Companies (Jersey) Law 1991
Memorandum
and
Articles of Association
of
Granite Finance
Trustees Limited
Registered: 14th February 2001
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Mourant de Feu & Jeune
ADVOCATES, SOLICITORS AND NOTARIES PUBLIC
P.O. Box 87, 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier,
Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel Islands.
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COMPANIES (JERSEY) LAW 1991
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
1. The name of the Company is Granite Finance Trustees Limited.
2. The share capital of the Company is (pound)10,000 divided into 10,000
shares of (pound)1 each.
3. The liability of the members is limited.
WE, THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION, WISH TO BE FORMED INTO A
COMPANY PURSUANT TO THIS MEMORANDUM, AND WE AGREE TO TAKE THE NUMBER OF SHARES
SHOWN OPPOSITE OUR RESPECTIVE NAMES.
Corporate names and Signatures Number of shares
registered offices of for and on behalf take by each
subscribers of subscribers subscriber
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Juris Limited /s/ Signature 5
22 Grenville Street -----------------------
St Helier Director
Jersey JE4 8PX
Channel Islands
Lively Limited /s/ Signature 5
22 Grenville Street -----------------------
St Helier Director
Jersey JE4 8PX
Channel Islands
Witness to the above signatures: /s/ WAYNE GEORGELIN
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Wayne Georgelin
22 Grenville Street
St Helier
Jersey JE4 8PX
Channel Islands
COMPANIES (JERSEY) LAW 1991
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
INTERPRETATION
1. In these Articles, if not inconsistent with the subject to context, the
words in the first column of the following table shall bear the meanings
set opposite to them respectively in the second column.
WORDS MEANINGS
these Articles These Articles of Association in their present
form or as from time to time altered.
auditors Auditors (if any) of the Company appointed
pursuant to these Articles.
bankrupt Shall have the meaning defined in the
Interpretation (Jersey) Law, 1954.
clear days In relation to the period of a notice, shall
mean that period excluding the day when the
notice is served or deemed to be served and
the day for which it is given or on which it
is to take effect.
Directors The directors of the Company for the time
being.
holding company Shall have the meaning defined in the Law.
the Island The Island of Jersey.
the Law The Companies (Jersey) Law 1991.
Member A person whose name is entered in the Register
as the holder of shares in the Company.
month Calendar month.
notice A written notice unless otherwise specifically
stated.
Office The registered office of the Company.
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paid up Shall include credited as paid up.
present in person In relation to general meetings of the Company
and to meetings of the holders of any class of
shares, shall include present by attorney or
by proxy or, in the case of a corporate
shareholder, by representative.
Register The register of Members to be kept pursuant to
Article 26 hereof.
Secretary Any person appointed by the Directors to
perform any of the duties of secretary of the
Company (including a temporary or assistant
secretary), and in the event of two or more
persons being appointed as joint secretaries
any one or more of the persons so appointed.
Special Resolution A resolution of the Company passed as a
special resolution in accordance with the Law.
2. In these Articles, unless there is something in the subject or context
inconsistent with such construction:--
(a) the word "may" shall be construed as permissive and the word "shall"
shall be construed as imperative;
(b) the word "signed" shall be construed as including a signature or
representation of a signature affixed by mechanical or other means;
(c) the words "in writing" shall be construed as including written,
printed, telexed, electronically transmitted or any other mode of
representing or reproducing words in a visible form;
(d) words importing "persons shall be construed as including companies
or associations or bodies of persons whether corporate or
unincorporate;
(e) words importing the singular number shall be construed as including
the plural number and vice versa;
(f) words importing the masculine gender only shall be construed as
including the feminine gender; and
(g) references to enactments are to such enactments as are from time to
time modified, re-enacted or consolidated and shall include any
enactment made in substitution for an enactment that is repealed.
3. The headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction of these Articles.
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PRELIMINARY
4. The preliminary expenses incurred in forming the Company may be discharged
out of the funds of the Company.
5. The business of the Company shall be commenced as soon after the
incorporation of the Company as the Directors think fit.
SHARE CAPITAL AND SHARES
6. The share capital of the Company is as specified in the Memorandum of
Association and the shares of the Company shall have the rights and be
subject to the conditions contained in this Articles.
7. Without prejudice to any special rights for the time being conferred on
the holders of any class of shares (which special rights shall not be
varied or abrogated except with such consent or sanction as is required by
Article 19 hereof and subject to the Law) any share in the Company may be
issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such
restrictions, whether in regard to dividends, return of capital, voting or
otherwise, as the Company may from time to time, by Special Resolution,
determine.
8. Subject to Articles 14 to 17 hereof, the unissued shares for the time
being in the capital of the Company shall be at the disposal of the
Directors, and they may (subject to the provisions of Article 7 hereof)
allot, grant options over, or otherwise dispose of them to such persons at
such times and on such terms as they think proper, but so that no shares
shall be issued at a discount.
9. The Company may issue fractions of shares in accordance with and subject
to the provisions of the Law, provided that:--
(a) a fraction of a share may be taken into account in determining the
entitlement of a Member as regards dividends or on winding up; and
(b) a fraction of a share shall not entitle a Member to a vote in
respect thereof.
10. The Company may:--
(a) issue; or
(b) convert any existing non-redeemable shares (whether issued or not)
into,
shares which are to be redeemed, or are liable to be redeemed at the
option of the Company or the holder thereof, on such terms and in such
manner as may be determined by Special Resolution.
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11. The Company may pay commissions as permitted by the Law. Subject to the
provisions of the Law, any such commission may be satisfied either by the
payment of cash or by the allotment of fully or partly paid shares or
partly in one way and partly in the other.
12. Save as permitted by the Law, the Company shall not give financial
assistance directly or indirectly for the purpose of, or in connection
with, the acquisition made or to be made by any person of any shares in
the Company or its holding company (if any).
13. Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as
holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or
recognise any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any
share, or (except only as these Articles otherwise provided or as by law
required) any interest in any fraction of a share, or any other right in
respect of any share, except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in
the registered holder.
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
14. The Company may, by altering its Memorandum of Association by Special
Resolution, alter its share capital in any manner permitted by the Law.
15. Any new shares created on an increase or other alteration of share capital
shall be issued upon such terms and conditions as the Company in general
meeting shall direct.
16. Unless otherwise directed by the Company in general meeting all new shares
shall be offered to the Members in proportion to the existing shares held
by them. Such offers shall be made by notice specifying the number of
shares to which the Member is entitled and prescribing the period within
which the offer will remain open, and upon the expiry of such period the
offer, if not accepted, shall be deemed to have been declined. All such
shares, if offered to the Members and not taken up by them, shall be
disposed of by the Directors in such manner as the Directors think most
beneficial to the Company.
17. Any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall, unless otherwise
provided by the conditions of issue of the new shares, be considered as
part of the original capital, and the new shares shall be subject to the
provisions of these Articles with reference to the payment of calls,
transfer and transmission of shares, lien or otherwise, applicable to the
existing shares of the Company.
REDUCTION OF SHARE CAPITAL
18. Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may, by Special
Resolution, reduce its share capital in any way.
VARIATION OF RIGHTS
19. Whenever the capital of the Company is divided into different classes of
shares, the special rights attached to any class, unless otherwise
provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, may be varied
or abrogated, either whilst the Company is a going concern or during or in
contemplation of a winding up, with the consent in writing of the
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holders of the majority of the issued shares of that class, or with the
sanction of a resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of
shares of that class, but not otherwise. To every such separate meeting
all the provisions of these Articles and of the Law relating to general
meetings of the Company or to the proceedings thereat shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, except that the necessary quorum shall be two persons holding or
representing at least one-third in nominal amount of the issued shares of
that class but so that if at any adjourned meeting of such holders a
quorum as above defined is not present, those holders who are present in
person shall be a quorum.
20. The special rights conferred upon the holders of any class of shares
issued with preferred or other special rights shall be deemed to be varied
by the reduction of the capital paid up on such shares and by the creation
of further shares ranking in priority thereto, but shall not (unless
otherwise expressly provided by these Articles or by the conditions of
issue of such shares) be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of
further shares ranking after or pari passu therewith.
SHARE CERTIFICATES
21. Every Member shall be entitled:--
(a) without payment, to one certificate for all his shares of each class
and, when part only of the shares comprised in a certificate is sold
or transferred, to a new certificate for the remainder of the shares
so comprised; or
(b) upon payment of such sum for each certificate as the Directors shall
from time to time determine, to several certificates each for one or
more of his shares of any class.
22. Every certificate shall be issued within two months after allotment or
lodgement of transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of
issue shall provide), shall be under seal, and shall specify the shares to
which it relates and the amount paid up thereon and if so required by the
Law, the distinguishing numbers of such shares.
23. In respect of a share held jointly by several persons, the Company shall
not be bound to issue more than one certificate, and delivery of a
certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be
sufficient delivery to all such holders.
24. If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on
payment of such fee and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and
indemnity and the payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Company in
relation thereto as the Directors think fit.
JOINT HOLDERS OF SHARES
25. Where two or more persons are registered as the holders of any share they
shall be deemed to hold the same as joint tenants with the benefit of
survivorship, subject to the following provisions:--
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(a) the Company shall not be bound to register more than four persons as
the joint holders of any share;
(b) the joint holders of any share shall be liable, severally as well as
jointly, in respect of all payments to be made in respect of such
share;
(c) any one of such joint holders may give a good receipt for any
dividend, bonus or return of capital payable to such joint holders;
(d) only the senior of the joint holders of a share shall be entitled to
delivery of the certificate relating to such share or to receive
notices from the Company and any notice given to the senior joint
holder shall be deemed notice to all the joint holders; and
(e) for the purpose of the provisions of this Article, seniority shall
be determined by the order in which the names of the joint holders
appear in the Register.
REGISTER OF MEMBERS
26. The Directors shall keep or cause to be kept at the Office or at such
other place in the Island of Jersey where it is made up, as the Directors
may from time to time determine, a Register in the manner required by the
Law. In each year the Directors shall prepare or cause to be prepared and
filed an annual return containing the particulars required by the Law.
LIEN
27. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not
being a fully paid share) for all monies, whether presently payable or
not, called or payable at a fixed time in respect of such shares; and the
Company shall also have a first and paramount lien on all shares (other
than fully paid shares) registered in the name of a single Member for all
the debts and liabilities of such Member or his estate to the Company,
whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the
Company of any interest of any person other than such Member and whether
the period for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually
commenced or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or
liabilities of such Member or his estate and any other person whether a
Member or not. The Company's lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all
dividends or other monies payable thereon or in respect thereof. The
Directors may resolve that any share shall, for such period as they think
fit, be exempt from the provisions of this Article.
28. The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any
shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless
some monies in respect of which the lien exists are presently payable, and
fourteen days have expired after a notice, stating and demanding payment
of the monies presently payable and giving notice of intention to sell in
default have been served on the holder for the time being of the shares or
the person entitled by reason of his death or bankruptcy to the shares.
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29. The net proceeds of such sale, after payment of the costs of such sale,
shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debt or
liability in respect whereof the lien exists, so far as the same is
presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts
or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to
the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the time of the
sale. For giving effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise a
person to execute an instrument of transfer of the shares sold to purchase
thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares so
transferred and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the
purchase money nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any
irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.
CALL ON SHARES
30. The Directors may, subject to the provisions of these Articles and to any
conditions of allotment, from time to time make calls upon the Members in
respect of any monies unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the
amount of the shares or by way of premium) provided that (except as
otherwise fixed by the conditions of application or allotment) no call on
any share shall be payable within fourteen days of the date appointed for
payment of the last preceding call, and each Member shall (subject to
being given at least fourteen clear days' notice specifying the time or
times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times and
place so specified the amount called on his shares.
31. A call may be made payable by instalments. A call may be postponed or
wholly or in part revoked as the Directors may determine. A call shall be
deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors
authorizing the call was passed.
32. If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day
appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due may be
required to pay interest on the sum from the day appointed for payment
thereof to the time of actual payment at a rate determined by the
Directors not exceeding the rate of ten per cent per annum.
33. Any sum which by or pursuant to the terms of issue of a share becomes
payable upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the
amount of the share or by way of premium, shall, for all the purposes of
these Articles, be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date
on which, by or pursuant to the terms of issue, the same becomes payable,
and in case of non-payment, all the relevant provisions of these Articles
as to payment of interest, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such
sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
34. The Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a
difference between the holders in the amount of calls to be paid and in
the times of payment.
35. The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Member willing to
advance the same, all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid upon
the shares held by him beyond the sums actually called up thereon as a
payment in advance of calls. Any such payment in advance of calls shall
extinguish so far as the same shall extend, the liability upon the shares
in respect of which it is advanced. The Company may pay interest upon
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the money so received, or upon so much thereof as from time to time
exceeds the amount of the calls then made upon the shares in respect of
which it has been received, at such rate as the Directors shall think fit
provided that any amount paid up in advance of calls shall not entitle the
holder of the shares upon which such amount is paid to participate in
respect thereof in any dividend until the same would but for such advance
become presently payable.
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
36. If a Member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on or before the
day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may at any time
thereafter, during such time as any part of such call or instalment
remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the
call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have
accrued and any expenses which may have been incurred by the Company by
reason of such non-payment.
37. The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than fourteen days from
the date of service thereof) on or before which and the place where the
payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that in the
event of non-payment at or before the time and at the place appointed, the
shares on which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
38. If the requirements of any such notice as a aforesaid are not complied
with, any share in respect of which such notice has been given may at any
time thereafter, before payment of all calls and interest due in respect
thereof have been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to
that effect, and such forfeiture shall include all dividends which shall
have been declared on the forfeited shares and not actually paid before
the forfeiture.
39. When any share has been forfeited in accordance with these Articles,
notice of the forfeiture shall forthwith be given to the holder of the
share or the person entitled to the share by transmission, as the case may
be, and an entry of such notice having been given, and of the forfeiture
with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the Register opposite to
the entry of the share; but no forfeiture shall be invalidated in any
manner by any omission or neglect to give such notice or to make such
entry as aforesaid.
40. A forfeited share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of,
either to the person who was before forfeiture the holder thereof or
entitled thereto, or to any other person, upon such terms and in such
manner as the Director think fit, and at any time before a sale,
re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms
as the Directors think fit. The Directors may, if necessary, authorise
some person to transfer a forfeited share to any other person as
aforesaid.
41. A Member whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in
respect of the forfeited shares but shall, notwithstanding the forfeiture,
remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which at the date of
forfeiture were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of the
shares, with interest thereon at a rate determined by the Directors not
exceeding ten per cent per annum from the date of forfeiture until payment
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and the Directors may enforce payment without any allowance for the value
of the shares at time of forfeiture.
42. An affidavit by a Director or the Secretary that a share has been duly
forfeited on the date stated therein shall be conclusive evidence of the
facts so stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the
share and such affidavit and the receipt of the Company for the
consideration (if any) given for the share on the sale, re-allotment or
disposal thereof, together with the certificate for the share delivered to
a purchaser or allottee thereof, shall (subject to the execution of a
transfer if the same be so required) constitute good title to the share
and the person to whom the share is sold, re-allotted or disposed of shall
be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to
the application of the consideration (if any), nor shall his title to the
share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in
respect of the forfeiture, sale, re-allotment or disposal of the share.
43. The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case
of non-payment of any sum which by the terms if issue of a share becomes
payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the amount of the share or
by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call
duly made and notified.
TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
44. All transfers of shares shall be effected by notice (a "Transfer Notice")
in the usual common form or in any other form approved by the Directors.
45. All Transfer Notices shall be signed by or on behalf of the transferor
and, in the case of a partly paid share, by the transferee. The transferor
shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the
transferee is entered on the Register in respect thereof.
46. The Directors may in their absolute discretion, and with assigning any
reason therefor, refuse to register any transfer of shares, including,
without limitation, a transfer of shares to a person of whom they do not
approve and a transfer of shares on which the Company has a lien.
47. The Directors may decline to recognise any Transfer Notice, unless:--
(a) the Transfer Notice is deposited at the Office or such other place
as the Directors may appoint accompanied by the certificate for the
shares to which it relates and such other evidence as the Directors
may reasonably may reasonably require to show the right of the
transferor to make the transfer; and
(b) the Transfer Notice is in respect of only one class of shares.
48. If the Directors refuse to register any transfer of shares they shall,
within two months after the date on which the Transfer Notice was lodged
with the Company, send to the proposed transferor and transferee notice of
the refusal.
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49. All Transfer Notices relating to transfers of shares which are registered
shall be retained by the Company, but any Transfer Notices relating to
transfers of shares which the Directors decline to register shall (except
in any case of fraud) be returned to the person depositing the same.
50. The registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may be
suspended whenever the Directors determine.
51. Unless otherwise decided by the Directors in their sole discretion, no fee
shall be charged in respect of the registration of any probate, letters of
administration, certificate of marriage or death, power of attorney or
other document relating to or affecting the title to any shares.
52. In respect of any allotment of any share the Directors shall have the same
right to decline to approve the registration of any renouncee of any
allottee as if the application to allot and the renunciation were a
transfer of a share under these Articles.
53. In the case of the death of a Member, the survivors or survivor, where the
deceased was a joint holder, and the executors or administrators of the
deceased, where he was a sole or only surviving holder, shall be the only
persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in
the shares, but nothing in this Article shall release the estate of a
deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any share jointly
held by him.
54. Any guardian of an infant Member and any curator or guardian or other
legal representative of a Member under legal disability and any person
becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or insolvency or
bankruptcy of a Member or otherwise by operation of law may, upon such
evidence as to his entitlement being produced as may from time to time be
required by the Directors and subject as hereinafter provided, elect
either to be registered himself as the holder of the share or to have some
person nominated by him registered as the holder thereof.
55. If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered himself,
he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice signed by him stating
that he so elects together with such evidence as to his entitlement as may
from time to time be required by the Directors. If he shall elect to have
another person registered, he shall testify his election by signing a
Transfer Notice in favour of that person. All the limitations,
restrictions and provisions of these Articles relating to the right to
transfer and the registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable
to any such notice or Transfer Notice as aforesaid as would have existed
had such transfer occurred before the death, insolvency or bankruptcy of
the Member concerned.
56. A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or insolvency
or bankruptcy of a Member or otherwise by operation of law shall, upon
such evidence as to his entitlement being produced as may from time to
time be required by the Directors, be entitled to the same dividends and
other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered
holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as
a Member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise
any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company
provided always that
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the Directors at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect
either to be registered himself or to transfer the share and if the notice
is not complied with within one month such person shall be deemed to have
so elected to be registered himself and all the restrictions on the
transfer and transmission of shares contained in these Articles shall
apply to such election.
GENERAL MEETING
57. Unless all of the Members agree in writing to dispense with the holding of
annual general meetings and any such agreement remains valid in accordance
with the Law, the provisions of Article 58 hereof shall apply with regard
to annual general meetings of the Company.
58. An annual general meeting shall be held once in every calendar year,
either in or outside the Island, at such time and place as may be
determined by the Directors; but so long as the Company holds its first
annual general meeting within eighteen months of its incorporation it need
not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year. All
other general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
59. The Directors may whenever they think fit, and upon a requisition made in
writing by Members in accordance with the Law and Directors shall, convene
an extraordinary general meeting of the Company.
60. At any extraordinary general meeting called pursuant to a requisition,
unless such meeting is called by the Directors, no business other than
that stated in the requisition as the objects of the meeting shall be
transacted.
CLASS MEETINGS
61. Save as is provided in this Article and otherwise in these Articles, all
the provisions of these Articles and of the Law relating to general
meetings of the Company and to the proceedings thereat shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to every class meeting. At any class meeting the holders
of shares of the relevant class shall, on a poll, have one vote in respect
of each share of that class held by each of them.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS
62. At least twenty-one clear days' notice shall be given of every annual
general meeting and of every general meeting called for the passing of a
Special Resolution, and at least fourteen clear days' notice shall be
given of all other general meetings. Every notice shall specify the place,
the day and the time of the meeting and in the case of special business,
the general nature of such business, and in the case of an annual general
meeting, shall specify the meeting as such. Notice of every meeting shall
be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned to all the Members and to the
Directors and to the auditors.
63. A meeting of the Company shall, notwithstanding that it is called by
shorter notice than that specified in Article 62 thereof, be deemed to
have been duly called if it is so agreed:-
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(a) in the case of an annual general meeting, by all the Members
entitled to attend and vote thereat; and
(b) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of Members
having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority
together holding not less than ninety-five per cent in nominal value
of the shares giving that right.
64. In every notice calling a meeting of the Company there shall appear with
reasonable prominence a statement that a Member entitled to attend and
vote is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote instead
of him and that a proxy need not also be a Member.
65. It shall be the duty of the Company, subject to the provisions of the Law,
on the calling of a meeting on the requisition in writing of such number
of Members as is specified by the Law:--
(a) to give to the Members entitled to receive notice of general
meetings and to the Directors notice of any resolution which may
properly be moved and which it is intended to move at that meeting;
and
(b) to circulate to Members entitled to have notice of any general
meeting sent to them, any statement of not more than one thousand
words with respect to the matter referred to in any proposed
resolution or the business to be dealt with at that meeting.
66. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt
of notice of a meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not
invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
67. The business of any annual general meeting shall be to receive and
consider the accounts of the Company and the reports of the Directors and
auditors, to elect Directors (if necessary), to elect auditors and fix
their remuneration, to sanction a dividend if thought fit so to do, and to
transact any other business of which notice has been given.
68. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting except the
adjournment of the meeting unless a quorum of Members is present at the
time when the meeting proceeds to business. Such quorum shall consist of
not less than two Members present in person, but so that not less than two
individuals will constitute the quorum, provided that, if at any time all
of the issued shares in the Company are held by one Member, being a
holding company or its nominee, such quorum shall consist of the Member
present in person.
69. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is
not present, or if during the meeting a quorum ceases to be present, the
meeting, if convened by or upon the requisition of Members, shall be
dissolved. If otherwise convened the meeting
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shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time
and place or such day, time and place as the Directors shall determine.
70. The chairman (if any) of the Directors shall preside as chairman at every
general meeting of the Company. If there is no such chairman, or if at any
meeting he is not present the Members present in person shall choose one
of the Directors present to be chairman, or if no Director shall be
present and willing to take the chair the Members present in person shall
choose one of their number to be chairman.
71. The chairman may with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is
present (and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from
time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted
at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the
meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned
for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as
in the case of the original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be
necessary to give any notice of any adjourned meeting or of the business
to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
72. Except where otherwise provided in the Law or in these Articles, all
resolutions shall be adopted if approved by a majority of the votes cast.
In the event of an equality of votes at any general meeting, whether upon
a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman shall not be entitled to a
second or casting vote.
73. At any general meeting every question shall be decided in the first
instance by a show of hands and, unless a poll is demanded by the chairman
or by any Member, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has on a
show of hands been carried or not carried, or carried or not carried by a
particular majority or lost, and an entry to that effect in the minutes of
the meeting shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the
number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such
resolution.
74. If a poll is demanded in the manner mentioned above, it shall be taken at
such time (within twenty-one days) and in such manner as the chairman
directs and the results of such poll shall be deemed to be the resolution
of the Company in general meeting. A poll may be demanded upon the
election of the chairman and upon a question of adjournment and such poll
shall be taken forthwith without adjournment. Any business other than that
upon which a poll has been demanded may proceed pending the taking of the
poll.
75. Minutes of all resolutions and proceedings of general meetings shall be
duly and regularly entered in books kept for that purpose and shall be
available for inspection by a Member during business hours without charge.
A Member may require a copy of any such minutes in such manner, and upon
payment of such sum, as provided in the Law.
76. If a Member is by any means in communication with one or more other
members so that each Member participating in the communication can hear
what is said by any other of them, each Member so participating in the
communication is deemed to be present in person at a meeting with the
other Members so participating, notwithstanding that all the Members so
participating are not present together in the same place. A meeting at
which any or all of the Members participate as aforesaid shall be deemed
to be a general
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meeting of the Company for the purposes of these Articles notwithstanding
any other provisions of these Articles and all of the provisions of these
Articles and of the Law relating to general meetings of the Company and to
the proceedings thereat shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to every such
meeting.
77. A resolution in writing (including a Special Resolution but excluding a
resolution removing an auditor) signed by all Members who would be
entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at a general meeting
at which such a resolution would be proposed, or by their duly appointed
attorneys, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a
general meeting of the Company duly convened and held. Any such resolution
may consist of several documents in the like form each signed by one or
more of the Members or their attorneys and signature in the case of a
corporate body which is a Member shall be sufficient if made by a director
or other duly authorised officer thereof or its duly appointed attorney.
78. (1) On a show of hands every Member present in person shall have one
vote.
(2) Subject to any special voting powers or restrictions for the time
being attached to any shares, as may be specified in the terms of
issue thereof or these Articles, on a poll every Member present in
person shall have one vote for each share held by him.
79. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, such persons shall
not have the right of voting individually in respect of such share but
shall elect one of their number to represent them and to vote whether in
person or by proxy in their name. In default of such election the person
whose name appears first in order in the Register in respect of such share
shall be the only person entitled to vote in respect thereof.
80. A Member for whom a special or general attorney is appointed or who is
suffering from some other legal incapacity or interdiction in respect of
whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction (whether in
the Island of Jersey or elsewhere) in matters concerning legal incapacity
or interdiction may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his
attorney, curator, or other person authorized in that behalf appointed by
that court, and any such attorney, curator or other person may vote by
proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Directors of the authority of
such attorney, curator or other person may be required by the Directors
prior to any vote being exercised by such attorney, curator or other
person.
81. The Directors and the auditors shall be entitled to receive notice of and
to attend and speak at any meeting of Members. Save as aforesaid and as
provided in Article 80 hereof, no person shall be entitled to be present
or take part in any proceedings or vote either personally or by proxy at
any general meeting unless he has been registered as owner of the shares
in respect of which he claims to vote.
82. (1) No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter
except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote
objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at
such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any
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such objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman of
the meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
(2) Where a person is authorised under Article 90 hereof to represent a
body corporate at a general meeting of the Company the Directors or
the chairman of the meeting may require him to produce a certified
copy of the resolution from which he derives his authority.
83. On a poll a Member entitled to more than one vote need not use all his
votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.
84. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of
the appointor or of this attorney duly authorised in writing or if the
appointor is a corporation either under seal or under the hand of an
officer or attorney duly authorised. A proxy need not be a Member.
85. The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other
authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a notarially certified
copy of that power or authority, shall be deposited at the Office within
such time (not exceeding forty-eight hours) before the time for holding
the meeting or adjourned meeting or for the taking of a poll at which the
person named in the instrument proposes to vote as the Directors may from
time to time determine.
86. The instrument appointing a proxy may be in any common form or in any
other form approved by the Directors including the following form:-
"GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
I/We [] of [] being a Member/Members of the above named Company hereby
appoint [] of [] or failing him [] of [] as my/our proxy to vote for
me/us on my/our behalf at the (annual or extraordinary as the case may be)
general meeting of the Company to be held on the [] day of [] and at any
adjournment thereof.
Signed this [] day of []"
87. Unless the contrary is stated thereon the instrument appointing a proxy
shall be as valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the
meeting to which it relates.
88. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall
be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal
or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was
executed provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity or
revocation shall have been received by the Company at the Office before
the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting or the taking of the
poll at which the proxy is used.
89. The Directors may at the expense of the Company send by post or otherwise
to the Members instruments of proxy (with or without provision for their
return prepaid) for use at any general meeting or at any separate meeting
of the holders of any class of shares of
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the Company either in blank or nominating in the alternative any one or
more of the Directors or any other persons. If for the purpose of any
meeting invitations to appoint as proxy a person or one or more of a
number of persons specified in the invitations are issued at the Company's
expense they shall be issued to all (and not to some only) of the Members
entitled to be sent a notice of the meeting and to vote thereat by proxy.
CORPORATE MEMBERS
90. Any body corporate which is a Member may by resolution of its directors or
other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its
representative at any meeting of Members (or of any class of Members) and
the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise on behalf of the
body corporate which he represents the same powers as that body corporate
could exercise if it were an individual.
DIRECTORS
91. The Company may by ordinary resolution determine the maximum and minimum
number of Directors and unless and until otherwise so determined the
minimum number of Directors shall be two. The Company shall keep or cause
to be kept at the Office a register of its Directors in the manner
required by the Law.
92. A Director need not be a Member but shall nevertheless be entitled to
receive notice of and to attend and speak at any general meeting or at any
separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company.
93. The Directors shall be paid out of the funds of the Company their
travelling and other expenses properly and necessarily expended by them in
attending meetings of the Directors or Members or otherwise on the affairs
of the Company. They shall also be paid by way of remuneration for their
services such sum as shall be fixed by resolution of the Company, which
shall be divided between them as they shall agree or, failing agreement,
equally and shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. If any Director
shall be appointed agent or to perform extra services or to make any
special exertions or to go or reside abroad for any of the purposes of the
Company, the Directors may remunerate such Director therefor either by a
fixed sum or by commission or participation in profits or otherwise or
partly one way and partly in another as they think fit, and such
remuneration may be either in addition to or in substitution for his
remuneration hereinbefore provided.
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
94. Any Director may at his sole discretion and at any time and from time to
time appoint any person (other than a person disqualified by law from
being a director of a company) as an alternate Director to attend and vote
in his place at any meetings of Directors at which he is not personally
present. Each Director shall be at liberty to appoint under this Article
more than one alternate Director provided that only one such alternate
Director may at any one time act on behalf of the Director by whom he has
been appointed. Every such appointment shall be effective and the
following provisions shall apply in connection therewith:--
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(a) every alternate Director while he holds office as such shall be
entitled to notice of meetings of Directors and to attend and to
exercise all the rights and privileges of his appointor at all such
meetings at which his appointor is not personally present;
(b) every alternate Director shall ipso facto vacate office if and when
his appointment expires or the Director who appointed him ceases to
be a Director of the Company or removes the alternate Director from
office by notice under his hand served upon the Company;
(c) every alternate Director shall be entitled to be paid all
travelling, hotel and other expenses reasonable incurred by him in
attending meetings. The remuneration (if any) of an alternate
Director shall be payable out of the remuneration payable to the
Director appointing him as may be agreed between them;
(d) a Director may act as alternate Director for another Director and
shall be entitled to vote for such other Director as well as on his
own account, but no Director shall at any meeting be entitled to act
as alternate Director for more than one other Director; and
(e) a Director who is also appointed an alternate Director shall be
considered as two Directors for the purpose of making a quorum of
Directors when such quorum shall exceed two.
95. The instrument appointing an alternate Director may be in any form
approved by the Directors including the following form:--
"GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
I, [] a Director of the above named Company, in pursuance of the power in
that behalf contained in the Articles of Association of the Company, do
hereby nominate and appoint [] of [] to act as alternate Director in my
place at the meeting of the Directors to be held on the [] day of [] and
at any adjournment thereof which I am unable to attend and to exercise all
my duties as a Director of the Company at such meeting.
Signed this [] day of []"
96. Save as otherwise proved in Article 94(b) hereof, any appointment or
removal of an alternate Director shall be by notice signed by the Director
making or revoking the appointment and shall take effect when lodged at
the Office or otherwise notified to the Company in such manner as is
approved by the Directors.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
97. The Directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their number to
be the holder of any executive office on such terms and for such periods
as they may determine. The appointment of any Director to any executive
office shall be subject to termination if he
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ceases to be a Director, but without prejudice to any claim for damages
for breach of any contract of service between him and the Company.
98. The Directors may entrust to and confer upon a Director holding any
executive office any of the powers exercisable by the Directors, upon such
terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they think fit, and
either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and may
from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such
powers.
APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS
99. The first Directors of the Company shall be appointed in writing by the
Subscribers to the Memorandum of Association or by the majority of them;
they shall hold office until they resign or are disqualified in accordance
with Article 103 hereof.
100. Subject to the provisions of Article 91 hereof, the Directors shall have
power at any time and from time to time to appoint any person to be a
Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the
existing Directors. Any Director so appointed shall hold office until he
resigns or is disqualified in accordance with Article 103 hereof.
101. At any general meeting at which a Director retires or is removed from
office the Company shall elect a Director to fill the vacancy, unless the
Company determines to reduce the number of Directors in office. If the
Company in general meeting determines to increase the number of Directors
in office the Company shall elect additional Directors.
102. Seven clear days' notice shall be given to the Company of the intention of
any Member to propose any person for election to the office of Director
provided always that, if the Members present at a general meeting
unanimously consent, the chairman of such meeting may waive the said
notice and submit to the meeting the name of any person duly qualified
and willing to act.
RESIGNATION, DISQUALIFICATION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
103. The Office of a Director shall be vacated if:--
(a) he resigns his office by notice to the Company; or
(b) he ceases to be a Director by virtue of any provision of the Law or
he becomes prohibited or disqualified by law from being a Director;
or
(c) he becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his
creditors generally; or
(d) he is removed from office resolution of the Members.
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POWERS OF DIRECTORS
104. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who may
exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Law or these
Articles required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting, and
the power and authority to represent the Company in all transactions
relating to real and personal property and all other legal or judicial
transactions, acts and matters and before all courts of law shall be
vested in the Directors. If at any time the Company shall determine by
ordinary resolution that there shall be only one Director the business of
the Company shall be managed by the sole Director. The Directors' powers
shall be subject to any regulations of these Articles, to the provisions
of the Law and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with the
aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by the Company
in general meeting, but no regulations made by the Company in general
meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have
been valid if such regulations had not been made.
105. The Directors may, by power of attorney, mandate or otherwise, appoint any
person to be the agent of the Company for such purposes and on such
conditions as they determine, including authority for the agent to
delegate all or any of his powers.
TRANSACTIONS WITH DIRECTORS
106. A Director, including an alternate Director, may hold any other office or
place of profit under the Company (other than the office of auditor) in
conjunction with his office of Director and may act in a professional
capacity to the Company on such terms as to tenure of office, remuneration
and otherwise as the Directors may determine.
107. Subject to the provisions of the Law, and provided that he has disclosed
to the Directors the nature and extent of any of his material interests, a
Director notwithstanding his office:--
(a) may be a party to, or otherwise interested in, any transaction or
arrangement with the Company or in which the Company is otherwise
interested;
(b) may be a director or other officer of, or employed by, or a party to
any transaction or arrangement with, or otherwise interest in, any
body corporate promoted by the Company or in which the Company is
otherwise interested; and
(c) shall not, by reason of his office, be accountable to the Company
for any benefit which he derives from any such office or employment
or from any such transaction or arrangement or from any interest in
any such body corporate and no such transaction or arrangement shall
be liable to be avoided on the ground of any such interest or
benefit.
108. For the purposes of Article 107:--
(a) a general notice given to the Directors that a Director is to be
regarded as having an interest of the nature and extent specified in
the notice in any transaction or
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arrangement in which a specified person or class of persons is
interested shall be deemed to be a disclosure that the Director has
an interest in any such transaction of the nature and extent so
specified; and
(b) an interest of which a Director has no knowledge and of which it is
unreasonable to expect him to have knowledge shall not be treated as
an interest of that Director.
PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
109. The Directors may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and
otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit. Questions arising at
any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes. In case of an
equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. A
Director who is also an alternate Director shall be entitled, in the
absence of the Director whom he is representing, to a separate vote on
behalf of such Director in addition to his own vote. A Director may, and
the Secretary on the requisition of a Director shall, at any time, summon
a meeting of the Directors by giving to each Director and alternate
Director not less than twenty-four hours' notice of the meeting provided
that any meeting may be convened at shorter notice and in such manner as
each Director or his alternate Director shall approve provided further
that unless otherwise resolved by the Directors notices of Directors'
meetings need not be in writing.
110. A meeting of the Directors at which a quorum is present shall be competent
to exercise all powers and discretions for the time being exercisable by
the Directors. The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of
the Directors may be fixed by the Directors, and unless so fixed at any
other number shall be two. If at any time the Company shall determine by
ordinary resolution that there shall be only one Director such quorum
shall be one. For the purposes of this Article and subject to the
provisions of Article 94(e) hereof an alternate Director shall be counted
in a quorum, but so that not less than two individuals will constitute the
quorum.
111. A Director, notwithstanding his interest, may be counted in the quorum
present at any meeting at which he is appointed to hold any office or
place of profit under the Company, or at which the terms of his
appointment are arranged, but he may not vote on his own appointment or
the terms thereof.
112. A Director, notwithstanding his interest, may be counted in the quorum
present at any meeting at which any contract or arrangement in which he is
interest is considered and, subject to the provisions of Articles 107 and
108 hereof, he may vote in respect of any such contract or arrangement.
113. The continuing Directors or a sole continuing Director may act
notwithstanding any vacancies in their number, but, if the number of
Directors is less than the number fixed as the quorum, the continuing
Directors or Director may act only for the purpose of filing vacancies or
of calling a general meeting of the Company. If at any time the Company
shall determine by ordinary resolution that there shall be only one
Director the foregoing provisions of this Article shall not apply. If
there are no Directors or no
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Director is able or willing to act, then any Member or the Secretary may
summon general meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.
114. The Directors may from time to time elect from their number, and remove, a
chairman and/or deputy chairman and/or vice-chairman and determine the
period for which they are to hold office. The chairman, or in his absence
the deputy chairman, or in his absence, the vice-chairman, shall preside
at all meetings of the Directors, but if no such chairman, deputy chairman
or vice-chairman be elected, or if at any meeting the chairman, the deputy
chairman and vice-chairman be not present within five minutes after the
time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one
of their number to be the chairman of the meeting.
115. The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of
such Directors or Director or such other persons as they think fit. Any
committee so formed shall in the exercise of the power so delegated
conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors. The
meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of two or more
persons shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating
the meetings and proceedings of the Directors, so far as the same are
applicable and are not superseded by any regulations made by the Directors
under this Article.
116. If a Director is by any means in communication with one or more other
Directors so that each Director participating in the communication can
hear what is said by any other of them, each Director so participating in
the communication is deemed to be present at a meeting with the other
Directors so participating, notwithstanding that all the Directors so
participating are not present together in the same place.
117. A resolution in writing of which notice has been given to all of the
Directors or to all of the members of a committee appointed pursuant to
Article 115 hereof (as the case may be), if signed by a majority of the
Directors or of the members of such committee (as the case may be), shall
be valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the
Directors or of the relevant committee duly convened and held and may
consist of two or more documents in like form each signed by one or more
of the Directors or members of the relevant committee.
118. All acts done bona fide by any meeting of Directors or of a committee
appointed by the Directors or by any person acting as a Director shall,
notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some
defect in the appointment of any such Director or committee or person
acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified or had
vacated office or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such
person had been duly appointed and was qualified and had continued to be a
Director or a member of a committee appointed by the Directors and had
been entitled to vote.
MINUTE BOOK
119. The Directors shall cause all resolutions in writing passed in accordance
with Articles 77 and 117 hereof and minutes of proceedings at all general
meetings of the Company or of the holders of any class of the Company's
shares and of the Directors and of committees
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appointed by the Directors to be entered in books kept for the purpose.
Any minutes of a meeting, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of
the meeting or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting, shall be
evidence of the proceedings.
SECRETARY
120. The Secretary shall be appointed by the Directors and any secretary so
appointed may be removed by the Directors. Anything required or authorised
to be done by or to the Secretary may, if the office is vacant or there is
for any other reason no secretary capable of acting, be done by or to any
assistant or deputy secretary or if there is no assistant or deputy
secretary capable of acting, by or to any officer of the Company
authorised generally or specially in that behalf by the Directors provided
that any provisions of these Articles requiring or authorising a thing to
be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by
its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as, or
in place of, the Secretary. The Company shall keep or cause to be kept at
the Office a register of particulars with regard to its Secretary in the
manner required by the Law.
SEALS
121. The Company shall have a common seal and may in accordance with the Law
have an official seal for use outside of the Island and an official seal
for sealing securities issued by the Company or for sealing documents
creating or evidencing securities so issued.
122. The Directors shall provide for the safe custody of all seals and no seal
shall be used except by the authority of a resolution of the Directors or
of a committee of the Directors authorised in that behalf by the
Directors.
123. The Directors may from time to time make such regulations as they think
fit determining the persons and the number of such person who shall sign
every instrument to which a seal is affixed and until otherwise so
determined every such instrument shall be signed by one Director and shall
be countersigned by the Secretary or by a second Director. The Company
may, in writing under its common seal, authorise an agent appointed for
the purpose to affix any official seal to a document to which the Company
is a party.
AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS
124. Any Director or the Secretary or any person appointed by the Directors for
the purpose shall have power to authenticate any documents affecting the
constitution of the Company (including the Memorandum of Association and
these Articles) and any resolutions passed by the Company or the Directors
and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of
the Company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true
copies or extracts; and where books, records, documents or accounts are
elsewhere than at the Office, the local manager or other officer of the
company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be a person
appointed by the Directors as aforesaid.
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DIVIDENDS
125. Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may by resolution
declare dividends in accordance with the respective rights of the Members,
but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the Directors.
126. Subject to any particular rights or limitations as to dividend for the
time being attached to any shares, as may be specified in these Articles
or upon which such shares may be issued, all dividends shall be declared,
apportioned and paid pro-rata according to the amounts paid up on the
shares (otherwise than in advance of calls) during any portion or portions
of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid.
127. Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Directors may, if they think
fit, from time to time pay to Members such interim dividends as appear to
the Directors to be justified.
128. If at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different
classes, the Directors may pay interim dividends in respect of those
shares in the capital of the Company which confer on the holders thereof
deferred or non-preferred rights, as well as in respect of those shares
which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to
dividend. The Directors may also pay half-yearly, or at other suitable
intervals to be settled by them, any dividend which may be payable at a
fixed rate if they are of the opinion that the profits of the Company
justify the payment. Provided the Directors act bona fide they shall not
incur any personal liability to the holders of shares conferring a
preference for any damage that they may suffer by reason of the payment of
an interim dividend on any shares having deferred or non-preferred rights.
129. The Directors may deduct from any dividend or other monies payable to any
Member on or in respect of a share all sums of money (if any) presently
payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise in relation
to the shares of the Company.
130. All unclaimed dividends may be invested or otherwise made use of by the
Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed. No dividend shall
bear interest as against the Company.
131. Any dividend which has remained unclaimed for a period of ten years from
the date of declaration thereof shall, if the Directors so resolve, be
forfeited and cease to remain owing by the Company and shall thenceforth
belong to the Company absolutely.
132. Any dividend or other monies payable on or in respect of a share may be
paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post to the registered address
of the Member or person entitled thereto, and in the case of joint holders
to any one of such joint holders, or to such person and to such address as
the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or
warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is
sent or to such other person as the holder or joint holders may in writing
direct, and payment of the cheque or warrant shall be a good discharge to
the Company. Every such cheque or warrant shall be sent at the risk of the
person entitled to the money represented thereby.
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133. A general meeting declaring a dividend may, upon the recommendation of the
Directors, direct payment of such dividend wholly or in part by the
distribution of specific assets, and in particular of paid up shares or
debentures of any other company, and the Directors shall give effect to
such resolution; and where any difficulty arises in regard to the
distribution they may settle the same as they think expedient, and in
particular may issue certificates representing part of a shareholding or
fractions of shares, and may fix the value or distribution of such
specific assets or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payment
shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed, in
order to adjust the rights of Members, and may vest any specific assets in
trustees upon trust for the persons entitled to the dividend as may seem
expedient to the Directors, and generally may make such arrangements for
the allotment, acceptance and sale of such specific assets or certificates
representing part of a shareholding or fractions of shares, or any part
thereof, and otherwise as they think fit.
134. Any resolution declaring a dividend on the shares of any class, whether a
resolution of the Company in general meeting or a resolution of the
Directors, or any resolution of the Directors for the payment of a fixed
dividend on a date prescribed for the payment thereof, may specify that
the same shall be payable to the persons registered as the holders of
shares of the class concerned at the close of business on a particular
date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the
resolution is passed (or, as the case may be, that prescribed for payment
of a fixed dividend), and thereupon the dividend shall be payable to them
in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without
prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend of
transferors and transferees of any shares of the relevant class.
RESERVE FUND
135. Before the declaration of a dividend the Directors may set aside any part
of the net profits of the Company to create a reserve fund, any may apply
the same either by employing it in the business of the Company or by
investing it in such a manner (not being the purchase of or by way of loan
upon the shares of the Company) as they think fit. Such reserve fund may
be applied for the purpose of maintaining the property of the Company,
replacing wasting assets, meeting contingencies, forming an insurance
fund, or equalising dividends or special dividends, or for any other
purpose for which the net profits of the Company may lawfully be used, and
until the same shall be applied it shall remain undivided profits. The
Directors may also carry forward to the accounts of the succeeding year or
years any balance of profit which they do not think fit either or divide
or to place to reserve.
SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT
136. There shall be transferred to a share premium account, as required by the
Law, the amount or value of any premium paid up on shares issued by the
Company and the sums for the time being standing to the credit of the
share premium account shall be applied only in accordance with the Law.
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CAPITALISATION
137. The Company may, upon the recommendation of the Directors, resolve that it
is desirable to capitalise any undistributed profits of the Company
(including profits carried and standing to any reserve or reserves) not
required for paying the fixed dividends on any shares entitled to fixed
preferential dividends with or without further participation in profits,
or any sum carried to reserve as a result of the sale or revaluation of
the assets of the Company (other than goodwill) or any part thereof or,
subject as hereinafter provided, any sum standing to the credit of the
Company's share premium account or capital redemption reserve fund and
accordingly that the Directors be authorised and directed to appropriate
the profits or sum resolved to be capitalised to the Members in the
proportion in which such profits or sum would have been divisible amongst
them had the same been applicable and had been applied in paying
dividends, and to apply such profits or sum on their behalf, either in or
towards paying up the amounts, if any, for the time being unpaid on any
shares held by such Members respectively, or in paying up in full either
at par or at such premium as the said resolution may provide, any unissued
shares or debentures of the Company, such shares or debentures to be
allotted and distributed, credited as fully paid up, to and amongst such
Members in the proportions aforesaid, or partly in one way and partly in
the other provided that the share premium account and the capital
redemption reserve fund and any unrealised profits may not be applied in
the paying up of any debentures of the Company.
138. Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed, the
Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the profits or
sum resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of
the fully paid shares or debentures, if any, and generally shall do all
acts and things required to give effect thereto, with full power to the
Directors to make such provision by the issue of certificates representing
part of a shareholding or fractions of shares or by payments in cash or
otherwise as they think fit in the case of shares or debentures becoming
distributable in fractions, and also to authorise any person to enter on
behalf of all the Members entitled to the benefit of such appropriations
and applications into an agreement with the Company providing for the
allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid up, of any further
shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such
capitalisation, and any agreement made under such authority shall be
effective and binding on all such Members.
ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT
139. The Company shall keep accounting records and the Directors shall prepare
accounts of the Company, made up to such date in each year as the
Directors shall from time to time determine, in accordance with and
subject to the provisions of the Law.
140. No Member shall have any right to inspect any accounting records or other
book or document of the Company except as conferred by the Law or
authorised by the Directors or by resolution of the Company.
141. The Directors, or the Company by resolution in general meeting, may from
time to time appoint auditors for any period or periods to examine the
accounts of the Company and to report thereon in accordance with the Law.
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NOTICES
142. Any notice to be given to or by any person pursuant to these Articles
shall be in writing, save as provided in Article 109 hereof. In the case
of joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that one of the
join holders whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the
joint holding and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the
joint holders.
143. Any notice may be posted to or left at the registered address of any
person, and any notice so posted shall be deemed to be served one clear
day after the day it was posted.
144. Any Member present in person at any meeting of the Company shall, for all
purposes, be deemed to have received due notice of such meeting and, where
requisite, of the purposes for which such meeting was convened.
145. Any notice or document served on a Member shall, notwithstanding that such
Member be then dead or bankrupt and whether or not the Company has notice
of his death or bankruptcy, be deemed to have been duly served on such
Member as sole or joint holder, unless his name shall at the time of the
service of the notice or document have been removed from the Register, and
such service shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service of such
notice or document on all persons interested (whether jointly with or as
claiming through or under him) in the shares of such Member.
146. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of these Articles, any notice to be
given by the Company to a Director or to a Member may be given in any
manner agreed in advance by any such Director or Member.
WINDING UP
147. Subject to any particular rights or limitations for the time being
attached to any shares, as may be specified in these Articles or upon
which such shares may be issued, if the Company is wound up, the assets
available for distribution among the Members shall be applied first in
repaying to the Members the amount paid up on their shares respectively,
and if such assets shall be more than sufficient to repay to the Members
the whole amount paid up on their shares, the balance shall be distributed
among the Members in proportion to the amount which at the time of the
commencement of the winding up had been actually paid up on their said
shares respectively.
148. If the Company is wound up, the Company may, with the sanction of a
Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Law, divide the
whole or any part of the assets of the Company among the Members in specie
and the liquidator or, where there is no liquidator, the Directors, may,
for that purpose, value any assets and determine how the division shall be
carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members, and
with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of the assets in
trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as he with the
like sanction determines, but no Member shall be compelled to accept any
assets upon which there is a liability.
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INDEMNITY
149. In so far as the Law allows, every present or former officer of the
Company shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against any
loss or liability incurred by him by reason of being or having been such
an officer.
NON-APPLICATION OF STANDARD TABLE
150. The regulations constituting the Standard Table in the Companies (Standard
Table) (Jersey) Order 1992 shall not apply to the Company.
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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
INDEX
ARTICLE PAGE NO.
Account and Audit ........................................................... 25
Alteration of Share Capital ................................................. 4
Alternate Directors ......................................................... 16
Appointment of Directors .................................................... 18
Authentication of Documents ................................................. 22
Calls on Shares ............................................................. 7
Capitalisation .............................................................. 25
Class Meetings .............................................................. 11
Corporate Members ........................................................... 16
Directors ................................................................... 16
Dividends ................................................................... 23
Executive Directors ......................................................... 17
Forfeiture of Shares ........................................................ 8
General Meetings ............................................................ 11
Indemnity ................................................................... 27
Interpretation .............................................................. 1
Joint Holders of Shares ..................................................... 5
Lien ........................................................................ 6
Minute Book ................................................................. 21
Non-Application of Standard Table ........................................... 27
Notice of General Meetings .................................................. 11
Notices ..................................................................... 26
Powers of Directors ......................................................... 19
Preliminary ................................................................. 3
Proceedings at General Meetings ............................................. 12
Proceedings of Directors .................................................... 20
Reduction of Share Capital .................................................. 4
Register of Members ......................................................... 6
Reserve Fund ................................................................ 24
Resignation, Disqualification and Removal of Directors ...................... 18
Seals ....................................................................... 22
Secretary ................................................................... 22
Share Capital and Shares .................................................... 3
Share Certificates .......................................................... 5
Share Premium Account Account ............................................... 24
Transactions with Directors ................................................. 19
Transfer and Transmission of Shares ......................................... 9
Variation of Rights ......................................................... 4
Winding up .................................................................. 26
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SIGNATURES FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE MEMORANDUM OF
ASSOCIATION
Juris Limited /s/
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Director
Lively Limited /s/
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Director
Witness to the above signatures: /s/ WAYNE GEORGELIN
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Wayne Georgelin
22 Grenville Street
St Helier
Jersey JE4 8PX
Channel Islands