AGM Information • May 22, 2025
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Thursday, 22 May 2025, the following ORDINARY resolution and two SPECIAL resolutions of the Company were duly passed as Special Business at the meeting:
That, in substitution for all existing authorities, the Directors of the Company be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act), to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company (securities) provided that, unless renewed prior to that time, such authority shall be limited to the allotment of shares and grant of rights in respect of shares with an aggregate nominal amount of up to US\$147,243.20, (representing 5% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of this notice, excluding any treasury shares), provided that this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company to be held in 2026 but so that the Company may, before such expiry, make any offer or agreement which would or might require securities to be allotted pursuant to any such offer or agreement as if the authority hereby conferred had not expired.
That, in substitution for all existing authorities and subject to the passing of resolution 10, the Directors of the Company be and are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) to allot and make offers of agreement to allot equity securities (as defined in Section 560 of the Act), and to sell equity securities held by the Company as treasury shares (as defined in Section 724 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 10 above, as if Section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such allotments and sales of equity securities, provided that this power:
allotment of equity securities and/or the sale of equity securities held in treasury, at a price of not less than the net asset value per share as close as practicable to the allotment or sale.
That, in substitution for the Company's existing authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares of 10 cents in the Company (Shares), the Company be and it is hereby authorised in accordance with Section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) to make market purchases of Shares (within the meaning of Section 693 of the Act) provided that:
All Shares purchased pursuant to the above authority shall be either:
signed for and on behalf of BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited Company Secretary
Graham Venables
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