leaf minute book compared with a bound one.

(c) An item in the minutes of the last meeting (already recorded in·the minute book) is inaccurate. Explain how it can be put right and under which item on the agenda the matter should be raised.

(d) Comment on the difference between 'postponing' and 'adjourning'
a meeting.
(LCC Private Secretary's Certificate)