EXHIBIT 1.1
THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50
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PRIVATE COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
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MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
**ST ASSEMBLY TEST SERVICES LTD
*(formerly known as
ANAM/AMKOR ST PTE LTD)
1. The name of the Company is ** ST Assembly Test Services Ltd
* ST Assembly Test Services Pte Ltd
2. The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in the Republic
of Singapore.
3. The objects for which the Company is established are:-
(1) To carry on the business of manufacturing, installing, buying,
selling, maintaining, assembling, importing, exporting,
distributing, handling, testing, servicing, repairing and
otherwise dealing in electrical and electronic components,
parts, fittings, accessories, equipment and materials of every
kind and description, including but not limited to semiconductor
components, parts, fittings, accessories, equipment and
materials.
(2) To carry out research and development work (including but not
limited to investigations and experimental work) of every
description in relation to, but not limited to, the electrical
and electronic industry and the application and use thereof and
to collect, collate, prepare and distribute (by way of sale,
licence, concession or otherwise) the technology thereof and
information and statistics relating thereto.
(3) To carry out modification, repairs, overhaul and testing of
electronics, components, parts, fittings and accessories
including but not limited to semiconductor components, parts,
fittings and accessories.
(4) To train personnel including but not limited to personnel for
the electrical and electronic industry and to advance the skills
of such persons.
(5) To carry on all or any of the businesses of electrical,
mechanical, motor and general engineers, manufacturers and
merchants of, agents for and dealers in engineering specialities
of every description.
(6) To manufacture, buy, sell, maintain, repair, provide technical
services, alter and otherwise deal in apparatus, plant,
machinery, fittings, furnishings, tools, materials, products and
things of all kinds capable of being used for the purposes of
the abovementioned businesses or any of them or likely to be
required in relation thereto.
(7) To carry on any other business which may seem to the Company
capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with its
business or calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the
value of or render profitable any of the Company's properties or
rights.
* The Name of the Company was changed to "ST Assembly Test Services
Pte Ltd" with effect from 20 January 1995.
** The Name of the Company was changed to "ST Assembly Test Services
Ltd" with effect from 30 April 1998.
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(8) To acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the
business, property, and liabilities of any person or
company carrying on any business which the Company is
authorized to carry on, or possessed of property suitable
for the purposes of the Company.
(9) To apply for, purchase, or otherwise acquire any patents,
patent rights, copyrights, trade marks, formulae, licences,
concessions, and the like, conferring any exclusive or
non-exclusive or limited right to use, or any secret or
other information as to any invention which may seem
capable of being used for any of the purposes of the
Company, or the acquisition of which may seem calculated
directly or indirectly to benefit the Company; and to use,
exercise, develop, or grant licences in respect of, or
otherwise turn to account, the property, rights, or
information so acquired.
(10) To amalgamate or enter into partnership or into any
arrangement for sharing of profits, union of interest,
co-operation, joint adventure, reciprocal concession, or
otherwise, with any person or company carrying on or
engaged in or about to carry on or engage in any business
or transaction which the Company is authorized to carry on
or engage in, or any business or transaction capable of
being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit the
Company.
(11) To take, or otherwise acquire, and hold shares, debentures,
or other securities of any other company.
(12) To enter into any arrangements with any government or
authority, supreme, municipal, local, or otherwise, that may
seem conducive to the Company's objects, or any of them;
and to obtain from any such government or authority any
rights, privileges, and concessions which the Company may
think it desirable to obtain; and to carry out, exercise,
and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges,
and concessions.
(13) To establish and support or aid in the establishment and
support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts, and
conveniences calculated to benefit employees or directors
or past employees or directors of the Company or its
predecessors in business, or the dependants or connections
of any such persons; and to grant pensions and allowances,
and to make payments towards insurance; and to subscribe or
guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects, or
for any exhibition, or for any public, general, or useful
object.
(14) To promote any other company or companies for the purpose
of acquiring or taking over all or any of the property,
rights, or liabilities of the company or companies, or for
any other purpose which may seem directly or indirectly
calculated to benefit the Company.
(15) To purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire, or
otherwise acquire any movable or immovable properties and
any rights or privileges which the Company may think
necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business,
and in particular any land, buildings, easements,
machinery, plant, and stock-in-trade.
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(16) To construct, improve, maintain, develop, work, manage,
carry out, or control any buildings, works, factories,
mills, roads, ways, tramways, railways, branches or
sidings, bridges, reservoirs, water-courses, wharves
warehouses, electric works, shops, stores, and other works,
and conveniences which may seem calculated directly or
indirectly to advance the Company's interests; and to
contribute to, subsidize, or otherwise assist or take part
in the construction, improvement, maintenance, development,
working, management, carrying out, or control thereof.
(17) To guarantee and give guarantees or indemnities for the
payment of money or the performance of contracts or
obligations by any person or company.
(18) To lend and advance money or give credit to any person or
company and on such terms as may be considered expedient,
and either with or without security; to secure or undertake
in any way the repayment of moneys lent or advanced to or
the liabilities incurred by any person or company, and
otherwise to assist any person or company.
(19) To borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such
manner as the Company may think fit and to secure the same
or the repayment or performance of any debt, liability,
contract, guarantee or other engagement already incurred by
or to be entered into by the Company in any way and in
particular by the issue of debentures perpetual or
otherwise, charged upon all or any of the Company's
property (both present and future), including its uncalled
capital; and to purchase, redeem, or pay off any such
securities.
(20) To invest and deal with the money of the Company not
immediately required in such manner as may from time to
time be thought fit.
(21) To remunerate any person or company for services rendered,
or to be rendered, in placing or assisting to place or
guaranteeing the placing of any of the shares in the
Company's capital or any debentures, or other securities of
the Company, or in or about the organization, formation, or
promotion of the Company or the conduct of its business.
(22) To draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute, and
issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of
lading, and other negotiable or transferable instruments.
(23) To sell or dispose of the undertaking of the Company or any
part thereof for such consideration as the Company may
think fit, and in particular for shares, debentures, or
securities of any other company having objects altogether
or in part similar to those of the Company.
(24) To adopt such means of making known and advertising the
business and products of the Company as may seem expedient.
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(25) To apply for, secure, acquire by grant, legislative enactment,
assignment, transfer, purchase, or otherwise, and to exercise, carry
out, and enjoy any charter, licence, power, authority, franchise,
concession, right, or privilege, which any Government or authority or
any corporation or other public body may be empowered to grant; and to
pay for, aid in, and contribute towards carrying the same into effect;
and to appropriate any of the Company's shares, debentures, or other
securities and assets to defray the necessary costs, charges, and
expenses thereof.
(26) To apply for, promote, and obtain any statute, order, regulation, or
other authorization or enactment which may seem calculated directly or
indirectly to benefit the Company; and to oppose any bills,
proceedings, or applications which may seem calculated directly or
indirectly to prejudice the Company's interests.
(27) To procure the Company to be registered or recognized in any country
or place outside the Republic of Singapore.
(28) To sell, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, dispose of, turn
to account, or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property and
rights of the Company.
(29) To issue and allot fully or partly paid shares in the capital of the
Company in payment or part payment of any movable or immovable
property purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company or any
services rendered to the Company.
(30) To distribute any of the property of the Company among the members in
kind or otherwise but so that no distribution amounting to a reduction
of capital shall be made without the sanction required by law.
(31) To take or hold mortgages, liens, and charges to secure payment of the
purchase price, or any unpaid balance of the purchase price, of any
part of the Company's property of whatsoever kind sold by the Company,
or any money due to the Company from purchasers and others.
(32) To undertake and transact all kinds of agency or secretarial business
and also to undertake and execute any trusts, the undertaking whereof
may seem desirable, and either gratuitously or otherwise.
(33) To transact any lawful business in aid of the Republic of Singapore in
the prosecution of any war or hostilities in which the Republic of
Singapore is engaged.
(34) To carry out all or any of the objects of the Company and do all or
any of the above things in any part of the world and either as
principal, agent, contractor, or trustee, or otherwise, and by or
through trustees or agents or otherwise, and either alone or in
conjunction with others.
(35) To do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the
attainment of the objects and the exercise of the powers of the
Company.
AND IT IS HEREBY DECLARED that the word "company" in this Memorandum when
not referring to this Company shall be deemed to include any corporation
partnership association club or other body of persons whether incorporated or
not and wherever incorporated or domiciled and whether now
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existing or hereafter to be formed AND further that unless the context or
subject matter is inconsistent therewith words signifying the singular number
shall be deemed and taken to include the plural and vice versa AND further that
the objects specified in each of the paragraphs in this Memorandum shall be
regarded as independent objects, and accordingly, shall be in no wise limited
or restricted (except when otherwise expressed in such paragraph), by reference
to the objects indicated in any other paragraph or the name of the Company, but
may be carried out in as full and ample a manner and construed in as wide a
sense as if each of the said paragraphs defined the objects of a separate,
distinct and independent company.
4. The liability of the members is limited.
5. The original capital of the Company is $300,000,000* divided into
300,000,000* shares of $1/- each, and the Company shall have power to increase
or reduce the capital to consolidate or subdivide the shares into shares of
larger or smaller amounts, and to issue all or any part of the original or any
additional capital as fully paid or partly paid shares and with any special or
preferential rights or privileges or subject to any special terms or
conditions, and either with or without any special designation, and also from
time to time to alter, modify, commute, abrogate or deal with any such rights,
privileges, terms, conditions or designations in accordance with the
regulations for the time being of the Company.
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* Pursuant to an ordinary resolution passed at:-
(i) an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 30 April 1998, 300,000,000
shares of $1/- each was sub-divided into 1,200,000,000 shares of $0.25
each.
(ii) the Seventh Annual General Meeting held on 31 May 2001, the authorised
share capital of the Company was increased to $800,000,000 divided
into 3,200,000,000 ordinary shares of $0.25 each, by the creation of
2,000,000,000 ordinary shares of $0.25 each.
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WE, the several persons whose names, addresses and descriptions are
subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this
Memorandum of Association and respectively agree to take the number of shares
in the capital of the Company set opposite our respective names:-
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Number of Shares
taken by each
Names, Addresses and Descriptions of Subscribers Subscriber
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/s/ ANTHONY LEE HWEE KHIAM
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ANTHONY LEE HWEE KHIAM
27 Jalan Jambu Mawar One (1)
Singapore 2158
Advocate & Solicitor
/s/ LOH WAI MOOI MICHELLE
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LOH WAI MOOI MICHELLE
15 Jalan Tempua One (1)
Singapore 1129
Advocate & Solicitor
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Total number of shares taken Two (2)
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Dated this 29th day of October 1994.
Witness to the above signatures:-
/s/ JUNE LOW FUI SIAN
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JUNE LOW FUI SIAN
Advocate and Solicitor
c/o Bih Li & Lee
Advocates & Solicitors
79 Robinson Road
#24-01 CPF Building
Singapore 0106
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NEW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
ST ASSEMBLY TEST SERVICES LTD
(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED ON
19 January 2000)
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ALLEN & GLEDHILL
36, ROBINSON ROAD, #18-01,
CITY HOUSE,
SINGAPORE 068877.
CONTENTS
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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION:-
Preliminary 1
Share Capital 3
Issue of Shares 3
Variation of Rights 3
Alteration of Share Capital 4
Shares 5
Share Certificates 6
Calls on Shares 8
Forfeiture and Lien 9
Transfer of Shares 11
Transmission of Shares 13
Stock 13
General Meetings 14
Notice of General Meetings 14
Proceedings at General Meetings 16
Votes of Members 18
Corporations Acting by Representatives 20
Directors 20
Managing Director or Chief Executive Officer or President 22
Appointment and Retirement of Directors 23
Alternate Directors 24
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CONTENTS
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Meetings and Proceedings of Directors 25
Borrowing Powers 27
General Powers of Directors 27
Secretary 28
The Seal 28
Authentication of Documents 29
Reserves 29
Dividends 30
Capitalisation of Profits and Reserves 31
Accounts 32
Auditors 33
Notices 33
Winding Up 34
Indemnity 35
Secrecy 35
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THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50
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PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
of
ST ASSEMBLY TEST SERVICES LTD
(Adopted by Special Resolution passed on 19 January 2000)
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PRELIMINARY
1. The regulations in Table A in the Fourth Schedule Table "A" not to
to the Companies Act, Chapter 50 (as amended) shall not apply.
apply to the Company.
2. In these presents (if not inconsistent with the Interpretation.
subject or context) the words and expressions set out in
the first column below shall bear the meanings set opposite
to them respectively.
"The Act" The Companies Act, Chapter 50.
"The Company" ST Assembly Test Services Ltd.
"In writing" Written or produced by any
substitute for writing or partly
one and partly another.
"Month" Calendar month.
"Office" The registered office of the
Company for the time being.
"Ordinary Shares" The ordinary shares of $0.25 each
in the capital of the Company.
"Paid" Paid or credited as paid.
"Seal" The Common Seal of the Company.
"The Statutes" The Act and every other Act for
the time being in force concerning
companies and
affecting the Company.
"These presents" These Articles of Association as from time to time
altered.
"Year" Calendar year.
The expressions "Depositor", "Depository", "Depository Agent" and
"Depository Register" shall have the meanings ascribed to them respectively in
the Act.
References in these presents to "holders" of shares or a class of shares
shall:-
(a) exclude the Depository except where otherwise expressly provided in
these presents or where the term "registered holders" or "registered holder" is
used in these presents; and
(b) where the context so requires, be deemed to include references to
Depositors whose names are entered in the Depository Register in respect of
those shares.
and "holding" and "held" shall be construed accordingly.
The expression "Director" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act
and shall, where the context so requires, be deemed to include a reference to an
Alternate Director.
The expression "Secretary" shall include any person appointed by the
Directors to perform any of the duties of the Secretary and where two or more
persons are appointed to act as Joint Secretaries shall include any one of those
persons.
All such of the provisions of these presents as are applicable to paid-up
shares shall apply to stock, and the words "share" and "shareholder" shall be
construed accordingly.
Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
Words denoting the masculine shall include the feminine. Words denoting
persons shall include corporations.
Subject as aforesaid any words or expression defined in the Act shall (if
not inconsistent with the subject or context) bear the same meanings in these
presents.
A Special Resolution shall be effective for any purpose for which an
Ordinary Resolution is expressed to be required under any provision of these
presents.
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SHARE CAPITAL
3. The authorised share capital of the Company Authorised share
is $300,000,000* divided into 1,200,000,000* ordinary capital.
shares of $0.25 each.
ISSUE OF SHARES
4. Subject to the Statutes and to these presents, Issue of Shares.
no shares may be issued by the Directors without the
prior approval of the Company in General Meeting but
subject thereto and to Article 8, and to any special
rights attached to any shares for the time being issued,
the Directors may allot or grant options over or
otherwise dispose of the same to such persons on such
terms and conditions and for such consideration and at
such time and subject or not to the payment of any part
of the amount thereof in cash as the Directors may think
fit, and any shares may be issued with such preferential,
deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges or
conditions as the Directors may think fit, and
preference shares may be issued which are or at the
option of the Company are liable to be redeemed, the
terms and manner of redemption being determined by the
Directors, Provided always that:-
(a) no shares shall be issued to transfer a
controlling interest in the Company
without the prior approval of the members
in a General Meeting; and
(b) no shares shall be issued at a discount
except in accordance with the Statutes.
5. (A) In the event of preference shares being issued Rights of
the total nominal value of issued preference shares preference
shall not at any time exceed the total nominal value of shareholders.
the issued ordinary shares and preference shareholders
shall have the same rights as ordinary shareholders as
regards receiving of notices, reports and balance sheets
and attending General Meetings of the Company, and
preference shareholders shall also have the right to
vote at any meeting convened for the purpose of reducing
the capital or winding-up or sanctioning a sale of the
undertaking or where the proposal to be submitted to the
meeting directly affects their rights and privileges or
when the dividend on the preference shares is more than
six months in arrears.
(B) The Company has power to issue further
preference capital ranking equally with, or in priority
to, preference shares already issued.
VARIATION OF RIGHTS
6. (A) Whenever the share capital of the Company is Variation of
divided into different classes of shares, the special rights.
rights attached to any class may, subject to the
provisions of the Statutes, be varied or abrogated
either with the consent in writing of the holders of
three-quarters in nominal value of the issued shares
of the class or with the sanction of a Special
Resolution passed at a separate General Meeting of
* Pursuant to an ordinary resolution passed at the Seventh Annual General
Meeting held on 31 May 2001, the authorised share capital of the Company
was increased to $800,000,000 divided into 3,200,000,000 ordinary shares of
$0.25 each, by the creation of 2,000,000,000 ordinary shares of $0.25 each.
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the holders of the shares of the class (but not
otherwise) and may be so varied or abrogated either
whilst the Company is a going concern or during or in
contemplation of a winding-up. To every such separate
General Meeting all the provisions of these presents
relating to General Meetings of the Company and to the
proceedings thereat shall mutatis mutandis apply, except
that the necessary quorum shall be two persons at least
holding or representing by proxy at least one-third in
nominal value of the issued shares of the class and that
any holder of shares of the class present in person or by
proxy may demand a poll and that every such holder shall
on a poll have one vote for every share of the class held
by him. Provided always that where the necessary majority
for such a Special Resolution is not obtained at such
General Meeting, consent in writing if obtained from the
holders of three-quarters in nominal value of the issued
shares of the class concerned within two months of such
General Meeting shall be as valid and effectual as a
Special Resolution carried at such General Meeting. The
foregoing provisions of this Article shall apply to the
variation or abrogation of the special rights attached to
some only of the shares of any class as if each group of
shares of the class differently treated formed a separate
class the special rights whereof are to be varied.
(B) The special rights attached to any class of Creation or issue of
shares having preferential rights shall not unless further shares with
otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue special rights.
thereof be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue
of further shares ranking as regards participation in
the profits or assets of the Company in some or all
respects pari passu therewith but in no respect in
priority thereto.
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
7. The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Power to increase
Resolution increase its share capital by such sum to be share capital.
divided into shares of such amounts as the resolution
shall prescribe.
8. (A) The Company may by Ordinary Resolution in Authority to issue
General Meeting give to the Directors a general shares.
authority, either unconditionally or subject to such
conditions as may be specified in the Ordinary Resolution,
to issue shares (whether by way of rights, bonus or
otherwise) where, unless previously revoked or varied
by the Company in General Meeting, such authority to
issue shares does not continue beyond the conclusion of
the Annual General Meeting of the Company next following
the passing of the Ordinary Resolution or the date by
which such Annual General Meeting is required to be held,
or the expiration of such other period as may be
prescribed by the Statutes (whichever is the earliest).
(B) Except so far as otherwise provided by the
conditions of issue or by these presents, all new
shares shall be subject to the provisions of the Statutes
and of these presents with reference to allotment, payment
of calls, lien, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and
otherwise.
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9. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution:- Power to
consolidate, cancel
(a) consolidate and divide all or any of its and sub-divide
share capital into shares of larger amount shares.
than its existing shares;
(b) cancel any shares which, at the date of
the passing of the resolution, have not
been taken, or agreed to be taken by any
person and diminish the amount of its
capital by the amount of the shares so
cancelled;
(c) sub-divide its shares, or any of them,
into shares of smaller amount than is
fixed by the Memorandum of Association
(subject, nevertheless, to the provisions
of the Statutes), and so that the
resolution whereby any share is sub-
divided may determine that, as between the
holders of the shares resulting from such
sub-division, one or more of the shares
may, as compared with the others, have
any such preferred, deferred or other
special rights, or be subject to any such
restrictions, as the Company has power to
attach to unissued or new shares;
(d) subject to the provisions of the Statutes,
convert any class of shares into any other
class of shares.
10. (A) The Company may reduce its share capital or Power to reduce
any capital redemption reserve fund, share premium share capital.
account or other undistributable reserve in any manner
and with and subject to any incident authorised and
consent required by law. Without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing, upon cancellation of any
share purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company
pursuant to these presents, the nominal amount of the
issued share capital of the Company shall be diminished
by the nominal amount of the share so cancelled.
(B) The Company may, subject to and in accordance Company may
with the Statutes, purchase or otherwise acquire shares acquire its own
in the issued share capital of the Company on such terms issued ordinary
and in such manner as the Company may from time to time shares.
think fit. If required by the Statutes, any share which
is so purchased or acquired by the Company shall be
deemed to be cancelled immediately on purchase or
acquisition by the Company. On the cancellation of any
share as aforesaid, the rights and privileges attached
to that share shall expire. In any other instance, the
Company may deal with any such share which is so
purchased or acquired by it in such manner as may be
permitted by, and in accordance with, the Statutes.
SHARES
11. Except as required by law, no person shall be Exclusion of
recognised by the Company as holding any share upon equities.
any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or
compelled in any way to recognise any equitable,
contingent, future or partial interest in any share,
or any interest in any fractional part of a share, or
(except only as by these presents or by law otherwise
provided) any other right in
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respect of any share, except an absolute right to the
entirety thereof in the person (other than the
Depository) entered in the Register of Members as the
registered holder thereof or (as the case may be)
person whose name is entered in the Depository Register
in respect of that share.
12. Without prejudice to any special rights Redeemable
previously conferred on the holders of any shares or preference shares.
class of shares for the time being issued, any share
in the Company may be issued with such preferred,
deferred or other special rights, or subject to such
restrictions, whether as regards dividend, return of
capital, voting or otherwise, as the Company may from
time to time by Ordinary Resolution determine (or, in
the absence of any such determination, as the
Directors may determine) and subject to the provisions
of the Statutes the Company may issue preference shares
which are, or at the option of the Company are, liable
to be redeemed.
13. Subject to the provisions of these presents Unissued shares.
and of the Statutes relating to authority and of any
resolution of the Company in General Meeting passed
pursuant thereto, all unissued shares shall be at the
disposal of the Directors and they may allot (with or
without conferring a right of renunciation), grant
options over or otherwise dispose of them to such
persons, at such times and on such terms as they think
proper.
14. The Company may exercise the powers of paying Power to pay
commissions conferred by the Statutes to the full commission and
extent thereby permitted provided that the rate brokerage.
or amount of the commissions paid or agreed to be
paid shall be disclosed in the manner required by
the Statutes. Such commissions may be satisfied by
the payment of cash or the allotment of fully or
partly paid shares or partly in one way and partly
in the other. The Company may also on any issue of
shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful.
15. Subject to the terms and conditions of any Renunciation of
application for shares, the Directors shall allot allotment.
shares applied for within thirty days of the closing
date of any such application. The Directors may, at
any time after the allotment of any share but before
any person has been entered in the Register of Members
as the holder or (as the case may be) before that share
is entered against the name of a Depositor in the
Depository Register, recognise a renunciation thereof
by the allottee in favour of some other person and may
accord to any allottee of a share a right to effect such
renunciation upon and subject to such terms and
conditions as the Directors may think fit to impose.
SHARE CERTIFICATES
16. Every share certificate shall be issued under Form of share
the Seal and shall specify the number and class of shares certificate.
to which it relates and the amount paid up thereon and
shall bear the autographic or facsimile signatures of
one Director and the Secretary or a second Director or
some other person appointed by the Directors. The
facsimile signatures may be reproduced by mechanical,
electronic or other method approved by the Directors.
No certificate shall be issued representing shares of
more than one class.
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17. (A) The Company shall not be bound to register Rights and
more than three persons as the registered holder of a liabilities of
share except in the case of executors or administrators joint holders.
of the estate of a deceased member.
(B) In the case of a share registered jointly in
the names of several persons the Company shall not be
bound to issue more than one certificate therefor and
delivery of a certificate to any one of the registered
joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all.
18. Subject to the payment of all or any part of Entitlement to
the stamp duty payable (if any) on each share certificate.
certificate prior to the delivery thereof which the
Directors in their absolute discretion may require,
every person whose name is entered as a member in the
Register of Members shall be entitled to receive within
thirty days of the closing date of any application for
shares or after the date of lodgement of a registrable
transfer one certificate for all his shares of any one
class or several certificates in reasonable denomina-
tions each for a part of the shares so allotted or
transferred. Where such a member transfers part only
of the shares comprised in a certificate or where such
a member requires the Company to cancel any certificate
or certificates and issue new certificates for the
purpose of subdividing his holding in a different
manner the old certificate or certificates shall be
cancelled and a new certificate or certificates for the
balance of such shares issued in lieu thereof and such
member shall pay all or any part of the stamp duty
payable (if any) on each share certificate prior to the
delivery thereof which the Directors in their absolute
discretion may require and a maximum fee of $2 for each
new certificate or such other fee as the Directors may
from time to time determine.
19. Where some only of the shares comprised in a Shares comprised
share certificate are transferred the old certificate in certificate.
shall be cancelled and a new certificate for the
balance of such shares issued in lieu without charge.
20. (A) Any two or more certificates representing Surrender for
shares of any one class held by any person whose name cancellation of
is entered in the Register of Members may at his request certificate.
be cancelled and a single new certificate for such
shares issued in lieu without charge.
(B) If any person whose name is entered in the
Register of Members shall surrender for cancellation a
share certificate representing shares held by him and
request the Company to issue in lieu two or more share
certificates representing such shares in such
proportions as he may specify, the Directors may, if
they think fit, comply with such request. Such person
shall (unless such fee is waived by the Directors) pay
a maximum fee of $2 for each share certificate issued
in lieu of a share certificate surrendered for
cancellation or such other fee as the Directors may
from time to time determine.
(C) Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, Replacement of
if any share certificate shall be defaced, worn out, certificate.
destroyed, lost or stolen, it may be renewed on such
evidence being produced and a letter of indemnity
(if required) being given by the shareholder,
transferee, person entitled, purchaser, member firm
or member company of any Stock Exchange upon which
the shares in the Company may be listed or on behalf
of its or their client or clients as the Directors of
the Company
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shall require, and (in case of defacement or wearing
out) on delivery up of the old certificate and in any
case on payment of such sum not exceeding $2 as the
Directors may from time to time require together with
the amount of the proper duty with which such share
certificate is chargeable under any law for the time
being in force relating to stamps. In the case of
destruction, loss or theft, a shareholder or person
entitled to whom such renewed certificate is given
shall also bear the loss and pay to the Company all
expenses incidental to the investigations by the
Company of the evidence of such destruction or loss.
(D) In the case of shares registered jointly
in the names of several persons any such request may
be made by any one of the registered joint holders.
CALLS ON SHARES
21. The Directors may from time to time make Calls on shares and
calls upon the members in respect of any moneys time when made.
unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the
nominal value of the shares or, when permitted, by
way of premium) but subject always to the terms of
issue of such shares. A call shall be deemed to have
been made at the time when the resolution of the
Directors authorising the call was passed and may be
made payable by instalments.
22. Each member shall (subject to receiving at Calls on shares and
least fourteen days' notice specifying the time or when payable.
times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the
time or times and place so specified the amount called
on his shares. The joint holders of a share shall be
jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in
respect thereof. A call may be revoked or postponed as
the Directors may determine.
23. If a sum called in respect of a share is not Interest on calls.
paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof,
the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest
on the sum from the day appointed for payment thereof to
the time of actual payment at such rate (not exceeding
ten per cent. per annum) as the Directors determine but
the Directors shall be at liberty in any case or cases
to waive payment of such interest wholly or in part.
24. Any sum (whether on account of the nominal Sum due on
value of the share or by way of premium) which by the allotment.
terms of issue of a share becomes payable upon allotment
or at any fixed date shall for all the purposes of these
presents be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on
the date on which by the terms of issue the same becomes
payable. In case of non-payment all the relevant provi-
sions of these presents as to payment of interest and
expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such
sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and
notified.
25. No member shall be entitled to receive any Rights of member
dividend or vote at any meeting or upon a poll, until suspended until calls
he shall have paid all calls for the time being due and are duly paid.
payable on every share held by him, whether alone or
jointly with any other person, together with interest
and expenses (if any).
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26. The Directors may on the issue of shares Power to
differentiate between the holders as to the amount differentiate.
of calls to be paid and the times of payment.
27. The Directors may if they think fit receive Payment in advance
from any member willing to advance the same all or any of calls.
part of the moneys (whether on account of the nominal
value of the shares or by way of premium) uncalled and
unpaid upon the shares held by him and such payment in
advance of calls shall extinguish pro tanto the liability
upon the shares in respect of which it is made and upon
the money so received (until and to the extent that the
same would but for such advance become payable) the
Company may pay interest at such rate (not exceeding
eight per cent. per annum) as the member paying such sum
and the Directors may agree. Capital paid on shares in
advance of calls shall not while carrying interest
confer a right to participate in profits.
FORFEITURE AND LIEN
28. If a member fails to pay in full any call or Notice requiring
instalment of a call on the due date for payment payment of calls.
thereof, the Directors may at any time thereafter
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 thereon and any expenses
incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment.
29. The notice shall name a further day (not being Notice to state time
less than fourteen days from the date of service of the and place.
notice) 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 in accordance
therewith the shares on which the call has been made
will be liable to be forfeited.
30. If the requirements of any such notice as Forfeiture on non-
aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect compliance with
of which such notice has been given may at any time notice.
thereafter, before payment of all calls and interest
and expenses due in respect thereof has been made, be
forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that
effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends
declared in respect of the forfeited share and not
actually paid before forfeiture. The Directors may
accept a surrender of any share liable to be forfeited
hereunder.
31. A share so forfeited or surrendered shall Sale or disposition of
become the property of the Company and may be sold, forfeited or
re-allotted or otherwise disposed of either to the surrendered shares.
person who was before such forfeiture or surrender the
holder thereof or entitled thereto or to any other
person upon such terms and in such manner as the
Directors shall think fit and at any time before a sale,
re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture or surrender
may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think
fit. The Directors may, if necessary, authorise some
person to transfer or effect the transfer of a forfeited
or surrendered share to any such other person as
aforesaid.
32. A member whose shares have been forfeited or Rights and liabilities
surrendered shall cease to be a member in respect of members whose
of the shares but shall notwithstanding the shares have been
forfeiture or surrender remain liable to pay to the forfeited or
Company all moneys which at the date of forfeiture surrendered.
or surrender were presently payable by him to the
Company in
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respect of the shares with interest thereon at eight per
cent. per annum (or such lower rate as the Directors may
determine) from the date of forfeiture or surrender
until payment and the Directors may at their absolute
discretion enforce payment without any allowance for the
value of the shares at that time of forfeiture or
surrender or waive payment in whole or in part.
33. The Company shall have a first and paramount Company's lien.
lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for
all moneys (whether presently payable or not) called or
payable at a fixed time in respect of such share and for
all moneys as the Company may be called upon by law to
pay in respect of the shares of the member or deceased
member. The Directors may waive any lien which has
arisen and may resolve that any share shall for some
limited period be exempt wholly or partially from the
provisions of this Article.
34. The Company may sell in such manner as the Sale of shares
Directors think fit any share on which the Company has subject to lien.
a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in
respect of which the lien exists is presently payable
nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice
in writing stating and demanding payment of the sum
presently payable and giving notice of intention to sell
in default shall have been given to the holder for the
time being of the share or the person entitled thereto
by reason of his death or bankruptcy.
35. The net proceeds of such sale after payment of Application of
the cost of such sale shall be applied in or towards proceeds of
payment or satisfaction of the debts or liabilities and such sale.
any residue shall be paid to the person entitled to the
shares at the time of the sale or to his executors,
administrators or assigns, as he may direct. For the
purpose of giving effect to any such sale the Directors
may authorise some person to transfer or effect the
transfer of the shares sold to the purchaser.
36. A statutory declaration in writing that the Title to shares
declarant is a Director or the Secretary of the Company forfeited and
and that a share has been duly forfeited or surrendered right of
or sold to satisfy a lien of the Company on a date purchaser of
stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence such share.
of the facts therein stated as against all persons
claiming to be entitled to the share. Such declaration
and the receipt of the Company for the consideration
(if any) given for the share on the sale, re-allotment
or disposal thereof together (where the same be
required) with the share certificate delivered to a
purchaser (or where the purchaser is a Depositor, to
the Depository) or allottee thereof shall (subject to
the execution of a transfer if the same be required)
constitute a good title to the share and the share
shall be registered in the name of the person to
whom the share is sold, re-allotted or disposed of or,
where such person is a Depositor, the Company shall
procure that his name be entered in the Depository
Register in respect of the share so sold, re-allotted
or disposed of. Such person shall not be bound to see
to the application of the purchase money (if any) nor
shall his title to the share be affected by any
irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings
relating to the forfeiture, surrender, sale,
re-allotment or disposal of the share.
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TRANSFER OF SHARES
37. All transfers of the legal title in shares Form of transfer.
may be effected by the registered holders thereof by
transfer in writing in any form acceptable to the
Directors. The instrument of transfer of any share shall
be signed by or on behalf of both the transferor and the
transferee and be witnessed, provided that an instrument
of transfer in respect of which the transferee is the
Depository shall be effective although not signed or
witnessed by or on behalf of the Depository. The
transferor shall remain the holder of the shares
concerned until the name of the transferee is entered
in the Register of Members in respect thereof.
38. The Register of Members may be closed at Closing of Register
such times and for such period as the Directors may of Members.
from time to time determine, provided always that
such Register shall not be closed for more than thirty
days in any year.
39. There shall be no restriction on the transfer Directors' right to
of fully paid up shares (except where required by law) refuse to register a
but the Directors may, in their sole discretion, decline transfer.
to register any transfer of shares upon which the Company
has a lien and in the case of shares not fully paid up
may refuse to register a transfer to a transferee of
whom they do not approve. Provided always that in the
event of the Directors refusing to register a transfer
of shares, they shall within thirty days beginning with
the date on which the application for a transfer of
shares was made, serve a notice in writing to the
applicant stating the facts which are considered to
justify the refusal as required by the Statutes.
40. The Directors may in their sole discretion When Directors may
refuse to register any instrument of transfer of shares refuse to register a
unless:- transfer.
(a) all or any part of the stamp duty (if any)
payable on each share certificate and such
fee not exceeding $2 as the Directors may
from time to time require, is paid to the
Company in respect thereof;
(b) the instrument of transfer is deposited at
the Office or at such other place (if any)
as the Directors may appoint accompanied by
the certificates of the shares to which it
relates, and such other evidence as the
Directors may reasonably require to show the
right of the transferor to make the transfer
and, if the instrument of transfer is
executed by some other person on his behalf,
the authority of the person so to do;
(c) the instrument of transfer is in respect of
only one class of shares; and
(d) the amount of the proper duty with which each
share certificate to be issued in consequence
of the registration of such transfer is
chargeable under any law for the time being in
force relating to stamps is tendered.
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41. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer Notice on refusal to
of any shares, they shall within thirty days after the register a transfer.
date on which the application for transfer was lodged
with the Company send to the transferor and the
transferee a notice in writing stating the reasons
justifying the refusal to transfer and a notice of
refusal as required by the Statutes.
42. All instruments of transfer which are Retention of
registered may be retained by the Company. transfers.
43. There shall be paid to the Company in respect Fee for registration
of the registration of any instrument of transfer of probate etc.
or probate or letters of administration or certificate
of marriage or death or stop notice or power of attorney
or other document relating to or affecting the title to
any shares or otherwise for making any entry in the
Register of Members affecting the title to any shares
such fee not exceeding $2 as the Directors may from time
to time require or prescribe.
44. The Company shall be entitled to destroy all Destruction of
instruments of transfer which have been registered at instrument of
any time after the expiration of six years from the date transfer.
of registration thereof and all dividend mandates and
notifications of change of address at any time after the
expiration of six years from the date of recording
thereof and all share certificates which have been
cancelled at any time after the expiration of six years
from the date of the cancellation thereof and it shall
conclusively be presumed in favour of the Company that
every entry in the Register of Members purporting to
have been made on the basis of an instrument of transfer
or other document so destroyed was duly and properly
made and every instrument of transfer so destroyed was
a valid and effective instrument duly and properly
registered and every share certificate so destroyed was
a valid and effective certificate duly and properly
cancelled and every other document hereinbefore
mentioned so destroyed was a valid and effective document
in accordance with the recorded particulars thereof in
the books or records of the Company; Provided always
that:-
(a) the provisions aforesaid shall apply only
to the destruction of a document in good
faith and without notice of any claim
(regardless of the parties thereto) to
which the document might be relevant;
(b) nothing herein contained shall be construed
as imposing upon the Company any liability
in respect of the destruction of any such
document earlier than as aforesaid or in
any other circumstances which would not
attach to the Company in the absence of
this Article; and
(c) references herein to the destruction of any
document include references to the disposal
thereof in any manner.
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TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
45. (A) In the case of the death of a member whose Transmission.
name is entered in the Register of Members, 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 person(s) recognised by the Company
as having any title to his interest in the shares.
(B) In the case of the death of a member who
is a Depositor, the survivors or survivor where the
deceased is a joint holder, and the executors or
administrators of the deceased where he was a sole
or only surviving holder and where such executors or
administrators are entered in the Depository Register
in respect of any shares of the deceased member, shall
be the only person(s) recognised by the Company as
having any title to his interest in the shares.
(C) Nothing in this Article shall release the
estate of a deceased holder (whether sole or joint)
from any liability in respect of any share held by him.
46. Any person becoming entitled to the legal Persons becoming
title in a share in consequence of the death or entitled to shares
bankruptcy of a person whose name is entered in the on death or
Register of Members may (subject as hereinafter bankruptcy of
provided) upon supplying to the Company such evidence member.
as the Directors may reasonably require to show his
legal title to the share either be registered himself
as holder of the share upon giving to the Company
notice in writing of such desire or transfer such
share to some other person. All the limitations,
restrictions and provisions of these presents relating
to the right to transfer and the registration of
transfers of shares shall be applicable to any such
notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or
bankruptcy of the person whose name is entered in the
Register of Members had not occurred and the notice
or transfer were a transfer executed by such person.
47. Save as otherwise provided by or in accordance Rights of
with these presents, a person becoming entitled to a persons entitled
share pursuant to Article 45(A) or (B) or Article 46 to shares on
(upon supplying to the Company such evidence as the transmission.
Directors may reasonably require to show his title to
the share) shall be entitled to the same dividends and
other advantages as those to which he would be entitled
if he were the member in respect of the share except
that he shall not be entitled in respect thereof
(except with the authority of the Directors) to exercise
any right conferred by membership in relation to
meetings of the Company until he shall have been
registered as a member in the Register of Members or
his name shall have been entered in the Depository
Register in respect of the share.
STOCK
48. The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Power to convert
Resolution convert any paid-up shares into stock and into stock.
may from time to time by like resolution reconvert any
stock into paid-up shares of any denomination.
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49. The holders of stock may transfer the same or Transfer of stock.
any part thereof in the same manner and subject to the
same Articles as and subject to which the shares from
which the stock arose might previously to conversion
have been transferred (or as near thereto as
circumstances admit) but no stock shall be transferable
except in such units (not being greater than the nominal
amount of the shares from which the stock arose) as the
Directors may from time to time determine.
50. The holders of stock shall, according to the Rights of
amount of stock held by them, have the same rights, stockholders.
privileges and advantages as regards dividend, return
of capital, voting and other matters, as if they held
the shares from which the stock arose; but no such
privilege or advantage (except as regards participation
in the profits or assets of the Company) shall be
conferred by an amount of stock which would not, if
existing in shares, have conferred such privilege or
advantage; and no such conversion shall affect or
prejudice any preference or other special privileges
attached to the shares so converted.
GENERAL MEETINGS
51. An Annual General Meeting shall be held once Annual General
in every year, at such time (within a period of not Meeting.
more than fifteen months after the holding of the last
preceding Annual General Meeting) and place as may be
determined by the Directors. All other General Meetings
shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings.
52. The Directors may whenever they think fit, Extraordinary
and shall on requisition in accordance with the General Meeting.
Statutes, proceed with proper expedition to convene
an Extraordinary General Meeting.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS
53. Any General Meeting at which it is proposed Notice of Meetings.
to pass a Special Resolution or (save as provided by the
Statutes) a resolution of which special notice has been
given to the Company, shall be called by twenty-one days'
notice in writing at the least and an Annual General
Meeting and any other Extraordinary General Meeting by
fourteen days' notice in writing at the least. The period
of notice shall in each case be exclusive of the day on
which it is served or deemed to be served and of the day
on which the meeting is to be held and shall be given in
the manner hereinafter mentioned to all members other
than such as are not under the provisions of these
presents entitled to receive such notices from the
Company; Provided that a General Meeting notwithstanding
that it has been called by a shorter notice than that
specified above shall be deemed to have been duly called
if it is so agreed:-
(a) in the case of an Annual General Meeting, by
all the members entitled to attend and vote
thereat; and
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(b) in the case of an Extraordinary General
Meeting, by a majority in number of the
members having a right to attend and
vote thereat, being a majority together
holding not less than 95 per cent. in
nominal value of the shares giving that
right;
Provided also that the accidental omission to give
notice to or the non-receipt of notice by any person
entitled thereto shall not invalidate the proceedings
at any General Meeting. At least 14 days' notice of any
General Meeting shall be given by advertisement in the
daily press.
54. (A) Every notice calling a General Meeting shall Contents of notice.
specify the place and the day and hour of the meeting,
and there shall appear with reasonable prominence in
every such notice a statement that a member entitled to
attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend
and vote instead of him and that a proxy need not be a
member of the Company.
(B) In the case of an Annual General Meeting, the
notice shall also specify the meeting as such.
(C) In the case of any General Meeting at which
business other than routine business is to be transacted,
the notice shall specify the general nature of such
business; and if any resolution is to be proposed as a
Special Resolution, the notice shall contain a statement
to that effect.
55. Routine business shall mean and include only Routine business.
business transacted at an Annual General Meeting of the
following classes, that is to say:-
(a) declaring dividends;
(b) receiving and adopting the accounts, the
reports of the Directors and Auditors and
other documents required to be attached
or annexed to the accounts;
(c) appointing or re-appointing Directors to
fill vacancies arising at the meeting on
retirement whether by rotation or
otherwise;
(d) re-appointing the retiring Auditors
(unless they were last appointed otherwise
than by the Company in General Meeting);
(e) fixing the remuneration of the Auditors or
determining the manner in which such
remuneration is to be fixed; and
(f) fixing the remuneration of the Directors
proposed to be paid under Article 81.
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56. Any notice of a General Meeting to consider Notice to state
special business shall be accompanied by a statement effect of special
regarding the effect of any proposed resolution on the business.
Company in respect of such special business.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
57. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman.
failing whom the Deputy Chairman, shall preside as
chairman at a General Meeting. If there be no such
Chairman or Deputy Chairman, or if at any meeting n
either be present within 15 minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting and willing to act,
the Directors present shall choose one of their number
(or, if no Director be present or if all the Directors
present decline to take the chair, the members present
shall choose one of their number) to be chairman of the
meeting.
58. No business other than the appointment of a Quorum.
chairman shall be transacted at any General Meeting
unless a quorum is present at the time when the meeting
proceeds to business. Save as herein otherwise provided,
the quorum at any General Meeting shall be two or more
members holding or representing in aggregate not less
than 33 1/3 per cent. of the total issued and fully
paid up shares in the capital of the Company, present
in person or by proxy.
59. If within 30 minutes from the time appointed If quorum not
for a General Meeting (or such longer interval as the present,
chairman of the meeting may think fit to allow) a quorum adjournment or
is not present, the meeting, if convened on the dissolution of
requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any other meeting.
case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the
next week (or if that day is a public holiday then to
the next business day following that public holiday) at
the same time and place or such other day, time or place
as the Directors may by not less than ten days' notice
appoint. At the adjourned meeting any one or more
members present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum.
60. The chairman of any General Meeting at which a Adjournment.
quorum is present may with the consent of the meeting
(and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the
meeting from time to time (or sine die) and from place
to place, but no business shall be transacted at any
adjourned meeting except business which might lawfully
have been transacted at the meeting from which the
adjournment took place. Where a meeting is adjourned
sine die, the time and place for the adjourned meeting
shall be fixed by the Directors. When a meeting is
adjourned for 30 days or more or sine die, not less than
seven days' notice of the adjourned meeting shall be
given in like manner as in the case of the original
meeting.
61. Save as hereinbefore expressly provided, it Notice of
shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment.
adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an
adjourned meeting.
62. If an amendment shall be proposed to any Amendment to
resolution under consideration but shall in good faith resolution.
be ruled out of order by the chairman of the meeting,
the proceedings on the substantive resolution shall not
be invalidated by any error in such ruling. In the case
of a resolution duly proposed as a Special
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Resolution, no amendment thereto (other than a mere
clerical amendment to correct a patent error) may in
any event be considered or voted upon.
*63. At any General Meeting a resolution put to Method of voting.
the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of
hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of
the result of the show of hands) demanded by:
(a) the chairman of the meeting; or
(b) not less than five members present in
person or by proxy and entitled to vote;
or
(c) a member present in person or by
proxy and representing not less
than one-tenth of the total voting
rights of all the members having
the right to vote at the meeting; or
(d) a member present in person or by
proxy and holding shares in the
Company conferring a right to vote
at the meeting being shares on which
an aggregate sum has been paid up
equal to not less than one-tenth of
the total sum paid on all the shares
conferring that right;
Provided always that no poll shall be demanded on the
choice of a chairman or on a question of adjournment.
64. A demand for a poll may be withdrawn only with Taking a poll.
the approval of the meeting. Unless a poll is required
a declaration by the chairman of the meeting that a
resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or
by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that
effect in the minute book, shall be conclusive evidence
of that fact without proof of the number or proportion
of the votes recorded for or against such resolution.
If a poll is required, it shall be taken in such manner
(including the use of ballot or voting papers or
tickets) as the chairman of the meeting may direct, and
the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the
resolution of the meeting at which the poll was
demanded. The chairman of the meeting may (and if so
directed by the meeting shall) appoint scrutineers and
may adjourn the meeting to some place and time fixed
by him for the purpose of declaring the result of the
poll.
65. In the case of an equality of votes, whether Casting vote
on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the of Chairman.
meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at
which the poll is demanded shall be entitled to a
casting vote.
66. A poll demanded on any question shall be Polls and
taken either immediately or at such subsequent time continuance of
(not being more than 30 days from the date of the business after
meeting) and place as the chairman may direct. No demand for a poll.
notice need be given of a poll not taken immediately.
The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance
of the meeting for the transaction of any business
other than the question on which the poll has been
demanded.
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* Deleted and substituted by Special Resolution passed at the Eighth Annual
General Meeting held on 30 May 2002.
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VOTES OF MEMBERS
67. Subject and without prejudice to any special Voting rights of
privileges or restrictions as to voting for the time members.
being attached to any special class of shares for the
time being forming part of the capital of the Company
each member entitled to vote may vote in person or by
proxy. On a show of hands every member who is present
in person and each proxy shall have one vote and on a
poll, every member who is present in person or by proxy
shall have one vote for every share which he holds or
represents. For the purpose of determining the number
of votes which a member, being a Depositor, or his
proxy may cast at any General Meeting on a poll, the
reference to shares held or represented shall, in
relation to shares of that Depositor, be the number
of shares entered against his name in the Depository
Register as at 48 hours before the time of the
relevant General Meeting as certified by the Depository
to the Company.
68. In the case of joint holders of a share the Voting rights of joint
vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in holders.
person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion
of the votes of the other joint holders and for this
purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in
which the names stand in the Register of Members or
(as the case may be) the Depository Register in respect
of the share.
69. Where in Singapore or elsewhere a receiver or Voting rights of
other person (by whatever name called) has been receiver or court
appointed by any court claiming jurisdiction in that appointed persons.
behalf to exercise powers with respect to the property
or affairs of any member on the ground (however
formulated) of mental disorder, the Directors may in
their absolute discretion, upon or subject to production
of such evidence of the appointment as the Directors may
require, permit such receiver or other person on behalf
of such member to vote in person or by proxy at any
General Meeting or to exercise any other right conferred
by membership in relation to meetings of the Company.
70. No member shall, unless the Directors Rights to be present
otherwise determine, be entitled in respect of shares and to vote.
held by him to vote at a General Meeting either
personally or by proxy or to exercise any other right
conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the
Company if any call or other sum presently payable by
him to the Company in respect of such shares remains
unpaid.
71. No objection shall be raised as to the When objection to
admissibility of any vote except at the meeting or admissibility of votes
adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is or may be made.
may be given or tendered and every vote not disallowed
at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any
such objection shall be referred to the chairman of the
meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
72. On a poll, votes may be given either Voting.
personally or by proxy and a person entitled to more
than one vote need not use all his votes or cast all
the votes he uses in the same way.
73. (A) A member may appoint not more than two Appointment of
proxies to attend and vote at the same General Meeting proxies.
provided that if the member is a Depositor, the
Company shall be entitled and bound:-
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(a) to reject any instrument of proxy lodged
if the Depositor is not shown to have any
shares entered against his name in the
Depository Register as at 48 hours before
the time of the relevant General Meeting
as certified by the Depository to the
Company; and
(b) to accept as the maximum number of votes
which in aggregate the proxy or proxies
appointed by the Depositor is or are able
to cast on a poll a number which is the
number of shares entered against the name
of that Depositor in the Depository
Register as at 48 hours before the time
of the relevant General Meeting as
certified by the Depository to the Company,
whether that number is greater or smaller
than the number specified in any instrument
of proxy executed by or on behalf of that
Depositor.
(B) The Company shall be entitled and bound, in Notes and
determining rights to vote and other matters in respect instructions.
of a completed instrument of proxy submitted to it, to
have regard to the instructions (if any) given by and
the notes (if any) set out in the instrument or proxy.
(C) In any case where a form of proxy appoints Proportion in
more than one proxy, the proportion of the shareholding shareholding to be
concerned to be represented by each proxy shall be represented by
specified in the form of proxy. proxies.
(D) A proxy need not be a member of the Company. Proxy need not be a
member.
74. (A) An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in Instrument
writing in any usual or common form or in any other appointing proxies.
form which the Directors may approve and:-
(a) in the case of an individual, shall be
signed by the appointor or his attorney;
and
(b) in the case of a corporation, shall be
either given under its common seal or
signed on its behalf by an attorney or
a duly authorised officer of the
corporation.
(B) The signature on such instrument need not be
witnessed. Where an instrument appointing a proxy is
signed on behalf of the appointor by an attorney, the
letter or power of attorney or a duly certified copy
thereof must (failing previous registration with the
Company) be lodged with the instrument of proxy
pursuant to the next following Article, failing which
the instrument may be treated as invalid.
75. An instrument appointing a proxy must be left Deposit of
at such place or one of such places (if any) as may be instrument of proxy.
specified for that purpose in or by way of note to or
in any document accompanying the notice convening the
meeting (or, if no place is so specified, at the Office)
not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the
holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting or (in the
case of a poll taken
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otherwise than at or on the same day as the meeting
or adjourned meeting) for the taking of the poll at
which it is to be used, and in default shall not be
treated as valid. The instrument shall, unless the
contrary is stated thereon, be valid as well for any
adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which
it relates; Provided that an instrument of proxy
relating to more than one meeting (including any
adjournment thereof) having once been so delivered
for the purposes of any meeting shall not be required
again to be delivered for the purposes of any
subsequent meeting to which it relates.
76. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be Rights of
deemed to include the right to demand or join in proxies.
demanding a poll, to move any resolution or amendment
thereto and to speak at the meeting.
77. A vote cast by proxy shall not be invalidated Intervening death
by the previous death or insanity of the principal or or insanity of
by the revocation of the appointment of the proxy or principal not to
of the authority under which the appointment was made revoke proxy.
provided that no intimation in writing of such death,
insanity or revocation shall have been received by the
Company at the Office at least one hour before the
commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting or
(in the case of a poll taken otherwise than at or on
the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting) the
time appointed for the taking of the poll at which the
vote is cast.
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES
78. Any corporation which is a member of the Corporation acting
Company may be resolution of its directors or other by representatives.
governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit
to act as its representative at any meeting of the
Company or of any class of members of the Company. The
person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the
same powers on behalf of such corporation as the
corporation could exercise if it were an individual
member of the Company and such corporation shall for
the purposes of these presents be deemed to be present
in person at any such meeting if a person so authorised
is present thereat.
DIRECTORS
79. The number of Directors shall not be less Number and
than two. All Directors of the Company shall be natural characteristics
persons. of Director.
80. A Director shall not be required to hold any No shares
shares of the Company by way of qualification. A qualification for
Director who is not a member of the Company shall Directors.
nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at General
Meetings.
81. The ordinary remuneration of the Directors Remuneration of
shall from time to time be determined by an Ordinary Directors.
Resolution of the Company, shall not be increased
except pursuant to an Ordinary Resolution passed at a
General Meeting where notice of the proposed increase
shall have been given in the notice convening the
General Meeting and shall (unless such resolution
otherwise provides) be divisible
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among the Directors as they may agree, or failing
agreement, equally, except that any Director who
shall hold office for part only of the period in
respect of which such remuneration is payable shall
be entitled only to rank in such division for a
proportion of remuneration related to the period
during which he has held office.
82. Any Director who holds any executive office, Extra remuneration.
or who serves on any committee of the Directors, or
who otherwise performs services which in the opinion
of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary
duties of a Director, may be paid such extra remunera-
tion by way of salary, commission or otherwise as the
Directors may determine.
83. The Directors may repay to any Director all Expenses.
such reasonable expenses as he may incur in attending
and returning from meetings of the Directors or of any
committee of the Directors or General Meetings or
otherwise in or about the business of the Company.
84. The Directors shall have power to pay and Pensions etc.
agree to pay pensions or other retirement, super-
annuation, death or disability benefits to (or to any
person in respect of) any Director for the time being
holding any executive office and for the purpose of
providing any such pensions or other benefits, to
contribute to any scheme or fund or to pay premiums.
85. A Director may be party to or in any way Holding of office of
interested in any contract or arrangement or transaction profit and
to which the Company is a party or in which the Company contracting with
is in any way interested and he may hold and be company.
remunerated in respect of any office or place of profit
(other than the office of Auditor of the Company or any
subsidiary thereof) under the Company or any other
company in which the Company is in any way interested
and he (or any firm of which he is a member) may act in
a professional capacity for the Company or any such
other company and be remunerated therefor and in any
such case as aforesaid (save as otherwise agreed) he
may retain for his own absolute use and benefit all
profits and advantages accruing to him thereunder or in
consequence thereof.
86. A Director who holds any office or possesses Declaration of
any property whereby whether directly or indirectly Director's conflict of
duties or interests might be created in conflict with interest.
his duties or interests as Director shall declare the
fact and the nature, character and extent of the conflict
at a meeting of the Directors of the Company in
accordance with the Statutes.
*87. (A) The Directors may from time to time appoint Appointment to be
one or more of their body to be the holder of any holder of executive
executive office (including, where considered office.
appropriate, the office of Chairman or Deputy Chairman)
on such terms and for such period as they may (subject
to the provisions of the Statutes) determine and, without
prejudice to the terms of any contract entered into in
any particular case, may at any time revoke any such
appointment.
(B) The appointment of any Director to the office
of Chairman or Deputy Chairman shall automatically
determine if he 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.
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(C) The appointment of any Director to any other
executive office shall not automatically determine if he
ceases from any cause to be a Director, unless the
contract or resolution under which he holds office shall
expressly state otherwise, in which event such
determination shall be without prejudice to any claim for
damages for breach of any contract of service between him
and the Company.
88. The Directors may entrust to and confer upon Powers of executive
any Directors holding any executive office any of the office holders.
powers exercisable by them as 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.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OR PRESIDENT
*89. The Directors may from time to time appoint Appointment of Chief
one or more of their body to be Chief Executive Officer Executive Officer or
or President of the Company and may from time to time President.
(subject to the provisions of any contract between him
or them and the Company) remove or dismiss him or them
from office and appoint another or others in his or
their place or places.
*90. A Chief Executive Officer or President who is Retirement removal and
a Director shall, subject to the provisions of any resignation of Chief
contract between him and the Company, be subject to the Executive Officer or
same provisions as to retirement by rotation, President.
resignation and removal as the other Directors of the
Company.
*91. The remuneration of a Chief Executive Officer Remuneration of Chief
or President shall from time to time be fixed by the Executive Officer or
Directors and may subject to these presents be by way President.
of salary or commission or participation in profits or
by any or all these modes.
*92. A Chief Executive Officer or President shall Powers of Chief
at all times be subject to the control of the Directors Executive Officer or
but subject thereto the Directors may from time to time President.
entrust to and confer upon a Chief Executive Officer or
President for the time being such of the powers
exercisable under these presents by the Directors as
they may think fit and may confer such powers for such
time and to be exercised on such terms and conditions
and with such restrictions as they think expedient and
they may confer such powers either collaterally with or
to the exclusion of and in substitution for all or any
of the powers of the Directors in that behalf and may
from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all
or any of such powers.
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General Meeting held on 30 May 2002.
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APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS
93. The office of a Director shall be vacated in Vacation of office
any of the following events, namely:- of Director.
(a) if he shall become prohibited by law
from acting as a Director; or
(b) if (not being a Director holding any
executive office for a fixed term) he
shall resign by writing under his hand
left at the Office or if he shall in
writing offer to resign and the
Directors shall resolve to accept such
offer; or
(c) if he shall have a receiving order made
against him or shall compound with his
creditors generally; or
(d) if he becomes of unsound mind or if in
Singapore or elsewhere an order shall
be made by any court claiming
jurisdiction in that behalf on the
ground (however formulated) of mental
disorder for his detention or for the
appointment of a guardian or for the
appointment of a receiver or other
person (by whatever name called) to
exercise powers with respect to his
property or affairs; or
(e) if he is removed by the Company in
General Meeting pursuant to Article 98.
*94. At each Annual General Meeting one-third of Retirement of
the Directors for the time being (or, if their number Directors by
is not a multiple of three, the number nearest to but rotation.
not less than one-third) shall retire from office by
rotation.
95. The Directors to retire in every year shall Selection of
be those subject to retirement by rotation who have been Directors to retire
longest in office since their last re-election or of rotation.
appointment and so that as between persons who became
or were last re-elected Directors on the same day those
to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among
themselves) be determined by lot. A retiring Director
shall be eligible for re-election.
96. The Company at the meeting at which a Director Filling vacated
retires under any provision of these presents may by office.
Ordinary Resolution fill the office being vacated by
electing thereto the retiring Director or some other
person eligible for appointment. In default the retiring
Director shall be deemed to have been re-elected except
in any of the following cases:-
(a) where at such meeting it is expressly
resolved not to fill such office or a
resolution for the re-election of such
Director is put to the meeting and lost;
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(b) where such Director has given notice in
writing to the Company that he is
unwilling to be re-elected;
(c) where the default is due to the moving
of a resolution in contravention of the
next following Article; or
(d) where such Director has attained any
retiring age applicable to him as
Director.
The retirement shall not have effect until the conclusion
of the meeting except where a resolution is passed to
elect some other person in the place of the retiring
Director or a resolution for his re-election is put to
the meeting and lost and accordingly a retiring Director
who is re-elected or deemed to have been re-elected
will continue in office without a break.
97. A resolution for the appointment of two or Appointment of
more persons as Directors by a single resolution shall Directors.
not be moved at any General Meeting unless a resolution
that it shall be so moved has first been agreed to by
the meeting without any vote being given against it; and
any resolution moved in contravention of this provision
shall be void.
98. The Company may in accordance with and subject Removal of Director.
to the provisions of the Statutes by Ordinary Resolution
of which special notice has been given remove any
Director from office (notwithstanding any provision of
these presents or of any agreement between the Company
and such Director, but without prejudice to any claim he
may have for damages for breach of any such agreement)
and appoint another person in place of a Director so
removed from office and any person so appointed shall
be treated for the purpose of determining the time at
which he or any other Director is to retire by rotation
as if he had become a Director on the day on which the
Director in whose place he is appointed was last elected
a Director. In default of such appointment the vacancy
arising upon the removal of a Director from office may
be filled as a casual vacancy.
99. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution appoint Directors' power to
any person to be a Director either to fill a casual fill casual vacancies
vacancy or as an additional Director. Without prejudice and appoint
thereto the Directors shall have power at any time so to additional Directors.
do, but any person so appointed by the Directors shall
hold office only until the next Annual General Meeting.
He shall then be eligible for re-election, but shall not
be taken into account in determining the number of
Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS
100. (A) Any Director may at any time by writing under Appointment of
his hand and deposited at the Office, or delivered at a Alternate Director.
meeting of the Directors, appoint any person (other than
another Director) to be his alternate Director and may
in like manner at any time terminate such appointment.
Such appointment, unless previously approved by the
Directors, shall have effect only upon and subject to
being so approved.
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(B) The appointment of an alternate Director shall
determine on the happening of any event which if he were
a Director would cause him to vacate such office or if
the Director concerned (below called "his principal")
ceases to be a Director.
(C) An Alternate Director shall (except when absent
from Singapore) be entitled to receive notices of meetings
of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote
as a Director at any such meeting at which is principal is
not personally present and generally at such meeting to
perform all functions of his principal as a Director and
for the purposes of the proceedings at such meeting the
provisions of these presents shall apply as if he
(instead of his principal) were a Director. If his
principal is for the time being absent from Singapore or
temporarily unable to act through ill health or
disability, his signature to any resolution in writing
of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature
of his principal. To such extent as the Directors may
from time to time determine in relation to any committee
of the Directors, the foregoing provisions of this
paragraph shall also apply mutatis mutandis to any
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meeting of any such committee of which his principal is
a member. An Alternate Director shall not (save as
aforesaid) have power to act as a Director nor shall he
be deemed to be a Director for the purposes of these
presents.
(D) An Alternate Director shall be entitled to
contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts
or arrangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses
and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis
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as if he were a Director but he shall not be entitled to
receive from the Company in respect of his appointment as
Alternate Director any remuneration except only such part
(if any) of the remuneration otherwise payable to his
principal as such principal may by notice in writing to
the Company from time to time direct.
MEETINGS AND PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
101. (A) Subject to the provisions of these presents Meetings of
the Directors may meet together for the despatch of Directors.
business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings
as they think fit. At any time any Director may, and the
Secretary on the requisition of a Director shall, summon
a meeting of the Directors. It shall not be necessary to
give notice of a meeting of Directors to any Director
for the time being absent from Singapore. Any Director
may waive notice of any meeting and any such waiver may
be retroactive.
(B) Directors may participate in a meeting of the
Directors by means of a conference telephone or similar
communications equipment by means of which all persons
participating in the meeting can hear each other,
without a Director being in the physical presence of
another Director or Directors, and participation in a
meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute
presence in person at such meeting.
102. The quorum necessary for the transaction of Quorum.
the business of the Directors may be fixed from time to
time by the Directors and unless so fixed at any other
number shall be two. A meeting of the Directors at which
a quorum is
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present shall be competent to exercise all powers and
discretions for the time being exercisable by the
Directors.
103. Questions arising at any meeting of the Casting vote of
Directors shall be determined by a majority of votes. chairman.
In case of an equality of votes (except where only
two Directors are present and form the quorum or when
only two Directors are competent to vote on the question
in issue) the chairman of the meeting shall have a
second or casting vote.
104. A Director shall not vote in respect of any Prohibition against
contract or arrangement or any other proposal voting.
whatsoever in which he has any interest, directly or
indirectly. A Director shall not be counted in the
quorum at a meeting in relation to any resolution on
which he is debarred from voting.
105. The continuing Directors may act Proceeding in case
notwithstanding any vacancies, but if and so long as of vacancy.
the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum
number fixed by or in accordance with these presents the
continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose
of filling up such vacancies or of summoning General
Meetings, but not for any other purpose. If there be no
Directors or Director able or willing to act, then any
two members may summon a General Meeting for the purpose
of appointing Directors.
106. (A) The Directors may elect from their number a Chairman of
Chairman and a Deputy Chairman (or two or more Deputy Directors.
Chairmen) and determine the period for which each is
to hold office. If no Chairman or Deputy Chairman shall
have been appointed or if at any meeting of the Directors
no Chairman or Deputy Chairman shall be present within
five minutes after the time appointed for holding the
meeting, the Directors present may choose one of their
number to be chairman of the meeting.
(B) If at any time there is more than one Deputy
Chairman the right in the absence of the Chairman to
preside at a meeting of the Directors or of the Company
shall be determined as between the Deputy Chairmen
present (if more than one) by seniority in length of
appointment or otherwise as resolved by the Directors.
*107. A resolution in writing signed by a majority Resolution in writing.
in number of the Directors shall be as effective as a
resolution duly passed at a meeting of the Directors
and may consist of several documents in the like form,
each signed by one or more Directors. The expressions
"in writing" and "signed" include approval by any such
Director by telefax, telex, cable or telegram or any
form of electronic communication approved by the
Directors for such purpose from time to time
incorporating, if the Directors deem necessary, the use
of security and/or identification procedures and
devices approved by the Directors.
108. The Directors may delegate any of their powers Committee of
or discretion to committees consisting of one or more Directors.
members of their body and (if thought fit) one or more
other persons co-opted as hereinafter provided. Any
committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers
so delegated conform to any regulations which may from
time to time be imposed by the Directors. Any such
regulations may provide for or authorise the co-option
to the committee of persons other than Directors and for
such co-opted members to have voting rights as members of
the committee.
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General Meeting held on 31 May 2001.
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109. The meetings and proceedings of any such Meetings of
committee consisting of two or more members shall be committee.
governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of these
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presents regulating the meetings and proceedings of the
Directors, so far as the same are not superseded by any
regulations made by the Directors under the last
preceding Article.
110. All acts done by any meeting of Directors, or Validity of act of
of any such committee, or by any person acting as a Directors in spite
Director or as a member of any such committee, shall as of formal defect.
regards all persons dealing in good faith with the
Company, notwithstanding that there was defect in the
appointment of any of the persons acting as aforesaid,
or that any such persons 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 member of the committee and had been entitled to
vote.
BORROWING POWERS
111. Subject as hereinafter provided and to the Borrowing powers.
provisions of the Statutes, the Directors may exercise
all the powers of the Company to borrow money, to
mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and
uncalled capital and to issue debentures and other
securities, whether outright or as collateral security
for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company
or of any third party.
GENERAL POWERS OF DIRECTORS
112. The business and affairs of the Company shall General power of
be managed by the Directors, who may exercise all such Directors to manage
powers of the Company as are not by the Statutes or by Company's business.
these presents required to be exercised by the Company
in General Meeting, subject nevertheless to any
regulations of these presents, to the provisions of the
Statutes and to such regulations, being not inconsistent
with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be
prescribed by Special Resolution of the Company, but no
regulation so made by the Company shall invalidate any
prior act of the Directors which would have been valid
if such regulation had not been made; Provided that the
Directors shall not carry into effect any proposals
for selling or disposing of the whole or substantially
the whole of the Company's undertaking unless such
proposals have been approved by the Company in General
Meeting. The general powers given by this Article shall
not be limited or restricted by any special authority
or power given to the Directors by any other Article.
113. The Directors may establish any local boards Power to establish
or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the local boards etc.
Company, either in Singapore or elsewhere, and may
appoint any persons to be members of such local boards,
or any managers or agents, and may fix their
remuneration, and may delegate to any local board,
manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and
discretions vested in the Directors, with power to
sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any
local boards, or any of them, to fill any vacancies
therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and
any such appointment or delegation may be made upon
such terms and subject to such conditions as the
Directors may think fit, and the Directors
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may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or
vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in
good faith and without notice of any such annulment
or variation shall be affected thereby.
114. The Directors may from time to time and at Power to appoint
any time by power of attorney or otherwise appoint any attorney.
company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of
persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by
the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the
Company for such purposes and with such powers, autho-
rities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in
or exercisable by the Directors under these presents)
and for such period and subject to such conditions as
they may think fit, and any such power of attorney may
contain such provisions for the protection and
convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney
as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorise
any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the
powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
115. The Company or the Directors on behalf of the Power to keep
Company may in exercise of the powers in that behalf Branch Register.
conferred by the Statutes cause to be kept a Branch
Register or Register of Members and the Directors may
(subject to the provisions of the Statutes) make and
vary such regulations as they may think fit in respect
of the keeping of any such Register.
116. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills Execution of
of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable negotiable
instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the instruments and
Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or receipts for money
otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner paid.
as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution
determine.
SECRETARY
117. The Secretary shall be appointed by the Appointment and
Directors on such terms and for such period as they may removal of
think fit. Any Secretary so appointed may at any time Secretary.
be removed from office by the Directors, but without
prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any
contract of service between him and the Company. If
thought fit two or more persons may be appointed as
Joint Secretaries. The Directors may also appoint from
time to time on such terms as they may think fit one
or more Assistant Secretaries. The appointment and
duties of the Secretary or Joint Secretaries shall not
conflict with the Statutes and in particular Section 171
of the Act.
THE SEAL
118. The Directors shall provide for the safe Usage of Seal.
custody of the Seal which shall not be used without the
authority of the Directors or of a committee authorised
by the Directors in that behalf.
119. Every instrument to which the Seal shall be Seal.
affixed shall be signed autographically by one Director
and the Secretary or by a second Director or some
another person appointed by the Directors save that as
regards any certificates for
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shares or debentures or other securities of the Company
the Directors may by resolution determine that such
signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with
or affixed by some method or system of mechanical
signature or other method approved by the Directors.
120. (A) The Company may exercise the powers conferred Official Seal.
by the Statutes with regard to having an official seal
for use abroad and such powers shall be vested in the
Directors.
(B) The Company may exercise the powers conferred Share Seal.
by the Statutes with regard to having a duplicate Seal
as referred to in Section 124 of the Act which shall be
a facsimile of the Seal with the addition on its face of
the words "Share Seal".
AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS
*121. Any Director or the Secretary or any person Power to
appointed by the Directors for the purpose shall have authenticate
power to authenticate any documents affecting the documents and
constitution of the Company and any resolutions passed certified copies of
by the Company or the Directors or any committee, and resolutions of the
any books, records, documents and accounts relating to Company or the
the business of the Company, and to certify copies Directors.
thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies or
extracts; and where any 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. A document purporting to
be a copy of a resolution, or an extract from the
minutes of a meeting, of the Company or of the Directors
or any committee which is certified as aforesaid shall
be conclusive evidence in favour of all persons dealing
with the Company upon the faith thereof that such
resolution has been duly passed, or as the case may be,
that any minute so extracted is a true and accurate
record of proceedings at a duly constituted meeting. Any
authentication or certification made pursuant to this
Article may be made by any electronic means approved by
the Directors from time to time for such purpose
incorporating, if the Directors deem necessary, the use
of security procedures or devices approved by the
Directors.
RESERVES
122. The Directors may from time to time set aside Power to carry
out of the profits of the Company and carry to reserve profits to reserve.
such sums as they think proper which, at the discretion
of the Directors, shall be applicable for any purpose to
which the profits of the Company may properly be applied
and pending such application may either be employed in
the business of the Company or be invested. The Directors
may divide the reserve into such special funds as they
think fit and may consolidate into one fund any special
funds or any parts of any special funds into which the
reserve may have been divided. The Directors may also,
without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any
profits. In carrying sums to reserve and in applying the
same the Directors shall comply with the provisions of
the Statutes.
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DIVIDENDS
123. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution Dividends.
declare dividends but no such dividend shall exceed
the amount recommended by the Directors.
124. If and so far as in the opinion of the Interim dividend.
Directors the profits of the Company justify such
payments, the Directors may declare and pay the fixed
dividends on any class of shares carrying a fixed
dividend expressed to be payable on fixed dates on
the half-yearly or other dates prescribed for the
payment thereof and may also from time to time
declare and pay interim dividends on shares of any
class of such amounts and on such dates and in
respect of such periods as they think fit.
125. Unless and to the extent that the rights Apportionment of
attached to any shares or the terms of issue thereof dividends.
otherwise provide, all dividends shall (as regards any
shares not fully paid throughout the period in respect
of which the dividend is paid) be apportioned and paid
pro rata according to the amounts paid on the shares
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during any portion or portions of the period in respect
of which the dividend is paid. For the purposes of this
Article no amount paid on a share in advance of calls
shall be treated as paid on the share.
126. No dividend shall be paid otherwise than out Dividend payable
of profits available for distribution under the only out of profits.
provisions of the Statutes.
127. No dividend or other moneys payable on or in Dividend not to bear
respect of a share shall bear interest as against the interest.
Company.
128. (A) The Directors may retain any dividend or other Retention of
moneys payable on or in respect of a share on which the dividend.
Company has a lien and may apply the same in or towards
satisfaction of the debts, liabilities or engagements in
respect of which the lien exists.
(B) The Directors may retain the dividends payable
upon shares in respect of which any person is under the
provisions as to the transmission of shares hereinbefore
contained entitled to become a member, or which any
person is under those provisions entitled to transfer,
until such person shall become a member in respect of
such shares or shall transfer the same.
129. The waiver in whole or in part of any dividend Waiver of dividend.
on any share by any document (whether or not under seal)
shall be effective only if such document is signed by
the shareholder (or the person entitled to the share
in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder)
and delivered to the Company and if or to the extent
that the same is accepted as such or acted upon by the
Company.
130. The Company may upon the recommendation of the Payment of dividend
Directors by Ordinary Resolution direct payment of a in specie.
dividend in whole 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. Where any difficulty
arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may
settle the same as they think expedient and in particular
may issue fractional certificates,
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may fix the value for distribution of such specific
assets or any part thereof, may determine that cash
payments shall be made to any members upon the
footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the
rights of all parties and may vest any such specific
assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the
Directors.
131. Any dividend or other moneys payable in cash Dividends payable
on or in respect of a share may be paid by cheque or by cheque or
warrant sent through the post to the registered address warrant.
appearing in the Register of Members or (as the case
may be) the Depository Register of a member or person
entitled thereto (or, if two or more persons are
registered in the Register of Members or (as the case
may be) entered in the Depository Register as joint
holders of the share or are entitled thereto in
consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder,
to any one of such persons) or to such person at such
address as such member or person or persons may be
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 person as the holder or joint
holders or person or persons entitled to the share in
consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder
may direct and payment of the cheque or warrant by the
banker upon whom it is drawn 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this Article and the provisions of
Article 133, the payment by the Company to the
Depository of any dividend payable to a Depositor
shall, to the extent of the payment made to the
Depository, discharge the Company from any liability
to the Depositor in respect of that payment.
132. If two or more persons are registered in the Payment of dividend
Register of Members or (as the case may be) the to joint holders.
Depository Register as joint holders of any share, or
are entitled jointly to a share in consequence of the
death or bankruptcy of the holder, any one of them may
give effectual receipts for any dividend or other
moneys payable or property distributable on or in
respect of the share.
133. Any resolution declaring a dividend on shares Resolution declaring
of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in dividends.
General Meeting or a resolution of the Directors, may
specify that the same shall be payable to the persons
registered as the holders of such shares in the Register
of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository
Register at the close of business on a particular date
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
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of such dividend of transferors and transferees of any
such shares.
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS AND RESERVES
134. The Directors may, with the sanction of an Power to capitalise
Ordinary Resolution of the Company, capitalise any sum profits and
standing to the credit of any of the Company's reserve implementation of
accounts (including Share Premium Account, Capital resolution to
Redemption Reserve Fund or other undistributable capitalise profits.
reserve) or any sum standing to the credit of profit
and loss account by appropriating such sum to the
persons registered as holders of shares in the Register
of Members or (as the case may be) in the Depository
Register at the close of business on the date of the
Resolution (or such other date
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as may be specified therein or determined as therein
provided) or such other date as may be determined by the
Directors in proportion to their then holdings of shares
and applying such sum on their behalf in paying up in
full unissued shares (or, subject to any special rights
previously conferred on any shares or class of shares
for the time being issued, unissued shares of any other
class not being redeemable shares) for allotment and
distribution credited as fully paid up to and amongst
them as bonus shares in the proportion aforesaid. The
Directors may do all acts and things considered
necessary or expedient to give effect to any such
capitalisation, with full power to the Directors to
make such provisions as they think fit for any
fractional entitlements which would arise on the basis
aforesaid (including provisions whereby fractional
entitlements are disregarded or the benefit thereof
accrues to the Company rather than to the members
concerned). The Directors may authorise any person
to enter on behalf of all the members interested into
an agreement with the Company providing for any such
capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any
agreement made under such authority shall be effective
and binding on all concerned.
135. In addition and without prejudice to the power Power to capitalise
to capitalise profits and other moneys provided for by profits for paying up
Article 134, the Directors shall have power to shares to be issued
capitalise any undivided profits or other moneys of the under share option
Company not required for the payment or provision of scheme.
the fixed dividend on any shares entitled to fixed
cumulative or non-cumulative preferential dividends
(including profits or moneys carried and standing to
any reserve or reserves) and to apply such profits
or moneys in paying up in full at par unissued shares
on terms that such shares shall, upon issue, be held
by or for the benefit of participants of any share
incentive or option scheme or plan implemented by the
Company and approved by shareholders in General Meeting
in such manner and on such terms as the Directors shall
think fit.
ACCOUNTS
136. Accounting records sufficient to show and Accounting records.
explain the Company's transactions and otherwise
complying with the Statutes shall be kept at the
Office, or at such other place as the Directors think
fit. No member of the Company or other person shall have
any right of inspecting any account or book or document
of the Company except as conferred by statute or ordered
by a court of competent jurisdiction or authorised by
the Directors.
*137. In accordance with the Statutes, the Directors Presentation of
shall cause to be prepared and to be laid before the accounts.
Company in General Meeting such profit and loss accounts,
balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and reports as
may be necessary. The interval between the close of a
financial year of the Company and the issue of accounts
relating thereto shall not exceed four months (or such
period as may be permitted by the Companies Act).
138. A copy of every balance sheet and profit and Copies of accounts.
loss account which is to be laid before a General
Meeting of the Company (including every document
required by law to be comprised therein or attached or
annexed thereto) shall not less than 14 days before the
date of the meeting be sent to every member of, and
every holder of debentures of, the Company and to every
other person who is
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General Meeting held on 28 May 2003.
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entitled to receive notices of meetings from the Company
under the provisions of the Statutes or of these
presents; Provided that this Article shall not require a
copy of these documents to be sent to more than one or
any joint holders or to any person of whose address the
Company is not aware, but any member or holder of
debentures to whom a copy of these documents has not been
sent shall be entitled to receive a copy free of charge
on application at the Office.
AUDITORS
139. Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, Validity of acts of
all acts done by any person acting as an Auditor shall, Auditor despite
as regards all persons dealing in good faith with the formal defects.
Company, be valid, notwithstanding that there was some
defect in his appointment or that he was at the time of
his appointment not qualified for appointment or
subsequently became disqualified.
140. An Auditor shall be entitled to attend any Notices to Auditors.
General Meeting and to receive all notices of and other
communications relating to any General Meeting which
any member is entitled to receive and to be heard at
any General Meeting on any part of the business of the
meeting which concerns him as Auditor.
NOTICES
141. Any notice or document (including a share Service of notice or
certificate) may be served on or delivered to any document.
member by the Company either personally or by sending
it through the post in a prepaid cover addressed to such
member at his registered address appearing in the
Register of Members or (as the case may be) the
Depository Register, or (if he has no registered
address within Singapore) to the address, if any,
within Singapore supplied by him to the Company or (as
the case may be) supplied by him to the Depository as his
address for the service of notices, or by delivering it
to such address as aforesaid. Where a notice or other
document is served or sent by post, service or delivery
shall be deemed to be effected at the time when the
cover containing the same is posted and in proving such
service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that
such cover was properly addressed, stamped and posted.
142. Any notice given to that one of the joint Service of notice to
holders of a share whose name stands first in the joint holders.
Register of Members or (as the case may be) the
Depository Register in respect of the share shall be
sufficient notice to all the joint holders in their
capacity as such. For such purpose a joint holder having
no registered address in Singapore and not having
supplied an address within Singapore for the service of
notices shall be disregarded.
143. A person entitled to a share in consequence Service of notices
of the death or bankruptcy of a member upon supplying after death,
to the Company such evidence as the Directors may bankruptcy etc.
reasonably require to show his title to the share, and
upon supplying also to the Company or (as the case may
be) the Depository an address within Singapore for the
service of notices, shall be entitled to have served
upon or delivered to him at such address any notice or
document to which the member but
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for his death or bankruptcy would have been entitled,
and such service or delivery shall for all purposes
be deemed a sufficient service or delivery of such
notice or document on all persons interested (whether
jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in
the share. Save as aforesaid any notice or document
delivered or sent by post to or left at the address
of any member in pursuance of these presents shall,
notwithstanding that such member be then dead or
bankrupt or in liquidation, and whether or not the
Company shall have notice of his death or bankruptcy
or liquidation, be deemed to have been duly served or
delivered in respect of any share registered in the
name of such member in the Register of Members or,
where such member is a Depositor, entered against
his name in the Depository Register as sole or
first-named joint holder.
144. A member who (having no registered address No notice to member
within Singapore) has not supplied to the Company or with no registered
(as the case may be) the Depository an address within address in
Singapore for the service of notices shall not be Singapore.
entitled to receive notices from the Company.
WINDING UP
145. The Directors shall have power in the name Voluntary winding
and on behalf of the Company to present a petition to up.
the court for the Company to be wound up.
146. If the Company shall be wound up (whether Distribution of
the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision, or by assets in specie.
the court) the Liquidator may, with the authority of a
Special Resolution, divide among the members in specie
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or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the
Company and whether or not the assets shall consist of
property of one kind or shall consist of properties of
different kinds, and may for such purpose set such value
as he deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of
property and may determine how such division shall be
carried out as between the members of different classes
of members. The Liquidator may, with the like authority,
vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts
for the benefit of members as the Liquidator with the
like authority shall think fit, and the liquidation of
the Company may be closed and the Company dissolved, but
so that no contributory shall be compelled to accept any
shares or other property in respect of which there is a
liability.
147. On a voluntary winding up of the Company, no Liquidators'
commission or fee shall be paid to a Liquidator without commission.
the prior approval of the members in General Meeting.
The amount of such commission or fee shall be notified
to all members not less than seven days prior to the
General Meeting at which it is to be considered.
148. In the event of a winding up of the Company Service of notice
every member of the Company who is not for the time after winding up.
being in the Republic of Singapore shall be bound,
within fourteen days after the passing of an effective
resolution to wind up the Company voluntarily, or
within the like period after the making of an order for
the winding up of the Company, to serve notice in
writing on the Company appointing some householder in
the Republic of Singapore upon whom all summonses,
notices, processes, orders and judgments in relation
to or under the
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winding up of the Company may be served, and in default
of such nomination the liquidator of the Company shall be
at liberty on behalf of such member to appoint some such
person, and service upon any such appointee shall be
deemed to be a good personal service on such member for
all purposes, and where the liquidator makes any such
appointment he shall, with all convenient speed, give
notice thereof to such member by advertisement in any
leading daily newspaper in the English language in
circulation in Singapore or by a registered letter sent
through the post and addressed to such member at his
address as appearing in the Register of Members or (as
the case may be) the Depository Register, and such
notice shall be deemed to be served on the day
following that on which the advertisement appears or
the letter is posted.
INDEMNITY
149. Subject to the provisions of and so far as Indemnity of
may be permitted by the Statutes, every Director, Directors and
Auditor, Secretary or other officer of the Company office.
shall be entitled to be indemnified by the Company
against all costs, charges, losses, expenses and
liabilities incurred by him in the execution and
discharge of his duties or in relation thereto including
any liability incurred by him in defending any
proceedings, civil or criminal, which relate to anything
done or omitted or alleged to have been done or omitted
by him as an officer or employee of the Company. Without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, no
Director, Manager, Secretary or other officer of the
Company shall be liable for the acts, receipts, neglects
or defaults of any other Director or officer or for
joining in any receipt or other act for conformity or
for any loss or expense happening to the Company
through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any
property acquired by order of the Directors for or on
behalf of the Company or for the insufficiency or
deficiency of any security in or upon which any of the
moneys of the Company shall be invested or for any loss
or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or
tortious act of any person with whom any moneys,
securities or effects shall be deposited or left or
for any other loss, damage or misfortune whatever which
shall happen in the execution of the duties of his
office or in relation thereto unless the same shall
happen through his own negligence, wilful default,
breach of duty or breach of trust.
SECRECY
150. No member shall be entitled to require Secrecy.
discovery of or any information respecting any detail
of the Company's trade or any matter which may be in
the nature of a trade secret, mystery of trade or
secret process which may relate to the conduct of the
business of the Company and which in the opinion of
the Directors it will be inexpedient in the interest
of the members of the Company to communicate to the
public save as may be authorised by law.
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