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CSL Ltd. Governance Information 2012

Oct 16, 2012

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17 October 2012

Company Announcements Office Australian Securities Exchange Melbourne AUSTRALIA

Dear Sirs

CSL Limited – New Constitution

In accordance with ASX Listing Rule 15.4.2, please find attached a copy of the new constitution that CSL Limited has adopted at its annual general meeting held on 17 October 2012.

Yours sincerely

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Edward Bailey Company Secretary

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Constitution of CSL Limited (ACN 051 588 348)

Corporations Act Company limited by shares Registered in the Australian Capital Territory

45 Poplar Road Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia

Constitution of CSL Limited

Table of Contents

1. Definitions 1
2. Interpretation 4
3. Replaceable Rules 5
4. Transitional 5
5. Location of Head Office 5
6. Australian Plasma Fractionation Facilities 5
7. Place of Incorporation 6
8. Issue of Securities 6
9. Preference Shares 6
10. Recognition of Third Party Interests 7
11. Surrender of Securities 8
12. Restricted securities 8
13. Joint Holders 8
14. Uncertificated Holdings 9
15. Certificates 9
16. Liability to Forfeiture 9
17. Power to Forfeit 10
18. Consequences of Forfeiture 10
19. Notice of Forfeiture 11
20. Reissue of Forfeited Shares 11
21. Transfers after Forfeiture and Sale 11
22. Payments by the Company 11
23. Board's Power to Make Calls 12
24. Interest on Unpaid Amounts 13
25. Differentiation between Holders 13
26. Transfers 13
27. Board may Refuse to Register 14
28. Transfer and Certificate (if any) 14
29. Unmarketable Parcels 15
30. Transmission on Death 17
31. Transmission by Operation of Law 17
32. Power to Alter Share Capital 17

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33. Power of the Board to Convene 18
34. Notice of General Meetings 18
35. Business of Annual and Other General Meetings 18
36. Quorum for General Meetings 19
37. Conduct of General Meetings 19
38. Acting Chair 20
39. Adjournment of General Meetings 21
40. Voting at General Meetings 21
41. Special Meetings 21
42. Procedure for Polls 22
43. Representation and Voting of Shareholders 22
44. Restriction on Voting Rights 23
45. Form of Proxy 23
46. Form of Direct Vote 24
47. Validity of Proxies, Powers of Attorney and Representatives 25
48. Validity of Direct Votes 25
49. Attorneys of Shareholders 26
50. Voting by Corporation 26
51. Requirement to Provide Information 27
52. Subregister of Foreign-Held Voting Shares 27
53. Significant Foreign Shareholder Noted on Subregister 28
54. Significant Foreign Shareholding 28
55. Duties of Board in Maintaining Subregister 28
56. Number of Directors 28
57. Two Thirds of Directors to be Australian Citizens 29
58. Class of Directors 29
59. Selection of Directors for each Class 29
60. Procedure for Selection 29
61. Significant Foreign Shareholder Not to Vote on A Class Directors 29
62. Director May Be Removed 30
63. Power by Directors to Prevent Breach 30
64. Procedure if Too Few A Class Directors 30
65. Appointment and Removal 30
66. Director may appoint alternate Director 31

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67. Retirement 31
68. Remuneration 32
69. Vacation of Office 33
70. Retirement Allowance for Directors 33
71. Directors May Lend to the Company 34
72. Appointment of Executives 34
73. Powers of the Board and Managing Director 35
74. Proceedings 35
75. Meetings of the Board by Technology 36
76. Chair of the Board 36
77. Directors' Voting Rights and Exercise of Powers 36
78. Exercise of Voting Power in Other Corporations 37
79. Material Personal Interests 38
80. Committees of the Board 38
81. Written Resolutions 38
82. Defects in Appointments 39
83. Secretaries and Other Officers 39
84. Other Officers 39
85. Seals and Their Use 39
86. Reserves 40
87. Power to Declare or Determine Dividends 40
88. Crediting of Dividends 40
89. Deduction of Unpaid Amounts 41
90. Distributions in Kind 41
91. Payment of Distributions 42
92. Capitalisation of Profits 43
93. Service of Documents 44
94. Winding Up 45
95. Indemnity of Officers, Insurance and Access 46
96. Dividend Plans 47
97. Employee Share Plans 49
98. Proportional Takeover Approval 49

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Constitution of CSL Limited

Constitution of CSL Limited (ACN 051 588 348), a public listed company limited by shares.

General

1. Definitions

The following definitions apply in this Constitution unless the context requires otherwise:

ASX Settlement means ASX Settlement Pty Ltd (ABN 49 008 504 532).

ASX Settlement Operating Rules means the operating rules of ASX Settlement or of any relevant organisation which is an alternative or successor to, or replacement of, ASX Settlement or of any applicable CS facility licensee.

Australian body corporate means (subject to rule 2(h)) a body corporate that:

  • (a) is incorporated by or under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; and

  • (b) is substantially owned and, in the opinion of the Board, effectively controlled by persons who are:

  • (i) Australian individuals;

  • (ii) Australian government bodies;

  • (iii) bodies corporate that have been determined to be Australian bodies corporate under a previous application of this definition; or

  • (iv) Australian fund managers.

Australian citizen has the same meaning as in the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth).

Australian fund manager means the trustee or manager of a fund in which the total interests of Australian individuals, Australian government bodies and Australian bodies corporate represent at least 60% of the total interests in the fund.

Australian government body means:

  • (a) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

  • (b) a Commonwealth, State or Territory authority;

  • (c) a local government body (whether incorporated or not) formed by or under a law of a State or a Territory; or

  • (d) a person who is a nominee of a body mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

Australian individual means an individual who is:

  • (a) an Australian citizen; or

  • (b) ordinarily resident in Australia as determined under the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth).

Board means all or some of the Directors for the time being acting as a board.

Business Day has the meaning given in the Listing Rules.

call includes any instalment of a call and any amount due on the issue of any share.

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Chair means the Chair as determined in accordance with rule 76(a) or, in relation to a general meeting, any other person occupying the position of Chair or acting Chair under rule 37 or 38.

Company means CSL Limited (ACN 051 588 348).

Constitution means this constitution as amended from time to time.

Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth).

CS facility licensee means a person who holds a licence under the Corporations Act that authorises the person to operate a clearing and settlement facility.

CSL Act means the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act 1961 (Cth).

dispose as used in rule 12 has the meaning given in the Listing Rules.

Direct Vote means a notice of a shareholder's voting intention delivered to the Company by post, fax, electronic or other means approved by the Board and otherwise in accordance with this Constitution and regulations, rules and procedures made by the Board in accordance with rule 46(a).

Director means a person appointed or elected to the office of director of the Company in accordance with this Constitution and where appropriate includes an alternate Director.

Divestment Notice means a notice in writing stating or to the effect that the Company intends to sell or arrange the sale of the shares of a shareholder unless within the Specified Period (which must be set out in the notice):

  • (a) the shareholding of the shareholder increases to at least a Marketable Parcel and the shareholder notifies the Company in writing of the increase;

  • (b) the shares are sold by the shareholder; or

  • (c) the shareholder gives to the Company a written notice that the shareholder wishes to retain the shares.

Dividend means any dividend, including an interim dividend.

Escrow Period means the period set out in a Restriction Agreement.

Exchange means ASX Limited and includes any successor body.

foreign-held voting shares means:

  • (a) voting shares that are acknowledged in writing by the registered owner of those shares to be shares in which a foreign person has a relevant interest; or

  • (b) voting shares that the Board has, after reasonable inquiries, declared to be shares in which a foreign person has a relevant interest.

foreign person means a person who is not:

  • (a) an Australian individual;

  • (b) an Australian government body;

  • (c) an Australian body corporate; or

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(d) an Australian fund manager.

Head Office means the place of business of the Company where central management and control are exercised.

Holding Adjustment has the meaning given in the ASX Settlement Operating Rules.

Issuer Sponsored Holding has the meaning given in the ASX Settlement Operating Rules.

Listing Rules means the Listing Rules of the Exchange and any other rules of the Exchange which are applicable while the Company is admitted to the Official List of the Exchange, each as amended or replaced from time to time.

Managing Director means a person appointed as managing director in accordance with rule 72.

Market Transfer means a transfer of shares in the Company where the transfer is pursuant to a transaction entered into on the securities market operated by the Exchange.

Marketable Parcel has the meaning given in the Listing Rules.

Minister means the Minister for the time being who is responsible for administering the CSL Act.

Notice Date means the date on which the Company sends a Divestment Notice to a shareholder.

person and words importing persons means any person including partnerships, associations and bodies corporate, unincorporated bodies and all other entities or associations recognised by law as well as individuals.

proper ASTC transfer has the meaning given in the Corporations Act.

registered address means the address of a shareholder specified on a transfer or any other address of which the shareholder notifies the Company as a place where the shareholder will accept service of notices.

relevant interest has the meaning given in the Corporations Act.

Required Information means information as to whether the person providing it holds a relevant interest in shares in the Company held or proposed to be acquired by that person, details of any other persons who hold relevant interests in those shares, and whether any of those persons is a foreign person.

Restricted Securities has the meaning given in the Listing Rules and includes shares in the Company defined as such in any Restriction Agreement.

Restriction Agreement means a restriction agreement in a form set out in the Listing Rules or otherwise approved by the Exchange and includes any agreement which the company and any shareholder agrees is a Restriction Agreement.

Sale Period means the period of either seven days following the expiration of the Specified Period or, where rule 29(a)(iv) applies, seven days following the date of receipt by the Company of revocation of the notice referred to in rule 29(a)(iii)(C).

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Secretary means a person appointed as, or to perform the duties of, secretary of the Company.

Securities includes shares, rights to shares, options to acquire shares and other securities with rights of conversion to equity, in each case as issued or granted by the Company.

Shareholder Present means, in connection with a meeting, a shareholder present at the venue or venues for the meeting, in person or by proxy, by attorney or, where the shareholder is a body corporate, by representative.

significant foreign shareholder means a foreign person who has a relevant interest in at least 5% of the voting shares of the Company.

significant foreign shareholding means a holding of voting shares in which a foreign person has a relevant interest if the foreign person has relevant interests in at least 5% of all voting shares issued by the Company.

Specified Period means a period of not less than six weeks after the Notice Date, as determined by the Directors.

Takeover has the meaning given in the Listing Rules.

Uncertificated Securities Holding means Securities of the Company that under the Corporations Act, the Listing Rules or any Uncertificated Transfer System may be held in uncertificated form.

Uncertificated Transfer System means any system operated under the Corporations Act, the Listing Rules or the ASX Settlement Operating Rules that regulates the transfer or registration of, or the settlement of transactions affecting, Securities in uncertificated form and includes CHESS (as defined in the ASX Settlement Operating Rules) as it applies to Securities in certificated and uncertificated form.

2. Interpretation

Headings and footnotes are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. The following rules of interpretation apply unless any contrary intention appears in this Constitution or the context requires otherwise.

  • (a) The singular includes the plural, and the converse also applies.

  • (b) If a word or phrase is defined, its other grammatical forms have a corresponding meaning.

  • (c) A reference to a person includes a corporation, trust, partnership, unincorporated body or other entity, whether or not it comprises a separate legal entity.

  • (d) A reference to a rule is a reference to a rule of this Constitution.

  • (e) A reference to legislation or to a provision of legislation includes a modification or re-enactment of it, a legislative provision substituted for it and a regulation or statutory instrument issued under it.

  • (f) A word or phrase given a meaning in the Corporations Act has the same meaning in this Constitution.

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  • (g) A reference to the Listing Rules or the ASX Settlement Operating Rules is to the Listing Rules or the ASX Settlement Operating Rules in force in relation to the Company after taking into account any waiver or exemption which is in force either generally or in relation to the Company.

  • (h) For the purposes of the definition of Australian body corporate, the question of whether a body corporate is substantially owned and in the opinion of the Board is effectively controlled by the persons of the kind referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition is to be determined in accordance with sub sections 19B (2)-(7) of the CSL Act.

3. Replaceable Rules

The replaceable rules contained in the Corporations Act do not apply to the Company.

4. Transitional

  • (a) This Constitution supersedes the constitution in force immediately before the adoption of this Constitution.

  • (b) Everything done under any previous constitution of the Company continues to have the same operation and effect after the adoption of this Constitution as if properly done under this Constitution. In particular (without limitation) every Director and Secretary in office immediately before the adoption of this Constitution is taken to have been appointed and continues in office under this Constitution.

Location

5. Location of Head Office

The Head Office of the Company shall at all times be located in Australia.

6. Australian Plasma Fractionation Facilities

  • (a) The Directors shall ensure that the principal facilities of the Company and of any subsidiary of the Company that are used to produce products derived from human plasma collected from blood or plasma donated by individuals in Australia are at all times located in Australia.

  • (b) Any disposal of an interest in the facilities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries at Camp Road, Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia is subject to compliance with any requirements under the CSL Act.[1]

1 As at the date of adoption of this Constitution, disposals of an interest in those facilities generally require the written approval of the Minister.

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7. Place of Incorporation

The Company's place of incorporation is the Australian Capital Territory and the Company shall not take any action at any time to become incorporated outside Australia.

Capital

8. Issue of Securities

  • (a) Subject to the Corporations Act, the Listing Rules, this Constitution and any special rights conferred on the holders of any Securities, the issue of Securities is under the control of the Board, which may issue and cancel Securities and grant options over unissued Securities, on the terms the Board considers appropriate.

  • (b) Without affecting any special rights conferred on the holders of any Securities, any Securities may be issued with preferred, deferred or other special rights, obligations or restrictions, whether in regard to dividends, voting, return of share capital, payment of calls or otherwise, as the Board may determine and on any terms the Board considers appropriate.

  • (c) The issue of any new Securities ranking equally with existing Securities is not a variation of the rights conferred on the holders of the existing Securities, unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue.

9. Preference Shares

If the Company at any time proposes to create and issue any preference shares:

  • (a) the preference shares may be issued on the terms that they are, or at the option of either or both the Company and the holder are liable, to be redeemed out of profits or the proceeds of a new issue of shares made for the purpose of the redemption, or otherwise as permitted by the Corporations Act;

  • (b) each preference share is to confer on its holder the right to convert the preference share into ordinary shares if and on the basis the Board decides at the time of issue of the preference share;

  • (c) (i) each preference share is to confer on its holder a right to receive a preferential Dividend at the rate or of the amount (which may be subject to an index) and on the basis decided by the Board at the time of issue of the preference share;

  • (ii) in addition to the preferential Dividend, each preference share may participate with the ordinary shares in Dividends declared or determined by the Board if and to the extent the Board decides at the time of issue of the preference share; and

  • (iii) the preferential Dividend may be cumulative if and to the extent the Board decides at the time of issue of the preference share;

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  • (d) each preference share is to confer on its holder:

  • (i) the right on redemption and in a winding up to payment in cash in priority to any other class of shares of:

    • (A) the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the preference share; and

    • (B) the amount (if any) equal to the aggregate of any Dividends accrued (whether declared or determined or not) but unpaid on the preference share, and of any arrears of Dividends on the preference share; and

  • (ii) the right, in priority to any payment of Dividend on any other class of shares, to the preferential Dividend;

  • (e) the preference shares are to confer on the holders the right to a bonus issue or capitalisation of profits in favour of holders of those shares only if and on the basis the Board decides at the time of issue of the preference shares;

  • (f) a preference share does not confer on its holder any further rights to participate in assets or profits of the Company;

  • (g) the holder of a preference share has the same rights as the holders of ordinary shares to receive notices, reports and accounts and to attend and be heard at all general meetings, but is not to have the right (in that capacity) to vote at general meetings except as follows:

  • (i) on any question considered at a meeting if, at the date of the meeting, a Dividend (or any part of a Dividend) on the preference share is in arrears;

  • (ii) on a proposal:

    • (A) to reduce the share capital of the Company;

    • (B) that affects rights attached to the preference share;

    • (C) to wind up the Company; or

    • (D) for the disposal of the whole of the property, business and undertaking of the Company;

  • (iii) on a resolution to approve the terms of a buy-back agreement; and

  • (iv) on any question considered at a meeting held during the winding up of the Company; and

  • (h) the Company may issue further preference shares ranking pari passu in all respects with (but not in priority to) other preference shares already issued and the rights of the issued preference shares are not to be taken to have been varied by the further issue.

10. Recognition of Third Party Interests

(a) Except as required by law, the Company is not bound to recognise a person as holding a Security on any trust.

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  • (b) Whether or not it has notice of the rights or interests concerned, the Company is not bound to recognise:

  • (i) any equitable, contingent, future or partial claim to, or interest in, any Security or unit of a Security; or

  • (ii) any other right in respect of a Security,

except an absolute right of ownership of the Security holder or as otherwise provided by this Constitution or by law.

11. Surrender of Securities

In its discretion, the Board may accept a surrender of Securities by way of compromise of any question as to whether or not those Securities have been validly issued or in any other case where the surrender is within the powers of the Company. Any Securities surrendered may be sold or re-issued in the same manner as forfeited shares.

12. Restricted securities

  • (a) Restricted Securities cannot be disposed of during the Escrow Period, except as permitted by the Listing Rules or the Exchange.

  • (b) The Company must refuse to acknowledge a disposal (including registering a transfer) of any Restricted Securities during the Escrow Period, except as permitted by the Listing Rules or the Exchange.

  • (c) During a breach of the Listing Rules relating to Restricted Securities or a breach of a Restriction Agreement, the holder of the Restricted Securities is not entitled to any dividend or distribution or voting rights in respect of the Restricted Securities except as permitted by the Restriction Agreement, the Listing Rules or the Exchange.

13. Joint Holders

Where two or more persons are registered as the holders of any Securities, they are considered to hold the Securities as joint tenants with benefits of survivorship subject to the following provisions:

  • (a) the Company is not bound to register more than three persons as the holders of the Securities;

  • (b) the joint holders of the Securities are liable severally as well as jointly in respect of all payments which ought to be made in respect of the Securities;

  • (c) on the death of any one of the joint holders, the remaining joint holders are the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the Securities but the Directors may require evidence of death and the estate of the deceased joint holder is not released from any liability in respect of the Securities;

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  • (d) any one of the joint holders may give a receipt for any Dividend, bonus or return of capital payable to the joint holders in respect of the Securities;

  • (e) only the person whose name stands first in the Securities register as one of the joint holders of the Securities is entitled, if the Company determines to issue certificates for Securities, to delivery of a certificate relating to the Securities or to receive notices from the Company and any notice given to that person is considered notice to all the joint holders; and

  • (f) any one of the joint holders may vote at any meeting of the Company in person, or by properly authorised representative, proxy or attorney or by Direct Vote, in respect of the Securities as if that joint holder was solely entitled to the Securities. If more than one of the joint holders tender a vote in person or by properly authorised representative, proxy or attorney or by Direct Vote, only the vote of the joint holder whose name appears first in the Securities register counts.

Certificates for Securities

14. Uncertificated Holdings

If and for so long as dealings in any Securities take place under an Uncertificated Transfer System:

  • (a) the Company need not issue any certificate in respect of Securities held as an Uncertificated Securities Holding; and

  • (b) the Securities register may distinguish between Securities held in certificated form and Securities held as an Uncertificated Securities Holding.

15. Certificates

The Board may decide to issue certificates for Securities and to cancel any certificates on issue and to replace lost, destroyed or defaced certificates on issue on the basis and in the form it determines from time to time.

Forfeiture

16. Liability to Forfeiture

  • (a) If a shareholder fails to pay when due any sum payable in respect of any shares (including amounts payable on issue, calls, instalments, interest or expenses) the Board may serve a notice on the shareholder requiring payment of the unpaid sum, together with accrued interest and all expenses of the Company incurred by reason of the non-payment.

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  • (b) The notice must:

  • (i) specify:

    • (A) a time by which payment must be made, which must not be earlier than close of business (local time at the registered office of the Company) 14 days after the date of service of the notice; and

    • (B) the required manner of payment; and

  • (ii) state that the shares are liable to be forfeited if payment is not made as required by the notice.

17. Power to Forfeit

If the requirements of a notice with respect to a share under rule 16 are not complied with, and subject to the Listing Rules and the ASX Settlement Operating Rules, then at any time the share may be forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that effect unless, before the resolution, the payment required by the notice is paid together with interest (if determined by the Board) at the rate determined by the Board.

18. Consequences of Forfeiture

  • (a) A person whose shares have been forfeited:

  • (i) ceases to be a shareholder in respect of the forfeited shares at the time and on the date of the passing of a resolution of the Board approving the forfeiture;

  • (ii) has no claims or demands against the Company in respect of those shares including any Dividends;

  • (iii) has no other rights incident to the shares; and

  • (iv) remains liable to pay to the Company all money that, at the date of forfeiture, was payable by the person to the Company in respect of the shares (including, if the Board determines, interest from the date of forfeiture at the rate the Board determines). The Board may enforce the payment of all or any part of the money as it determines.

  • (b) If any amounts due in respect of any shares (including amounts payable on issue, calls, instalments, interest or expenses) are unpaid by the shareholder:

  • (i) the shareholder is not entitled to any rights or privileges as a shareholder;

  • (ii) the Company is entitled to set off any amount owed by it to the shareholder against the amounts the shareholder owes to it; and

  • (iii) the Company may refuse to register a transfer of the shares.

  • (c) Nothing in this rule 18 affects any other right or remedy of the Company against the shareholder or anyone else.

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19. Notice of Forfeiture

When any share is forfeited, the Company will note it in the share register and notify the affected shareholder. Failure to do so does not invalidate the forfeiture. At any time before any forfeited share is cancelled or reissued, the Board may annul the forfeiture on any conditions it determines.

20. Reissue of Forfeited Shares

  • (a) Subject to applicable law and the Listing Rules, the Board may reissue the forfeited shares in any manner it determines and, to the extent permitted by law, with or without any money previously paid on the shares being credited as paid up.

  • (b) Unless otherwise agreed, the acquirer of a reissued share is:

  • (i) discharged from liability for any calls which may have been due before the reissue of the forfeited share; and

  • (ii) not bound to see to the application of any money paid as consideration.

  • (c) Subject to the terms of issue of the forfeited shares, the proceeds from the acquisition of the reissued shares must be applied to pay:

  • (i) first, the Company's expenses of the reissue;

  • (ii) then, any expenses necessarily incurred in respect of the forfeiture; and

  • (iii) then, the calls or other sums payable to the Company in respect of the forfeited shares that are due and unpaid.

The balance, if any, must be paid to the person whose shares were forfeited.

21. Transfers after Forfeiture and Sale

  • (a) The Company may:

  • (i) receive the consideration (if any) given for a forfeited share on any sale or disposition of the share; and

  • (ii) effect a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of.

  • (b) On the completion of the transfer, the transferee is to be registered as the holder of the share and is not bound to see to the application of any money paid as consideration.

22. Payments by the Company

  • (a) If the law of any place imposes or purports to impose any immediate or future or possible liability on the Company to make any payments or empowers any government or taxing authority or government official to require the Company to make any payment:

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  • (i) in respect of any Securities held either jointly or solely by any holder;

  • (ii) in respect of any transfer of those Securities;

  • (iii) in respect of any interest, dividends, bonuses or other moneys due or payable or accruing or which may become due or payable to the holder by the Company on or in respect of any Securities; or

  • (iv) for or on account or in respect of any holder of Securities,

then rules 22(b) and 22(c) apply, in addition to any right or remedy the Company may otherwise have.

  • (b) The Company is fully indemnified by:

  • (i) the holder;

  • (ii) holder's trustee, executor or administrator; or

  • (iii) any person who becomes registered as the holder of the Securities on the distribution of the deceased holder's estate.

  • (c) The Company may recover any moneys paid as described in rule 22(a), which exceeded any dividend, bonus or other money then due or payable by the Company to the holder, together with interest at a rate the Directors may determine from time to time from the date of payment to the date of repayment, as a debt due from:

  • (i) the holder;

  • (ii) the holder's trustee, executor or administrator; or

  • (iii) any person who becomes registered as holder of the Securities on the distribution of the deceased holder's estate.

  • (d) The Board may:

  • (i) exempt a Security from all or part of this rule 22 ; and

  • (ii) waive or compromise all or part of any payment due to the Company under this rule 22.

Call on Shares and Interest on Sums Due to the Company

23. Board's Power to Make Calls

  • (a) Subject to the terms of issue of any shares and the Listing Rules, the Board may make calls on the relevant shareholders in respect of any money unpaid on the shares. Each relevant shareholder is liable to pay the amount of each call in the manner and at the time specified by the Directors.

  • (b) The Board may revoke or postpone a call.

  • (c) A call may be required to be paid by instalments.

  • (d) A call is made at the time of or as specified in the resolution of the Board authorising the call.

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  • (e) Each shareholder must pay the amount of the call on that shareholder's shares in the manner, by the time or times, and at the place, specified by the Board.

  • (f) The non-receipt of a notice of a call by, or the accidental omission to give notice of a call to, any shareholder does not invalidate the call.

  • (g) If the Directors think fit they may receive from any shareholder all or any part of the moneys unpaid on all or any of the shares held by that shareholder beyond the sums actually called up and then due and payable either as a loan repayable or as a payment in advance of calls. The Company may pay interest on the moneys advanced at the rate and on the terms agreed by the Directors and the shareholder paying the sum in advance.

24. Interest on Unpaid Amounts

  • (a) If a sum called or otherwise payable to the Company in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day for payment, the person from whom the sum is due must pay:

  • (i) interest on the sum from the due date to the time of actual payment at the rate determined by the Board; and

  • (ii) any costs and expenses incurred by the Company by reason of non-payment or late payment of the sum.

  • (b) The Board may waive payment of some or all of the interest, costs and expenses under rule 24(a).

25. Differentiation between Holders

The Board may differentiate on the issue of shares between the holders as to the amount of calls to be paid and the times of payment.

Transfer of Securities

26. Transfers

  • (a) A transfer of any Securities may be effected by:

  • (i) a written transfer in the usual or common form or in any form the Board may prescribe or in a particular case accept, properly stamped (if necessary), being delivered to the Company;

  • (ii) a proper ASTC transfer, which is to be in the form required or permitted by the Corporations Act or the ASX Settlement Operating Rules; or

  • (iii) any other electronic system established or recognised by the Listing Rules in which the Company participates in accordance with the rules of that system.

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  • (b) Except in the case of a proper ASTC transfer, the transferor is considered to remain the holder of the Securities transferred until the name of the transferee is entered on the Securities register. A proper ASTC transfer is considered recorded in the Securities register and the name of the transferee to be registered as the holder of the Securities comprised in the proper ASTC transfer, as provided in the ASX Settlement Operating Rules.

  • (c) The Board may take any action it determines to comply with the ASX Settlement Operating Rules and may request ASX Settlement to apply a holding lock to prevent a transfer of Securities the subject of the ASX Settlement Operating Rules if the Board determines.

  • (d) The Company may do anything necessary or desirable to facilitate participation by the Company in any Uncertificated Transfer System.

27. Board may Refuse to Register

  • (a) The Board may refuse to register any transfer of Securities:

  • (i) if the registration of the transfer would result in a contravention of or failure to observe the provisions of any applicable law or the Listing Rules;

  • (ii) which are subject to forfeiture; or

  • (iii) if permitted to do so under the Listing Rules.

  • (b) The decision of the Board relating to the registration of a transfer is absolute. Failure to give notice of refusal to register any transfer as may be required under the Corporations Act or the Listing Rules does not invalidate the decision of the Board.

28. Transfer and Certificate (if any)

  • (a) Every transfer must be left for registration at the registered office of the Company or any other place the Board determines. Unless the Board otherwise determines either generally or in a particular case, the transfer is to be accompanied by the certificate (if any) for the Securities to be transferred. In addition, the transfer is to be accompanied by any other evidence that the Board may require to prove the title of the transferor, the transferor's right to transfer the Securities, execution of the transfer or compliance with the provisions of any applicable laws. The requirements of this rule do not apply in respect of a proper ASTC transfer.

  • (b) Subject to rule 28(a), the certificate (if any) specifying the Securities in respect of which registration is required must be delivered to the Company for cancellation on each application to register the transfer of any Securities or to register any person as the holder in respect of any Securities transmitted to that person by operation of law or otherwise. The certificate is considered to have been cancelled on such registration.

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  • (c) Each transfer that is registered may be retained by the Company for any period determined by the Board, after which the Company may destroy it.

  • (d) Without limiting any other entitlement the Company may have to charge fees, the Company may, to the extent permitted by the Listing Rules, charge a reasonable fee in relation to any transfer of Securities which is not a Market Transfer or the issue of any certificates for Securities.

29. Unmarketable Parcels

  • (a) (i) Subject to rule 29(a)(ii), the Secretary may at any time and from time to time send a Divestment Notice to any shareholder holding less than a Marketable Parcel of shares in the Company.

  • (ii) Subject to rule 29(d), the Company may not give more than one Divestment Notice to a particular shareholder in any 12 month period.

  • (iii) Where the Company has sent to a shareholder a Divestment Notice then, unless within the Specified Period:

    • (A) the shareholding of the shareholder increases to at least a Marketable Parcel and the shareholder has notified the Company in writing of the increase;

    • (B) the relevant shares are sold by the shareholder; or

    • (C) the shareholder gives to the Company a written notice that the shareholder wishes to retain the relevant shares,

the shareholder is deemed to have irrevocably appointed the Company as the shareholder’s agent to sell the shares the subject of the Divestment Notice during the Sale Period at the price and on the terms determined by a Secretary in the Secretary’s sole discretion and to receive the proceeds of sale on behalf of the shareholder. Nothing in this rule obliges the Company to sell the shares. For the purposes of the sale, the Company may initiate a Holding Adjustment to move all the shares from a CHESS holding to an Issuer Sponsored Holding or a certificated holding or to take any other action the Company considers necessary or desirable to effect the sale.

  • (iv) Where a shareholder has given to the Company notice under rule 29(a)(iii)(C) the shareholder may at any time revoke the notice and on revocation the Company is constituted the shareholder’s agent as provided in rule 29(a)(iii).

  • (v) A Secretary may execute on behalf of a shareholder a transfer of the shares in respect of which the Company is appointed agent under rule 29(a)(iii) in the manner and form the Secretary considers necessary and deliver the transfer to the purchaser. The Secretary may take any other action on behalf of the shareholder as the Secretary considers necessary to effect the sale and transfer of the shares.

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  • (vi) The Company may register a transfer of shares whether or not any certificate for the shares has been delivered to the Company.

  • (vii) If the shares of two or more shareholders to whom this rule 29 applies are sold to one purchaser, the transfer may be effected by one transfer.

  • (viii) If shares are sold under this rule 29, the Company must:

    • (A) within a reasonable time after completion of the sale, inform the former shareholder of the sale and the total sale proceeds received by the Company; and

    • (B) if any certificate for the shares the subject of the transfer has been received by the Company (or the Company is satisfied that the certificate has been lost or destroyed or that its production is not essential), within 45 days after completion of the sale, cause the proceeds of sale to be sent to the former shareholder (or, in the case of joint holders, to the holder whose name appeared first in the Securities register in respect of the joint holding). Payment may be made in any manner and by any means as determined by the Directors and is at the risk of the former shareholder.

  • (ix) The Company bears the costs of sale of the transferor of shares sold under this rule 29 (but is not liable for tax on income or capital gains of the former shareholder).

  • (x) All money payable to former shareholders under this rule 29 which is unclaimed for one year after payment may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed or otherwise disposed of according to law. No money payable under this rule 29 by the Company to former shareholders bears interest as against the Company.

  • (b) (i) A certificate signed by a Secretary stating that shares sold under this rule 29 have been properly sold discharges the purchaser of those shares from all liability in respect of the purchase of those shares.

  • (ii) When a purchaser of shares is registered as the holder of the shares, the purchaser:

    • (A) is not bound to see to the regularity of the actions and proceedings of the Company under this rule 29 or to the application of the proceeds of sale; and

    • (B) has title to the shares which is not affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the actions and proceedings of the Company.

  • (c) Any remedy of any shareholder to whom this rule 29 applies in respect of the sale of the shareholder’s shares is limited to a right of action in damages against the Company to the exclusion of any other right, remedy or relief against any other person.

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  • (d) On the date on which there is announced a Takeover in relation to the Company, the power of the Company to sell shares under this rule 29 lapses. Despite rule 29(a)(ii), after the close of the offers under the Takeover the Company may invoke the procedures set out in this rule 29.

  • (e) Where under this rule 29 powers are conferred on a Secretary, the powers may be exercised either by a Secretary or by any person nominated by a Secretary.

Transmission of Securities

30. Transmission on Death

  • (a) Where a Security holder dies:

  • (i) the legal personal representatives of the deceased, where the Security holder was a sole holder or a joint holder holding as a tenant in common; and

  • (ii) the survivor or survivors, where the Security holder was a joint holder,

  • are the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the Security holder's interest in the Securities (as the case may be).

  • (b) Subject to the Corporations Act, the Board may require evidence of a Security holder's death as it determines.

  • (c) This rule 30 does not release the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any Security that had been jointly held by the holder with other persons.

31. Transmission by Operation of Law

A person (a transmittee ) who establishes to the satisfaction of the Board that the right to any Securities has devolved on the transmittee by will or by operation of law may be registered as a holder in respect of the Securities or may (subject to the provisions in this Constitution relating to transfers) transfer the Securities. The Board has the same right to refuse to register the transmittee as if the transmittee was the transferee named in a transfer presented for registration.

Alteration of Capital

32. Power to Alter Share Capital

The Company may reduce or alter its share capital in any manner provided for by the Corporations Act. The Board may do anything that is required to give effect to any resolution authorising reduction or alteration of the share capital of the Company and, without limitation, may make provision for the issue of fractional certificates or the sale of fractions of shares and the distribution of net proceeds as it thinks fit.

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General Meetings

33. Power of the Board to Convene

By a resolution of the Board, the Board may call a general meeting of the Company to be convened at the time and place or places (including at two or more venues using technology that gives shareholders a reasonable opportunity to participate) and in the manner determined by the Board. No shareholder may convene a general meeting of the Company except where entitled to do so under the Corporations Act. By resolution of the Board, any general meeting may be cancelled or postponed prior to the date on which it is to be held, except where the cancellation or postponement would be contrary to the Corporations Act. The Board may give notice of cancellation or postponement as it determines, but any failure to give notice of cancellation or postponement does not invalidate the cancellation or postponement or any resolution passed at a postponed meeting.

34. Notice of General Meetings

Where the Board has called a general meeting, notice of the meeting may be given in the form and manner determined by the Board, subject to the Corporations Act. The non-receipt of a notice convening a general meeting by, or the accidental omission to give notice to, any person entitled to receive notice does not invalidate the proceedings at or any resolution passed at the meeting.

35. Business of Annual and Other General Meetings

  • (a) The business of an annual general meeting of the Company includes:

  • (i) to receive and consider the accounts and reports required by the Corporations Act to be laid before each annual general meeting;

  • (ii) to elect Directors;

  • (iii) when relevant, to appoint an auditor and to fix the auditor’s remuneration; and

  • (iv) to transact any other business that, under this Constitution or the Corporations Act, is required to be transacted at any annual general meeting.

The business of an annual general meeting may also include any other business that may be transacted at a general meeting.

  • (b) No person may move at any general meeting either any resolution (except in the form set out in the notice of meeting) or any amendment of any resolution except with the approval of the Board, with the permission of the Chair or under the Corporations Act.

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36. Quorum for General Meetings

  • (a) No business may be transacted at any general meeting except, subject to rule 37, the election of the Chair unless a quorum of shareholders is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business.

  • (b) Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, including in rule 36(c), three Shareholders Present constitutes a quorum.

  • (c) Three Shareholders Present who are not significant foreign shareholders shall constitute a quorum for a meeting if the business to be transacted at the meeting includes the election, replacement or removal of an A class Director (as described in rule 58(b)).

  • (d) If there is not a quorum at a general meeting within 30 minutes after the time specified in the notice of the meeting, the meeting is dissolved unless the Chair or the Board adjourns the meeting to a date, time and place determined by the Chair or the Directors. If no quorum is present at any adjourned meeting within 30 minutes after the time for the meeting, the meeting is dissolved.

37. Conduct of General Meetings

  • (a) Subject to rule 37(b), the Chair of Board is entitled to preside as Chair at every general meeting.

  • (b) Where a general meeting is held and:

  • (i) there is no Chair of the Board; or

  • (ii) the Chair of the Board is not able to be present at the meeting or is not present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for the meeting or, despite being so present, is unable or unwilling to act as Chair of the meeting,

the deputy Chair of the Board is entitled to chair the meeting or, if the circumstances in rule 37(b)(i) or 37(b)(ii) apply to the deputy Chair of the Board, the Directors present may choose one of their number or, in the absence of all Directors or if none of the Directors present wish to act, the Shareholders Present may elect one of their number to be Chair of the meeting.

  • (c) The general conduct of each general meeting of the Company and the procedures to be adopted at the meeting are as determined at, during or prior to the meeting by the Chair.

  • (d) The Chair may make rulings without putting the question (or any question) to a vote if the Chair considers action is required to ensure the orderly conduct of the meeting.

  • (e) The Chair may require the adoption of any procedures that are in the Chair’s opinion necessary or desirable for the proper and orderly casting or recording of votes at any general meeting of the Company, whether on a show of hands or on a poll.

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  • (f) The Chair or a person acting with the Chair's authority may require any person who wishes to attend the meeting to comply with searches, restrictions or other security arrangements which the Chair or a person acting with the Chair's authority considers appropriate. The Chair or a person acting with the Chair's authority may refuse entry to any person who does not comply with the arrangements, any person who possesses a recording or broadcasting device without the consent of the Chair or a person acting with the Chair's authority, or any person who possesses an article which the Chair or a person acting with the Chair's authority considers to be dangerous, offensive or liable to cause disruption. The Chair may demand the cessation of debate or discussion on any business, question, motion or resolution being considered by the meeting and require the business, question, motion or resolution to be put to a vote of the Shareholders Present at any time the Chair considers such action necessary or desirable for the proper and orderly conduct of the meeting.

  • (g) Any determination by the Chair in relation to matters of procedure (including any procedural motions moved at, or put to, any meeting) or any other matter arising directly or indirectly from the business is final (including any procedural motions moved at, or put to, any meeting). Any challenge to a right to vote (whether on a show of hands or on a poll) or to a determination to allow or disregard a vote (including in either case a Direct Vote) may only be made at the meeting and may be determined by the Chair whose decision is final.

  • (h) If a person purports to cast a vote (including a Direct Vote) at or for the purposes of a general meeting in contravention of the Corporations Act or Listing Rules, the Chair may determine that the vote be disregarded and treated as not having been cast.

  • (i) Nothing contained in this rule 37 limits the powers conferred on a Chair by law.

38. Acting Chair

  • (a) If during any general meeting the Chair acting under rule 37 is unwilling to Chair any part of the proceedings, the Chair may withdraw during the relevant part of the proceedings and may nominate any person who immediately before the general meeting was a Director or who has been nominated for election as a Director at the meeting to be acting Chair of the meeting during the relevant part of the proceedings. On the conclusion of the relevant part of the proceedings the acting Chair is to withdraw and the Chair acting under rule 37 is to resume to Chair the meeting.

  • (b) Where an instrument of proxy appoints the Chair as proxy for the part of the proceedings for which an acting Chair has been nominated, the instrument of proxy is taken to be in favour of the acting Chair for the relevant part of the proceedings.

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39. Adjournment of General Meetings

  • (a) During the course of a general meeting the Chair may adjourn the meeting or any business, motion, question or resolution being considered or remaining to be considered by the meeting or any debate or discussion either to a later time at the same meeting or to an adjourned meeting to be held at the time and place determined by the Chair.

  • (b) If the Chair exercises a right of adjournment of a meeting under this rule 39, the Chair has the sole discretion to decide whether to seek the approval of the Shareholders Present to the adjournment and, unless the Chair exercises that discretion, no vote may be taken by the Shareholders Present in respect of the adjournment.

  • (c) No business may be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

40. Voting at General Meetings

  • (a) The Chair may determine that any question to be submitted to a general meeting be determined by a poll without first submitting the question to the meeting to be decided by a show of hands.

  • (b) Unless the Chair makes the determination referred to in rule 40(a), each question submitted to a general meeting is to be decided in the first instance by a show of hands.

  • (c) Unless a poll is demanded, a declaration by the Chair following a vote on a show of hands at the meeting that a resolution has been passed or lost is conclusive, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution.

  • (d) At any general meeting, a poll may be demanded by a shareholder in accordance with the Corporations Act (and not otherwise) or by the Chair. No poll may be demanded on the election of a Chair of the meeting or, unless the Chair otherwise determines, the adjournment of the meeting. A demand for a poll may be withdrawn.

  • (e) The Board may, subject to law, determine that, at any meeting of shareholders or a class of shareholders, a shareholder who is entitled to attend and vote at that meeting is entitled to give their vote by Direct Vote.

41. Special Meetings

All the provisions of this Constitution as to general meetings apply to any special meeting of any class of shareholders that may be held under the operation of this Constitution or the Corporations Act.

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42. Procedure for Polls

  • (a) When demanded at a general meeting, a poll may be taken in the manner and at the time which the Chair directs.

  • (b) The result of a poll may be announced in the manner and at the time (whether during the relevant meeting or afterwards) which the Chair considers appropriate.

  • (c) The result of a poll is the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded.

  • (d) The demand for a poll does not prevent a meeting from continuing for the transaction of any business other than that on which a poll has been demanded. Subject to rules 39 and 40(d), a poll demanded on any question of adjournment is to be taken at the meeting and without adjournment.

43. Representation and Voting of Shareholders

Subject to this Constitution (including, without limitation, rules 51(e) and 61) and any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares:

  • (a) at meetings of shareholders or a class of shareholders each shareholder entitled to attend and vote may:

  • (i) attend and vote in person; or

  • (ii) be represented and vote by proxy, by attorney or (where the shareholder is a body corporate) by representative; or

  • (iii) if a determination has been made by the Directors in accordance with rule 40(e), vote by Direct Vote;

  • (b) a shareholder may only vote by one of the permitted methods in rule 43(a) in respect of a share although, without limiting rules 47(b) and 48(a), a shareholder may attend and participate in a meeting even though the shareholder has previously appointed a proxy or attorney, or has given a Direct Vote, in respect of that meeting;

  • (c) where a person satisfies the Board at least 48 hours before the holding of a general meeting (unless the person has previously satisfied the Board as to the person's right to vote) that the person is a trustee, executor or administrator as referred to in rule 29 or a transmittee as referred to in rule 31, the person may vote at the general meeting in the same manner as if the person were the registered holder of the Securities referred to in rule 29 or 31, as the case requires;

  • (d) on a show of hands:

  • (i) subject to rules 43(d)(ii) and (iii), each Shareholder Present has one vote;

  • (ii) where a shareholder has appointed more than one person as representative, proxy or attorney for the shareholder, none of the representatives, proxies or attorneys is entitled to vote;

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  • (iii) where a person is entitled to vote because of rule 43(d)(i) in more than one capacity, that person is entitled only to one vote; and

  • (iv) a Direct Vote is not counted; and

  • (e) on a poll in respect of a resolution, subject to rules 43(b) and 48:

  • (i) every Shareholder Present; and

  • (ii) if a determination has been made by the Directors in accordance with rule 40(e), every shareholder who gives a Direct Vote,

having the right to vote on the resolution has:

  • (iii) one vote for each fully paid share they hold;

  • (iv) in the case of a partly paid share, that fraction of a vote equivalent to the proportion that the amount paid up on that shareholder's share bears to the total amount paid and payable for that share. Amounts paid in advance of a call are ignored when calculating the proportion; and

  • (v) in respect of every shareholder who gives a Direct Vote, their vote is treated as if the shareholder cast the vote in the poll at the meeting, and must be counted accordingly.

44. Restriction on Voting Rights

  • (a) A shareholder is only entitled to vote in a poll in respect of shares held by the shareholder upon which no calls or other sums are due and payable to the Company at the time when the poll is taken.

  • (b) A shareholder holding a share upon which no calls or other sums are due and payable to the Company for the time being is entitled to be present at any general meeting and to vote and be reckoned in a quorum notwithstanding that calls or other sums are then due and payable to the Company by the shareholder in respect of any other share held by the shareholder, subject to any restrictions from time to time affecting the right of any shareholder or class of shareholders to attend any meeting.

45. Form of Proxy

  • (a) A shareholder who is entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company may appoint a person as a proxy to attend and vote for the shareholder in accordance with the Corporations Act but not otherwise. A proxy appointed in accordance with the Corporations Act to attend and vote may exercise the rights of the shareholder on the basis and subject to the restrictions provided in the Corporations Act but not otherwise.

  • (b) A form of appointment of a proxy is valid if it is in accordance with the Corporations Act or in any form (including electronic) that the Board may prescribe or accept.

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  • (c) Any form of appointment of a proxy under this rule 45 that is incomplete may be completed by a Secretary on the authority of the Board and the Board may authorise completion of the form by the insertion of the name of any Director as the person in whose favour the proxy is given.

  • (d) Where a notice of meeting provides for electronic lodgement of proxy appointment forms, a form lodged at the electronic address specified in the notice is taken to have been received at the registered office of the Company and validated by the shareholder if there is compliance with the requirements set out in the notice.

46. Form of Direct Vote

  • (a) The Board may, subject to this Constitution, prescribe regulations, rules and procedures in relation to the giving of Direct Votes (including specifying the form, method and timing of giving a Direct Vote at or for the purposes of a meeting in order for the vote to be valid) and for revoking a Direct Vote. Without limitation, such regulations, rules and procedures may permit a shareholder to give a Direct Vote prior to the relevant meeting. The Directors must specify in the notice of meeting, or in any document accompanying the notice of meeting or otherwise made available to shareholders for the purpose of the meeting, the form, method and timing of giving a Direct Vote in order for the Direct Vote to be valid.

  • (b) If sent by post or fax, a Direct Vote must be signed by the shareholder or properly authorised attorney or, if the shareholder is a company, either under seal or by a duly authorised officer or attorney.

  • (c) If sent electronically, a Direct Vote is taken to have been signed if it has been signed or authorised by the shareholder in the manner approved by the Board or specified in the notice of meeting.

  • (d) At least 48 hours (or any shorter period as the Board may permit or specified in the Corporations Act) before the time for holding the relevant meeting, adjourned meeting or a poll at which a person proposes to cast a notice of their voting intention, the Company must receive at its registered office or such other electronic address specified for that purpose in the notice of meeting:

  • (i) the Direct Vote; and

  • (ii) if relevant, any authority or power under which the Direct Vote was signed or a certified copy of that power or authority.

  • (e) A notice of voting intention is valid if it contains the following information:

  • (i) the shareholder's name and address or any applicable identifying notations such as the holder identification number or similar approved by the Board or specified in the notice of meeting; and

  • (ii) the shareholder's voting intention on any or all of the resolutions to be put before the meeting, in respect of which meeting a determination has been made by the Directors in accordance with rule 40(e).

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47. Validity of Proxies, Powers of Attorney and Representatives

  • (a) A vote exercised in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy, a power of attorney or other relevant instrument of appointment is valid despite:

  • (i) the previous death or unsoundness of mind of the principal;

  • (ii) the revocation of the instrument (or of the authority under which the instrument was executed) or the power; or

  • (iii) the transfer of the share in respect of which the instrument or power is given,

if no notice in writing of the death, unsoundness of mind, revocation or transfer (as the case may be) has been received by the Company at its registered office at least 48 hours (or any shorter period as the Board may permit or specified by the Corporations Act) before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the instrument is used or the power is exercised.

  • (b) A proxy or attorney is not revoked by the principal attending the relevant meeting unless the principal instructs the Company (or at the Company's instruction, the Company's Securities registry) prior to the meeting that the shareholder wishes to vote in person on any or all of the resolutions to be put before the meeting, in which case the proxy or attorney is revoked entirely for that meeting.

  • (c) Voting instructions given by a shareholder to a Director or employee of the Company who is held out by the Company in material sent to shareholders as willing to act as proxy and who is appointed as proxy ( Company Proxy ) are valid only if contained in the form of appointment of the Company Proxy. If a shareholder wishes to give a Company Proxy appointed by the shareholder new instructions or variations to earlier instructions, the new or varied instructions are only valid if either they are received at the registered office of the Company at least 48 hours before the meeting or adjourned meeting by a notice in writing signed by the shareholder or they are otherwise validated by the shareholder in a manner acceptable to the Board in its discretion prior to the commencement of the meeting.

48. Validity of Direct Votes

Where the Board determines that, at a meeting of shareholders or a class of shareholders, shareholders will be entitled to vote by Direct Vote, the following provisions apply:

  • (a) a Direct Vote by a shareholder is not revoked by the shareholder attending the meeting unless the shareholder instructs the Company (or at the Company's instruction, the Company's securities registry) prior to the meeting that the shareholder wishes to vote in person on any or all of the resolutions to be put before the meeting, in which case the Direct Vote by the shareholder is revoked;

  • (b) a Direct Vote by a shareholder is automatically revoked if the Company receives a further valid Direct Vote from the shareholder;

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  • (c) a Direct Vote by a shareholder is automatically revoked if, after the Direct Vote is received, the Company receives a valid instrument of proxy in respect of that shareholder for the relevant meeting;

  • (d) a Direct Vote by a shareholder revokes the authority of a previously provided instrument of proxy, power of attorney or other relevant instrument of appointment in respect of that shareholder for the relevant meeting;

  • (e) a Direct Vote by a shareholder is valid even if prior to the vote being counted:

  • (i) the shareholder becomes of unsound mind or dies;

  • (ii) subject to paragraph (a), the shareholder wishes to change their vote; or

  • (iii) where the Direct Vote is given on behalf of the shareholder by an attorney, the appointment of the attorney or the authority under which the appointment was made is revoked,

if no notice in writing of the relevant event has been received by the Company at its registered office at least 48 hours (or any shorter period as the Board may permit or specified by the Corporations Act) before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting to which the Direct Vote relates; and

  • (f) if the Chair of the meeting determines it is appropriate, a Direct Vote by a shareholder on a resolution is taken to be a Direct Vote on the resolution as amended.

49. Attorneys of Shareholders

Any shareholder may, by duly executed power of attorney, appoint an attorney to act on the shareholder's behalf at all or certain specified meetings of the Company. Before the attorney is entitled to act under the power of attorney, the power of attorney or proof of the power of attorney to the satisfaction of the Board must be produced for inspection at the registered office of the Company or any other place the Board may determine from time to time together, in each case, with evidence of the due execution of the power of attorney as required by the Board. The attorney may be authorised to appoint a proxy for the shareholder granting the power of attorney.

50. Voting by Corporation

Any corporation, being a shareholder and entitled to vote, may by resolution of its directors or other governing body or by an instrument of proxy authorise any person, though not a shareholder of the Company, to act as its representative at meetings and the representative shall, in accordance with the representative's authority and until the representative's authority is revoked by the corporation which they represent, be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which they represent as that corporation could exercise if it were a natural person who was a shareholder.

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Foreign Shareholders

51. Requirement to Provide Information

  • (a) A term when used in rules 51-55 shall have the same meaning as when used in the CSL Act unless that term is defined in this Constitution.

  • (b) The powers conferred on the Board under this rule are to be interpreted widely. In exercising their powers under this rule the Board is entitled to have sole regard to the interests of the Company and the need for the Company to comply with the terms of the CSL Act and any other applicable statutory requirements, and may disregard any loss or disadvantage that may be suffered by individual shareholders affected by the exercise of those powers. Shareholders acknowledge that they have no right of action against the Directors or the Company for any loss or disadvantage incurred by them as a result, whether direct or indirect, of the Board exercising their powers pursuant to this rule.

  • (c) If required by the Board from time to time and at any time:

  • (i) a shareholder; or (ii) a person seeking to become a shareholder (whether by allotment, transfer, transmission or otherwise) other than as a result of a Market Transfer,

shall provide to the Company a statutory declaration made by the person, or in the case of a body corporate, by a director or secretary or other duly authorised officer in a form approved by the Board setting out the Required Information within fortyeight hours (or any longer period specified in the request) of being requested by the Company to do so.

  • (d) Where a person described in rule 51(c)(ii) fails to provide a statutory declaration pursuant to the terms of rule 51(c), the Board may refuse to make the allotment or register the transfer or transmission as the case may be.

  • (e) If a shareholder (including any person described in rule 51(c)(ii) who is entered on the Securities register) fails to comply with the requirements of rule 51(c), the Board may declare by notice in writing to the shareholder that the votes attached to all shares in the Company in which the shareholder has a relevant interest (or attached to that number of such shares as the Board may specify) are suspended until a statutory declaration in a form approved by the Board containing the Required Information is provided to the Company. The shareholder shall not be entitled to vote in respect of the shares specified by the Board from the time the declaration is made by the Board until such time as the Board is satisfied that a statutory declaration which complies with this rule has been provided to the Company.

52. Subregister of Foreign-Held Voting Shares

In addition to any register maintained in compliance with the Corporations Act, the Board shall maintain a subregister of foreign-held voting shares, entering on it the same details as

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the Securities register in relation to all foreign-held voting shares and such other information as the Board determines is appropriate. A declaration by the Board that certain shares are foreign-held voting shares may be based on the place of registered address of the registered owner of the shares, the Required Information provided by the registered owner or such other information as may be available to the Board from any source whatsoever.

53. Significant Foreign Shareholder Noted on Subregister

The Board shall cause to be noted on the subregister of foreign-held voting shares:

  • (a) any person who in the Board's opinion is a significant foreign shareholder; and

  • (b) the voting shares in the Company in which, in the Board's opinion, each significant foreign shareholder has a relevant interest.

54. Significant Foreign Shareholding

The voting shares entered on the subregister of foreign-held voting shares in relation to a significant foreign shareholder under rule 53(b) shall be deemed for all purposes to be a significant foreign shareholding held by that shareholder, unless the contrary is proven.

55. Duties of Board in Maintaining Subregister

  • (a) The Board shall take reasonable steps to maintain the accuracy of the subregister of foreign-held voting shares and keep it up to date, and to find out whether there is one or more significant foreign shareholdings at any particular time.

  • (b) A copy of the subregister shall be provided as soon as practicable to the Minister upon receipt by the Company of a written request from the Minister for a copy of the subregister.

Appointment, Removal and Remuneration Of Directors

56. Number of Directors

The number of Directors (not including alternate Directors) must not be less than 3 nor more than 12 (or, subject to rule 65(c), such lower number that the Board may determine from time to time in accordance with the Corporations Act[2] , provided that the Board may not reduce the number below the number of Directors in office at the time of the reduction). All Directors are to be natural persons.

2 As at the date of adoption of this Constitution, the Corporations Act (s201P) provides that the Directors cannot set such a lower number without the approval of shareholders in general meeting.

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57. Two Thirds of Directors to be Australian Citizens

Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution to the contrary, two thirds of the Directors of the Company shall at all times be Australian citizens and the purported appointment or election of a Director who is not an Australian citizen shall be void and of no effect if that appointment or election would result in a breach of this rule.

58. Class of Directors

The Board shall comprise:

  • (a) during such time as to the knowledge of the Board there is no significant foreign shareholding, one class of Directors;

  • (b) at all other times:

  • (i) O class Directors whose number shall be the number nearest to but not exceeding one third of the number of Directors holding office at any one time; and

  • (ii) A class Directors who shall comprise all other Directors.

59. Selection of Directors for each Class

If at a time when there is one class of Director the Board becomes aware of a significant foreign shareholding, a meeting of the Board shall be convened as soon as practicable to designate each Director holding office at that time as an A class Director or an O class Director. The Board shall designate one third (or if the number of Directors in office is not a multiple of three, the number nearest to but not greater than one third) of the Directors as O class Directors, and the remainder as A class Directors.

60. Procedure for Selection

If the Directors are required to be divided into O class Directors and A class Directors, the Managing Director shall be regarded as an A class Director. The Directors shall agree amongst themselves which other Directors shall be designated as A class Directors and which shall be designated as O class Directors, and in the absence of agreement such designation shall be by lot. Except in the circumstances referred to in rule 64, once a Director has been designated as an O class Director, he or she may not be redesignated as an A class Director.

61. Significant Foreign Shareholder Not to Vote on A Class Directors

Significant foreign shareholders shall not vote in respect of the appointment, replacement or removal of any A class Director at any general meeting and any vote they purport to cast on such a resolution shall be of no effect.

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62. Director May Be Removed

The Directors may by resolution remove a Director appointed or purportedly appointed by a resolution in breach of rule 61.

63. Power by Directors to Prevent Breach

The Directors may take all reasonable steps to remove or limit the right of a person to exercise voting rights attached to a significant foreign shareholding in the Company in respect of the appointment, replacement or removal of an A class Director of the Company.

64. Procedure if Too Few A Class Directors Whenever for any reason the number of A class Directors falls below two thirds of the number of Directors holding office at any one time and within the succeeding seven days sufficient new A class Directors have not been appointed, or sufficient O class Directors have not been by resolution of the Directors redesignated as A class Directors, to restore the numbers of A class Directors to at least two thirds of the Directors: (a) the number of O class Directors which exceed the number permitted by rule 58(b)(i) shall immediately vacate office; and (b) the O class Directors required to vacate office shall be decided by agreement amongst the O class Directors or, in the absence of agreement, by lot.

65. Appointment and Removal

(a) The Company in general meeting may by resolution appoint any person as a
Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board, provided that
the number of Directors (not including alternate Directors) does not exceed the
maximum number determined under rule 56.
(b) No person other than a retiring Director or a Director vacating office under
rule 65(c) is eligible to be elected a Director at any general meeting unless a notice
of the person's candidature (signed by the person) is given to the Company at its
registered office at least 30 Business Days before the meeting.
(c) The Board may at any time appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual
vacancy or as an addition to the Board, provided that the number of Directors (not
including alternate Directors) does not exceed the maximum number determined
under rule 56. Any Director appointed under this rule 65(c) (other than the
Managing Director) may hold office only until the end of the next annual general
meeting of the Company and is then eligible for election at that meeting without
needing to give any prior notice of an intention to submit for election.

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66. Director may appoint alternate Director

Subject to this Constitution, each Director may appoint any person approved by a majority of the other Directors to act as an alternate Director in the Director's place, either for a stated period or until the happening of a specified event, whenever by absence or illness or otherwise the Director is unable to attend to duties as a Director. The appointment must be in writing and signed by the Director and a copy of the appointment must be given to the registered office or to a meeting of the Directors. The appointment takes effect on approval by a majority of the other Directors or, where the approval has been granted, at any later time specified in the appointment. The following provisions apply to any alternate Director:

  • (a) the appointment of the alternate Director is terminated or suspended on receipt at the registered office of notice in writing from the Director by whom the alternate Director was appointed;

  • (b) the alternate Director is entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and to attend and vote at the meetings if the Director by whom the alternate Director was appointed is not present;

  • (c) the alternate Director is entitled to exercise all the powers (except the power to appoint an alternate Director) and perform all the duties of a Director, to the extent the Director by whom the alternate Director was appointed has not exercised or performed them or they have not been limited by the instrument appointing the alternate Director;

  • (d) the alternate Director is not, unless the Directors otherwise determine, (without affecting the right to reimbursement for expenses under rule 68(e)) entitled to receive any remuneration as a Director from the Company, and any remuneration (not including remuneration authorised by the Directors or reimbursement for expenses) paid to the alternate Director as a Director by the Company is to be deducted from the remuneration of the Director by whom the alternate Director was appointed;

  • (e) the office of the alternate Director is terminated on the death of, or termination of office by, the Director by whom the alternate Director was appointed;

  • (f) the alternate Director is not to be taken into account in determining the number of Directors; and

  • (g) the alternate Director is, while acting as a Director, responsible to the Company for the alternate Director's own acts and defaults and is not the agent of the Director by whom the alternate Director was appointed.

67. Retirement

  • (a) Subject to rules 65(c), 67(b) and 72, a Director may not hold office for a continuous period in excess of three years, or past the conclusion of the third annual general meeting, following the Director's last election or re-election, whichever is longer, without submitting for election or re-election by the Company.

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  • (b) If no Director would otherwise be required to submit for election or re-election at an annual general meeting but the Listing Rules require that an election of Directors be held, the Director to retire at the annual general meeting is the Director who has been longest in office since last being elected. As between Directors who were elected on the same day, the Director to retire is (in default of agreement between them) determined by ballot. The length of time a Director has been in office is calculated from the Director's last election or appointment.

  • (c) A retiring Director under rule 67(a) or 67(b) is eligible for re-election without needing to give any prior notice of an intention to submit for re-election and holds office as a Director (subject to re-election) until the end of the general meeting at which the Director retires.

68. Remuneration

  • (a) The Directors are to be paid for their services as Directors.

  • (b) Each non-executive Director is to be paid or provided remuneration for services, of the amount, at the time and in the manner determined by the Board provided that the aggregate amount or value of the remuneration paid or provided to all non-executive Directors in any year may not exceed the amount last approved by the Company in general meeting.[3] Except to the extent otherwise required by the Listing Rules, the expression remuneration in this rule does not include any amount which may be paid by the Company under any of rules 68(e), 68(f), 70 and 95.

  • (c) The remuneration to be paid or provided under rule 68(b) is to be divided among the Directors in the proportions as they may agree or, if they cannot agree, equally among them.

  • (d) The remuneration to which a Director is entitled may be provided to a Director in cash or in any other form as is agreed between the Company and the Director. A Director may elect to forgo some or all of the Director’s entitlement to cash remuneration in favour of another agreed form of remuneration and vice versa, provided the total cost to the Company of that Director’s remuneration is not increased above the maximum amount for that Director under rule 68(c).

  • (e) The Directors are also entitled to be paid or reimbursed for all travelling and other expenses properly incurred by them in attending and returning from any meeting of the Board or of a committee of the Board or any general meeting of the Company, or otherwise in connection with the business or affairs of the Company.

3 At the Company's Annual General Meeting on 13 October 2010, shareholders approved an amount of $2.5 million per annum, in respect of each financial year of the Company, as the maximum aggregate remuneration that may be paid to all non-executive Directors by the Company and any subsidiaries of the Company for their services as Directors of the Company or of such subsidiaries.

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  • (f) If any Director, with the approval of the Board, performs extra services or makes any special exertions for the benefit of the Company, the Board may approve the payment to that Director of special and additional remuneration as the Board determines having regard to the value to the Company of the extra services or special exertions. Any special or additional remuneration must not include a commission on or percentage of profits or operating revenue or turnover.

  • (g) An executive Director may be appointed on terms as to remuneration, tenure of office and otherwise as may be determined by the Board.

  • (h) Subject to the Corporations Act, a Director may be engaged by the Company in any other capacity (other than auditor) and may be appointed on such terms as to remuneration, tenure of office and otherwise as may be determined by the Board.

69. Vacation of Office

  • (a) In addition to the circumstances in which the office of a Director becomes vacant: (i) under the Corporations Act; and

  • (ii) under rule 67,

the office of a Director becomes vacant if the Director:

  • (iii) becomes of unsound mind or a person whose person or estate is liable to be dealt with in any way under the law relating to mental health;

  • (iv) resigns by notice in writing to the Company;

  • (v) is absent without the consent of the Board from meetings of the Board held during a period of three consecutive calendar months; or

  • (vi) dies.

  • (b) The office of a Director who is an employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is terminated on the Director ceasing to be employed (but the person concerned is eligible for reappointment or re-election as a Director of the Company) unless the Board resolves that the person should remain a Director until the next annual general meeting, in which case that Director is treated as a retiring Director at that annual general meeting under rule 67.

70. Retirement Allowance for Directors

  • (a) Subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules, the Company may pay, provide or make any payment, pension, retiring allowance or other benefit (whether in the form of Securities, securities in any other corporation or otherwise) to any Director of the Company or director of a subsidiary or any other person in connection with the Director's retirement, resignation from or loss of office or death while in office.

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  • (b) Subject to rule 70(a) the Board may:

  • (i) make contracts or arrangements with a Director or a person about to become a Director of the Company or director of a subsidiary under which the Director or any person nominated by the Director is paid or provided with a payment, pension, retiring allowance or other benefit (whether in the form of Securities, securities in any other corporation or otherwise) on or after the Director or person about to become a Director or director ceases to hold office for any reason; and

  • (ii) establish any fund or scheme to provide payments, pensions, retiring allowances or other benefits (whether in the form of Securities, securities in any other corporation or otherwise) for:

    • (A) Directors or directors of any subsidiary, on them ceasing to hold office; or

    • (B) any person including a person nominated by a Director or director of a subsidiary, in the event of the Director's or director's death while in office,

and from time to time pay to the fund or scheme any sum as the Company considers necessary to provide those benefits.

  • (c) Without limiting rules 70(a) and 70(b), the Company may pay superannuation contributions for each Director to the extent necessary for the avoidance or minimisation of any penalty, charge, tax, or other impost on the Company under any applicable legislation which imposes a penalty, charge, tax or other impost on employers if a minimum level of superannuation contributions is not paid for an employee (within the meaning of the legislation).

71. Directors May Lend to the Company

Any Director may lend money to the Company at interest with or without security or may, for a commission or profit, guarantee the repayment of any money borrowed by the Company or underwrite or guarantee the subscription of Securities or securities of any corporation in which the Company may be interested without being disqualified in respect of the office of Director and without being liable to account to the Company for the commission or profit.

Powers of the Board and Executives

72. Appointment of Executives

(a) The Board may appoint one or more: (i) executives of the Company to be Directors (subject to the provisions of this Constitution dealing with the appointment of Directors); (ii) Directors as executives of the Company and determine the terms of such executive appointments; or

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  • (iii) persons to be both executives and Directors (subject to the provisions of this Constitution dealing with the appointment of Directors) and determine the terms of such executive appointments.

  • (b) The Board may determine that anyone appointed under this rule 72 bears the title Managing Director or any other title which the Board determines.

  • (c) The Board may at any time revoke any appointment made pursuant to this rule 72, with or without cause, subject to the terms of any agreement entered into in a particular case.

  • (d) The Managing Director is not subject to election and re-election.

  • (e) If a person appointed as an executive or a Director under this rule 72 ceases to be a Director, then the executive appointment automatically terminates, subject to any contrary determination by the Board (and without prejudice to any rights of any party under any relevant service agreement).

  • (f) If a person appointed as an executive or a Director under this rule 72 ceases to be an executive, then rule 69(b) will apply.

73. Powers of the Board and Managing Director

  • (a) The business of the Company is managed by the Board, who may exercise all powers of the Company that are not, by law or this Constitution, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting.

  • (b) The Board may, on the terms and conditions and with any restrictions as it determines, delegate to the Managing Director any of the powers exercisable by it and may at any time withdraw, suspend or vary any of those powers conferred on the Managing Director.

Proceedings of the Board

74. Proceedings

  • (a) The Board may meet together for the dispatch of business and adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it determines.

  • (b) Three Directors form a quorum until otherwise determined by the Board.

  • (c) The Board may at any time, and a Secretary upon the request of any two Directors must, convene a meeting of the Board. A meeting of the Board may also be convened in any other manner determined by the Board from time to time.

  • (d) Notice of meeting of the Board may be given by mail (electronic or otherwise), personal delivery, facsimile transmission or other electronic means to the usual place of business or residence of a Director or at any other address given to a Secretary by the Director or by any technology agreed by all the Directors.

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75. Meetings of the Board by Technology

  • (a) For the purposes of the Corporations Act, each Director consents to the use of each of the following technologies for holding a Board meeting by consenting to be a Director (or by reason of the adoption of this Constitution):

  • (i) video;

  • (ii) telephone;

  • (iii) any other technology which permits each Director to communicate with every other Director; or

  • (iv) any combination of these technologies.

  • A Director may withdraw the consent given under this rule in accordance with the Corporations Act.

  • (b) Where the Directors are not all in attendance at one place and are holding a meeting using technology and each Director can communicate with the other Directors:

  • (i) the participating Directors are, for the purpose of every provision of this Constitution concerning meetings of the Board, taken to be assembled together at a meeting and to be present at that meeting; and

  • (ii) all proceedings of the Board conducted in that manner are as valid and effective as if conducted at a meeting at which all of the participating Directors were physically present in the one location.

76. Chair of the Board

  • (a) The Board may elect one of their number who is an Australian citizen as their Chair and one who is an Australian citizen as deputy Chair and may decide the period for which the Chair and deputy Chair are to hold office as Chair and deputy Chair, respectively.

  • (b) Where a meeting of the Board is held and:

  • (i) a Chair has not been elected as provided by rule 76(a); or

  • (ii) the Chair is not able to the present at the meeting or is not present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting or is unable or unwilling to chair the meeting,

the deputy Chair is Chair of the meeting or, if rule 76(b)(i) or (ii) applies to the deputy Chair, the Directors present may elect one of their number who is an Australian citizen to be Chair of the meeting.

77. Directors' Voting Rights and Exercise of Powers

(a) Without limiting rule 81, a meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present is competent to exercise any of the authorities, powers and discretions for the time

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being vested in or exercisable by the Board. Nothing in this rule 77(a) limits the exercise of any authority, power or discretion of the Board which has been delegated by the Board in accordance with law or this Constitution.

  • (b) Subject to this Constitution, questions arising at a meeting of the Board are decided by a majority of votes of Directors present and voting.

  • (c) In the case of an equality of votes at a meeting of the Board, the Chair of the meeting has a casting vote in addition to the Chair's deliberative vote.

  • (d) Subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules, a Director:

  • (i) who has an interest in a matter may vote in respect of that matter if it comes before the Board and be counted as part of the quorum;

  • (ii) may enter into contracts with, or otherwise have dealings with, the Company;

  • (iii) may hold any other office or place of profit in the Company, except as auditor; and

  • (iv) may hold any other office or place of profit in any other company, body corporate, trust or entity promoted by the Company or in which the Company has an interest of any kind.

  • (e) A Director is not disqualified from the Director's office by contracting with the Company or any related body corporate of the Company in any capacity by reason of holding the office of Director.

  • (f) A Director is not liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any contract, dealings, office or place of profit contemplated by rule 77(d), by reason only of holding the office of Director or of the fiduciary relationship established by the office of Director.

  • (g) Subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules, a Director or any person who is an associate of a Director may participate in any issue by the Company of financial products.

  • (h) Despite having an interest in any contract or arrangement a Director may participate in the execution of any document evidencing or connected with the contract or arrangement, whether by signing, sealing or otherwise.

78. Exercise of Voting Power in Other Corporations

The Board may exercise the voting power conferred by the securities in any corporation held or owned by the Company as the Board determines (including the exercise of the voting power in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them directors of that corporation or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors of that corporation) and a Director may vote in favour of the exercise of those voting rights, despite the fact that the Director is, or may be about to be appointed, a director of that other corporation and may be interested in the exercise of those voting rights.

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79. Material Personal Interests

  • (a) In relation to a contract or arrangement in which a Director has a material personal interest:

  • (i) the fact that the Director signed the document evidencing the contract or arrangement will not in any way affect its validity;

  • (ii) the contract or arrangement made by the Company or any related body corporate with the Director may not be avoided merely because the Director is a party to the contract or arrangement or otherwise interested in it; and

  • (iii) the Director will not be liable to account to the Company for any profit derived in respect of the contract or arrangement merely because of the Director's office or the fiduciary relationship it entails.

  • (b) Nothing in this rule 79 affects the duty of a Director:

  • (i) who holds any office or possesses any property whereby, directly or indirectly, duties or interests might be created in conflict with the Directors' duties or interests as a Director, to declare at a meeting of the Board the fact and the nature, character and extent of the conflict; or

  • (ii) to comply with the Corporations Act.

80. Committees of the Board

  • (a) The Board may delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of any one or more Directors or any other person or persons as the Board thinks fit. In the exercise of delegated powers, any committee formed or person or persons appointed to the committee must conform to any regulations that may be imposed by the Board. A delegate of the Board may be authorised to sub-delegate any of the powers for the time being vested in the delegate.

  • (b) The meetings and proceedings of any committee are to be governed by the provisions of this Constitution for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board so far as they are applicable and are not in conflict with or superseded by, any regulations made by the Board under rule 80(a).

  • (c) Nothing in this rule 80 limits the power of the Board to delegate.

81. Written Resolutions

A resolution in writing signed by all Directors entitled to vote on the resolution (not being less than the number required for a quorum at a meeting of the Board) is a valid resolution of the Board and is effective when signed by the last of all the Directors to sign the resolution. The resolution may consist of several documents in the same form each signed by one or more of the Directors. A facsimile transmission or other document produced by mechanical or electronic means under the name of a Director with the Director's authority is

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considered a document in writing signed by the Director and is deemed to be signed when received in legible form.

82. Defects in Appointments

  • (a) All actions at any meeting of the Board or by a committee or by any person acting as a Director are, despite the fact that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any of the Directors or the committee or the person acting as a Director or that any of them were disqualified, as valid as if every person had been properly appointed and was qualified and continued to be a Director or a member of the committee.

  • (b) If the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum number fixed under this Constitution, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number or of calling a general meeting of the Company but for no other purpose.

Secretaries

83. Secretaries and Other Officers

  • (a) A Secretary of the Company holds office on the terms and conditions as to remuneration, and otherwise, as the Board decides.

  • (b) The Board may at any time terminate the appointment of a Secretary (without prejudice to the rights of the Secretary under any relevant service agreement).

84. Other Officers

  • (a) The Board may from time to time:

  • (i) create any other position or positions in the Company with the powers and responsibilities as the Board may from time to time confer; and

  • (ii) appoint any person, whether or not a Director, to any position or positions created under rule 84(a)(i).

  • (b) The Board may at any time terminate the appointment of a person holding a position created under rule 84(a)(i) and may abolish the position.

Seals

85. Seals and Their Use

The Company may have a common seal and a duplicate common seal which are to be used by the Company as determined by the Board.

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Dividends, Interest and Reserves

86. Reserves

The Board may, before paying any Dividend to shareholders:

  • (a) set aside any sums as it thinks proper as a reserve, which at the discretion of the Board may be applied for any purpose it decides, including being used in the business of the Company or invested in investments selected by the Board (and the Board may vary and deal with those investments as it decides); or

  • (b) carry forward any amount which the Board decides not to distribute or to transfer to a reserve; or

  • (c) carry out the steps in both rules 86(a) and 86(b).

87. Power to Declare or Determine Dividends

  • (a) The Board may from time to time declare or determine that a Dividend is payable.

  • (b) The Board may fix the amount, the time for payment and the method of payment of a Dividend. The method of payment may include the payment of cash, the issue of Securities, the grant of options and the transfer of assets, including securities in another body corporate (or any combination of them).

  • (c) No Dividend bears interest against the Company.

88. Crediting of Dividends

  • (a) Subject to any special rights or restrictions attached to any shares, every Dividend on a share in the Company is to be paid as follows, unless otherwise determined by the Board:

  • (i) if the share to which a particular Dividend relates is fully paid and was fully paid during the whole period in respect of which the Dividend is to be paid, that Dividend is equal to the Dividend paid on each other share which was fully paid during the whole period in respect of which the Dividend is to be fully paid; and

  • (ii) if the share to which a particular Dividend relates is partly paid, or is fully paid but was not fully paid during the whole of the period in respect of which the Dividend is to be paid, that Dividend is apportioned, and paid proportionately to the amounts paid (not credited) on the share with respect to the issue price of the share (excluding amounts credited) during any part or parts of the period in respect of which the Dividend is to be paid.

  • (b) An amount paid on a share in advance of a call is not taken for the purposes of rule 88(a)(ii) to be paid on the share.

  • (c) Subject to any special rights or restrictions attached to any shares, the Board may from time to time resolve that Dividends are to be paid out of a particular source or

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particular sources, and in those circumstances the Board may in its absolute discretion:

  • (i) allow each or any shareholder to elect from which specified sources that particular shareholder's Dividend may be paid by the Company; and

  • (ii) where elections are permitted and any shareholder fails to make an election, identify the particular source from which Dividends are payable.

89. Deduction of Unpaid Amounts

The Board may apply any part of any Dividend otherwise payable to a shareholder towards satisfaction of all sums of money presently payable by the shareholder to the Company on account of calls or otherwise in relation to shares in the Company.

90. Distributions in Kind

If the Board has declared or determined to pay a Dividend, or if the Company is to reduce its capital in accordance with rule 32, wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets (including by the issue of Securities or other financial products or by the transfer of securities or financial products), the Board may do one or more of the following:

  • (a) if a difficulty arises in regard to that distribution, settle the matter as it determines and fix the value for distribution of the specific assets or any part of those assets;

  • (b) decide that cash payments may be made, and make the payments, to any shareholders on the basis of the value fixed by the Board in order to appropriately adjust the rights of all shareholders as the Board determines in its discretion;

  • (c) vest any specific assets in trustees;

  • (d) sell or cause to be sold any specific assets distributed (or which, save for the operation of this rule 90(d), would otherwise have been distributed) to any shareholders (or group of shareholders) determined by the Board in any way and on such terms the Board determines in its discretion, including by transferring the assets to a nominee or agent determined by the Board to sell those assets on behalf of such shareholders, and distributing to such shareholders their proportion of the net proceeds of that sale (as determined by the Board);

  • (e) authorise any person to make, on behalf of all the shareholders entitled to any securities or financial products, an agreement with the Company (or other relevant body corporate) providing for the issue or transfer to them of any further securities or financial products and, in executing the document, the person acts as agent and attorney for the shareholders; and

  • (f) if the Dividend or reduction of capital is by way of a distribution of shares or other securities in another corporation, then each shareholder is taken to have agreed to become a shareholder or securityholder of that corporation and to have agreed to be bound by the constitution of that corporation. Each shareholder also appoints each Director and each Secretary their agent and attorney to:

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  • (i) agree to the shareholder becoming a shareholder or securityholder of that corporation;

  • (ii) agree to the shareholder being bound by the constitution of that corporation; and

  • (iii) execute any transfer of shares or securities, or other document required to give effect to the distribution of shares or other securities to that shareholder.

Nothing in any of paragraphs (a) to (f) above limits anything in any of those other paragraphs.

91. Payment of Distributions

  • (a) Any Dividend, interest or other money payable in cash in respect of Securities may be paid in any manner and by any means determined by the Board, at the sole risk of the intended recipient. Without limiting any other means of payment which the Board may adopt, any payment may be made:

  • (i) by cheque sent through the post directed to:

    • (A) the address of the Security holder as shown in the Securities register or, in the case of joint holders, to the address shown in the Securities register as the address of the joint holder first named in that Securities register; or

    • (B) any other address as the Security holder or joint holders in writing directs or direct; or

  • (ii) by electronic funds transfer to an account with a bank or other financial institution nominated by the Security holder or joint holders in writing and acceptable to the Company.

  • (b) Without limiting rule 91(d), if the Board decides to make a payment by electronic funds transfer under rule 91(a) and an account is not nominated by the shareholder or joint holders in accordance with the requirements of rule 91(a), the Company may hold the amount payable in a separate account of the Company until the holder or joint holders nominate an account in accordance with the requirements of rule 91(a).

  • (c) Payments of Dividends and other distributions by the Company may be made in Australian dollars or any other currency determined by the Board in its discretion. Payments in different currencies may be made to different Security holders as determined by the Board in its discretion. If a payment is made in a currency other than Australian dollars the Board may determine in its discretion the appropriate exchange rate and the time of calculation to calculate the amount payable in the relevant currency. The determinations of the Board are, in the absence of manifest error, final.

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  • (d) Subject to law, all Dividends unclaimed may be invested or otherwise used by the Board for the benefit of the Company until claimed or otherwise disposed of according to law.

Capitalisation of Profits

92. Capitalisation of Profits

  • (a) The Company in general meeting or the Board may resolve:

  • (i) to capitalise any sum, being the whole or a part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of any reserve account, profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution to Security holders; and

  • (ii) that the sum referred to in rule 92(a)(i) be applied, in any of the ways mentioned in rule 92(b), for the benefit of Security holders in full satisfaction of their interest in the capitalised sum, in the proportions to which those Security holders would have been entitled in a distribution of that sum by way of Dividend or if there is no proportional entitlement, as the Board determines.

  • (b) The ways in which a sum may be applied for the benefit of Security holders under rule 92(a) are:

  • (i) in paying up any amounts unpaid on Securities held by Security holders;

  • (ii) in paying up in full unissued Securities to be issued to Security holders as fully paid;

  • (iii) partly as mentioned in rule 92(b)(i) and partly as mentioned in rule 92(b)(ii); or

  • (iv) any other application permitted by law and the Listing Rules.

  • (c) Where the conditions of issue of a partly paid Security provide, the holder is entitled to participate in any application of a sum under rule 92(b) to a greater extent than would have been the case had those funds been distributed by Dividend but not to any greater extent than permitted by the terms of issue.

  • (d) The Board may do all things that it considers necessary to give effect to the resolution and, in particular, to the extent it considers necessary to adjust the rights of the Security holders amongst themselves, may:

  • (i) fix the value for distribution of the specific assets or any part of those assets;

  • (ii) issue fractional certificates or make cash payments in cases where Securities become issuable in fractions or determine that fractions may be disregarded or that any fractional entitlements are to be increased to the next whole number;

  • (iii) vest any cash or specific assets in trustees on trust for the persons entitled as it determines; and

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  • (iv) authorise any person to make, on behalf of all the Security holders entitled to any further Securities on the capitalisation, an agreement with the Company providing for the issue to them, credited as fully paid up, of any further Securities or for the payment by the Company on their behalf the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing Securities by the application of their respective proportions of the sum resolved to be capitalised and any agreement made under that authority is effective and binding on all the Security holders concerned.

Service of Documents

93. Service of Documents

In this rule 93, a reference to a document includes a notice. Subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules:

  • (a) A document may be given by the Company to any Security holder by, in the Company's discretion:

  • (i) serving it on the Security holder personally;

  • (ii) sending it by post to the Security holder or leaving it at the Security holder's address as shown in the Securities register or the address nominated by the Security holder to the Company for the giving of documents;

  • (iii) sending it to the fax number nominated by the Security holder to the Company for the giving of documents;

  • (iv) sending it to the electronic address nominated by the Security holder to the Company for the giving of documents or by other electronic means nominated by the Security holder;

  • (v) if a Security holder nominates any electronic means by which the Security holder may be notified that documents are available and may access documents, sending a notification that the document is available for access, in each case by the relevant electronic means; or

  • (vi) serving it in any manner contemplated in this rule 93(a) on a Security holder's attorney as specified by the Security holder in a notice given under rule 93(b).

  • (b) By written notice to a Secretary left at or sent to the registered office of the Company or the Company's Securities registry, a Security holder may request that all documents to be given by the Company or the Board be served on the Security holder's attorney at an address, or by the electronic means, nominated in the notice and the Company may do so in its discretion.

  • (c) A document may be sent to a Security holder whose address for documents is outside Australia by airmail, air courier or fax or otherwise be sent or made available electronically (including as contemplated by rule 93(a)(v)).

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  • (d) Any document sent by post is conclusively considered to have been served at the expiration of 24 hours after the envelope containing the document is posted and, in proving service, it is sufficient to prove that the envelope containing the document was properly addressed and posted. Any document served on a Security holder personally or left at the Security holder’s registered address is conclusively considered to have been served when delivered. Any document sent to a Security holder by fax or other electronic means is conclusively considered to have been served when the fax or other electronic transmission is sent. Any document made available to a Security holder by electronic means as contemplated by rule 93(a)(v) is conclusively considered to have been served when notification that the document is available for access by that means is sent.

  • (e) Every person who, by operation of law, transfer or any other means, becomes entitled to be registered as the holder of any Securities is bound by every document that, prior to the person's name and address being entered in the Securities register in respect of the Securities, was properly given to the person from whom the person derived title to those Securities.

  • (f) A document served in accordance with this Constitution is (despite the fact that the Security holder is then dead and whether or not the Company has notice of the Security holder's death) conclusively considered to have been properly served in respect of any registered Securities, whether held solely or jointly with other persons by the Security holder, until some other person is registered in the Security holder's place as the holder or joint holder. The service is sufficient service of the document on the Security holder's personal representative and any persons jointly interested with the Security holder in the Securities.

  • (g) Where a Security holder does not have a registered address or where the Company has a reason in good faith to believe that a Security holder is not known at the Security holder's registered address, a document is conclusively deemed to be given to the Security holder if the document is exhibited in the registered office of the company for a period of 24 hours (and is conclusively deemed to be duly served at the commencement of that period) unless and until the Security holder informs the company of a new registered address.

Winding Up

94. Winding Up

  • (a) If the Company is wound up, whether voluntarily or otherwise, the liquidator may divide in kind among all or any of the contributories as the liquidator thinks fit any part of the assets of the Company, and may vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees on any trusts for the benefit of all or any of the contributories as the liquidator thinks fit.

  • (b) Any division may be otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the contributories and, in particular, any class may be given preferential or special rights or may be excluded altogether or in part, but if any division otherwise than in

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accordance with the legal rights of the contributories is determined, then any contributory who would be prejudiced by the division has a right to dissent and ancillary rights as if the determination were a special resolution passed under the Corporations Act relating to the sale or transfer of the Company's assets by a liquidator in a voluntary winding up.

  • (c) If any Securities to be divided in accordance with rule 94(a) involve a liability to calls or otherwise, any person entitled under the division to any of the Securities may, by notice in writing within 10 business days after the passing of the special resolution, direct the liquidator to sell the person's proportion and pay the person the net proceeds and the liquidator is to act accordingly, if practicable.

Indemnity

95. Indemnity of Officers, Insurance and Access

  • (a) The Company indemnifies each officer of the Company and, if the Board considers it appropriate, any officer of a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company out of the assets of the Company to the relevant extent against any liability incurred by the officer in or arising out of the conduct of the business of the Company or the wholly-owned subsidiary (as the case may be) or in or arising out of the discharge of the duties of the officer , unless incurred in circumstances which the Board resolves do not justify indemnification.

  • (b) Where the Board considers it appropriate, the Company may execute a documentary indemnity in any form in favour of any officer of the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, provided that such terms are not inconsistent with this rule 95.

  • (c) Where the Board considers it appropriate, the Company may:

  • (i) make payments by way of premium in respect of any contract effecting insurance on behalf or in respect of an officer of the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company against any liability incurred by the officer in or arising out of the conduct of the business of the Company or the wholly-owned subsidiary (as the case may be) or in or arising out of the discharge of the duties of the officer; and

  • (ii) bind itself in any contract or deed with any officer of the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company to make the payments.

  • (d) Where the Board considers it appropriate, the Company may:

  • (i) give a former Director access to certain papers, including documents provided or available to the Directors and other papers referred to in those documents; and

  • (ii) bind itself in any contract with a Director or former Director to give the access.

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  • (e) In this rule 95:

  • (i) officer means:

    • (A) a director, secretary or senior manager; or

    • (B) a person appointed as a trustee by, or acting as a trustee at the request of, the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (as applicable),

and includes a former officer.

  • (ii) duties of the officer includes, duties arising by reason of the appointment, nomination or secondment in any capacity of an officer by the Company or, where applicable, a subsidiary of the Company to any other corporation, in any particular case where the Board considers it appropriate.

  • (iii) to the relevant extent means:

  • (A) to the extent the Company is not precluded by law from doing so;

  • (B) to the extent and for the amount that the officer is not otherwise entitled to be indemnified and is not actually indemnified by another person (including, but without limitation, a subsidiary or an insurer under any insurance policy); and

  • (C) where the liability is incurred in or arising out of the conduct of the business of another corporation or in the discharge of the duties of the officer in relation to another corporation, to the extent and for the amount that the officer is not entitled to be indemnified and is not actually indemnified out of the assets of that corporation.

  • (iv) liability means all costs, charges, losses, damages, expenses, penalties and liabilities of any kind including, in particular, legal costs incurred in defending any proceedings (whether criminal, civil, administrative or judicial) or appearing before any court, tribunal, government authority or other body.

Dividend Plans

96. Dividend Plans

  • (a) The Board may:

  • (i) establish one or more plans under which some or all shareholders may elect:

    • (A) that Dividends to be paid in respect of some or all of the shares from time to time held by the shareholder are to be satisfied by the issue or transfer of fully paid shares;

    • (B) that Dividends from the Company not be declared, determined or paid and that instead a payment or distribution other than a

      • Dividend (including, without limitation, an issue of bonus shares,

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with no amount credited to the share capital account in connection with the issue of those shares) be made by the Company;

  - (C) that cash Dividends from the Company not be paid and that instead a cash Dividend or payment or other distribution (including, without limitation, an issue or transfer of securities) be received from the Company, a related body corporate of the Company or any other entity determined by the Board; and

  - (D) to participate in a Dividend selection plan, including but not limited to a plan under which shareholders may elect to receive a Dividend from the Company or any related body corporate which is less in amount but franked to a greater extent than the ordinary cash Dividend declared or determined by the Company or any related body corporate or to receive a Dividend from the Company or any related body corporate which is greater in amount but franked to a lesser extent than the ordinary cash Dividend declared or determined by the Company or any related body corporate;
  • (ii) on or after establishment of any plan, extend participation in it, in whole or in part, to some or all of the holders of debt obligations of the Company in respect of interest on those obligations as if that interest were Dividends; and

  • (iii) vary, suspend or terminate the plan.

  • (b) Any plan takes effect in accordance with its terms and the Board may do all things necessary and convenient for the purpose of implementing the plan, including, the making of each necessary allotment or transfer of shares and of each necessary appropriation, capitalisation, application, payment and distribution of funds which may lawfully be appropriated, capitalised, applied, paid or distributed for the purpose of the allotment or transfer.

  • (c) For the purpose of giving effect to a plan, appropriations, capitalisations, applications, payments and distributions as referred to in this rule 96 may be made and the powers of the Board under this rule 96 apply and may be exercised (with any adjustments as may be required) even if only some of the shareholders or holders of shares of any class participate in the appropriation, capitalisation, application, payment or distribution.

  • (d) In offering opportunities to shareholders to participate in a plan, the Board may give information that in its opinion may be useful to assist shareholders in assessing the opportunity and making requests to their best advantage. The Directors, the Company and its officers are not responsible for, nor are they obliged to provide, any legal, taxation or financial advice in respect of the choices available to shareholders.

  • (e) The Board is under no obligation:

  • (i) to admit any shareholder as a participant in any plan; nor

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  • (ii) to comply with any request made by a shareholder who is not admitted as a participant in a plan.

  • (f) In establishing and maintaining a plan, the Board may exercise the powers conferred on it by the terms of the plan, by this Constitution or by the Corporations Act.

Employee Share Plans

97. Employee Share Plans

The Board may, subject to the Listing Rules:

  • (a) implement an employee share plan (on the terms it determines) under which Securities or securities of a related body corporate may be issued or otherwise provided to or for the benefit of any officer (including any Director) or employee of the Company or of a related body corporate or affiliate of the Company or to a relative of that officer or employee or to a company, trust or other entity or arrangement in which that officer or employee or a relative of that officer or employee has an interest;

  • (b) amend, suspend or terminate any employee share plan implemented by them; and

  • (c) give financial assistance in connection with the acquisition of Securities or securities of a related body corporate under any employee share plan in any manner permitted by the Corporations Act.

Rule 97(a) does not limit the Board’s powers to establish an employee share plan or limit the scope or structure of a plan.

Proportional Takeover Approval

98. Proportional Takeover Approval

  • (a) Subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules, the registration of any transfer of shares giving effect to a takeover contract under a proportional takeover bid in respect of shares in a class of shares in the Company is prohibited unless and until a resolution to approve the takeover bid is passed in accordance with this rule 98.

  • (b) Subject to rule 98(c), the only persons entitled to vote on a resolution to approve a proportional takeover bid are those persons who, as at the end of the day on which the first offer under the takeover bid was made, held shares included in the bid class in respect of which the offer was made. Each person entitled to vote has one vote for each share in the relevant class held by the person at that time.

  • (c) Neither the bidder under the takeover bid nor any associate of the bidder is entitled to vote on the resolution.

  • (d) The resolution is to be considered at a meeting of the persons entitled to vote on the resolution, convened and conducted by the Company. The provisions of this

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Constitution relating to general meetings apply to the meeting with any modifications the Board decides are required in the circumstances.

(e) The resolution is taken to have been passed only if the proportion that the number of votes in favour of the resolution bears to the total number of votes on the resolution is greater than 50%.

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