AUSTAL LIMITED — AGM Information 2020

Sep 30, 2020

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Austal Limited ACN 009 250 266

LODGE YOUR VOTE

ONLINE 

www.linkmarketservices.com.au

BY MAIL  Austal Limited C/- Link Market Services Limited Locked Bag A14 Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia

BY FAX

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+61 2 9287 0309

• BY HAND Link Market Services Limited 1A Homebush Bay Drive, Rhodes NSW 2138

 ALL ENQUIRIES TO Telephone: +61 1300 554 474

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PROXY FORM
I/We being a member(s) of Austal Limited and entitled to attend and vote hereby appoint:
APPOINT A PROXY
OR if you are NOT appointing the Chairman of the Meeting as your Name
the Chairman of the proxy, please write the name and email of the person or body corporate
Meeting (mark box) you are appointing as your proxy. An email will be sent to your
Email
appointed proxy with details on how to access the virtual meeting.
or failing the person or body corporate named, or if no person or body corporate is named, the Chairman of the Meeting, as my/our proxy to act on my/our behalf
(including to vote in accordance with the following directions or, if no directions have been given and to the extent permitted by the law, as the proxy sees fit) at the
Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at 1:00pm (WST) on Friday, 30 October 2020 (the Meeting ) and at any postponement or adjournment of the
Meeting.
The Meeting will be conducted as a virtual meeting and you can participate by logging in online at https://agmlive.link/ASB20 (refer to details in the Notice of
Meeting).
Important for Resolutions 1, 4 - 7: If the Chairman of the Meeting is your proxy, either by appointment or by default, and you have not indicated your voting intention
below, you expressly authorise the Chairman of the Meeting to exercise the proxy in respect of Resolutions 1, 4 - 7, even though the Resolutions are connected directly
or indirectly with the remuneration of a member of the Company’s Key Management Personnel ( KMP ).
The Chairman of the Meeting intends to vote undirected proxies in favour of each item of business.
In exceptional circumstances, the Chairman of the Meeting may change his/her voting intention on any resolution, in which case an ASX announcement
will be made immediately disclosing the reasons for the change.
VOTING DIRECTIONS
Proxies will only be valid and accepted by the Company if they are signed and received no later than 48 hours before the Meeting.
Please read the voting instructions overleaf before marking any boxes with an T
Resolutions For Against Abstain * For Against Abstain
1 Non-binding resolution to adopt 5 Approval of the issue of Share
Remuneration Report Rights to Mr Chris Indermaur
2 Re-election of Mr John Rothwell AO 6 Approval of the issue of Share
Rights to Mr Michael McCormack
3 Election of Mr Michael McCormack 7 Approval of the issue of STI Rights
to Mr David Singleton
4 Approval of the issue of Share
Rights to Ms Sarah Adam-Gedge
 * If you mark the Abstain box for a particular Item, you are directing your proxy not to vote on your behalf on a poll and your votes will not be counted in computing the required majority on a poll.
S A M P L E
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SIGNATURE OF SECURITYHOLDERS – THIS MUST BE COMPLETED

Securityholder 1 (Individual) Joint Securityholder 2 (Individual) Joint Securityholder 3 (Individual) Sole Director and Sole Company Secretary Director/Company Secretary (Delete one) Director

This form should be signed by the securityholder. If a joint holding, either securityholder may sign. If signed by the securityholder’s attorney, the power of attorney must have been previously noted by the registry or a certified copy attached to this form. If executed by a company, the form must be executed in accordance with the company’s constitution and the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

ASB PRX2001N

HOW TO COMPLETE THIS SECURITYHOLDER PROXY FORM

YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS

LODGEMENT OF A PROXY FORM

This is your name and address as it appears on the Company’s security register. If this information is incorrect, please make the correction on the form. Securityholders sponsored by a broker should advise their broker of any changes. Please note: you cannot change ownership of your securities using this form.

This Proxy Form (and any Power of Attorney under which it is signed) must be received at an address given below by 1:00pm (WST) on Wednesday, 28 October 2020, being not later than 48 hours before the commencement of the Meeting. Any Proxy Form received after that time will not be valid for the scheduled Meeting.

APPOINTMENT OF PROXY

Proxy Forms may be lodged using the reply paid envelope or:

If you wish to appoint the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, mark the box in Step 1. If you wish to appoint someone other than the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, please write the name and email address of that individual or body corporate in Step 1. A proxy need not be a securityholder of the Company.

• ONLINE

www.linkmarketservices.com.au

Login to the Link website using the holding details as shown on the Proxy Form. Select ‘Voting’ and follow the prompts to lodge your vote. To use the online lodgement facility, securityholders will need their “Holder Identifier” (Securityholder Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) as shown on the front of the Proxy Form).

DEFAULT TO CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING

Any directed proxies that are not voted on a poll at the Meeting will default Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) to the Chairman of the Meeting, who is required to vote those proxies as as shown on the front of the Proxy Form). directed. Any undirected proxies that default to the Chairman of the Meeting will be voted according to the instructions set out in this Proxy BY MOBILE DEVICE QR Code Form, including where the Resolutions are connected directly or indirectly Our voting website is designed specifically with the remuneration of KMP. for voting online. You can now lodge VOTES ON ITEMS OF BUSINESS – PROXY APPOINTMENT your proxy by scanning the QR code adjacent or enter the voting link You may direct your proxy how to vote by placing a mark in one of the www.linkmarketservices.com.au into boxes opposite each item of business. All your securities will be voted in your mobile device. Log in using the accordance with such a direction unless you indicate only a portion of Holder Identifier and postcode for your voting rights are to be voted on any item by inserting the percentage or securityholding. number of securities you wish to vote in the appropriate box or boxes. If you do not mark any of the boxes on the items of business, your proxy To scan the code you will need a QR code reader application may vote as he or she chooses. If you mark more than one box on an item which can be downloaded for free on your mobile device. your vote on that item will be invalid. BY MAIL  APPOINTMENT OF A SECOND PROXY Austal Limited You are entitled to appoint up to two persons as proxies to attend the C/- Link Market Services Limited Meeting and vote on a poll. If you wish to appoint a second proxy, an Locked Bag A14 additional Proxy Form may be obtained by telephoning the Company’s Sydney South NSW 1235 security registry or you may copy this form and return them both together. Australia To appoint a second proxy you must: (a) on each of the first Proxy Form and the second Proxy Form state the  BY FAX percentage of your voting rights or number of securities applicable to +61 2 9287 0309 that form. If the appointments do not specify the percentage or number of votes that each proxy may exercise, each proxy may exercise half  BY HAND delivering it to Link Market Services Limited your votes. Fractions of votes will be disregarded; and 1A Homebush Bay Drive (b) return both forms together. Rhodes NSW 2138 SIGNING INSTRUCTIONS You must sign this form as follows in the spaces provided: * During business hours (Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm) Individual: where the holding is in one name, the holder must sign. Joint Holding:* where the holding is in more than one name, either securityholder may sign.

Power of Attorney: to sign under Power of Attorney, you must lodge the Power of Attorney with the registry. If you have not previously lodged this document for notation, please attach a certified photocopy of the Power of Attorney to this form when you return it.

COMMUNICATION PREFERENCE

We encourage you to receive all your shareholder communication via email. This communication method allows us to keep you informed without delay, is environmentally friendly and reduces print and mail costs.

Companies: where the company has a Sole Director who is also the Sole Company Secretary, this form must be signed by that person. If the company (pursuant to section 204A of the Corporations Act 2001 ) does not have a Company Secretary, a Sole Director can also sign alone. Otherwise this form must be signed by a Director jointly with either another Director or a Company Secretary. Please indicate the office held by signing in the appropriate place.

ONLINE

www.linkmarketservices.com.au

Login to the Link website using the holding details as shown on the Proxy Form. Select ‘Communications’ and click the first button to receive all communications electronically and enter your email address. To use the online facility, securityholders will need their “Holder Identifier” (Securityholder Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) as shown on the front of the Proxy Form).

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES

If a representative of the corporation is to attend the Meeting Virtually the appropriate “Certificate of Appointment of Corporate Representative” must be received at vote@linkmarketservices.com.au prior to admission in accordance with the Notice of Annual General Meeting. A form of the certificate may be obtained from the Company’s Share registry or online at www.linkmarketservices.com.au.