19.1 The Directors may by resolution appoint an Executive Committee consisting of such member or members of the Board as they think fit, which Committee shall have, and may exercise during the intervals between the meetings of the Board, all the powers vested in the Board except the power to fill vacancies in the Board, the power to remove a Director, the power to change the membership of or fill vacancies in said Committee or any other committee of the Board and such other powers, if any, as may be specified in the resolution or any subsequent Directors’ resolution. The said Committee shall keep regular minutes of its transactions and shall cause them to be recorded in books kept for that purpose, and shall report the same to the Board at such times as the Board may from time to time require. The Board shall have the power at any time to revoke or override the authority given to or acts done by the Executive Committee except as to acts done before such revocation or overriding and to terminate the appointment or change the membership of such Committee and to fill vacancies in it.
19.2 The Directors may by resolution appoint one or more other committees consisting of such member or members of the Board as they think fit and may delegate to any such committee between meetings of the Board such powers of the Board (except the power to fill vacancies in the Board, the power to remove a Director, the power to change the membership of or fill vacancies in any committee of the Board and the power to appoint or remove officers appointed by the Board) subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in such resolution or any subsequent Directors’ resolution, and all committees so appointed shall keep regular minutes of their transactions and shall cause them to be recorded in books kept for that purpose, and shall report the same to the Board at such times as the Board may from time to time require. The Directors shall also have power at any time to revoke or override any authority given to or acts to be done by any such committee except as to acts done before such revocation or overriding and to terminate the appointment or change the membership of a committee and to fill vacancies in it.
19.3 Any committee appointed under this Part, in the exercise of the powers delegated to it, must conform to any rules that may from time to time be imposed on it by the Directors. Committees appointed under this Part may make rules for the conduct of their business and may appoint such assistants as they may deem necessary. A majority of the members of a committee shall constitute a quorum thereof.
PART 20
OFFICERS
20.1 The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such officers, if any, as the Directors shall determine and the Directors may at any time terminate or vary any such appointment. No officer shall be appointed unless he is qualified in accordance with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act.
20.2 One person may hold more than one position as an officer of the Company. Any person appointed as the Chair of the Board or as the Managing Director must be a Director; save as aforesaid, no other officer need be a Director.
20.3 The remuneration of the officers of the Company as such and the terms and conditions of their tenure of office or employment shall from time to time be determined by the Directors. Such remuneration may be by way of salary, fees, wages, commission or participation in profits or any other means or all of these modes and an officer may in addition to such remuneration be entitled to receive after he ceases to hold such office or leaves the employment of the Company a gratuity, pension or retirement allowance.
20.4 The Directors may decide what functions and duties each officer shall perform and may entrust to and confer upon him any of the powers exercisable by the Directors upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as the Directors think fit and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such functions, duties and powers.
PART 21
INDEMNITY AND PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
21.1 Subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act, the Directors shall cause the Company to indemnify a Director, officer or alternate Director or a former Director, officer or alternate Director of the Company or a person who, at the request of the Company, is or was a director, alternate director or officer of another corporation, at a time when the corporation is or was an affiliate of the Company or a person who, at the request of the Company, is or was, or holds or held a position equivalent to that of, a director, alternate director or officer of a partnership, trust, joint venture or other unincorporated entity (in each case, an “eligible party”), and the heirs and personal representatives of any such eligible party, against all judgments, penalties or fines awarded or imposed in, or an amount paid in settlement of, a legal proceeding or investigative action (whether current, threatened, pending or completed) in which such eligible party or any of the heirs and personal representatives of such eligible party, by reason of such eligible party being or having been a Director, alternate Director or officer or holding or having held a position equivalent to that of a Director, alternate Director or officer, is or may be joined as a party or is or may be liable for or in respect of a judgment, penalty or fine in, or expenses related to the proceeding. Provided the Company first receives a written undertaking from the eligible party to repay amounts advanced if so required under the Business Corporations Act, the Directors shall cause the Company to pay, as they are incurred in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding, the costs, charges and expenses, including legal and other fees actually and reasonably incurred by the eligible party in respect of the proceeding.
After the final disposition of the proceeding, the Directors shall cause the Company to pay the expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the eligible party in respect of the proceeding, to the extent the eligible party has not already been reimbursed for such expenses, subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act. Each Director, alternate Director and officer of the Company on being elected or appointed shall be deemed to have contracted with the Company on the terms of the foregoing indemnity.
21.2 Subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act, the Company may indemnify any person.
21.3 The failure of a Director, alternate Director or officer of the Company to comply with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act or these Articles shall not invalidate any indemnity to which he is entitled under this Part.
21.4 The Directors may cause the Company to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any person (or his heirs or legal personal representatives) who is or was a Director, officer, alternate Director, employee or agent of the Company or a person who, at the request of the Company, is or was a director, alternate director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, at a time when the corporation is or was an affiliate of the Company or a person who, at the request of the Company, is or was or holds or held a position equivalent to that of a director, alternate director, officer, employee or agent of a partnership, trust, joint venture or other unincorporated entity and the person’s heirs or personal representatives against any liability incurred by the person as such Director, alternate Director, director, alternate director, officer, employee, agent or person who holds or held such equivalent position.
PART 22
DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
22.1 The provisions of this Part 22 are subject to the rights, if any, of shareholders holding shares with special rights as to dividends.
22.2 Subject to the Business Corporations Act, the Directors may from time to time and at any time declare and authorize payment of such dividends on such class or series of shares of the Company as they may deem advisable, to the exclusion of any other class or series of shares.
22.3 The Directors need not give notice to any shareholder of any declaration under Article 22.2.
22.4 The Directors may set a date as the record date for the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend. The record date must not precede the date on which the dividend is to be paid by more than two months. If no record date is set, the record date is 5:00 p.m. local time at the place of the registered office of the Company on the date on which the Directors pass the resolution declaring the dividend.
22.5 A resolution declaring a dividend may direct payment of the dividend wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets or of fully paid shares or of bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company, or in any one or more of those ways.
22.6 If any difficulty arises in regard to a distribution under Article 22.5, the Directors may settle the difficulty as they deem appropriate, and, in particular, may:
| (a) | set the value for distribution of specific assets; | |
| (b) | determine that cash payments in substitution for all or any part of the specific assets to which any shareholders are entitled may be made to any shareholders on the basis of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties; and |
| (c) | vest any such specific assets in trustees for the persons entitled to the dividend. | |
22.7 | Any dividend may be made payable on such date as is fixed by the Directors. | |
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22.8 All dividends on shares of any class or series of shares must be declared and paid according to the number of such shares held.
22.9 If several persons are joint shareholders of any share, any one of them may give an effective receipt for any dividend, bonus or other money payable in respect of the share.
22.10 | No dividend bears interest against the Company. |
22.11 If a dividend to which a shareholder is entitled includes a fraction of the smallest monetary unit of the currency of the dividend, that fraction may be disregarded in making payment of the dividend and that payment represents full payment of the dividend.
22.12 Any dividend or other distribution payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque, made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent, and mailed to the address of the shareholder, or in the case of joint shareholders, to the address of the joint shareholder who is first named on the central securities register, or to the person and to the address the shareholder or joint shareholders may direct in writing. The mailing of such cheque shall, to the extent of the sum represented by the cheque (plus the amount of the tax or other amount required by law to be deducted), discharge all liability for the dividend unless such cheque is not paid on presentation or the amount of such tax or other amount so deducted is not paid to the appropriate taxing or other authority.
22.13 Notwithstanding anything contained in these Articles, the Directors may from time to time capitalize any surplus of the Company and may from time to time issue, as fully paid, shares or any bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company as a dividend representing the surplus or any part of the surplus.
PART 23
DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND REPORTS
23.1 The Directors must cause adequate accounting records to be kept to record properly the financial affairs and condition of the Company and to comply with the Business Corporations Act.
23.2 Unless the Directors determine otherwise, or unless otherwise determined by ordinary resolution, no shareholder of the Company is entitled to inspect or obtain a copy of any accounting records of the Company.
PART 24
NOTICES
24.1 Unless the Business Corporations Act or these Articles provides otherwise, a notice, statement, report or other record required or permitted by the Business Corporations Act or these Articles to be sent by or to a person may be sent by any one of the following methods:
(a) | mail addressed to the person at the applicable address for that person as follows: | |
| (i) | for a record mailed to a shareholder, the shareholder’s registered address; |
| (ii) | for a record mailed to a Director or officer, the prescribed address for mailing shown for the Director or officer in the records kept by the Company or the mailing address provided by the recipient for the sending of that record or records of that class; and | |
| (iii) | in any other case, the mailing address of the intended recipient; | |
(b) | delivery at the applicable address for that person as follows, addressed to the person: | |
| (i) | for a record delivered to a shareholder, the shareholder’s registered address; | |
| (ii) | for a record delivered to a Director or officer, the prescribed address for delivery shown for the Director or officer in the records kept by the Company or the delivery address provided by the recipient for the sending of that record or records of that class; and | |
| (iii) | in any other case, the delivery address of the intended recipient; | |
(c) | sending the record by fax to the fax number provided by the intended recipient for the sending of that record or records of that class; | |
(d) | sending the record by email to the email address provided by the intended recipient for the sending of that record or records of that class; or | |
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(e) | physical delivery to the intended recipient. |
24.2 A record that is mailed to a person by ordinary mail to the applicable address for that person referred to in Article 24.1 is deemed to be received by the person to whom it was mailed on the day, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excepted, following the date of mailing.
24.3 A certificate signed by the Secretary, if any, or other officer of the Company or of any other corporation acting in that behalf for the Company stating that a notice, statement, report or other record was addressed as required by Article 24.1, prepaid and mailed or otherwise sent as permitted by Article 24.1 is conclusive evidence of that fact.
24.4 A notice, statement, report or other record may be provided by the Company to the joint shareholders of a share by providing the notice to the joint shareholder first named in the central securities register in respect of the share.
24.5 A notice, statement, report or other record may be provided by the Company to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death, bankruptcy or incapacity of a shareholder by:
(a) | mailing the record, addressed to them: | |
| (i) | by name, by the title of the legal personal representative of the deceased or incapacitated shareholder, by the title of trustee of the bankrupt shareholder or by any similar description; and |
| (ii) | at the address, if any, supplied to the Company for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled; or |
(b) | if an address referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) has not been supplied to the Company, by giving the notice in a manner in which it might have been given if the death, bankruptcy or incapacity had not occurred. |
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PART 25
SEAL
25.1 Except as provided in Articles 25.2 and 25.3, the Company’s seal, if any, must not be impressed, affixed or otherwise reproduced on any record except when that impression is attested by the signatures of:
(a) | any two Directors; | |
(b) | any officer, together with any Director; | |
(c) | if the Company only has one Director, that Director; or | |
(d) | any one or more Directors or officers or persons as may be determined by the Directors. |
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25.2 For the purpose of certifying under seal a certificate of incumbency of the Directors or officers of the Company or a true copy of any resolution or other document, despite Article 25.1, the impression of the seal may be attested by the signature of any Director or officer.
25.3 The Directors may authorize the seal to be impressed or otherwise reproduced by third parties on share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company as they may determine appropriate from time to time. To enable the seal to be impressed or otherwise reproduced on any share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company, whether in definitive or interim form, on which facsimiles of any of the signatures of the Directors or officers of the Company are, in accordance with the Business Corporations Act or these Articles, printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced, there may be delivered to the person employed to engrave, lithograph or print such definitive or interim share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities one or more unmounted dies or images reproducing the seal and the Chair of the Board or any senior officer together with the Secretary, Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer, an Assistant Secretary, an Assistant Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary-Treasurer may in writing authorize such person to cause the seal to be impressed or otherwise reproduced on such definitive or interim share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities by the use of such dies. Share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities to which the seal has been so impressed or otherwise reproduced are for all purposes deemed to be under and to bear the seal impressed or otherwise reproduced on them.
PART 26
PROHIBITIONS
26.1 | In this Part 26: | |
| (a) | “designated security” means: | |
| (i) | a voting security of the Company; | |
| (ii) | a security of the Company that is not a debt security and that carries a residual right to participate in the earnings of the Company or, on the liquidation or winding up of the Company, in its assets; or |
| (iii) | a security of the Company convertible, directly or indirectly, into a security described in paragraph (i) or (ii); |
| (b) | “security” has the meaning assigned in the Securities Act (British Columbia); | |
| (c) | “voting security” means a security of the Company that: | |
| (i) | is not a debt security; and | |
| (ii) | carries a voting right either under all circumstances or under some circumstances that have occurred and are continuing. |
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26.2 Article 26.3 does not apply to the Company if and for so long as it is a public company or a pre-existing reporting company which has the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions as part of its Articles or to which the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions apply.
26.3 No share or designated security may be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of without the consent of the Directors and the Directors are not required to give any reason for refusing to consent to any such sale, transfer or other disposition.