CITIC Limited

(This is a consolidated version of the Articles of Association of CITIC Limited not formally adopted by shareholders at a general meeting. The English version shall prevail in case of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English version and its Chinese translation.)

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

(As adopted by Special Resolution passed on 14th May, 2014 and as amended by Special Resolution passed on 16th March, 2015)

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OF
CITIC Limited
中國中信股份有限公司
(Name changed on 26th August, 2014)
Incorporated the 8th day of January, 1985.
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HONG KONG
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編號 145656

No .

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公司更改名稱證明書 CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF NAME

本人謹此證明 I hereby certify that

CITIC PACIFIC LIMITED (中信泰富有限公司)

已藉特別決議更改其名稱，該公司根據 having by special resolution changed its name, is now incorporated under the 香港法例第 622 章《公司條例》註冊的名稱現為 Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong) in the name of CITIC Limited 中國中信股份有限公司

本證明書於二 O 一四年八月二十六日發出。 Issued on 26 August 2014 .

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香港特別行政區公司註冊處處長鍾麗玲 Ms Ada L L CHUNG Registrar of Companies Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

註 Note:

公司名稱獲公司註冊處註冊，並不表示獲授予該公司名稱或其任何部分的商標權或任何其他知識產權。

Registration of a company name with the Companies Registry does not confer any trade mark rights or any other intellectual property rights in respect of the company name or any part thereof.

No. 145656 編號

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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

公司更改名稱

ON CHANGE OF NAME

註冊證書

I hereby certify that 本人茲證明

TYLFULL COMPANY LIMITED 泰富發展 ( 集團 ) 有限公司

having by special resolution changed its name, is now incorporated under the name of 經通過特別決議案，已將其名稱更改，該公司現在之註冊名稱為

CITIC PACIFIC LIMITED ( 中信泰富有限公司 )

Given under my hand this Twenty-second day of August One Thousand Nine 簽署於一九九一年八月二十二日。

Hundred and Ninety-one.

(Sd.) Mrs. R. CHUN

P. Registrar General (Registrar of Companies) Hong Kong 香港註冊總署署長暨公司註冊官 (註冊主任秦梁素芳代行)

No. 145656 編號

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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION 公司更改名稱

ON CHANGE OF NAME

註冊證書

Whereas TYLFULL COMPANY LIMITED was incorporated in 查已在香港依據 Hong Kong as a limited company under the Companies Ordinance on the Eighth day of 公司條例註冊成為有限公司。其註冊日期為 January, 1985. 一九八五年一月八日。 And whereas by special resolution of the Company and with the approval of the Registrar of 又該公司經通過特別決議案及獲公司註冊官批准後， Companies, it has changed its name; 已將其名稱更改；

Now therefore I hereby certify that the Company is a limited company incorporated under the 本人茲證明該公司現為一有限公司，其註冊名稱為 name of TYLFULL COMPANY LIMITED 泰富發展 ( 集團 ) 有限公司。

Given under my hand this Sixth day of February One Thousand Nine Hundred and 簽署於一九八六年二月六日。

Eighty-six.

(Sd.) J. Almeida

J. Almeida

P. Registrar General (Registrar of Companies) Hong Kong 香港註冊總署署長暨公司註冊官 (註冊主任歐美達代行)

No.145656 編號

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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

公司註冊證書

I hereby certify that 本人茲證明

TYLFULL COMPANY LIMITED

is this day incorporated in Hong Kong under the Companies Ordinance, 於本日在香港依據公司條例註冊 and that this company is limited. 。成為有限公司

GIVEN under my hand this Eighth day of January, One 一一。簽署於九八五年月八日 Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-five.

(Sd.) J. Almeida

J. Almeida

For Registrar of Companies, Hong Kong . 香港公司註冊官 (註冊主任歐美達代行)

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 622)

Company Limited by Shares

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

(As adopted by Special Resolution passed on 14th May, 2014 and as amended by Special Resolution passed on 16th March, 2015)

中國中信股份有限公司

(Name changed on 26th August, 2014)

Company Name

1A. The name of the Company is “ CITIC Limited 中國中信股份有限公司

Members’ Liability

1B. The liability of the members of the Company is limited.

1C. The liability of the members is limited to any amount unpaid on the shares held by the members.

Table A and Model Articles

The regulations contained in (a) Table A in the First Schedule to the predecessor of the Companies Ordinance and (b) Model Articles in Schedule 1 of the Companies (Model Articles) Notice (Cap 622H) shall not apply to the Company.
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Interpretation

In the interpretation of these Articles, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:-
“these Articles” or “these presents” shall mean these Articles of Association in their present form and all supplementary, amended or substituted articles for the time being in force;

“associate” in relation to any Director, shall mean:

(i) his spouse;
(ii) any child or step-child, natural or adopted, under the age of 18 years of the Director or of his spouse (together with (i) above, the “family interests”);
(iii) the trustees, acting in their capacity as such trustees, of any trust of which he or any of his family interests is a beneficiary or, in the case of a discretionary trust, is (to his knowledge) a discretionary object and any company (“trustee-controlled company”) in the equity capital of which the trustees, acting in their capacity as such trustees, are directly or indirectly interested so as to exercise or control the exercise of 30% (or such other amount as may from time to time be specified in the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers as being the level for triggering a mandatory general offer) or more of the voting power at general meetings, or to control the composition of a majority of the board of directors and any other company which is its subsidiary (together, the “trustee interests”);
(iv) a holding company of a trustee-controlled company or a subsidiary of any such holding company; and
(v) any company in the equity capital of which he, his family interests, any of the trustees referred to in (iii) above, acting in their capacity as such trustees, and/or any trustee interests taken together are directly or indirectly interested so as to exercise or
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control the exercise of 30% (or such other amount as may from time to time be specified in the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers as being the level for triggering a mandatory general offer) or more of the voting power at general meetings, or to control the composition of a majority of the board of directors and any other company which is its subsidiary or holding company or a fellow subsidiary of any such holding company.

“Auditors” shall mean the persons for the time being performing the duties of that office;
“the Board” shall mean the Directors from time to time of the Company or (as the context may require) the majority of Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Directors;
“business day”, save where specified, shall mean any day on which the Stock Exchange is open for the business of dealing in securities;
“call” shall include any installment of a call;
“capital” shall mean the share capital from time to time of the Company;
“the Chairman” shall mean the Chairman presiding at any meeting of members or of the Board;
“the Company” or “this Company” shall mean the abovenamed Company;
“the Companies Ordinance” or “the Ordinance” shall mean the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622 of the laws of Hong Kong) and any amendments thereto or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force and includes every other ordinance incorporated therewith or substituted therefor and in the case of any such substitution the references in these Articles to the provisions of the Ordinance shall be read as references to the provisions substituted therefor in the new Ordinance;
“dividend” shall include scrip dividends, distributions in specie or in kind, capital distributions and capitalisation issues, if not inconsistent with the subject or context;
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“dollars” shall mean dollars in the lawful currency of Hong Kong;

“electronic communication” shall mean a communication sent by electronic transmission in any form through any medium;
“Hong Kong” shall mean the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China;
“legislation” shall mean every ordinance (including any orders, regulations or other subordinate legislation made pursuant thereto or thereunder) applying to the Company from time to time;
“Listing Rules” shall mean the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange from time to time in force;
“month” shall mean a calendar month;
“newspaper” shall mean a newspaper published daily and circulating generally in Hong Kong and specified in the list of newspapers issued and published in the Gazette for the purposes of Section 203 of the Companies Ordinance;
“the register” shall mean the register of members and includes any branch register to be kept pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance;
“seal” shall mean the common seal from time to time of the Company and includes, unless the context otherwise requires, any official seal that the Company may have as permitted by these Articles and the Ordinance;
“Secretary” shall mean the person for the time being performing the duties of that office;
“share” shall mean share in the capital of the Company and includes stock except where a distinction between stock and shares is expressed or implied;
“shareholders” or “members” shall mean the duly registered holders from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company;
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“Stock Exchange” shall mean The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;

“writing” or “printing” shall include writing, printing, lithography, photography, typewriting and every other mode of representing words or figures in a legible and non-transitory form or stored in any electronic form (including an electronic communication);

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

words importing any gender shall include every gender; and

words importing person shall include partnerships, firms, companies and corporations.

Subject as aforesaid, any words or expressions defined in the Ordinance (except any statutory modification thereof not in force when these Articles become binding on the Company) shall, if not inconsistent with the subject and/or context, bear the same meaning in these Articles, save that “company” shall where the context permits include any company incorporated in Hong Kong or elsewhere.

References to any Article by number are to the particular Article of these Articles.

References 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.

Share Capital and Modification of Rights

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Without prejudice to any special rights or restrictions for the time being attaching to any shares or any class of shares, any share may be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise,
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or be redeemeable whether at the option of the Company or the holder, as the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution determine (or, in the absence of any such determination or so far as the same may not make specific provision, subject to Sections 140 and 141 of the Companies Ordinance as the Board may determine) provided always that where the Company issues shares which do not carry voting rights, the words “non-voting” shall appear in the designation of such shares and where the equity capital includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares (other than those with the most favourable voting rights) must include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting”. The directors may determine the terms, conditions and manner of redemption of the shares.

4A. Each Preferred Share of the Company shall have attached thereto the rights and restrictions as set out in the “Schedule A” attached to this Article.

The Board may issue warrants to subscribe for any class of shares or securities of the Company on such terms as it may from time to time determine, provided that the Company shall not have power to issue share warrants to bearer.
(A) Without prejudice to any special rights conferred on the holders of any existing shares, the shares in the original or any increased capital of the Company may, subject to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, be divided into different classes of shares as the Company may from time to time determine by a special resolution in general meeting.
(B) All or any of the special rights (unless otherwise provided for by the terms of issue) attached to the shares or any class of the shares (if the capital is divided into different classes of shares) may, subject to the provisions of Sections 182, 183 and 193 of the Companies Ordinance, be varied or abrogated either with the consent in writing of the holders representing at least 75% of the total voting rights of holders of shares in the class (if the capital is divided into different classes of shares) or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares or at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class (if the capital is divided into different classes of shares). To every such separate general meeting the provisions of these Articles relating to general
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meetings shall mutatis mutandis apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be not less than two persons holding or representing by proxy one-third of the total voting rights of that class, and at an adjourned meeting one person holding shares of that class or his proxy, and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll.

(C) The provisions of this Article shall apply to the variation or abrogation of the special rights attached to some only of the shares of any class as if each group of shares of the class differently treated formed a separate class the rights whereof are to be varied.
(D) 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 altered by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.

Shares and Increase of Capital

Subject to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance and any regulations binding on the Company, the Company may purchase its own shares, including redeemable shares. In the case of purchases of redeemable shares, (i) purchases not made through the stock market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price, and (ii) if purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all members alike.
The Company in general meeting may from time to time, whether or not

all the shares for the time being issued shall have been fully paid up, by ordinary resolution increase its share capital in any one or more of the ways set out in Section 170 of the Companies Ordinance.

Without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred upon the holders of existing shares, any new shares shall be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such rights, privileges or restrictions 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 Ordinance and of these Articles, as
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the Board 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.

The Company may by ordinary resolution, before the issue of any new shares, determine that the same, or any of them, shall be offered in the first instance to all the existing holders of any class of shares in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of shares of such class held by them respectively, or make any other 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 capital of the Company existing prior to the issue of the same.
Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue or by these Articles, any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall be treated as if it formed part of the original capital of the Company and such shares shall be subject to the provisions contained in these Articles with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, cancellation, surrender, voting and otherwise.
Subject to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance (and in particular Sections 140 and 141 thereof) and of these Articles 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, for such consideration and generally on such terms as the Board shall in its absolute discretion think fit.
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 Companies Ordinance 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.
If any shares of the Company are issued for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses of the construction of any works or buildings or the provision of any plant which cannot be made profitable for a lengthened period, the
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Company may pay interest on so much of that share capital as is for the time being paid up for the period and subject to the conditions and restrictions mentioned in the Companies Ordinance, and may charge the sum so paid by way of interest to capital as part of the cost of construction of the works or buildings or the provision of plant.

Except as otherwise expressly provided by these Articles 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, except as aforesaid, 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 right or claim to or in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof of the registered holder.

Register of Members and Share Certificates

(A) The Board shall cause to be kept a register of the members and there shall be entered therein the particulars required under the Companies Ordinance.
(B) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, if the Board considers it necessary or appropriate, the Company may establish and maintain a branch register of members at such location outside Hong Kong as the Board thinks fit.
Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register shall be entitled (except in relation to replacement certificates) without payment to receive within ten business days after allotment or lodgment of a transfer (or within such shorter period as the conditions of issue shall provide or as the Stock Exchange may from time to time prescribe under the Listing Rules) one certificate for all his shares or, if he shall so request, in a case where the allotment or transfer is of a number of shares in excess of the number for the time being forming a stock exchange board lot, upon payment, in the case of a transfer, of such sum as may from time to time be permitted under the rules prescribed by the Stock Exchange for every certificate after the first, such number of certificates for shares in stock exchange board lots or multiples thereof as he shall request and one for the balance (if any) of the shares in question, 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
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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.

Every certificate for shares or debentures or representing any other form of securities of the Company must (a) have affixed to it the Company’s common seal or the Company’s official seal under Section 126 of the Ordinance; or (b) be otherwise executed in accordance with the Ordinance.
Every share certificate hereafter issued shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which it is issued and the amount paid thereon, any distinguishing numbers assigned to them and may otherwise be in such form as the Board may from time to time prescribe. If at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares, every share certificate shall comply with Section 179 of the Ordinance. A share certificate shall relate to only one class of shares.
(A) The Company shall not be bound to register more than four persons as joint holders of any share.
(B) 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 Articles, all or any other matters connected with the Company, except the transfer of the share.
If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be replaced on payment of such sum as may from time to time be permitted under the rules prescribed by the Stock Exchange, and on such terms and conditions, if any, as to the publication of notices, evidence and indemnity as the Board thinks fit and in the case of wearing out or defacement, after delivery up of the old certificate. In the case of destruction or loss, the person to whom such replacement certificate is given shall also bear and pay to the Company any exceptional costs and the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incidental to the investigation by the Company of the evidence of such destruction or loss and of such indemnity.
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Lien

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; and the Company shall also have a first and paramount lien and charge on all shares (other than fully paid up shares) standing registered in the name of a member, whether singly or jointly with any other person or persons, for all the debts and liabilities of such member or his estate to the Company and whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any equitable or other interest of any person other than such member, and whether the period for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such member or his estate and any other person, whether a member of the Company or not. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all dividends and bonuses declared in respect thereof. The Board may at any time either generally or in any particular case waive any lien that has arisen, or declare any share to be exempt wholly or partially from the provisions of this Article.
The Company may sell, in such manner as the Board thinks 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, bankruptcy or winding-up to the shares.
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 Board may authorise some person 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
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the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

Calls on Shares

The Board may from time to time make such calls as it 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.
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.
A copy of the notice referred to in Article 26 shall be sent to members in the manner in which notices may be sent to members by the Company as herein provided.
In addition to the giving of notice in accordance with Article 27, notice of the person appointed to receive payment of every call and of the times and places appointed for payment may be given to the members by notice to be inserted once in The Hongkong Government Gazette and once at least in an English language newspaper and in a Chinese language newspaper and/or in the manner in which notices may be sent to members by the Company as herein provided.
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 Board shall appoint.
A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Board authorising such call was passed.
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.
The Board may from time to time at its discretion extend the time fixed for any call, and may extend such time as regards all or any of the members, whom from residence outside Hong Kong or other cause the Board may deem entitled to any
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such extension but no member shall be entitled to any such extension except as a matter of grace and favour.

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 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.
No member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or to be present and vote (save as proxy for another member) at any general meeting, either personally, or (save as proxy for another member) by proxy, or be reckoned in 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.
On the trial or hearing of any action or other proceedings for the recovery of any money due for any call, it shall be sufficient to 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 Articles; and it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of the Board who made such call, nor any other matters whatsoever, but the proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the debt.
Any sum which by the terms of allotment of a share is made payable upon allotment or at any fixed date shall for all purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified, and payable on the date fixed for payment, and in case of non-payment all the relevant provisions of these Articles 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. The Board may on the issue of shares differentiate between the allottees or holders as to the amount of calls to be paid and the time of payment.
The Board may, if it thinks fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same, and either in money or money’s worth, all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid or instalments payable upon any shares held by him, and upon all
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or any of the moneys so advanced the Company may pay interest at such rate (if any) not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the Board may decide. The Board may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such member not less than one month’s notice in writing of its 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.

Transfer of Shares

All transfer of shares may be effected by transfer in writing in the usual common form or in such other form as the Board may accept and may be under hand only. The Board may resolve, either generally or in a particular case, upon request of the transferor or transferee, to accept a mechanically executed transfer. All instruments of transfer must be left at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as the Board may appoint.
The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and transferee, and 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 Articles 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.
The Board may refuse to register a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) to a person of whom it does not approve, or any share issued under any share incentive scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby still subsists, 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.
The Board may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:-
(i) a fee of HK$2.50 (or such higher amount as may from time to time be permitted under the rules prescribed by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited) or such lesser sum as the Board may from time to time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof;
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(ii) the instrument of transfer is accompanied by the certificate of the shares to which it relates, and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer;
(iii) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of share;
(iv) the shares concerned are free of any lien in favour of the Company; and
(v) the instrument of transfer is properly stamped.
No transfer of share (not being a fully paid up share) shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.
If the Board refuses to register the transfer of a share:-
(i) the transferor or transferee may request a statement of the reasons for the refusal; and
(ii) the instrument of transfer must be returned to the transferor or transferee who lodged it unless the Board suspects that the proposed transfer may be fraudulent.

43A. The instrument of transfer must be returned in accordance with Article 43(ii) together with a notice of refusal within 2 months after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged with the Company.

43B. If a request is made under Article 43(i), the directors must, within 28 days after receiving the request:-

(i) send the transferor or transferee who made the request a statement of the reasons for the refusal; or
(ii) register the transfer.
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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 transferor a new certificate in respect thereof shall be issued to him without charge. The Company shall also retain the transfer.
Subject to Sections 632 of the Companies Ordinance, the registration of transfers may be suspended and the register closed at such times and for such periods as the Board may from time to time determine and either generally or in respect of any class of shares, provided always that such registration shall not be suspended or the register closed for more than thirty days in any year or, with the approval of the Company in general meeting, sixty days in any year.

Transmission of Shares

In the case of the death of a member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was a sole or only surviving holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing herein contained 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.
Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a member may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may from time to time be required by the Board, and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof.
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 a transfer of such share to his nominee. 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, bankruptcy or winding-up of the member had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a transfer executed by such member.
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A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death, bankruptcy or winding-up 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 Board may, if it thinks 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 Article 82 being met, such a person may vote at meetings.

Forfeiture of Shares

If a member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Board may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call or instalment remains unpaid, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 34, 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.
The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and it shall also name the place where payment is to be made, such place being either the registered office of the Company, or some other place at which calls of the Company are usually made payable. The notice shall also 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.
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 Board 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. The Directors may accept the surrender of any shares liable to be forfeited hereunder and in such cases reference in these Articles to forfeiture shall include surrender.
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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 Board thinks fit and at any time before a sale or disposition. The forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Board thinks fit.
A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall, notwithstanding, 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 Board shall in its discretion so require) interest thereon from the date of forfeiture until payment at such rate not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the Board may prescribe, and the Board may enforce the payment thereof if it thinks 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 Article 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, shall notwithstanding that that time has not yet arrived be deemed to 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.
A statutory declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or the Secretary of the Company, and that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited or surrendered 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.
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, but no forfeiture shall be in any manner invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such notice or make any such entry.
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Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid the Board may at any time, before any shares so forfeited shall have been sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, cancel the forfeiture on such terms as the Board thinks fit or permit the shares so forfeited to be bought back or redeemed upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the shares, and upon such further terms (if any) as it thinks fit.
The forfeiture of a share shall not prejudice the right of the Company to any call already made or instalment payable thereon.
The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

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Alteration of Capital

(A) The Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution alter its share capital in any one or more of the ways set out in Section 170 of the Companies Ordinance, including but not limited to:-
(i) consolidating or dividing all or any of its share capital into shares of larger or smaller amount than its existing shares; on any consolidation of fully paid shares into shares of a larger amount, the Board may settle 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
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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; and

(ii) cancelling 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.
(B) The Company may by special resolution reduce its share capital in any manner authorised and subject to any conditions prescribed by law.

General Meetings

The Company shall, when so required by the Ordinance, in each financial 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 notice calling it. The annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Board shall appoint; and may be held at two or more places using any technology that enables the members who are not together at the same place to listen, speak and vote at the meeting.
All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
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The Board may, whenever it thinks fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting, and extraordinary general meetings shall also be convened on requisition, as provided by the Companies Ordinance, or, in default, may be convened by the requisitionists.
An annual general meeting shall be called by notice in writing of at least twenty-one days or such longer period as may be required by the Listing Rules. A meeting of the Company other than an annual general meeting shall be called by notice in writing of at least fourteen days or such longer period as may be required by the Listing Rules. The notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is served or deemed to be served, received or delivered and of the day for which it is given, sent or supplied, and shall specify the place (and if the meeting is to be held in two or more places, the principal place of the meeting and the other place or places of meeting), the day and the hour of meeting and shall be given, in 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 Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the Company, provided that subject to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, a meeting of the Company shall notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified in this Article be deemed to have been duly called if it so agreed:-
- (i) in the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting, by all the members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and
- (ii) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of the members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than ninety-five per cent. of the total voting rights at the meeting of all the members.
(A) The accidental omission to give any notice to, or the non-receipt of any notice by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or any proceeding at any such meeting.
(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.
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Proceedings at General Meetings

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Subject to Section 585(1) of the Companies Ordinance, for all purposes the quorum for a general meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless the requisite quorum shall be present at the commencement of the business.
If within fifteen minutes 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 Board, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the member or members present in person shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.
The Chairman (if any) of the Board or, if he is absent or declines to take the chair at such meeting, the Deputy Chairman (if any) shall take the chair at every general meeting, or, if there be no such Chairman or Deputy Chairman, or if at any general meeting neither of such Chairman or Deputy Chairman is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such meeting, or both such persons decline to take the chair at such meeting, any Director nominated by the Chairman shall take the chair at such meeting, or, if such Director is absent or declines to take the chair at such meeting, any Director so elected by a majority of the Directors present at the commencement of the meeting shall take the chair at such meeting, 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 chair, then the members present shall choose one of their own number to be Chairman. A proxy may be elected to be the Chairman of a general meeting by a resolution of the Company passed at the meeting.
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 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
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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.

At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless:-
(A) voting by poll is required by the Listing Rules or other applicable laws, rules and regulations; or
(B) a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands or on the withdrawal of any other demand for a poll) demanded:-
(i) by the Chairman of the meeting; or
(ii) by at least three members present in person or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or
(iii) by any member or members present in person or by proxy and representing not less than five per cent. of the total voting rights of all the members having the right to vote at the meeting; or
(iv) by a member or members present in person or by proxy and holding shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than one-tenth of the total sum paid up on all the shares conferring that right.

Unless a poll be so demanded and not withdrawn or a poll is required as aforesaid, a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Company shall be conclusive

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evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour or against such resolution. If voting by poll is required, the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was required.

If a poll is required or demanded as aforesaid, it shall (subject as provided in Article 77) be taken in such manner (including the use of ballot or voting papers or tickets) and at such time and place, not being more than thirty days from the date of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the poll was required or demanded, as the Chairman directs. No notice need be given of a poll not taken immediately. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was required or demanded. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn, with the consent of the Chairman, at any time before the close of the meeting or the taking of the poll, whichever is the earlier.
Any poll duly required or demanded on the election of a Chairman of a meeting or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting and without adjournment.
In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is required or demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting vote. In 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.
The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll has been demanded.
A resolution in writing signed by all the members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held. A written notice of confirmation of such resolution in writing signed by or on behalf of a member shall be deemed to be his signature to such resolution in writing for the purposes of this Article. Such resolution in writing may consist of several documents each signed by or on behalf of one or more members.
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Votes of Members

Subject to any special rights, privileges or restrictions as to voting for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, at any general meeting on a show of hands every member who (being an individual) is present in person or (being a corporation) is present by a representative duly authorised under Sections 606, 607 and 623 of the Companies Ordinance shall have one vote, and on a poll every member present in person or by proxy or (being a corporation) by its duly authorised representative shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder which is fully paid up or credited as fully paid up (but so that 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 Article as paid up on the share). Where a member or a warrantholder is a recognised clearing house within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong), it may authorise such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative (or representatives) at any shareholders’ and/or warrantholders’ general meeting or any meeting of any class of members and/or of warrantholders provided that, if more than one person so authorised, the authorisation must specify the number and class of shares in respect of which such person so authorised. The person so authorised will be entitled to exercise the same power on behalf of the recognised clearing house as that clearing house (or its nominees) could exercise if it were an individual member and/or warrantholder of the Company. On a poll a member entitled to more than one vote need not use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way. Where any shareholder is, under the Listing Rules, required to abstain from voting on any particular resolution or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution, any votes cast by or on behalf of such shareholder in contravention of such requirement or restriction shall not be counted.
Any person entitled under Article 47 to be registered as the holder of any shares 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 Board of his right to be registered as the holder of such shares or the Board shall have previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect thereof.
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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 Article be deemed joint holders thereof.
A member of unsound mind or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver or curator bonis appointed by that court, and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person may on a poll vote by proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Board of the authority of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote shall be delivered to the registered office of the Company, or to such other place as is specified in accordance with these Articles for the deposit of instruments of proxy, not later than the last time at which a valid instrument of proxy could be so delivered.
(A) Save as expressly provided in these Articles, 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.
(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 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.
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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. On a poll votes may be given either personally or by proxy. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A member who is the holder of two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion.
The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or if the appointor is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised.
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 registered 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 and received by the Company (a) for a general meeting or adjourned general meeting, at least 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting; and (b) for a poll taken more than 48 hours after it was demanded, at least 24 hours before the time appointed for taking the poll, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after expiration of twelve months from the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting or on a poll demanded at a meeting or an adjourned meeting in cases where the meeting was originally held within twelve months from such date. Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a member from attending and voting in person at the meeting or poll concerned and, in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.
Every instrument of proxy, whether for a specified meeting or otherwise, shall be in such form as the Board may from time to time approve.
The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a general meeting shall: (i) be deemed to confer authority upon the proxy to demand or join in demanding a poll and to vote on any resolution (or amendment thereto) put to the meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit Provided that any form issued to a member for use by him for appointing a proxy to attend and vote at a general meeting at which any business is to be transacted shall be such as to enable the member, according to his intention, to instruct the proxy to vote in favour of or against (or, in default of instructions, to exercise his discretion in respect of) each resolution dealing with any business; and (ii)
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unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which it relates.

A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy or power of attorney or by the duly authorised representative of a corporation 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 registered office, or at such other place as is referred to in Article 88, at least two hours before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used.
Any corporation which is a member of the Company may, by resolution of its directors or other governing body or 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. References in these Articles to a member present in person at a meeting shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include a corporation which is a member represented at the meeting by such duly authorised representative.

Registered Office

The registered office of the Company shall be at such place in Hong Kong as the Board shall from time to time appoint.

Board of Directors

The number of Directors shall not be less than two. The Board shall cause to be kept a register of the Directors and Secretaries, and there shall be entered therein the particulars required by the Companies Ordinance.
The Board 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. Any Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting, or if earlier, the next following extraordinary general meeting, of the
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Company and shall then be eligible for re-election, but shall not be taken into account in determining the Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.

(A) A Director may at any time, by notice in writing signed by him delivered to the registered office of the Company or at a meeting of the Board, appoint any person (including another Director) to act as alternate Director in his place during his absence and may in like manner at any time determine such appointment. If such person is not another Director, such appointment, unless previously approved by the Board, shall have effect only upon and subject to being so approved.
(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.
(C) An alternate Director shall (except when absent from Hong Kong) be entitled to receive notices of meetings of the Board 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 the provisions of these presents shall apply as if he (instead of his appointor) were a Director. If he shall be himself a Director and/or shall attend any 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 Hong Kong 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 his appointor. To such extent as the Board may from time to time determine in relation to any committee of the Board, 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 Articles.
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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.
A Director shall not be required to hold any qualification shares but shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at all general meetings of the Company and of any class of members of the Company.
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 in such event 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. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a Director who holds any salaried employment or office in the Company except in the case of sums paid in respect of Directors’ fees.
The Directors shall also be entitled to be repaid all travelling, hotel and other 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 or in the discharge of their duties as Directors.
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, commission or participation in profits or otherwise as may be arranged.
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Notwithstanding Articles 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 business of the Company shall from time to time be fixed by the Board 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 (including pension and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances as the Board may from time to time decide. Such remuneration shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director.
(A) A Director shall vacate his office:-
(i) if he becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or suspends payment or compounds with his creditors generally;
(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 Ordinance or the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap 32) or is otherwise prohibited from being a Director by law;
(v) if by notice in writing delivered to the Company at its registered office he resigns his office;
(vi) if having been appointed to an office under Article 117 hereof, he is dismissed or removed therefrom by the Board under Article 118;
(vii) if he shall be removed from office by notice in writing served upon him signed by all his co-Directors; or
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- (viii) if he shall be removed from office by an ordinary resolution of the Company under Article 110.
(B) No person 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.
(A) A Director may hold any other office or place of profit with the Company (except that of Auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and upon such terms as the Board may determine, and may be paid such extra remuneration therefor (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) as the Board may determine, and such extra remuneration shall be in addition to any remuneration provided for by or pursuant to any other Article.
(B) A Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company (otherwise than as Auditor) and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director.
(C) A Director of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any company promoted by the Company or any other Company in which the Company may be interested, and, subject to the Ordinance, shall not be liable to account to the Company or the members for any remuneration, profit or other benefit received by him as a director or officer of or from his interest in such other company. The Board may also cause the voting power conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company to be exercised in such manner in all respects as it thinks fit, including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them to be directors or officers of such other company, or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors or officers of such other company.
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(D) A Director shall not vote or be counted in the quorum on any resolution of the Board concerning his own appointment as the holder of any office or place of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof).
(E) Where arrangements are under consideration concerning the appointment (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) of two or more Directors to offices or places of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested, a separate resolution may be put in relation to each Director and in such case each of the Directors concerned shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment (or the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) and except (in the case of an office or place of profit with any such other company as aforesaid) where the other company is a company in which the Director together with any of his associates own 5 per cent. or more.
(F) Subject to the Ordinance and to the next paragraph of this Article, no Director or proposed or intending Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, either with regard to his tenure of any office or place of profit (except that of Auditor) or as vendor, purchaser or in any other manner whatever, nor shall any such contract or any other contract or arrangement in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company or the members for any remuneration, profit or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason of such Director holding that office or of the fiduciary relationship thereby established.
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(G) A Director who to his knowledge is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a transaction, contract or arrangement or proposed transaction, contract or arrangement with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest at the meeting of the Board at which the question of entering into the transaction, contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration, if he knows his interest then exists, or in any other case as soon as is reasonably practicable, and in any event at the first meeting of the Board after he knows that he is or has become so interested. Such declaration shall be made in accordance with the Ordinance. For this purpose, a general notice to the Board by a Director to the effect that:-
(i) he is interested (as a member, officer, employee or otherwise) in a specified company or firm (with such notice to specify the nature and extent of the Director’s interest) and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction, contract or arrangement which may after the date of the notice be made with that company or firm; or
(ii) he is to be regarded as interested in any transaction, contract or arrangement which may after the date of the notice be made with a specified person who is connected (as such term is defined in the Ordinance) with him (with such notice to specify the nature of the Director’s connection),

shall be deemed to be a sufficient declaration of interest in relation to any such transaction, contract or arrangement; provided that no such notice shall be effective unless either it is given at a meeting of the Board or it is in writing and sent to the Company, and the Director takes reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read at the next Board meeting after it is given.

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(H) A Director shall not vote or be counted in the quorum present at the meeting in respect of any contract or arrangement or proposal in which he or his associate(s) is/are materially interested, and if he shall do so his vote shall not be counted, but this prohibition shall not apply to:
(i) the giving of any security or indemnity either:
- (a) to the Director or his associate(s) in respect of money lent or obligations incurred undertaken by him or any of them at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or
- (b) 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 associate(s) has himself/themselves assumed responsibility in whole or in part and whether alone or jointly under a guarantee or indemnity or by the giving of security;
(ii) 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 associate(s) is/are or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the offer;
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(iv) any proposal or arrangement concerning the benefit of employees of the Company or its subsidiaries including:
- (a) the adoption, modification or operation of any employees’ share scheme or any share incentive or share option scheme under which the Director or his associate(s) may benefit; or
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- (b) the adoption, modification or operation of a pension fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme which relates both to Directors, his associates and employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any director, or his associate(s), as such any privilege or advantage not generally accorded to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates; and
(v) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his associate(s) 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.
(I) A company shall be deemed to be a company in which a Director is interested, where such Director, together with any of his associates, owns 5 per cent. or more (and if and so long as (but only if and so long as) he is (either directly or indirectly) the holder of or beneficially interested in 5 per cent. or more) of any class of the equity share capital of such company or of the voting rights available to members of such company. For the purpose of this paragraph there shall be disregarded any shares held by a Director as bare or custodian trustee and in which he has no beneficial interest, any shares comprised in a trust in which the Director’s interest is in reversion or remainder if and so long as some other person is entitled to receive the income thereof, and any shares comprised in an authorised unit trust scheme in which the Director is interested only as a unit holder.
(J) Where a company in which a Director together with any of his associates hold 5 per cent. or more is materially interested in a transaction, then that Director shall also be deemed materially interested in such transaction.
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(K) If any question shall arise at any meeting of the Board as to the materiality of the interest of a Director (other than the Chairman of the meeting) or as to the entitlement of any Director (other than such Chairman) to vote or be counted in the quorum and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or not to be counted in the quorum, such question shall be referred to the Chairman of the meeting and his ruling in relation to such other Director shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Director concerned as known to such Director has not been fairly disclosed to the Board. If any question as aforesaid shall arise in respect of the Chairman of the meeting such question shall be decided by a resolution of the Board (for which purpose such Chairman shall be counted in the quorum but shall not vote thereon) and such resolution shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of such Chairman as known to such Chairman has not been fairly disclosed to the Board.

Rotation of Directors

(A) Every Director, including those appointed for a specific term, shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. At each annual general meeting one-third of the Directors for the time being, or, if their number is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to one-third, shall retire from office. The Directors to retire in every year shall be those who have been longest in office since their last election but as between persons who became Directors on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree between themselves) be determined by lot. In addition, there shall also be required to retire by rotation any Director who at an annual general meeting of the Company shall have been a Director at each of the preceding two annual general meetings of the Company and who was not elected or re-elected at either such annual general meeting and who has not otherwise ceased to be a Director (either by resignation, retirement, removal or
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otherwise) and been re-elected by general meeting of the Company at or since either such annual general meeting. The retiring Directors shall be eligible for re- election.

(B) 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.
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:-
(i) it shall be determined at such meeting to reduce the number of Directors; or
(ii) it is expressly resolved at such meeting not to fill up such vacated offices; or
(iii) in any such case the resolution for re-election of a Director is put to the meeting and lost.
The Company may from time to time in general meeting by ordinary resolution fix, increase or reduce the maximum and minimum number of Directors but so that the number of Directors shall never be less than two.
The Company may from time to time in general meeting by ordinary resolution elect any person to be a Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board. Any Director so appointed to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election, but shall not be taken into account in determining the Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.
No person, other than a retiring Director, shall, unless recommended by the Board for election, be eligible for election to the office of Director at any general meeting, unless notice in writing by a shareholder of his intention to propose that person for election as a Director and notice in writing by that person of his willingness
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to be elected shall have been given to the Company in the period 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, provided that such period shall be at least seven days.

The Company shall keep in accordance with the Ordinance a register containing the names and addresses and occupations of its Directors and shall from time to time notify to the Registrar of Companies any change that takes place in such Directors as required by the Companies Ordinance.
Subject to the Ordinance, the Company may by ordinary resolution remove any Director (including a Managing or other Executive Director) before the expiration of his period of office notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agreement between the Company and such Director (but without prejudice to any claim which such Director may have for damages for any breach of any contract of service between him and the Company) and may 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.

Borrowing Powers

The Board may from time to time at its 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.
The Board may raise or secure the payment or repayment of such sum or sums in such manner and upon such terms and conditions in all respects as it thinks fit and, subject to the approval by the Company in general meeting, in particular 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.
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.
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Any debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities may be issued at any price 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.
(A) The Board shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, of all mortgages and charges specifically affecting the property of the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Companies Ordinance in regard to the registration of mortgages and charges therein specified and otherwise.
(B) If the Company issues a series of debentures or debenture stock not transferable by delivery, the Board shall cause a proper register to be kept of the holders of such debentures in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Ordinance.
Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.

Managing Directors, etc.

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 Article 101.
Every Director appointed to an office under Article 117 hereof shall, but without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any contract of service between himself and the Company be liable to be dismissed or removed therefrom by the Board.
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A Director appointed to an office under Article 117 shall be subject to the same provisions as to rotation, resignation and removal as the other Directors of the Company, and he shall ipso facto and immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the office of Director for any cause.
The Board may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director or Executive Director all or any of the powers of the Board that it may think fit Provided that the exercise of all powers by such Director shall be subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Board may from time to time make and impose, and the said powers may at any time be withdrawn, revoked or varied, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of such withdrawal, revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.

Management

(A) The management of the business of the Company shall be vested in the Board who, in addition to the powers and authorities by these Articles expressly conferred upon it, may exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done or approved by the Company and which are not hereby or by the Companies Ordinance expressly directed or required to be exercised or done by the Company in general meeting, but subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance and of these Articles and to any regulations from time to time made by the Company in general meeting not being inconsistent with such provisions or these Articles or the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, provided that no regulation so made shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made.
(B) Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these Articles, it is hereby expressly declared that the Board shall have the following powers:-
- (i) subject to Section 141 of the Companies Ordinance, 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 any price as may be agreed; and
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(ii) to give to 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.

Managers

The Board may from time to time appoint a general manager, manager or managers of the business 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.
The appointment of such general manager, manager or managers may be for such period as the Board may decide and the Board may confer upon him or them all or any of the powers of the Board and such title or titles as it may think fit.
The Board 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 Board may in its 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.

Chairman

The Board may from time to time elect or otherwise appoint a Director to be Chairman or Deputy Chairman and determine the period for which each of them is to hold office. The Chairman or, in his absence, the Deputy Chairman shall preside at meetings of the Board, but if no such Chairman or Deputy Chairman be elected or appointed, or if at any meeting the Chairman or Deputy Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.
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Proceedings of the Directors

The Board may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings and proceedings as it thinks fit and may determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise determined three Directors shall be a quorum. For the purpose of this Article an alternate Director shall be counted in a quorum but, notwithstanding that an alternate Director is also a Director or is an alternate for more than one Director, he shall for quorum purposes count as only one Director. The Board or any committee of the Board may participate in a meeting of the Board or such committee by means of a conference telephone or other electronic means (including telephonic or videoconferencing) or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting are capable of hearing each other.
A Director may, and on request of a Director or the Secretary shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Board. Notice thereof shall be given to each Director and alternate 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, Provided that notice need not be given to any Director or alternate Director for the time being absent from Hong Kong. A Director may waive notice of any meeting and any such waiver may be prospective or retrospective.
Questions arising at any meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote (except in the case where the Chairman is not permitted to vote or be counted in quorum of any meeting of the Board).
A meeting of the Board 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 Articles for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board generally.
The Board may delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of such member or members of its body and such other persons, as the Board thinks fit, and they may from time to time revoke 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
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delegated conform to any regulations that may from time to time be imposed upon it by the Board.

All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such regulations and in fulfilment of the purposes for which it is appointed, but not otherwise, shall have the like force and effect as if done by the Board, and the Board 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.
The meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of two or more members shall be governed by the provisions herein contained for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board so far as the same are applicable thereto and are not replaced by any regulations imposed by the Board pursuant to Article 130.
All acts bona fide done by any meeting of the Board or by any such committee 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 or member of such committee.
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 Articles 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.
A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors except such as are absent from Hong Kong or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability (or their alternate Directors) shall (so long as they constitute a quorum as provided in Article 126) be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Board duly convened and held. Any such resolution in writing may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or alternate Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in respect of any matter to be considered by the Board in which a Director or substantial shareholder (as defined under the Listing Rules) has a conflict of interest, and which the Board has determined to be material,
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the matter shall be dealt with by resolution of the Board passed at a meeting of the Board and not by resolution in writing signed by the Directors.

Minutes

(A) The Board shall cause minutes to be made of:-
- (i) all appointments of officers made by the Board;
- (ii) the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Board and of committees appointed pursuant to Article 130; and
- (iii) all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company and of the Board and of such committees.
(B) Any such minutes shall be conclusive evidence of any such proceedings if they purport to be signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings were held or by the Chairman of the next succeeding meeting.

Secretary

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 Ordinance or these Articles 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 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.
The Secretary shall, if an individual, ordinarily reside in Hong Kong and, if a body corporate, have its registered office or a place of business in Hong Kong.
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A provision of the Companies Ordinance or of these Articles requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as, or in place of, the Secretary.

General Management and Use of the Seal

(A) (i) The Board shall provide for the safe custody of the seal 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 any two members of the Board or any two persons 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 securities 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 manner provided by this Article shall be deemed to be sealed and executed with the authority of the Directors previously given.
- (ii) Notwithstanding Article 140 (A)(i), the Company may execute a document as a deed in any other manner as may be permitted by law.
(B) The Company may have an official seal for use for sealing certificates for shares or other securities issued by the Company as permitted by Section 126 of the Ordinance (and no signature of any Director, officer or other person and no mechanical reproduction thereof shall be required on any such certificates or other document and any such certificates or other document to which such official seal is affixed shall be valid and deemed to have been sealed and executed with the
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authority of the Board notwithstanding the absence of any such signature or mechanical reproduction as aforesaid) and an official seal for use abroad under the provisions of the Companies Ordinance where and as the Board shall determine, and the Company may by writing under the seal appoint any agents or agent, committees or committee abroad to be the duly authorised agents of the Company for the purpose of affixing and using such official seal and they may impose such restrictions on the use thereof in accordance with the Ordinance and as may otherwise be thought fit. Wherever in these Articles reference is made to the seal, the reference shall, when and so far as may be applicable, be deemed to include any such official seal as aforesaid.

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.
(A) The Board may from time to time and at any time, by power of attorney under the seal or executed as a deed, 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 discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Board under these Articles) 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.
(B) The Company may, by writing under its seal or executed as a deed, empower any person, either generally or in respect of any specified matter, as its attorney to execute deeds and instruments
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on its behalf and to enter into contracts and sign the same of its behalf and every deed executed by such attorney on behalf of the Company and under his seal or executed as a deed shall bind the Company and have the same effect as if it were under the seal of, or executed as a deed by the Company.

The Board may establish any committees, local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Hong Kong or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees, local boards or agencies and may, subject to the consent of the Company in general meeting, 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 without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
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.
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Capitalisation of Reserves

(A) The Company in general meeting may, upon the recommendation of the Board, resolve to capitalise any part of the Company’s reserves or undivided profits not required for the payment or provision of the dividend on any shares with a preferential right to dividend, and accordingly that such part be sub-divided amongst the members who would have been entitled thereto if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions, 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 or other securities of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid to and amongst such members in the proportion aforesaid, or partly in one way and partly in the other.
(B) Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed, the Board shall make all appropriations and applications of the reserves or profits and undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares, debentures, or other securities and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto. For the purpose of giving effect to any resolution under this Article, the Board may settle any difficulty which may arise in regard to a capitalisation issue as it thinks fit, and in particular may determine that cash payments shall be made to any members in respect of fractional entitlements or that fractions of such value (as the Board may determine) may be disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all parties or that fractional entitlements shall be aggregated and sold and the benefit shall accrue to the Company rather than to the members concerned. The provisions of the Ordinance in relation to the filing of contracts for allotment shall be observed and the Board may appoint any person to sign on behalf of the persons entitled to shares in a capitalisation issue and such appointment
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shall be effective and binding upon all concerned, and the contract may provide for the acceptance by such persons of the shares, debentures or other securities to be allotted and distributed to them respectively in satisfaction of their claims in respect of the sum so capitalised.

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Dividends and Reserves

The Company in general meeting may declare dividends in any currency but no dividends shall exceed the amount recommended by the Board.
(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 position 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.
(B) The Board may also pay half-yearly or at other suitable intervals to be settled by them any dividend which may be payable at a fixed rate if the Board is of the opinion that the profits justify the payment.
No dividend shall be payable except out of the profits of the Company. No dividend shall carry interest. Any amount paid up in advance of calls on any share may carry interest but shall not entitle the holder of the share to participate in a dividend subsequently declared.
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Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting have resolved that a dividend be paid or declared, the Board 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, other securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, with or without offering any rights to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Board may settle the same as they think expedient, and in particular may 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 determine that fractional entitlements shall be aggregated and sold and the benefit shall accrue to the Company rather than to the members concerned, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Board 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 Ordinance and the Board may appoint any person to sign such contract on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend and such appointment shall be effective.
(A) Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting have resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on the share capital of the Company, the Board may further resolve:-
either (i) that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up on the basis that the shares so allotted shall be of the same class or classes as the class or classes already held by the allottee, 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:-
- (a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;
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(b) the Board, 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 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; and
(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 lieu and in satisfaction thereof shares shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the non-elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board 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) as the Board may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate 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.
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or (ii) that shareholders entitled to such dividend shall be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Directors may think fit on the basis that the shares so allotted shall be of the same class or classes as the class or classes of shares already held by the allottee. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:-
(a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;
(b) the Board, 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 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; and
(d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable in cash 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 up to the holders of the elected share on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalise and
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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) as the Board may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate 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 Article 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 Board of their proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (A) of this Article in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with their announcement of the distribution, bonus or rights in question, the Board shall specify that the shares to be allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.

(C) the Board 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 Article with full power to the Board to make such provisions as it thinks fit in the case
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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 Board 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 Board, by special resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.
(E) The Board may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (A) of this Article 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.
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 employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other
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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.

Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividend, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid up on the shares in respect whereof the dividend is paid, but no amount paid up or credited as paid up on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of this Article as paid up on the share.
(A) The Board 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.
(B) The Board 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.
Any general meeting sanctioning a dividend may make a call on the members of such amount as the meeting fixes, but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend payable to him, and so that the call shall 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.
A transfer of shares shall not pass the right to any dividend or bonus declared thereon before the registration of the transfer.
If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any one of such persons may give effectual receipts for any dividends, interim dividends or bonuses and other moneys payable in respect of such shares.
Unless otherwise directed by the Board, any dividend or 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
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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.

All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Board for the benefit of the Company until claimed and the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for six years after having been declared may be forfeited by the Board and shall revert to the Company.
Any resolution declaring a dividend on shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in general meeting or a resolution of the Board, may specify that the same shall be payable or distributable to the persons registered as the holders of such shares on a particular date or at a point of time on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon the dividend shall be payable or distributable to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend of transferors and transferees of any such shares. The provisions of this Article shall mutatis mutandis apply to bonuses, capitalisation issue, distributions of realised capital profits or offers or grants made by the Company to the members.

Untraceable Members

Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under Article 159 and the provisions of Article 162, the Company may cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend 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.
(A) 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 Articles 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) the Company has caused an advertisement to be inserted in an English language newspaper and a Chinese language newspaper 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 months has elapsed since the date of such advertisement.

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

(B) To give effect to any such sale the Board may authorise any person to transfer the said shares and 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
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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 Article shall be valid and effective notwithstanding that the member holding the shares sold is dead, bankrupt or otherwise under any legal disability or incapacity.

Distribution of Realised Capital Profits

The Company in general meeting may at any time and from time to time resolve that any surplus moneys in the hands of the Company representing capital profits arising from moneys received or recovered in respect of or arising from the realisation of any capital assets of the Company or any investments representing the same and not required for the payment or provision of any fixed preferential dividend instead of being applied in the purchase of any other capital assets or for other capital purposes be distributed amongst the ordinary shareholders on the footing that they receive the same as capital and in the shares and proportions in which they would have been entitled to receive the same if it had been distributed by way of dividend, provided that no such profits as aforesaid shall be so distributed unless there shall remain in the hands of the Company a sufficiency of other assets to answer in full the whole of the liabilities and paid-up share capital of the Company for the time being.

Annual Returns

The Board shall make the requisite annual returns in accordance with the Companies Ordinance.

Accounts

The Board shall cause true accounts to be kept of the sums of money received and expended by the Company, and the matters in respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place, and of the property, assets, credits and liabilities of the Company and of all other matters required by the Companies Ordinance or necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of Company’s affairs and to show and explain its transactions.
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The books of account shall be kept at the registered office or at such other place or places as the Board thinks fit and shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors.
The Board shall from time to time determine whether and 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 Ordinance or authorised by the Board or by the Company in general meeting.
(A) The Board shall from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Ordinance caused to be prepared and laid before the Company at its annual general meeting such profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and reports as are required by the Companies Ordinance.
(B) Every balance sheet of the Company shall be signed pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, and subject to Article 168(C), the Company will, in accordance with the Companies Ordinance and all other applicable legislation, deliver or send to every shareholder of, and every holder of debentures of, the Company and every person registered under Article 47 and every other person entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the Company, a printed copy of the relevant financial documents or the summary financial report (each as defined in the Companies Ordinance) at least twenty-one days before the date of the annual general meeting, provided that this Article shall not require a printed copy of those documents to be sent to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or in the case of joint holders of any shares or debentures some of whom are entitled to receive notices of the Company’s general meetings and some not, to those who are not entitled.
(C) The requirement to send to a person referred to in Article 168(B) the relevant financial documents or the summary financial
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report (each as defined in the Companies Ordinance), whether under that Article or under the Companies Ordinance, shall be deemed satisfied where, in accordance with the Companies Ordinance and all other applicable legislation and the Listing Rules, the Company publishes the relevant financial documents and if applicable, the summary financial report (each as defined in the Companies Ordinance), on the Company’s website or in any other permitted manner (including sending by any form of electronic communication), and that person has, in accordance with the Companies Ordinance and all other applicable legislation and the Listing Rules, agreed or is deemed to have agreed to treat the publication or receipt of such documents in such manner as discharging the Company’s obligation to send to him a copy of such documents, and such agreement has not been revoked.

Audit

Auditors shall be appointed and removed and their duties regulated in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Ordinance and the Listing Rules.
Subject as otherwise provided by the Companies Ordinance 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 the fixing of such remunerations to the Board.
Every statement of accounts audited by the Company’s Auditors and presented by the Board at an annual 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

Any notice or document to be given or issued by or on behalf of the Company to any entitled person under these Articles or the Companies Ordinance, the Listing Rules and other applicable laws, rules and regulations (including any
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“corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto in the Listing Rules) shall be in writing, and may, subject to and to the extent not prohibited by and in accordance with the Companies Ordinance, the Listing Rules and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, be served by the Company on or sent or delivered to any member or other entitled person:-

(i) personally;
(ii) by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter, envelope or wrapper addressed to such member at his registered address as appearing in the register (or in the case of any other entitled person, to such address as he may provide to the Company for that purpose);
(iii) by delivering or leaving it at such address as aforesaid;
(iv) by advertisement in one English language newspaper and one Chinese language newspaper;
(v) by sending it in accordance with applicable legislation and the Listing Rules as an electronic communication to the member or the entitled person at his electronic address as he may provide to the Company;
(vi) by publishing it in accordance with applicable legislation and the Listing Rules on the Company’s computer network (including the Company’s website);
(vii) subject to applicable legislation and the Listing Rules, by any other means authorised in writing by the member or the entitled person concerned; or
(viii) by any other means permitted by applicable legislation and the Listing Rules.

In the case of joint holders of a share, all notices or documents shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the register and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all joint holders.

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Any notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto in the Listing Rules) to be given or issued under these Articles may be either in English language or Chinese language only or in both English language and Chinese language, subject to due compliance with the Ordinance and other applicable laws, rules and regulations.

A member shall be entitled to have notices served on him at any address within Hong Kong. Any member whose registered address is outside Hong Kong may notify the Company in writing of an address in Hong Kong which for the purpose of service of notice shall be deemed to be his registered address. A member who does not notify the Company of an address in Hong Kong may notify the Company of an address outside Hong Kong and the Company may serve notices on him at such overseas address. In the absence of notification by a member of an address in or outside of Hong Kong for the purpose of service of notice, notices to such member shall be sent to such member’s address as shown in the Company’s register of members. A member ceases to be entitled to receive notices from the Company if the Company sends two consecutive documents to the member over a period of at least twelve months and each of those documents is returned undelivered, or the Company receives notification that it has not been delivered. A member who has ceased to be entitled to receive notices from the Company becomes entitled to receive those notices again by sending the Company an address to be recorded in the register of members or if the member has agreed that the Company should use a means of communication other than sending things to such an address, the information that the Company needs to use that means of communication effectively.
Any notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto in the Listing Rules) given or issued by or on behalf of the Company:-
(i) if sent by post, shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered on the second business day (as defined in Part 18 of the Companies Ordinance) following that on which the envelope or wrapper containing the same is put into a post office situated within Hong Kong and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice was properly prepaid (and in the case of an address outside Hong Kong where airmail service can be
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extended thereto airmail postage prepaid), addressed and put into such post office and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice was so addressed and put into such post office shall be conclusive evidence thereof;

(ii) if not sent by post but left by the Company at the registered address of a member or at the address (other than an address for the purposes of electronic communications) notified to the Company in accordance with these Articles by an entitled person not being a member, shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered on the day it was so left;
(iii) if published by advertisement in newspapers in accordance with Article 172, shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered on the day on which the notice or document is first published in newspapers;
(iv) if sent as an electronic communication, shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered 48 hours after it had been so sent, or if later, at the time as prescribed by the Ordinance and other applicable laws, rules and regulations;
(v) if published on the Company’s computer network (including the Company’s website), shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered 48 hours after the later of (a) when it is so published, (b) notification of such publication is given by the Company, or (c) at the time as prescribed by the Ordinance and other applicable laws, rules and regulations; and
(vi) if served, sent or delivered by any other means authorised in writing by the member or the entitled person concerned, shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered in accordance with the terms of such authorisation, or if such terms of authorisation do not specify the terms of deemed service, receipt or delivery, shall be deemed to have been served, received or delivered 48 hours after the Company has carried out the action it has been authorised to take for that purpose.
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For the purposes of calculating the period of 48 hours mentioned in this Article, any part of a day which is not a business day (as defined in Part 18 of the Companies Ordinance) is to be disregarded.

A notice or document may be given by or on behalf of the Company to the person entitled to a share in consequence of the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a member in such manner as provided in these Articles in which the same might have been given if the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy had not occurred.
Any person who by operation of law, transfer or other means whatsoever shall become 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.
Any notice or document delivered or sent to any member in such manner as provided in these Articles in pursuance of these presents, shall notwithstanding that such member be then deceased or bankrupt and whether or not the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy, 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.
The signature to any notice or document to be given by the Company may be written, printed or made electronically.

Information

No member (not being a Director) 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 process which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Company and which in the opinion of the Board it will be inexpedient in the interests of the members of the Company to communicate to the public.
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Destruction of Documents

The Company may destroy:-
(i) any share certificate which has been cancelled at any time after the expiry of one year from the date of such cancellation;
(ii) any dividend mandate or any variation or cancellation thereof or any notification of change of name or address at any time after the expiry of two years from the date such mandate, variation, cancellation or notification was recorded by the Company;
(iii) any instrument of transfer of shares which has been registered at any time after the expiry of six years from the date of registration; and
(iv) any other document, on the basis of which any entry in the register is made, at any time after the expiry of six years from the date on which an entry in the register was first made in respect of it;

and it shall conclusively be presumed in favour of the Company that every share certificate so destroyed was a valid certificate duly and properly cancelled and that every instrument of transfer so destroyed was a valid and effective instrument duly and properly registered and that every other document destroyed hereunder was a valid and effective document in accordance with the recorded particulars thereof in the books or records of the Company. Provided always that:-

(a) the foregoing provisions of this Article shall apply only to the destruction of a document in good faith and in accordance with the Companies Ordinance, and without express notice to the Company that the preservation of such document was relevant to a claim;
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(b)
nothing contained in this Article shall be construed as imposing upon the Company any liability in respect of the destruction of any such document earlier than as aforesaid or in any case where the conditions of proviso (i) above are not fulfilled; and
(c) references in this Article to the destruction of any document include reference to its disposal in any manner.

Winding Up

If the Company shall be wound up, the surplus assets remaining after payment to all creditors shall be divided among the members in proportion to the capital paid up on the shares held by them respectively, and if such surplus assets shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up capital, they shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the members in proportion to the capital paid up on the shares held by them respectively, but all subject to the rights of any shares which may be issued on special terms or conditions.
If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision or by the court) the liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution and any other sanction required by the Companies Ordinance, divide among the members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and whether the assets shall consist of property of one kind or shall consist of properties of different kinds and the liquidator may, for such purpose, set such value as he deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the members or different classes of members and the members within each class. The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of members as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall think fit, but so that no member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other assets upon which there is a liability.
In the event of a winding-up of the Company in Hong Kong, every member of the Company who is not for the time being in Hong Kong 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 Hong
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Kong and stating that person’s full name, address and occupation upon whom all summonses, notices, processes, orders and judgments 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 an English language newspaper and in a Chinese language newspaper 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 deemed to be served on the day following that on which the advertisement appears or the letter is posted.

Indemnity

(A) Every Director or other officer of the Company 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 or damages 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 Article shall only have effect in so far as its provisions are not avoided by the Companies Ordinance.
(B) The Company may indemnify any Director or other officer of the Company, or any person employed by the Company as Auditor, against any liability incurred by him:
- (a) in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted; or
- (b) in connection with any application under Section 903 or 904 of the Companies Ordinance in which relief is granted to him by the court.
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(C) The Company may purchase and maintain for any Director or officer of the Company, or any person employed by the Company as Auditor:
(a) insurance against any liability to the Company, a related company or any other party in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust (save for fraud) of which he may be guilty in relation to the Company or a related company; and
(b) insurance against any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, taken against him for any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust (including fraud) of which he may be guilty in relation to the Company or a related company.
(D) In this Article, “related company”, in relation to the Company, means any company that is the Company’s subsidiary or holding company or a subsidiary of the Company’s holding company.

Conflict with Companies Ordinance

(A) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Articles, if the Companies Ordinance prohibit an act being done, the act shall not be done.
(B) Nothing contained in these Articles prevents an act being done that the Companies Ordinance requires to be done.
(C) If any provision of these Articles is or becomes inconsistent with any provision of the Companies Ordinance, these Articles are deemed not to contain that provision to the extent of the inconsistency and to the extent it does not breach any provision of the Companies Ordinance.
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Schedule A – Preferred Share Terms

All Preferred Shares shall carry equal rights and rank pari passu with one another and carry the rights set out below.

1. INTERPRETATION

1.1 For the purposes of this Schedule, the following expressions have the following meanings:

Affiliate means (i) any Permitted Transferee (in relation to the Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited, CPG Overseas Company Limited and ITOCHU Corporation); or (ii) in relation to any person, any other person which, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under the common control of the first mentioned person. For the purposes of this Schedule, control means, in relation to any person, having the power to direct the management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of 50% or more of the voting power of such person, through the power to appoint a majority of the members of the board of directors or similar governing body of such person, or through contractual arrangements or otherwise, and references to controlled or controlling shall be construed accordingly;

Anti-dilution Right means the right of the relevant Preferred Shareholder to increase its aggregate percentage interest, whether directly or indirectly, in the total equity capital of the Company to up to but not including 20.005% on a Fully Diluted Basis (provided that the total number of Shares held by the Subscriber and its Affiliates, whether directly or indirectly, as a result of Subscriber’s exercise of the Anti-Dilution Right shall not become 20.005% or more of the total number of outstanding issued Shares of the Company) by: (i) participating in the New Share Issue/New Equity Issue of the Company or (ii) purchasing Ordinary Shares from any person in accordance with terms of the Subscription Agreement;

Articles means at any time the Articles of Association of the Company at that time;

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Business Day means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday or public holiday, on which commercial banks are generally open for normal banking business in Hong Kong;

Closing Price for an Ordinary Share for any Trading Day shall be the price published in the Daily Quotation Sheet published by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for such day;

Companies Ordinance means the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong);

Company means CITIC Limited (中國中信股份有限公司), a company incorporated in Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with stock code 00267 and whose registered office is at 32/F, CITIC Tower, 1 Tim Mei Avenue, Central, Hong Kong;

Conversion Date has the meaning given to it in paragraph 6.2(a)(iii);

Conversion Price means the price per Ordinary Share at which Ordinary Shares will be issued upon exercise of the Conversion Rights, such price initially being HK$13.80 per Ordinary Share, subject to adjustment in accordance with the terms of these Articles;

Conversion Right means in respect of a Preferred Share, the right of its registered holder, subject to the provisions of these Articles and the Companies Ordinance and to any other applicable fiscal or other laws or regulations, to convert all or any of its Preferred Shares into Ordinary Shares;

Conversion Shares means all of the Ordinary Shares which fall to be issued by the Company upon conversion of all of the Preferred Shares issued under the Subscription Agreement;

Current Market Price means, in respect of an Ordinary Share at a particular date, the arithmetic average of the Closing Price for one share (being an Ordinary Share carrying a full entitlement to dividends) for the five consecutive Trading Days ending on such date; provided that if at any time during the said five

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Trading Day period the Ordinary Share shall have been quoted ex-dividend and during some other part of that period the Ordinary Share shall have been quoted cum-dividend then:

(a) if the Ordinary Shares to be issued in such circumstances do not rank for the dividend in question, the quotations on the dates on which the Ordinary Share shall have been quoted cum-dividend shall for the purpose of this definition be deemed to be the amount thereof reduced by an amount equal to the amount of that dividend per Ordinary Share; or
(b) if the Ordinary Share to be issued in such circumstances rank for the dividend in question, the quotations on the dates on which the Ordinary Share shall have been quoted ex-dividend shall for the purpose of this definition be deemed to be the amount thereof increased by the such similar amount,

and provided further that if the Ordinary Share on each of the said five Trading Days has been quoted cum-dividend in respect of a dividend which has been declared or announced but the Ordinary Shares to be issued do not rank for that dividend, the quotations on each of such dates shall for the purpose of this definition be deemed to be the amount thereof reduced by an amount equal to the amount of that dividend per Ordinary Share;

Designated Office means the Company’s principal place of business in Hong Kong, being 32nd Floor, CITIC Tower, 1 Tim Mei Avenue, Central, Hong Kong;

Director(s) means at any time the director(s) of the Company at that time;

Distribution has the meaning ascribed to it in paragraph 4.1 of this Schedule;

Dividend means any dividend or distribution, whether of cash, assets or other property, and whenever paid or made and however described provided that:

(a) where a cash dividend is announced which is to be, or may at the election of a holder or holders of Ordinary Shares be, satisfied by the
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issue or delivery of other property or assets, then, the dividend in question shall be treated as a dividend of: (a) the cash dividend so announced; or (b) the Fair Market Value of other property or assets to be delivered in satisfaction of such dividend (or which would be delivered if all holders of Ordinary Shares elected therefor, regardless of whether any such election is made) if the Fair Market Value of other property or assets is greater than the cash dividend so announced; and

(b) any issue of Ordinary Shares falling within paragraph 6.3(b)(i) shall be disregarded;

Equity Securities means Ordinary Shares, any securities which are by their terms convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Ordinary Shares, or any option or securities which confer on the holder the right to call for an issue of, or to receive, Ordinary Shares or securities which are by their terms convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Ordinary Shares, or any other type of equity or ownership interest in the Company;

Fair Market Value means, with respect to any assets, security, option, warrants or other right on any date, the fair market value of that asset, security, option, warrant or other right as determined by an Independent Investment Bank selected by the Directors; provided that: (i) the fair market value of a cash Dividend paid or to be paid per Ordinary Share shall be the amount of such cash Dividend per Ordinary Share determined as at the date of announcement of such Dividend; and (ii) where options, warrants or other rights are publicly traded in a market of adequate liquidity (as determined by such investment banks) the fair market value of such options, warrants or other rights shall equal the arithmetic mean of the daily closing prices of such options, warrants or other rights during the period of five Trading Days on the relevant market commencing on the first such Trading Day on which such options, warrants or other rights are publicly traded;

Fully Diluted Basis means the basis that all subsisting options, warrants and securities or other interests convertible into Ordinary Shares and any other subsisting contractual rights to subscribe for or to be issued Ordinary Shares (including, without limitation, the Preferred Shares and in all cases whether the Ordinary Shares will be listed and/or traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or not), have been exercised or converted in full at the applicable exercise or

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conversion price, whether or not such exercise or conversion is subject to condition(s);

HK Dollar , Hong Kong Dollar , and HK$ means the legal currency of Hong Kong;

Hong Kong Stock Exchange means The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;

Independent Investment Bank means an independent investment bank of international repute not connected to the Company or its Affiliates (acting as an expert) or any Director or any directors of its Affiliates, selected by the Directors;

Issue Date means the date on which the Preferred Shares are issued;

Issue Price means HK$13.80 per Preferred Share;

Listing Rules means the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in force from time to time;

Member or Shareholder means each person entered in the register of members of the Company as the registered holder of shares in the capital of the Company and includes a registered holder of Ordinary Shares and/or Preferred Shares as the context may indicate;

New Equity Issue means the issue of any Equity Securities other than Ordinary Shares by the Company;

New Share Issue means the issue of new Ordinary Shares by the Company;

Normal office hours means 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on a Business Day;

Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of the Company from time to time, which are listed and traded in HK$ on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange;

Ordinary Shareholders means the registered holders of Ordinary Shares;

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Permitted Transferee means any and each of (i) Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited (ii) any 75% Subsidiary of Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited; (iii) ITOCHU Corporation; (iv) CPG Overseas Company Limited; (v) any 75% Subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation; and (vi) any 75% Subsidiary of CPG Overseas Company Limited;

Preferred Shares means the 3,327,721,000 convertible preferred shares in the share capital of the Company, convertible into Ordinary Shares at an initial Conversion Price of HK$13.80 per Preferred Share issued or to be issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, the rights and obligations of which are set out in this Schedule and Preferred Share refers to any one of such Preferred Shares;

Preferred Shareholder means a holder of the Preferred Shares;

Register of Members means the register of the holders of Ordinary Shares and the Preferred Shareholders kept by the Company and includes any branch register;

Registration Date has the meaning given to it in paragraph 6.2(d)(i);

Sale Shares means the 2,490,332,363 Ordinary Shares purchased or to be purchased by the Subscriber from CITIC Polaris Limited under and subject to the Share Purchase Agreement;

Scrip Dividend means any Ordinary Shares issued in lieu of the whole or any part of any cash dividend declared by the Company being a dividend which the Shareholders concerned would or could otherwise have received;

Share Option Scheme means the CITIC Pacific Share Incentive Plan 2011 adopted by the Company on 12 May 2011;

Share Purchase Agreement means the share purchase agreement entered into among CITIC Polaris Limited, CITIC Group Corporation, Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited, CPG Overseas Company Limited and ITOCHU Corporation on 20 January 2015 in relation to the sale of the Sale Shares by CITIC Polaris Limited to Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited;

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Subscription Agreement means the subscription agreement entered into among the Company, Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited, CPG Overseas Company Limited, CITIC Group Corporation and ITOCHU Corporation on 20 January 2015 in relation to the subscription of the Preferred Shares by Chia Tai Bright Investment Company Limited;

Subsidiary has the meaning ascribed to this term in the Listing Rules;

Trading Day means a day on which the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is open for dealing business, and there is no trading halt in or suspension in trading of Ordinary Shares;

Winding-Up means with respect to the Company a final and effective order or resolution for winding up or liquidation in respect of the Company; and

A 75% Subsidiary of any entity, means any company in which the entity, directly or indirectly, holds at least 75 per cent of the issued share capital.

1.2 Headings used herein are for ease of reference only and shall be ignored in interpreting these Articles.
1.3 References to paragraphs are references to paragraphs of these Articles.
1.4 Words and expressions in the singular include the plural and vice versa and words and expressions importing one gender include every gender.
1.5 Reference to person includes any public body and any body of persons, corporate or unincorporated.
1.6 References to any ordinance, statute, legislation or enactment shall be construed as a reference to such ordinance, statute, legislation or enactment as may be amended or re-enacted from time to time and for the time being in force.
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2. LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE

In the event of Winding-Up of the Company, each Preferred Shareholder shall be entitled, in proportion to the total Issue Price of Preferred Shares held by that Preferred Shareholder and in priority to any holder of Ordinary Shares (whether listed and traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or not) in the capital of the Company, to receive an amount equal to the sum of the amount equal to the Issue Price of the Preferred Shares held by that Preferred Shareholder together with any Distributions that have accrued but have remained unpaid. Where the assets of the Company is insufficient, each Preferred Shareholder shall be entitled receive such amount in proportion to the total Issue Price of Preferred Shares held by that Preferred Shareholder.

3. REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SHARES

3.1 The Company shall keep a register in which the Company or its share registrar shall provide for the registration and transfer of the Preferred Shares, in which the Company or its share registrar shall record the name and address of the holders and the name and address of each permitted transferee and prior owner of the Preferred Shares. Preferred Shareholders shall notify the Company of any change of name or address and promptly after receiving such notification the Company shall record such information in such register.
3.2 Subject to the restrictions on transfer as set out in the Subscription Agreement, each Preferred Share is freely transferable.
3.3 A transfer of Preferred Shares may be effected only by the execution of an instrument of transfer in writing by the transferor. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the Preferred Shares until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members. A transfer of any Preferred Shares may be effected only by a surrender of the instrument of transfer and the certificate evidencing such Preferred Shares to the Company and the issuance by the Company of a new certificate(s) in replacement thereof which shall be registered by the Company in accordance with paragraph 3.1 above. The Company shall not be responsible for payment of any transfer taxes in connection with the transfer of any Preferred Shares.
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4. DISTRIBUTIONS

4.1 If the Company declares any Dividend on the Ordinary Shares, the Preferred Shareholders shall be entitled to receive such Dividend (the Distribution ) on a pro rata basis with holders of Ordinary Shares, as if each Preferred Share held by the Preferred Shareholders had been converted into Ordinary Shares and the Preferred Shareholders registered as holders of such Ordinary Shares on the record date for determining the holders of Ordinary Shares eligible to receive such Dividend. Save for the above, the Preferred Shareholder is not entitled to any other profit distribution or interest payment from the Company.
4.2 Any Distribution payable by the Company in accordance with paragraph 4.1 shall be paid on the payment date of any Dividend.
4.3 Where the Conversion Right attached to a Preferred Share has been exercised pursuant to these Articles, such Preferred Share will cease to confer the right to receive any Distribution from and including the Registration Date.

5. VOTING

The Preferred Shareholders shall not attend general meetings of the Company and shall not have voting rights.

6. CONVERSION

6.1 Conversion Right

(a) Conversion at the option of Preferred Shareholder : Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Articles and any applicable laws (including but not limited to the Listing Rules and the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers), the Conversion Right attaching to any Preferred Share may be exercised by the holder thereof at any time on or after the Issue Date, provided that a Preferred Shareholder may only convert such number of Preferred Shares as would not cause the Company to not comply with the requirement for the minimum percentage of Shares to be held in public hands under the Listing Rules
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and of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, following the conversion.

(b) Conversion at the option of the Company : Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Articles and any applicable laws (including but not limited to the Listing Rules and the Hong Kong Code on Takeover and Mergers), the Company shall have the right to, at any time on or after the Issue Date, require a Preferred Shareholder to convert the Preferred Shares it holds by giving written notice to the Preferred Shareholder.
(c) Fractions of Shares : Fractions of Ordinary Shares will not be issued on conversion and no cash adjustments will be made in respect thereof. However, if the Conversion Right in respect of more than one Preferred Share is exercised at any one time such that the Ordinary Shares to be issued on conversion are to be registered in the same name, the number of such Ordinary Shares to be issued in respect thereof shall be calculated on the basis of the aggregate amount of such Preferred Shares being so converted and rounded down to the nearest whole number of Ordinary Shares.
(d) Number of Conversion Shares : The Preferred Shares shall be convertible at the option of the Preferred Shareholders thereof, at any time after the Issue Date and without the payment of any additional sum, into fully-paid Ordinary Shares. The number of Ordinary Shares to be issued on conversion of the relevant Preferred Shares will be determined by dividing the aggregate Issue Price of the relevant Preferred Shares to be converted by the Conversion Price in effect at the Conversion Date.

6.2 Conversion Procedure

(a) Conversion Notice:

(i) To exercise the Conversion Right attaching to any Preferred Share, the holder thereof must duly complete, execute and deposit at his own expense during normal office hours at the Designated Office a notice of conversion (a Preferred Shareholder Conversion Notice ) in duplicate, together with the relevant share certificate in
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respect of the relevant Preferred Shares. A Preferred Shareholder Conversion Notice deposited outside the normal office hours or on a day which is not a Business Day at the place of the Designated Office shall for all purposes be deemed to have been deposited with the Company during the normal office hours on the next Business Day following such day. A Preferred Shareholder Conversion Notice once delivered shall be irrevocable and may not be withdrawn unless the Company consents in writing to such withdrawal.

(ii) Where the Company requires a Preferred Shareholder to exercise the Conversion Right attaching to any Preferred Share, the Company must duly complete, execute and deposit at its own expense during normal office hours at the address of the Preferred Shareholder as registered in the register of Preferred Shareholder (a Company Conversion Notice ) in duplicate. The Preferred Shareholder shall deliver the relevant share certificate in respect of the relevant Preferred Shares to the Designated Office within five Business Days from receipt of the Company Conversion Notice. A Company Conversion Notice once delivered shall be irrevocable and may not be withdrawn unless the relevant Preferred Shareholder consents in writing to such withdrawal.
(iii) The conversion date in respect of a Preferred Share (the Conversion Date) is expressed in the Articles to be exercisable and will be deemed to be the Business Day immediately following the date of the surrender of the share certificate in respect of the relevant Preferred Shares and delivery of the Preferred Shareholder Conversion Notice in the case of a conversion at the option by the Preferred Shareholder or the date of delivery of the Company Conversion Notice in the case of a conversion at the option by the Company.
(b) Conversion : The Company shall allot and issue the relevant Ordinary Shares to the converting Preferred Shareholder and shall procure that certificates in respect of the relevant Ordinary Shares, together with a new certificate for any unconverted Preferred Shares comprised in the certificate(s) surrendered by him, are issued as soon as practicable and
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in any event not later than the fifth Business Day after the relevant Conversion Date.

(c) Stamp Duty etc. : A Preferred Shareholder delivering a share certificate in respect of a Preferred Share for conversion must pay directly to the relevant authorities: (i) any taxes and capital, stamp, issue and registration duties arising on conversion (other than any taxes or capital or stamp duties payable in Hong Kong by the Company in respect of the allotment and issue of Ordinary Shares and listing of the Ordinary Shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on conversion) (the Taxes ); and (ii) all, if any, taxes arising by reference to any disposal or deemed disposal of a Preferred Share in connection with such conversion, in each case directly to the relevant authorities. The Company is under no obligation to determine whether a Preferred Shareholder is liable to pay any Taxes under paragraph 6.2 and shall not be liable for any failure of a Preferred Shareholder to make such payment. The Company will pay all other expenses arising on the issue of Ordinary Shares upon any conversion of Preferred Shares. The Preferred Shareholder must state in the relevant Conversion Notice that any taxes payable to the relevant tax authorities pursuant to paragraph 6.2(c) have been paid.

(d) Registration:

(i) As soon as practicable, and in any event not later than the fifth Business Day after the Conversion Date (the Registration Date ), the Company will, in the case of Preferred Shares converted on exercise of the Conversion Right, register the Preferred Shareholder(s) as holder(s) of the relevant number of Ordinary Shares in the Company’s Register of Members and will cause its Hong Kong share registrar to mail (at the risk, and, if sent at the request of such person otherwise than by uninsured ordinary mail, at the expense, of the Preferred Shareholder) such certificate or certificates to the Preferred Shareholder at the address registered in the register of Preferred Shareholders of the Company, together with any other securities, property or cash required to be delivered upon conversion and such assignments and other documents (if any) as may be required by law to effect the transfer thereof, in which case a single share certificate will be issued in respect of all
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Ordinary Shares issued on conversion of Preferred Shares and which are to be registered in the same name.

(ii) The Preferred Shareholder(s) will become the holder(s) of record of the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion with effect from the Registration Date. The Ordinary Shares issued upon conversion of the Preferred Share will in all respects rank pari passu with the Ordinary Shares in issue on the relevant Registration Date. Save as set out in these Articles, a holder of Ordinary Shares issued on conversion of Preferred Share shall not be entitled to any rights the record date for which precedes the relevant Registration Date.

6.3 Adjustments to Conversion Price

The Conversion Price shall from time to time be adjusted after the Issue Date of the Preferred Shares in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) Consolidation, subdivision or reclassification : If and whenever there shall be an alteration to the number of Ordinary Shares in issue as a result of consolidation, subdivision or reclassification, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Price in force immediately before such alteration by the following fraction:

where:

A is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately before such alteration; and
B is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately after such alteration.

Such adjustment shall become effective on the date the alteration takes effect.

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(b) Capitalisation of profits or reserves:
(i) If and whenever the Company shall issue any Ordinary Shares credited as fully paid to the Shareholders by way of capitalisation of profits or reserves including, Ordinary Shares paid up out of distributable profits or reserves (except any Scrip Dividend), the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Price in force immediately before such issue by the following fraction:

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where:

A is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately before such issue; and
B is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately after such issue.
(ii) In the case of an issue of Ordinary Shares by way of a Scrip Dividend where the Current Market Price on the date of announcement of the terms of such issue of such Ordinary Shares exceeds the issue price for the Ordinary Shares under such Scrip Dividend, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Price in force immediately before the issue of such Ordinary Shares by the following fraction:

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where:

A is the number of issued Ordinary Shares immediately before such issue;
B is the number of Ordinary Shares issued by way of such
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Scrip Dividend multiplied by a fraction of which (i) the numerator is the issue price for the Ordinary Shares under such Scrip Dividend and (ii) the denominator is such Current Market Price of the Ordinary Shares issued by way of Scrip Dividend; and

C is the number of Ordinary Shares issued by way of such Scrip Dividend.

Such adjustment shall become effective on the date of issue of such Ordinary Shares or if a record date is fixed therefor, immediately after such record date.

(c) Rights Issues of Ordinary Shares or Options over Ordinary Shares: If and whenever the Company shall issue Ordinary Shares to all or substantially all Shareholders as a class by way of rights, or issue or grant to all or substantially all Shareholders as a class by way of rights, options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for or purchase or otherwise acquire any Ordinary Shares, in each case at less than 95 per cent. of the Current Market Price per Ordinary Share on the last Trading Day preceding the date of the announcement of the terms of the issue or grant, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Price in force immediately before such issue or grant by the following fraction:

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where:

A is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately before such announcement;
B is the number of Ordinary Shares which the aggregate amount (if any) payable for the Ordinary Shares issued by way of rights or for the options or warrants or other rights issued or granted by way of rights and for the total number of Ordinary Shares
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comprised therein would subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire at such Current Market Price per Share; and

C is the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares issued or, as the case may be, comprised in the rights, options, warrants or other rights granted.

Such adjustment shall become effective on the date of issue of such Ordinary Shares or issue or grant of such options, warrants or other rights (as the case may be) or where a record date is set, the first date on which the Ordinary Shares are traded ex-rights, ex-options or ex-warrants as the case may be.

(d) Issues at less than Current Market Price : If and whenever the Company shall issue (otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (c) above) any Ordinary Shares (other than Ordinary Shares issued on the conversion of the Preferred Shares or on the exercise of any other rights of conversion into, or exchange or subscription for Ordinary Shares) or issue or grant (otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (c) above) any options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any Ordinary Shares, in each case at a price per Ordinary Share which is less than 95 per cent. of the Current Market Price on the last Trading Day preceding the date of announcement of the terms of such issue, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Price in force immediately before such issue by the following fraction:

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where:

A is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately before the issue of such additional Ordinary Shares or the grant of such options, warrants or other rights to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire any Ordinary Shares;
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B is the number of Ordinary Shares which the aggregate consideration (if any) receivable for the issue of such additional Ordinary Shares or would purchase at such Current Market Price; and
C is the number of Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to such issue of Ordinary Shares or, as the case may be, the maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be issued upon exercise of such options, warrants or rights calculated as at the date of issue or grant of such options, warrants or rights.

References to additional Ordinary Shares in the above formula shall, in the case of an issue by the Company of options, warrants or other rights to subscribe or purchase Ordinary Shares, mean such Ordinary Shares to be issued assuming that such options, warrants or other rights are exercised in full at the initial exercise price on the date of issue of such options, warrants or other rights.

Such adjustment shall become effective on the date of issue of such additional Ordinary Shares or, as the case may be, the grant of such options, warrants or other rights.

(e) Other Issues at less than Current Market Price : Save in the case of an issue of securities arising from a conversion or exchange of other securities in accordance with the terms applicable to such securities themselves falling within this paragraph (e), if and whenever the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (c) or (d)), or (at the direction or request of or pursuant to any arrangements with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), any other company, person or entity shall issue wholly for cash any securities (other than the Preferred Shares excluding for this purpose any further Preferred Shares) which by their terms of issue carry rights of conversion into, or exchange or subscription for, Ordinary Shares to be issued by the Company upon conversion, exchange or subscription at a consideration per Ordinary Share to be received by the Company which is less than 95 per cent. of the Current Market Price on the last Trading Day preceding the date of announcement of the terms of issue of such securities, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by
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multiplying the Conversion Price in force immediately before such issue by the following fraction:

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where:

A is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately before such issue;
B is the number of Ordinary Shares which the aggregate consideration receivable by the Company for the Ordinary Shares to be issued on conversion or exchange or on exercise of the right of subscription attached to such securities would purchase at such Current Market Price; and
C is the maximum number of Ordinary Shares to be issued on conversion or exchange of such securities or on the exercise of such rights of subscription attached thereto at the initial conversion, exchange or subscription price or rate.

Such adjustment shall become effective on the date of issue of such securities.

(f) Modification of Rights of Conversion etc .: If and whenever there shall be any modification of the rights of conversion, exchange or subscription attaching to any such securities as are mentioned in paragraph (e) (other than in accordance with the terms of such securities) so that the consideration per Ordinary Share (for the number of Ordinary Shares available on conversion, exchange or subscription following the modification) is less than 95 per cent. of the Current Market Price on the last Trading Day preceding the date of announcement of the proposals for such modification, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Price in force
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immediately before such modification by the following fraction:

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where:

A is the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately before such modification;
B is the number of Ordinary Shares which the aggregate consideration receivable by the Company for the Ordinary Shares to be issued on conversion or exchange or on exercise of the right of subscription attached to the securities so modified would purchase at such Current Market Price or, if lower, the existing conversion, exchange or subscription price of such securities; and
C is the maximum number of Ordinary Shares to be issued on conversion or exchange of such securities or on the exercise of the right of subscription attached thereto at the modified conversion, exchange or subscription or purchase price or rate but giving credit in such manner as an Independent Investment Bank, considers appropriate (if at all) for any previous adjustment under this paragraph (f) or paragraph (e) above.

Such adjustment shall become effective on the date of modification of the rights of conversion, exchange or subscription attaching to such securities.

(g) The Conversion Price of Preferred Shares shall not be adjusted as a result of the declaration of cash dividend by the Company, provided that the Preferred Shareholders shall be entitled to the Distribution to which such cash dividend relates. Except for the actions described above, in case the Company at any time or from time to time shall take any action affecting its Ordinary Shares similar to or having an effect similar to any of the actions described above, and the Directors (after taking into account the interest of both the holders of Ordinary Shares and Preferred Shareholders) together with the Preferred Shareholders
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in good faith determine that it would be equitable in the circumstances to adjust the Conversion Price as a result of such action, then, and in each such case, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted in such manner and at such time as the Directors together with the Preferred Shareholders in good faith determine would be equitable in the circumstances (such determination to be carried out through a resolution of the Board of Directors and a written consent of the Preferred Shareholders).

(h) On any adjustment, the relevant Conversion Price, if not an integral multiple of one Hong Kong cent, shall be rounded down to the nearest Hong Kong cent. No adjustment shall be made to the Conversion Price where such adjustment (rounded down if applicable) would be less than one per cent. of the Conversion Price then in effect. Any adjustment not required to be made, and any amount by which the Conversion Price has not been rounded down, shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. Notice of any adjustment shall be given to the Preferred Shareholders as soon as practicable after the determination thereof.
(i) Where more than one event which gives or may give rise to an adjustment to the Conversion Price occurs within such a short period of time that in the opinion of an Independent Investment Bank, the foregoing provisions would need to be operated subject to some modification in order to give the intended result, such modification shall be made to the operation of the foregoing provisions as may be advised by such Independent Investment Bank to be in its opinion appropriate in order to give such intended result.
(j) No adjustment will be made to the Conversion Price as a result of any event undertaken by the Company to fulfill its obligations under clause 10 of the Subscription Agreement, provided that such events or actions undertaken by the Company do not result in the Conversion Shares, together with the Sale Shares and any Ordinary Shares issued or acquired as a result of the Subscriber’s exercise of the Anti-Dilution Right being less than exactly 20.00% on a Fully Diluted Basis.
(k) No adjustment will be made to the Conversion Price when Ordinary
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Shares or other securities (including rights or options) are issued, offered or granted to employees (including directors) of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to the Share Option Scheme.

(l) No adjustment involving an increase in the Conversion Price will be made, except in the case of a consolidation of the Ordinary Shares as referred to in paragraph (a) above or where there has been a manifest error in the calculation of the Conversion Price.

6.4 Notice of Change in Conversion Price

The Company shall give notice to the Preferred Shareholders of any change in the Conversion Price within two Business Days of any event leading to the change in the Conversion Price occurring. Any such notice relating to a change in the Conversion Price shall set forth the event giving rise to the adjustment, the Conversion Price prior to such adjustment, the adjusted Conversion Price and the effective date of such adjustment.

7. PAYMENTS

7.1 Payments

All payments made by the Company in respect of the Preferred Shares pursuant to these Articles shall be made in Hong Kong Dollars in immediately available funds on the due dates into such bank account as the holder of the relevant Preferred Shares may notify the Company by at least five (5) Business Days’ prior notice in writing delivered to the Company at the Designated Office from time to time.

7.2 Default Interest and Delay in Payment

(a) If the Company fails to pay any sum in respect of the Preferred Shares when the same becomes due and payable under the Articles, interest shall accrue on the overdue sum at the rate of 0.1 per cent. per annum from the due date and ending on the date on which full payment is made to the Preferred Shareholder in accordance with the Articles. Such default interest shall accrue on the basis of the actual number of
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days elapsed and a 360-day year.

(b) The Preferred Shareholder will not be entitled to any interest or other payment for any delay after the due date in receiving the amount due if such delay is caused solely because the due date is not a Business Day, if the Preferred Shareholder is late in surrendering its share certificate (if required to do so).
(c) If an amount which is due on the Preferred Shares is not paid in full, the Company will annotate the Register of Members of the Company with a record of the amount (if any) in fact paid.

8. REDEMPTION AND CANCELLATION

8.1 No Redemption Right

The Preferred Shares are perpetual securities in respect of which there is no fixed redemption date and the Company shall not have a right to redeem them. The Preferred Shareholders shall not have the right to require the Company to redeem the Preferred Shares.

8.2 Cancellation

All Preferred Shares which are converted will forthwith be cancelled. Certificates in respect of all Preferred Shares cancelled will be forwarded to the Designated Office.

9. RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

For so long as any of the Preferred Shares are in issue, the Company shall not, save with the prior written approval of holders of more than three-fourths (3/4) of the Preferred Shares in issue, approve the following matters:

(a) authorize, create, allot, issue or permit to exist any class of share capital that is senior to, or in parity with or has preference in any respect over the Preferred Shares as to distribution, liquidation or return of capital (which for the avoidance of doubt excludes any issue of Ordinary Shares);
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(b) reclassify, re-designate, or convert any equity or equity linked securities into, securities of the Company which rank senior to, or in parity with or have preference in any respect over the Preferred Shares as to distribution, liquidation or return of capital (which for the avoidance of doubt excludes issue of Ordinary Shares);
(c) amend, alter or repeal any provision of the Articles which abrogates or adversely affect any rights of the holders of the Preferred Shares; or
(d) undertake any matter which would otherwise affect the rights or obligations of the Preferred Shareholders.
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We, the several persons, whose names, addresses and descriptions are hereto subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite to our respective names:-

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Number of Shares
Names, Addresses and Descriptions of Subscribers taken by each
Subscriber
For and on behalf of
FAIRWEATHER (NOMINEES) LIMITED One
(Sd.) Clement P.K. LAM
Clement P.K. LAM (Director)
26th floor, Connaught Centre, Hong Kong,
Limited Company
For and on behalf of
FAIRWIND NOMINEES LIMITED One
(Sd.) Clement P.K. LAM
Clement P.K. LAM (Director)
26th floor, Connaught Centre, Hong Kong,
Limited Company
Total Number of Shares taken …… Two
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Dated the 4th day of January, 1985.

WITNESS to the above signatures:-

(Sd.) Hester K. TAN Hester K. TAN Solicitor 26th floor, Connaught Centre, Hong Kong.

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CITIC Limited — Governance Information 2015

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

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公 司 更 改 名 稱 證 明 書 CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF NAME

本 人 謹 此 證 明 I hereby certify that

CITIC PACIFIC LIMITED (中信泰富有限公司)

香港特別行政區公司註冊處處長鍾麗玲 Ms Ada L L CHUNG Registrar of Companies Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

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TYLFULL COMPANY LIMITED 泰富發展 ( 集團 ) 有限公司

CITIC PACIFIC LIMITED ( 中信泰富有限公司 )

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THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 622)

Company Limited by Shares

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

CITIC Limited

中國中信股份有限公司

Company Name

Members’ Liability

Table A and Model Articles

Interpretation

Share Capital and Modification of Rights

3. [Intentionally left blank.]

Shares and Increase of Capital

Register of Members and Share Certificates

Lien

Calls on Shares

Transfer of Shares

Transmission of Shares

Forfeiture of Shares

Stock

Alteration of Capital

General Meetings

Proceedings at General Meetings

70. [Intentionally left blank.]

Votes of Members

Registered Office

Board of Directors

Rotation of Directors

Borrowing Powers

Managing Directors, etc.

Management

Managers

Chairman

Proceedings of the Directors

Minutes

Secretary

General Management and Use of the Seal

Capitalisation of Reserves

Dividends and Reserves

Untraceable Members

Distribution of Realised Capital Profits

Annual Returns

Accounts

Audit

Notices

Information

Destruction of Documents

Winding Up

Indemnity

Conflict with Companies Ordinance

Schedule A – Preferred Share Terms

1. INTERPRETATION

2. LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE

3. REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SHARES

4. DISTRIBUTIONS

5. VOTING

CITIC Limited Governance Information 2015

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