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Computer And Technologies Holdings Limited Governance Information 2012

Mar 26, 2012

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MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

CHINA AEROSPACE INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

Incorporated the 25th day of July, 1975.

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  • �(7) �To manage any buildings, whether belonging to the Company or not, or let the same or any�� part thereof for any period and at such rent and on such conditions as the Company shall think�� fit: to collect the rent and income and to supply to tenants and occupiers and others, light, heat, �� air-conditioning, refreshments, attendants, messengers, waiting rooms, reading rooms, lavatories, �� laundry facilities, electric conveniences, garages, recreation facilities and other advantages which �� from time to time the Company shall consider desirable, or to provide for such management�� letting and advantages as aforesaid by employing any person, firm or company to carry out or�� to supply the same on such terms as the Company may think fit.�

  • (8)� To apply to any Tenancy Tribunal of Hong Kong for any purpose and in particular for a�� recommendation to the Governor to exclude any premises of the Company or premises which�� the Company is interested in from the further application of Part I of the Landlord and Tenant�� (Consolidation) Ordinance, to pay compensation to the tenants, sub-tenants or occupiers of such �� premises and to demolish and rebuild the same.�

  • (9) �To invest and deal with the moneys of the Company not immediately required for the purposes �� of its business in or upon such investments and securities (including land of any tenure in any�� part of the world) and in such manner as may from time to time be considered expedient and�� to dispose of or vary any such investments or securities.�

  • (10) �To carry on business as financiers, capitalists, financial agents, underwriters (but not in respect �� of life, marine or fire insurance), concessionaires, brokers and merchants and to undertake and �� carry on and execute all kinds of financial, commercial, trading and other operations.�

  • (11)�To subscribe for, conditionally or unconditionally, to underwrite, issue on commission or�� otherwise, take, hold, deal in, and convert stocks, shares, and securities of all kinds, and to enter �� into partnership, or into any arrangement for sharing profits, union of interests, reciprocal�� concession or co-operation with any person, partnership or company, and to promote, and aid�� in promoting, constitute, form or organize any company, syndicate or partnership of any kind,�� for the purpose of acquiring and undertaking any property and liabilities of the Company, or�� of advancing, directly or indirectly, the objects thereof, or for any other purpose which the�� Company may think expedient.�

  • (12)�To carry on the business of an investment company and for that purpose to acquire and hold,�� either in the name of the Company or in that of any nominee, shares, stocks, bonds, debentures, �� debenture stocks, notes, obligations and securities issued or guaranteed by any person or company, �� and to acquire and hold as aforesaid property of any other kind.�

  • (13)�To carry on the business of an investment trust company or any part or parts of the business�� usually carried on by such a company.�

  • (14) �To borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as the Company may think �� fit without limit as to amount and in particular but without the foregoing by the issue or deposit �� of notes, debentures or debenture stock (perpetual or otherwise) and to secure the repayment�� of any money borrowed, raised or owing by mortgage, charge or lien upon all or any of the�� property or assets of the Company both present and future including its uncalled capital and�� also by similar mortgage, charge or lien to secure and guarantee the performance by the company �� or any other person, firm or company of any obligation undertaken by the Company or any other �� person or company as the case may be.

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  • (15) To guarantee or give indemnities or provide security and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) to guarantee, support or secure, with or without consideration, whether by personal obligation or by mortgaging or charging all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company or by both such methods or in any other manner, the performance of any obligations or commitments of, and the repayment or payment of the principal amounts of and any premiums interest dividends and other moneys payable on or in respect of any securities or liabilities of, any person, firm or company including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) any company which is for the time being a subsidiary or a holding company of the Company or another subsidiary of a holding company of the Company or otherwise associated with the Company.

  • (16) To vest any real or personal property, rights or interest acquired by or belonging to the Company in any person or company on behalf of or for the benefit of the Company, and with or without any declared trust in favour of the Company.

  • (17) To promote any company or companies for the purpose of acquiring all or any of the property or liabilities of the Company or for any other purposes which may seem directly or indirectly calculated to benefit the Company and hold shares in any such company and to guarantee the payment of any debentures or other securities issued by any such company.

  • (18) To carry on all or any of the businesses of general merchants, traders, commission agents, importers, exporters, shippers and ship-owners, refrigerators, charterers, forwarding agents, sales agents and sub-agents for manufacturers, agents and sub-agents for carriers, brokers and agents for brokers, purchasing agents, wharfingers, warehousemen, furnishers, tourist and travel agents, auctioneers, appraisers, valuers, surveyors, del credere agents, personal and promotional representatives, factors, shopkeepers, antique dealers, stevedores, packers, storers, fishermen and trawlers, saddlers, builders, building, engineering and general contractors, metallurgists, and undertakers of all kinds of works, enterprises or projects whatsoever.

  • (19) To import, export, buy, prepare, treat, manufacture, render marketable, sell, exchange, barter, pledge, charge, make advances on and otherwise deal in or turn to account produce, goods, materials, commodities, and merchandise generally in their prepared, manufactured or raw state and to undertake, carry on and execute all kinds of financial, commercial, trading, engineering and other manufacturing operations and all businesses wholesale or retail.

  • (20) To acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the business, goodwill and assets of any person, firm or company carrying on or proposing to carry on any of the businesses which the company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person, firm or company or to acquire an interest in, amalgamate with or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits or for co-operation or for limiting competition or for mutual assistance with any such person, firm or company and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired, any shares, debentures, debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon and to hold and retain or sell, mortgage and deal with any shares, debentures, debenture stock or securities so received.

  • (21) To apply for, register, purchase or by other means acquire and protect, prolong and renew, in any part of the world any patents, patent rights, brevets d'invention , licences, trade marks, designs, copyrights, protections and concessions which may appear likely to be advantageous or useful to the Company and to use and turn to account and to manufacture undertake or grant licences or privileges in respect of the same and to expend money in experimenting upon and testing and in improving or seeking to improve any patents, inventions or rights which the Company may acquire or propose to acquire.

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  • (22) To carry on business as proprietors and/or managers of hotels, motels, inns, lodging-houses, apartment houses, restaurants, refreshment and tea rooms, cafes and milk and snack bars, nightclubs and clubs of all kinds, tavern, beer-house, and lodging-house keepers, licensed victuallers, wine, beer, and spirit merchants, brewers, maltsters, distillers, importers and manufacturers of aerated, mineral and artificial waters and other drinks, and as caterers and contractors in all their respective branches and as managers and/or proprietors of theatres, cinemas, dance-halls, concert halls, stadiums, billiard rooms, bowling centres and all places of entertainment and radio and television stations and studios.

  • (23) To carry on all or any of the businesses whether together or separately of proprietors, promoters, producers, organizers, and managers of all kinds of public entertainments, sports, recreation, competitions, and amusements whether indoor or outdoor and in connection therewith to purchase, lease, hire, construct, provide, operate, equip, furnish and fit out any necessary or convenient land, buildings, facilities, structures, apparatus, and equipment.

  • (24) To provide or procure the provision by others of every and any service need, want or requirement of any business nature required by any person, firm or company in or in connection with any business carried on by them.

  • (25) To carry on the business of manufacturers, producers, refiners, developers and dealers in all kinds of materials, chemicals, substances, commodities and products whether synthetic, natural or artificial, including in particular but without limitation to the foregoing, plastics, resins, textiles, fabrics, fibres, feather goods, leather, hair, rubber, balata and goods and articles made from the same and compounds, intermediates, derivatives and by-products thereof, whether for wearing, attire, or personal or household use or ornament.

  • (26) To carry on business as timber merchants, sawmill proprietors, coopers, cask makers, joiners, carpenters, cabinet makers, and to buy, sell, prepare for market, import, export, and deal in timber and wood of all kinds, and to manufacture and deal in articles of all kinds in the manufacture of which timber or wood is used.

  • (27) To carry on business as drapers and hosiers, fashion artists, dressagents, tailors, dressmakers, clothiers, milliners, spinners, weavers, hatters, glovers, boot and shoe manufacturers, embroiderers, hemstitchers, plaiters, pleaters, knitters, lacemakers, costumiers, furriers, pelmet makers, stencillers, painters, dyers, cleaners, washers, renovators, men’s, women’s and children’s and school outfitters, naval, military, colonial, tropical and general outfitters, engineers, electricians, wood and metal workers, tanners, rope manufacturers, ironmongers, and hardware dealers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, watchmakers, and jewellers, fancy goods dealers, depository and repository proprietors, proprietors of transportation services for passengers, animals, mails, and goods, by air, sea, inland waterways and land, upholsterers, furniture dealers, money changers and any other business which may seem to the Company capable of being carried on in connection with the above and calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value or render profitable any of the Company’s property or rights.

  • (28) To carry on business as general chemists and druggists and to buy, sell, import, export, refine, prepare and otherwise deal in all kinds of pharmaceutical, medicinal, and chemical preparations, articles and compounds (whether of animal, vegetable or mineral origin), toilet requisites, cosmetics, paints, pigments, oils and oleaginous and saponaceous substances, perfumes and all kinds of unguents and ingredients.

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  • (29) To establish, maintain, and operate sea, air, and land transport enterprises (public and private) and all ancillary services and, for these purposes or as independent undertakings, to purchase, take in exchange, charter, hire, build, construct, own, work, manage, and otherwise trade with any kind of ship, vessel, aircraft, flying machine, vehicle, cycle, coach, wagon, or carriage (however powered), with all necessary and convenient equipment, engines, tackle, gear, furniture, fittings and stores or any shares or interests in ships, vessels, aircraft, flying machine, motor and other vehicle, cycle, carriage, coach or wagon, including shares, stocks or securities of companies possessed of or interested in any of the above modes of transport, and to maintain, repair, fit out, refit, improve, insure, alter, sell, exchange or let out on hire or hire purchase, or otherwise deal with and dispose of any ship, vessel, aircraft, flying machine, vehicle, cycle, carriage, coach, wagon, shares, stock, and securities, or any of the engines, tackle, gear, furniture, equipment, and stores of the Company.

  • (30) To establish and carry on in the Colony of Hong Kong and any other countries schools at or by means of which students in any manner whether by post, personal attendance or otherwise may obtain education and instruction and particularly in or with regard to but without being limited to architecture, architectural, mechanical, geometrical and other drawing and designing, surveying, mapping, bookkeeping, shorthand, speed-reading, type-writing and other secretarial training, civil, mechanical, electrical, marine and other engineering, building and other constructional work, heating and ventilation, electronics, chemistry, mining, metallurgy, geology, commerce, spinning, weaving and sign-writing and painting, agriculture, horticulture, dairy and other farming, and stock and other breeding, forestry, professions ancillary to medicine, law, languages, mathematics, seamanship, navigation, geography and history, music, arts, elocution, journalism, games, sports, recreations, exercises and pastimes, economics, commerce, industry, and all other subjects whatsoever that may be included in a commercial, technical, scientific, classical or academic education, or may be conducive to knowledge of or skill in any trade, pursuit or calling and to provide for the giving and holding of lectures, scholarships, exhibitions, classes and meetings for the promotion or advancement of education.

  • (31) To provide a school or schools, lecture class or examination room or rooms, office or offices, board, lodging and attendance and all other necessaries and conveniences for or to students, teachers, lecturers, clerks, employees and officers instructed or employed temporarily or otherwise by the Company, and to afford them facilities for study, research, cultivation, teaching, performance of the tasks and duties allotted to them respectively.

  • (32) To carry on all or any of the businesses of booksellers, book manufacturers, bookbinders, printers, publishers and proprietors of newspapers, magazines, books periodicals, tickets, programmes, brochures, promotional literature and other publications whatsoever of all description, machine, letterpress and copperplate printers, rollform and automatic printers, colour printers, lithographers, type founders, stereotypers, electrotypers, photographic printers, engravers, diesinkers, designers, draughtsmen, newsagents, pressagents, journalists, literary agents, stationers, manufacturers of and dealers in engravings, prints, pictures, and drawings, advertising agents and contractors, artists, sculptors, designers, decorators, illustrators, photographers and dealers in photographic supplies and equipment of all kinds, film makers, producers and distributors, publicity agents, display specialists and any other business which may seem to the Company capable of being carried on in connection with the above.

  • (33) To acquire, sell, own, lease, let out to hire, administer, manage, control, operate, construct, repair, alter, equip, furnish, fit out, decorate, improve and otherwise deal in works, buildings, and conveniences of all kinds which expression without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing shall include railways, tramways, docks, harbours, piers, wharves, canals, reservoirs, embankments, dams, irrigations, reclamations, sewage, drainage and sanitary works, water, gas, oil, motor, electrical, telephonic, telegraphic and power supply works.

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  • (34) To buy, sell, manufacture, construct, repair, alter, convert, refit, salve, raise, fit out, rig out, scrap, let on hire and otherwise deal in timber, iron, steel, metal, glass, minerals, ores, machinery, rolling-stock, plant, equipment, utensils, instruments, implements, tools, apparatus, appliances, materials, fuels, and products and commodities of all kinds and of whatever substance and for any purpose whatsoever.

  • (35) To carry on the trade or business of steel makers, steel converters, ironmasters, colliery proprietors, coke manufacturers, miners, smelters, millwrights, carpenters, joiners, boiler makers, plumbers, brass founders, building material suppliers and manufacturers, tinplate manufacturers and iron founders in all their respective branches and to purchase, take on lease, or otherwise acquire any mines, wells, quarries, and metalliferous land and any interests therein and to explore, work, exercise, develop and otherwise turn to account the same; to crush, win, get, quarry, smelt, calcine, refine, dress, amalgamate, manipulate, and otherwise process and prepare for market ores, metals, precious stones, and mineral substances of all kinds and to carry on any other metallurgical operations which may seem conducive to the Company’s objects.

  • (36) To act as business consultants and advisers and to employ experts to investigate and examine into the condition, prospects, value, character and circumstances of any business concerns and undertakings, and generally of any assets, property, or rights.

  • (37) To enter into partnership or into any arrangements for joint working in business or for sharing profits or to amalgamate with any person, firm or company carrying on or proposing to carry on any business which the Company is authorised to carry on, or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit the Company.

  • (38) To insure with any company or person against losses, damages, risks and liabilities of all kinds which may affect the Company and to act as agents and brokers for placing insurance risks of all kinds in all its branches.

  • (39) To appoint sales agents to sell any of the products of the Company and any goods, foods, stores, chattels and things for which the Company is agent or in any other way whatsoever interested or concerned in any part of the world.

  • (40) To lend and advance money or give credit to such persons, firms or companies and on such terms as may seem expedient, and to guarantee the performance of any contract or obligation and the payment of money of or by any persons, firms or companies, and generally to give guarantees and indemnities (except fire and marine insurance indemnities).

  • (41) To undertake and execute any trusts the undertaking whereof may seem desirable and also to undertake the office of executor, administrator, treasurer or registrar and to keep for any company, government, authority or body any register relating to any stocks, funds, shares or securities or to undertake any duties in relation to the registration of transfers, the issue of certificates or otherwise.

  • (42) To receive and hold for its own use, benefit on behalf or in trust or otherwise moneys and other property and estates, real, personal, and mixed, of whatever kind and nature and the same to invest, reinvest, manage, settle, control, sell and dispose of in any manner and to collect, manage, invest, reinvest, adjust and in any manner to dispose of the income, profits and interest arising therefrom upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the Company and the persons contracting with it.

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  • (43) To draw, make, accept, indorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants, debentures and other negotiable or transferable instrument.

  • (44) To obtain any Order in Council, enactment or ordinance for enabling the Company to carry any of its objects into effect or for effecting any modification of the Company’s constitution or for any other purpose which may seem expedient and to oppose any proceedings or applications which may seem calculated directly or indirectly to prejudice the Company’s interests.

  • (45) To pay all expenses incidental to the formation or promotion of this or any other company and the conduct of its business and to remunerate any person or company for services rendered in underwriting, placing or assisting to underwrite or place, or guaranteeing the subscription or placing of any of the shares in or debentures or other securities of the Company or in or about the promotion, formation or business of the Company or of any other company promoted wholly or in part by the Company.

  • (46) To 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, and also to 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 to make payments for or towards the insurance of any such persons as aforesaid, and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibition or for any public, general or useful object, and to do any of the matters aforesaid, either alone or in conjunction with any such other company as aforesaid.

  • (47) To enter into any arrangements with any governments or authorities (supreme, municipal, local or otherwise) or any corporations, companies or persons that may seem conducive to the attainment of the Company's objects or any of them and to obtain from any such government, authority, corporation, company or person any charters, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges, licences, permits and/or concessions which the Company may think desirable and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such charters, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges, licences, permits and concessions.

  • (48) To sell or dispose of the undertaking of the Company or any part thereof for such consideration as the Company may think fit, and in particular for shares or debentures, debenture stock, or other securities of any other company.

  • (49) To remunerate (in cash or by the issue of fully or partly paid shares or debentures of this or any other company or in any other manner as the Directors may think fit) any person or persons, whether Directors, officers or agents of the Company or not, for services rendered in the conduct of the Company’s business or in placing or assisting to place any shares in the capital of, or any debentures, debenture stock or other securities of the Company or any other company formed or promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested or in or about the formation or promotion of the Company or any other company as aforesaid.

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  • (50) To do all or any of the above things in any part of the world and as principals, agents, contractors, or otherwise, and by or through agents, or otherwise, and either alone or in conjunction with others.

  • (51) To carry on business and maintain branches abroad in any part of the world for all or any of the purposes herein set forth.

  • (52) To procure the Company to be registered or recognised in any foreign country or place.

  • (53) To distribute any of the properties of the Company whether upon a distribution of assets or a division of profits among members in specie or otherwise.

  • (54) (a)�To act as directors, accountants, secretaries and registrars of companies incorporated by� law or societies or organisations (whether incorporated or not).

  • (b)�To hold in trust as trustees or as nominees of any person or persons, company, corporation, � or any charitable or other institution in any part of the world, whether incorporated or not, � and to manage, deal with and turn to account, any real and personal property of any kind.

  • (c)�To act as nominees, trustees or agents for the receiving, payment, loan, repayment, transmission, � collection and investment of money, and for the purchase, sale, improvement, development � and management of any real or personal property, including business concerns and undertakings, � both in Hong Kong and abroad.

  • (55) To carry on any other business which may seem to the Company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with any of the above business or objects or calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value of or render profitable any of the Company’s property or rights for the time being.

And it is hereby declared that the word “company” in this clause, except where used in reference to the Company, shall be deemed to include any partnership or other body of persons, whether incorporated or not incorporated, and wheresoever domiciled, and the intention is that the objects specified in each paragraph of this clause shall, except where otherwise expressed in such paragraph, be in no way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from the terms of any other paragraph or the name of the Company.

Fourth:–�The liability of the Members of the Company is limited.

  • **Fifth:–�The capital of the Company is One Million Dollars Hong Kong Currency (HK$1,000,000.00)�� divided into 10,000 shares of HK$100.00 each.

  • Sixth:– �The capital of the Company may be increased, and any of the original shares and any new shares, �� from time to time to be created, may, from time to time, be divided into such classes with such �� preferential, deferred, or special rights, privileges, or conditions and other special incidents as�� may be prescribed or determined upon by or in accordance with the Articles of Association and �� regulations of the Company for the time being or otherwise.

Dividends may be paid in cash or by the distribution of specific assets or otherwise as provided �� by the Articles of Association of the Company and/or Regulations of the Company for the time �� being or otherwise.

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** Note: By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 5th November, 1976 the authorised share capital was increased from HK$1,000,000 to HK$10,000,000 by the creation of an additional 90,000 shares of HK$100 each. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 14th November, 1977 the authorised share capital was increased from HK$10,000,000 to HK$40,000,000 by the creation of an additional 300,000 shares of HK$100 each. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 29th December, 1980 the authorised share capital was increased from HK$40,000,000 to HK$50,000,000 by the creation of an additional 100,000 shares of HK$100 each. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 17th July, 1981 the authorised share capital was increased from HK$50,000,000 to HK$280,000,000 by the creation of an additional 2,300,000 shares of HK$100 each. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 30th July, 1981 each of the existing shares of HK$100 each was subdivided into and redesignated as 100 ordinary shares of HK$1 each, and by a further Ordinary Resolution passed on the same day the authorised share capital was conditionally increased from HK$280,000,000 to HK$400,000,000 by the creation of an additional 120,000,000 ordinary shares of HK$1 each. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 4th June, 1982 the authorised capital was increased from HK$400,000,000 to HK$600,000,000 by the creation of 200,000,000 shares of HK$1 each. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 31st January, 1984 the authorised share capital was conditionally increased from HK$600,000,000 to HK$700,000,000 by the creation of 100,000,000 shares of HK$1 each. By a Special Resolution passed on 17th December, 1984 and with the sanction of a Court Order dated 8th January, 1985 which became effective on 9th January, 1985, the capital of the Company was reduced from HK$700,000,000 to HK$338,234,400. Upon the said reduction of capital taking effect, the capital was increased to its former amount. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 6th December, 1993, the authorised capital was increased from HK$700,000,000 to HK$2,000,000,000 by the creation of 1,300,000,000 shares of HK$1 each. By a Special Resolution passed on 27th June, 1994 and with the sanction of a Court Order dated 11th July, 1994, the share premium account of the Company was reduced by the sum of HK$549,369,957. By an Ordinary Resolution passed on 29th June, 1998, the authorised capital was increased from HK$2,000,000,000 to HK$10,000,000,000 by the creation of 8,000,000,000 shares of HK$1 each. By a Special Resolution passed on 25th August, 2005 and with the sanction of a Court Order dated 1st November, 2005 which became effective on 7th November, 2005, the authorised capital was reduced from HK$10,000,000,000 divided into 10,000,000,000 shares of HK$1.00 each to HK$1,000,000,000 divided into 10,000,000,000 shares of HK$0.10 each and the share premium account was reduced by the sum of HK$939,048,331.50. By a further Ordinary Resolution passed on 25th August, 2005, forthwith upon the reduction of capital taking effect, the authorised capital of the Company be increased from HK$1,000,000,000 to HK$10,000,000,000 by the creation of an additional 90,000,000,000 shares of HK$0.10 each.

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We, the several persons whose names, addresses and descriptions are hereto subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, 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
Names Addresses and Description of Subscribers Shares taken
by each
Subscriber
CHOW TAN PING One
17C Glee Path, 4th Floor,
Mei Foo Sun Chuen,
Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon.
Accountant
JAMES DIU YING KIT One
186 Pratas Street,
4th Floor, Flat 86,
Shamshuipo,
Kowloon.
Accountant
Total Number of Shares Taken ........................... Two
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Dated the 16th day of July, 1975.

WITNESS to the above signatures:–

(Sd.) K.Y. WOO Solicitor Hong Kong

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“the register” shall mean the register of members and includes any branch register the register. to be kept pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance; “the Board” shall mean the Directors from time to time of the Company or (as the Board. context may require) the majority of Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Directors; “Secretary” shall mean the person or corporation for the time being performing the Secretary. duties of that office; “Listing Rules” shall mean the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Listing Rules. Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; “Auditors” shall mean the persons for the time being performing the duties of that Auditors. office; “the Chairman” shall mean the Chairman presiding at any meeting of members or Chairman. of the Board; associate.

  • “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 per cent. (or such other amount as may from time � to time be specified in the 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 control the exercise of 30 per cent. (or such other amount as may � from time to time be specified in the 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.

  • “call” shall include any instalment of a call;

call.

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seal. “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;

dividend. “dividend” shall include scrip dividends, distributions in specie or in kind, capital distributions and capitalisation issues, if not inconsistent with the subject or context; dollars. “dollars” shall mean dollars in the lawful currency of Hong Kong;

month. “month” shall mean a calendar month; writing. “writing” or “printing” shall include writing, printing, lithography, photography, printing. typewriting and every other mode of representing words or figures in a legible and non-transitory form;

newspaper. “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 71A of the Companies Ordinance by the Chief Secretary;

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

plural. shall include the singular;

gender.

words importing any gender shall include every gender; and

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

persons. companies. Words in Subject as aforesaid, any words or expressions defined in the Ordinance (except any Ordinance to bear statutory modification thereof not in force when these Articles become binding on same meaning in the Company) shall, if not inconsistent with the subject and/or context, bear the same Articles. 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.

Share Capital and Modification of Rights

  • Issue of shares. 3. 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, 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, as the Board may determine) provided 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 shall include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting” and any preference share may, with the sanction of a special resolution, be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company or the holder thereof is liable, to be redeemed.

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Warrants.

  • 4.� 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. Where� warrants are issued to bearer, no new warrant shall be issued to replace one� that has been lost unless the Board is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that� the original has been destroyed and the Company has received an indemnity� in such form as the Board shall think fit with regard to the issue of any such� new warrant.

  • 5.� (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.�

How rights of shares may be modified.

  • (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 Section 64 of the Companies Ordinance, be varied or�� abrogated either with the consent in writing of the holders of not less�� than three-fourths in nominal value of the issued shares or (if the�� capital is divided into different classes of shares) issued shares of that�� class 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 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 in nominal value �� of the issued shares 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.

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Shares and Increase of Capital

Securities repurchase and financial assistance.

Power to increase capital.

On what conditions new shares may be issued.

When to be offered to existing members.

  1. The Company may exercise any power conferred on the Company or permitted � by or not prohibited by or not inconsistent with the Companies Ordinance or any matter defined in the existing Articles, other applicable law, code or� regulation from time to time to acquire shares in the capital of the Company or warrants issued by the Company or to give directly or indirectly, by means � of a loan, guarantee, the provision of security or otherwise, financial assistance � for the purpose of or in connection with a purchase made or to be made by any � person of any shares in the Company or warrants issued by the Company, and � should the Company acquire its own shares or warrants, neither the Company � nor the Directors shall be required to select the shares or warrants to be acquired � rateably or in any other particular manner as between the holders of shares or � warrants of the same class or as between them and the holders of shares or warrants of any other class or in accordance with the rights as to dividends or � capital conferred by any class of shares or warrants provided always that in� the case where the primary listing of any share capital of the Company is on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited any such acquisition or financial � assistance shall only be made or given in accordance with any relevant rules,� codes or regulations issued by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited,� the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and any other relevant � regulatory authorities from time to time in particular that if purchases are not� made through the market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price,� and if purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all members alike.

  2. � The Company in general meeting may from time to time, whether or not all� the shares for the time being authorised shall have been issued and whether or not all the shares for the time being issued shall have been fully paid up, by ordinary resolution increase its share capital by the creation of new shares, � such new capital to be of such amount and to be divided into shares of such respective amounts as the resolution shall prescribe.

  3. 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.

  4. � 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, and either at par or at a premium, to all the existing holders of any class of� shares in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of shares of 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.

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  1. �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.

  2. �Subject to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance (and in particular Section � 57B 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� (with or without conferring a right of renunciation), 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, but so that no shares shall be issued at a discount, except in accordance� with the provisions of the Companies Ordinance.

  3. �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.

  4. �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� 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.

  5. �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.

New shares to form part of original capital.

Shares at the disposal of the Board.

Company may pay commission.

Power to charge interest to capital.

Company not to recognise trusts in respect of shares.

Register of Members and Share Certificates

  • 15.�(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.

Share register.

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  • �(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.�

Share certificates.

  • 16.�Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register shall be entitled � without payment to receive within twenty-one days after allotment or lodgment � of a transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide) � one certificate for all his shares or, if he shall so request, 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 the maximum fee permitted or prescribed from time to time by� The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited for every certificate after the first � or such lesser sum as the Board shall from time to time determine, 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 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.

  • Share certificates 17. Every certificate for shares or warrants or debentures or representing any other � to be sealed. form of securities of the Company shall be issued under the seal of the Company, � which for this purpose may be any official seal as permitted by Section 73A� of the Ordinance.

Every certificate to specify number and class of shares.

  • 18.�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 and may� otherwise be in such form as the Board may from time to time prescribe. If at � anytime the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of� shares, every share certificate shall comply with Section 57A of the Ordinance. � A share certificate shall relate to only one class of shares.

Joint holders.

  • 19.�(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.

Replacement of share certificates.

  • 20.�If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be replaced on payment � of such fee, if any, not exceeding the maximum fee permitted or prescribed� from time to time by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and on such � terms and conditions, if any, as to publication of notices, evidence and indemnity � as the Board thinks fit and in the case of wearing out or defacement, after

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�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.

Lien

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

Company's lien.

Lien extends to dividends and bonuses.

Sale of shares subject to lien.

Application of proceeds of such sale.

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Calls on Shares

Calls.

Instalments.

Notice of call.

Copy of notice to be sent to members.

Notice of call may be advertised.

Every member liable to pay call at appointed time and place.

When call deemed to have been made.

Liability of joint holders.

Board may extend time fixed for call.

Interest on unpaid calls.

Suspension of privileges while call unpaid.

  1. �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 � (whether on account of the nominal value of shares or by way of premiums) 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.

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

  3. �A copy of the notice referred to in Article 25 shall be sent to members in the manner in which notices may be sent to members by the Company as herein� provided.

  4. �In addition to the giving of notice in accordance with Article 26, 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 English in� an English language newspaper and in Chinese in a Chinese language newspaper.

  5. �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.

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

  7. �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.

  8. �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 such extension but no member shall be entitled to any such extension� except as a matter of grace and favour.

  9. �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.

  10. �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.

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  1. �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 of the� Board making the call is duly recorded in the minute book of the Board; 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.

  2. �Any sum which by the terms of allotment of a share is made payable upon� allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the nominal value of the � share and/or by way of premium, shall for all purposes of these 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.

  3. �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 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 provided that the member shall not be entitled to participate in respect � thereof in a dividend subsequently declared or to exercise any other rights or� privileges as a member in respect of the shares or the due portion of the shares � upon which payment has been advanced by such member before it is called� up. 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.

Evidence in action for call.

Sums payable on allotment deemed a call.

Payment of calls in advance.

Transfer of Shares

  1. �All transfers 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. All instruments of transfer must be left at the registered office of� the Company or at such other place as the Board may appoint.

  2. �The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of� the transferor and by or on behalf of the 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. The Board may resolve, either generally � or in a particular case, upon the request if the transferor or transferee to accept � a mechanically executed transfer. 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.

Form of transfer.

Execution of transfer.

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Board may refuse to register a transfer.

Requirements as to transfer.

  1. �The Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without assigning any reason,� 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.

  2. �The Board may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:-�

  3. (i) �a fee of HK$2 (or such other 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;�

  4. (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;�

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

  6. (iv) �the shares concerned are free of any lien in favour of the Company; and�

  7. (v)�the instrument of transfer is properly stamped.�

No transfer to an� infant etc.

Notice of refusal.

Certificate to be given up on transfer.

When transfer books and register may be closed.

  • 41.�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.

  • 42.�If the Board shall refuse to register a transfer of any share, it shall, within two � months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send � to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal.

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

  • �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.

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Transmission of Shares

  1. �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.

  2. �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.

  3. �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.

  4. �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 81� being met, such a person may vote at meetings.

Death of registered holder or of joint holder of shares.

Registration of personal representatives and trustees in bankruptcy.

Notice of election to be registered.

Registration of nominee.

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

Forfeiture of Shares

  1. �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 33, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much � of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have � accrued and which may still accrue up to the date of actual payment.

  2. �The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen � days from the date of 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 call or instalment not paid notice may be given.

Form of notice.

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If notice not complied with shares may be forfeited.

Forfeited shares to become property of Company.

Arrears to be paid notwithstanding forfeiture.

Evidence of forfeiture and transfer of forfeited share.

Notice after forfeiture.

  1. �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 references in these Articles� to forfeiture shall include surrender.

  2. �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.

  3. �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,� whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium,� shall notwithstanding that that time has not yet arrived be deemed to 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.

  4. �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.

  5. 55.�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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Power to redeem forfeited shares.

  1. �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.

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

  3. 58.�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, whether on account of the nominal value of the share � or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly � made and notified.

Forfeiture not to prejudice Company's right to call or instalment.

Forfeiture for non-payment of any sum due on shares.

Stock

  • 59.�The Company may by ordinary resolution convert any fully paid up shares into � stock, and may from time to time by like resolution reconvert any stock into� fully paid up shares of any denomination. After the passing of any resolution � converting all the fully paid up shares of any class into stock any shares of� that class which subsequently become fully paid up and rank pari passu in all � other respects with such shares shall, by virture of this Article and such resolution, � be converted into stock transferable in the same units as the shares already� converted.

  • 60.�The holders of stock may transfer the same or any part thereof in the same� manner, and subject to the same regulations as and subject to which the shares � from which the stock arose might prior to conversion have been transferred� or as near thereto as circumstances admit, but the Board may from time to time, � if it thinks fit, fix the minimum amount of stock transferable and restrict or� forbid the transfer of fractions of that minimum, but so that such minimum� shall not exceed the nominal amount of the shares from which the stock arose. � No warrants to bearer shall be issued in respect of any stock.

  • 61.�The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of the stock held by them, � have the same rights, privileges and advantages as regards dividends, participation � in assets on a winding up, voting at meetings and other matters, as if they held � the shares from which the stock arose, but no such rights, privileges or advantages � (except participation in the dividends and profits and in the assets on winding � up of the Company) shall be conferred by an amount of stock which would� not, if existing in shares, have conferred such rights, privileges or advantages.

  • 62.�Such of the provisions of these presents as are applicable to paid up shares shall � apply to stock, and the words “share” and “shareholder” therein shall include� “stock” and “stockholder”.

Power to convert into stock.

Transfer of stock.

Rights of stockholders.

Interpretation.

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Alteration of Capital

Consolidation and division of capital and sub-division and cancellation of shares.

  • 63.�(A)�The Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution:-��

  • (i) � consolidate or divide 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 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 into each consolidated ��� share, and if it shall happen that any person shall become entitled��� to fractions of a consolidated share or shares, such fractions may��� be sold by some person appointed by the Board for that purpose��� and the person so appointed may transfer the shares so sold to the��� purchaser thereof and the validity of such transfer shall not be��� questioned, and so that the net proceeds of such sale (after deduction ��� of the expenses of such sale) may either be distributed among the��� persons who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction or fractions��� of a consolidated share or shares rateably in accordance with their ��� rights and interests or may be paid to the Company for the Company’s ��� benefit;��

  • (ii) �cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the resolution��� have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person, and��� diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares ��� so cancelled; and��

  • (iii) �sub-divide its shares or any of them into shares of smaller amount ��� than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association, subject nevertheless ��� to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, and so that the��� resolution whereby any share is sub-divided may determine that,��� as between the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, ��� one or more of the shares may have any such preferred or other��� special rights over, or may have such deferred rights or be subject ��� to any such restrictions as compared with the others as the Company ��� has power to attach to unissued or new shares.�

Reduction of capital.

  • (B) �The company may by special resolution reduce its share capital, any capital �� redemption reserve fund or any share premium account in any manner�� authorised and subject to any conditions prescribed by law.

General Meetings

When annual general meeting to be held.

  • 64.�The Company shall in each year hold a general meeting as its annual general� meeting in addition to any other meeting in that year and shall specify the� meeting as such in the notice calling it; and not more than fifteen months or� such longer period as the Registrar of Companies may in any particular case� authorise in writing shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting � of the Company and that of the next. The annual general meeting shall be held � at such time and place as the Board shall appoint.

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  1. �All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called� extraordinary general meetings.

  2. �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.

  3. �An annual general meeting and a meeting called for the passing of a special� resolution shall be called by twenty-one days’ notice in writing at the least,� and a meeting of the Company other than an annual general meeting or a� meeting for the passing of a special resolution shall be called by at least fourteen � days’ notice in writing. The notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is � served or deemed to be served and of the day for which it is given, and shall� specify the place, the day and the hour of meeting and, in case of special� business, the general nature of that business, and shall be given, in 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 is so agreed:-�

Extraordinary general meeting.

Convening of extraordinary general meeting.

Notice of meetings.

  • (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 than ninety-five per cent. in nominal value of the�� shares giving that right.

  • 68.�(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.�

Omission to give notice.

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

Proceedings at General Meetings

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

Special business.

Business of annual general meeting.

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Quorum.

  1. �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.

  2. When if quorum not 71. �If within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is � present not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall� meeting to be be dissolved, but in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in �

  3. dissolved and when to be the next week and at such time and place as shall be decided by the Board,� adjourned. 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.

Chairman of general meeting.

  1. �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, the members� present shall choose another Director as Chairman, and if no Director be present � or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair or if the Chairman chosen � shall retire from the chair, then the members present shall choose one of their � own number to be Chairman.

Power to adjourn general meeting, business of adjourned meeting.

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

What is to be evidence of the passing of a resolution where poll not demanded.

  1. �At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be� decided on a show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of� the result of the show of hands or on the withdrawal of any other demand for� a poll) demanded: -�

  2. (i) by the Chairman of the meeting; or �

  3. (ii) �by at least three members present in person or by proxy for the time being�� entitled to vote at the meeting; or�

  4. (iii) �by any member or members present in person or by proxy and representing�� not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all the members having �� the right to vote at the meeting; or

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  • �(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, 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 � evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes� recorded in favour or against such resolution.

  1. �If a poll is demanded as aforesaid, it shall (subject as provided in Article 76)� 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 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 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.

  2. �Any poll duly 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.

  3. �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 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.

  4. �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.

  5. �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.��

  6. (A)�In the event that any member is, under the Listing Rules, required to�� abstain from voting on any particular resolution at a general meeting of�� the Company or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular �� resolution at a general meeting of the Company, any votes cast by or on �� behalf of such member in contravention of such requirement or restriction �� shall not be counted.

Poll.

In what case poll taken without adjournment.

Chairman to have casting vote.

Business may proceed notwithstanding demand for poll.

Written resolution.

Abstain from voting under the Listing Rules.

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Votes of Members

Votes of members.

Votes in respect of deceased and bankrupt members.

Joint holders.

Votes of members of unsound mind.

Qualification for voting.

  1. �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 Section 115 of the Companies Ordinance shall have one vote, and on a � poll every member present in person or by proxy 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). 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.

  2. �Any person entitled under Article 46 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.

  3. �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.

  4. �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.

  5. (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.

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  • �(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.

  • �Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the� Company or a meeting of the holders of any class of shares in 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 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 or proxy issued by the Company not less than forty-eight� hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or poll� (as the case may be) at which the person named in such instrument proposes� to vote, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.� No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after 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 provided that,� in any event, such form shall include a provision whereby the member may,� if he so elects, indicate whether his proxy is directed to vote for or against the � resolution in question.

  • �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 an extraordinary general meeting or at an annual 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) unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid � as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which it� relates.

Objections to votes.

Proxies.

Instrument appointing proxy to be in writing.

Appointment of proxy must be deposited.

Form of proxy.

Authority under instrument appointing proxy.

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  • When vote by 90.�A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy or� proxy valid power of attorney or by the duly authorised representative of a corporation though authority revoked. 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 87, at least two hours before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting � at which the proxy is used.

  • Corporation 91. �Any corporation which is a member of the Company may, by resolution of � acting by its directors or other governing body or by power of attorney, authorise such representative at person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company �

  • meetings. 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.�

Representative of recognized clearing house.

  • (A)�Without prejudice to Article 80, where a member is a recognized�� clearing house within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance �� (Chapter 571) of the Laws of Hong Kong (or its nominee). It may authorise �� such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative (or�� representatives) at any general meeting of the Company or any meeting of any class of members provided that, if more than one person is so authorized, the authorization must specify the number and class of shares �� in respect of which each such person is so authorized. The person so authorized under the provisions of this Article shall be entitled to exercise �� the same powers on behalf of the recognized clearing house (or its nominee) �� which he represents as that clearing house (or its nominee) could�� exercise if it were an individual member of the Company.

Registered Office

  • Registered Office. 92.�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

Constitution of Board.

  1. �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.

Board may fill vacancies.

  1. �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 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.

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Alternate Directors.

  1. �(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.�

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

  3. (C) �An alternate Director shall (except when absent from 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 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 and such alternate Director shall not be deemed as the agent of the Director appointing him �� and such appointor shall not be vicariously liable for torts committed by �� his alternate Director unless expressly stated in the relevant notice in�� writing given by the relevant Director to the Company appointing such�� alternate Director.�

  4. (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.

  5. �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.

No qualification shares for Directors.

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Directors' remuneration.

  1. �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.

  2. Directors' 98. �The Directors shall also be entitled to be repaid all travelling, hotel and other expenses. 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.

Special remuneration.

  1. �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.

Remuneration of Managing Directors, etc.

  1. �Notwithstanding Articles 97, 98 and 99, the remuneration of a Managing� Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director or other� Executive Director or a Director appointed to any other office in the� management of the Company shall from time to time be fixed by the 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.

When office of Director to be vacated.

  1. �(A)�A Director shall vacate his office:-�

  2. (i) �if he becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or�� suspends payment or compounds with his creditors generally;�

  3. (ii)�if he becomes a lunatic or of unsound mind;�

  4. (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;�

  5. (iv) �if he becomes prohibited from being a Director by reason of any order made under any provision of the Companies Ordinance;

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  • �(v) �if by notice in writing delivered to the Company at its registered office�� he resigns his office;�

  • (vi) �if he shall be removed from office by notice in writing served upon him signed by all his co-Directors; or�

  • (vii) if he shall be removed from office by an ordinary resolution of the�� Company under Article 109.�

  • (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.

  • 102.�(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.�

Director's interest.

  • (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 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 think 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.�

  • (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

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��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 (as defined�� in paragraph (I) of this Article).�

  • (F)�Subject to the Ordinance and to the Article 102(G), 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 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.�

  • (G) �A Director who to his knowledge is in any way, whether directly or�� indirectly, interested in a contract or arrangement or proposed 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�� contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration, if he knows his �� interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Board �� after he knows that he is or has become so interested. For this purpose,�� a general notice to the Board by a Director to the effect that:-��

  • (i) �he is a member of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded ��� as interested in any 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 contract or arrangement which ��� may after the date of the notice be made with a specified person who ��� is connected with him,��

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

  • (H) �Save as otherwise provided by these Articles, a Director shall not vote�� (nor be counted in the quorum) on any resolution of the Board approving �� any contract or arrangement or any other proposal in which he or any of �� his associates has a material interest, but this prohibition shall not apply �� to any of the following matters namely:

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  • ��(i) �any contract or arrangement for the giving by the Company to such��� Director or his associate(s) any security or indemnity in respect of��� money lent or obligations incurred or undertaken by him or any of��� them at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any of��� its subsidiaries;��

  • (ii) �any contract or arrangement for the giving by the Company to a��� third party any security or indemnity in respect of a debt or obligation ��� of the Company or any of its subsidiaries 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;��

  • (iii)�any contract or arrangement concerning an offer of the 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;��

  • (iv) �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 of his/their ��� interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company;��

  • (v) �any contract or arrangement concerning any other company (not��� being a company in which the Director together with any of his��� associates in aggregate beneficially own 5 per cent. or more of the ��� issued shares of any class of such company (or of any third company ��� through which his interest or that of his associates is derived) or of ��� the voting rights) in which the Director or his associate(s) is/are��� interested only, whether directly or indirectly as a shareholder or��� an officer or an executive or in which the Director or his��� associate(s) is/are beneficially interested in shares of that company;��

  • (vi)�any proposal or arrangement concerning the benefit of employees��� of the Company or its subsidiaries including the adoption, modification ��� or operation of a pension fund or retirement, death or disability��� benefits scheme which relates both to Directors, his associate(s) and ��� employees of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries and does��� not provide in respect of any Director or his associate(s), as such��� any privilege or advantage not accorded to the class of persons to��� which such scheme or fund relates;��

  • (vii)�any proposal or arrangement concerning the benefit of employees��� of the Company or its subsidiaries including the adoption, modification ��� or operation of any share scheme involving the issue or grant of��� options over shares or other securities by the Company to, or for��� the benefit of the employees of the Company or its subsidiaries under ��� which the Director or his associate(s) may benefit.

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  • ��� ������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������

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

  • 104.�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:-�

Meeting to fill up vacancies.

Retiring Directors to remain in office till successors appointed.

  • (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 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 of the intention to propose that person � for election as a Director and notice in writing by that person of his willingness � to be elected shall have been given to the Company at least seven days before � the date of the general meeting. The period for lodgment of such notices will� commence no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the general � meeting appointed for such election and end no later than 7 days prior to the� date of such general meeting.

  • �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.

  • �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

Power of general meeting to increase or reduce number of Directors.

Appointment of Directors.

Notice to be given when person proposed for election.

Register of Directors and notification of changes to Registrar.

Power to remove Director by ordinary resolution.

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�between him and the Company) and may elect another person in his stead. Any � person so elected 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.

Borrowing Powers

Power to borrow.

Conditions on which money may be borrowed.

Assignment.

Special privileges.

Register of charges to be kept.

Register of debentures or debenture stock.

Mortgage of uncalled capital.

  1. �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.

  2. �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, 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.

  3. �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.

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

  5. �(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.�

  6. (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.

  7. 115.�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.

Power to appoint Managing Directors, etc.

  1. �The Board may from time to time appoint any one or more of its body to the office of Managing Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing� Director or other Executive Director and/or such other office in the management � of the business of the Company as it may decide for such period and upon� such terms as it thinks fit and upon such terms as to remuneration as it may� decide in accordance with Article 100.

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  1. �Every Director appointed to an office under Article 116 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.

  2. �A Director appointed to an office under Article 116 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.

  3. �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.

Removal of Managing Director, etc.

Cessation of appointment.

Powers may be delegated.

Management

  • 120.�(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 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, 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.�

General powers of Company vested in Board.

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

  • (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

  1. �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

Appointment and remuneration of managers.

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�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.

Tenure of office and powers.

Terms and conditions of appointment.

  1. �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.

  2. �The Board may enter into such agreement or agreements with any such general � manager, manager or managers upon such terms and conditions in all respect � 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

Chairman.

  • 124.�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.

Proceedings of the Directors

Meeting of the Board quorum, etc.

Convening of Board meeting.

  1. �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 two 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 similar communications � equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting are� capable of hearing each other.

  2. �A Director may, and on request of a Director the Secretary shall, at any time� summon a meeting of the Board. Notice thereof shall be given to each Director � 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.

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  1. �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.

  2. �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.

  3. 129.�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 it 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 delegated conform to any regulations that may from time to� time be imposed upon it by the Board.

  4. �All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such regulations and � in fulfillment 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.

  5. �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 129.

  6. 132.�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.

  7. 133.�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.

  8. 134.�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 125) 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.

How questions to be decided.

Powers of meeting.

Power to appoint committee and to delegate.

Acts of committee to be of same effect as acts of Board.

Proceedings of committee.

When acts of Board or committee to be valid notwithstanding defects.

Directors' powers when vacancies exist.

Resolution in writing of Directors.

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Minutes

Minutes of proceedings of meetings and Directors.

  • 135.�(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 129; 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

Appointment of Secretary.

Residence.

Same person not to act in two capacities at once.

  • 136.�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.

  • 137.�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.�

  • 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

Custody of seal.

  • 139.�(A)�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

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��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.�

  • (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 73A 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 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 as may 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.

  • 140.�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.

  • 141.�(A)�The Board may from time to time and at any time, by power of attorney�� under the seal, appoint any company, firm or person or any fluctuating�� body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Board,�� to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with �� such powers, authorities and 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, empower any person, either �� generally or in respect of any specified matter, as its attorney to execute�� deeds and instruments on its behalf and to enter into contracts and sign�� the same on its behalf and every deed signed by such attorney on behalf�� of the Company and under his seal shall bind the Company and have the �� same effect as if it were under the seal of the Company.

  • �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

Official seal.

Cheques and banking arrangements.

Power to appoint attorney.

Execution of deeds by attorney.

Local boards.

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�or agencies and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate to any committee, � local board or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in� the Board (other than its powers to make calls and forfeit shares), with power � to sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any local board or any of� them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and� any such appointment or delegation may be upon such terms and subject to� such conditions as the Board may think fit, and the Board may remove any� person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person � dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation� shall be affected thereby.

  • Power to establish 143. �The Board may establish and maintain or procure the establishment and� pension funds. 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 dependents of� any such persons. The Board may also establish and subsidise or subscribe � to any institutions, associations, clubs or funds calculated to be for the benefit � of or to advance the interests and well-being of the Company or of any such� other company as aforesaid or of any such persons as aforesaid, and may make � payments for or towards the insurance of any such persons as aforesaid, and� subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for� any exhibition or for any public, general or useful object. The Board may� do any of the matters aforesaid, either alone or in conjunction with any such� other company as aforesaid. Any Director holding any such employment or� office shall be entitled to participate in and retain for his own benefit any� such donation, gratuity, pension, allowance or emolument.

Capitalisation of Reserves

Power to capitalise.

  • 144.�(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; provided �� that for the purpose of this Article, any amount standing to the credit of�� share premium account and a capital redemption reserve fund may only�� be applied in the paying up of unissued shares to be issued to members�� of the Company as fully paid up shares.

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  • �(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 Companies �� 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 share in a capitalisation issue and such appointment�� 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.

  • 145.�(A)�If, so long as any of the rights attached to any warrants issued by the�� Company to subscribe for shares of the Company shall remain exercisable, �� the Company does any act or engages in any transaction which, as a result �� of any adjustments to the subscription price in accordance with the�� provisions applicable under the terms and conditions of the warrants,�� would reduce the subscription price to below the par value of a share, then �� the following provisions shall apply:– ��

Effect of resolution to capitalise.

Subscription Right Reserve.

  • (i) �as from the date of such act or transaction the Company shall establish ��� and thereafter (subject as provided in this Article) maintain in��� accordance with the provisions of this Article a reserve (the��� “Subscription Right Reserve”) the amount of which shall at no time ��� be less than the sum which for the time being would be required to ��� be capitalised and applied in paying up in full the nominal amount��� of the additional shares required to be issued and allotted credited��� as fully paid pursuant to sub-paragraph (iii) below on the exercise��� in full of all the subscription rights outstanding and shall apply the ��� Subscription Right Reserve in paying up in full such difference in��� respect of such additional shares as and when the same are allotted;��

  • (ii) �the Subscription Right Reserve shall not be used for any purpose��� other than that specified above unless all other reserves of the��� Company (other than share premium account and capital redemption ��� reserve fund) have been extinguished and will then only be used to ��� make good losses of the Company if and so far as is required by law;��

  • (iii) �upon the exercise of all or any of the subscription rights represented ��� by any warrant, the relevant subscription rights shall be exercisable ��� in respect of a nominal amount of shares equal to the amount in cash ��� which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of

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���the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be, ��� the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the��� subscription rights) and, in addition, there shall be allotted in respect ��� of such subscription rights to the exercising warrantholder, credited ��� as fully paid, such additional nominal amount of shares as is equal��� to the difference between:-���

  • (aa) �the said amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is���� required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented ���� thereby (or, as the case may be, the relevant portion thereof���� in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights); and���

  • (bb)�the nominal amount of shares in respect of which such���� subscription rights would have been exercisable having regard ���� to the provisions of the conditions of the warrants, had it been ���� possible for such subscription rights to represent the right to���� subscribe for shares at less than par,���

and immediately upon such exercise so much of the sum standing��� to the credit of the Subscription Right Reserve as is required to pay ��� up in full such additional nominal amount of shares shall be capitalised ��� and applied in paying up in full such additional nominal amount of ��� shares which shall forthwith be allotted credited as fully paid to the ��� exercising warrantholder; and��

  • (iv) �if upon the exercise of the subscription rights represented by any��� warrant the amount standing to the credit of the Subscription Right ��� Reserve is not sufficient to pay up in full such additional nominal��� amount of shares equal to such difference as aforesaid to which the ��� exercising warrantholder is entitled, the Board shall apply any profits ��� or reserves then or thereafter becoming available (including, to the ��� extent permitted by law, share premium account and capital redemption ��� reserve fund) for such purpose until such additional nominal amount ��� of shares is paid up and allotted as aforesaid and until then no dividend ��� or other distribution shall be paid or made on the fully paid shares��� of the Company then in issue. Pending such payment up and allotment, ��� the exercising warrantholder shall be issued by the Company with��� a certificate evidencing his right to the allotment of such additional ��� nominal amount of shares. The rights represented by any such��� certificate shall be in registered form and shall be transferable in��� whole or in part in units of one share in the like manner as the shares ��� for the time being are transferable, and the Company shall make��� such arrangements in relation to the maintenance of a register therefor ��� and other matters in relation thereto as the Board may think fit and ��� adequate particulars thereof shall be made known to each relevant��� exercising warrantholder upon the issue of such certificate.�

  • (B) �Shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall rank pari�� passu in all respects with the other shares allotted on the relevant exercise �� of the subscription rights represented by the warrant concerned. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (A) of this Article, no �� fraction of any share shall be allotted on exercise of the subscription rights.

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  • �(C) �A certificate or report by the auditors for the time being of the Company �� as to whether or not the Subscription Right Reserve is required to be�� established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to�� be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription �� Right Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used�� to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount �� of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrantholders credited as �� fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Right�� Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding �� upon the Company and all warrantholders and shareholders.

Dividends and Reserves

  1. �The Company in general meeting may declare dividends in any currency but� no dividends shall exceed the amount recommended by the Board.

  2. �(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.�

Power to declare dividends. Board's power to pay interim dividends.

  • (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.

  • �Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting have resolved that� a dividend be paid or declared, the Board may further resolved that such� dividend be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets� of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warrants to� subscribe securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or� more of such ways, 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 it thinks 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

Dividends not to be paid out of capital.

Dividend in specie.

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�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.

Scrip dividends.

  • 150.�(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;��

  • (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, share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund ��� (if there be any such reserve)) as the Board may determine, a sum��� equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted��� on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate��� number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst��� the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis;

  • or � (ii) �that shareholders entitled to such dividend shall be entitled to elect to�� receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up in lieu of the whole

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��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 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, share premium account��� and capital redemption reserve fund (if there be any such reserve)) ��� as the Board may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate nominal ��� amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same ��� in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment��� and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on ��� such basis.�

  • (B)�The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this�� Article shall rank pari passu in all respect 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 its�� 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 its 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.

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  • �(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 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.

Reserves.

Dividends to be paid in proportion to paid up capital.

  1. �The Board may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the� profits of the Company such sums as it thinks fit as a reserve or reserves� which shall, at the discretion of the Board, be applicable for meeting claims� on or liabilities of the Company or contingencies or for paying off any loan� capital or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose to which the� profits of the Company may be properly applied, and pending such� application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of� the Company) as the Board may from time to time think fit, and so that it� shall not be necessary to keep any investments constituting the reserve or� reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the Company.� The Board may also without placing the same to reserve carry forward any� profits which it may think prudent not to distribute by way of dividend.

  2. �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.

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  • 153.�(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 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 or more 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.

Retention of dividends etc.

Deduction of debts.

Dividend and call together.

Effect of transfer.

Receipt for dividends by joint holders of share.

Payment by post.

Unclaimed dividend.

Record dates.

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Untraceable Members

Company may cease sending dividend warrants.

Company may sell shares of untraceable members.

  1. �Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under Article 158 and the� provisions of Article 161, 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.

  2. �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:-�

  3. (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;�

  4. (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�

  5. (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.�

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 debt and no interest shall be payable � in respect of it and the Company shall not 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.

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Distribution of Realised Capital Profits

  • 162.�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.

Distribution of realised capital profits.

Annual Returns

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

Annual returns.

Accounts

  1. �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.

  2. �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.

  3. �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.

  4. �(A)�The Board shall from time to time in accordance with the provisions of�� the Companies Ordinance cause 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.�

  5. (B) �Every balance sheet of the Company shall be signed pursuant to the�� provisions of the Companies Ordinance, and a printed copy of every�� balance sheet (including every document required by law to be annexed

Accounts to be kept.

Where accounts to be kept.

Inspection by members.

Annual profit and loss account and balance sheet.

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

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�thereto) and profit and loss account which is to be laid before the Company� at its annual general meeting, together with a printed copy of the Directors’� report and a printed copy of the Auditors’ report, shall not less than� twenty-one days before the date of the meeting, be sent to every member of,� and every �holder of debentures of, the Company and every person registered� under Article 46 and every other person entitled to receive notices of general� meetings of the Company, 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 to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.

Audit

Auditors.

Remuneration of Auditors.

When accounts to be deemed finally settled.

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

  2. �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.

  3. �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

Service of notices.

Members out of Hong Kong.

  • 171.�Any notice or document to be given or issued under these Articles shall be� in writing, and may be served by the Company on any member either personally � or 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 by delivering or leaving it at such registered address as aforesaid or (in the � case of a notice) by advertisement in English in an English language newspaper � and in Chinese in a Chinese language newspaper. In the case of joint holders� of a share, all notices 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.

  • �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 Hong Kong for the purpose of service of notices, such member � shall be deemed to have received any notice which shall have been displayed � at the registered office of the Company and shall have remained there for the� spase of twenty-four hours and such notice shall be deemed to have been� received by such member on the day following that on which it shall have been � first so displayed.

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  1. �Any notice sent by post shall be deemed to have been served on the day� 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 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.

  2. �A notice may be given by the Company to the person entitled to a share in� consequence of the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a member by� sending it through the post in a prepaid letter, envelope or wrapper� addressed to him by name, or by the title of the representative of the deceased, � or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address, if any,� within Hong Kong supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so� entitled, or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the notice� in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death, mental� disorder or bankruptcy had not occurred.

  3. �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.

  4. �Any notice or document delivered or sent by post to, or left at the registered� address of any member 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.

  5. 177.�The signature to any notice to be given by the Company may be written or� printed.

When notice by post deemed to be served.

Service of notice to persons entitled on death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a member.

Transferee to be bound by prior notices.

Notice valid though member deceased or bankrupt.

How notice to be signed.

Information

  • 178.�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.

Member not entitled to information.

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Destruction of Documents

Destruction of documents.

  • 179.�The Company may destroy:–�

  • (a) �any share certificate which has been cancelled at any time after the�� expiry of one year from the date of such cancellation;�

  • (b) �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 on which such mandate, variation,�� cancellation or notification was recorded by the Company;�

  • (c) �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�

  • (d) �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:–�

  • (i) �the foregoing provisions of this Article shall apply only to the destruction �� of a document in good faith and without express notice to the Company�� that the preservation of such document was relevant to a claim;�

  • (ii) �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�

  • (iii)�references in this Article to the destruction of any document include�� reference to its disposal in any manner.

Winding Up

Division of assets in liquidation.

  1. �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.

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  1. �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.

  2. �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 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 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 English in an English language� newspaper and in Chinese 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.

Power to distribute assets in specie.

Service of process.

Indemnity

  • 183.�(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 �� (including any such liability as is mentioned in paragraph (c) of the proviso �� to Section 165 of the Companies Ordinance) which he may sustain or�� incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in �� relation thereto, and no Director or other officer shall be liable for any�� loss, damages or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the�� Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto, �� provided that this Article shall only have effect in so far as its provisions �� are not avoided by the Companies Ordinance.

Indemnity.

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  • �(B)�Subject to Section 165 of the Companies Ordinance, if any Director or�� other person shall become personally liable for the payment of any sum�� primarily due from the Company, the Board may execute or cause to be�� executed any mortgage, charge, or security over or affecting the whole�� or any part of the assets of the Company by way of indemnity to secure�� the Director or person so becoming liable as aforesaid from any loss in�� respect of such liability.

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Names, Addresses and Descriptions of Subscribers

CHOW TAN PING 17C Glee Path, 4th Floor, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon. Accountant JAMES DIU YING KIT 186 Pratas Street, 4th Floor, Flat 86, Shamshuipo, Kowloon. Accountant

Dated the 16th day of July, 1975. WITNESS to the above signatures:–

(Sd.) K.Y. WOO Solicitor Hong Kong

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