CTF Services Limited - AGM Information 2022

THIS CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of this circular or as to the action to be taken, you should consult a licensed securities dealer or registered institution in securities, bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional adviser. If you have sold or transferred all your shares in NWS Holdings Limited , you should at once hand this circular together with the accompanying proxy form to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, licensed securities dealer, registered institution in securities or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this circular, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.

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(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(stock code: 00659)

PROPOSALS FOR

RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS, GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE SHARES AND TO REPURCHASE SHARES AND

PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

AND

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Capitalized terms used in this cover page shall have the same meanings as those defined in the section headed “Definitions” in this circular.

A notice convening the 2022 AGM to be held at Meeting Room N201 (Expo Drive Entrance), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Monday, 21 November 2022 at 12:00 noon is set out in Appendix IV to this circular. Whether or not you are able to attend the 2022 AGM in person physically or online, you are requested to complete and (a) return the accompanying proxy form in accordance with the instructions printed thereon to the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong; or (b) submit the proxy form electronically through the Tricor e-Meeting System (https://spot-emeeting.tricor.hk/#/659) as soon as possible but in any event no later than 12:00 noon (Hong Kong time) on Saturday, 19 November 2022, or not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding of any adjourned meeting thereof. Completion and return of the proxy form shall not preclude you from attending and voting in person or online at the 2022 AGM or any adjourned meeting thereof should you so wish.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR PHYSICAL ATTENDANCE AT THE 2022 AGM Please refer to pages 4 and 5 of this circular for the measures being taken to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 at the 2022 AGM, including but not limited to: (a) compulsory body temperature check; (b) compulsory wearing of surgical face mask; (c) compulsory scanning of the “LeaveHomeSafe” venue QR code and complying with “Vaccine Pass” requirements; (d) maintaining a safe distance between seats; (e) no provision of refreshments and beverages; and (f) no distribution of coupons for subsequent consumption. Any person who does not comply with the precautionary measures will be denied entry into or be required to leave the 2022 AGM venue. In light of the continuing risks posed by COVID-19 and as part of the control measures to safeguard the health and safety of the Shareholders, the Company strongly encourages the Shareholders to consider (i) attending and voting at the 2022 AGM online; or (ii) appointing the Chairman of the 2022 AGM as their proxy to vote as instructed by the Shareholders on the relevant resolutions at the 2022 AGM, instead of attending the 2022 AGM in person.

20 October 2022

* For identification purposes only

CONTENTS

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GUIDANCE FOR THE 2022 AGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	1
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR PHYSICAL ATTENDANCE
AT THE 2022 AGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	4
DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	6
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	8
Re-election of Retiring Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	9
Issue Mandate and Repurchase Mandate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	11
Proposed Adoption of Amended and Restated Bye-laws . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	11
2022 AGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	13
Responsibility Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	13
Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	14
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	14
APPENDIX I – DETAILS OF RETIRING DIRECTORS STANDING
FOR RE-ELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	15
APPENDIX II – EXPLANATORY STATEMENT FOR
THE REPURCHASE MANDATE . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	22
APPENDIX III – PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND
RESTATED BYE-LAWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . .	26
APPENDIX IV – NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING	. . . . . . . . . .	105

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GUIDANCE FOR THE 2022 AGM

The Company does not in any way wish to diminish the opportunity available to Shareholders to exercise their rights and to vote, but is conscious of the need to protect 2022 AGM attendees from possible exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the health of 2022 AGM attendees, the Company would strongly encourage Shareholders to (i) attend and vote at the 2022 AGM online; or (ii) exercise their rights to vote at the 2022 AGM by appointing the Chairman of the 2022 AGM as their proxy instead of attending the physical 2022 AGM.

ATTENDING THE 2022 AGM BY MEANS OF ELECTRONIC FACILITIES

The Company will conduct the 2022 AGM as a hybrid meeting using Tricor e-Meeting System, which allows Shareholders to participate in the 2022 AGM online in a convenient and efficient way from anywhere with an internet connection, in addition to the traditional physical attendance at the 2022 AGM. Shareholders will be able to view the live broadcast and participate in voting and submit questions in written form to the 2022 AGM via their mobile phones, tablet or computers.

Tricor e-Meeting System will be open for the registered Shareholders and non-registered Shareholders (see below for login details and arrangement) to log in from 11:30 a.m. on 21 November 2022 (i.e. approximately 30 minutes prior to the commencement of the 2022 AGM). Shareholders should allow ample time to check into Tricor e-Meeting System to complete the related procedures. Please refer to the Online Meeting User Guide in relation to the procedures of the online meeting at https://spot-emeeting.tricor.hk/#/659.

Non-registered Shareholders, i.e. those shareholders whose Shares are held through a bank, a broker or a custodian or registered in the name of their nominees (together, the “Intermediary”) can contact and instruct the Intermediary to appoint themselves as proxy or corporate representative to attend and vote at the 2022 AGM physically and at the same time request login details to attend and vote at the 2022 AGM using Tricor e-Meeting System.

Login details for Registered Shareholders: Details regarding the 2022 AGM arrangements including login details to access Tricor e-Meeting System are included in the Company’s notification letter to registered Shareholders for the 2022 AGM (the “Shareholder Notification”) sent together with this circular.

Login details for Non-registered Shareholders: Non-registered Shareholders who wish to attend and vote at the 2022 AGM using Tricor e-Meeting System should (1) contact and instruct their Intermediary to appoint themselves as proxy or corporate representative to attend the 2022 AGM; and (2) provide their email address to their Intermediary before the time limit required by the relevant Intermediary. Details regarding the 2022 AGM arrangements including login details to access Tricor e-Meeting System will be sent by the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, to the email address of the non-registered Shareholders provided by the Intermediary. Any non-registered Shareholder who has provided an email address

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GUIDANCE FOR THE 2022 AGM

through the relevant Intermediary for this purpose but has not received the login details by email by 12:00 noon on Saturday, 19 November 2022 should reach out to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong for assistance. Without the login details, non-registered Shareholders will not be able to participate and vote using Tricor e-Meeting System. Non-registered Shareholders should therefore give clear and specific instructions to their Intermediary in respect of both (1) and (2) above.

Registered Shareholders and non-registered Shareholders should note that only one device is allowed per login. Please also keep the login details in safe custody for use at the 2022 AGM and do not disclose them to anyone else. Neither the Company nor its share registrar assume any obligation or liability whatsoever in connection with the transmission of the login details or any use of the login details for voting or otherwise.

VOTING AT THE 2022 AGM

In addition to the traditional method of completing voting papers, e-Voting system will be used at the 2022 AGM to enhance the efficiency in the poll counting process. For online voting at the 2022 AGM, Shareholders can refer to the Online Meeting User Guide by visiting https://spot-emeeting.tricor.hk/#/659 for details.

The submission of vote through the Tricor e-Meeting System using the login details will be conclusive evidence that the vote was cast by you as a Shareholder.

QUESTIONS AT THE 2022 AGM

Shareholders attending the 2022 AGM using Tricor e-Meeting System will be able to submit questions relevant to the proposed resolutions online during the 2022 AGM. The Company will endeavour to address these questions at the 2022 AGM, if time permits.

VOTING BY PROXY

Shareholders are encouraged to exercise their rights to attend and vote at the 2022 AGM. Physical attendance is not necessary for the purpose of exercising Shareholders’ rights. Shareholders shall submit their completed proxy forms well in advance of the 2022 AGM. Return of a completed form will not preclude Shareholders from attending and voting in person (whether physically or online) at the 2022 AGM or any adjournment thereof should they subsequently so wish.

S ubmission of proxy forms for Registered Shareholders: A proxy form for use at the 2022 AGM is enclosed with this circular. A copy of the proxy form can also be accessed via and/or downloaded from the websites of the Company (www.nws.com.hk), HKEXnews website (www.hkexnews.hk) and Tricor e-Meeting System (https://spot-emeeting.tricor.hk/#/659).

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GUIDANCE FOR THE 2022 AGM

The deadline to submit completed proxy forms is Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 12:00 noon. Completed proxy forms must be returned/submitted to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.

In addition to the physical submission of the proxy form, registered Shareholders have the option to submit their proxy appointment electronically through the Tricor e-Meeting System from Friday, 21 October 2022 up to 12:00 noon on Saturday, 19 November 2022. Details regarding the submission of proxy forms electronically including login details to access the Tricor e-Meeting System are included in the Company’s notification letter to registered Shareholders together with this circular.

For online attendance at the 2022 AGM by proxy, registered Shareholders must provide a valid email address of their proxy (except when the Chairman of the 2022 AGM is appointed as their proxy) by inserting the email address into the proxy form. The email address so provided will be used by Tricor Standard Limited for sending the login details for voting at the 2022 AGM. Accordingly, registered Shareholders and their proxy should ensure that the email address provided will be appropriately secure for this purpose. If no email address is provided, their proxy cannot attend and vote online.

Appointment of proxy by Non-registered Shareholders: Non-registered Shareholders should contact their Intermediary as soon as possible for assistance in the appointment of proxy to attend the 2022 AGM physically or online.

CONTACT DETAILS OF THE COMPANY’S BRANCH SHARE REGISTRAR IN HONG KONG

If Shareholders have any queries relating to the 2022 AGM, please contact the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong as follows:

Tricor Standard Limited 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong

Telephone: (852) 2975 0928 Email: [email protected]

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PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR PHYSICAL ATTENDANCE AT THE 2022 AGM

For Shareholders who would like to attend the physical 2022 AGM, please note that the following precautionary measures will be implemented by the Company at the 2022 AGM venue to safeguard the health of the 2022 AGM attendees and to comply with the requirements for the prevention and control of the spreading of COVID-19.

HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES FOR THE PHYSICAL 2022 AGM

The health of the Shareholders, staff and stakeholders of the Company is of paramount importance to the Company. To prevent and control the spread of COVID-19, the Company will implement the following measures at the 2022 AGM as part of the control measures to safeguard the health and safety of the attending Shareholders, staff and stakeholders of the Company:

(a) compulsory body temperature checks will be conducted for every attending Shareholder, proxy or other attendee at the entrance of the 2022 AGM venue. Any person who has a body temperature of over 37.5 degree Celsius or is subject to the mandatory quarantine order imposed by the Government of Hong Kong will be denied entry into or be required to leave the 2022 AGM venue;
(b) each attendee must wear a surgical face mask throughout the 2022 AGM and inside the 2022 AGM venue;
(c) each attendee must comply with the entry requirements of the 2022 AGM venue, including scanning of the “LeaveHomeSafe” venue QR code and complying with “Vaccine Pass” requirements prior to entry into the 2022 AGM venue;
(d) safe distancing measures for queue management and seating at the 2022 AGM will be maintained;
(e) no refreshments and beverages will be served; and
(f) no distribution of coupons for subsequent consumption.

Attendees are in addition requested to observe and practise good personal hygiene at all times. To the extent permitted by law, the Company reserves the right to deny entry into the 2022 AGM venue or require any person to leave the 2022 AGM venue so as to ensure the health of the 2022 AGM attendees.

In the event of any regulation imposed by the Government of Hong Kong due to COVID-19 requiring the change of the date or place of the 2022 AGM, the Company will publish an announcement on the websites of both the Company (www.nws.com.hk) and the HKEXnews (www.hkexnews.hk) to notify the Shareholders that the 2022 AGM has been adjourned (however, a failure to publish such a notice shall not affect the adjournment of such meeting).

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PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR PHYSICAL ATTENDANCE AT THE 2022 AGM

The Company will publish a further announcement on its corporate website (www.nws.com.hk) and the HKEXnews website (www.hkexnews.hk) to notify the Shareholders of the date, time and location of the adjourned 2022 AGM, if required.

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DEFINITIONS

In this circular, the following expressions have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:

“2022 AGM”
the annual general meeting of the Company to be held at Meeting Room N201 (Expo Drive Entrance), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Monday, 21 November 2022 at 12:00 noon, notice of which is set out in Appendix IV to this circular or, where the context so admits, any adjournment thereof
“Amended and Restated Bye-laws”
the amended and restated bye-laws proposed to be adopted by the Company which are set out in Appendix III to this circular (with proposed amendments marked-up against the conformed version of the Bye-laws posted on the website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange)
“Board”
the board of directors of the Company
“Bye-laws”
the bye-laws of the Company adopted on 25 November 2020
“Companies Act”
the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda, as amended and supplemented from time to time
“Company”
NWS Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability and whose Shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
“Director(s)”
director(s) of the Company
“Group”
the Company and its subsidiaries
“Hong Kong” or “HKSAR”
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
“Hong Kong Stock Exchange”
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited
“Issue Mandate”
a general mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with Shares in the manner as set out in ordinary resolution no. 5 of the Notice

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DEFINITIONS

“Latest Practicable Date”
“Listing Rules”
“Notice”
“Repurchase Mandate”
“SFO”
“Share(s)”
“Shareholder(s)”
“Takeovers Code”
“HK$”
“%”
18 October 2022, being the latest practicable date prior to the printing of this circular for the purpose of ascertaining information contained herein
the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
the notice of the 2022 AGM as set out in Appendix IV to this circular
a general mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors to exercise all the powers of the Company to repurchase Shares in the manner as set out in ordinary resolution no. 6 of the Notice
the Securities and Futures Ordinance, Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong, as amended and supplemented from time to time
share(s) of HK$1.00 each in the capital of the Company
holder(s) of Share(s)
the Code on Takeovers and Mergers as amended from time to time and administered by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong
Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong

per cent.

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

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(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(stock code: 00659)

Executive Directors:

Dr. Cheng Kar Shun, Henry (Chairman) Mr. Ma Siu Cheung (Chief Executive Officer) Mr. Ho Gilbert Chi Hang (Chief Operating Officer) Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian Mr. Cheng Chi Leong, Christopher

Non-executive Directors:

Mr. To Hin Tsun, Gerald Mr. Dominic Lai

Registered office:

Clarendon House 2 Church Street Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda

Principal place of business in Hong Kong:

28/F., New World Tower 18 Queen’s Road Central Hong Kong

Mr. William Junior Guilherme Doo

Mr. Lam Wai Hon, Patrick (alternate director to

Mr. William Junior Guilherme Doo)

Independent non-executive Directors:

Mr. Kwong Che Keung, Gordon Mr. Shek Lai Him, Abraham Mr. Lee Yiu Kwong, Alan Mrs. Oei Wai Chi Grace Fung Mr. Wong Kwai Huen, Albert Professor Chan Ka Keung, Ceajer

20 October 2022

To the Shareholders and for information purposes only, the holders of the outstanding share options of the Company

Dear Sir or Madam,

PROPOSALS FOR RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS, GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE SHARES AND TO REPURCHASE SHARES AND PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

INTRODUCTION

At the 2022 AGM, resolutions will be proposed to approve, among others, the re-election of retiring Directors, the granting of the Issue Mandate and the Repurchase Mandate (including the extension of the Issue Mandate by the number of Shares repurchased) and the proposed adoption of Amended and Restated Bye-laws.

For identification purposes only

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

The purpose of this circular is to provide you with all the information reasonably necessary to enable you to make an informed decision on whether to vote for or against the proposed resolutions at the 2022 AGM.

RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS

Pursuant to bye-law 86(2) of the Bye-laws, the Directors shall have the power from time to time and at any time to appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy on the Board or as an addition to the existing Board. Any Director appointed by the Board to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office until the first general meeting after his appointment and be subject to re-election at such meeting and any Director appointed by the Board as an addition to the existing Board shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election at that meeting. Accordingly, Professor Chan Ka Keung, Ceajer (“Prof. K.C. Chan”) who was appointed as Director by the Board with effect from 1 January 2022, shall hold office until the conclusion of the 2022 AGM and, being eligible, shall offer himself for re-election at the 2022 AGM.

Pursuant to bye-law 87(1) of the Bye-laws, at each annual general meeting, one-third of the Directors for the time being (or, if their number is not a multiple of three, the number nearest to but not greater than one-third) shall retire from office by rotation provided that notwithstanding anything therein, each Director shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once in every three years. Accordingly, Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian (“Dr. Cheng”), Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian (“Mr. Cheng”), Mr. Kwong Che Keung, Gordon (“Mr. Kwong”), Mr. Shek Lai Him, Abraham (“Mr. Shek”) and Mrs. Oei Wai Chi Grace Fung (“Mrs. Oei”) shall retire from their offices.

Mr. Kwong has informed the Board that he would not offer himself for re-election and accordingly will retire from his office as an independent non-executive Director with effect from the conclusion of the 2022 AGM as disclosed in the announcement of the Company dated 30 September 2022. Save for Mr. Kwong, the other retiring Directors, being eligible, shall offer themselves for re-election at the 2022 AGM.

When considering the re-election of the aforesaid Directors (except Mr. Kwong), the Nomination Committee of the Company evaluates their performance and considers a range of diversity perspectives including but not limited to skills, regional and industrial experience, background, race, gender and other qualities as set out in the “Board Diversity Policy” of the Company. The Nomination Committee then makes recommendation to the Board which in turn makes recommendation to the Shareholders in respect of the proposed re-election of Directors at the general meeting.

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

With strong finance background as well as considerable financial and risk management experience derived from his previous senior position as the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and in academia, Prof. K.C. Chan possesses a wealth of expertise and experience which contribute significantly to the growth and enhancement in risk management and internal control of the Company.

Mr. Shek possesses broad range of knowledge gained from directorship in reputable listed companies and his long service as a member of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, which enables him to provide valuable strategic insights and facilitates effective decision-making of the Board.

Mrs. Oei’s deep experience as an accomplished executive in global financial services groups and her knowledge of corporate social responsibility issues by virtue of her active role in public organisations bring valuable insights in finance, risk oversight and sustainability matters.

The Nomination Committee of the Company has also reviewed and assessed the annual written confirmations of independence of Prof. K.C. Chan, Mr. Shek and Mrs. Oei, who have served as independent non-executive Directors, based on the independence criteria as set out in Rule 3.13 of the Listing Rules and considered that they remain independent and free of any relationship with any substantial shareholder, fellow Directors and management of the Company which could materially interfere with the exercise of their independent judgment. They will continue to bring valuable experience, knowledge and professionalism to the Board for its efficient and effective functioning and diversity.

The Nomination Committee is of the view that each of Prof. K.C. Chan, Mr. Shek and Mrs. Oei has the required skills, qualification, experience, integrity and independence to continue to be an independent non-executive Director.

Pursuant to the code provision set out in paragraph B.2.3 of Appendix 14 of the Listing Rules, any further appointment of independent non-executive director serving more than nine years should be subject to a separate resolution to be approved by shareholders. Notwithstanding that Mr. Shek has served as independent non-executive Director for more than nine years, the Nomination Committee of the Company has assessed and is satisfied of the independence of Mr. Shek after the consideration of, among others: (i) the written confirmation of independence from Mr. Shek; (ii) Mr. Shek has never engaged in any executive management role of the Group; and (iii) there exists no circumstance which can adversely impact his independence. Accordingly, notwithstanding his tenure of directorship with the Company, he will continue to provide valuable and relevant insights and contribute to the diversity of the Board.

The Nomination Committee has noted that as at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. Shek holds more than six directorships in listed public companies in Hong Kong (including the Company). However, the Nomination Committee is of the view that Mr.

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Shek would still be able to devote sufficient time to the Board. Mr. Shek has strong experience in corporate governance and are familiar with management of listed public companies in Hong Kong. He has close and good communication with the management team and other independent non-executive Directors to facilitate the decision-making process of the Board. During the financial year ended 30 June 2022, Mr. Shek has attended all Board meetings to give impartial advice and exercise independent judgment and served on various board committees.

Upon due consideration of the aforesaid factors and the experience, knowledge and commitment of the relevant individuals as well as their independence confirmations, the Board would recommend Prof. K.C. Chan, Mr. Shek and Mrs. Oei for re-election at the 2022 AGM.

The abovementioned retiring Directors (except Mr. Kwong), being eligible, shall offer themselves for re-election at the 2022 AGM. Details of such Directors are set out in Appendix I to this circular.

ISSUE MANDATE AND REPURCHASE MANDATE

The existing general mandates to issue Shares and to repurchase Shares will expire at the conclusion of the 2022 AGM.

In order to provide flexibility and discretion to the Directors to issue new Shares, an ordinary resolution will be proposed at the 2022 AGM that the Directors be granted the Issue Mandate to allot and issue new Shares up to a number not exceeding 20% of the total number of the Shares in issue as at the date of passing such resolution and a separate ordinary resolution will also be proposed to extend the Issue Mandate by adding the number of any Shares repurchased by the Company pursuant to the Repurchase Mandate.

At the 2022 AGM, an ordinary resolution will be proposed to the Shareholders that the Directors be granted the Repurchase Mandate to repurchase Shares up to a maximum of 10% of the total number of Shares in issue as at the date of passing such resolution. An explanatory statement as required by the Listing Rules to provide the requisite information concerning the Repurchase Mandate is set out in Appendix II to this circular.

PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

Reference is made to the announcement of the Company dated 19 October 2022. The Board proposes to amend the Bye-laws to (i) bring the Bye-laws of the Company in alignment with the Core Shareholder Protection Standards set out in Appendix 3 to the Listing Rules; (ii) reflect certain updates in relation to the applicable laws of Bermuda and the Listing Rules; and (iii) make other house-keeping amendments. Accordingly, the Board proposes to adopt the Amended and Restated Bye-laws in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Bye-laws.

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

The major areas of the proposed amendments to the Bye-laws that will be incorporated in the Amended and Restated Bye-laws are summarised below:

to provide that the Company must hold an annual general meeting for each financial year and such annual general meeting must be held within six (6) months after the end of the Company’s financial year;
to provide that the notice period for annual general meetings and special general meetings shall be not less than twenty-one (21) clear days and fourteen (14) clear days, respectively;
to provide that all shareholders shall have the right to (a) speak at a general meeting; and (b) vote at a general meeting except where a shareholder is required, by the Listing Rules, to abstain from voting to approve the matter under consideration;
to provide that any person appointed by the Directors to fill a casual vacancy on, or as an addition to, the Board shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company after his appointment, and shall then be eligible for re-election;
to update the circumstances under which a Director may vote on a resolution (and be counted in the quorum) notwithstanding that the Director or any of the Director’s close associates is materially interested therein;
to update the provisions relating to the appointment and removal of auditor of the Company; and
to make other housekeeping amendments for the purpose of clarifying existing practice, to better align with the wordings in the applicable laws of Bermuda and the Listing Rules and to reflect certain updates in relation to the applicable laws of Bermuda and the Listing Rules.

The full text of the proposed Amended and Restated Bye-laws (marked-up against the conformed version of the Bye-laws posted on the website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) is set out in Appendix III to this circular. The Chinese translation of the proposed Amended and Restated Bye-laws is for reference only. In case of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English version and its Chinese translation, the English version shall prevail.

The legal advisers of the Company as to Hong Kong law have confirmed to the Company that the proposed Amended and Restated Bye-laws comply with the requirements of the Listing Rules and the legal advisers of the Company as to Bermuda law have confirmed to the Company that the proposed Amended and Restated Bye-laws do not violate the applicable laws of Bermuda. In addition, the Company has confirmed to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that there is nothing unusual about the proposed Amended and Restated Bye-laws.

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

The proposed adoption of the Amended and Restated Bye-laws is subject to the approval of the Shareholders by way of a special resolution at the 2022 AGM.

2022 AGM

The notice convening the 2022 AGM is set out in Appendix IV to this circular. A proxy form for use in connection with the 2022 AGM is enclosed with this circular. Whether or not you are able to attend the 2022 AGM in person physically or online, you are requested to complete and (a) return the accompanying proxy form in accordance with the instructions printed thereon to the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong; or (b) submit the proxy form electronically through the Tricor e-Meeting System (https://spot-emeeting.tricor.hk/#/659) as soon as possible but in any event no later than 12:00 noon (Hong Kong time) on Saturday, 19 November 2022, or not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding of any adjourned meeting thereof. Completion and return of the proxy form shall not preclude you from attending and voting in person at the 2022 AGM or any adjourned meeting thereof should you so desire. In such event, the proxy form will be deemed to be revoked.

Pursuant to Rule 13.39(4) of the Listing Rules, any vote of shareholders at a general meeting must be taken by way of poll save for resolution relating purely to a procedural or administrative matter. Accordingly, the Chairman of the 2022 AGM shall demand the resolutions to be put to vote by poll. After the conclusion of the 2022 AGM, the results of the poll will be published on HKEXnews website at www.hkexnews.hk and the Company’s website at www.nws.com.hk.

In light of the continuing risks posed by COVID-19 and as part of the Company’s control measures to safeguard the health and safety of the Shareholders, the Company strongly encourages the Shareholders to consider (i) attending and voting at the 2022 AGM online; or (ii) appointing the Chairman of the 2022 AGM as their proxy to vote as instructed by the Shareholders on the relevant resolutions at the 2022 AGM, instead of attending the 2022 AGM in person.

RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT

This circular, for which the Directors collectively and individually accept full responsibility, includes particulars given in compliance with the Listing Rules for the purpose of giving information with regard to the Company. The Directors, having made all reasonable enquiries, confirm that to the best of their knowledge and belief the information contained in this circular is accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading or deceptive, and there are no other matters the omission of which would make any statement herein or this circular misleading.

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

RECOMMENDATION

The Directors believe that the proposals for the re-election of the retiring Directors, the granting of the Issue Mandate and the Repurchase Mandate (including the extension of the Issue Mandate by the number of Shares repurchased) and the proposed adoption of Amended and Restated Bye-laws are all in the best interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, the Directors recommend you to vote in favour of the proposed resolutions as set out in the Notice.

GENERAL

Your attention is drawn to the additional information set out in the Appendices to this circular.

Yours faithfully, Dr. Cheng Kar Shun, Henry Chairman

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APPENDIX I DETAILS OF RETIRING DIRECTORS STANDING FOR RE-ELECTION

The following are the particulars of the Directors who will retire and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election at the 2022 AGM:

Professor Chan Ka Keung, Ceajer GBS, SBS, JP

Prof. K.C. Chan, aged 65, was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director in January 2022 and is also a member of the Audit Committee, the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Prof. K.C. Chan is the Chairman and a non-executive director of WeLab Bank Limited and Senior Advisor of WeLab Holdings Limited, a leading fintech company in Asia with one of the first virtual banks established in Hong Kong. He is also an independent non-executive director of Langham Hospitality Investments and Langham Hospitality Investments Limited, Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited, China Overseas Land & Investment Limited and Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited, all being listed public companies in Hong Kong. Prof. K.C. Chan is an independent non-executive director of CMB International Capital Corporation Limited and Greater Bay Area Homeland Investments Limited.

Prof. K.C. Chan was appointed as the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from July 2007 to June 2017. Prior to that, he was Dean of Business and Management in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”). He is currently Adjunct Professor at HKUST Business School. Prof. K.C. Chan received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialized in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics. Prof. K.C. Chan is a member of the Competition Commission and a director of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute. In the past, he held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, a director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, non-executive director of The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited, and a member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation.

Save as disclosed above, Prof. K.C. Chan did not hold any other position with the Company and other members of the Group as at the Latest Practicable Date and did not hold any directorship in other listed public companies in the last three years.

Prof. K.C. Chan’s service contract provides for a fixed term of three years and he is also subject to the rotational retirement and re-election requirements at annual general meeting pursuant to the Bye-laws. His director’s fee will be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with the authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company and taking reference to his duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation.

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Prof. K.C. Chan does not have any relationship with any Director, senior management of the Company, substantial Shareholder or controlling Shareholder. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Prof. K.C. Chan has personal interest in 1,648,500 underlying Shares attached to the share options granted by the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.

Prof. K.C. Chan has not been involved in any of the matters as mentioned under Rules 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the Listing Rules and there are no other matters in relation to Prof. K.C. Chan that need to be brought to the attention of the Shareholders.

Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian SBS, JP

Dr. Cheng, aged 42, was appointed as Executive Director in October 2019 and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Company. He is also a director of a subsidiary of the Group and is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of the Group’s businesses. He is the Executive Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of New World Development Company Limited (a substantial shareholder of the Company), the Chairman and non-executive director of New World Department Store China Limited and Arta TechFin Corporation Limited, an executive director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited, and a non-executive director of Giordano International Limited, all being listed public companies in Hong Kong. Dr. Cheng is a director and the Executive Chairman of New World China Land Limited and the Chairman of New World Group Charity Foundation Limited. He is also a director of Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Limited and Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited, both being substantial shareholders of the Company. Dr. Cheng was a non-executive director of New Century Healthcare Holding Co. Limited (resigned on 1 June 2022), a listed public company in Hong Kong.

Dr. Cheng is a member of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of the People’s Republic of China, the Chairman of China Young Leaders Foundation, the Honorary Chairman of K11 Art Foundation and the Vice-Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of CTF Education Group. He was the Vice-Chairman of the 11th and 12th committee of the All-China Youth Federation. He was acknowledged by Fortune as one of “40 Under 40” global business stars and a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in 2012. Dr. Cheng is a Justice of Peace in Hong Kong since 2016 and was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in 2022 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He was made an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2017, and an Officier de l’Ordre National du Me´rite in 2022. Dr. Cheng holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (cum laude) from Harvard University, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities by the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2014. He was conferred an Honorary Fellowship by Lingnan University in 2014, and an Honorary University Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong in 2022. Prior to joining NWD in 2006, Dr. Cheng worked in a major international bank and has substantial experience in corporate finance. He is the son of Dr. Cheng Kar Shun, Henry, the brother of Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian and Mr. Cheng Chi Leong, Christopher and the cousin of Mr. William Junior Guilherme Doo.

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Save as disclosed above, Dr. Cheng did not hold any other position with the Company or other members of the Group as at the Latest Practicable Date and did not hold any directorship in other listed public companies in the last three years.

Dr. Cheng’s service contract provides for a fixed term of three years and he is also subject to the rotational retirement and re-election requirements at annual general meeting pursuant to the Bye-laws. His emoluments comprise annual salary package, discretionary bonus and share options, and director’s fee to be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with the authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company and taking reference to his duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation. For the financial year ended 30 June 2022, he was paid fees for acting as an Executive Director of the Company and a director of subsidiary of the Group in an aggregate amount of approximately HK$0.60 million and other emoluments (including salary, allowances and other benefits) of approximately HK$7.39 million and employer’s contribution to retirement benefits scheme of approximately HK$0.55 million.

Save as disclosed above, Dr. Cheng does not have any relationship with any Director, senior management of the Company, substantial Shareholder or controlling Shareholder. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Dr. Cheng has personal interest in 5,495,000 underlying Shares attached to the share options granted by the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.

Dr. Cheng has not been involved in any of the matters as mentioned under Rules 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the Listing Rules and there are no other matters in relation to Dr. Cheng that need to be brought to the attention of the Shareholders.

Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian

Mr. Cheng, aged 39, was appointed as Executive Director in July 2009 and is also a member of the Executive Committee and the Sustainability Committee of the Company. He is also a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group. He has been with the Company since January 2008 and is mainly responsible for overseeing the infrastructure business and the merger and acquisition affairs of the Group. Mr. Cheng is the Chairman and a non-executive director of Integrated Waste Solutions Group Holdings Limited and a non-executive director of Haitong International Securities Group Limited and Wai Kee Holdings Limited, all being listed public companies in Hong Kong. He is also the Chairman of Goshawk Aviation Limited, and a director of PBA International Pte. Ltd. and a number of companies in Mainland China. Mr. Cheng is currently a member of the Thirteenth Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of the People’s Republic of China. Before joining the Company, Mr. Cheng had been working as a research analyst in the Infrastructure and Conglomerates sector for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Mr. Cheng holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College in Massachusetts, USA. Mr. Cheng is the son of Dr. Cheng Kar Shun, Henry, the brother of Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian and Mr. Cheng Chi Leong, Christopher and the cousin of Mr. William Junior Guilherme Doo.

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Save as disclosed above, Mr. Cheng did not hold any other position with the Company or other members of the Group as at the Latest Practicable Date and did not hold any directorship in other listed public companies in the last three years.

Mr. Cheng’s service contract provides for a fixed term of three years and he is also subject to the rotational retirement and re-election requirements at annual general meeting pursuant to the Bye-laws. His emoluments comprise annual salary package, discretionary bonus and share options, and a director’s fee to be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with the authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company and taking reference to his duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation. For the financial year ended 30 June 2022, he was paid fees for acting as an Executive Director of the Company, a member of a board committee of the Company and a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group in an aggregate amount of approximately HK$0.68 million and other emoluments (including salary, allowances and other benefits) of approximately HK$7.59 million and employer’s contribution to retirement benefits scheme of approximately HK$0.57 million.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. Cheng does not have any relationship with any Director, senior management of the Company, substantial Shareholder or controlling Shareholder. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. Cheng has personal interest in 6,868,750 underlying Shares attached to the share options granted by the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.

Mr. Cheng has not been involved in any of the matters as mentioned under Rules 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the Listing Rules and there are no other matters in relation to Mr. Cheng that need to be brought to the attention to the Shareholders.

Mr. Shek Lai Him, Abraham GBS, JP

Mr. Shek, aged 77, was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director in September 2004 and is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee of the Company. Mr. Shek is an independent non-executive director of China Resources Cement Holdings Limited, Chuang’s China Investments Limited (also acts as Honorary Chairman), Chuang’s Consortium International Limited, Cosmopolitan International Holdings Limited, Country Garden Holdings Company Limited, CSI Properties Limited, Everbright Grand China Assets Limited, Far East Consortium International Limited, Hao Tian International Construction Investment Group Limited, ITC Properties Group Limited (also acts as Vice Chairman), Lai Fung Holdings Limited, Landing International Development Limited, Lifestyle International Holdings Limited, Paliburg Holdings Limited and International Alliance Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., and an executive director and the Chairman of Goldin Financial Holdings Limited (re-designated from the Vice Chairman to the Chairman on 6 June 2022), all being listed public companies in Hong Kong. He is also an independent non-executive director of Eagle Asset Management (CP) Limited (the manager of Champion Real Estate Investment Trust) and Regal Portfolio

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Management Limited (the manager of Regal Real Estate Investment Trust), both of which are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mr. Shek was an independent non-executive director of SJM Holdings Limited (retired on 28 May 2021), whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Hop Hing Group Holdings Limited (retired on 2 June 2020) (the company was delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 27 January 2022). Mr. Shek was a member of the Legislative Council for the HKSAR representing real estate and construction functional constituency from 2000 to 2021. He was appointed as Justice of the Peace in 1995 and was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2013. Mr. Shek graduated from the University of Sydney with Bachelor of Arts and attained a Juris Doctor degree at The City University of Hong Kong.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. Shek did not hold any other position with the Company and other members of the Group as at the Latest Practicable Date and did not hold any directorship in other listed public companies in the last three years.

Mr. Shek’s service contract provides for a fixed term of three years and he is also subject to the rotational retirement and re-election requirements at annual general meeting pursuant to the Bye-laws. His director’s fee will be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with the authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company and taking reference to his duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation. For the financial year ended 30 June 2022, he was paid fees for acting as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company and a member of certain board committees of the Company in an aggregate amount of HK$0.52 million and allowances of approximately HK$0.09 million.

Mr. Shek, who has served the Board for more than nine years, confirmed that he had satisfied all factors set out in Rule 3.13 of the Listing Rules in assessing his independence. Mr. Shek does not have any relationship with any Director, senior management of the Company, substantial Shareholder or controlling Shareholder. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. Shek has personal interest in 1,648,500 underlying Shares attached to the share options granted by the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.

Mr. Shek had been an independent non-executive director of Titan Petrochemicals Group Limited (“Titan”) (a company incorporated in Bermuda and whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange), from 27 February 2006 to 27 February 2014. According to the announcements and circulars published by Titan, on 9 July 2012 (Bermuda time), Saturn Petrochemical Holdings Limited (“SPHL”) served on Titan a petition (the “Petition”) at the Supreme Court of Bermuda (the “Bermuda Court”) for an order, amongst other things, to wind up and to appoint a provisional liquidator against Titan. At the first hearing of the Petition on 16 August 2012 (Bermuda time), the court has, amongst other things, adjourned the hearing of the Petition to 5 September 2012 (Bermuda time). The Petition was in relation to a notice to Titan from SPHL to redeem all of the outstanding convertible redeemable preferred shares issued by Titan and held by SPHL at a redeemable amount equal to the notional value of those shares (being

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HK$310.8 million) together with any accrued and unpaid dividends. To the best knowledge of Mr. Shek, the Petition was in relation to the redemption of the abovementioned convertible redeemable preferred shares of Titan. Thereafter, the Bermuda Court ordered the appointment of Mr. Garth Calow and Ms. Allison Tomb, both of PricewaterhouseCoopers, as the joint provisional liquidators of Titan on 18 October 2013 (Bermuda time). This appointment of the joint provisional liquidators was in relation to an application made by KTL Camden Inc. (“Camden”) to the Bermuda Court on 6 August 2013 (Bermuda time) in connection with its claim that Titan Storage Limited, a subsidiary of Titan, failed to pay certain hiring charges to Camden pursuant to a bareboat charter party contract and that Titan was liable to Camden for such hiring charges plus interest thereon in the sum of approximately US$6,853,032 (up to 16 April 2013) pursuant to a deed of guarantee issued by Titan in favour of Camden. The Bermuda Court sanctioned a proposed scheme of arrangement (the “Scheme”) between Titan and its scheme creditors on 5 November 2014 and the Scheme became effective and binding on the scheme creditors upon a copy of the order of the Bermuda Court being delivered to the Bermuda Registrar of Companies in accordance with section 99 of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda on 5 November 2014. Apart from information relating to Titan already in the public domain, Mr. Shek in his capacity as a past director of Titan, has no other knowledge relating to Titan.

As disclosed above, Mr. Shek is an executive director and the Chairman of Goldin Financial Holdings Limited (“Goldin”), a company incorporated in Bermuda and whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. On 7 October 2020, Goldin received a winding up petition dated 7 August 2020 filed by DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited (‘‘DBT’’) with the Supreme Court of Bermuda for the purported winding-up of Goldin (the ‘‘DBT Petition’’). The DBT Petition was filed by DBT in relation to a dual tranche term loan facility in the principal amounts of approximately HK$1,494.9 million and US$243 million (collectively, the ‘‘Loan’’) owed by two direct wholly-owned subsidiaries of Goldin to certain independent financial institutions, with DBT as the security agent in respect of the Loan and Goldin as the corporate guarantor of the Loan. Based on the latest announcement published by Goldin dated 6 October 2022, the hearing of the DBT Petition has been adjourned to 28 October 2022 (Bermuda time). Goldin is an investment holding company and its group is principally engaged in the provision of factoring services, financial investment, winery and wine related business, property development and investment and operation of restaurants.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. Shek has not been involved in any of the matters as mentioned under Rules 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the Listing Rules and there are no other matters in relation to Mr. Shek that need to be brought to the attention to the Shareholders.

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Mrs. Oei Wai Chi Grace Fung

Mrs. Oei, aged 69, was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director in January 2016 and is also a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Sustainability Committee of the Company. She is currently the Chairperson of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Hong Kong since September 2008 and she has been elected to the global board of trustees of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Chicago since 1 January 2015. Mrs. Oei had worked in investment banking and wholesale banking for 36 years. She was the Vice Chairman, Corporate & Institutional Clients, at Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong when she retired from the bank in November 2014. Before joining Standard Chartered Bank in 2002, she had worked with UBS for nine years including service as Managing Director responsible for corporate finance and fixed income. During her service with UBS, Mrs. Oei had regional responsibilities for institutional sales, fixed income, supervising a team in Hong Kong and Singapore which covered 13 countries in Asia (excluding Japan). Her team advised central banks and other institutional investors in Asia on fixed income investments and hedging strategies for interest rates and currencies. Mrs. Oei had taken on a number of public service responsibilities over the years, including as a member of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel and the Takeovers Appeal Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission and a member of the Finance Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Mrs. Oei graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London University, with a BSc (Econ) degree, majoring in Accounting and Finance.

Mrs. Oei did not hold any other position with the Company and other members of the Group as at the Latest Practicable Date and did not hold any directorship in other listed public companies in the last three years.

Mrs. Oei’s service contract provides for a fixed term of three years and she is also subject to the rotational retirement and re-election requirements at annual general meeting pursuant to the Bye-laws. Her director’s fee will be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with the authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company and taking reference to her duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation. For the financial year ended 30 June 2022, she was paid fees for acting as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company and a member of certain board committees of the Company in an aggregate amount of HK$0.39 million and allowances of HK$0.08 million.

Mrs. Oei does not have any relationship with any Director, senior management of the Company, substantial Shareholder or controlling Shareholder. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mrs. Oei has personal interest in 1,648,500 underlying Shares attached to the share options granted by the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.

Mrs. Oei has not been involved in any of the matters as mentioned under Rules 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the Listing Rules and there are no other matters in relation to Mrs. Oei that need to be brought to the attention to the Shareholders.

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APPENDIX II EXPLANATORY STATEMENT FOR THE REPURCHASE MANDATE

This explanatory statement contains the information required by the Listing Rules. Its purpose is to provide to the Shareholders with all the information reasonably necessary to enable them to make an informed decision on whether to vote for or against the resolution approving the Repurchase Mandate.

(a) SHARE CAPITAL

As at the Latest Practicable Date, the issued share capital of the Company comprised 3,910,427,849 fully paid up Shares. Subject to the passing of the relevant ordinary resolution approving the Repurchase Mandate on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased prior to the 2022 AGM, the Company would be allowed under the Repurchase Mandate to repurchase a maximum of 391,042,784 Shares.

(b) REASONS FOR REPURCHASES

The Directors believe that the Repurchase Mandate is in the best interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole and will provide the Directors the flexibility to repurchase Shares in the market when appropriate and beneficial to the Company. Such repurchases may, depending on market conditions and funding arrangements at the time, lead to an enhancement of the net assets value of the Company and/or earnings per Share and will only be made when the Directors believe that such repurchases will benefit the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.

(c) FUNDING OF REPURCHASES

Pursuant to the Listing Rules, repurchases must be financed out of funds legally available for the purpose in accordance with the Company’s constitutional documents and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Company is incorporated or otherwise established.

The Company is empowered by its Memorandum of Association and Bye-laws to repurchase its Shares pursuant to and in accordance with the Companies Act. Repurchases will be funded from the Company’s available cash flow or working capital facilities. The laws of Bermuda provide that repurchases may only be effected out of the capital paid up on the repurchased Shares or out of the funds of the Company otherwise available for payment of dividend or distribution or out of proceeds of a fresh issue of Shares made for the purpose of the repurchase. Any premium payable on a repurchase over the par value of the Shares to be repurchased must be provided for out of funds of the Company otherwise available for payment of dividend or distribution or out of the Company’s share premium account. No repurchase may be made if on the date on which the repurchase is to be effected, there are reasonable grounds for believing the Company is, or after the repurchase would be, unable to pay its liabilities as they become due.

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APPENDIX II EXPLANATORY STATEMENT FOR THE REPURCHASE MANDATE

The Directors consider that there might be a material adverse impact on the working capital or gearing position of the Company (as compared with the position disclosed in the audited financial statements contained in the annual report of the Company for the financial year ended 30 June 2022) in the event that the Repurchase Mandate was to be exercised in full. However, the Directors do not propose to exercise the Repurchase Mandate to such extent as would, in the circumstances, have a material adverse impact on the working capital or gearing ratio of the Company which in the opinion of the Directors are from time to time appropriate for the Company.

(d) UNDERTAKING OF THE DIRECTORS

The Directors have undertaken to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to exercise the powers of the Company to make repurchases under the Repurchase Mandate in accordance with the Listing Rules and the applicable laws of Bermuda and the regulations set out in the Memorandum of Association and Bye-laws of the Company.

None of the Directors nor, to the best of their knowledge having made all reasonable enquiries, any of their close associates (as defined in the Listing Rules) has any present intention to sell Shares to the Company if the Repurchase Mandate is approved by the Shareholders.

No core connected persons (as defined in the Listing Rules) of the Company has notified the Company that they have a present intention to sell Shares to the Company, or has undertaken not to do so in the event that the Repurchase Mandate is approved by the Shareholders.

(e) EFFECT OF TAKEOVERS CODE

Repurchase of Shares may result in an increase in the proportionate interests of a Shareholder in the voting rights of the Company and such increase will be treated as an acquisition of voting rights for the purposes of the Takeovers Code. As a result, a Shareholder, or group of Shareholders acting in concert, depending on the level of increase of the Shareholder’s interests, could obtain or consolidate control of the Company and become obliged to make a mandatory offer in accordance with Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code.

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APPENDIX II EXPLANATORY STATEMENT FOR THE REPURCHASE MANDATE

As at the Latest Practicable Date, so far as is known to any Director or chief executive of the Company, the following parties had an interest in the Shares which would fall to be disclosed to the Company under the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 of Part XV of the SFO as recorded in the register required to be kept under Section 336 of the SFO:

Name	Number of shares Approximate percentage to the issued share capital of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date Approximate percentage to the issued share capital of the Company if the Repurchase Mandate is exercised in full Beneficial interests Corporate interests Total
Cheng Yu Tung Family (Holdings) Limited Cheng Yu Tung Family (Holdings II) Limited Chow Tai Fook Capital Limited Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Limited Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited New World Development Company Limited Mombasa Limited	− 2,477,530,362 2,477,530,362 63.36% 70.40% − 2,477,530,362 2,477,530,362 63.36% 70.40% − 2,477,530,362 2,477,530,362 63.36% 70.40% − 2,477,530,362 2,477,530,362 63.36% 70.40% 97,034,424 2,380,495,938 2,477,530,362 63.36% 70.40% 1,588,468,276 792,027,662 2,380,495,938 60.88% 67.64% 718,384,979 − 718,384,979 18.37% 20.41%

In the event that the Directors shall exercise in full the Repurchase Mandate, the total interests of the above Shareholders would be increased to approximately the percentages shown in the last column of the above table and such increase will not give rise to an obligation to make a mandatory general offer under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code and will not reduce the number of Shares held by the public to be less than 25% of the total issued Shares.

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(f) SHARE PRICES

The highest and lowest market prices at which the Shares have traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange during each of the previous 12 months preceding the Latest Practicable Date were as follows:

		Per	Share
		Highest price	Lowest	price
		HK$		HK$
2021	October	7.88		7.13
	November	7.95		7.20
	December	7.44		6.95
2022	January	7.91		7.25
	February	8.13		7.50
	March	7.67		6.88
	April	7.30		6.90
	May	8.25		6.89
	June	8.00		7.13
	July	7.93		7.34
	August	7.97		7.00
	September	7.95		6.98
	October (up to and including the
	Latest Practicable Date)	7.28		5.79

(g) SHARE REPURCHASE MADE BY THE COMPANY

The Company repurchased a total of 710,000 Shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange during the six months immediately preceding the Latest Practicable Date, details of which are as follows:

Date of repurchase 18 July 2022 19 July 2022 Total	Price paid per Share No. of shares repurchased Highest Lowest HK$ HK$ 460,000 7.90 7.78 250,000 7.90 7.84 710,000

Save as disclosed above, the Company had not repurchased any Shares (whether on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or otherwise) in the six months preceding the Latest Practicable Date.

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PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

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The following are the Amended and Restated Bye-laws with the proposed amendments to the Bye-laws marked up. Unless otherwise specified, clauses, paragraphs and bye-law numbers referred to herein are clauses, paragraphs and bye-law numbers of the Amended and Restated Bye-laws. If the serial numbering of the clauses of the Bye-laws is changed due to the addition, deletion or re-arrangement of certain clauses made in these amendments, the serial numbering of the clauses of the Bye-laws as so amended shall be changed accordingly, including cross references.

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

NWS HOLDINGS LIMITED

~~(formerly known as Pacific Ports Company Limited)~~

~~(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)~~

(Adopted ~~at the Annual General Meeting held~~ by a special resolution passed on ~~25 November~~ 21 November 202 ~~0~~ 2)

Note: The Chinese translation of ~~the proposed Amended and Restated Bye-laws is~~ these Memorandum of Association and Bye-laws are translated from their English version, which have not been duly adopted by the Members at a general meeting, are for Shareholders’ reference only. In case of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English version and its Chinese translation, the English version shall prevail.

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INDEX

SUBJECT

Bye-Law No.

Interpretation 1-2 Share Capital ~~3Financial Assistance~~ 3 ~~A~~ Alteration Of Capital 4-7 Share Rights 8-9 Variation Of Rights 10-11 Shares 12-15 Share Certificates 16-21 Lien 22 ~~2~~ -24 Calls On Shares 25-33 Forfeiture Of Shares 34-42 Register Of Members 43-44 Record Dates 45 Transfer Of Shares 46-51 Transmission Of Shares 52-54 Untraceable Members 55 General Meetings 56-58 Notice Of General Meetings 59-60 Proceedings At General Meetings 61-65 Voting 66 ~~6~~ -7 ~~7~~ 4 Proxies 7 ~~8-~~ 5-8 ~~3~~ 0 Corporations Acting By Representatives 8 ~~4~~ 1 Written Resolutions Of Members 8 ~~5~~ 2 Board Of Directors 8 ~~6~~ 3 Retirement Of Directors 8 ~~7-~~ 4-8 ~~8~~ 5 Disqualification Of Directors 8 ~~9~~ 6 Executive Directors ~~90-91~~ 87-88 Alternate Directors 89-92 ~~-95~~ Directors’ Fees And Expenses 93-96 ~~-99~~ Directors’ Interests 97-100 ~~-103~~ General Powers Of The Directors 10 ~~4-~~ 1-10 ~~9~~ 6 Borrowing Powers 107-110 ~~-113~~ Proceedings Of The Directors ~~114~~ 111-12 ~~3~~ 0 Managers 12 ~~4-~~ 1-12 ~~6~~ 3 Officers 124-127 ~~-131~~ Register ~~Ofo~~ f Directors ~~A~~ and Officers 1 ~~3~~ 28 Minutes 1 ~~33~~ 29 Seal 13 ~~4~~ 0 Authentication Of Documents 13 ~~5~~ 1 Destruction Of Documents 13 ~~6~~ 2 Dividends And Other Payments 13 ~~7-~~ 3-14 ~~6~~ 2 Reserves 14 ~~7~~ 3 Capitalisation 14 ~~8-~~ 4-14 ~~9~~ 5

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SUBJECT Subscription Rights Reserve Accounting Records Audit Notices Signatures Winding Up Indemnity Alteration Of Bye-laws And Amendment To Memorandum ~~Ofo~~f Association And Name ~~Ofo~~f Company Information	Bye-Law No. 1~~50~~46 147-151~~-155~~ 15~~6-~~2-1~~61~~57 ~~162~~158-16~~4~~0 16~~5~~1 16~~6-~~2-16~~7~~3 16~~8~~4 16~~9~~5 1~~70~~66

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INTERPRETATION

In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires, the words standing in the first column of the following table shall bear the meaning set opposite them respectively in the second column.

WORD MEANING

“Act” the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda ~~, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.~~
“address”
shall have the ordinary meaning given to it and shall, where applicable, include any facsimile number, electronic number or address or website used for the purposes of any communication pursuant to these Bye-laws.
“announcement” an official publication of a Notice or document of the Company, including a publication, subject to and to such extent permitted by the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules, by electronic communication or by advertisement published in the newspapers or in such manner or means ascribed and permitted by the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules and ~~any~~ applicable laws.
~~“associate(s)”~~
~~shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time in force.~~
“Auditor”
the auditor of the Company for the time being and may include any individual or partnership.
~~“Bermuda” the Islands of Bermuda~~
“Bye-laws” these Bye-laws in their present form or as supplemented or amended or substituted from time to time.
“Board” or “Directors”
the board of directors of the Company or ~~(as the context may require)~~ the directors present ~~and entitled to vote~~ at a meeting of directors of the Company at which a quorum is present.

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~~“business day”~~
~~“Bye-laws”~~
“capital”
“clear days”
“clearing house”
“close associate ~~(s)~~ ”
“Company”
~~any day on which the Designated Stock Exchange is generally open for the business of dealing in securities. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Designated Stock Exchange is closed for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong on a business day by reason of a Number 8 or higher typhoon signal, black rainstorm warning or other similar event, such day shall for the purpose of these Bye-laws be counted as a business day.~~
~~these Bye-laws in their present form or as supplemented or amended or substituted from time to time.~~
the share capital of the Company from time to time ~~of the Company.~~
in relation to the period of ~~a Notice for any meeting or otherwise~~ Notice that period excluding the day when the Notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect.
a clearing house ~~within the meaning of Schedule 1 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance of Hong Kong (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong) or such clearing house as~~ recognised by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted on a stock exchange in such jurisdiction ~~(where applicable)~~ .
in relation to any Director, shall have the same meaning as defined in the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules as modified from time to time, except that for purposes of Bye-law 10 ~~3~~ 0 where the transaction or arrangement to be approved by the Board is a connected transaction referred to in the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules, it shall have the same meaning as that ascribed to “associate” in the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules.
~~NWS Holdings Limited (formerly known as “Pacific Ports Company Limited”, before its name was changed to “~~ NWS Holdings Limited ~~” on 29 January 2003)~~ .

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“Company’s website”

the website of the Company to which any Member may have access, the address or domain name of which has been notified to the Members and as subsequently amended by Notice given to the Members in accordance with the provisions of these Bye-laws.

“competent regulatory authority”
a competent regulatory authority in the territory where the ~~authority the”~~ shares of the Company are listed or quoted on a stock exchange in such territory.
“debenture” and “debenture holder”
include debenture stock and debenture stockholder respectively.
“Designated Stock ~~a~~ Exchange”
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited for so long as the shares of the Company are listed or quoted on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited or such other stock exchange which is an appointed stock exchange ~~Exchange”~~ for the purposes of the Act in respect of which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted and where such appointed stock exchange deems such listing or quotation to be the primary listing or quotation of the shares of the Company.
~~“dollars” and “$”~~
~~dollars, the legal currency of Hong Kong.~~
“electronic”
in relation to technology, means having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical electromagnetic or similar capabilities and such other meanings as given to it in the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 of Bermuda as may be amended from time to time.
“electronic communication” a communication sent, transmitted, conveyed and received by wire, by radio, by optical means or by other electron magnetic means in any form through any medium.
“electronic meeting”
a general meeting held and conducted wholly and exclusively by virtual attendance and participation by Members and/or proxies by means of electronic facilities.

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~~“Exchange Listing Rules” shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from time to time in force to which the Company is subject.~~
“head office” such office of the Company as the Directors may from time to time determine to be the principal office of the Company.
“Hong Kong” the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
“hybrid meeting”
a general meeting convened for the (i) physical attendance by Members and/or proxies at the Principal Meeting Place and ~~/or~~ where applicable, one or more Meeting Locations and (ii) virtual attendance and participation by Members and/or proxies by means of electronic facilities.
“Listing Rules” the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange.
“Meeting Location”
has the meaning given to it in Bye-law 64(A).
“Member”
a duly registered holder from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company.
“month”

a calendar month.

“Notice”
written notice unless otherwise specifically stated and as further defined in these Bye-laws.
“Office”
the registered office of the Company for the time being.
“paid up”

paid up or credited as paid up.

“physical meeting”

a general meeting held and conducted by physical attendance and participation by Members and/or proxies at the Principal Meeting Place and/or where applicable, one or more Meeting Locations.

“Principal Meeting Place”

shall have the meaning given to it in Bye-law 59(2).

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“Register”
“Registration Office”
“Seal”
“Secretary”
“Statutes”
“substantial shareholder”
“year”
the principal register ~~of Members maintained in Bermuda (the “principal Register”)~~ and where applicable, any branch register of Members ~~(the “branch Register”)~~ to be kept pursuant to the provisions of the Act ~~or these Bye-laws.~~
in respect of any class of share capital such place as the Board may from time to time determine to keep a branch ~~Register~~ register of Members in respect of that class of share capital and where (except in cases where the Board otherwise directs) the transfers or other documents of title for such class of share capital are to be lodged for registration and are to be registered.
common seal or any one or more duplicate seals of the Company (including a securities seal) for use in Bermuda or in any place outside Bermuda.
any person, firm or corporation appointed by the Board to perform any of the duties of secretary of the Company and includes any assistant, deputy, temporary or acting secretary.
the Act and every other act of the Legislature of Bermuda for the time being in force applying to or affecting the Company, its memorandum of association and/or these Bye-laws.
a person who is entitled to exercise, or to control the exercise of, ~~ten per cent. (~~ 10% ~~)~~ or more (or such other percentage as may be prescribed by the ~~rules of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules from time to time) of the voting power at any general meeting of the Company.

a calendar year.

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In these Bye-laws, unless there be something within the subject or context inconsistent with such construction:
(a) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;
(b) words importing a gender include both gender and the neuter;
(c) words importing persons include companies, associations and bodies of persons whether corporate or not;
(d) the words:
- (i) “may” shall be construed as permissive;
- (ii) “shall” or “will” shall be construed as imperative;
(e) expressions referring to writing shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words or figures in a legible and non-transitory form or, to the extent permitted by and in accordance with the Statutes and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, any visible substitute for writing (including an electronic communication), or modes of representing or reproducing words partly in one visible form and partly in another visible form, and including where the representation takes the form of electronic display, provided that both the mode of service of the relevant document or Notice and the Member’s election ~~(where applicable)~~ comply with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations;
(f) references to any act, ordinance, statute or statutory provision shall be interpreted as relating to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force;
(g) save as aforesaid words and expressions defined in the Statutes shall bear the same meanings in these Bye-laws if not inconsistent with the subject in the context;
(h) a resolution shall be a special resolution when it has been passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of ~~the~~ votes cast by such Members as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, in the case of ~~any~~ such Members ~~being a~~ as are corporations, by their respective duly authorised ~~corporate~~ representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Bye-law 59;

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(i) a resolution shall be an ordinary resolution when it has been passed by a simple majority of ~~the~~ votes cast by such Members as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, in the case of any Member being a corporation, by ~~a~~ its duly authorised ~~corporate~~ representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Bye-law 59;
(j) a special resolution shall be effective for any purpose for which an ordinary resolution is expressed to be required under any provision of these Bye-laws or the Statutes;
(k) a resolution shall be an extraordinary resolution when it has been passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of votes cast by such Members as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, in the case of such Members as are corporations, by their respective duly authorised representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Bye-law 59;
(l) references to a document (including, but without limitation, a resolution in writing) being signed or executed include references to it being signed or executed under hand or under seal or by electronic signature or by electronic communication or by any other method and references to a Notice or document include a Notice or document recorded or stored in any digital, electronic, electrical, magnetic or other retrievable form or medium and information in visible form whether having physical substance or not;

~~(l~~

(m) references to the right of a Member to speak at an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting shall include the right to raise questions or make statements to the chairman of the meeting, verbally or in written form, by means of electronic facilities. Such a right shall be deemed to have been duly exercised if the questions or statements may be heard or seen by all or only some of the persons present at the meeting in which event the questions raised or the statements made shall be relayed verbatim to all persons present at the meeting, either orally or in writing using electronic facilities;
(n) a reference to a ~~“~~ meeting ~~”~~ shall mean a meeting convened and held in any manner permitted by these Bye-laws and any Member or Director attending and participating at a meeting by means of electronic facilities shall be deemed to be present at that meeting for all purposes of the Statutes and these Bye-laws, and attend, participate, attending, participating, attendance and participation shall be construed accordingly;

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( ~~m~~ o) references to a person’s participation in the business of a general meeting include without limitation and as relevant the right (including, in the case of a corporation, through a duly authorised representative) to speak or communicate, vote, be represented by a proxy and have access in hard copy or electronic form to all documents which are required by the Statutes or these Bye-laws to be made available at the meeting, and participate and participating in the business of a general meeting shall be construed accordingly;
( ~~n~~ p) references to electronic facilities include, without limitation, website addresses, webinars, webcast, video or any form of conference call systems (telephone, video, web or otherwise); and
( ~~o~~ q) where a Member is a corporation, any reference in these Bye-laws to a Member shall, where the context requires, refer to a duly authorised representative of such Member.

SHARE CAPITAL

(1) The share capital of the Company at the date on which these Bye-laws come into effect shall be divided into shares of a par value of ~~$~~ Hong Kong dollars 1.00 each.
(2) Subject to the Act, the Company’s memorandum of association and, where applicable, the ~~rules of any Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules and/or any competent regulatory authority, any power of the Company to purchase or otherwise acquire its own shares shall be exercisable by the Board upon such terms and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit ~~provided that, in respect of any purchase for redemption of redeemable shares, the provisions of Bye-law 9(2) shall be complied with~~ .

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

~~3A. (1) Subject to the Act and the Exchange Listing Rules, the Company may in accordance with an employees’ share scheme provide money on such terms as the Directors think fit for the acquisition of fully or partly paid shares in the Company. For the purposes of this Bye-law, an employees’ share scheme is a scheme for encouraging or facilitating the holding of shares or debentures in the Company by or for the benefit of bona fide employees or former employees of the Company (including any such bona fide employee or former employee who is or was a Director), the Company’s subsidiary or holding company or a subsidiary of the Company’s holding company, or the wives, husbands, widows, widowers or children or step-children under the age of twenty-one (21) of such employees or former employees (including as aforesaid).~~

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~~(2) Subject to compliance with Section 96 of the Act and the Exchange Listing Rules, the Company may make loans to persons (including Directors) employed or formerly employed in good faith by the Company with a view to enabling those persons to acquire fully or partly paid shares in the Company to be held by them by way of beneficial ownership.~~
~~(3) The conditions subject to which money and loans are provided under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Bye-law may include a provision to the effect that when an employee ceases to be employed by the Company, the Company’s subsidiary or holding company or a subsidiary of the Company’s holding company, the shares bought with such financial assistance shall or may be sold to the Company on such terms as the Directors think fit.~~
~~(4) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this Bye-law, the Company may, subject to compliance with Section 96 of the Act and the Exchange Listing Rules, otherwise~~
(3) Subject to compliance with the Listing Rules and any other competent regulatory authority, the Company may give financial assistance for the purpose of or in connection with ~~the acquisition~~ a purchase made or to be made by any person of ~~the Company’s shares or other securities or derivative securities on the Company’s shares in such manner and on such terms and conditions as the Directors shall think fit.~~ any shares in the Company.

ALTERATION OF CAPITAL

The Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution in accordance with Section 45 of the Act:
(a) increase its capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amounts, as the resolution shall prescribe;
(b) consolidate and divide all or any of its capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;
(c) divide its shares into several classes and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares attach thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges, conditions or such restrictions which in the absence of any such determination by the Company in general meeting, as the Directors may determine provided always that where the Company issues shares which do not carry voting rights, the words “non-voting” shall appear in the designation of such shares and where the equity capital includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares, other than those with the most favourable voting rights, must include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting”;

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(d) sub-divide its shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the memorandum of association (subject, nevertheless, to the Act), and may by such resolution determine that, as between the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, one or more of the shares may have any such preferred rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the other or others as the Company has power to attach to unissued or new shares;
(e) change the currency denomination of its share capital;
(f) make provision for the issue and allotment of shares which do not carry any voting rights; and
(g) cancel any shares which, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken, or agreed to be taken, by any person, and diminish the amount of its capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled.
The Board may settle as it considers expedient any difficulty which arises in relation to any consolidation and division under the last preceding Bye-law and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may issue certificates in respect of fractions of shares or arrange for the sale of the shares representing fractions and the distribution of the net proceeds of sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) in due proportion amongst the Members who would have been entitled to the fractions, and for this purpose the Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares representing fractions to their purchaser or resolve that such net proceeds be paid to the Company for the Company’s benefit. Such purchaser will not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor will his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.
The Company may from time to time by special resolution, subject to any confirmation or consent required by law, reduce its issued share capital or, ~~any share premium account (~~ save ~~that~~ for the ~~Company may always~~ use ~~the~~ of share premium ~~in its share premium account in the manner~~ as expressly permitted by the Act ~~without the need to seek the approval of the Members)~~ , any share premium account or other undistributable reserve ~~in any manner permitted by law.~~
Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue, or by these Bye-laws, any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall be treated as if it formed part of the original capital of the Company, and such shares shall be subject to the provisions contained in these Bye-laws with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, cancellation, surrender, voting and otherwise.

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SHARE RIGHTS

Subject to any special rights conferred on the holders of any shares or class of shares, any share in the Company (whether forming part of the present capital or not) may be issued with or have attached thereto such rights or restrictions whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise as the Company may by ordinary resolution determine or, if there has not been any such determination or so far as the same shall not make specific provision, as the Board may determine.
~~(1)~~ Subject to Sections 42 and 43 of the Act, these Bye-laws, and to any special rights conferred on the holders of any shares or attaching to any class of shares, any preference shares may be issued or converted into shares ~~and~~ that, at a determinable date or at the option of the Company or the holder if so authorised by its memorandum of association, ~~such preference shares~~ are liable to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the Company before the issue or conversion may by ordinary resolution of the Members determine ~~, before their issue or conversion.~~
~~(2) Where the Company purchases for redemption a redeemable share, purchases not made through the market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price as may from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting, either generally or with regard to specific purchases. If purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all Members alike~~

VARIATION OF RIGHTS

Subject to the Act and without prejudice to Bye-law 8 ~~, for the purpose of Section 47 of the Act~~ , all or any of the special rights for the time being attached to the shares or any class of shares may, unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, from time to time (whether or not the Company is being wound up) be varied, modified or abrogated either with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than three-fourths in nominal value of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To every such separate general meeting all the provisions of these Bye-laws relating to general meetings of the Company shall, mutatis mutandis, apply, but so that:
(a) the necessary quorum (other than at an adjourned meeting) shall be two persons (or in the case of a Member being a corporation, its duly authorised representative) holding or representing by proxy not less than one-third in nominal value of the issued shares of that class and at any adjourned meeting of such holders, two holders present in person ~~(~~ or (in the case of a Member being a corporation ~~,~~ ) its duly authorised representative ~~)~~ or by proxy (whatever the number of shares held by them) shall be a quorum; and
(b) every holder of shares of the class shall be entitled to one vote for every such share held by him.

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The special rights conferred upon the holders of any shares or class of shares shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided in the rights attaching to or the terms of issue of such shares, be deemed to be varied, modified or abrogated by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.

(1) Subject to the Act, these Bye-laws, any direction that may be given by the Company in general meeting and, where applicable, the ~~rules of any Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules and without prejudice to any special rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any shares or any class of shares, the unissued shares of the Company (whether forming part of the original or any increased capital) shall be at the disposal of the Board, which may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, at such times and for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the Board may in its absolute discretion determine but so that no shares shall be issued at a discount to their nominal value. Neither the Company nor the Board shall be obliged, when making or granting any allotment of, offer of, option over or disposal of shares, to make, or make available, any such allotment, offer, option or shares to Members or others with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories being a territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, this would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be, or be deemed to be, a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.
(2) The Board may issue warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for any class of shares or securities in the capital of the Company on such terms as it may from time to time determine.
The Company may in connection with the issue of any shares exercise all powers of paying commission and brokerage conferred or permitted by the Act. Subject to the Act, the commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash or by the allotment of fully or partly paid shares or partly in one and partly in the other.
Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or required in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any fractional part of a share or (except only as otherwise provided by these Bye-laws or by law) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

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Subject to the Act and these Bye-laws, the Board may at any time after the allotment of shares but before any person has been entered in the Register as the holder, recognise a renunciation thereof by the allottee in favour of some other person and may accord to any allottee of a share a right to effect such renunciation upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board considers fit to impose.

SHARE CERTIFICATES

Every share certificate shall be issued under the Seal or a facsimile thereof or with the Seal printed thereon and shall specify the number and class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the shares to which it relates, and the amount paid up thereon and may otherwise be in such form as the Directors may from time to time determine. The ~~Seal~~ seal of the Company may only be affixed or imprinted to a share certificate with the authority of the Directors, or be executed under the signature of appropriate officials with statutory authority, unless otherwise determined by the Directors. No certificate shall be issued and representing shares of more than one class. The Board may by resolution determine, either generally or in any particular case or cases, that any signatures on any such certificates (or certificates in respect of other securities) need not be autographic but may be affixed to such certificates by some mechanical means or may be printed thereon or that such certificates need not be signed by any person.
(1) In the case of a share held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate therefor and delivery of a certificate to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.
(2) Where a share stands in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the Register shall as regards service of Notices and, subject to the provisions of these Bye-laws, all or any other matters connected with the Company, except the transfer of the shares, be deemed the sole holder thereof.
Every person whose name is entered, upon an allotment of shares, as a Member in the Register shall be entitled, without payment, to receive one certificate for all such shares of any one class or several certificates each for one or more of such shares of such class upon payment for every certificate after the first of such reasonable out-of-pocket expenses as the Board from time to time determines.
Share certificates shall be issued within the relevant time limit as prescribed in the Act or as the Designated Stock Exchange may from time to time determine, whichever is the shorter, after allotment or, except in the case of a transfer which the Company is for the time being entitled to refuse to register and does not register, after lodgment of a transfer with the Company.

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(1) Upon every transfer of shares the certificate held by the transferor shall be given up to be cancelled, and shall forthwith be cancelled accordingly, and a new certificate shall be issued to the transferee in respect of the shares transferred to him at such fee as is provided in paragraph (2) of this Bye-law. If any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shall be retained by the transferor, a new certificate for the balance shall be issued to him at the aforesaid fee payable by the transferor to the Company in respect thereof.
(2) The fee referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be an amount not exceeding the relevant maximum amount as the Designated Stock Exchange may from time to time determine provided that the Board may at any time determine a lower amount for such fee.
If a share certificate shall be damaged or defaced or alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed a new certificate representing the same shares may be issued to the relevant Member upon request and on payment of such fee as the Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be the maximum fee payable or such lesser sum as the Board may determine and, subject to compliance with such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and to payment of the costs and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Company in investigating such evidence and preparing such indemnity as the Board may think fit and, in case of damage or defacement, on delivery of the old certificate to the Company provided always that where share warrants have been issued, no new share warrant shall be issued to replace one that has been lost unless the Directors are satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the original has been destroyed.

LIEN

The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all moneys (whether presently payable or not) called or payable at a fixed time in respect of that share. The Company shall also have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) registered in the name of a Member (whether or not jointly with other Members) for all amounts of money presently payable by such Member or his estate to the Company whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any equitable or other interest of any person other than such Member, and whether the period for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such Member or his estate and any other person, whether a Member or not. The Company’s lien on a share shall extend to all dividends or other moneys payable thereon or in respect thereof. The Board may at any time, generally or in any particular case, waive any lien that has arisen or declare any share exempt in whole or in part, from the provisions of this Bye-law.

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Subject to these Bye-laws, the Company may sell in such manner as the Board determines any share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable, or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged nor until the expiration of fourteen (14) clear days after a Notice, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable, or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving Notice of the intention to sell in default, has been served on the registered holder for the time being of the share or the person entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.
The net proceeds of the sale shall be received by the Company and applied in or towards payment or discharge of the debt or liability in respect of which the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the share prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the share at the time of the sale. To give effect to any such sale the Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares so transferred and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.

CALLS ON SHARES

Subject to these Bye-laws and to the terms of allotment, the Board may from time to time make calls upon the Members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium), and each Member shall (subject to being given at least fourteen (14) clear days’ Notice specifying the time and place of payment) pay to the Company as required by such Notice the amount called on his shares. A call may be extended, postponed or revoked in whole or in part as the Board determines but no Member shall be entitled to any such extension, postponement or revocation except as a matter of grace and favour.
A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Board authorising the call was passed and may be made payable either in one lump sum or by instalments.

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A person upon whom a call is made shall remain liable for calls made upon him notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the shares in respect of which the call was made. The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls and instalments due in respect thereof or other moneys due in respect thereof.
If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the amount unpaid from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate (not exceeding twenty per cent. (20%) per annum) as the Board may determine, but the Board may in its absolute discretion waive payment of such interest wholly or in part.
No Member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or to be present and vote (save as proxy for another Member) at any general meeting either personally or by proxy, or be reckoned in a quorum, or exercise any other privilege as a Member until all calls or instalments due by him to the Company, whether alone or jointly with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) shall have been paid.
On the trial or hearing of any action or other proceedings for the recovery of any money due for any call, it shall be sufficient to prove that the name of the Member sued is entered in the Register as the holder, or one of the holders, of the shares in respect of which such debt accrued, that the resolution making the call is duly recorded in the minute book, and that ~~N~~ notice of such call was duly given to the Member sued, in pursuance of these Bye-laws; and it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of the Directors who made such call, nor any other matters whatsoever, but the proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the debt.
Any amount payable in respect of a share upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether in respect of nominal value or premium or as an instalment of a call, shall be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date fixed for payment and if it is not paid the provisions of these Bye-laws shall apply as if that amount had become due and payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
On the issue of shares the Board may differentiate between the allottees or holders as to the amount of calls to be paid and the times of payment.

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The Board may, if it thinks fit, receive from any Member willing to advance the same, and either in money or money’s worth, all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid or instalments payable upon any shares held by him and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced (until the same would, but for such advance, become presently payable) pay interest at such rate (if any) as the Board may decide. The Board may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such Member not less than one month’s Notice of its intention in that behalf, unless before the expiration of such Notice the amount so advanced shall have been called up on the shares in respect of which it was advanced. Such payment in advance shall not entitle the holder of such share or shares to participate in respect thereof in a dividend subsequently declared.

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

(1) If a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable the Board may give to the person from whom it is due not less than fourteen (14) clear days’ Notice:
- (a) requiring payment of the amount unpaid together with any interest which may have accrued and which may still accrue up to the date of actual payment; and
- (b) stating that if the Notice is not complied with the shares on which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
(2) If the requirements of any such Notice are not complied with, any share in respect of which such Notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before payment of all calls and interest due in respect thereof has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that effect, and such forfeiture shall include all dividends and bonuses declared in respect of the forfeited share but not actually paid before the forfeiture.
When any share has been forfeited, Notice of the forfeiture shall be served upon the person who was before forfeiture the holder of the share. No forfeiture shall be invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such Notice.
The Board may accept the surrender of any share liable to be forfeited hereunder and, in such case, references in these Bye-laws to forfeiture will include surrender.
Until cancelled in accordance with the requirements of the Act, a forfeited share shall be the property of the Company and may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of to such person, upon such terms and in such manner as the Board determines, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture may be annulled by the Board on such terms as the Board determines.

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A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited shares but nevertheless shall remain liable to pay the Company all moneys which at the date of forfeiture were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares, with (if the Directors shall in their discretion so require) interest thereon from the date of forfeiture until payment at such rate (not exceeding twenty per cent. (20%) per annum) as the Board determines. The Board may enforce payment thereof if it thinks fit, and without any deduction or allowance for the value of the forfeited shares, at the date of forfeiture, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all such moneys in respect of the shares. For the purposes of this Bye-law any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, is payable thereon at a fixed time which is subsequent to the date of forfeiture, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, shall notwithstanding that time has not yet arrived be deemed to be payable at the date of forfeiture, and the same shall become due and payable immediately upon the forfeiture, but interest thereon shall only be payable in respect of any period between the said fixed time and the date of actual payment.
A declaration by a Director or the Secretary that a share has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share, and such declaration shall (subject to the execution of an instrument of transfer by the Company if necessary) constitute a good title to the share, and the person to whom the share is disposed of shall be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the consideration (if any), nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share. When any share shall have been forfeited, Notice of the declaration shall be given to the Member in whose name it stood immediately prior to the forfeiture, and an entry of the forfeiture, with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the Register, but no forfeiture shall be in any manner invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such Notice or make any such entry.
Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid the Board may at any time, before any shares so forfeited shall have been sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, permit the shares forfeited to be bought back upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the share, and upon such further terms (if any) as it thinks fit.
The forfeiture of a share shall not prejudice the right of the Company to any call already made or instalment payable thereon.
The provisions of these Bye-laws as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

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REGISTER OF MEMBERS

(1) The ~~Directors~~ Company shall ~~cause to be kept the principal~~ keep in one or more books a Register and ~~there~~ shall ~~be entered~~ enter therein the following particulars ~~required under the Act.~~ , that is to say:
- (a) the name and address of each Member, the number and class of shares held by him and, in respect of any shares that are not fully paid, the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on such shares;
- (b) the date on which each person was entered in the Register; and
- (c) the date on which any person ceased to be a Member.
(2) Subject to the Act, the Company may keep an overseas or local or other branch ~~Register at such location outside Bermuda as the Board thinks fit~~ register of Members resident in any place, and the Board may make and vary such regulations as it determines in respect of the keeping of any such register and maintaining a Registration Office in connection therewith.

~~44. (1) Except when the Register is closed, the principal Register and the branch Register, as the case may be, shall be open to inspection between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon during business hours by members of the public without charge at the Office or such other place at which the Register is kept in accordance with the Act.~~

~~(2) The Register may, after Notice has been given by advertisement (a) in respect of the principal Register, in an appointed newspaper (as defined in the Act); and (b) in respect of the branch Register, in newspapers in accordance with the requirements of the Act and any Designated Stock Exchange or if permitted by the Act, by electronic means or other means in such manner as may be accepted by the Designated Stock Exchange to that effect, be closed at such times or for such periods not exceeding in the whole thirty (30) days in each year as the Board may determine and either generally or in respect of any class of shares.~~
The Register and branch register of Members, as the case may be, shall be open to inspection between 10 a.m. and 12 noon during business hours by members of the public without charge at the Office or such other place at which the Register is kept in accordance with the Act. The Register including any overseas or local or other branch register of Members may, after notice has been given by advertisement in an appointed newspaper and where applicable, any other newspapers in accordance with the requirements of any Designated Stock Exchange or by any means in such manner as may be accepted by the Designated Stock Exchange to that effect, be closed at such times or for such periods not exceeding in the whole thirty (30) days in each year as the Board may determine and either generally or in respect of any class of shares.

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RECORD DATES

~~(1) Any resolution declaring a dividend or other distribution on shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in general meeting or a resolution of the Directors, may specify that the same shall be payable or made to the persons registered as the holder of such shares at the close of business on a particular date or at a particular time on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon the dividend or other distribution shall be payable or made to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend or other distribution between the transferors and transferees of any such shares. The provision of this Bye-law shall mutatis mutandis apply to bonuses, capitalisation issues, distributions, of realised and unrealised capital profits or other distributable reserves or accounts of the Company and offers or grants made by the Company to the Members.~~
~~(2) Notwithstanding~~ Subject to the Listing Rules, notwithstanding any other provision of these Bye-laws ~~,~~ the Company or the Directors may fix any date as the record date for:
- (a) determining the Members entitled to receive any dividend, distribution, allotment or issue;
- (b) determining the Members entitled to receive Notice of and to vote at any general meeting of the Company.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

Subject to these Bye-laws, any Member may transfer all or any of his shares in any manner permitted by and in accordance with the ~~rules of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules or by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the Board and may be under hand or, if the transferor or transferee is a clearing house or its nominee(s), by hand or by machine imprinted signature or by such other manner of execution as the Board may approve from time to time.
The instrument of transfer shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferee provided that the Board may dispense with the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferee in any case which it thinks fit in its discretion to do so. Without prejudice to Bye-law 46, the Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register in respect thereof. Nothing in these Bye-laws shall preclude the Board from recognising a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.

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(1) ~~Subject to these Bye-laws, fully paid shares of the Company shall be free from any restriction with respect to the right of the holder thereof to transfer (except when permitted by the Designated Stock Exchange) and shall also be free from all liens.~~ The Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without giving any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) to a person of whom it does not approve, or any share issued under any share incentive scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby still subsists, and it may also, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, refuse to register a transfer of any share to more than four (4) joint holders or a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) on which the Company has a lien.
(2) No transfer shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.
(3) The Board in so far as permitted by any applicable law may, in its absolute discretion, at any time and from time to time transfer any share upon the ~~principal~~ Register to any branch ~~R~~ register or any share on any branch ~~R~~ register to the ~~principal~~ Register or any other branch ~~R~~ register. In the event of any such transfer, the Member requesting such transfer shall bear the cost of effecting the transfer unless the Board otherwise determines.
(4) Unless the Board otherwise agrees (which agreement may be on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board in its absolute discretion may from time to time determine, and which agreement the Board shall, without giving any reason therefor, be entitled in its absolute discretion to give or withhold), no shares upon the ~~principal~~ Register shall be transferred to any branch ~~R~~ register nor shall shares on any branch ~~R~~ register be transferred to the ~~principal~~ Register or any other branch ~~R~~ register and all transfers and other documents of title shall be lodged for registration, and registered, in the case of any shares on a branch ~~R~~ register, at the relevant Registration Office, and, in the case of any shares on the ~~principal~~ Register, at the Office or such other place in Bermuda at which the ~~principal~~ Register is kept in accordance with the Act.
Without limiting the generality of the last preceding Bye-law, the Board may decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:–
(a) a fee of such maximum sum as the Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be payable or such lesser sum as the Board may from time to time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof;
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(c) the instrument of transfer is lodged at the Office or such other place in Bermuda at which the ~~principal~~ Register is kept in accordance with the Act or the Registration Office (as the case may be) accompanied by the relevant share certificate(s) and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer (and, if the instrument of transfer is executed by some other person on his behalf, the authority of that person so to do); and
(d) if applicable, the instrument of transfer is duly and properly stamped.
If the Board refuses to register a transfer of any share, it shall, within two (2) months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to each of the transferor and transferee Notice of the refusal.
The registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may, after ~~N~~ notice has been given by announcement or by electronic communication or by advertisement in any newspapers in accordance with the requirements of any Designated Stock Exchange or by any means in such manner as may be accepted by the Designated Stock Exchange to that effect be suspended at such times and for such periods (not exceeding in the whole thirty (30) days in any year) as the Board may determine.

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

If a Member dies, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and his legal personal representatives where he was a sole or only surviving holder, will be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing in this Bye-law will release the estate of a deceased Member (whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share which had been solely or jointly held by him.
Subject to Section 52 of the Act, any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may be required by the Board, elect either to become the holder of the share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof. If he elects to become the holder he shall notify the Company in writing either at the Registration Office or Office, as the case may be, to that effect. If he elects to have another person registered he shall execute a transfer of the share in favour of that person. The provisions of these Bye-laws relating to the transfer and registration of transfers of shares shall apply to such Notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or bankruptcy of the Member had not occurred and the Notice or transfer were a transfer signed by such Member.

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A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share. However, the Board may, if it thinks fit, withhold the payment of any dividend payable or other advantages in respect of such share until such person shall become the registered holder of the share or shall have effectually transferred such share, but, subject to the requirements of Bye-law 7 ~~5~~ 2(2) being met, such a person may vote at meetings.

UNTRACEABLE MEMBERS

(1) Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under paragraph (2) of this Bye-law ~~and Bye-law 144~~ , the Company may cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants by post if such cheques or warrants have been left uncashed on two consecutive occasions. However, the Company may exercise the power to cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion on which such a cheque or warrant is returned undelivered.
(2) The Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner as the Board thinks fit, any shares of a Member who is untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless:
- (a) all cheques or warrants in respect of dividends of the shares in question, being not less than three in total number, for any sum payable in cash to the holder of such shares in respect of them sent during the relevant period in the manner authorised by the Bye-laws have remained uncashed;
- (b) so far as it is aware at the end of the relevant period, the Company has not at any time during the relevant period received any indication of the existence of the Member who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law; and
- (c) the Company, if so required by the ~~rules of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules, has given Notice to, and caused advertisement in newspapers in accordance with the requirements of, the Designated Stock Exchange to be made of its intention to sell such shares in the manner required by the Designated Stock Exchange, and a period of three (3) months or such shorter period as may be allowed by the Designated Stock Exchange has elapsed since the date of such advertisement.

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

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

GENERAL MEETINGS

~~An~~ Subject to the Act, an annual general meeting of the Company shall be held in each financial year other than the financial year in which its statutory meeting is convened ~~at~~ and such ~~time (within a period of not more than fifteen~~ annual general meeting must be held within six ( ~~15~~ 6) months after the ~~holding~~ end of the ~~last preceding annual general meeting~~ Company’s financial year (unless a longer period would not infringe the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, if any) ~~and place as may be determined by the Board. A meeting of the Members or any class thereof may be held by means of such telephone, electronic or other communication facilities as to permit all persons participating in the meeting to communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously, and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence~~ at such ~~meeting~~ time.
Each general meeting, other than an annual general meeting, shall be called a special general meeting. All general meetings (including an annual general meeting, any adjourned meeting or postponed meeting) may be held as a physical meeting in any part of the world and at one or more locations as provided in Bye-law 64A, as a hybrid meeting or as an electronic meeting, as may be determined by the Board in its absolute discretion.
The Board may whenever it thinks fit call special general meetings, and Members holding at the date of deposit of the requisition not less than one-tenth of the paid up capital of the Company carrying the right of voting at general meetings of the Company shall at all times have the right, by written requisition to the Board or the Secretary of the Company, to require a special general meeting to be called by the Board for the transaction of any business or resolution specified in such

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requisition; and such meeting shall be held ~~in the form of a physical meeting only and~~ within two (2) months after the deposit of such requisition. If within twenty-one (21) days of such deposit the Board fails to proceed to convene such meeting the requisitionists themselves may convene such ~~physical~~ meeting in accordance with the provisions of Section 74(3) of the Act.

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

(1) An annual general meeting shall be called by Notice of not less than twenty-one (21) clear days ~~and not less than twenty (20) clear business days.~~ All other general meetings (including a special general meeting) ~~shall~~ must be called by Notice of not less than fourteen (14) clear days ~~and not less than ten (10) clear business days~~ but if permitted by the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules, a general meeting may be called by shorter Notice if it is so agreed:
- (a) in the case of a meeting called as an annual general meeting, by all the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and
- (b) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of the Members having the right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together representing not less than ninety-five per cent. (95%) of the total voting rights at the meeting of all the Members.
(2) The Notice shall specify (a) the time and date of the meeting, (b) save for an electronic meeting, the place of the meeting and if there is more than one Meeting Location as determined by the Board pursuant to Bye-law 64A, the principal place of the meeting (the “Principal Meeting Place”), (c) if the general meeting is to be a hybrid meeting or an electronic meeting, the Notice shall include a statement to that effect and with details of the electronic facilities for attendance and participation by electronic means at the meeting or where such details will be made available by the Company prior to the meeting, and (d) particulars of resolutions to be considered at the meeting. The Notice convening an annual general meeting shall specify the meeting as such. Notice of every general meeting shall be given to all Members other than to such Members as, under the provisions of these Bye-laws or the terms of issue of the shares they hold, are not entitled to receive such Notices from the Company, to all persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member and to each of the Directors and the Auditors.
The accidental omission to give Notice of a meeting or (in cases where instruments of proxy are sent out with the Notice) to send such instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of such Notice or such instrument of proxy by, any person entitled to receive such Notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or the proceedings at that meeting.

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PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

(1) All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at a special general meeting, and also all business that is transacted at an annual general meeting, with the exception of sanctioning dividends, the reading, considering and adopting of the accounts and balance sheet and the reports of the Directors and Auditors and other documents required to be annexed to the balance sheet, the election of Directors and appointment of Auditors and other officers in the place of those retiring, the fixing of ~~or the delegation of power to the Directors to fix~~ the remuneration of the Auditors, and the voting of ~~or the delegation of power to the Directors to fix~~ remuneration or extra ~~or special~~ remuneration to the Directors.
(2) No business other than the appointment of a chairman of a meeting shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum is present at the commencement of the business. Two (2) Members entitled to vote and present in person or by proxy or, for quorum purposes only, two persons appointed by the clearing house as authorised representative or proxy, shall form a quorum for all purposes.
If within thirty (30) minutes (or such longer time not exceeding one hour as the chairman of the meeting may determine to wait) after the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved. In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and (where applicable) same place(s) or to such time and (where applicable) such place(s) and in such form and manner referred to in Bye-law 57 as the chairman of the meeting (or in default, the Board) may absolutely determine. If at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the meeting shall be dissolved.
(1) The chairman ~~or, in his absence,~~ of the ~~deputy chairman (~~ Company or if ~~one~~ there is ~~appointed) of~~ more than one chairman, any one of them as may be agreed amongst themselves or failing such agreement, any one of them elected by all the ~~Board~~ Directors present shall preside as chairman at ~~everya~~ general meeting. If at any meeting ~~the~~ no chairman ~~or the deputy chairman (if one is appointed), as the case may be, is not~~ is present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, or ~~if neither of them (where a~~ is willing to act as chairman, the deputy chairman of the Company or if there is more than one deputy chairman, any one of them as may be agreed amongst themselves or failing such agreement, any one of them elected by all the Directors present shall preside as chairman. If no chairman or deputy chairman is ~~appointed)~~ present or is willing to act as chairman of the meeting, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to act, or if ~~only~~ one Director only is present he shall preside as chairman if willing to act. If no Director is present, or if each of the Directors present declines to take the chair, or if the chairman chosen shall retire from the chair, the Members present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote shall elect one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

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(2) If the chairman of a general meeting is participating in the general meeting using an electronic facility or facilities and becomes unable to participate in the general meeting using such electronic facility or facilities, another person (determined in accordance with Bye-law 63(1) above) shall preside as chairman of the meeting unless and until the original chairman of the meeting is able to participate in the general meeting using the electronic facility or facilities.
Subject to Bye-law 64C, the chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time (or indefinitely) and/or from place to place(s ~~) (where applicable~~ ) and/or from one form to another (a physical meeting, a hybrid meeting or an electronic meeting) as the meeting shall determine, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business which might lawfully have been transacted at the meeting had the adjournment not taken place. When a meeting is adjourned for fourteen (14) days or more, at least seven (7) clear days’ Notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given specifying the details set out in Bye-law 59(2) but it shall not be necessary to specify in such ~~N~~ notice the nature of the business to be transacted at the adjourned meeting and the general nature of the business to be transacted. Save as aforesaid, it shall be unnecessary to give notice of an adjournment.
64A. (1) The Board may, at its absolute discretion, arrange for persons entitled to attend a general meeting to do so by simultaneous attendance and participation by means of electronic facilities at such location or locations (“ Meeting Location(s) ”) determined by the Board at its absolute discretion. Any Member or any proxy attending and participating in such way or any Member ~~or proxy~~ participating in an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting by means of electronic facilities is deemed to be present at and shall be counted in the quorum of the meeting.
(2) All general meetings are subject to the following:
- (a) where a Member is attending a Meeting Location and/or in the case of a hybrid meeting, the meeting shall be treated as having commenced if it has commenced at the Principal Meeting Place;
- (b) Members present in person ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy at a Meeting Location and/or Members participating in an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting by means of electronic facilities shall be counted in the quorum for and entitled to vote at the meeting in question, and that meeting shall be duly constituted and its proceedings valid provided that the chairman of the meeting is satisfied that adequate electronic facilities are available throughout the meeting to ensure that Members at all Meeting Locations and Members participating in an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting by means of electronic facilities are able to participate in the business for which the meeting has been convened;

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(c) where Members attend a meeting by being present at one of the Meeting Locations and/or where Members participating in an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting by means of electronic facilities, a failure (for any reason) of the electronic facilities or communication equipment, or any other failure in the arrangements for enabling those in a Meeting Location other than the Principal Meeting Place to participate in the business for which the meeting has been convened or in the case of an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting, the inability of one or more Members or proxies to access, or continue to access, the electronic facilities despite adequate electronic facilities having been made available by the Company, shall not affect the validity of the meeting or the resolutions passed, or any business conducted there or any action taken pursuant to such business provided that there is a quorum present throughout the meeting; and
(d) if any of the Meeting Locations is outside the jurisdiction of ~~where~~ the Principal Meeting Place ~~is~~ and/or in the case of a hybrid meeting, unless otherwise stated in the Notice, the provisions of these Bye-laws concerning the service and giving of Notice for the meeting, and the time for lodging proxies, shall apply by reference to the Principal Meeting Place; and in the case of an electronic meeting, the time for lodging proxies shall be as stated in the Notice for the meeting.
64B. The Board and, at any general meeting, the chairman of the meeting may from time to time make arrangements for managing attendance and/or participation and/or voting at the Principal Meeting Place, any Meeting Location(s) and/or participation in an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting by means of electronic facilities (whether involving the issue of tickets or some other means of identification, passcode, seat reservation, electronic voting or otherwise) as it shall in its absolute discretion consider appropriate, and may from time to time change any such arrangements, provided that a Member who, pursuant to such arrangements, is not entitled to attend, in person ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy, at any Meeting Location shall be entitled so to attend at one of the other Meeting Locations; and the entitlement of any Member so to attend the meeting or adjourned meeting or postponed meeting at such Meeting Location or Meeting Locations shall be subject to any such arrangement as may be for the time being in force and by the Notice of meeting or adjourned meeting or postponed meeting stated to apply to the meeting.

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64C. If it appears to the chairman of the general meeting that:

(a) the electronic facilities at the Principal Meeting Place or at such other Meeting Location(s) at which the meeting may be attended have become inadequate for the purposes referred to in Bye-law 64A(1) or are otherwise not sufficient to allow the meeting to be conducted substantially in accordance with the provisions set out in the Notice of the meeting; or
(b) in the case of an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting, electronic facilities being made available by the Company have become inadequate; or
(c) it is not possible to ascertain the view of those present or to give all persons entitled to do so a reasonable opportunity to communicate and/or vote at the meeting; or
(d) there is violence or the threat of violence, unruly behaviour or other disruption occurring at the meeting or it is not possible to secure the proper and orderly conduct of the meeting;

then, without prejudice to any other power which the chairman of the meeting may have under these Bye-laws or at common law, the chairman may, at his/her absolute discretion, without the consent of ~~the Members present at~~ the meeting, and before or after the meeting has started and irrespective of whether a quorum is present, interrupt or adjourn the meeting (including adjournment for indefinite period). All business conducted at the meeting up to the time of such adjournment shall be valid.

64D. (1) The Board and, at any general meeting, the chairman of the meeting may make any arrangement and impose any requirement or restriction ~~as~~ the Board or the chairman of the meeting, as the case may be, considers appropriate to ensure the security and orderly conduct of a meeting (including, without limitation, requirements for evidence of identity to be produced by those attending the meeting, the searching of their personal property and the restriction of items that may be taken into the meeting place, determining the number and frequency of and the time allowed for questions that may be raised at a meeting). Members shall also comply with all requirements or restrictions imposed by the owner of the premises at which the meeting is held. Any decision made under this Bye-law shall be final and conclusive and a person who refuses to comply with any such arrangements, requirements or restrictions may be refused entry to the meeting or ejected (physically or electronically) from the meeting.

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64E. If, after the sending of Notice of a general meeting but before the meeting is held, or after the adjournment of a meeting but before the adjourned meeting is held (whether or not Notice of the adjourned meeting is required), the Directors, in their absolute discretion, consider that it is inappropriate, impracticable, unreasonable or undesirable for any reason to hold the general meeting on the date or at the time or place or by means of electronic facilities specified in the Notice calling the meeting, they may change or postpone the meeting to another date, time and/or place and/or change the electronic facilities and/or change the form of the meeting (a physical meeting, an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting) without approval from the Members. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Directors shall have the power to provide in every Notice calling a general meeting the circumstances in which a postponement of the relevant general meeting may occur automatically without further notice, including without limitation where a number 8 or higher typhoon signal, black rainstorm warning or other similar event is in force at any time on the day of the meeting. This Bye-law shall be subject to the following:
(a) when a meeting is so postponed, the Company shall endeavour to post a Notice of such postponement on the Company’s website as soon as practicable (provided that failure to post such a Notice shall not affect the automatic postponement of ~~a~~ such meeting);
(b) when only the form of the meeting or electronic facilities specified in the Notice are changed, the Board shall notify the Members of details of such change in such manner as the Board may determine;
(c) when a meeting is postponed or ~~rescheduled~~ changed in accordance with this Bye-law, subject to and without prejudice to Bye-law 64, unless already specified in the original Notice of the meeting, the Board shall fix the date, time, place (if applicable) and electronic facilities (if applicable) for the postponed or ~~rescheduled~~ changed meeting and shall notify the Members of such details in such manner as the Board may determine; further all proxy forms shall be valid (unless revoked or replaced by a new proxy) if they are received as required by these Bye-laws not less than 48 hours before the time of the postponed or ~~rescheduled~~ changed meeting; and
(d) notice of the business to be transacted at the postponed or ~~rescheduled~~ changed meeting shall not be required, nor shall any accompanying documents be required to be recirculated, provided that the business to be transacted at the postponed or ~~rescheduled~~ changed meeting is the same as that set out in the original Notice of general meeting circulated to the Members.

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64F. All persons seeking to attend and participate in an electronic meeting or a hybrid meeting shall be responsible for maintaining adequate facilities to enable them to do so. Subject to Bye-law 64C, any inability of a person or persons to attend or participate in a general meeting by way of electronic facilities shall not invalidate the proceedings of and/or resolutions passed at that meeting.
64G. Without prejudice to other provisions in Bye-law 64, a physical meeting may also be held by means of such telephone, electronic or other communication facilities as permit all persons participating in the meeting to communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously, and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.
If an amendment is proposed to any resolution under consideration but is in good faith ruled out of order by the chairman of the meeting, the proceedings on the substantive resolution shall not be invalidated by any error in such ruling. In the case of a resolution duly proposed as a special resolution, no amendment thereto (other than a mere clerical amendment to correct a patent error) may in any event be considered or voted upon.

VOTING

(1) Subject to any special rights or restrictions as to voting for the time being attached to any shares by or in accordance with these Bye-laws, at any general meeting on a poll every Member present in person ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy shall have one vote for every fully paid share of which he is the holder but so that no amount paid up or credited as paid up on a share in advance of calls or instalments is treated for the foregoing purposes as paid up on the share. A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided by way of a poll save that in the case of a physical meeting, the chairman of the meeting may in good faith, allow a resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter to be voted on by a show of hands in which case every Member present in person or by proxy(ies) shall have one vote provided that where more than one proxy is appointed by a Member which is a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), each such proxy shall have one vote on a show of hands. For the purposes of this Bye-law, procedural and administrative matters are those that (i) are not on the agenda of the general meeting or in any supplementary circular that may be issued by the Company to its Members; and (ii) relate to the chairman’s duties to maintain the orderly conduct of the meeting and/or allow the business of the meeting to be properly and effectively dealt with, whilst allowing all Members a reasonable opportunity to express their views. Votes may be cast by such means, electronic or otherwise, as the Directors or the chairman of the meeting may determine.

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(2) In the case of a physical meeting where a show of hands is allowed, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll may be demanded:
(a) by the chairman of such meeting; or
(b) by at least three ~~(3)~~ Members present in person ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or
(c) by a Member or Members present in person ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy and representing not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all Members having the right to vote at the meeting; or
(d) by a Member or Members present in person ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy and holding shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than one-tenth of the total sum paid up on all shares conferring that right.

A demand by a person as proxy for a Member shall be deemed to be the same as a demand by the Member.

Where a resolution is voted on by a show of hands, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or not carried by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect made in the minute book of the Company, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded for or against the resolution. The results of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. The ~~poll results as recorded in the scrutineer’s certificate and signed by the scrutineer~~ Company shall only be ~~the conclusive evidence of such resolution of the meeting without proof~~ required to disclose the voting figures on a poll if such disclosure is required by the Listing Rules.

~~68. [intentionally deleted]~~

~~69. [intentionally deleted]~~

~~70. [intentionally deleted]~~

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On a poll votes may be given either personally ~~(in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative)~~ or by proxy.
~~72~~ 69. A person entitled to more than one vote on a poll need not use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.

~~73.~~ 70.All questions submitted to a meeting shall be decided by a simple majority of votes except where a greater majority is required by these Bye-laws or by the Act. In the case of an equality of votes in respect of a resolution put to the vote of a general meeting or any adjourned meeting or postponed meeting, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of such meeting shall, unless he is required to abstain from voting on that resolution or restricted to voting only for or against that resolution under these Bye-laws or the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules or both of them, be entitled to a second or casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have.

~~74.~~ 71.Where there are joint holders of any share any one of such joint holder may vote, either in person or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto, but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting, adjourned meeting or postponed meeting thereof, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register in respect of the joint holding. Several executors or administrators of a deceased Member in whose name any share stands shall for the purposes of this Bye-law be deemed joint holders thereof.

~~75.~~ 72.(1) A Member who is a patient for any purpose relating to mental health or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction for the protection or management of the affairs of persons incapable of managing their own affairs may vote, by his receiver, committee, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a receiver, committee or curator bonis appointed by such court, and such receiver, committee, curator bonis or other person may vote by proxy, and may otherwise act and be treated as if he were the registered holder of such shares for the purposes of general meetings, provided that such evidence as the Board may require of the authority of the person claiming to vote shall have been deposited at the Office, head office or Registration Office, as appropriate, not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting, or postponed meeting, as the case may be.

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(2) Any person entitled under Bye-law 53 to be registered as the holder of any shares may vote at any general meeting in respect thereof, or any adjourned meeting or postponed meeting thereof, in the same manner as if he were the registered holder of such shares, provided that forty-eight (48) hours at least before the time of the holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting or postponed meeting, as the case may be, at which he proposes to vote, he shall satisfy the Board of his entitlement to such shares, or the Board shall have previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect thereof.

~~76.~~ 73.(1) No Member shall, unless the Board otherwise determines, be entitled to attend and vote and to be reckoned in a quorum at any general meeting unless he is duly registered and all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.

(2) All members shall have the right to (a) speak at a general meeting, and (b) vote at a general meeting except where a Member is required, by the Listing Rules, to abstain from voting to approve the matter under consideration.
( ~~2~~ 3) Where the Company has knowledge that any Member is, under the ~~Exchange~~ Listing Rules, required to abstain from voting on any particular resolution of the Company or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution of the Company, any votes cast by or on behalf of such Member in contravention of such requirement or restriction shall not be counted.

77. 74.If:

(a) any objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter; or
(b) any votes have been counted which ought not to have been counted or which might have been rejected; or
(c) any votes are not counted which ought to have been counted;

the objection or error shall not vitiate the decision of the meeting or adjourned meeting or postponed meeting on any resolution unless the same is raised or pointed out at the meeting or, as the case may be, the adjourned meeting or postponed meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered or at which the error occurs. Any objection or error shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting and shall only vitiate the decision of the meeting on any resolution if the chairman decides that the same may have affected the decision of the meeting. The decision of the chairman on such matters shall be final and conclusive.

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PROXIES

7 ~~8~~ 5. Any Member entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company shall be entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him. A Member who is the holder of two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to represent him and vote on his behalf at a general meeting of the Company or at a class meeting. A proxy need not be a Member. In addition, a proxy or proxies representing either a Member who is an individual or a Member which is a corporation shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the Member which he or they represent as such Member could exercise.
7 ~~9~~ 6. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing and if the Board in its absolute discretion determines, may be contained in an electronic communication, and (i) if in writing but not contained in an electronic communication, under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under its seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person authorised to sign the same; or (ii) in the case of an appointment contained in an electronic communication, submitted by or on behalf of the appointor, subject to such terms and conditions and authenticated in such manner as the Board may in its absolute discretion determine. In the case of an instrument of proxy purporting to be signed on behalf of a corporation by an officer thereof it shall be assumed, unless the contrary appears, that such officer was duly authorised to sign such instrument of proxy on behalf of the corporation without further evidence of the fact.
~~80~~ 77. (1) The Company may, at its absolute discretion, provide an electronic address or an electronic means of submission for the receipt of any document or information relating to proxies for a general meeting (including any instrument of proxy or invitation to appoint a proxy, any document necessary to show the validity of, or otherwise relating to, an appointment of proxy (whether or not required under these Bye-laws) and Notice of termination of the authority of a proxy). If such an electronic address or electronic means of submission is provided, the Company shall be deemed to have agreed that any such document or information (relating to proxies as aforesaid) may be sent by electronic means to that address or by such electronic means of submission, subject as hereafter provided and subject to any other limitations or conditions specified by the Company when providing the address. Without limitation, the Company may from time to time determine that any such electronic address or such electronic means of submission may be used generally for such matters or specifically for particular meetings or purposes and, if so, the Company may provide different electronic addresses or electronic means of submission for different purposes. If any document or information required to be sent to the Company under this Bye-law is sent to the Company by electronic means, such document or information is not treated as validly delivered to or deposited with the Company if the same is not received by the Company at its designated electronic address provided in

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accordance with this Bye-law or if no electronic address is so designated by the Company for the receipt of such document or information.

(2) Without prejudice to and in furtherance of Bye-law ~~80~~ 77(1), the Board may:
(a) impose any conditions on the transmission of and its receipt of electronic communications including, for the avoidance of doubt, imposing any security or encryption arrangements as may be specified by the Company;
(b) allow a proxy for a holder of any shares in uncertificated form to be appointed by electronic communication in the form of an uncertificated proxy instruction;
(c) allow any supplement to the uncertificated proxy instruction or any amendment or revocation of any uncertificated proxy instruction to be made by a further uncertificated proxy instruction;
(d) decide what method should be used to determine at what time the instruction or notification is treated as being received by the Company; and
(e) treat any notification purporting or expressed to be sent on behalf of a holder of a share in uncertificated form as sufficient evidence of the authority of the person sending the instruction to send it on behalf of that holder.

For the purposes of this Bye-law, an uncertificated proxy instruction is a properly authenticated dematerialised instruction, and/or other instruction or notification, if sent through a relevant system to a participant in that system chosen by the Board to act for the Company. The uncertificated proxy instruction may be in any form and subject to any terms and conditions that the Board deems appropriate, but always subject to the facilities and requirements of the relevant system.

(3) The instrument appointing a proxy and (if required by the Board) the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority, shall be delivered to such place or one of such places (if any) as may be specified for that purpose in or by way of note to or in any document accompanying the Notice convening the meeting (or, if no place is so specified at the Registration Office or the Office, as may be appropriate), or if the Company has provided an electronic address or electronic means of submission in accordance with the preceding paragraph, shall be received at the electronic address or via the electronic means of submission specified, not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or postponed

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meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve (12) months from the date named in it as the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting or postponed meeting in cases where the meeting was originally held within twelve (12) months from such date. Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a Member from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

78 ~~1~~ . Instruments of proxy shall be in any common form or in such other form as the Board may approve (provided that this shall not preclude the use of the two-way form) and the Board may, if it thinks fit, send out with the Notice of any meeting forms of instrument of proxy for use at the meeting. The instrument of proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to vote on any amendment of a resolution put to the meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit. The instrument of proxy shall, unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment or postponement of the meeting as for the meeting to which it relates. The Board may decide, either generally or in any particular case, to treat a proxy appointment as valid notwithstanding that the appointment or any of the information required under these Bye-laws has not been received in accordance with the requirements of these Bye-laws. Subject to aforesaid, if the proxy appointment and any of the information required under these Bye-laws is not received in the manner set out in these Bye-laws, the appointee shall not be entitled to vote in respect of the shares in question.
~~82~~ 79. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal, or revocation of the instrument of proxy or of the authority under which it was executed, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity or revocation shall have been received by the Company at the Office or the Registration Office (or such other place as may be specified for the delivery of instruments of proxy in the Notice convening the meeting or other document sent therewith) two (2) hours at least before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting or postponed meeting, at which the instrument of proxy is used.
8 ~~3~~ 0. Anything which under these Bye-laws a Member may do by proxy he may likewise do by his duly appointed attorney and the provisions of these Bye-laws relating to proxies and instruments appointing proxies shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to any such attorney and the instrument under which such attorney is appointed.

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CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES

8 ~~4~~ 1. (1) Any corporation which is a Member may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members. The person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of such corporation as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member and such corporation shall for the purposes of these Bye-laws be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting if a person so authorised is present thereat.
(2) Where a Member is a clearing house (or its nominee(s) and, in each case, being a corporation), it may authorise such persons as it thinks fit to act as its representatives at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members provided that ~~, if more than one person is so authorised,~~ the authorisation shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which each such representative is so authorised. Each person so authorised under the provisions of this Bye-law shall be deemed to have been duly authorised without further evidence of the facts and be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) as if such person was the registered holder of the shares of the Company held by the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) in respect of the number and class of shares specified in the relevant authorisation including, where a show of hands is allowed, the right to vote individually on a show of hands.
(3) Any reference in these Bye-laws to a duly authorised representative of a Member being a corporation shall mean a representative authorised under the provisions of this Bye-law.

WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS OF MEMBERS

8 ~~5~~ 2. (1) Subject to the Act, a resolution in writing signed (in such manner as to indicate, expressly or impliedly, unconditional approval) by or on behalf of all persons for the time being entitled to receive Notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company shall, for the purposes of these Bye-laws, be treated as a resolution duly passed at a general meeting of the Company and, where relevant, as a special resolution so passed. Any such resolution shall be deemed to have been passed at a meeting held on the date on which it was signed by the last Member to sign, and where the resolution states a date as being the date of his signature thereof by any Member the statement shall be prima facie evidence that it was signed by him on that date. Such a resolution may consist of several documents in the like form, each signed by one or more relevant Members.
(2) Notwithstanding any provisions contained in these Bye-laws, a resolution in writing shall not be passed for the purpose of removing a Director before the expiration of his term of office under Bye-law 8 ~~6~~ 3(4) or for the purposes set out in Bye-law 15 ~~6~~ 2( ~~5~~ 3) relating to the removal and appointment of the Auditor.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

8 ~~6~~ 3. (1) Unless otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the number of Directors shall not be less than two (2). There shall be no maximum number of Directors unless otherwise determined from time to time by the Members in general meeting. The Directors shall be elected or appointed in the first place at the statutory meeting of Members and thereafter at the annual general meeting in accordance with Bye-law ~~s~~ 8 ~~7 and 88~~ 4 or at any special general meeting called for such purpose and who shall hold office for such term as the Members may determine or, in the absence of such determination, in accordance with Bye-law 8 ~~7~~ 4 or until their successors are elected or appointed or their office is otherwise vacated. Any general meeting may authorise the Board to fill any vacancy in their number left unfilled at a general meeting.
(2) The Directors shall have the power from time to time and at any time to appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy on the Board or, subject to authorisation by the Members in general meeting, as an addition to the existing Board but so that the number of Directors so appointed shall not exceed any maximum number determined from time to time by the Members in general meeting. Any Director ~~appointed by the Board to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office until the first general meeting of Members after his appointment and be subject to re-election at such meeting and any Director appointed by the Board as an addition to the existing Board~~ so appointed shall hold office ~~only~~ until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election ~~at that meeting~~ .
(3) Neither a Director nor an alternate Director shall be required to hold any shares of the Company by way of qualification and a Director or alternate Director (as the case may be) who is not a Member shall be entitled to receive Notice of and to attend and speak at any general meeting of the Company and of all classes of shares of the Company.
(4) The Members may, at any general meeting convened and held in accordance with these Bye-laws, by ordinary resolution remove a Director at any time before the expiration of his period of office notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Bye-laws or in any agreement between the Company and such Director (but without prejudice to any claim for damages under any such agreement) provided that the Notice of any such meeting convened for the purpose of removing a Director shall contain a statement of the intention so to do and be served on such Director ~~not less than~~ fourteen (14) days before the meeting and at such meeting such Director shall be entitled to be heard on the motion for his removal.

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(5) A vacancy on the Board created by the removal of a Director under the provisions of subparagraph (4) above may be filled by the election or appointment by the Members at the meeting at which such Director is removed to hold office until the next appointment of Directors or until their successors are elected or appointed or, in the absence of such election or appointment such general meeting may authorise the Board to fill any vacancy in the ~~me~~ number left unfilled.
(6) The Company may from time to time in general meeting by ordinary resolution increase or reduce the number of Directors but so that the number of Directors shall never be less than two (2).
~~(7) The Board shall appoint a Director to be chairman, and may appoint a Director to be deputy chairman, and shall have power to determine the period for which the chairman or, as the case may be, the deputy chairman is to hold office. The chairman or, in his absence, the deputy chairman (if one is appointed) shall preside at meetings of the Board, but if at any meeting the chairman or the deputy chairman, as the case may be, is not present within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.~~

RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS

8 ~~7~~ 4. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions in the ~~se~~ Bye-laws, at each annual general meeting one-third of the Directors for the time being (or, if their number is not a multiple of three (3), the number nearest to but not ~~greaterl~~ ess than one-third) shall retire from office by rotation provided that ~~notwithstanding anything herein, each~~ every Director shall be subject to retirement ~~by rotation~~ at least once ~~in~~ every three (3) years.
(2) A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election and shall continue to act as a Director throughout the meeting at which he retires. The Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to ascertain the number of ~~D~~ directors to retire by rotation) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those of the other Directors subject to retirement by rotation who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that as between persons who became or were last re-elected Directors on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. Any Director appointed pursuant to Bye-law 8 ~~6~~ 3(2) shall not be taken into account in determining which particular Directors or the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation.

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8 ~~8~~ 5. No person ~~,~~ other than a Director retiring ~~Director~~ at the meeting shall, unless recommended by the ~~Board~~ Directors for election, be eligible for election ~~to the office of~~ as a Director at any general meeting ~~,~~ unless a Notice signed by a Member (other than the person to be proposed) duly qualified to attend and vote at the meeting for which such notice is given of ~~the~~ his intention to propose ~~that~~ such person for election ~~as a Director~~ and also a Notice signed by th ~~at~~ e person to be proposed of his willingness to be elected shall have been lodged at the head office or at the Registration Office provided that the minimum length of the period, during which such Notice(s) ~~may be~~ are given, shall be at least seven (7) days and that (if the Notices are submitted after the despatch of the Notice of the general meeting appointed for such election) the period for lodgment of such Notice(s) shall commence on the day after the despatch of the Notice of the general meeting appointed for such election and end no later than seven (7) days prior to the date of such general meeting.

DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS

8 ~~9~~ 6. The office of a Director shall be vacated if the Director:
(1) resigns his office by Notice delivered to the Company at the Office or tendered at a meeting of the Board;
(2) becomes of unsound mind or dies;
(3) without special leave of absence from the Board, is absent from meetings of the Board for six consecutive months, and his alternate Director, if any, shall not during such period have attended in his stead and the Board resolves that his office be vacated; ~~or~~
(4) becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or suspends payment or compounds with his creditors;
(5) is prohibited by law from being a Director; or
(6) ceases to be a Director by virtue of any provision of the Statutes or is removed from office pursuant to these Bye-laws.

No Director shall be required to vacate office or be ineligible for re-election or re-appointment as a Director, and no person shall be ineligible for appointment as Directors, by reason only of his having attained any particular age.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

~~90~~ 87. The Board may from time to time appoint any one or more of its body to be a managing director, joint managing director or deputy managing director or to hold any other employment or executive office with the Company for such period (subject to their continuance as Directors) and upon such terms as the Board may determine and the Board may revoke or terminate any of such appointments. Any such revocation or termination as aforesaid shall be without prejudice to any claim for damages that such Director may have against the Company or the Company may have against such Director. A Director appointed to an office under this Bye-law shall be subject to the same provisions as to removal as the other Directors of the Company, and he shall (subject to the provisions of any contract between him and the Company) ipso facto and immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the office of Director for any cause.
~~91~~ 88. Notwithstanding Bye-laws 9 ~~6~~ 3, 9 ~~7~~ 4, 9 ~~8~~ 5 and 9 ~~9~~ 6, an executive ~~D~~ director appointed to an office under Bye-law ~~90~~ 87 hereof shall receive such remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise or by all or any of those modes) and such other benefits (including pension and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances as the Board may from time to time determine, and either in addition to or in lieu of his remuneration as a Director.

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

89 ~~2~~ . Any Director may at any time by Notice delivered to the Office or head office or at a meeting of the Directors appoint any person to be his alternate Director. Any person so appointed shall have all the rights and powers of the Director or Directors for whom such person is appointed in the alternative provided that such person shall not be counted more than once in determining whether or not a quorum is present. An alternate Director may be removed at any time by the person or body which appointed him and, subject thereto, the office of alternate Director shall continue until the happening of any event which, if he were a Director, would cause him to vacate such office or if his appointor ceases for any reason to be a Director. Any appointment or removal of an alternate Director shall be effected by Notice signed by the appointor and delivered to the Office or head office or tendered at a meeting of the Board. An alternate Director may also be a Director in his own right and may act as alternate to more than one Director. An alternate Director shall, if his appointor so requests, be entitled to receive notices of meetings of the Board or of committees of the Board to the same extent as, but in lieu of, the Director appointing him and shall be entitled to such extent to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is not personally present and generally at such meeting to exercise and discharge all the functions, powers and duties of his appointor as a Director and for the purposes of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Bye-laws shall apply as if he were a Director save that as an alternate for more than one Director his voting rights shall be cumulative.

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9 ~~3~~ 0. An alternate Director shall only be a Director for the purposes of the Act and shall only be subject to the provisions of the Act insofar as they relate to the duties and obligations of a Director when performing the functions of the Director for whom he is appointed in the alternative and shall alone be responsible to the Company for his acts and defaults and shall not be deemed to be the agent of or for the Director appointing him. An alternate Director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified by the Company to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director but he shall not be entitled to receive from the Company any fee in his capacity as an alternate Director except only such part, if any, of the remuneration otherwise payable to his appointor as such appointor may by Notice to the Company from time to time direct.
9 ~~4~~ 1. Every person acting as an alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). If his appointor is for the time being absent from Hong Kong or otherwise not available or unable to act, the signature of an alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board of which his appointor is a member shall, unless the Notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor.
9 ~~5~~ 2. An alternate Director shall ipso facto cease to be an alternate Director if his appointor ceases for any reason to be a Director, however, such alternate Director or any other person may be re-appointed by the Directors to serve as an alternate Director PROVIDED always that, if at any meeting any Director retires but is re-elected at the same meeting, any appointment of such alternate Director pursuant to these Bye-laws which was in force immediately before his retirement shall remain in force as though he had not retired.

DIRECTORS’ FEES AND EXPENSES

9 ~~6~~ 3. The ordinary remuneration of the Directors shall from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting or, if authorised by the Members, by the Directors and shall (unless otherwise directed by the resolution by which it is voted) be divided amongst the Board in such proportions and in such manner as the Board may agree or, failing agreement, equally, except that any Director who shall hold office for part only of the period in respect of which such remuneration is payable shall be entitled only to rank in such division for a proportion of remuneration related to the period during which he has held office. Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day.

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9 ~~7~~ 4. Each Director shall be entitled to be repaid or prepaid all travelling, hotel and incidental expenses reasonably incurred or expected to be incurred by him in attending meetings of the Board or committees of the Board or general meetings or separate meetings of any class of shares or of debentures of the Company or otherwise in connection with the discharge of his duties as a Director.
9 ~~8~~ 5. Any Director who, by request, goes or resides abroad for any purpose of the Company or who performs services which in the opinion of the Board go beyond the ordinary duties of a Director may be paid such extra remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) as the Board may determine and such extra remuneration shall be in addition to or in substitution for any ordinary remuneration provided for by or pursuant to any other Bye-law.
9 ~~9~~ 6. The Board shall obtain the approval of the Company in general meeting before making any payment to any Director or past Director of the Company by way of compensation for loss of office, or as consideration for or in connection with his retirement from office (not being payment to which the Director is contractually entitled).

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

100 97. A Director may:

(a) hold any other office or place of profit with the Company (except that of Auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and, subject to the relevant provisions of the Act, upon such terms as the Board may determine. Any remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) paid to any Director in respect of any such other office or place of profit shall be in addition to any remuneration provided for by or pursuant to any other Bye-law;
(b) act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company (otherwise than as Auditor) and he or his firm may be remunerated for professional services as if he were not a Director;
(c) continue to be or become a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer or member of any other company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as a vendor, shareholder or otherwise and (unless otherwise agreed) no such Director shall be accountable for any remuneration, profits or other benefits received by him as a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer or member of or from his interests in any such other company. Subject as otherwise provided by these Bye-laws the Directors may exercise or cause to be exercised the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company, or exercisable by them as directors of such other company in such

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manner in all respects as they think fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing themselves or any of them as directors, managing directors, joint managing directors, deputy managing directors, executive directors, managers or other officers of such company) or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officers of such other company and any Director ~~, subject as otherwise provided by Bye-law 103(3),~~ may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or about to be, appointed a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer of such a company, and that as such he is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.

~~101~~ 98. Subject to the Act and to these Bye-laws, no Director or proposed or intending Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, either with regard to his tenure of any office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or in any other manner whatsoever, nor shall any such contract or any other contract or arrangement in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company or the Members for any remuneration, profit or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason of such Director holding that office or of the fiduciary relationship thereby established provided that such Director shall disclose the nature of his interest in any contract or arrangement in which he is interested in accordance with Bye-law ~~102~~ 99 herein.
~~102~~ 99. A Director who to his knowledge is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or arrangement or proposed contract or arrangement with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest at the meeting of the Board at which the question of entering into the contract or arrangement is first considered, if he knows his interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Board after he knows that he is or has become so interested. For the purposes of this Bye-law, a general Notice to the Board by a Director to the effect that:
(a) he is a member or officer of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the Notice be made with that company or firm; or
(b) he is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the Notice be made with a specified person who is connected with him;

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

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10 ~~3~~ 0. (1) A Director shall not vote (nor be counted in the quorum) on any resolution of the Board approving any contract or arrangement or any other proposal in which he or any of his close associates is materially interested, but this prohibition shall not apply to any of the following matters namely:
( ~~a~~ i) ~~any contract or arrangement for~~ the giving of any security or indemnity either:
- (a) to ~~such~~ the Director or his close associate(s) ~~any security or indemnity~~ in respect of money lent ~~by him or any of his close associate(s)~~ or obligations incurred or undertaken by him or any of ~~his close associate(s)~~ them at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or
- (b) ~~(b) any contract or arrangement for the giving of any security or indemnity~~ to a third party in respect of a debt or obligation of the Company or any of its subsidiaries for which the Director or his close associate(s) has himself/themselves assumed responsibility in whole or in part and whether alone or jointly under a guarantee or indemnity or by the giving of security;
( ~~c~~ ii) any ~~contract or arrangement~~ proposal concerning an offer of shares or debentures or other securities of or by the Company or any other company which the Company may promote or be interested in for subscription or purchase where the Director or his close associate(s) is/are or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the offer;
~~(d) any proposal concerning any other company in which the Director or his close associate(s) is/are interested only, whether directly or indirectly, as an officer or executive or shareholder or in which the Director or his close associate(s) is/are beneficially interested in shares of that company, provided that the Director and any of his close associates are not in aggregate beneficially interested in 5% or more of the issued shares of any class of such company (or of any third company through which his interest or that of his close associates is derived) or of the voting rights;~~
~~(e) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his close associate(s) is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company; or~~

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( ~~f~~ iii) any proposal or arrangement concerning the benefit of employees of the Company or its subsidiaries including:
- (a) ~~(i)~~ the adoption, modification or operation of any employees’ share scheme or any share incentive or share option scheme under which the Director or his close associate(s) may benefit; or
- (b) ~~(ii)~~ the adoption, modification or operation of a pension fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme ~~,~~ which relates ~~both~~ to ~~Directors or~~ the Director, his close associate(s) and ~~to employees~~ employee(s) of the Company or ~~of~~ any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any Director, or his close associate(s), as such any privilege or advantage not generally accorded to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates;
(iv) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his close associate(s) is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company.
(2) If any question shall arise at any meeting of the ~~Directors~~ Board as to the materiality of the interest of a Director or his close associate(s) (other than the chairman of the meeting) or as to the entitlement of any Director (other than such chairman) to vote or be counted in the quorum and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or not ~~to~~ be counted ~~in~~ on the quorum, such question ~~(unless it relates to the chairman)~~ shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting and his ruling in relation to such other Director shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Director and/or his close associate(s) concerned as known to such Director has not been fairly disclosed to the ~~other Directors~~ Board. If any question as aforesaid shall arise in respect of the chairman ~~,~~ of the meeting such question shall be decided by a resolution of the ~~Directors~~ Board (for which purpose ~~the~~ such chairman shall not be counted in the quorum and shall not vote thereon) and such resolution shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of ~~the~~ such chairman as known to ~~him~~ such chairman has not been fairly disclosed to the ~~other Directors~~ Board.
~~(3) A Director and any of his close associates who is also a Director or a member of a committee of the Board, as the case may be, shall not vote or be counted in the quorum on any resolution of the Board or committee of the Board concerning his own appointment or the appointment of his close associate(s) as the holder of any office or place of profit with the Company or any company in which the Company is interested (including fixing or varying the remuneration or other terms of his appointment or its termination). Where~~

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~~proposals are under consideration concerning the appointment of two or more Directors or their respective close associate(s) to offices or places of profit with the Company or any company in which the Company is interested (including fixing or varying the remuneration or other terms of appointment or its termination), such proposals may be divided and a separate resolution considered in relation to each Director and where applicable, his close associate(s). In such case each of the Directors concerned and where applicable, his close associate(s) concerned (if not otherwise debarred from voting under these Bye-laws) shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment or the appointment of his close associate(s).~~

GENERAL POWERS OF THE DIRECTORS

10 ~~4~~ 1. (1) The business of the Company shall be managed and conducted by the Board, which may pay all expenses incurred in forming and registering the Company and may exercise all powers of the Company (whether relating to the management of the business of the Company or otherwise) which are not by the Statutes or by these Bye-laws required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting, subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Statutes and of these Bye-laws and to such regulations being not inconsistent with such provisions, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, but no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if such regulations had not been made. The general powers given by this Bye-law shall not be limited or restricted by any special authority or power given to the Board by any other Bye-law.
(2) Any person contracting or dealing with the Company in the ordinary course of business shall be entitled to rely on any written or oral contract or agreement or deed, document or instrument entered into or executed as the case may be by any two of the Directors acting jointly on behalf of the Company and the same shall be deemed to be validly entered into or executed by the Company as the case may be and shall, subject to any rule of law, be binding on the Company.
(3) Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these Bye-laws it is hereby expressly declared that the Board shall have the following powers:
- (a) to give to any person the right or option of requiring at a future date that an allotment shall be made to him of any share at par or at such premium as may be agreed ~~.~~ ;
- (b) to give to any Directors, officers or servants of the Company an interest in any particular business or transaction or participation in the profits thereof or in the general profits of the Company either in addition to or in substitution for a salary or other remuneration ~~.~~ ; and

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(c) to resolve that the Company be discontinued in Bermuda and continued in a named country or jurisdiction outside Bermuda subject to the provisions of the Act.
10 ~~5~~ 2. The Board may establish any regional or local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company in any place, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents, and may fix their remuneration (either by way of salary or by commission or by conferring the right to participation in the profits of the Company or by a combination of two or more of these modes) and pay the working expenses of any staff employed by them upon the business of the Company. The Board may delegate to any regional or local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in or exercisable by the Board (other than its powers to make calls and forfeit shares), with power to sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any of them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies. Any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board may think fit, and the Board may remove any person appointed as aforesaid, and may revoke or vary such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.
10 ~~6~~ 3. The Board may by power of attorney appoint under the Seal any company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Board, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Board under these Bye-laws) and for such period and subject to such conditions as it may think fit, and any such power of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Board may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him. Such attorney or attorneys may, if so authorised under the Seal of the Company, execute any deed or instrument under their personal seal with the same effect as the affixation of the Seal.
10 ~~7~~ 4. The Board may entrust to and confer upon a managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, an executive director or any Director any of the powers exercisable by it upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as it thinks fit, and either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of, its own powers, and may from time to time revoke or vary all or any of such powers but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of such revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.
10 ~~8~~ 5. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other instruments, whether negotiable or transferable or not, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Board shall from time to time by resolution determine. The Company’s banking accounts shall be kept with such banker or bankers as the Board shall from time to time determine.

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10 ~~9~~ 6. (1) The Board may establish or concur or join with other companies (being subsidiary companies of the Company or companies with which it is associated in business) in establishing and making contributions out of the Company’s moneys to any schemes or funds for providing pensions, sickness or compassionate allowances, life assurance or other benefits for employees (which expression as used in this and the following paragraph shall include any Director or ex-Director who may hold or have held any executive office or any office of profit under the Company or any of its subsidiary companies) and ex-employees of the Company and their dependants or any class or classes of such person.
(2) The Board may pay, enter into agreements to pay or make grants of revocable or irrevocable, and either subject or not subject to any terms or conditions, pensions or other benefits to employees and ex-employees and their dependants, or to any of such persons, including pensions or benefits additional to those, if any, to which such employees or ex-employees or their dependants are or may become entitled under any such scheme or fund as mentioned in the last preceding paragraph. Any such pension or benefit may, as the Board considers desirable, be granted to an employee either before and in anticipation of or upon or at any time after his actual retirement.

BORROWING POWERS

1 ~~1~~ 07. The Board may exercise all the powers of the Company to raise or borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and, subject to the Act, to issue debentures, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.
1 ~~110~~ 8. Debentures, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.
1 ~~120~~ 9. Any debentures, bonds or other securities may be issued at a discount (other than shares), premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
11 ~~3~~ 0. (1) Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the Members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
(2) The Board shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, of all charges specifically affecting the property of the Company and of any series of debentures issued by the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Act in regard to the registration of charges and debentures therein specified and otherwise.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS

11 ~~4~~ 1. The Board may meet for the despatch of business, adjourn or postpone and otherwise regulate its meetings as it considers appropriate. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes. In the case of any equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have an additional or casting vote.
11 ~~5~~ 2. A meeting of the Board may be convened by the Secretary on request of a Director or by any Director. The Secretary shall convene a meeting of the Board whenever he shall be required so to do by any Director. Notice of a meeting of the Board shall be deemed to be duly given to a Director if it is given to such Director in writing or verbally (including in person or by telephone) or by electronic means to an electronic address from time to time notified to the Company by such Director or (if the recipient consents to it being made available on a website) by making it available on a website or in such other manner as the Board may from time to time determine.
11 ~~16~~ 3.(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Board may be fixed by the Board and, unless so fixed at any other number, shall be two (2). An alternate Director shall be counted in a quorum in the case of the absence of a Director for whom he is the alternate provided that he shall not be counted more than once for the purpose of determining whether or not a quorum is present.
(2) Directors may participate in any meeting of the Board by means of a conference telephone, electronic or other communications equipment through which all persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously and, for the purpose of counting a quorum, such participation shall constitute presence at a meeting as if those participating were present in person.
(3) Any Director who ceases to be a Director at a Board meeting may continue to be present and to act as a Director and be counted in the quorum until the termination of such Board meeting if no other Director objects and if otherwise a quorum of Directors would not be present.
11 ~~7~~ 4. The continuing Directors or a sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board but, if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum number fixed by or in accordance with these Bye-laws, the continuing Directors or Director, notwithstanding that the number of Directors is below the number fixed by or in accordance with these Bye-laws as the quorum or that there is only one continuing Director, may act for the purpose of filling vacancies in the Board or of summoning general meetings of the Company but not for any other purpose.

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The Board may elect one or more chairman and one or more deputy chairman of its meetings and determine the period for which they are respectively to hold such office. If no chairman or deputy chairman is elected, or if at any meeting no chairman or deputy chairman is present within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
11 ~~9~~ 6. A meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board.
11 ~~207~~ . (1) The Board may delegate any of its powers, authorities and discretions to committees, consisting of such Director or Directors and other persons as it thinks fit, and they may, from time to time, revoke such delegation or revoke the appointment of and discharge any such committees either wholly or in part, and either as to persons or purposes. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers, authorities and discretions so delegated, conform to any regulations which may be imposed on it by the Board.
(2) All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such regulations, and in fulfilment of the purposes for which it was appointed, but not otherwise, shall have like force and effect as if done by the Board, and the Board shall have power, with the consent of the Company in general meeting, to remunerate the members of any such committee, and charge such remuneration to the current expenses of the Company.
1 ~~2~~ 18. The meetings and proceedings of any committee consisting of two or more members shall be governed by the provisions contained in these Bye-laws for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board so far as the same are applicable and are not superseded by any regulations imposed by the Board under the last preceding Bye-law.
1 ~~221~~ 9. ~~(1) Subject to Bye-law 122(2), a~~ A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors except such as are temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability, and all the alternate Directors, if appropriate, whose appointors are temporarily unable to act as aforesaid shall be as valid and effectual as if a resolution had been passed at a meeting of the Board duly convened and held provided that such number is sufficient to constitute a quorum and that a copy of such resolution has been given or the contents thereof communicated to all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notices of Board meetings in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given by these Bye-laws and further provided that no Director is aware of or has received any objection to the resolution from any Director. A notification of consent to such resolution given by a Director in writing to the Board by any means (including by means of electronic communication)

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shall be deemed to be his/her signature to such resolution in writing for the purpose of this Bye-law. Such resolution may be contained in one document or in several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or alternate Directors and for this purpose a facsimile signature of a Director or an alternate Director shall be treated as valid.

~~(2) If~~ Notwithstanding the foregoing, a resolution in writing shall not be passed in lieu of a meeting of the Board for the purposes of considering any matter or business in which a substantial shareholder of the Company or a Director has a conflict of interest ~~or potential conflict of interest in a matter to be considered by the Board which~~ and the Board has determined ~~to be material, the matter shall not be dealt with by way of a resolution in writing of the Board and must be dealt with by a meeting of the Board. If any question arises as to the materiality of a conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest of a substantial shareholder or a Director (other than the chairman) for the purposes of this Bye-law, such question shall be referred to the chairman. The chairman’s ruling in relation to the substantial shareholder concerned or, as the case may be, the Director concerned shall be final and conclusive. If any question arises as to the materiality of a conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest of the chairman for the purposes of this Bye-law, such question shall be decided by a resolution of the Directors (excluding the chairman), whose majority vote shall be final and conclusive~~ that such conflict of interest to be material.
12 ~~3~~ 0. All acts bona fide done by the Board or by any committee or by any person acting as a Director or members of a committee, shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any member of the Board or such committee or person acting as aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified and had continued to be a Director or member of such committee.

MANAGERS

12 ~~4~~ 1. The Board may from time to time appoint a general manager, a manager or managers of the Company and may fix his or their remuneration either by way of salary or commission or by conferring the right to participation in the profits of the Company or by a combination of two or more of these modes and pay the working expenses of any of the staff of the general manager, manager or managers who may be employed by him or them upon the business of the Company.
12 ~~5~~ 2. The appointment of such general manager, manager or managers may be for such period as the Board may decide, and the Board may confer upon him or them all or any of the powers of the Board as it may think fit.

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12 ~~6~~ 3. The Board may enter into such agreement or agreements with any such general manager, manager or managers upon such terms and conditions in all respects as the Board may in their absolute discretion think fit, including a power for such general manager, manager or managers to appoint an assistant manager or managers or other employees whatsoever under them for the purpose of carrying on the business of the Company.

OFFICERS

12 ~~7~~ 4. (1) The officers of the Company shall consist of the Directors and Secretary and such additional officers (who may or may not be Directors) as the Board may from time to time determine, all of whom shall be deemed to be officers for the purposes of the Act and, subject to Bye-law 128(4), these Bye-laws.
~~(2) The Directors shall, as soon as may be after each appointment or election of Directors, elect amongst the Directors a chairman; and if more than one (1) Director is proposed for the office, the election to such office shall take place in such manner as the Directors may determine.~~
~~(3)~~
(2) The officers shall receive such remuneration as the Directors may from time to time determine.
( ~~4~~ 3) Where the Company appoints and maintains a resident representative ordinarily resident in Bermuda in accordance with the Act, the resident representative shall comply with the provisions of the Act.
( ~~5~~ 4) The Company shall provide the resident representative with such documents and information as the resident representative may require in order to be able to comply with the provisions of the Act.
( ~~6~~ 5) The resident representative shall be entitled to have notice of, attend and be heard at all meetings of the Directors or of any committee of such Directors or general meetings of the Company.
12 ~~8~~ 5. (1) The Secretary and additional officers, if any, shall be appointed by the Board and shall hold office on such terms and for such period as the Board may determine. If thought fit, two (2) or more persons may be appointed as joint Secretaries. The Board may also appoint from time to time on such terms as it thinks fit one or more assistant or deputy Secretaries.
(2) The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Members and shall keep correct minutes of such meetings and enter the same in the proper books provided for the purpose. He shall perform such other duties as are prescribed by the Act or these Bye-laws or as may be prescribed by the Board.

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The officers of the Company shall have such powers and perform such duties in the management, business and affairs of the Company as may be delegated to them by the Directors from time to time.
1 ~~312~~ 7. A provision of the Act or of these Bye-laws requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as or in place of the Secretary.

REGISTER OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

1 ~~3~~ 28. (1) The Board shall cause to be kept in one or more books at the Office a ~~r~~ Register of Directors and Officers and shall enter therein the following particulars with respect to each Director and Officer, that is to say:
- (a) in the case of an individual, his or her present first name, surname and address; and
- (b) in the case of a company, its name and registered office.
(2) The Board shall within a period of fourteen (14) days from the occurrence of:
- (a) any change among the Directors and Officers; or
- (b) any change in the particulars contained in the ~~r~~ Register of Directors and Officers,

cause to be entered on the ~~r~~ Register of Directors and Officers the particulars of such change ~~and of the date on which it occurred~~ .

(3) The ~~r~~ Register of Directors and Officers shall be open to inspection by members of the public without charge at the Office between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon during business hours.
(4) In this Bye-law “Officer” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 92A(7) of the Act.

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MINUTES

1 ~~33~~ 29.(1) The Board shall cause Minutes to be duly entered in books provided for the purpose:
- (a) of all elections and appointments of officers;
- (b) of the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors;
- (c) of all resolutions and proceedings of each general meeting of the Members ~~,~~ and meetings of the Board ~~and meetings of committees of the Board and where there are managers, of all proceedings of meetings of the managers.~~
(2) Minutes prepared in accordance with the Act and these Bye-laws shall be kept by the Secretary at the Office.

SEAL

13 ~~4~~ 0. (1) The Company shall have one or more Seals, as the Board may determine. For the purpose of sealing documents creating or evidencing securities issued by the Company, the Company may have a securities seal which is a facsimile of the Seal with the addition of the words “Securities Seal” on its face or in such other form as the Board may approve. The Board shall provide for the custody of each Seal and no Seal shall be used without the authority of the Board or of a committee of the Board authorised by the Board in that behalf. Subject as otherwise provided in these Bye-laws, any instrument to which a Seal is affixed shall be signed autographically by one Director and the Secretary or by two Directors or by such other person (including a Director) or persons as the Board may appoint, either generally or in any particular case, save that as regards any certificates for shares or debentures or other securities of the Company the Board may by resolution determine that such signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with or affixed by some method or system of mechanical signature. Every instrument executed in the manner provided by this Bye-law shall be deemed to be sealed and executed with the authority of the Board previously given.
(2) Where the Company has a Seal for use abroad, the Board may by writing under the Seal appoint any agent or committee abroad to be the duly authorised agent of the Company for the purpose of affixing and using such Seal and the Board may impose restrictions on the use thereof as may be thought fit. Wherever in these Bye-laws reference is made to the Seal, the reference shall, when and so far as may be applicable, be deemed to include any such other Seal as aforesaid.

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AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

13 ~~5~~ 1. Any Director or the Secretary or any person appointed by the Board for the purpose may authenticate any documents affecting the constitution of the Company and any resolution passed by the Company or the Board or any committee, and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of the Company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies or extracts, and if any books, records, documents or accounts are elsewhere than at the Office or the head office the local manager or other officer of the Company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be a person so appointed by the Board. A document purporting to be a copy of a resolution, or an extract from the minutes of a meeting, of the Company or of the Board or any committee which is so certified shall be conclusive evidence in favour of all persons dealing with the Company upon the faith thereof that such resolution has been duly passed or, as the case may be, that such minutes or extract is a true and accurate record of proceedings at a duly constituted meeting.

DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS

13 ~~6~~ 2. (1) The Company shall be entitled to destroy the following documents at the following times:
(a) any share certificate which has been cancelled at any time after the expiry of one (1) year from the date of such cancellation;
(b) any dividend mandate or any variation or cancellation thereof or any notification of change of name or address at any time after the expiry of two (2) years from the date such mandate variation cancellation or notification was recorded by the Company;
(c) any instrument of transfer of shares which has been registered at any time after the expiry of ~~six~~ seven ( ~~6~~ 7) years from the date of registration;
(d) any allotment letters after the expiry of ~~six~~ seven ( ~~6~~ 7) years from the date of issue thereof; and
(e) copies of powers of attorney, grants of probate and letters of administration at any time after the expiry of ~~six~~ seven ( ~~6~~ 7) years after the account to which the relevant power of attorney, grant of probate or letters of administration related has been closed;

and it shall conclusively be presumed in favour of the Company that every entry in the Register purporting to be made on the basis of any such documents so destroyed was duly and properly made and every share certificate so destroyed was a valid certificate duly and properly cancelled and that every instrument of transfer so destroyed was a valid and effective

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instrument duly and properly registered and that every other document destroyed hereunder was a valid and effective document in accordance with the recorded particulars thereof in the books or records of the Company. Provided always that: (1) the foregoing provisions of this Bye-law shall apply only to the destruction of a document in good faith and without express notice to the Company that the preservation of such document was relevant to a claim; (2) nothing contained in this Bye-law shall be construed as imposing upon the Company any liability in respect of the destruction of any such document earlier than as aforesaid or in any case where the conditions of proviso (1) above are not fulfilled; and (3) references in this Bye-law to the destruction of any document include references to its disposal in any manner.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision contained in these Bye-laws, the Directors may, if permitted by applicable law, authorise the destruction of documents set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law and any other documents in relation to share registration which have been microfilmed or electronically stored by the Company or by the share registrar on its behalf provided always that this Bye-law shall apply only to the destruction of a document in good faith and without express notice to the Company and its share registrar that the preservation of such document was relevant to a claim.

DIVIDENDS AND OTHER PAYMENTS

13 ~~7~~ 3. Subject to the Act, the Company in general meeting may from time to time declare dividends in any currency to be paid to the Members but no dividend shall be declared in excess of the amount recommended by the Board. The Company in general meeting may also make a distribution to the Members out of any contributed surplus (as ascertained in accordance with the Act).
13 ~~8~~ 4. ~~Unless otherwise provided in the Act, no~~ No dividend shall be paid ~~and no~~ or distribution ~~shall be~~ made out of ~~the~~ contributed surplus if to do so would render the Company unable to pay its liabilities as they become due or the realisable value of its assets would thereby become less than its liabilities.
13 ~~9~~ 5. Except in so far as the rights attaching to, or the terms of issue of, any share otherwise provide:
(a) all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up on the shares in respect of which the dividend is paid, but no amount paid up on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of this Bye-law as paid up on the share; and
(b) all dividends shall be apportioned and paid pro rata according to the amounts paid up on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid.

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1 ~~403~~ 6. The Board may from time to time pay to the Members such interim dividends as appear to the Board to be justified by the profits of the Company and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes, the Board may pay such interim dividends in respect of those shares in the capital of the Company which confer on the holders thereof deferred or non-preferential rights as well as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to dividend and provided that the Board acts bona fide the Board shall not incur any responsibility to the holders of shares conferring any preference for any damage that they may suffer by reason of the payment of an interim dividend on any shares having deferred or non-preferential rights and may also pay any fixed dividend which is payable on any shares of the Company half-yearly or on any other dates, whenever such profits, in the opinion of the Board, justifies such payment.
1 ~~413~~ 7. The Board may deduct from any dividend or other moneys payable to a Member by the Company on or in respect of any shares all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.
1 ~~423~~ 8. No dividend or other moneys payable by the Company on or in respect of any share shall bear interest against the Company.
1 ~~4~~ 39. Any dividend, interest or other sum payable in cash to the holder of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post addressed to the holder at his registered address or, in the case of joint holders, addressed to the holder whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the shares at his address as appearing in the Register or addressed to such person and at such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall, unless the holder or joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the order of the holder whose name stands first on the Register in respect of such shares, and shall be sent at his or their risk and payment of the cheque or warrant by the bank on which it is drawn shall constitute a good discharge to the Company notwithstanding that it may subsequently appear that the same has been stolen or that any endorsement thereon has been forged. Any one of two or more joint holders may give effectual receipts for any dividends or other moneys payable or property distributable in respect of the shares held by such joint holders.
14 ~~4~~ 0. All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one (1) year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Board for the benefit of the Company until claimed. Any dividend or bonuses unclaimed after a period of six (6) years from the date of declaration shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company. The payment by the Board of any unclaimed dividend or other sums payable on or in respect of a share into a separate account shall not constitute the Company a trustee in respect thereof.

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14 ~~5~~ 1. Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared, the Board may further resolve that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warrants to subscribe securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Board may settle the same as it thinks expedient, and in particular may issue certificates in respect of fractions of shares, disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets, or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Board and may appoint any person to sign any requisite instruments of transfer and other documents on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend, and such appointment shall be effective and binding on the Members. The Board may resolve that no such assets shall be made available to Members with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, such distribution of assets would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable and in such event the only entitlement of the Members aforesaid shall be to receive cash payments as aforesaid. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.
14 ~~6~~ 2. (1) Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on any class of the share capital of the Company, the Board may further resolve either:
(a) that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up, provided that the shareholders entitled thereto will be entitled to elect to receive such dividend (or part thereof if the Board so determines) in cash in lieu of such allotment. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:
- (i) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;
- (ii) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two (2) weeks’ Notice to the holders of the relevant shares of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such Notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;
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(iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the allotment of shares as aforesaid) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the cash election has not been duly exercised (“the non-elected shares”) and in satisfaction thereof shares of the relevant class shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the non-elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company (including profits carried and standing to the credit of any reserves or other special account other than the Subscription Rights Reserve (as defined below)) as the Board may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis.
(b) that the shareholders entitled to such dividend shall be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Board may think fit. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:
(i) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;
(ii) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two (2) weeks’ Notice to the holders of the relevant shares of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such Notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;
(iii) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and
(iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (“the elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares of the relevant class shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company (including profits carried and standing to the credit of any reserves or other special account other than the Subscription

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Rights Reserve (as defined below)) as the Board may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such basis.

(2) (a) The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law shall rank pari passu in all respects with shares of the same class (if any) then in issue save only as regards participation in the relevant dividend or in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend unless, contemporaneously with the announcement by the Board of their proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with their announcement of the distribution, bonus or rights in question, the Board shall specify that the shares to be allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.
(b) The Board may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalisation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law, with full power to the Board to make such provisions as it thinks fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). The Board may authorise any person to enter into on behalf of all Members interested, an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made pursuant to such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.
(3) The Company may upon the recommendation of the Board by ordinary resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.
(4) The Board may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (1) of this Bye-law shall not be made available or made to any shareholders with registered addresses in any territory where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, the circulation of an offer of such rights of election or the allotment of shares would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful

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or impracticable ~~or the legality or practicability of which may be time consuming or expensive to ascertain whether in absolute terms or in relation to the value of the holding of shares of the Members concerned~~ , and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.

(5) Any resolution declaring a dividend on shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in general meeting or a resolution of the Board, may specify that the same shall be payable or distributable to the persons registered as the holders of such shares at the close of business on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon the dividend shall be payable or distributable to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend of transferors and transferees of any such shares. The provisions of this Bye-law shall mutatis mutandis apply to bonuses, capitalisation issues, distributions of realised capital profits or offers or grants made by the Company to the Members.

RESERVES

14 ~~7~~ 3. Before recommending any dividend, the Board may set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as it determines as reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Board, be applicable ~~for meeting claims on or liabilities of the Company or contingencies or for paying off any loan capital or for equalising dividends or~~ for any purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied and pending such application may, also at such discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments ~~(including in the repurchase by the Company of its own securities or the giving of any financial assistance for the acquisition of its own shares or other securities)~~ as the Board may from time to time think fit and so that it shall not be necessary to keep any investments constituting the reserve or reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the Company. The Board may also without placing the same to reserve carry forward any profits which it may think prudent not to distribute.

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CAPITALISATION

14 ~~8~~ 4. (1) The Company may, upon the recommendation of the Board, at any time and from time to time pass an ordinary resolution to the effect that it is desirable to capitalise all or any part of any amount for the time being standing to the credit of any reserve or fund (including the profit and loss account) whether or not the same is available for distribution and accordingly that such amount be set free for distribution among the Members or any class of Members who would be entitled thereto if it were distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions, on the footing that the same is not paid in cash but is applied either in or towards paying up the amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares in the Company held by such Members respectively or in paying up in full unissued shares, debentures or other obligations of the Company, to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid up among such Members, or partly in one way and partly in the other, and the Board shall give effect to such resolution provided that, for the purposes of this Bye-law, a share premium account and any reserve or fund representing unrealised profits, may be applied only in paying up in full unissued shares of the Company to be allotted to such Members credited as fully paid. In carrying sums to reserve and in applying the same the Board shall comply with the provisions of the Act.
(2) Notwithstanding any provisions in these Bye-laws, the Board may resolve to capitalise all or any part of any amount for the time being standing to the credit of any reserve or fund (including the profit and loss account) whether or not the same is available for distribution by applying such sum in paying up unissued shares to be allotted to (i) employees (including directors) of the Company and/or its affiliates (meaning any individual, corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated association or other entity (other than the Company) that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with, the Company) upon exercise or vesting of any options or awards granted under any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Members at a general meeting, or (ii) any trustee of any trust to whom shares are to be allotted and issued by the Company in connection with the operation of any share incentive scheme or employee benefit scheme or other arrangement which relates to such persons that has been adopted or approved by the Members at a general meeting.

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14 ~~9~~ 5. The Board may settle, as it considers appropriate, any difficulty arising in regard to any distribution under the last preceding Bye-law and in particular may issue certificates in respect of fractions of shares or authorise any person to sell and transfer any fractions or may resolve that the distribution should be as nearly as may be practicable in the correct proportion but not exactly so or may ignore fractions altogether, and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members in order to adjust the rights of all parties, as may seem expedient to the Board. The Board may appoint any person to sign on behalf of the persons entitled to participate in the distribution any contract necessary or desirable for giving effect thereto and such appointment shall be effective and binding upon the Members.

SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS RESERVE

1 ~~504~~ 6. The following provisions shall have effect to the extent that they are not prohibited by and are in compliance with the Act:
(1) If, so long as any of the rights attached to any warrants issued by the Company to subscribe for shares of the Company shall remain exercisable, the Company does any act or engages in any transaction which, as a result of any adjustments to the subscription price in accordance with the provisions of the conditions of the warrants, would reduce the subscription price to below the nominal value of a share, then the following provisions shall apply:
- (a) as from the date of such act or transaction the Company shall establish and thereafter (subject as provided in this Bye-law) maintain in accordance with the provisions of this Bye-law a reserve (the “Subscription Rights Reserve”) the amount of which shall at no time be less than the sum which for the time being would be required to be capitalised and applied in paying up in full the nominal amount of the additional shares required to be issued and allotted credited as fully paid pursuant to sub-paragraph (c) below on the exercise in full of all the subscription rights outstanding and shall apply the Subscription Rights Reserve in paying up such additional shares in full as and when the same are allotted;
- (b) the Subscription Rights Reserve shall not be used for any purpose other than that specified above unless all other reserves of the Company (other than share premium account) have been extinguished and will then only be used to make good losses of the Company if and so far as is required by law;

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(c) upon the exercise of all or any of the subscription rights represented by any warrant, the relevant subscription rights shall be exercisable in respect of a nominal amount of shares equal to the amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights) and, in addition, there shall be allotted in respect of such subscription rights to the exercising warrantholder, credited as fully paid, such additional nominal amount of shares as is equal to the difference between:
(i) the said amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be, the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights); and
(ii) the nominal amount of shares in respect of which such subscription rights would have been exercisable having regard to the provisions of the conditions of the warrants, had it been possible for such subscription rights to represent the right to subscribe for shares at less than par ~~,~~

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

(d) if, upon the exercise of the subscription rights represented by any warrant, the amount standing to the credit of the Subscription Rights Reserve is not sufficient to pay up in full such additional nominal amount of shares equal to such difference as aforesaid to which the exercising warrantholder is entitled, the Board shall apply any profits or reserves then or thereafter becoming available (including, to the extent permitted by law, share premium account) for such purpose until such additional nominal amount of shares is paid up and allotted as aforesaid and until then no dividend or other distribution shall be paid or made on the fully paid shares of the Company then in issue. Pending such payment and allotment, the exercising warrantholder shall be issued by the Company with a certificate evidencing his right to the allotment of such additional nominal amount of shares. The rights represented by any such certificate shall be in registered form and shall be transferable in whole or in part in units of one share in the like manner as the shares for the time being are transferable, and the

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Company shall make such arrangements in relation to the maintenance of a register therefor and other matters in relation thereto as the Board may think fit and adequate particulars thereof shall be made known to each relevant exercising warrantholder upon the issue of such certificate.

(2) Shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of this Bye-law shall rank pari passu in all respects with the other shares allotted on the relevant exercise of the subscription rights represented by the warrant concerned. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1) of this Bye-law, no fraction of any share shall be allotted on exercise of the subscription rights.
(3) The provision of this Bye-law as to the establishment and maintenance of the Subscription Rights Reserve shall not be altered or added to in any way which would vary or abrogate, or which would have the effect of varying or abrogating the provisions for the benefit of any warrantholder or class of warrantholders under this Bye-law without the sanction of a special resolution of such warrantholders or class of warrantholders.
(4) A certificate or report by the ~~Auditor for the time being of the Company~~ Auditors as to whether or not the Subscription Rights Reserve is required to be established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription Rights Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrantholders credited as fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Rights Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding upon the Company and all warrantholders and shareholders.

ACCOUNTING RECORDS

1 ~~514~~ 7. The Board shall cause true accounts to be kept of the sums of money received and expended by the Company, and the matters in respect of which such receipt and expenditure take place, and of the property, assets, credits and liabilities of the Company and of all other matters required by the Act or necessary to give a true and fair view of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.
1 ~~524~~ 8. The accounting records shall be kept at the Office or, subject to the Act, at such other place or places as the Board decides and shall always be open to inspection by the Directors. No Member (other than a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any accounting record or book or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board or the Company in general meeting.

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1 ~~534~~ 9. Subject to Section 88 of the Act and Bye-law ~~s~~ 15 ~~4 and 155~~ 0, a printed copy of the Directors’ report, accompanied by the balance sheet and profit and loss account, including every document required by law to be annexed thereto, made up to the end of the applicable financial year and containing a summary of the assets and liabilities of the Company under convenient heads and a statement of income and expenditure, together with a copy of the Auditors’ ~~s~~ report, shall be sent to each person entitled thereto at least twenty-one (21) days before the date of the general meeting and at the same time as the ~~N~~ notice of annual general meeting and laid before the Company at the annual general meeting in accordance with the requirements of the Act provided that this Bye-law shall not require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person whose address the Company is not aware of or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.
15 ~~4~~ 0. To the extent permitted by and subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the ~~rules of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules, and to obtaining all necessary consents, if any, required thereunder, the requirements of Bye-law 1 ~~53~~ 49 shall be deemed satisfied in relation to any person by sending to the person in any manner not prohibited by the Statutes, ~~a summary~~ summarised financial statements derived from the Company’s annual accounts and the directors’ report which shall be in the form and containing the information required by applicable laws and regulations, provided that any person who is otherwise entitled to the annual financial statements of the Company and the directors’ report thereon may, if he so requires by Notice served on the Company, demand that the Company sends to him, in addition to ~~a summary~~ summarised financial statements, a complete printed copy of the Company’s annual financial statement and the directors’ report thereon.
15 ~~5~~ 1. The requirement to send to a person referred to in Bye-law 1 ~~53~~ 49 the documents referred to in that ~~Bye-law~~ provision or a summary financial report in accordance with Bye-law 15 ~~4~~ 0 shall be deemed satisfied where, in accordance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the ~~rules of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules, the Company publishes copies of the documents referred to in Bye-law 1 ~~53~~ 49 and, if applicable, a summary financial report complying with Bye-law 15 ~~4~~ 0, on the Company’s ~~website~~ computer network or in any other permitted manner (including by sending any form of electronic communication), and that person has agreed or is deemed to have agreed to treat the publication or receipt of such documents in such manner as discharging the Company’s obligation to send to him a copy of such documents.

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AUDIT

15 ~~6~~ 2. (1) Subject to Section 88 of the Act, at the ~~Company shall at each~~ annual general meeting ~~appoint one or more firms of auditors to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting on such terms and with such duties as may be agreed with the Directors, but if an appointment is not made, the Auditor in office shall continue in office until a successor is appointed~~ or at a subsequent special general meeting in each year, the Members shall appoint an auditor to audit the accounts of the Company and such auditor shall hold office until the Members appoint another auditor. Such auditor may be a Member but no Director or officer or employee of the Company shall, during his continuance in office, be eligible to act as an auditor of the Company.
(2) Subject to Section 89 of the Act, ~~no~~ a person, other than ~~the retiring~~ an incumbent Auditor, shall not be capable of being appointed ~~as~~ Auditor at an annual general meeting unless ~~: (a) Notice~~ notice in writing of an intention to nominate that person to the office of Auditor has been given ~~to the Company~~ not less than twenty-one (21) days before the annual general meeting ~~;~~ and ~~(b)~~ furthermore, the Company shall send a copy of any such ~~Notice of intention to the retiring Auditor, and shall give Notice thereof to the Members not less than seven (7) days before the annual general meeting provided that the requirement for sending a copy of such~~ notice ~~of intention~~ to the ~~retiring~~ incumbent Auditor ~~may be waived by Notice by the retiring Auditor to the Secretary.~~
(3) None of the following person shall be appointed as Auditor:
- (a) a Director, officer or employee of the Company; or
- (b) a Director, officer or employee of any of the Company’s subsidiaries; or
- (c) a Director, officer or employee of the holding company of the Company; or
- (d) a Director, officer or employee of any of the subsidiaries of the holding company of the Company; or
- (e) a Director, officer or employee of any company which is controlled by a person (or persons), who also controls (or control) the Company (and “control” has the same meaning as that defined in Section 86(4) of the Act); or
- (f) a partner, employer or employee of any of the above persons.
~~(4) The Directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of Auditor, but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing Auditor or Auditors (if any) may act.~~

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( ~~5~~ 4) The Members may, at any general meeting convened and held in accordance with these Bye-laws, by extraordinary resolution remove the Auditor ~~by special resolution~~ at any time before the expiration of hi ~~t~~ s term of office and shall ~~,~~ by ordinary resolution ~~,~~ at that meeting appoint another Auditor in hi ~~t~~ s ~~place~~ stead for the remainder of hi ~~t~~ s term ~~provided that subject to the Act, not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of the general meeting, Notice of the proposed resolution is given to the incumbent Auditor and to the auditor proposed to be appointed~~ .
Subject to Section 88 of the Act the accounts of the Company shall be audited at least once in every year.
~~(6)~~ 154. The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by ~~or on the authority of~~ the Company in ~~the annual~~ general meeting ~~except that~~ or in ~~any particular year the Company in general meeting may delegate the fixing of~~ such ~~remuneration to~~ manner as the ~~Directors and the remuneration of any Auditor appointed to fill any casual vacancy may be fixed by the Directors~~ Members may determine.
~~(7) Subject to the provisions of the Act, all acts done by any person acting as Auditor shall, as regards all persons dealing in good faith with~~
The Directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of Auditor but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing Auditor or Auditors, if any, may act. The remuneration of any Auditor appointed by the Directors under this Bye-law may be fixed by the Board. Subject to Bye-law 152(3), an Auditor appointed under this Bye-law shall hold office until the next following annual general meeting of the Company ~~,~~ and shall then be ~~valid, notwithstanding that there was some defect in its~~ subject to appointment ~~or that~~ by the ~~Auditor was at the time of its appointment not qualified for appointment or subsequently became~~ disqualified.157. Subject to Section 88 of the Act the accounts of the Company ~~shall be audited at least once in every year. 158. [intentionally deleted]~~ Members -

under Bye law 152(1) at such remuneration to be determined by the Members under Bye-law 15 ~~9~~ 4. ~~[intentionally deleted]~~

156 ~~0~~ . The Auditor shall at all reasonable times have access to all books kept by the Company and to all accounts and vouchers relating thereto; and he may call on the Directors or officers of the Company for any information in their possession relating to the books or affairs of the Company.
1 ~~615~~ 7. The statement of income and expenditure and the balance sheet provided for by these Bye-laws shall be examined by the Auditor and compared by him with the books, accounts and vouchers relating thereto; and he shall make a written report thereon stating whether such statement and balance sheet are drawn up so as to present fairly the financial position of the Company and the results of its operations for the period under review and, in case information shall have been called for from Directors or officers of the Company, whether the same has been furnished and has been satisfactory. The financial statements of the Company shall

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be audited by the Auditor in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. The Auditor shall make a written report thereon in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and the report of the Auditor shall be submitted to the Members in general meeting. The generally accepted auditing standards referred to herein may be those of a country or jurisdiction other than Bermuda. If the auditing standards of a country or jurisdiction other than Bermuda are used, the financial statements and the report of the Auditor should disclose this fact and name such country or jurisdiction.

NOTICES

1 ~~625~~ 8. (1) Any Notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the ~~rules of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ Listing Rules), whether or not, to be given or issued under these Bye-laws from the Company ~~to a Member~~ shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or electronic communication and any such Notice and document may be ~~served~~ given or ~~delivered~~ issued by the ~~Company on or to any Member either~~ following means:
(a) by serving it personally ~~or~~ on the relevant person;
(b) by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such Member at his registered address as appearing in the Register or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose ~~or, as the case may be, by transmitting~~ ;
(c) by delivering or leaving it ~~to anya~~ t such address ~~or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of Notice to him or which the person transmitting the Notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the Notice being duly received by the Member or may also be served bya~~ s aforesaid;
(d) by placing an advertisement in appointed newspapers or other publication and where applicable, (as defined in the Act) or in newspapers published daily and circulating generally in the territory of and in accordance with the requirements of the Designated Stock Exchange ~~or, to the extent permitted by the applicable laws, by placing~~ ;
(e) by sending or transmitting it as an electronic communication to the relevant person at such electronic address as he may provide under -
Bye law 158(5), subject to the Company complying with the Statues and any other applicable laws, rules and regulations from time to time in force with regard to any requirements for the obtaining of consent (or deemed consent) from such person;

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(f) by publishing it on the Company’s website ~~and~~ or the website ~~of the Designated Stock Exchange~~ to which the relevant person may have access, subject to the Company complying with the Statutes and any other applicable laws, rules and regulations from time to time in force with regard to any requirements for the obtaining of consent (or deemed consent) from such person and/or for giving notification to ~~the Member a Notice stating~~ any such person that the ~~Notice or other~~ notice, document or publication is available ~~there~~ on the Company’s computer network website (a “notice of availability”).
(g) by sending or otherwise making it available to such person through such other means to the extent permitted by and in accordance with the Statutes and other applicable laws, rules and regulations.
(2) The notice of availability may be given ~~to the Member~~ by any of the means set out above other than by posting it on a website.
(3) In the case of joint holders of a share all ~~N~~ notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register and ~~N~~ notice so given shall be deemed a sufficient service on or delivery to all the joint holders. ~~Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may deem consent on the part of a Member to a corporate communication being made available to him on the Company’s website if such deemed consent is permitted by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange and the Company complies with any procedure that the Designated Stock Exchange may require~~
(4) Every person who, by operation of law, transfer, transmission, or other means whatsoever, shall become entitled to any share, shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share, which, previously to his name and address (including electronic address) being entered in the Register as the registered holder of such share, shall have been duly given to the person from whom he derives title to such share.
( ~~2~~ 5) Every Member or a person who is entitled to receive ~~N~~ notice from the Company under the provisions of the Statutes or these Bye-laws may register with the Company an electronic address to which ~~N~~ notices can be served upon him.
(6) Subject to any applicable laws, rules and regulations and the terms of these Bye-laws, any notice, document or publication, including but not limited to the documents referred to in Bye-laws 149, 150 and 158 may be given in the English language only or in both the English language and the Chinese language.

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1 635 9. Any Notice or other document:

(a) if served or delivered by post, shall where appropriate be sent by airmail and shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which the envelope containing the same, properly prepaid and addressed, is put into the post; in proving such service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the ~~N~~ notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the Notice or other document was so addressed and put into the post shall be conclusive evidence thereof;
(b) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent. A Notice placed on the Company’s website or the website of the Designated Stock Exchange is deemed given by the Company to a Member on the day following that on which a notice of availability is deemed served on the Member;
(c) if published on the Company’s website, shall be deemed to have been served on the day on which the notice, document or publication first so appears on the Company’s website to which the relevant person may have access or the day on which the notice of availability is deemed to have been served or delivered to such person under these Bye-laws, whichever is later;
(d) if served or delivered in any other manner contemplated by these Bye-laws ~~, other than by advertisement in newspapers in accordance with this Bye-law,~~ shall be deemed to have been served or delivered at the time of personal service or delivery or, as the case may be, at the time of the relevant despatch ~~or,~~ transmission or publication; and in proving such service or delivery a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board as to the fact and time of such service, delivery, despatch ~~or,~~ transmission or publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof; and
(e) if ~~served by~~ published as an advertisement in ~~newspapers in accordance with this~~ a newspaper or other publication permitted under these Bye-laws, shall be deemed to have been served on the day on which the advertisement ~~is~~ first ~~published; and may be given to a Member either in the English language or the Chinese language, subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations~~ so appears.

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16 ~~4~~ 0. (1) Any Notice or other document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address of any Member ~~or served by any means permitted by and~~ in pursuance of these Bye-laws shall, notwithstanding that such Member is then dead or bankrupt or that any other event has occurred, and whether or not the Company has notice of the death or bankruptcy or other event, be deemed to have been duly served or delivered in respect of any share registered in the name of such Member as sole or joint holder unless his name shall, at the time of the service or delivery of the Notice or document, have been removed from the Register as the holder of the share, and such service or delivery shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service or delivery of such Notice or document on all persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the share.
(2) A Notice may be given by the Company to the person entitled to a share in consequence of the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a Member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter, envelope or wrapper addressed to him by name, or by the title of representative of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so entitled, or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the Notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy had not occurred.
(3) Any person who by operation of law, transfer or other means whatsoever shall become entitled to any share shall be bound by every Notice in respect of such share which prior to his name and address being entered on the Register shall have been duly given to the person from whom he derives his title to such share.

SIGNATURES

16 ~~5~~ 1. For the purposes of these Bye-laws, a ~~cable or telex or~~ facsimile or electronic transmission message purporting to come from a holder of shares or, as the case may be, a Director or alternate Director, or, in the case of a corporation which is a holder of shares from a director or the secretary thereof or a duly appointed attorney or duly authorised representative thereof for it and on its behalf, shall in the absence of express evidence to the contrary available to the person relying thereon at the relevant time be deemed to be a document or instrument in writing signed by such holder or Director or alternate Director in the terms in which it is received. The signature to any ~~N~~ notice or document to be given by the Company may be written, printed or made electronically.

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WINDING UP

16 ~~6~~ 2. (1) ~~The~~ Subject to Bye-law 162(2), the Board shall have power in the name and on behalf of the Company to present a petition to the court for the Company to be wound up.
(2) A resolution that the Company be wound up by the court or be wound up voluntarily shall be a special resolution.
16 ~~7~~ 3. If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary or by the court) the liquidator may, with the authority of a special resolution and any other sanction required by the Act, divide among the Members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and whether or not the assets shall consist of properties of one kind or shall consist of properties to be divided as aforesaid of different kinds, and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of property and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members. The liquidator may, with the like authority, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as the liquidator with the like authority shall think fit, and the liquidation of the Company may be closed and the Company dissolved, but so that no contributory shall be compelled to accept any shares or other property in respect of which there is a liability.

INDEMNITY

16 ~~8~~ 4. (1) The Directors, Secretary and other officers and every Auditor of the Company at any time, whether at present or in the past, and the liquidator or trustees (if any) acting or who have acted in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and everyone of them, and everyone of their heirs, executors and administrators, shall be indemnified and secured harmless out of the assets and profits of the Company from and against all actions, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them, their or any of their heirs, executors or administrators, shall or may incur or sustain by or by reason of any act done, concurred in or omitted in or about the execution of their duty, or supposed duty, in their respective offices or trusts; and none of them shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of the other or others of them or for joining in any receipts for the sake of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or effects belonging to the Company shall or may be lodged or deposited for safe custody, or for insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any moneys of or belonging to the Company shall be placed out on or invested, or for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto; PROVIDED THAT this indemnity shall not extend to any matter in respect of any fraud or dishonesty which may attach to any of said persons.

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(2) Each Member agrees to waive any claim or right of action he might have, whether individually or by or in the right of the Company, against any Director on account of any action taken by such Director, or the failure of such Director to take any action in the performance of his duties with or for the Company; PROVIDED THAT such waiver shall not extend to any matter in respect of any fraud or dishonesty which may attach to such Director.
(3) The Directors may purchase and maintain insurance at the expense of the Company for the benefit of any person who is or was at any time a Director or other officer or employee of the Company against any liability which may attach to him, or loss or expenditure which he may incur, in relation to anything done or alleged to have been done or omitted to be done as a Director, officer or employee of the Company, or of any subsidiaries or associated companies of the Company, or of any company in which the Company has an interest, whether direct or indirect, or who is or was at any time a trustee of any pension fund or employee benefits trust in which any employee of the Company or of any such other company or subsidiary is or has been interested. The Directors may authorise directors of subsidiaries of the Company to purchase and maintain insurance at the expense of the Company for the benefit of any present or former director, other officer or employee of such company in respect of such liability, loss or expenditure.

ALTERATION OF BYE-LAWS AND AMENDMENT TO MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION AND NAME OF COMPANY

16 ~~9~~ 5. No Bye-law shall be rescinded, altered or amended and no new Bye-law shall be made until the same has been approved by a resolution of the Directors and confirmed by a special resolution of the Members. A special resolution shall be required to alter the provisions of the memorandum of association or to change the name of the Company.

INFORMATION

1 ~~706~~ 6. No Member shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information in respect of any detail of the Company’s trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of a trade secret or secret process which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Company and which in the opinion of the Directors it will be inexpedient in the interests of the Members to communicate to the public.

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(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(stock code: 00659)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the annual general meeting of NWS Holdings Limited (the “Company”) will be held at Meeting Room N201 (Expo Drive Entrance), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Monday, 21 November 2022 at 12:00 noon for the following purposes:

To receive and consider the audited financial statements and the Reports of the Directors and the Independent Auditor for the financial year ended 30 June 2022.
To declare a final dividend of HK$0.31 per share for the financial year ended 30 June 2022.
(a) To re-elect Professor Chan Ka Keung, Ceajer as Director.
(b) To re-elect Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian as Director.
(c) To re-elect Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian as Director.
(d) To re-elect Mr. Shek Lam Him, Abraham as Director.
(e) To re-elect Mrs. Oei Wai Chi Grace Fung as Director.
(f) To authorize the Board of Directors to fix the Directors’ remuneration.
To re-appoint Messrs. PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor and to authorize the Board of Directors to fix the Auditor’s remuneration.

For identification purposes only

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As special business, to consider and if thought fit, pass with or without amendment, the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions of the Company:

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

“ THAT :
(A) subject to paragraph (C) of this resolution, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company or securities convertible into such shares or options, warrants, or similar rights to subscribe for any shares or convertible securities and to make or grant offers, agreements and options which would or might require the exercise of such powers be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
(B) the approval in paragraph (A) of this resolution shall authorize the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;
(C) the total number of shares allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) and issued by the Company pursuant to the approval granted in paragraph (A) of this resolution, otherwise than pursuant to (i) a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined); (ii) the exercise of any conversion rights attaching to any securities which are convertible into shares of the Company; (iii) the exercise of the rights under any option scheme or similar arrangement for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to Directors and/or employees of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries and/or eligible participants as defined under such option scheme of options to subscribe for, or rights to acquire, shares of the Company; or (iv) any issue of shares as scrip dividends or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares of the Company in accordance with the bye-laws of the Company, shall not exceed 20% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution, provided that if any subsequent consolidation or subdivision of shares of the Company is effected, the maximum number of shares of the Company that may be issued pursuant to the approval in paragraph (A) of this resolution as a percentage of the total number of issued shares of the Company at the date immediately before and after such consolidation or subdivision shall be the same and such maximum number of shares of the Company shall be adjusted accordingly, and the approval granted in paragraph (A) shall be limited accordingly; and

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(D) for the purpose of this resolution:

“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earlier of:

(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the bye-laws of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; and
(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.

“Rights Issue” means an offer of shares open for a period fixed by the Directors of the Company to holders of shares on the register on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognized regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory outside Hong Kong).”

“ THAT :
(A) subject to paragraph (B) of this resolution, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to repurchase its own shares on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Stock Exchange”) or on any other stock exchange on which the shares of the Company may be listed and recognized by the Securities and Futures Commission and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for this purpose, subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or that of any other stock exchange as amended from time to time, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

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(B) the total number of shares which may be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (A) of this resolution shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution, provided that if any subsequent consolidation or subdivision of shares of the Company is effected, the maximum number of shares of the Company that may be repurchased pursuant to the approval in paragraph (A) of this resolution as a percentage of the total number of issued shares of the Company at the date immediately before and after such consolidation or subdivision shall be the same and such maximum number of shares of the Company shall be adjusted accordingly, and the authority granted pursuant to paragraph (A) of this resolution shall be limited accordingly; and
(C) for the purpose of this resolution:

“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earlier of:

(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the bye-laws of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; and
(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”
“ THAT conditional upon the Ordinary Resolutions Nos. 5 and 6 being passed, the general mandate granted to the Directors of the Company pursuant to Ordinary Resolution No. 5 be and is hereby extended by the addition to the total number of shares of the Company which may be allotted by the Directors of the Company pursuant to such general mandate, a number representing the total number of shares repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to Ordinary Resolution No. 6 provided that such number shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution (subject to adjustment in the case of consolidation or subdivision of shares of the Company).”

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As special business, to consider and if thought fit, pass with or without amendment, the following resolution as a special resolution of the Company:

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

“ THAT :
(a) the proposed amendments to the existing bye-laws of the Company (the “Proposed Amendments”), the details of which are set out in Appendix III to the circular of the Company dated 20 October 2022, be and are hereby approved;
(b) the amended and restated bye-laws of the Company (the “Amended and Restated Bye-laws”), which contains all the Proposed Amendments, a copy of which has been produced to the meeting and marked “A” and initiated by the chairman of the meeting for the purpose of identification, be and is hereby approved and adopted as the bye-laws of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of the existing bye-laws of the Company with immediate effect; and
(c) any Director or company secretary of the Company be and is hereby authorized to do all things necessary to effect and record the adoption of the Amended and Restated Bye-laws.”

By Order of the Board of NWS HOLDINGS LIMITED Tang Wai Yau Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 20 October 2022

Notes:

The annual general meeting will be a hybrid meeting. Registered shareholders may attend the annual general meeting either (a) in person; or (b) online through the Tricor e-Meeting System with the personalised login and access code provided by the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, by post. Registered shareholders attending the annual general meeting through the Tricor e-Meeting System will be able to vote and submit questions online. For non-registered shareholders whose Shares are held by banks, brokers, custodians or HKSCC Nominees Limited who wish to attend the annual general meeting online, they should consult their banks, brokers, custodians or HKSCC Nominees Limited (as the case may be) for the necessary arrangements and the personalised login and access code will be sent to them upon receipt of request through the banks, brokers, custodians or HKSCC Nominees Limited.
Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint one or (if he is a holder of two or more shares) more proxies to attend and vote in his stead. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
In order to be valid, the instrument appointing a proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a certified copy thereof, must be deposited at the branch

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share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding of the meeting or any adjournment thereof (as the case may be).

In addition to the physical submission of the proxy form, registered shareholders have the option to submit their proxy appointment electronically through the Tricor e-Meeting System from Friday, 21 October 2022 up to 12:00 noon on Saturday, 19 November 2022. Details regarding the submission of proxy forms electronically including login details to access the Tricor e-Meeting System are included in the Company’s notification letter to registered Shareholders together with this circular.
For the purposes of determining eligibility of the members of the Company to attend and vote at the meeting and entitlement to the final dividend, the register of members of the Company will be closed. Details of such closures are set out below:

For determining eligibility to attend and vote at the meeting:	For determining eligibility to attend and vote at the meeting:
Latest time to lodge transfer documents for registration . . . . . . . . 4:30 p.m. on 15 November 2022
Closure of register of members	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 to 21 November 2022
	(both days inclusive)
Record date . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 November 2022
For determining entitlement to	the final dividend:
Latest time to lodge transfer documents for registration . . . . . . . . 4:30 p.m. on 24 November 2022
Closure of register of members	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 November 2022
Record date . . . . . . . . . . . .	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 November 2022

During the above closure periods, no transfer of shares will be registered. To be eligible to attend and vote at the meeting and to qualify for the final dividend, all properly completed transfer forms accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged for registration with the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Tricor Standard Limited, at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong no later than the aforementioned latest time.

If a tropical cyclone warning signal number 8 or above or a black rainstorm warning signal or “extreme conditions caused by a super typhoon” announced by the Government of Hong Kong is in force in Hong Kong at any time between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on the date of the meeting, the meeting will be automatically postponed to a later date and/or time as determined by the Company. The Company will publish an announcement on its corporate website (www.nws.com.hk) and the HKEXnews website (www.hkexnews.hk) to notify members of the Company of the date, time and location of the rescheduled meeting.
The translation into Chinese language of this notice is for reference only. In case of any inconsistency, the English version shall prevail.
As at the date of this notice, (a) the executive directors of the Company are Dr. Cheng Kar Shun, Henry, Mr. Ma Siu Cheung, Mr. Ho Gilbert Chi Hang, Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian, Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian, and Mr. Cheng Chi Leong, Christopher; (b) the non-executive directors of the Company are Mr. To Hin Tsun, Gerald, Mr. Dominic Lai and Mr. William Junior Guilherme Doo (alternate director to Mr. William Junior Guilherme Doo: Mr. Lam Wai Hon, Patrick); and (c) the independent non-executive directors of the Company are Mr. Kwong Che Keung, Gordon, Mr. Shek Lai Him, Abraham, Mr. Lee Yiu Kwong, Alan, Mrs. Oei Wai Chi Grace Fung, Mr. Wong Kwai Huen, Albert and Professor Chan Ka Keung, Ceajer.

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49372_rns_2022-10-19_a738a902-8bfc-48cd-93ce-92a97f66e552.pdf

(stock code: 00659)

PROPOSALS FOR

RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS, GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE SHARES AND TO REPURCHASE SHARES AND

PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

AND

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

ATTENDING THE 2022 AGM BY MEANS OF ELECTRONIC FACILITIES

VOTING AT THE 2022 AGM

QUESTIONS AT THE 2022 AGM

VOTING BY PROXY

CONTACT DETAILS OF THE COMPANY’S BRANCH SHARE REGISTRAR IN HONG KONG

HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES FOR THE PHYSICAL 2022 AGM

(stock code: 00659)

Executive Directors:

Non-executive Directors:

Registered office:

Independent non-executive Directors:

PROPOSALS FOR RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS, GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE SHARES AND TO REPURCHASE SHARES AND PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

INTRODUCTION

RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS

ISSUE MANDATE AND REPURCHASE MANDATE

PROPOSED ADOPTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

2022 AGM

RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT

RECOMMENDATION

GENERAL

Professor Chan Ka Keung, Ceajer GBS, SBS, JP

Dr. Cheng Chi Kong, Adrian SBS, JP

Mr. Cheng Chi Ming, Brian

Mr. Shek Lai Him, Abraham GBS, JP

APPENDIX I

Mrs. Oei Wai Chi Grace Fung

(a) SHARE CAPITAL

(b) REASONS FOR REPURCHASES

(c) FUNDING OF REPURCHASES

(d) UNDERTAKING OF THE DIRECTORS

(e) EFFECT OF TAKEOVERS CODE

(f) SHARE PRICES

(g) SHARE REPURCHASE MADE BY THE COMPANY

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS

NWS HOLDINGS LIMITED

INDEX

SUBJECT

Bye-Law No.

INTERPRETATION

SHARE CAPITAL

~~FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE~~

ALTERATION OF CAPITAL

SHARE RIGHTS

VARIATION OF RIGHTS

SHARES

SHARE CERTIFICATES

LIEN

CALLS ON SHARES

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

REGISTER OF MEMBERS

RECORD DATES

TRANSFER OF SHARES

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

UNTRACEABLE MEMBERS

GENERAL MEETINGS

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

APPENDIX III

VOTING

~~77.~~ 74.If:

PROXIES

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES

WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS OF MEMBERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS

DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

APPENDIX III

DIRECTORS’ FEES AND EXPENSES

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

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FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

77. 74.If:

100 97. A Director may:

129. [intentionally deleted]

130

1 635 9. Any Notice or other document: