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Brockman Mining Limited Governance Information 2012

May 30, 2012

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The English version of the Bye-laws shall always prevail in case of any inconsistency between English version and its Chinese translation.

BYE-LAWS

OF

WONG’S INTERNATIONAL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

(Approved and adopted at the Annual General Meeting held on 30 May 2012)

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INTERPRETATION

INTERPRETATION
1. The marginal notes to these bye-laws shall not affect their
interpretation and in the interpretation of these bye-laws, unless
there be something in the subject or context inconsistent
therewith:-

Amended on business day(s) “business day(s)” shall mean any day on which the Designated 2 June 2010 Stock Exchange is generally open for the business of dealing in securities. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Designated Stock Exchange is closed for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong on a business day by reason of a Number 8 or higher typhoon signal, black rainstorm warning or other similar event, such day shall for the purposes of these Bye-laws be counted as a business day;

Amended on Designated Stock “Designated Stock Exchange” shall mean a stock exchange

2 June 2010 Exchange which is an appointed stock exchange for the purposes of the Act in respect of which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted and where such appointed stock exchange deems such listing or quotation to be the primary listing or quotation of the shares of the Company;

“business day(s)” shall mean any day on which the Designated Stock Exchange is generally open for the business of dealing in securities. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Designated Stock Exchange is closed for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong on a business day by reason of a Number 8 or higher typhoon signal, black rainstorm warning or other similar event, such day shall for the purposes of these Bye-laws be counted as a business day;

Hong Kong “Hong Kong” shall mean Hong Kong and its dependencies;

the Company “the Company” or “this Company” shall mean WONG’S INTERNATIONAL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED;

Companies Act “the Companies Act” or “the Act” shall mean the Companies Act

the Act 1981 of Bermuda as amended from time to time and includes every other act incorporated therewith or substituted therefor;

the Statutes “the Statutes” shall mean the Act and every other Act of the legislature of the Islands of Bermuda for the time being in force concerning companies and applying to or affecting the Company;

Amended on associate 8 June 2004

shall have the meaning attributed to it in the Listing Rules;

Amended on Listing Rules 8 June 2004

shall mean the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited as amended from time to time;

head office

relevant

territories

“head office” shall mean such office of the Company as the Directors may from time to time determine to be the principal office of the Company; the “relevant territories” shall mean Hong Kong or, in the event of the issued share capital of the Company no longer being listed with the consent of the Directors on any stock exchange in Hong Kong, such other territory or territories as the Directors may from time to time decide;

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registration office

these bye-laws these presents

capital

Amended on clearing house 26 June 2000 and 8 June 2004

share

shareholders members

Amended on substantial shareholder 30 May 2012

Amended on

Amended on the register 26 June 2000

Directors board

secretary

auditors

chairman

office

the “registration office” shall mean such place or places in the relevant territories or elsewhere where the Directors from time to time determine to keep a branch register of shareholders and where (except in cases where the Directors otherwise agree) transfers or other documents of title are to be lodged for registration and are to be registered;

“these bye-laws” or “these presents” shall mean the present bye-laws and all supplementary, amended or substituted bye-laws for the time being in force;

“capital” shall mean the share capital from time to time of the Company;

“clearing house” shall mean a clearing house recognised by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted on a stock exchange in such jurisdiction;

“share” shall mean share in the capital of the Company;

“shareholders” or “members” shall mean the duly registered holders from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company;

“substantial shareholder’’ means a person who is entitled to exercise, or to control the exercise of, 10% or more (or such other percentage as may be prescribed by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time) of the voting power at any general meeting of the Company;

  • “the register” shall mean the principal register and where applicable, any branch register of members to be kept pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act;

“Directors” or “board” shall mean the Directors from time to time of the Company or (as the context may require) a majority of Directors present and voting at a meeting of Directors;

“secretary” shall mean the person for the time being performing the duties of that office;

“auditors” shall mean the persons for the time being performing the duties of that office;

“the chairman” shall mean the chairman presiding at any meeting of members or of the board; “office” shall mean the registered office of the Company for the time being;

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seal

securities seal

dividend

HK dollars HK$

month

Amended on writing or

2 June 2010 printing

“seal” shall mean the common seal from time to time of the Company or any other common seals of the Company for use in any place other than Bermuda;

“securities seal” shall mean a seal for use for sealing certificates for shares or other securities issued by the Company which is a facsimile of the seal of the Company with the addition on its face of the words “Securities Seal”;

“dividend” shall include bonus and a distribution out of contributed surplus;

“HK dollars” and “HK$” shall mean dollars legally current in Hong Kong;

“month” shall mean a calendar month;

“writing” or “printing” shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including writing, printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing words or figures in a visible form, and including where the presentation takes the form of electronic display, provided that both the mode of service of the relevant document or notice and the member’s election comply with all applicable statutes, rules and regulations;

Reference to a document being executed include references to it being executed under hand or under seal or by electronic signature or by any other method and references to a notice or document include a notice or document recorded or stored in any digital, electronic, electrical, magnetic or other retrievable form or medium and information in visible form whether having physical substance or not;

singular and plural

gender

persons companies

statutory provisions

Words in the Act to bear same meaning in bye-laws

words denoting the singular shall include the plural and words denoting the plural shall include the singular;

words importing either gender shall include the other gender and the neuter;

words importing persons shall include companies and corporations; and

references to any statute or statutory provision shall be construed as relating to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.

Subject as aforesaid, any words defined in the Act shall, if not inconsistent with the subject and/or context, bear the same meaning in these bye-laws.

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Amended on 2 June 2010

Special Resolution

Amended on Ordinary

2 June 2010 Resolution

a resolution shall be a Special Resolution when it has been passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, by a duly authorized corporate representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which notice has been duly given in accordance with bye-law 69;

A resolution shall be an Ordinary Resolution when it has been passed by a simple majority of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or by a duly authorized corporate representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which notice has been duly given in accordance with bye-law 69;

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 or the Statutes.

Alteration of memorandum of association, bye-laws and name

  1. Without prejudice to any other requirements of the Companies Act, a Special Resolution shall be required to alter the provisions of the memorandum of association, to approve any amendment of these presents or to change the name of the Company.

Share capital and modification of rights

Amended on Capital 26 June 2000

Purchase of Shares

Issue of shares

  1. (A) The capital of the Company is divided into ordinary shares of a par value of HK$0.10 each unless otherwise determined by the members of the Company in a general meeting.

  2. (B) Subject to the Statutes, the power contained in the memorandum of association for the Company to purchase its shares shall be exerciseable by the Directors upon such terms and subject to such conditions as they think fit.

  3. (A) Without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares, any share may be issued with such preferred, deferred, qualified or other special rights, privileges or conditions or subject to such restrictions, whether as regards dividend, voting, return of share capital 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 any preference share may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution, be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is liable, to be redeemed or at the option of the holder is liable to be redeemed.

  4. (B) The Directors may issue warrants to subscribe for any

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class of shares or securities of the Company on such terms as they may from time to time determine. Where such share warrants are lost, no new warrant shall be issued to replace one that has been lost unless the Directors are satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the original has been destroyed and have received an indemnity in satisfactory form with regard to the issue of any new such warrant.

  • How rights of 5. (A) If at any time the share capital is divided into different shares may be classes of shares, the rights attached to any class (unless modified otherwise provided by the term of issue of the shares of that class) may, subject to the provisions of the Statutes, be varied, modified or abrogated with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourths in nominal value of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To every such separate general meeting the provisions of these bye-laws relating to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis apply, but so that the necessary quorum at such meeting (other than at an adjourned meeting) shall be two persons at least holding or representing by proxy one-third in nominal value of the issued shares of that class and that any holder of shares of the class present in person (or, in the case of a holder being a corporation, present by its duly authorised representative) or by proxy may demand a poll. At any adjourned meeting of such holders, two holders present in person or by proxy (whatever the number of shares held by them) shall be a quorum.

  • (B) The special rights conferred upon the holders of any shares or class of shares shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided in the rights attaching to or the terms of issue of such shares, be deemed to be varied, modified or abrogated 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.

Shares and increase of capital

Amended on Company to

30 May 2012 give financial assistance

  1. Subject to compliance with the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange and any other relevant regulatory authority, the Company may give financial assistance for the purpose of or in connection with a purchase made or to be made by any person of any shares in the Company.

Power to increase capital

  1. The Company in general meeting may from time to time, whether or not all the shares for the time being authorised shall have been issued and whether or not all the shares for the time being issued shall have been fully paid up, by Ordinary

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Resolution increase its share capital by the creation of new shares, such new capital to be of such amount and to be divided into shares of such respective amounts as the resolution shall prescribe.

On what conditions new shares may be issued

  1. (A) Any new shares shall be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such rights and privileges annexed thereto as the general meeting resolving upon the creation thereof shall direct and, if no direction be given, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act and of these bye-laws, as the Directors shall determine; and in particular such shares may be issued with a preferential or qualified right to dividends and in the distribution of assets of the Company and with a special or without any right of voting.

    • (B) Subject to the provisions of the Act, any shares may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution, be issued on terms that they are, or at the option of the Company or the holder are liable, to be redeemed.
  2. When to be 9. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution, before the issue of offered to any new shares, determine that the same, or any of them, shall be existing members offered in the first instance, and either at par or at a premium, to all the existing holders of any class of shares in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of shares of each class held by them respectively, or make any provisions as to the issue and allotment of such shares, but in default of any such determination or so far as the same shall not extend, such shares may be dealt with as if they formed part of the shares in the capital of the Company existing prior to the issue of the same.

  3. New shares 10. Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue or to form part by these bye-laws, any capital raised by the creation of new of original shares shall be treated as if it formed part of the original capital

  4. capital of the Company and such shares shall be subject to the provisions contained in these bye-laws with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, cancellation, surrender, voting and otherwise.

Shares at the disposal of the board

  1. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act and of these bye-laws relating to new shares, all unissued shares in the Company shall be at the disposal of the board, which may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, at such times and for such consideration and on such terms as the board shall in its absolute discretion think fit, but so that no shares shall be issued at a discount.

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Company may pay commissions

Company not to recognise trusts in respect of shares

  1. The Company may at any time pay a commission to any person for subscribing or agreeing to subscribe (whether absolutely or conditionally) for any shares in the Company or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or conditional) for any shares in the Company, but so that the conditions and requirements of the Statutes shall be observed and complied with, and in each case the commission shall not exceed ten per cent. of the price at which the shares are issued.

  2. Except as otherwise expressly provided by these bye-laws or as required by law or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share or any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

Register of members and share certificates

Register

  1. (A) The Directors shall cause to be kept a register of the members and there shall be entered therein the particulars required under the Companies Act.

  2. (B) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act, if the Directors consider it necessary or appropriate, the Company may establish and maintain one or more branch registers of members at such locations outside Bermuda as the Directors think fit.

Amended on 26 Share

June 1996 Certificates

Share certificate to be sealed

  1. Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register shall be entitled without payment to receive, within three weeks after allotment or lodgement of transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide), one certificate for all his shares or, if he shall so request and upon payment, in the case of a transfer, of the maximum fee prescribed by a stock exchange in Hong Kong on which any share capital of the Company is listed from time to time for every certificate after the first or such lesser sum as the Directors shall from time to time determine, such number of certificates for such respective numbers of shares as he shall request, provided that in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons the Company shall not be bound to issue a certificate or certificates to each such person, and the issue and delivery of a certificate or certificates to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

  2. Every certificate for shares or debentures or representing any other form of security of the Company shall be issued under the securities seal of the Company.

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  • Every 17. Every share certificate hereafter issued shall specify the number certificate to and class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the shares in specify number of shares respect of which it is issued and the amount paid thereon and may otherwise be in such form as the Directors may from time to time prescribe. No certificate shall be issued representing shares of more than one class.

Joint holders

  1. If any share shall stand in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the register shall be deemed the sole holder thereof as regards service of notices and, subject to the provisions of these bye-laws, all or any other matters connected with the Company, except the transfer of the share.

Amended on 26 Replacement

June 1996 share certificates

  1. If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be replaced on payment of such fee, if any, not exceeding the maximum fee prescribed by a stock exchange in Hong Kong on which any share capital of the Company is listed from time to time and on such terms and conditions, if any, as to publication of notices, evidence and indemnity, as the Directors think fit.

Lien

Company’s lien

  1. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid up share) for all moneys, whether presently payable or not, called or payable at a fixed time in respect of such share. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all dividends and bonuses declared in respect thereof. The Directors may resolve that any share shall for some specified period be exempt wholly or partially from the provisions of this bye-law.

Sale of shares subject to lien

  1. The Company may sell in such manner as the Directors think fit any shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged, nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving notice of intention to sell in default, shall have been given to the registered holder for the time being of the shares or the person entitled by reason of such holder’s death or bankruptcy to the shares.

Application of proceeds of such sale

  1. The net proceeds of such sale after the payment of the costs of such sale shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debt or liability or engagement in respect whereof the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the time of the sale. For giving effect to any such sale, the Directors may authorise some person

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to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof and may enter the purchaser’s name in the register as holder of the shares, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

Calls on shares

Calls

Instalments

Notice of call

  1. The Directors may from time to time make such calls as they may think fit upon the members in respect of any monies unpaid on the shares held by them respectively and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed times. A call may be made payable either in one sum or by instalments. The board may, but is not obliged to, allot shares on terms that if a sum payable in respect of any call is not duly paid, the Directors may exercise the powers of forfeiture contained in bye-laws 49 to 58 of these presents, but the holders of the relevant shares shall have no other contractual liability to the Company in respect of such unpaid sums.

  2. Fourteen days’ notice at least of any call shall be given specifying the time and place of payment and to whom such call shall be paid.

Copy of notice to be sent to member

  1. A copy of the notice referred to in bye-law 24 shall be sent to members in the manner in which notices may be sent to members by the Company as herein provided.

Every member liable to pay call at appointed time and place

  1. Every member upon whom a call is made shall pay the amount of every call so made on him to the person and at the time or times and place or places as the Directors shall appoint.

When call deemed to have been made

  1. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising such call was passed.

Liability of joint holders

  1. The joint holders of a share shall be severally as well as jointly liable for the payment of all calls and instalments due in respect of such share or other moneys due in respect thereof.

Board may extend time fixed for call

  1. The Directors may from time to time at their discretion extend the time fixed for any call, and may extend such time as to all or any of the members, whom from residence outside Hong Kong or other cause the Directors may deem entitled to any such extension but no member shall be entitled to any such extension except as a matter of grace and favour.

  2. Interest on 30. Unless the terms of allotment of the shares in respect of which a unpaid calls call is made otherwise provide, if the sum payable in respect of any call or instalment be not paid on or before the day appointed for payment thereof, the person or persons from whom the sum is

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due shall pay interest for the same at such rate not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the board shall fix from the day appointed for the payment thereof to the time of the actual payment, but the board may waive payment of such interest wholly or in part.

  • Suspension of 31. No member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or privileges to be present and vote (save as proxy for another member) at any while call general meeting, either personally or by proxy, or be reckoned in

  • unpaid a quorum, or to exercise any other privilege as a member until all calls or instalments due from him to the Company, whether alone or jointly with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) shall have been paid.

  • Evidence in 32. On the trial or hearing of any action or other proceedings for the action recovery of any money due for any call, it shall be sufficient to for call prove that the name of the member sued is entered in the register as the holder, or one of the holders, of the shares in respect of which such debt accrued; that the resolution making the call is duly recorded in the minute book; and that notice of such call was duly given to the member sued, in pursuance of these bye-laws; and it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of the Directors who made such call, nor any other matters whatsoever, but the proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the debt.

Sums payable on allotment deemed a call

  1. Any sum which by the terms of allotment of a share is made payable upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the nominal value of the share and/or by way of premium, shall for all purposes of these bye-laws be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date fixed for payment, and in case of non-payment all the relevant provisions of these bye-laws as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture and the like, shall apply as if such sums had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

  2. Payment of 34. The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any member calls in willing to advance the same, and either in money or money’s advance worth, all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid or instalments payable upon any shares held by him, and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced the Company may pay interest at such rate (if any) as the Directors may decide. Where any interest is paid, the holder of the share or shares shall not be entitled to participate in respect thereof in a dividend subsequently declared. The Directors may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such member not less than one month’s notice in writing of their intention in that behalf, unless before the expiration of such notice the amount so advanced shall have been called up on the shares in respect of which it was advanced.

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Transfer of shares

Registration

  1. (A) The Directors may, in their absolute discretion, at any time and from time to time transfer any share upon the register of members to any branch register or any share on any branch register to the register of members or any other branch register.

    • (B) Unless the Directors otherwise agree, no shares on the register of members may be transferred to any branch register nor may shares on any branch register be transferred to the register of members or any other branch register. All transfers and other documents of title must be lodged for registration, in the case of shares on a branch register, at the relevant registration office and, in the case of shares on the register of members, at the Office.
  2. Amended on 26 Form of 36. Subject to these bye-laws, any member may transfer all or any of June 1996 and 30 transfer May 2012 his shares in any manner permitted by and in accordance with the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the board and may be under hand or, if the transferor or transferee is a clearing house or its nominee(s), by hand or by machine imprinted signature or by such other manner of execution as the board may approve from time to time.

Amended on Execution of

30 May 2012 transfer

  1. The instrument of transfer shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferee provided that the board may dispense with the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferee in any case which it thinks fit in its discretion to do so. Without prejudice to bye-law 36, the board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof. Nothing in these bye laws shall preclude the board from recognising a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.

  2. Directors may 38. The board may, in its absolute discretion, and without assigning refuse to any reason, refuse to register a transfer of any share (not being a register a transfer fully paid up share) to a person of whom it does not approve, and it may also refuse to register any transfer of any share to more than four joint holders or any transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) on which the Company has a lien.

Notice of refusal

  1. If the board shall refuse to register a transfer of any share, it shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged at the registration office or Office, send to each of the

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transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal.

Amended on 26 June 1996

Requirements as to transfer

  1. The Directors may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:-

  2. (i) a maximum fee prescribed by a stock exchange in Hong Kong on which any share capital of the Company is listed from time to time or such lesser sum as the board may from time to time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof;

  3. (ii) the instrument of transfer is lodged at the relevant registration office of Office, as the case may be, and accompanied by the certificate 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;

  4. (iii) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of share; and

  5. (iv) if applicable, the instrument of transfer is properly stamped.

No transfer to an infant etc.

Certificate of transfer

  1. No transfer shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.

  2. Upon every transfer of shares the certificate held by the transferor shall be given up to be cancelled, and shall forthwith be cancelled accordingly, and a new certificate shall be issued without charge to the transferee in respect of the shares transferred to him, and if any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shall be retained by the transferor a new certificate in respect thereof shall be issued to him without charge. The Company shall also retain the instrument of transfer.

  3. When transfer 43. The registration of transfers may be suspended and the register books and and any branch register closed subject to compliance with any register may be closed requirements regarding advertisement contained in the Companies Act at such times and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine, provided always that such registration shall not be suspended or the register closed for more than thirty days in any year.

Transmission of shares

  • Death of 44. In the case of the death of a member, the survivor or survivors registered where the deceased was a joint holder and the legal personal holder or of representatives of the deceased where he was a sole holder, shall

  • joint holder of shares be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing herein contained

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shall release the estate of a deceased holder (whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share solely or jointly held by him.

Registration personal representatives and trustee in bankruptcy

  1. Subject to Section 52 of the Act any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may form time to time be required by the Directors, and subject as hereinafter provided, either be registered himself as holder of the share or elect to have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof.

Notice of election to be registered

Registration of nominee

  1. If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered himself, he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects. If he shall elect to have his nominee registered, he shall testify his election by executing to his nominee a transfer of such share. 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 member had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a notice or transfer executed by such member.

Amended on 8 June Retention of

2001 dividends, etc., until transfer or transmission of shares of a deceased or bankrupt member

  1. A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy of the holder shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share. However, the Directors may, if they think fit, withhold the payment of any dividend payable or other advantages in respect of such share until such person shall become the registered holder of the share or shall have effectually transferred such share, but, subject to the requirements of bye-law 82 being met, such a person may vote at meetings.

Untraceable members

  • Dividend 48. (A) Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under entitlements paragraph (B) of this bye-law, the Company may cease etc., of untraceable sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend members warrants by post if such cheques or warrants have been left uncashed on two consecutive occasions. However, the Company may exercise the power to cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion on which such a cheque or warrant is returned undelivered.

Sale of shares of untraceable members

  • (B) The Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner as the board thinks fit, any shares of a member who is untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless:-

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  • (i) all cheques or warrants, being not less than three in total number, for any sum payable in cash to the holder of such shares in respect of them sent during the relevant period in the manner authorised by the bye-laws of the Company have remained uncashed;

  • (ii) so far as it is aware at the end of the relevant period, the Company has not at any time during the relevant period received any indication of the existence of the member who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law; and

  • (iii) where such shares are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, the Company has caused an advertisement to be inserted in a leading English language daily newspaper and a leading Chinese language daily newspaper circulating in Hong Kong giving notice of its intention to sell such shares and has notified The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited of such intention and a period of three (3) months has elapsed since the date of such advertisement.

For the purpose of the foregoing, the “relevant period” means the period commencing twelve (12) years before the date of publication of the advertisement referred to in paragraph (iii) of this bye-law and ending at the expiry of the period referred to in that paragraph.

  • (C) To give effect to any such sale, the board may authorise some person to transfer the said shares and an instrument of transfer signed or otherwise executed by or on behalf of such person shall be as effective as if it had been executed by the registered holder or the person entitled by transmission to such shares, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale. The net proceeds of the sale will belong to the Company and upon receipt by the Company of such net proceeds it shall become indebted to the former member for an amount equal to such net proceeds. No trust shall be created in respect of such debt and no interest shall be payable in respect of it and the Company shall not be required to account for any money earned from the net proceeds which may be employed in the business of the Company or as it thinks fit. Any sale under this bye-law shall be valid and effective notwithstanding that the member holding the shares sold is dead, bankrupt or

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otherwise under any legal disability or incapacity.

Forfeiture of shares

If call or instalment not paid notice may be given

Form of notice

If notice not complied with, shares may be forfeited

Forfeited shares to be deemed property of Company

Arrears to be paid notwithstanding forfeiture

  1. If a member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time during such time as any part thereof remains unpaid, without prejudice to the provisions of bye-law 31, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and which may still accrue up to the date of actual payment.

  2. The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of service of the 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 at or before the time appointed, the shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

  3. If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends and bonuses declared in respect of the forfeited share, and not actually paid before the forfeiture.

  4. Any share so forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of the Company, and may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and at any time before a sale or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit.

  5. A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited shares, but unless the terms of allotment of the shares in respect of which a call is made and remains unpaid otherwise provide, shall, notwithstanding forfeiture, remain liable to pay to the Company all moneys which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares, together with (if the Directors shall in their discretion so require) interest thereon from the date of forfeiture until payment at such rate not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the Directors may prescribe, and the Directors may enforce the payment thereof if they think fit, and without any deduction or allowance for the value of the shares, at the date of forfeiture, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all such moneys in respect of the shares. For the purposes of this bye-law any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, is payable thereon at a fixed time which is subsequent to the date of forfeiture, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, shall notwithstanding that that time has not yet arrived be deemed to

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be payable at the date of forfeiture, and the same shall become due and payable immediately upon the forfeiture, but interest thereon shall only be payable in respect of any period between the said fixed time and the date of actual payment.

Evidence of forfeiture

  1. A statutory declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or secretary of the Company, and that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share, and 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 in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share.

Notice after forfeiture

  1. When any share shall have been forfeited, notice of the resolution shall be given to the member in whose name it stood immediately prior to the forfeiture, and an entry of the forfeiture, with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the register.

  2. Power to 56. Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid the Directors redeem may at any time, before any share so forfeited shall have been forfeited shares sold, re-allotted, or otherwise disposed of, permit the share forfeited to be redeemed upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the share, and upon such further terms (if any) as they think fit.

Forfeiture not to prejudice Company’s right to call or instalment

  1. The forfeiture of a share shall not prejudice the right of the Company to any call already made or instalment payable thereon.

  2. Forfeiture for 58. The provisions of these bye-laws as to forfeiture shall apply in non-payment the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of any sum due on shares of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

Alteration of capital

  1. (A) The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution:-

Consolidation and division of capital and sub-division and

  • (i) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares; on any consolidation of fully paid shares into shares of larger amount, the board may settle

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cancellation of shares

any difficulty which may arise as it thinks expedient and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) may as between the holders of shares to be consolidated determine which particular shares are to be consolidated into each consolidated share, and if it shall happen that any person shall become entitled to fractions of a consolidated share or shares, such fractions may be sold by some person appointed by the board for that purpose and the person so appointed may transfer the shares so sold to the purchaser thereof and the validity of such transfer shall not be questioned, and so that the net proceeds of such sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) may either be distributed among the persons who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction or fractions of a consolidated share or shares rateably in accordance with their rights and interests or may be paid to the Company for the Company’s benefit;

  • (ii) 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 share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled; and

  • (iii) sub-divide its shares or any of them into shares of a 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 have any such preferred or other special rights, over, or may have such deferred rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the others as the Company has power to attach to unissued or new shares.

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Amended on Reduction

2 June 2010 of capital

  • (B) The Company may from time to time by Special Resolution, subject to any confirmation or consent required by law, reduce its authorised or issued share capital or, save for the use of share premium as expressly permitted by the Act, any share premium account or other undistributable reserve.

Borrowing powers

Power to borrow

  1. Subject to the provisions of the Statutes the Directors may from time to time at their discretion exercise all the powers of the Company to raise or borrow or to secure the payment of any sum or sums of money for the purposes of the Company and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital or any part thereof.

  2. Conditions 61. The Directors may raise or secure the payment or repayment of on which such sum or sums in such manner and upon such terms and money may be borrowed conditions in all respects as they think fit and, subject to the Act, by the issue of debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities of the Company, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

Assignment

  1. Debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.

Special privileges

  1. Any debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities may be issued at a discount (other than shares), premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.

  2. Register of 64. The Directors shall cause a proper register of charges to be kept charges and of all mortgages and charges specifically affecting the property debentures of the Company and of all series of debentures issued by the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Companies Act in regard to the registration of mortgages, charges and debentures therein specified and otherwise.

  3. Mortgage of 65. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all uncalled persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same capital subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.

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General meetings

When annual general meeting to be held

Special general meeting Convening of special general meeting

Amended on 2 June Notice of

2010 meetings

  1. The Company shall in each year hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting in addition to any other meeting in that year and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it; and not more than fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting of the Company and that of the next. The annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint.

  2. All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called special general meetings.

  3. The Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene a special general meeting and special general meetings shall also be convened on requisition, as provided by the Statutes, or, in default, may be convened by the requisitionists.

  4. An annual general meeting shall be called by notice in writing of not less than twenty-one days and not less than twenty clear business days, any special general meeting called for the passing of a Special Resolution shall be called by notice in writing of not less than twenty-one days and not less than ten clear business days, and any other special general meeting shall be called by notice in writing of not less than fourteen days and not less than ten clear business days. The notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is served or deemed to be served and of the day for which it is given, and shall specify the place, the day and the hour of meeting and, in case of special business, the general nature of that business, and shall be given, in the manner hereinafter mentioned or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under these bye-Laws, entitled to receive such notices from the Company, provided that, subject to the provisions of the Act, a meeting of the Company shall notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified in this bye-law be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed:-

  5. (i) in the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting, by all the shareholders entitled to attend and vote thereat; and

  6. (ii) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of the shareholders having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than ninety-five per cent. in nominal value of the shares giving that right.

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Omission to give notice

  1. (A) The accidental omission to give any such notice to, or the non-receipt of any such notice by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or any proceeding at any such meeting.

  2. (B) In cases where instruments of proxy are sent out with notices, the accidental omission to send such instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of such instrument of proxy by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or any proceeding at any such meeting.

Proceedings at general meetings

Special business

Business of annual general meeting

Quorum

If quorum not present meeting to be dissolved or adjourned

Chairman of general meeting

  1. All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at a special general meeting, and also all business that is transacted at an annual general meeting, with the exception of sanctioning dividends, the reading, considering and adopting of the accounts and balance sheet and the reports of the Directors and auditors and other documents required to be annexed to the balance sheet, the election of Directors and appointment of auditors and other officers in the place of those retiring, the fixing of the remuneration of the auditors, and the voting of remuneration or extra remuneration of the Directors.

  2. For all purposes the quorum for a general meeting shall be three members present in person (or, in the case of a member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative) or by proxy and entitled to vote. No business other than the appointment of a chairman shall be transacted at any general meeting unless the requisite quorum shall be present at the commencement of the business.

  3. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved, but in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week and at such time and place as shall be decided by the Directors, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting, two members present in person (or by corporate representative) or by proxy shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.

  4. The chairman of the board shall take the chair at every general meeting, or, if there be no such chairman or, if at any general meeting such chairman shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such meeting, the members present shall choose another Director as chairman, and if no Director be present, or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair, or if the chairman chosen shall retire from the

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chair, then the members present shall choose one of their own number to be chairman.

Power to adjourn general meeting, business of adjourned meeting

Amended on 3 June Voting at

2005, 2 June 2010 general and 30 May 2012 meetings

  1. The chairman may, with the consent of any general meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed by the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time (or sine die) and from place to place as the meeting shall determine. Whenever a meeting is adjourned for fourteen days or more, at least seven clear days' notice, specifying the place, the day and the hour of the adjourned meeting shall be given in the same manner as in the case of an original meeting but it shall not be necessary to specify in such notice the nature of the business to be transacted at the adjourned meeting. Save as aforesaid, no member shall be entitled to any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at any adjourned meeting. No business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business which might have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

  2. (A) A resolution put to the vote of a general meeting shall be decided by way of a poll save that the chairman of the meeting may, in good faith, allow a resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter to be voted on by a show of hands in which case every member present in person (or being a corporation, is present by a duly authorized representative), or by proxy(ies) shall have one vote provided that where more than one proxy is appointed by a member which is a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), each such proxy shall have one vote on a show of hands. For purposes of this bye-law, procedural and administrative matters are those that:

  3. (i) are not on the agenda of the general meeting or in any supplementary circular that may be issued by the Company to its members; and

  4. (ii) relate to the chairman’s duties to maintain the orderly conduct of the meeting and/or allow the business of the meeting to be properly and effectively dealt with, whilst allowing all members a reasonable opportunity to express their views.

Amended on 30 Who may

May 2012 demand a poll

  • (B) Where a show of hands is allowed, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll may be demanded by:

  • (i) the chairman of the meeting; or

  • (ii) at least three members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or

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  • (iii) a member or members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and representing not less than one tenth of the total voting rights of all members having the right to vote at the meeting; or

  • (iv) a member or members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative 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 up on all shares conferring that right.

A demand by a person as proxy for a member or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative shall be deemed to be the same as a demand by the member.

Amended on 2 June Voting results 2010 and 30 May 2012

Amended on 2 June 2010 Amended on 2 June Chairman to 2010 have casting vote

Amended on 2 June 2010

  1. Where a resolution is voted on by a show of hands, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or not carried by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect made in the minute book of the Company, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded for or against the resolution. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting. The Company shall only be required to disclose the voting figures on a poll if such disclosure is required by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  2. Intentionally Deleted.

  3. In the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman of the meeting shall be entitled to a second or casting vote. In the case of any dispute as to the admission or rejection of any vote, the Chairman shall determine the same, and such determination shall be final and conclusive.

  4. Intentionally Deleted.

Votes of members

Amended on 26 June 2000, 8 June 2001 and 2 June 2010

  1. Subject to any special rights, privileges or restrictions as to voting for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, in respect of every resolution put to the vote of a meeting by poll at any general meeting, every shareholder present in person (or, in the case of a shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorized representative) or by proxy shall have one vote for each share registered in his name in the register. A

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shareholder entitled to more than one vote is under no obligation to cast all his votes in the same way.

Votes in respect of deceased and bankrupt members

Joint holders

Amended on 2 June Votes of

2010 and 30 May member who is 2012 a patient for any purpose relating to mental health

Qualification for voting

  1. Any person entitled under bye-law 45 to be registered as a shareholder may vote at any general meeting in respect thereof in the same manner as if he were the registered holder of such shares, provided that at least 48 hours before the time of the holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting (as the case may be) at which he proposes to vote, he shall satisfy the Directors of his right to be registered as the holder of such shares or the Directors shall have previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect thereof.

  2. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at any meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto: but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the register in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. Several executors or administrators of a deceased member in whose name any share stands shall for the purposes of this bye-law be deemed joint holders thereof.

  3. A member who is a patient for any purpose relating to mental health or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction for the protection or management of the affairs of persons incapable of managing their own affairs may vote, by his receiver, committee, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a receiver, committee or curator bonis appointed by such court, and such receiver, committee, curator bonis or other person may vote on a poll by proxy, and may otherwise act and be treated as if he were the registered holder of such shares for the purposes of general meetings, provided that such evidence as the board may require of the authority of the person claiming to vote shall have been deposited at the head office of the Company or at such other place as is specified in the notice of meeting or in the instrument of proxy issued by the Company, as appropriate, not less than forty-eight hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting, as the case may be.

  4. (A) Save as expressly provided in these bye-laws, no person other than a member duly registered and who shall have paid everything for the time being due from him payable to the Company in respect of his shares shall be entitled to be present or to vote (save as proxy for another member) either personally or by proxy, or to be reckoned in a quorum, at any general meeting.

  5. (B) No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote

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not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman, whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

Amended on 8 June 2004

Amended on 26 Proxies June 1996 and 8 June 2001

Instrument appointing proxy to be in writing

Amended on 2 Appointment

June 2010 of proxy must be deposited

Form of proxy

  • (C) Where any member, under the Listing Rules, is required to abstain from voting on any particular rsolution or is restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution, any votes cast by or on behalf of such member in contravention of such requirement or restriction shall not be counted.

  • Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company shall be entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A member who is the holder o two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to represent him and vote on his behalf at a general meeting of the Company or at a class meeting. Where a member appoints more than one proxy to represent him, the form of proxy shall specify the number and class of shares each such proxy represents. A proxy or proxies representing either a member who is an individual or a member which is a corporation shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the member which he or they represent as such member could exercise.

  • The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney authorised in writing, or if the appointor is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised.

  • The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority shall be deposited at the head office of the Company or at such other place as is specified in the notice of meeting or in the instrument of proxy issued by the Company not less than forty-eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting (as the case may be) at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting or an adjourned meeting in a case where the meeting was originally held within twelve months from such date.

  • Every instrument of proxy, whether for a specified meeting or otherwise, shall be in such form as the Directors may from time to time approve which form shall not preclude the use of a two way proxy.

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Amended on 2 June Authority

2010 under instrument appointing proxy

  1. The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a general meeting shall: (i) be deemed to confer authority upon the proxy to vote on any amendment of a resolution put to the meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit; and (ii) unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting for which it relates.

When vote by proxy valid though authority revoked

  1. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or power of attorney or other authority under which the proxy was executed or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at its head office, or at such other place as is referred to in bye-law 88, at least two hours before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used.

  2. Amended on 26 June Corporation 92. (A) Any corporation which is a member of the Company may, 2000 acting by by resolution of its directors or other governing body or representative by power of attorney, 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, and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company.

Amended on 26 June 2000, 2 June 2010 and 30 May 2012

  • (B) Where a member of the Company is a clearing house (or its nominee and, in each case, being a corporation), it may authorise such persons as it thinks fit to act as its representatives at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of members of the Company provided that the authorization shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which each such representative is so authorised. Each person so authorised under the provisions of this bye-law shall be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers as if such person was the registered holder of the shares of the Company held by the clearing house (or its nominee) in respect of the number and class of shares specified in relevant authorisation including, where a show of hands is allowed, the right to vote individually on a show of hands.

  • A corporation shall for the purpose of these presents be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting if a person authorised as referred to in bye-law 92 is present thereat. Any reference in these presents to a duly authorised representative of a member being a corporation shall mean a representative authorised under the provisions of these bye-laws.

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The board

Amended on 26 Constitution 94. The number of Directors shall not be less than three. There shall

June 2000 of board be no maximum number of Directors unless otherwise determined from time to time by the members of the Company in a general meeting.

Board may fill vacancies

  1. The Directors shall have power from time to time and at any time to appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the board but so that the maximum number of directors so appointed shall not exceed the number determined from time to time by the members in general meeting. Any Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election at that meeting.

Alternate Directors

  1. (A) Any Director may at any time by writing under his hand and deposited at the head office, or delivered at a meeting of the Directors, appoint any person (including 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.

  2. (B) The appointment of an alternate Director shall determine on the happening of any event which, were he a Director, would cause him to vacate such office or if his appointor ceases to be a Director.

  3. (C) An alternate Director shall (except when absent from the relevant territories), 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 the Director appointing him is not personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all the functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purposes of the proceedings at such meeting as an alternate for more than one Director his voting rights shall be cumulative. If his appointor is for the time being absent from the territory in which the head office is situate or otherwise not available or unable to act, his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of the Director for whom he is the alternate. 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 meeting of any such committee of which his appointor 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 bye-laws.

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  • (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 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 appointor as such appointor may by notice in writing to the Company from time to time direct.

Qualification shares for Directors and alternate Directors

Directors’ remuneration

Directors’ expenses

Special remuneration

Remuneration of managing Directors, etc.

  1. A Director or an alternate Director shall not be required to hold any shares in the Company by way of qualification. A Director or alternate Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at general meetings.

  2. The Directors shall be entitled to receive by way of remuneration for their services such sum as shall from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting, such sum (unless otherwise directed by the resolution by which it is voted) to be divided amongst the Directors in such proportions and in such manner as the board may agree, or, failing agreement, equally, except that any Director holding office for less than the whole of the relevant period in respect of which the remuneration is paid shall only rank in such division in proportion to the time during such period for which he has held office.

  3. The Directors shall also be entitled to be repaid all travelling and hotel expenses reasonably incurred by them respectively in or about the performance of their duties as Directors, including their expenses of travelling to and from board meetings, committee meetings or general meetings or otherwise incurred whilst engaged on the business of the Company.

  4. The board may grant special remuneration to any Director who, being called upon, shall perform any special or extra services to or at the request of the Company. Such special remuneration may be made payable to such Director in addition to or in substitution for his ordinary remuneration as a Director, and may be made payable by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or otherwise as may be arranged.

  5. Notwithstanding bye-laws 98, 99 and 100, the remuneration of a managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director or other executive director or a director appointed to any other office in the management of the Company shall from time to time be fixed by the Directors and may be by way of salary, commission, or participation in profits or otherwise or by all or any of those modes and with such other benefits

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(including pension and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances as the Directors may from time to time decide. Such remuneration shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director.

When office 102. (A) A Director shall vacate his office:- A Director shall vacate his office:-
of Director to
be vacated (i) if he becomes bankrupt or has a receiving
order made against him or suspends payment
or compounds with his creditors;
(ii) if he becomes a lunatic or of unsound mind;
(iii) if he absents himself from the meetings of the
board during a continuous period of six
months, without special leave of absence
from the board, and his alternate Director (if
any) shall not during such period have
attended in his stead, and the board passes a
resolution that he has by reason of such
absence vacated his office;
(iv) if he becomes prohibited from being a
Director by reason of any order made under
any provision of the Companies Act;
(v) if by notice in writing delivered to the
Company at the Office or the head office he
resigns his office;
(vi) if, having been appointed to an office under
bye-law 104, he is dismissed or removed
therefrom by the board under bye-law 105;
Amended on
2006
7 June (vii) if he shall be removed from office by an
Ordinary Resolution of the Company under
bye-law 118;
(viii) if he shall be convicted in any jurisdiction of
a criminal offence involving dishonesty.
(B) No Director shall be required to vacate office or be
ineligible for re-election or re-appointment as a
Director and no person shall be ineligible for
appointment as a Director by reason only of his
having attained any particular age.
Amended on
2004
8 June Directors may
contract with
Company
103. (A) (i) No Director or intended Director shall be
disqualified by his office from entering into
any contract, arrangement or any other
proposal in which he or any of his associates
has an interest nor shall any such contract,

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arrangement or proposal be capable on that account of being avoided, nor shall any such Director be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such contract, arrangement or proposal by reason only of such Director holding that office or the fiduciary relationship thereby established, provided that such Director shall forthwith disclose the nature of the interest as required by and subject to the provisions of the Companies Act.

Amended on 8 June 2004

Amended on 8 June 2004

Amended on 8 June 2004

  • (ii) Notwithstanding such disclosure is made as aforesaid, a Director shall, subject as provided in bye-law 103(A)(iii) not be entitled to vote on any resolution of the Board approving any contract or arrangement or any other proposal in which he or any of his associates has a material interest and he shall not be counted in the quorum present at the meeting at which such contract, arrangement or proposal is considered. The question whether a Director or any of his associates is materially interested in a contract, arrangement or proposal shall be determined by a resolution of the Board in respect of which the Director whose interest or that of his associates is being discussed shall not be entitled to vote.

  • (iii) None of the prohibitions provided in bye-law 103(A)(ii) shall apply to:-

  • (a) the giving of any security or indemnity either:-

    • (i) to the Director or his associates in respect of money lent or obligations incurred or undertaken by him or any of them at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or

    • (ii) to a third party in respect of a debt or obligation of the Company or any of its subsidiaries for which the Director or his associates have himself/themselves assumed responsibility in whole or in part and whether alone or jointly under

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a guarantee or indemnity or by the giving of security;

Amended on 8 June 2004

Amended on 8 June 2004 and 30 May 2012

Amended on 8 June 2004

  • (b) any proposal concerning an offer of shares or debentures or other securities of or by the Company or any other company which the Company may promote or be interested in for subscription or purchase where the Director or his associates is/are or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the offer;

  • (c) Intentionally Deleted.

  • (d) any proposal or arrangement concerning the benefit of employees of the Company or its subsidiaries including:-

  • (i) the adoption, modification or operation of any employees’ share scheme or any share incentive or share option scheme under which the Director or his associates may benefit; or

  • (ii) the adoption, modification or operation of a pension fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme which relates both to Directors, their associates and employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any Director, or his associates, as such any privilege or advantage not generally accorded to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates; and

Amended on 8 June 2004

  • (e) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his associates is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company.

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  • (iv) Any Director may continue to be or become a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer or member of any other company in which the Company may be interested and (unless otherwise agreed) no such Director shall be accountable for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer or member of any such other company. The Directors may exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company, or exercisable by them as directors of such other company in such manner in all respects as they think fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing themselves or any of them directors, managing directors, joint managing directors, deputy managing directors, executive directors, managers or other officers of such company) and any Director may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or about to be, appointed a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer of such a company, and that as such he is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.

Amended on 8 June 2004

(v) A general notice to the Directors by a Director that he or any of his associates is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may be made with any specified person, firm or corporation after the date of such notice shall be a sufficient declaration of interest in relation to any contract or arrangement so made, provided that no such notice shall be of effect unless either it is given at a meeting of the Directors or the Director takes reasonable steps to ensure that it is brought up and read at the next meeting of the Directors after it is given.

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  • (B) A Director may be or become a director of any company promoted by the Company or in which it may be interested as a vendor, shareholder or otherwise and no such Director shall be accountable for any benefits received as a director or member of such company.

  • (C) Any Director may act by himself or by his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director, provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise a Director or his firm to act as auditor to the Company.

  • (D) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this bye-law, any payment to a Director or past Director of the Company by way of compensation for loss of office or as consideration for or in connection with his retirement from office other than payments to which a Director is entitled by contract must be approved by the Company in general meeting.

  • (E) The provisions set out in bye-law 103 shall apply in all respects to each of the alternate directors of the Company to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director.

Managing Directors, etc.

Power to appoint managing Director, etc.

Removal of managing Director, etc.

Cessation of appointment

  1. The board may from time to time appoint any one or more of its body to the office of managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, or other executive director and/or such other office in the management of the business of the Company as it may decide for such period and upon such terms as it thinks fit and upon such terms as to remuneration as it may decide in accordance with bye-law 101.

  2. Every Director appointed to an office under bye-law 104 hereof shall, subject to the provisions of any contract between himself and the Company with regard to his employment in such office, be liable to be dismissed or removed therefrom by the board.

  3. A Director appointed to an office under bye-law 104 shall be subject to the same provisions as to removal as the other Directors, and he shall (subject to the provisions of any contract between him and the Company) ipso facto and immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the office of Director for any cause.

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  • Powers may 107. The Directors may from time to time entrust to and confer be delegated upon a managing Director, joint managing Director, deputy managing Director or executive Director all or any of the powers of the Directors that they may think fit. But the exercise of all powers by such Director shall be subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Directors may from time to time make and impose, and the said powers may at any time be withdrawn, revoked or varied.

Management

  • General 108. (A) Subject to any exercise by the Directors of the powers powers conferred by bye-laws 109 to 111, the management of of Company vested in the business of the Company shall be vested in the Directors Directors who, in addition to the powers and authorities by these bye-laws expressly conferred upon them, may exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done or approved by the Company and are not hereby or by the Companies Act expressly directed or required to be exercised or done by the Company in general meeting, but subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Companies Act and of these bye-laws and to any regulations from time to time made by the Company in general meeting not being inconsistent with such provisions or these bye-laws, provided that no regulation so made shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made.

  • (B) Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these bye-laws, it is hereby expressly declared that the Directors shall have the following powers:-

    • (i) to give to any person the right or option of requiring at a future date that an allotment shall be made to him of any share at par or at such premium as may be agreed;

    • (ii) to give any Directors, officers or servants of the Company an interest in any particular business or transaction or participation in the profits thereof or in the general profits of the Company either in addition to or in substitution for a salary or other remuneration.

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Managers

Appointment and remuneration of managers

Tenure of office and powers

Terms and conditions of appointment

  1. The Directors may from time to time appoint a general manager, manager or managers of the Company and may fix his or their remuneration either by way of salary or commission or by conferring the right to participation in the profits of the Company or by a combination of two or more of these modes and pay the working expenses of any of the staff of the general manager, manager or managers who may be employed by him or them upon the business of the Company.

  2. The appointment of such general manager, manager or managers may be for such period as the Directors may decide and the Directors may confer upon him or them all or any of the powers of the Directors as they may think fit.

  3. The Directors may enter into such agreement or agreements with any such general manager, manager or managers upon such terms and conditions in all respects as the Directors may in their absolute discretion think fit, including a power for such general manager, manager or managers to appoint an assistant manager or managers or other employees whatsoever under them for the purpose of carrying on the business of the Company.

Retirement of Directors

Amended on Retirement of

3 June 2005 Directors

Amended on 3 June 2005

  1. (A) Every Director shall retire from office no later than the third annual general meeting after he was last elected or re-elected.

  2. (B) At each annual general meeting, if the number of Director retiring under Bye-law 112(A) is less than one-third (or the number nearest to but not greater than one-third if the total number of Directors is not three or a multiple of three) of the Directors for the time being, then additional Directors shall retire from office by rotation under this Bye-law 112(B) to make up the shortfall. The Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to obtain the number required) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election and any Director appointed pursuant to the provisions of bye-law 95. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those of the other Directors subject to retirement by rotation who have been longest in office since their last re-election or 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.

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Amended on 3 June 2005 Amended on 3 June 2005

Meeting to fill up vacancies

  • (C) A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election.

  • (D) The retirement of a Director pursuant to the foregoing bye-laws 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.

  • (A) The Company at any general meeting at which any Directors retire in manner aforesaid may fill the vacated office by electing a like number of persons to be Directors.

  • (B) A resolution for the election of two or more persons as Directors by a single resolution shall 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.

Retiring Directors to remain in office till successors appointed

  1. If at any general meeting at which an election of Directors ought to take place, the places of the retiring Directors are not filled the retiring Directors or such of them as have not had their places filled shall be deemed to have been re-elected and shall, if willing, continue in office until the next annual general meeting and so on from year to year until their places are filled, unless:-

  2. (i) it shall be determined at such meeting to reduce the number of Directors; or

  3. (ii) it is expressly resolved at such meeting not to fill up such vacated offices; or

Amended on 3 June 2005

  • (iii) such Director is required to retire from office at such meeting by virtue of the provisions in Bye-law 112(A); or

  • (iv) in any such case the resolution for re-election of a Director is put to the meeting and lost.

Power of general meeting to increase or reduce number of Directors

  1. The Company may from time to time in general meeting by Ordinary Resolution increase or reduce the number of Directors but so that the number of Directors shall never be less than three.

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  • Amended on 8 June Notice to be 116. No person, other than a retiring Director, shall, unless 2004 given when recommended by the Directors for election, be eligible for person election to the office of Director at any general meeting, unless

  • proposed for election notice in writing of the intention to propose that person for election as a Director and notice in writing by that person of his willingness to be elected shall have been given to the Company for a period of not less than seven days commencing no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the meeting appointed for such election and ending no later than seven days prior to the date of such meeting.

Register of Directors and Secretaries

  1. The Company shall keep at its head office a register containing the names and addresses, occupations and nationalities of its Directors and Secretaries.

Amended on 7 June Power to 2006 remove Director by Ordinary Resolution

  1. The Company made by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director (including a managing or other executive director, but without prejudice to any claim for damages that may thereby arise) before the expiration of his period of office notwithstanding anything in these bye-laws or in any agreement between the Company and such Director and may by Ordinary Resolution elect another person in his stead. Any person so elected shall hold office for such time only as the Director in whose place he is elected would have held the same if he had not been removed.

Proceedings of Directors

Meeting of Directors, quorum, etc.

  1. (A) The Directors may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings as they think fit and may determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise determined two Directors shall be a quorum. For the purposes of this bye-law an alternate Director shall be counted in a quorum but, notwithstanding that an alternate Director is an alternate for more than one Director, he shall for quorum purposes count as only one Director. A Director or any member of a committee of the Directors may participate in a meeting of the board or such committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting are capable of hearing each other.

Resident Representative

  • (B) Where the Company does not have a quorum of Directors ordinarily resident in Bermuda, the Company shall in accordance with the Statutes appoint and maintain a resident representative (being a person ordinarily resident in Bermuda) and the resident representative shall maintain an office in Bermuda and comply with the provisions of the Statutes.

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The Company shall provide the resident representative with such information as the resident representative may require in order to be able to comply with the provisions of the Statutes.

Convening of board meeting

  1. A Director may, and on request of a Director the secretary shall, at any time summon a meeting of the board. Notice thereof shall be given to each Director either in writing or by telephone or by telex or telegram at the address from time to time notified to the Company by such Director or in such other manner as the board may from time to time determine.

How questions 121. Questions arising at any meeting of the board shall be decided

decided by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. Chairman

  1. The Directors may elect a chairman of their meetings and determine the period (not being a period extending beyond the date of the annual general meeting at which such chairman is due to retire) for which he is to hold office; but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

Power of meeting

  1. A meeting of the Directors for the time being at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all or any of the authorities, powers and discretions by or under these bye-laws for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Directors generally.

  2. Power to 124. The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees appoint consisting of such member or members of their body as the committee Directors think fit, and they may from time to time revoke

  3. and to delegate such delegation or revoke the appointment of and discharge any such committees either wholly or in part, and either as to persons or purposes, but every committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may from time to time be imposed upon it by the Directors.

Acts of 125. All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such

committee to regulations and in fulfilment of the purposes for which it is be of same effect as act appointed, but not otherwise, shall have the like force and of Directors effect as if done by the Directors, and the Directors shall have power, with the consent of the Company in general meeting, to remunerate the members of any special committee, and charge such remuneration to the current expenses of the Company.

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Proceedings of 126. The meetings and proceedings of any such committee

committee consisting of two or more members shall be governed by the provisions herein contained for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Directors.

Acts of Directors or committee to be valid notwithstanding defects

All acts bona fide done by any meeting of the Directors or by a committee of Directors or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it shall be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of such Director or persons acting as aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a Director.

Directors’ powers when vacancies exist

  1. The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these bye-laws as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Director or Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number or of summoning a general meeting of the Company but for no other purpose.

Amended on Directors’

30 May 2012 resolutions

  1. A resolution in writing signed by each of the Directors for the time being in relevant territories (or their respective alternates appointed pursuant to bye-law 96) shall, provided such directors (or their respective alternates) would constitute a quorum at any meeting of the board convened to consider the resolution and provided further that a copy of such resolution has been given or the contents thereof communicated to all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notices of meetings of the Directors in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given by these presents, be as valid and effectual as if it has been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or alternate Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a resolution in writing shall not be passed in lieu of a meeting of the board for the purposes of considering any matter or business in which a substantial shareholder of the Company or a Director has a conflict of interest and the board has determined that such conflict of interest to be material.

Secretary

Appointment of Secretary

  1. The Secretary shall be appointed by the board for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as it may think fit, and any secretary so appointed may be removed by the board. Anything by the Companies Act or these bye-laws required or authorised to be done by or to the secretary, if the office is vacant or there is for any other reason no secretary capable of acting, may be done by or to any assistant or deputy secretary, or if there is no assistant or deputy secretary capable

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of acting, by or to any officer of the Company authorised generally or specially in that behalf by the board. If the secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised.

Residence

Same person not to act in two capacities at once

  1. The secretary shall ordinarily reside in the territory where the head office is situate.

  2. A provision of the Companies Act or of these bye-laws requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as or in place of the secretary.

General management and use of the seal

Custody of seal

Securities seal

  1. (A) The Company may have one or more seals as the Directors may determine. The board shall provide for the safe custody of the seals which shall only be used by the authority of the board or of a committee of the board authorised by the board in that behalf, and every instrument to which the seal shall be affixed shall be signed by a Director and shall be countersigned by the secretary or by a second Director or by some other person appointed by the board for the purpose, provided that the board may either generally or in any particular case or cases resolve (subject to such restrictions as to the manner in which the seal may be affixed as the board may determine) that such signatures or any of them may be affixed to certificates for shares or debentures or representing any other form of security by some mechanical means other than autographic to be specified in such resolution or that such certificates need not be signed by any person. Every instrument executed in the manner provided by this bye-law shall be deemed to be sealed and executed with the authority of the Directors previously given. Wherever in these bye-laws reference is made to the seal, the reference shall, when and so far as may be applicable, be deemed to include any such other seal as aforesaid.

  2. (B) The Company may have a securities seal for use for sealing certificates for shares or other securities issued by the Company. No signature of any Director, officer or other person and no mechanical reproduction thereof shall be required on any such certificate or other document and any such certificate or other document to which the securities seal is affixed shall be valid and deemed to have been sealed and executed with the authority of the board notwithstanding the

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absence of any such signature or mechanical reproduction as aforesaid.

Cheques and banking arrangements

  1. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, indorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the board shall from time to time by resolution determine. The Company’s banking accounts shall be kept with such banker or bankers as the board shall from time to time determine.

Power to appoint attorney

  1. (A) The board may from time to time and at any time, by power of attorney under the seal, appoint any company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the board, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretion (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the board under these bye-laws) and for such period and subject to such conditions as it 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 board 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.

Execution of deeds by attorney

  • (B) The Company may, by writing under its seal, empower any person, either generally or in respect of any specified matter, as its attorney to execute deeds and instruments on its behalf and to enter into contracts and sign the same on its behalf and every deed signed by such attorney on behalf of the Company and under his seal shall bind the Company and have the same effect as if it were under the seal of the Company.

  • Local boards 136. The board may establish any committees, local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in the relevant territories or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees, local boards or agencies and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate to any committee, local board or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the board (other than its powers to make calls and forfeit shares), with power to sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any local board or any of them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the board may think fit, and the board may remove any person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and

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without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.

Power to establish pension funds

  1. The board may establish and maintain or procure the establishment and maintenance of any contributory or non-contributory pension or superannuation funds for the benefit of, or give or procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to any persons who are or were at any time in the employment or service of the Company, or of any company which is a subsidiary of the Company, or is allied or associated with the Company or with any such subsidiary company, or who are or were at any time Directors or officers of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid, and holding or who have held any salaried employment or office in the Company or such other company, and the wives, widows, families and dependants of any such persons. The board may also establish and subsidise or subscribe to any institutions, associations, clubs or funds calculated to be for the benefit of or to advance the interests and well-being of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid or of any such persons as aforesaid, and may make payments for or towards the insurance of any such persons as aforesaid, and subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibition or for any public, general or useful object. The board may do any of the matters aforesaid, either alone or in conjunction with any such other company as aforesaid. Any Director holding any such employment or office shall be entitled to participate in and retain for his own benefit any such donation, gratuity, pension, allowance or emolument.

Capitalisation of reserves

Power to capitalise

  1. (A) The Company in general meeting may upon the recommendation of the Directors resolve that it is desirable to capitalise any part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve accounts or to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution (and not required for the payment or provision of the dividend on any shares with a preferential right to dividend) and accordingly that such sums be set free for distribution amongst the members who would have been entitled thereto if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportion on condition that the same be not paid in cash but be applied either in or towards paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively or paying up in full unissued shares or debentures of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid up to and

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amongst such members in the proportion aforesaid or partly in the one way and partly in the other, and the Directors shall give effect to such resolution, provided that a share premium account and any reserve or fund representing unrealised profits may, for the purposes of this bye-law, only be applied in paying up unissued shares to be issued to members of the Company credited as fully paid up shares. In carrying sums to reserve and in applying the same the Board shall comply with the provisions of the Act.

Effect of resolution to capitalise

  • (B) Wherever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed the Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid up shares or debentures, if any, and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto, with full power to the Directors to make such provision by the issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise (including provision for the benefit of fractional entitlements to accrue to the Company rather than to the members concerned) as they think fit for the case of shares or debentures becoming distributable in fractions, and also to authorise any person to enter on behalf of all members entitled thereto into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid up, of any further shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such capitalisation, or, as the case may require, for the payment up by the Company on their behalf, by the application thereto of their respective proportions of the profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares, and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such members.

  • (C) The Directors may, in relation to any capitalisation sanctioned under this bye-law in their absolute discretion specify that, and in such circumstances and if directed so to do by a member or members entitled to an allotment and distribution credited as fully paid up of unissued shares or debentures in the Company pursuant to such capitalisation, shall allot and distribute credited as fully paid up the unissued shares or debentures to which that member is entitled to such person or persons as that member may nominate by notice in writing to the Company, such notice to be received not later than the day for which the general meeting of the Company to sanction the capitalisation is convened.

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Dividends and reserves

Amended on Power to

30 May 2012 declare dividends

  1. The Company in general meeting may declare dividends in any currency or make distributions out of contributed surplus but no dividends or distributions shall exceed the amount recommended by the board.

Board’s power to pay interim dividends

  1. (A) The board may from time to time pay to the members such interim dividends as appear to the board to be justified by the profits of the Company and, in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing), if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes, the board may pay such interim dividends in respect of those shares in the capital of the Company which confer on the holders thereof deferred or non-preferential rights as well as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to dividend and provided that the board acts bona fide the board shall not incur any responsibility to the holders of shares conferring any preference for any damage that they may suffer by reason of the payment of an interim dividend on any shares having deferred or non-preferential rights.

  2. (B) The board may also pay half-yearly or at other suitable intervals to be settled by it any dividend which may be payable at a fixed rate if the board is of the opinion that the profits justify the payment.

Amended on 30 Dividends not 141. No dividend shall be paid or distribution made out of

May 2012 to be paid out contributed surplus if to do so would render the Company of contributed unable to pay its liabilities as they become due or the surplus realisable value of its assets would thereby become less than its liabilities. No dividend shall carry interest.

Scrip dividends

  1. (A) Whenever the Directors or the Company in general meeting have resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on the share capital of the Company, the Directors may further resolve:-

  2. either (i) that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid, provided that the shareholders entitled thereto will be entitled to elect to receive such dividend (or part thereof) in cash in lieu of such allotment. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:-

  3. (a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Directors;

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allotment, shall give not less than two weeks' notice in writing to the shareholders of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

  • (c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded;

  • (d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the allotment of shares as aforesaid) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the cash election has not been duly exercised ("the non-elected shares") and in satisfaction thereof shares shall be allotted credited as fully paid to the shareholders of the non-elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Directors shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company or any part of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including any special account, share premium account and reserve fund (if there be any such reserve)) as the Directors may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis;

or

  • (ii) that shareholders entitled to such dividend shall be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Directors may think fit. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:-

  • (a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Directors;

  • (b) the Directors, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two weeks' notice in writing to the shareholders of the right of election accorded to them and shall

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send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

  • (c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded;

  • (d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been recorded) shall not be payable on shares in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (“the elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares shall be allotted credited as fully paid to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Directors shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company’s reserve accounts (including any special account, share premium account and reserves) as the Directors may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such basis.

  • (B) The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this bye-law shall rank pari passu in all respects with the shares then in issue save only as regards participation:-

  • (i) in the relevant dividend (or the right to receive or to elect to receive an allotment of shares in lieu thereof as aforesaid); or

  • (ii) in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend,

unless, contemporaneously with the announcement by the Directors of their proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (A) of this bye-law in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with their announcement of the distribution, bonus or rights in question, the Directors

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shall specify that the shares to be allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this bye-law shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.

  • (C) The Directors may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalisation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this bye-law with full power to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the members concerned). The Directors may authorise any person to enter into on behalf of all members interested, an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made pursuant to such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

  • (D) The Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors by Special Resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (A) of this bye-law a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.

  • (E) The Directors may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (A) of this bye-law shall not be made available or made to any shareholders with registered addresses in any territory where in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities the circulation of an offer of such rights of election or the allotment of shares would or might be unlawful, and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination.

Reserves

  1. The board may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as it thinks fit as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the board, be applicable for meeting claims on or liabilities of the Company or contingencies or for paying off any loan capital or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be

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employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the Company) as the board may from time to time think fit, and so that it shall not be necessary to keep any investments constituting the reserve or reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the Company. The board may also without placing the same to reserve carry forward any profits which it may think prudent not to distribute by way of dividend.

Dividends to be paid in proportion to paid up capital

  1. Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividend and subject to the terms of issue of any shares providing to the contrary, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid up on the shares in respect of whereof the dividend is paid, but no amount paid up or credited as paid up on a share in advance of calls or instalments shall be treated for the purposes of this bye-law as paid up on the share.

Retention of dividends etc.

  1. (A) The Directors may retain any dividends or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share upon which the 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.

Deduction of debts

  • (B) The Directors may deduct from any dividend or bonus payable to any member all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls, instalments or otherwise.

  • Dividend and 146. Any general meeting sanctioning a dividend may make a call call together on the members of such amount as the meeting fixes, but so that the call on each members shall not exceed the dividend payable to him, and so that the call be made payable at the same time as the dividend, and the dividend may, if so arranged between the Company and the member, be set off against the call.

Dividend in specie

  1. Whenever the Directors or the Company in general meeting have resolved that a dividend be paid or declared, the Directors may further resolve that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warrants to subscribe securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Directors may settle the same as they thinks expedient, and in particular may issue fractional certificates, disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets, or any part thereof, and 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

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assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Directors and may appoint any person to sign any requisite instruments of transfer and other documents on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend and such appointment shall be effective. Where requisite, a contract shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act and the Directors may appoint any person to sign such contract on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend and such appointment shall be effective.

  • Effect of 148. A transfer of shares shall not pass the right to any dividend or transfer bonus declared thereon before the registration of the transfer. Receipt for 149. If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any dividends by shares, any one of such persons may give effectual receipts for joint holders any dividends, interim dividends or bonuses and other moneys payable in respect of such shares.

  • Payment by 150. Unless otherwise directed by the Directors, any dividend or post bonus may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post to the registered address of the member entitled, or, in case of joint holders, to the registered address of that one whose name stands first in the register in respect of the joint holding or to such person and to such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every cheque or warrant so sent shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent, and the payment of any such cheque or warrant shall operate as a good discharge to the Company in respect of the dividend and/or bonus represented thereby, notwithstanding that it may subsequently appear that the same has been stolen or that any endorsement thereon has been forged.

Unclaimed dividend

  1. All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed and the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends or bonues unclaimed for six years after having been declared may be forfeited by the Directors and shall revert to the Company.

Annual returns

Annual returns

  1. The Directors shall be make the requisite annual returns in accordance with the requirements of the relevant territories, if any.

Accounts

Accounts to be kept

  1. The Directors shall cause proper books of accounts to be kept of the sums of money received and expended by the Company, and the matters in respect of which such receipt and expenditure take place, and of the property, assets, credits and

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liabilities of the Company and of all other matters required by the Companies Act or necessary to give a true and fair view of the Company's affairs and to explain its transactions.

Where accounts 154. The books of account shall be kept at the Office or, subject to

to be kept the Act, at such other place or places as the Directors think fit and shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors.

  • Inspection by 155. The Directors shall from time to time determine whether and members to what extent, at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations, the accounts and books of the Company, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of the members not being Directors, and no member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company, except as conferred by the Companies Act or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting.

  • Annual profit 156. (A) Subject to Section 88 of the Act the Directors shall lay and loss before the Company at each annual general meeting account and balance sheet the audited profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and reports of the Company in respect of the preceding financial year or offer period for which audited accounts have been prepared.

Annual report of Directors and balance sheet to be sent to members

  • (B) Every balance sheet of the Company shall be signed pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act, and a copy of every balance sheet (including every document required by law to be annexed thereto) and profit and loss account which is to be laid before the Company in general meeting, together with a copy of the Directors’ report and a copy of the auditors’ report, shall not less than twenty-one days before the date of the meeting, be sent to every member of, and every holder of debentures of, the Company and every person registered under bye-law 45 and every other person entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the Company, provided that this bye-law shall not require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.

Audit

Auditors

  1. Auditors shall be appointed and their duties regulated in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes.

Remuneration of auditors

  1. Subject as otherwise provided by the Statutes the remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the Company in general meeting, provided always that in respect of any particular year the Company in general meeting may delegate

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the fixing of such remuneration to the Directors.

When accounts 159. Every statement of accounts audited by the Company’s

to be deemed auditors (which, subject to Section 88 of the Act, shall be finally settled conducted at least once in every year) and presented by the Directors at a general meeting shall after approval at such meeting be conclusive except as regards any error discovered therein within three months of the approval thereof. Whenever any such error is discovered within that period, it shall forthwith be corrected, and the statement of account amended in respect of the error shall be conclusive.

Notices

Amended on 2 June Service of 160.

2010 notices

Any notice or document (including any corporate communication within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange), whether or not, to be given or issued under these bye-laws from the Company to a shareholder shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or communication and any such notice and document may be served or delivered by the Company on or to any shareholder either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such shareholder at his registered address as appearing in the register or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose or, as the case may be, by transmitting it to any such address or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him or which the person transmitting the notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the notice being duly received by the shareholder or may also be served by advertisement published in the newspapers or by placing it on the Company’s website and giving to the shareholder a notice stating that the notice or other document is available there (a "notice of availability"). The notice of availability may be given to the shareholder by any of the means set out above. In case of joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that holder for the time being one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the register and notice so given shall be deemed a sufficient notice to all the joint holders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may deem consent on the part of a shareholder to a corporate communication being made available to him on the Company’s website if such deemed consent is permitted by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange and the Company complies with any procedure that the Designated Stock Exchange may require.

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Members out of 161. relevant territories

  • Where the registered address of a member is outside the relevant territories, notice, if given through the post, shall be sent by pre-paid air mail letter. Any member whose registered address is outside the relevant territories may notify the Company in writing of an address in the relevant territories which for the purpose of service of notice shall be deemed to be his registered address. A member who has no registered address shall be deemed to have received any notice which shall have been displayed at the registered office of the Company and shall have remained there for the space of twenty-four hours and such notice shall be deemed to have been received by such member on the day following that on which it shall have been first so displayed.

Amended on 2 When notice 162. Any notice or other document:

June 2010 by post deemed to be served

  • (i) if served or delivered by post, shall where appropriate be sent by airmail and shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which the envelope containing the same, properly prepaid and addressed, is put into a post office situated within the relevant territory and in proving such service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the written notice or other document was so addressed and put into the post shall be conclusive evidence thereof;

  • (ii) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent. A written notice placed on the Company’s website or the website of the Designated Stock Exchange, is deemed given by the Company to a shareholder on the day following that on which a notice of availability is deemed served on the shareholder;

  • (iii) if served by advertisement, shall be deemed to have been served on the day of issue of the official publication and/or newspaper(s) in which the advertisement is published (or on the last day of issue if the publication and/or newspaper(s) are published on different dates);

  • (iv) if served or delivered in any other manner contemplated by these bye-laws, shall be deemed to have been served or delivered at the time of personal service or delivery

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or, as the case may be, at the time of the relevant dispatch or transmission; and in proving such service or delivery a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board as to the act and time of such service, delivery, dispatch or transmission shall be conclusive evidence thereof; and

  • (v) may be given to a shareholder either in the English language or the Chinese language, subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations.

  • Amended on 2 June Service of 163. Any notice or document delivered or sent by post to, sent by 2010 notice to electronic communication to, or left at the registered address persons entitled on of, any shareholder in pursuance of these presents, shall death, mental notwithstanding that such shareholder be then deceased or disorder or bankrupt and whether or not the Company has notice of his bankruptcy death or bankruptcy, be deemed to have been duly served in of a member respect of any registered shares whether held solely or jointly with other persons by such shareholder until some other person be registered in his stead as the holder or joint holder thereof, and such service shall for all purposes of these presents be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or document on his personal representative and all persons (if any) jointly interested with him in any such shares. Sufficient service is also deemed given by the Company to a shareholder if a notice is placed on the Company’s website.

Transferee to be bound by prior notices

  1. Any person who by operation of law, is transferred or by other means whatsoever becomes entitled to any share shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share which prior to his name and address being entered on the register shall have been duly given to the person from whom he derives his title to such share.

Notice valid though member deceased

  1. Any notice or document delivered or sent by post or left at the registered address of any member in pursuance of these presents, shall notwithstanding that such member be then deceased and whether or not the Company has notice of his death be deemed to have been duly served in respect of any registered shares whether held solely or jointly with other persons by such member until some other person be registered in his stead as the holder or joint holder thereof, and such service shall for all purposes of these presents be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or document on his personal representatives and all persons (if any) jointly interested with him in any such shares.

Amended on 2 June How notice to 166. The signature to any notice to be given by the Company may

2010 be signed be written or printed or made electronically.

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Information

Member and entitled to information

  1. No member shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the Company's trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of a trade secret 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 interests of the members of the Company to communicate to the public.

Winding up

Division of assets in liquidation

  1. (A) The Board shall have power in the name and on behalf of the Company to present a petition to the court for the Company to be wound up.

  2. (B) A resolution that the Company be wound up by the court or wound up voluntarily shall be a Special Resolution.

  3. (C) If the Company shall be wound up (whether the assets in the liquidation is voluntary, under liquidation supervision or by the court) the liquidator may, with the authority of a Special Resolution, divide among the members in specie 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 or different classes of members. The liquidator may, with the like authority, vest any one or more class or classes of property and may determine how much division shall be carried out as between the members or 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 contributor shall be compelled to accept any shares in respect of which there is liability.

Service of process

  1. In the event of a winding-up of the Company, every member who is not for the time being in any of the relevant territories shall be bound, within fourteen days after the passing of an effective resolution to wind up the Company voluntarily, or the making of an order for the winding-up of the Company, to serve notice in writing on the Company appointing some person resident in any of the relevant territories and stating

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that person’s full name, address and occupation upon whom all summonses, notices, process, orders and judgements in relation to or under the 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, whether appointed by the member or the liquidator, shall be deemed to be 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 such English language daily newspapers circulating in each of the relevant territories as he shall deem appropriate or by a registered letter sent through the post and addressed to such member at his address as mentioned in the register, and such notice shall be seemed to be service on the day following that on which the advertisement appears or the letter is posted.

Indemnity

Indemnity

  1. Save and except so far as the provisions of this bye-law shall be avoided by any provisions of the Statutes:-

  2. (A) every Director or other officer of the Company and the liquidator or trustees (if any) for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and everyone of them and everyone of their heirs, executors and administrators shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against all losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto, and no Director or other officer shall be liable for any loss, damages or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto, provided that this bye-law shall only have effect in so far as its provisions are not avoided by the Companies Act;

  3. (B) if any Director or other person shall become personally liable for the payment of any sum primarily due from the Company, the Directors may execute or cause to be executed any mortgage, charge, or security over or affecting the whole or any part of the assets of the Company by way of indemnity to secure the Director or person so becoming liable as aforesaid from any loss in respect of such liability.

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