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ELEVRA LITHIUM LIMITED Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2007

Aug 20, 2007

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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DiamonEx Limited ABN 26 091 951 978

Level 1 349 Coronation Drive Milton Qld 4064 Australia Telephone: +61 7 3720-8944 Facsimile: +61 7 3720-8988 e-mail : [email protected] Postal Address: PO Box 1357 Milton Qld 4064

ASX ANNOUNCEMENTS AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE

21 August 2007

NOTICE OF MEETING

Please find attached Notice of General Meeting and Proxy Form which has been mailed to shareholders.

For further information, contact:

Dan O’Neill (Managing Director)

Greg King (Chairman)

+61 7 3720 8944 (Office) +61 7 3720 8944 (Office) +61 7 3720 8988 (Fax) +61 7 3720 8988 (Fax) +61 407 596 942 (Mobile) +61 411 473 730 (Mobile) [email protected] (Email) [email protected] (Email)

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING

DIAMONEX LIMITED

ABN 26 091 951 978

Notice is given that an Extraordinary General Meeting ( General Meeting ) of shareholders of DiamonEx Limited ( Company ) will be held at Level 1, 349 Coronation Drive, Milton, Queensland, Australia on 21 September 2007, at 10:00 am.

AGENDA

Special Business

1. Approval to adopt a new constitution for the Company

To consider and if thought fit, pass the following resolution as a special resolution.

“That with effect from the close of this meeting, the current constitution of the Company ( Current Constitution ) be repealed and the constitution ( New Constitution ) in the form set out in Attachment A to this Notice of Meeting and tabled at the meeting and initialled by the Chairman for identification be adopted as the constitution of the Company.”

Please see the Explanatory Notes attached to this Notice of Meeting for more information regarding this resolution.

By order of the Board

Paul Crawford Company Secretary

20 August 2007

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Resolution 1, to adopt a new constitution for the Company requiring the support of 75% of votes cast by shareholders eligible to vote at the General Meeting.

The Company’s internal management is currently governed by the constitution adopted on 31 January 2002 ( Current Constitution ). As the Company now intends to trade its shares on AIM, the Current Constitution needs to be amended. In addition, various changes to corporations legislation and amendments of the Corporations Act have occurred since the Current Constitution was adopted.

Rather than introducing a substantial number of amendments to the Current Constitution, your Directors consider that it would be administratively easier to repeal the Current Constitution and adopt the New Constitution, in the form set out in Attachment A to this Notice of Meeting ( New Constitution ), as the constitution of the Company.

The Current Constitution needed to be amended for the purposes of complying with the rules published by AIM regulating AIM trading companies ( AIM Rules ). An example of the changes made is the inclusion of provisions which state a requirement for the Company to comply with the rules and laws of a foreign country or a securities exchange in which its shares are traded. In particular, recent changes to disclosure of significant shareholder interests requirements in the United Kingdom have seen the AIM Rules require companies which are not governed by United Kingdom law to have their constitution contain provisions which are equivalent to those that apply to United Kingdom companies. These particular provisions have been included in section 41 of the New Constitution. It should be noted that the Company will need to rely on these provisions from time to time in order to remain compliant with the AIM Rules.

A copy of the Current Constitution and the proposed New Constitution will be available for inspection during normal office hours prior to the General Meeting at the Company’s office, at Level 1, 349 Coronation Drive, Milton, Queensland.

The Board unanimously recommends that shareholders vote in favor of this resolution.

Please return your Proxy forms to: Link Market Services Limited Level 12, 680 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Locked Bag A14, Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia Telephone: (02) 8280 7454 Facsimile: (02) 9287 0309 ASX Code: DON

DiamonEx Limited ABN 26 091 951 978

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APPOINTMENT OF PROXY

If you would like to attend and vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting, please bring this form with you. This will assist in registering your attendance.

Website: www.linkmarketservices.com.au

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I/We being a member(s) of DiamonEx Limited and entitled to attend and vote hereby appoint

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the Chairman OR if you are NOT appointing the Chairman of the of the Meeting Meeting as your proxy, please write the name of the (mark box) person or body corporate (excluding the registered securityholder) you are appointing as your proxy

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or failing the person/body corporate named, or if no person/body corporate is named, the Chairman of the Meeting, as my/our proxy to act generally at the meeting on my/our behalf and to vote in accordance with the following instructions (or if no directions have been given, as the proxy sees fit) at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to be held at 10:00am on Friday, 21 September 2007, at Level 1, 349 Coronation Drive, Milton Qld and at any adjournment of that meeting.

Where more than one proxy is to be appointed or where voting intentions cannot be adequately expressed using this form an additional form of proxy is available on request from the share registry. Proxies will only be valid and accepted by the Company if they are signed and received no later than 48 hours before the meeting. The Chairman of the Meeting intends to vote undirected proxies in favour of all items of business.

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To direct your proxy how to vote on any resolution please insert in the appropriate box below.X

For Against Abstain*

SPECIAL BUSINESS

Resolution 1

Approval to adopt a new constitution for the Company

  • If you mark the Abstain box for a particular Item, you are directing your proxy not to vote on your behalf on a show of hands or on a poll and your votes will not be counted in computing the required majority on a poll.
C SIGNATURE OF SECURITYHOLDERS – THIS MUST BE COMPLETED
Securityholder 1 (Individual)
Joint Securityholder 2 (Individual)
Joint Securityholder 3 (Individual)
Sole Director and Sole Company Secretary
Director/Company Secretary (Delete one)
Director

This form should be signed by the securityholder. If a joint holding, either securityholder may sign. If signed by the securityholder’s attorney, the power of attorney must have been previously noted by the registry or a certified copy attached to this form. If executed by a company, the form must be executed in accordance with the securityholder’s constitution and the Corporations Act 2001 (Cwlth).

Link Market Services Limited advises that Chapter 2C of the Corporations Act 2001 requires information about you as a securityholder (including your name, address and details of the securities you hold) to be included in the public register of the entity in which you hold securities. Information is collected to administer your securityholding and if some or all of the information is not collected then it might not be possible to administer your securityholding. Your personal information may be disclosed to the entity in which you hold securities. You can obtain access to your personal information by contacting us at the address or telephone number shown on this form. Our privacy policy is available on our website (www.linkmarketservices.com.au).

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How to complete this Proxy Form

1 Your Name and Address

This is your name and address as it appears on the company’s share register. If this information is incorrect, please make the correction on the form. Shareholders sponsored by a broker should advise their broker of any changes. Please note: you cannot change ownership of your shares using this form.

2 Appointment of a Proxy

If you wish to appoint the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, mark the box in section A. If the person you wish to appoint as your proxy is someone other than the Chairman of the Meeting please write the name of that person in section A. If you leave this section blank, or your named proxy does not attend the meeting, the Chairman of the Meeting will be your proxy. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the company. A proxy may be an individual or a body corporate.

3 Votes on Items of Business

You should direct your proxy how to vote by placing a mark in one of the boxes opposite each item of business. All your shares will be voted in accordance with such a direction unless you indicate only a portion of voting rights are to be voted on any item by inserting the percentage or number of shares you wish to vote in the appropriate box or boxes. If you do not mark any of the boxes on the items of business, your proxy may vote as he or she chooses. If you mark more than one box on an item your vote on that item will be invalid.

4 Appointment of a Second Proxy

You are entitled to appoint up to two persons as proxies to attend the meeting and vote on a poll. If you wish to appoint a second proxy, an additional Proxy Form may be obtained by telephoning the company’s share registry or you may copy this form.

To appoint a second proxy you must:

(a) on each of the first Proxy Form and the second Proxy Form state the percentage of your voting rights or number of shares applicable to that form. If the appointments do not specify the percentage or number of votes that each proxy may exercise, each proxy may exercise half your votes. Fractions of votes will be disregarded.

  • (b) return both forms together.

5 Signing Instructions

You must sign this form as follows in the spaces provided:

Individual: where the holding is in one name, the holder must sign.

Joint Holding: where the holding is in more than one name, either securityholder may sign.

  • Power of Attorney: to sign under Power of Attorney, you must have already lodged the Power of Attorney with the registry. If you have not previously lodged this document for notation, please attach a certified photocopy of the Power of Attorney to this form when you return it.

Companies: where the company has a Sole Director who is also the Sole Company Secretary, this form must be signed by that person. If the company (pursuant to section 204A of the Corporations Act 2001 ) does not have a Company Secretary, a Sole Director can also sign alone. Otherwise this form must be signed by a Director jointly with either another Director or a Company Secretary. Please indicate the office held by signing in the appropriate place.

If a representative of the corporation is to attend the meeting the appropriate “Certificate of Appointment of Corporate Representative” should be produced prior to admission. A form of the certificate may be obtained from the company’s share registry.

Lodgement of a Proxy

This Proxy Form (and any Power of Attorney under which it is signed) must be received at an address given below by 10:00am on Wednesday, 19 September 2007, being not later than 48 hours before the commencement of the meeting. Any Proxy Form received after that time will not be valid for the scheduled meeting.

Proxy forms may be lodged using the reply paid envelope or:

– by posting, delivery or facsimile to DiamonEx Limited’s share registry as follows:

DiamonEx Limited

C/- Link Market Services Limited

Locked Bag A14 Sydney South NSW 1235

Facsimile: (02) 9287 0309

  • delivering it to Level 12, 680 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

“ATTACHMENT A” Constitution of DiamonEx Limited ACN 091 951 978

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Table of Contents

1 Name of The Company 6
2 Type of Company 6
3 Definitions and Interpretation 6
4 Savings Provisions 9
5 Shares and Value 9
6 Power to Issue Shares 9
7 Preference Shares 9
8 Variation of Rights 11
9 Unmarketable Parcels 11
10 Recognition of Ownership 12
11 Commissions and Brokerage 12
12 Uncertificated Securities 12
13 Certificated Securities 12
14 Power to Make Calls 13
15 Time of Calls 13
16 Notice of Calls 13
17 Fixed Calls 14
18 Liability of Members 14
19 Interest on Unpaid Calls 14
20 Proceedings on Default 14
21 Prepayment of Calls 14
22 Liability to Forfeiture 14
23 Effect of Non Compliance With Notice 15
24 Notice of Forfeiture 15
25 Consequences of Forfeiture 15
26 Evidence of Forfeiture 15
27 Disposal of Forfeited Shares 15
28 Application of Sale Proceeds 16
29 Forfeiture 16
30 Right to Lien 16
31 Imposition of Liabilities 17
32 Suspension of Rights 17
33 Enforcement of Lien 17
34 Completion of Sale Pursuant To Lien 18
35 Appropriation of Proceeds 18
36 General 18

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37 Transfer Procedure 19
38 Right to Refuse Registration 19
39 Closure of Register 20
40 Other Securities 20
41 Disclosure of Interests 20
42 Title to Shares on Death 21
43 Registration of Other Persons 22
44 Rights on Entitlement 22
45 Partial Take-Overs 22
46 Power to Alter Capital 24
47 Power to Reduce Capital 24
48 Share Buy-Backs 24
49 General Meetings 24
50 Convening of General Meetings 24
51 Notice of General Meeting 24
52 Cancellation or Postponement of General Meeting 25
53 Quorum 25
54 Chairperson 26
55 Business at General Meetings 26
56 Adjournments 27
57 Voting Rights 27
58 Voting Disqualification 27
59 Objection to Qualification to Vote 27
60 Votes of Joint Holders 28
61 Persons of Unsound Mind and Minors 28
62 Voting 28
63 Polls 28
64 Chairperson's Casting Vote 29
65 Right of Non-Members to Attend General Meeting 29
66 Right to Appoint Proxies 29
67 Appointing a Proxy 29
68 Lodgement of Proxies 30
69 Validity of Proxies 30
70 Rights of Proxies And Attorneys 31
71 Number of Directors 31
72 Director's Qualifications 31
73 Appointment of Directors 31
74 Rotation of Directors 32
75 Determination of Rotation 32
76 Eligibility for Election 32

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77 Deemed Re-Election 32
78 Vacation of Office 32
79 Appointment of Alternate Director 33
80 Rights and Powers of Alternate Directors 33
81 Suspension or Revocation of Appointment 34
82 Termination of Appointment 34
83 Acting as Alternate for More Than One Director 34
84 Power to Appoint 34
85 Qualifications 34
86 Powers 34
87 Temporary Appointments 35
88 Removal or Dismissal 35
89 Remuneration of Directors 35
90 Remuneration of Managing Director 35
91 Payment of Expenses 35
92 Payment for Extra Services 36
93 Increases in Remuneration 36
94 Retiring Allowances 36
95 Powers of Directors 36
96 Borrowing Powers 37
97 Negotiable Instruments 37
98 Loans to Directors 37
99 Attorneys and Agents 37
100 Conferment of Powers 37
101 Inadvertent Omissions 38
102 Contracts with Directors 38
103 Disclosure of Interest 38
104 Meetings of Directors 39
105 Quorum 39
106 Chairperson 40
107 Voting 40
108 Circular Resolutions by Directors 40
109 Committee of Directors 41
110 Validation of Acts Of Directors 41
111 Minutes 41
112 Appointment and Tenure 42
113 Execution of Documents 42
114 Declaration of Dividends 42
115 Crediting and Paying Dividends 42
116 Reserves 43

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117 Deductions from Dividends 43
118 Dividends Paid in Kind 43
119 Payment of Dividends 43
120 Capitalisation of Profits 44
121 Methods of Capitalisation 44
122 Director's Powers Upon Capitalisation 44
123 Dividend Reinvestment Plan 45
124 Bonus Share Plan 45
125 Participation In More Than One Plan 45
126 Operation of Plan 45
127 Accounts and Inspection 46
128 Confidential Information 46
129 Service of Notices 46
130 Notices to Joint Holders 47
131 Notices of General Meeting 47
132 Form of Signature 47
133 Winding Up 48
134 Indemnity 48
135 Payment of Indemnity Policy Premium 49
136 Indemnity to Continue 49
137 Liability of Directors for Acts of Others 49
138 Conduct of Litigation 49
139 Compliance With Listing Rules 50
140 Restricted Securities 50
Schedule 1 51

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Constitution of DiamonEx Limited

ACN 091 951 9878

A Company Limited By Shares

NAME AND TYPE OF COMPANY

1 Name of the Company

  • 1.1 The name of the Company is DiamonEx Limited.

2 Type of Company

  • 2.1 The Company is a public company limited by shares.

  • 2.2 The liability of Members is limited.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

3 Definitions and Interpretation

  • 3.1 In this Constitution, unless there is something in the subject or context which is inconsistent:

AIM ” means the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

AIM Rules ” means the rules as issued by the London Stock Exchange governing companies which trade on AIM.

AIM Traded Shares ” means the interests in the shares of the Company which are traded on AIM.

Approving Resolution Deadline ” in relation to a Proportional Takeover Bid has the meaning given to that term in section 648D(2) of the Law.

ASTC ” has the same meaning as in the Corporations Regulations.

ASTC Regulated Transfer ” has the same meaning as in the Corporations Regulations.

Auditor " means the person qualified to act as an auditor under the Law and appointed by the Company for the time being to perform the duties of an auditor of the Company.

Bonus Share Plan ” means a plan established pursuant to a resolution referred to in clause 124.

Business Day ” has the same meaning as given to that term in the Listing Rules.

Call ” includes instalments of a call.

Certificated Securities ” means any shares or securities in the Company in respect of which a certificate has been issued and has not subsequently been cancelled pursuant to any Uncertificated Securities Transfer Scheme in which the Company is participating.

CHESS ” means the Clearing House Electronic Sub-register System established and operated by the ASTC.

CHESS Holding ” has the same meaning as in the SCH Business Rules.

Committee ” means a committee of Directors established in accordance with clause 109.

Companies Act ” means the Companies Act 2006 (UK) c 46 as amended from time to time.

Company ” means DiamonEx Limited ACN 091 951 978.

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Constitution ” means this constitution as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Corporations Act and Corporations Regulation ” means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) as amended from time to time and the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth) as amended from time to time.

CREST ” means the system of paperless settlement of trades and holdings of uncertificated securities administered by CRESTCo Limited in the United Kingdom.

Director ” means any person holding the position of a director of the Company (and includes an alternate director) and “ Directors ” means the directors for the time being of the Company or as the context permits such number of them as have authority to act for the Company.

Dividend ” includes interim dividend and bonus issues.

Dividend Reinvestment Plan ” means a plan established pursuant to a resolution referred to in clause 123.

Electronic Communication ” means any form of communication where information is transmitted across a telecommunications network and includes facsimile, e-mail and a publication on an internet website available on the world wide web.

Exchange ” means ASX Limited (ACN 008 624 691) and includes any successor body.

Executive Director ” means a Director who is an employee of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company other than a Managing Director.

General Meeting ” means a general meeting of the Company or Members.

Issue Resolution ” means a resolution of the Directors authorising the issue of preference shares.

Law ” means the Corporations Act and Corporations Regulations as applied to the Company from time to time.

Listed Securities ” means any shares, share options, stock debentures, debenture stock or other securities for the time being issued by the Company and officially quoted by ASX.

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

London Stock Exchange ” means the London Stock Exchange plc.

Managing Director ” means any person appointed to perform the duties of managing director of the Company from time to time.

Member ” means any person entered in the Register as a member of the Company for the time being.

Member Present ” means in connection with a meeting of Members, a Member being present in person or by proxy or attorney or, in the case of a corporation, by a Representative.

Minerals ” has the same meaning as given to that term in Section 9 of the Law.

Office ” means the registered office for the time being of the Company.

Officer ” has the same meaning as given to that term in Section 9 of the Law.

Official List ” has the same meaning as given to that term in the Listing Rules.

Operating Rules ” in relation to a Prescribed CS Facility, has the same meaning as in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act.

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Prescribed CS Facility ” has the same meaning as in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act.

Prescribed Rate ” means, if the Directors have fixed an interest rate, that interest rate, otherwise 10% per annum.

Proper ASTC Transfer ” has the same meaning as in the Corporations Regulations.

Proportional Takeover Bid ” has means a takeover bid made as a proportional takeover bid, as that term is defined in Section 9 of the Law.

Recognised Investment Exchange ” means a recognised investment exchange (as defined in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of Great Britain).

Register ” means the register of Members to be kept pursuant to the Law and in accordance with the Listing Rules while the Company is admitted to the Official List.

Related Body Corporate ” has the same meaning as given to that term in Section 9 of the Law.

Replaceable Rule ” means any provision of those sections and sub-sections of the Law, which are designated under Section 141 of the Law as “replaceable rules” and so capable of being replaced or modified by a company’s constitution.

Representative ” means a person authorised in accordance with Section 250D of the Law to act as a representative of a body corporate holding shares in the Company.

Restricted Securities ” has the same meaning as given to that term in the Listing Rules.

SCH Business Rules ” means the Operating Rules of the ASTC.

Seal ” means the common seal of the Company.

“" Secretary ” means the person appointed as the secretary of the Company and includes any assistant or acting secretary.

Uncertificated Securities ” means any shares or securities in the Company in respect of which a certificate has not been issued or, having been issued, has been subsequently cancelled pursuant to any Uncertificated Securities Transfer Scheme in which the Company is participating.

Uncertificated Securities Transfer Scheme ” means any shares or securities transfer scheme operated under or in accordance with the Law, the Listing Rules, the SCH Business Rules, or the corresponding laws of or securities exchange rules in any other country which regulates the transfer or registration of, or the settlement of transactions affecting, Uncertificated Securities and includes CHESS as defined in the SCH Business Rules.

  • 3.2 In this Constitution, unless there is something in the subject or context which is inconsistent:

  • (a) the singular includes the plural and vice versa;

  • (b) each gender includes the other two genders;

  • (c) the word " person " means a natural person and any partnership, association, body or entity whether incorporated or not;

  • (d) the words " writing " and " written " include any other mode of representing or reproducing words, figures, drawings or symbols in a visible form;

  • (e) where any word or phrase is defined, any other part of speech or other grammatical form of that word or phrase has a cognate meaning;

  • (f) a reference to any clause or schedule is to a clause or schedule of this Constitution; and

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  • (g) a reference to any statute, proclamation, rule, code, regulation or ordinance includes any amendment, consolidation, modification, re-enactment or reprint of it or any statute, proclamation, rule, code, regulation or ordinance replacing it.

  • 3.3

  • The provisions of this Constitution displace the Replaceable Rules.

  • 3.4 Headings do not form part of or affect the construction or interpretation of this Constitution.

4 Savings Provisions

  • 4.1 Every act, matter and thing performed, observed or occurring under the constitution of the Company in force prior to the adoption of this Constitution continues to have the same operation and effect as if the same were performed, observed or occurred while this Constitution was in force.

SHARES AND CAPITAL

5 Shares and Value

  • 5.1 Shares in the Company do not have a par value. The Directors shall determine the class, issue price and all other matters in respect of shares to be issued. However, while the Company is admitted to the Official List of the Exchange, the Company shall only issue shares at a price, which complies with any requirements of the Listing Rules.

  • 5.2 Shares issued must be of a class described in the Schedule of this Constitution or any other class the Directors have resolved to issue.

6 Power to Issue Shares

  • 6.1 Subject to:

  • (a) the Law;

  • (b) the Listing Rules;

  • (c) this Constitution; and

  • (d) any special rights previously conferred on the holders of any existing shares or class of shares issued by the Company or other securities issued by the Company, shares in and other securities of the Company are under the control of and may be issued by the Directors and any shares or securities may from time to time be issued to such persons on terms and conditions and with preferred, deferred, qualified, guaranteed or other special rights, privileges, conditions, restrictions or limitations whether in regard to dividend, return of capital, distribution of assets, voting or otherwise as the Directors may determine.

  • 6.2 The Directors may grant to any person an option to call on the Company to issue shares to the person.

7 Preference Shares

  • 7.1 Subject to the Law, the Directors may issue preference shares that are, or at the option of the Company are, liable to be redeemed.

  • 7.2 Subject to the other provisions of this clause 7, the Directors may issue preference shares:

  • (a) of such quantity;

  • (b) to such persons;

  • (c) in such amounts, which may differ between persons; and

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  • (d) upon such terms and conditions, as the Directors in their unfettered discretion shall think fit.

  • 7.3 The Issue Resolution in respect of any preference share must specify or refer to a means for the determination of:

  • (a) the rate of dividend applicable to the share and the times at which dividends are to be paid;

  • (b) the issue price of the share;

  • (c) the number of votes that may be exercised by the holder in respect of the share on a poll;

  • (d) in the case of a redeemable preference share, the time and place for redemption of the share; and

  • (e) any restrictions on the right to transfer the share.

  • 7.4 The Dividend payable in respect of a preference share:

may be at a fixed or variable rate;

  • (a) unless otherwise provided for in the Issue Resolution in respect of the share, will be taken to accrue from day to day; and

  • (b) unless otherwise provided for in the Issue Resolution in respect of the share, is payable in respect of the amount for the time being paid upon the share.

  • 7.5 Each preference share confers on its holder:

  • (a) the right to payment out of the profits of the Company of a cumulative or noncumulative preferential dividend at the rate and at the times specified in or determined in accordance with the Issue Resolution in respect of the share in priority to the payment of any Dividend on any other class of shares; and

  • (b) the right on a winding up or reduction of capital and, in the case of a redeemable preference share, on redemption, to payment in cash in priority to any other class of shares of:

    • (i) the amount of any Dividend accrued but unpaid on the share at the date of winding up or reduction of capital or, in the case of a redeemable preference share, the date of redemption; and

(ii) any amount paid in respect of the issue price of the share.

  • 7.6 Except as set out in clause 7.5, a preference share does not confer on its holder any right to participate in the profits or surplus assets of the Company, whether on a winding up, reduction of capital or otherwise.

  • 7.7 The holder of a preference share has the same right as the holder of an ordinary share to receive notice of and to attend a General Meeting and to receive a copy of any documents to be laid before that meeting.

  • 7.8 A preference share does not entitle its holder to vote at any General Meeting of the Company except in the following circumstances:

  • (a) during a period during which a Dividend (or part of a Dividend) on the share is in arrears;

  • (b) on a proposal to reduce the Company’s share capital;

  • (c) on a proposal to approve the terms of a buy-back arrangement;

  • (d) on a proposal that affects the rights attached to the share;

  • (e) on a proposal to wind up the Company;

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  • (f) on a proposal for the disposal of the whole of the Company’s property, business and undertaking; or

  • (g) during the winding up of the Company.

  • 7.9 The holder of a preference share who is entitled to vote in respect of that share under clause 7.8 is, on a poll, entitled to the number of votes specified in or determined in accordance with the Issue Resolution in respect of the share.

  • 7.10 In the case of a redeemable preference share, the Company must, at the time and place for redemption specified in or determined in accordance with the Issue Resolution in respect of the share redeem the share and, on receiving the certificate for the share (if any), pay to or at the direction of the holder, the amount payable on redemption.

8 Variation of Rights

  • The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise provided by this Constitution or expressly provided by the terms of the issue of the shares of that class, be taken to be varied or cancelled by the creation or issue of further shares ranking equally with the first mentioned shares.

  • 8.1 The issue of any shares ranking in priority to or equally with, or any conversion of existing shares to shares ranking in priority to or equally with an existing class of preference shares is a variation or cancellation of the rights attaching to that existing class of preference shares.

  • 8.2 If the share capital is at any time divided into different classes of shares, all or any of the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied or cancelled:

  • (a) with the written consent of the holders of 75% of the issued shares of that class; or

  • (b) with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of shares of that class.

  • 8.3 All the provisions of this Constitution relating to General Meetings shall, with appropriate modifications, apply to every such meeting except that the quorum at any such meeting is that number of Members Present holding 25% of the issued shares of the class and any Member Present holding shares of the class may demand a poll.

9 Unmarketable Parcels

  • 9.1 Subject to the Listing Rules, the Company shall be entitled to sell the shares of a Member who has less than a marketable parcel of shares in the Company on the following conditions:

  • (a) the Company may do so only once in any 12 month period;

  • (b) the Company shall notify the Member in writing of its intention to sell the Member's shares in accordance with this rule;

  • (c) the relevant Member shall be given at least 6 weeks from the date the notice referred to in clause 9.1(b) is sent to the Member to advise the Company that the Member wishes to retain the holding of shares. If the Member advises the Company accordingly the Company is not entitled to sell the relevant shares;

  • (d) upon the expiry of the 6 week period the Company shall be entitled to sell the relevant shares unless advised by the Member in accordance with clause 9.1(c);

  • (e) the Company's power to sell a Member's shares shall cease following the announcement of a takeover bid (as that term is defined in Section 9 of the Law)

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in respect of the Company's shares but the procedure may be recommenced after the close of offers made in relation to the takeover bid;

  • (f) either the Company or the purchaser of the shares shall pay all costs associated with the sale of the relevant shares; and

  • (g) the proceeds of any sale in accordance with this clause will not be remitted to the Member until such time as the Member has surrendered to the Company the certificate in respect of the shares sold (if any has been issued and remains in force) or is satisfied that the certificate has been lost or destroyed.

10 Recognition of Ownership

  • 10.1 Except as required by law the Company shall not recognise any person as holding any share on trust.

  • 10.2 The Company shall not be obliged or compelled to recognise (whether or not it has notice of the interest or rights concerned) any trust, equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or unit of a share or (except only as otherwise provided by this Constitution or by law) any other right in respect of a share except an absolute right to the share held by the registered holder.

11 Commissions and Brokerage

  • 11.1 The Company may exercise the power to pay brokerage or commission conferred by and in the manner provided by the Law.

  • 11.2 Payments by way of brokerage or commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash, by the allotment of fully paid or partly paid shares or partly by the payment of cash and partly by the allotment of fully paid or partly paid shares.

CERTIFICATED AND UNCERTIFICATED HOLDINGS

12 Uncertificated Securities

  • 12.1 Despite any other provision of this Constitution to the contrary the Company shall only be required to issue a certificate in respect of shares or other securities issued by the Company where required to do so by the Listing Rules, the Law or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country and may cancel a certificate which has been issued without issuing a replacement certificate if dealings in the shares in the Company take place under an Uncertificated Securities Transfer Scheme in which the Company is participating.

  • 12.2 The Company may charge a reasonable fee for the issue of a share statement in respect of a Member's holding of Uncertificated Securities as permitted by the Listing Rules (or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country).

13 Certificated Securities

  • 13.1 Certificates in respect of shares or other securities issued by the Company will be issued where certificates are required to be issued by the Listing Rules, the Law or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country and shall be in the form (subject to the provisions of the Listing Rules, the Law or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country) from time to time prescribed by the Directors.

  • 13.2 Except in the case of Uncertificated Securities and as otherwise permitted by the Listing Rules or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country, every Member is entitled free of charge to one certificate for all the shares registered in the Member's name or, upon request, to several certificates in reasonable denominations for those shares.

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  • 13.3 In the case of joint holders of shares the Company shall not be required to issue certificates to all of the joint holders and the delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders is a sufficient delivery to all of the joint holders.

  • 13.4 Subject to the Law:

  • (a) if any certificate is worn out or defaced then upon production of it to the Directors, they may order it to be cancelled and may issue, upon cancellation of the certificate and payment of such fee as may from time to time be determined by the Directors (not exceeding the maximum fee permitted by the Law), a replacement certificate; and

  • (b) if any certificate is lost or destroyed a replacement certificate shall, upon payment of such fee as may from time to time be determined by the Directors (not exceeding the maximum fee permitted by the Law), be issued to the person entitled to the lost or destroyed certificate.

  • 13.5 Any replacement certificate shall at the discretion of the Directors be endorsed with the words "Issued in replacement of certificate numbered: (number)" or such other words as may be prescribed from time to time by the Listing Rules the Exchange or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country.

CALLS

14 Power to Make Calls

  • 14.1 The Directors may from time to time as they think fit make Calls in respect of all or any money unpaid on the shares of Members which is not by the conditions of issue of the shares made payable at or after fixed or defined times.

  • 14.2 A Call may be revoked or postponed as the Directors may determine, subject to the requirements of the Listing Rules.

  • 14.3 A Call may be made payable by instalments.

15 Time of Calls

  • 15.1 A Call shall be taken for the purposes of this Constitution to have been made at the time when a resolution of the Directors authorising the Call was passed.

16 Notice of Calls

  • 16.1 The Company must give at least 14 Business Days written notice (or such greater period of notice required by the Listing Rules) to each Member of any Call in respect of a share held by the Member and notice of a Call shall be in accordance with the requirements of the Listing Rules.

  • 16.2 Without limiting the provisions of clause 16.1 notice of a Call by the Company shall include the following information:

  • (a) the name of the Member;

  • (b) the number of shares held by the Member;

  • (c) the amount of the Call;

  • (d) the due date for payment;

  • (e) the place of payment; and

  • (f) the consequences of a failure to make payment.

  • 16.3 The failure of a Member to receive a notice of a Call or the accidental omission to give notice of a Call to a Member shall not invalidate the Call.

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17 Fixed Calls

  • 17.1 Any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable on allotment or at or after fixed or defined times shall, for the purposes of this Constitution, be taken to be a Call duly made and payable on the date on which, by the terms of issue, that sum becomes payable without the need for any notice to be given by the Company under clause 16.

  • 17.2 In the case of non-payment of any such sum the relevant provisions of this Constitution as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if the sum had become payable by virtue of a Call duly made and notified.

18 Liability of Members

  • 18.1 On receipt of notice of a Call, a Member must make payment of the amount called in respect of the Member's holding of shares in accordance with requirements set out in the notice.

  • 18.2 The joint holders of a share are jointly and severally liable to pay all Calls in respect of the share.

19 Interest on Unpaid Calls

  • 19.1 If a sum called or otherwise payable to the Company in respect of a share is not paid on or before the due date for payment, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from the due date for payment to the time of the actual payment at the Prescribed Rate together with any expenses incurred by the Company as a result of the failure of the Member to make payment.

  • 19.2 The Directors may waive payment of such interest wholly or in part.

20 Proceedings on Default

  • 20.1 If a Call is not paid on or before the due date for payment the share of the Member on which the Call has been made and which has failed to be paid shall be forfeited in accordance with clause 22.1.

21 Prepayment of Calls

  • 21.1 The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Member the whole or any part of the amount unpaid on any shares held by the Member although no part of that amount has been called.

  • 21.2 The Directors may authorise the Company to pay interest on the whole or a part of the money paid in advance of Calls (until the same would, but for such advance, become payable) at the rate, not exceeding the Prescribed Rate, as may be determined by the Directors.

  • 21.3 The Directors may at any time repay the whole or any part of an amount paid in advance of a Call by giving to the Member one month’s notice in writing of the intention to do so.

FORFEITURE AND SURRENDER

22 Liability to Forfeiture

  • 22.1 If a Member fails to pay the whole or any part of a Call on or before the due date for payment, the Directors may at any time thereafter while the Call remains unpaid serve a notice on that Member requiring payment of the unpaid amount together with any interest that may have accrued and all expenses that may have been incurred by the Company by reason of the failure to pay the Call.

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22.2 The notice must:

  • (a) set a date and time (not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and the place where the payment is required to be made; and

  • (b) state that in the event of non-payment on or before the day and at the place appointed the shares in respect of which the Call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

  • 22.3 If by the terms of issue of a share an amount is payable at or after a fixed or defined time to the Company, the provisions relating to forfeiture of shares contained in this Constitution will apply in the same manner as if the fixed amount was payable by virtue of a Call made.

23 Effect of Non Compliance with Notice

  • 23.1 If the requirements of any notice given by the Company pursuant to clause 22 are not complied with, any shares in respect of which the notice has been given may, at any time prior to any payment as required by the notice, be forfeited in accordance with a resolution of the Directors to that effect.

  • 23.2 Forfeiture of a share will include all Dividends declared in respect of the forfeited share and not actually paid before the forfeiture.

24 Notice of Forfeiture

  • 24.1 When any share has been forfeited, notice of the resolution of forfeiture must be given to the Member in whose name the share was registered immediately prior to the forfeiture and an entry of the forfeiture with the date on which forfeiture occurred must immediately be made in the Register.

25 Consequences of Forfeiture

  • 25.1 A person whose shares have been forfeited:

  • (a) shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited shares at the time of the resolution of the Directors approving the forfeiture;

  • (b) shall have no claims against the Company in respect of the forfeited shares; and

  • (c) shall remain liable to pay the Company all money which at the date of forfeiture was payable by the person to the Company in respect of the forfeited shares together with, if the Directors think fit, interest at the Prescribed Rate from the date of forfeiture until payment of the money for the time being unpaid in respect of the forfeited shares. The Directors may enforce the payment of such money as they shall think fit but shall not be under any obligation to do so.

26 Evidence of Forfeiture

  • 26.1 A statement in writing by a Director or the Secretary to the effect that a share has been forfeited on a date stated in the statement is conclusive evidence of those facts as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share.

27 Disposal of Forfeited Shares

  • 27.1 A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit.

  • 27.2 The Company may receive the consideration (if any) given for a forfeited share on any sale or disposition of it and may execute or authorise a person to execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of.

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  • 27.3 Upon the completion of the transfer of a forfeited share the transferee shall be registered as the holder of the share and will not be bound to see to the application of any money paid as consideration.

  • 27.4 The title of the transferee to the share shall not be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share.

  • 27.5 Any balance of the proceeds of sale of a forfeited share remaining after the payment to the Company of all amounts due to the Company in respect of the share shall be payable to the person entitled to the share immediately prior to the forfeiture.

28 Application of Sale Proceeds

  • 28.1 The proceeds of any sale shall be applied in payment of:

  • (a) first, the expenses of the sale;

  • (b) second, any expenses necessarily incurred in respect of the forfeiture; and

  • (c) third, the Calls then due and unpaid.

  • 28.2 The balance (if any) of the sale proceeds shall be paid to the Member whose shares have been so sold on the Member’s delivery to the Company, where the shares are Certificated Securities, of the share certificate that relates to the forfeited share.

29 Forfeiture

  • 29.1 The Directors may at any time prior to the sale or disposal of a forfeited share annul the forfeiture of the share on such conditions as they think fit.

  • 29.2 Where the transfer of forfeited shares is to be effected by an ASTC Regulated Transfer, the Company may do all such things as may be necessary or appropriate for it to do under the SCH Business Rules.

  • 29.3 The Company shall comply with the Listing Rules with respect to forfeited shares.

LIEN

30 Right to Lien

  • 30.1 Subject to the Listing Rules, the Company has a first and paramount lien on every share registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale of the share for:

  • (a) all money called or payable in respect of that share (including expenses);

  • (b) all money owed by any person to the Company under an employee incentive scheme (as defined in the Listing Rules); and

  • (c) any amount that the Company may be required by law to pay in respect of the share.

  • 30.2 The Company's lien (if any) shall extend to all Dividends declared in respect of a share and other entitlements arising from the share. Any such Dividends and entitlements may be applied towards satisfaction of all amounts due and payable to the Company in respect of which the lien exists.

  • 30.3 Unless otherwise determined by the Directors the registration of a transfer of shares shall operate as a waiver of the Company's lien (if any), which may exist in respect of a share.

  • 30.4 The Directors may at any time exempt a share wholly or in part from the provisions of this Constitution concerning the Company's lien.

  • 30.5 The Company may do anything it is permitted to do under the SCH Business Rules to protect any lien to which it is entitled pursuant to this Constitution or any law.

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31 Imposition of Liabilities

  • 31.1 This clause applies where any law for the time being of any jurisdiction in or outside of Australia:

  • (a) imposes or purports to impose any immediate or future or possible liability upon the Company to make any payment; or

  • (b) empowers any government or government authority or government official to require the Company to make any payment in respect of any shares registered in the Register as held either jointly or solely by any Member or in respect of any Dividends or other moneys which are or may become due or payable or are accruing due to such Member by the Company on or in respect of any shares so registered,

for or on account or in respect of any Member and whether in consequence of:

  • (c) the death of such Member;

  • (d) the liability for any income or other tax by such Member;

  • (e) the liability for any estate, probate, succession, death, stamp or other duty by the executor or administrator of such Member or by or out of the Member's estate; or

  • (f) any other act or thing.

  • 31.2 If any liability referred to in clause 31.1 arises or is imposed on the Company, the Company:

  • (a) shall be fully indemnified by such Member or his executor or administrator from all liability;

  • (b) shall have a lien on the shares registered in the name of that Member and all Dividends and other entitlements in respect of those shares for all moneys paid or payable by the Company in respect of those shares or otherwise under or in consequence of the liability and interest accruing as referred to in clause 31.2(d);

  • (c) may recover, as a debt due from such Member or his executor or administrator, those moneys together with interest accruing as referred to in clause 31.2(d); and

  • (d) may deduct from any Dividend or any other amount payable to the Member in respect of the shares or otherwise the amount due from such Member or his executor or administrator together with interest on the amount from the date of payment of the amount by the Company to the date of payment of the amount due from the Member or his executor or administrator at a rate not exceeding the Prescribed Rate, but the Directors shall be entitled to waive the payment of interest in whole or in part.

  • 31.3 The rights conferred by law on the Company in respect of any liability of a Member to the Company shall not be prejudiced by this clause and shall be enforceable by the Company against the Member or his executor or administrator.

32 Suspension of Rights

  • 32.1 A Member shall not be entitled to exercise any rights or privileges as a Member until all Calls and other moneys due and payable (including expenses and interest) in respect of which the Company holds a lien over the Member's shares have been paid in full.

33 Enforcement of Lien

  • 33.1 Subject to clause 33.2 the Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any shares on which the Company has a lien.

  • 33.2 A share on which the Company has a lien shall not be sold unless:

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  • (a) a sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable; and

  • (b) at least 14 Business Days prior to the date of the sale, the Company has given notice in writing (complying with any applicable Listing Rules and SCH Business Rules) to the Member stating and demanding payment of the amount in respect of which the lien exists and which is presently due and payable.

34 Completion of Sale Pursuant to Lien

  • 34.1 To give effect to a sale of shares in respect of which the Company has a lien the Directors may authorise a person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser of those shares.

  • 34.2 The purchaser of the shares will be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer and the purchaser will not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money.

  • 34.3 The title of the purchaser to the shares shall not be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in connection with the sale.

  • 34.4 The shares transferred to the purchaser shall be transferred free from liability to make payment of any amount to the Company except for the consideration for the shares and any other amount agreed between the Company and the purchaser.

35 Appropriation of Proceeds

  • 35.1 The proceeds of any sale made under a lien, which are received by the Company, shall be applied in or towards payment of the amount in respect of which the lien exists and which is presently due and payable including accrued interest and expenses. The residue (if any) shall (subject to a like lien for amounts not presently due and payable as existed on the shares before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares immediately prior to the date of sale.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

36 General

  • 36.1 Subject to this Constitution, a Member may transfer shares held by that Member.

  • 36.2 Subject to clauses 36.3 and 36.4, shares may be transferred by:

  • (a) a written transfer instrument in any usual or common form; or

  • (b) any other form approved by the Directors.

  • 36.3 The Company may participate in any computerised or electronic system for market settlement, securities transfer or registration (and to avoid any doubt this includes the trading of its shares or depositary interests representing such shares on AIM through CREST) conducted in accordance with the Corporations Act, the Listing Rules or the Operating Rules of a Prescribed CS Facility, or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country.

  • 36.4 If the Company participates in a system of the kind described in clause 36.3, then despite any other provision of this Constitution:

  • (a) shares may be transferred, and transfers may be registered, in any manner required or permitted by any one or more of the Listing Rules, the SCH Business Rules or the Operating Rules of a Prescribed CS Facility, as applicable (or the corresponding laws or securities exchange rules in any other country) applying in relation to the system;

  • (b) the Company must comply with and give effect to the rules of that system; and

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  • (c) the Company may, in accordance with the rules of that system, decline to issue certificates for holdings of shares.

  • 36.5 A written transfer instrument must be:

  • (a) executed by the transferor or (where the Law permits) stamped by the transferor's broker;

  • (b) unless the Directors decide otherwise in the case of a fully paid share, executed by the transferee or (where the Law permits) stamped by the transferee's broker; and

  • (c) in the case of a transfer of partly paid shares, endorsed or accompanied by an instrument executed by the transferee or by the transferee's broker to the effect that the transferee agrees to accept the shares subject to the terms and conditions on which the transferor held them, to become a Member and to be bound by the Constitution. Subject to the Law, the written transfer instrument may comprise of two documents.

  • 36.6 Except as required by the SCH Business Rules or the Operating Rules of a Prescribed CS Facility (if applicable):

  • (a) a transferor of shares remains the holder of the shares transferred until the transfer is registered and the name of the transferee is entered in the Register in respect of the shares; and

  • (b) a transfer of shares does not pass the right to any Dividends on the shares until such registration.

37 Transfer Procedure

  • 37.1 Except where the Directors determine (to comply with the laws or securities exchange rules of a foreign country or the Operating Rules of a Prescribed CS Facility), for a transfer of shares that is not an ASTC Regulated Transfer:

  • (a) the written transfer instrument must be left at the Office or another place acceptable to the Company;

  • (b) the instrument must be accompanied by a certificate for the shares dealt with in the transfer where a certificate has been issued, unless the Directors waive production of the certificate on receiving satisfactory evidence of the loss or destruction of the certificate; and

  • (c) the Directors may, if the Listing Rules permit, require other evidence of the transferor's right to transfer the shares.

  • 37.2 For a transfer of shares that is an ASTC Regulated Transfer, a share transfer must be effected in accordance with the Listing Rules and the SCH Business Rules.

38 Right to Refuse Registration

  • 38.1 The Directors may in their absolute discretion refuse to register any transfer of shares or other securities where the shares or other securities are not quoted by the Exchange (or a securities exchange of any other country).

  • 38.2 The Directors must:

  • (a) except as permitted by the Exchange, refuse to register any transfer of shares or other securities which are Restricted Securities if that transfer is or might be in breach of the Listing Rules or any escrow agreement entered into by the Company under the Listing Rules in relation to the shares; and

  • (b) refuse to register any transfer where the Company is, or the Directors are, required to do so by the Listing Rules.

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  • 38.3 Despite clauses 38.1 and 38.2 the Company must not refuse or fail to register or give effect to, or delay or in any way interfere with, a Proper ASTC Transfer of shares or other securities quoted by the Exchange.

  • 38.4 Subject to clause 38.3, Restricted Securities cannot be disposed of during an escrow period except as permitted by the Listing Rules or the Exchange. The Company will refuse to acknowledge a disposal of Restricted Securities to the extent required under the Listing Rules.

  • 38.5 If a person has lodged a transfer which the Directors have refused to register, the Company must, within five Business Days after the date of lodgement, give to the lodging person written notice of the refusal and the reasons for it.

39 Closure of Register

  • 39.1 Subject to the Law, the Listing Rules and the SCH Business Rules the Company may at any time close the Register for a period not exceeding in the whole 30 days in any year.

40 Other Securities

  • 40.1 The provisions of clauses 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40 shall apply with necessary alterations to any other Listed Securities for the time being issued by the Company.

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

41 Disclosure of Interests

  • 41.1 For the purposes of this clause 41 the term “shares” shall include AIM Traded Shares.

  • 41.2 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Constitution but always subject to the requirements of Australian law and the Listing Rules:

  • (a) the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Financial Services Authority’s (United Kingdom) Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules Source Book ( DTR ) or any successor or other regime (whether statutory or non-statutory) governing the disclosure of interests in shares in the United Kingdom, which relates to the requirement of shareholders to disclose their total proportion of voting rights (as defined in the DTR), shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Constitution and shall bind the Company and its shareholders, and references to an “issuer” in such provisions shall be deemed to be references to the Company;

  • (b) the provisions of section 793 of the Companies Act, shall be deemed to be incorporated into this Constitution (as if the same were set out in full herein) and shall bind the Company and its shareholders, and references to a “public company” in such provisions shall be deemed to be references to the Company; and

  • (c) where a notice is served by the Company under section 793 of the Companies Act ( section 793 notice ) on a shareholder, or another person whom the Company knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be interested in shares held by that shareholder, and the shareholder or other person has failed in relation to any shares (the default shares ( default shares ) which expression includes any shares issued to such shareholder after the date of the section 793 notice in respect of those shares) to give the Company the information required within 14 days following the date of service of the section 793 notice, the board may serve on the holder of such default shares a notice ( disenfranchisement notice ) whereupon the following sanctions shall apply, unless the board otherwise decides:

    • (i) the shareholder is not entitled in respect of the default shares to be present or to vote (either in person or by proxy) at a general meeting or at a separate

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meeting of the holders of a class of shares or on a poll or to exercise other rights conferred by membership in relation to the meeting or poll;

  - (ii) where the default shares represent at least 0.25 per cent in number of the issued shares of their class:

     - A. a dividend payable in respect of the default shares shall be withheld by the Company, which has no obligation to pay interest on it, and the shareholder is not entitled, either under clause 123 or clause 124 of this Constitution, to receive shares instead of a dividend; and

     - B. no transfer of the default shares shall be registered unless:

        - 1 the transfer is an excepted transfer; and 2 the shareholder is not in default in supplying the information required and the shareholder proves to the satisfaction of the board that no person in default in supplying the information required is interested in any of the shares the subject of the transfer; or

        - 3 registration of the transfer is required by any relevant system, and for the purposes of ensuring this clause 41 of this Constitution can apply to all shares held by the shareholder, the Company may, in accordance with the regulations of any relevant system, issue written notification to the operator of the relevant system requiring the conversion into certificated form of any shares held by the shareholder in uncertificated form.
  • 41.3 Where default shares in which a person appears to be interested are held by a depositary ( Depositary ), the provisions of this clause 41 shall be treated as applying only to those shares held by the Depositary in which such person appears to be interested and not (insofar as such person's apparent interest is concerned) to any other shares held by the Depositary.

  • 41.4 Where the shareholder on which a section 793 notice is served is a Depositary acting in its capacity as such, the obligations of the Depositary as a shareholder of the Company shall be limited to disclosing to the Company such information relating to any person appearing to be interested in the shares held by it as has been recorded by it pursuant to the arrangements entered into by the Company or approved by the board pursuant to which it was appointed as a Depositary.

  • 41.5 For the purposes of this clause 41, an “excepted transfer” means, in relation to any shares held by a shareholder:

  • (a) a transfer by way of or pursuant to acceptance of a takeover offer for the Company;

  • (b) a transfer in consequence of a sale made through a Recognised Investment Exchange or any other stock exchange outside Great Britain on which the Company's shares are normally traded; or

  • (c) a transfer which is shown to the satisfaction of the board to be made in consequence of a sale of the whole of the beneficial interest in the shares to a person who is unconnected with the shareholder and with any other person appearing to be interested in the shares.

42 Title to Shares on Death

42.1 In the case of the death of a Member:

  • (a) the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder;

  • (b) the legal personal representative of the deceased where the deceased was a sole holder; and

  • (c) shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the deceased's interest in the shares.

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  • 42.2 The Directors shall be entitled to require such evidence satisfactorily proving the death of the Member as they think fit.

  • 42.3 Nothing in this Constitution will release the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of a share, which has been jointly held by the holder with other persons.

43 Registration of Other Persons

  • 43.1 A person becoming entitled to shares in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of any Member or under any law relating to mental health or disability may upon the delivery to the Company of such information as required by the Directors elect either:

  • (a) to be registered personally as holder of the shares; or

  • (b) to have some other nominated person registered as the transferee of the shares.

  • 43.2 If the person so becoming entitled elects to be registered as the holder of the shares, the person must deliver to the Company a notice in writing signed by the person stating the election made. If the person elects to have another person registered as the holder of the shares the person entitled shall deliver to the Company a transfer of shares to the other person.

  • 43.3 All the limitations, restrictions and provisions of this Constitution relating to:

  • (a) the right to transfer shares;

  • (b) the registration of a transfer of shares; and

  • (c) the right of the Directors to decline to register a transfer of shares,

are applicable to any notice or transfer affected pursuant to this rule.

44 Rights on Entitlement

  • 44.1 A person entitled to be registered as a Member in respect of shares by transmission shall upon delivery to the Company of all information required by the Directors, be entitled to the same Dividends and other advantages and to the same rights (whether in relation to General Meetings or to voting or otherwise) as the registered holder would otherwise have been entitled.

  • 44.2 Where two or more persons are jointly entitled to any share in consequence of the death of a Member they shall for the purposes of this Constitution, be deemed to be joint holders of the share.

PARTIAL TAKE-OVERS

45 Partial Take-Overs

  • 45.1 Where offers have been made under a Proportional Takeover Bid in respect of shares included in a class of shares in the Company:

  • (a) the registration of a transfer giving effect to a contract resulting from the acceptance of the offer made under the Proportional Takeover Bid is prohibited unless and until a resolution (" approving resolution ") to approve the Proportional Takeover Bid is passed in accordance with this rule;

  • (b) a person (other than the bidder or an associate of the bidder) who, as at the end of the day on which the first offer under the Proportional Takeover Bid was made, held shares in that class is entitled to vote on an approving resolution and, for the purpose of so voting, is entitled to one vote for each of the last mentioned shares;

  • (c) an approving resolution shall be voted on at a meeting, convened and conducted by the Company, of the persons entitled to vote on the resolution; and

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  • (d) an approving resolution that has been voted on is taken to have been passed if the proportion that the number of votes in favour of the resolution bears to the total number of votes on the resolution is greater than 50% and otherwise is taken to have been rejected.

  • 45.2 The provisions of this Constitution that apply in relation to a General Meeting shall apply, with such modifications, as the circumstances require, in relation to a meeting that is convened pursuant to this clause as if the last mentioned meeting was a General Meeting.

  • 45.3 Where offers have been made under a Proportional Takeover Bid then the Directors shall ensure that a resolution to approve the Proportional Takeover Bid is voted on in accordance with this clause before the Approving Resolution Deadline in relation to the Proportional Takeover Bid.

  • 45.4 Where a resolution to approve a Proportional Takeover Bid is voted on in accordance with this clause before the Approving Resolution Deadline in relation to the Proportional Takeover Bid the Company shall, on or before the Approving Resolution Deadline:

  • (a) give to the offeror; and

  • (b) serve on the Exchange and each other notifiable securities exchange as required by the Law, in relation to the Company, a written notice stating that a resolution to approve the Proportional Takeover Bid has been voted on and has been passed or has been rejected, as the case requires.

  • 45.5 Where at the end of the day before the Approving Resolution Deadline in relation to a Proportional Takeover Bid no resolution to approve the Proportional Takeover Bid has been voted on in accordance with this rule, a resolution to approve the Proportional Takeover Bid shall, for the purposes of this clause be deemed to have been passed in accordance with this rule.

  • 45.6 Where a resolution to approve a Proportional Takeover Bid is voted on in accordance with this clause before the Approving Resolution Deadline in relation to the Proportional Takeover Bid and is rejected, then:

  • (a) despite Section 652A of the Law:

    • (i) all offers under the Proportional Takeover Bid that have not, as at the end of the Approving Resolution Deadline, been accepted; and

    • (ii) all offers under the Proportional Takeover Bid that have been accepted, and from whose acceptance binding contracts have resulted as at the end of the Approving Resolution Deadline, are taken to be withdrawn at the end of the Approving Resolution Deadline; and

  • (b) as soon as practicable after the Approving Resolution Deadline, the bidder must return to each person who has accepted an offer referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) any documents the person sent the bidder with the acceptance of the offer; and

  • (c) the bidder:

    • (i) is entitled to rescind; and

    • (ii) must rescind as soon as practicable after the Approving Resolution Deadline, each binding contract resulting from acceptances of its offer under the Proportional Takeover Bid; and

  • (d) a person who has accepted an offer made under the Proportional Takeover Bid is entitled to rescind the contract resulting from that acceptance.

  • 45.7 This clause shall cease to have effect on the third anniversary of the date of its adoption or of its most recent renewal in accordance with the Law.

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ALTERATION OF CAPITAL

46 Power to Alter Capital

  • 46.1 The Company may by resolution passed in general meeting:

  • (a) subject to clause 8, convert all or any of its shares on issue into a larger or smaller number of shares. In doing so any amount unpaid on shares, which are converted, is to be divided equally among the replacement shares;

  • (b) cancel any shares that have been forfeited and reduce the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled; or

  • (c) subject to clause 8, convert any class of share into any other class of share.

47 Power to Reduce Capital

  • 47.1 The Company may from time to time, in the manner permitted by the Law, reduce its share capital.

  • 48 Share Buy-Backs

  • 48.1 The Company may buy back its own shares on terms and at times determined by the Directors, provided that any purchase must be in accordance with the Listing Rules and the Law.

GENERAL MEETINGS

49 General Meetings

  • 49.1 General Meetings shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Listing Rules, the Law and this Constitution.

  • 50 Convening of General Meetings

  • 50.1 A General Meeting shall be held at least once in every year in accordance with the requirements of the Listing Rules and the Law at such time and place as may be determined by the Directors.

  • 50.2 Any Director may whenever he thinks fit convene a General Meeting.

  • 50.3 Except as provided by the Law, a Member shall not be entitled to convene a General Meeting.

  • 50.4 A General Meeting may be convened at two or more venues using any technology that gives the Members a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting.

51 Notice of General Meeting

  • 51.1 At least 28 days notice of any General Meeting must be given to persons entitled to receive notice of the meeting specifying:

  • (a) the place, day and hour of the meeting;

  • (b) the general nature of any business to be transacted at the meeting;

  • (c) if a special resolution is to be proposed, the details of and intention to propose it;

  • (d) if the business includes the election of Directors, the names of the candidates for election;

  • (e) if the meeting is to be held in two or more places the technology that will be used to facilitate this;

  • (f) the rights of Members to appoint proxies; and

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  • (g) any other information required by the Listing Rules or the Law.

  • 51.2 The accidental omission to give notice of any General Meeting to or the non-receipt of notice of a General Meeting by any person entitled to receive notice or the failure to advertise any General Meeting (if necessary) will not invalidate the proceedings at or any resolution passed at the meeting.

52 Cancellation or Postponement of General Meeting

  • 52.1 Subject to the provisions of the Law and this Constitution the Directors may cancel a General Meeting:

  • (a) convened by the Directors; or

  • (b) which has been convened by Members pursuant to the Law upon receipt by the Company of a written notice withdrawing the requisition signed by those Members.

  • 52.2 Notification of cancellation of a meeting may be made by advertisement published in a newspaper circulating in each capital city of each Australian state and territory on or before the day of the proposed meeting.

  • 52.3 The Directors may postpone a General Meeting or change the venue at which it is to be held by advertisement published in a newspaper circulating in each capital city of each Australian state and territory on or before the day of the proposed meeting. Details of the postponement to be included in the advertisement shall include the new place, date and time for the meeting. No business shall be transacted at any postponed meeting other than the business stated in the notice to the Members relating to the original meeting.

  • 52.4 Where any General Meeting is cancelled or postponed or the venue for the same is changed:

  • (a) the Directors must endeavour to notify in writing each person entitled to receive notice of the meeting of the cancellation, the change of venue or the postponement of the meeting by any means permitted by this Constitution and in the case of the postponement of a meeting, the new place, date and time for the meeting; and

  • (b) any failure to notify in writing any person entitled to receive notice of the meeting or failure of a person to receive a written notice shall not affect the validity of the cancellation, the change of venue or the postponement of the meeting.

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

53 Quorum

  • 53.1 No business may be transacted at any General Meeting unless a quorum of Members is present at all times during the meeting.

  • 53.2 Two Members Present and entitled to vote constitute a quorum for all General Meetings except as otherwise provided by this Constitution. If a Member has appointed more than one proxy, attorney or Representative, only one of them is to be counted for the purposes of the quorum.

  • 53.3 If within 30 minutes after the time appointed for holding a General Meeting a quorum is not present:

  • (a) the meeting if convened upon the requisition of Members shall be dissolved; and

  • (b) in any other case:

    • (i) it will stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such other day time and place as the Directors may by notice to the Members appoint; and

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(ii) if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within 30 minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting the meeting shall be dissolved.

54 Chairperson

  • 54.1 The chairperson of Directors shall be entitled to preside as chairperson at every General Meeting.

  • 54.2 Where a General Meeting is held and chairperson of Directors has not been appointed, or the chairperson is not present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting or, if present, is unwilling to act as chairperson of the meeting, the Directors present may choose another Director as chairperson of the meeting. If no Director is so chosen or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair the Members Present may choose one of their number to be chairperson of the meeting.

  • 54.3 The chairperson may withdraw as chairperson for part of the business of a General Meeting. If so:

  • (a) the chairperson must nominate a person to chair the meeting for that part of the business of the meeting;

  • (b) if that person is unwilling or unable to chair the meeting, clause 54.2 applies for that part of the meeting; and

  • (c) after the relevant business has been completed, the person who chaired the meeting for that business must cease to act as chairperson and the original chairperson must resume chairing the meeting.

  • 54.4 The rulings of the chairperson of a General Meeting on all matters relating to the order of business, procedure and conduct of the meeting shall be final and no motion of dissent from such rulings shall be accepted.

  • 54.5 The chairperson of a General Meeting may refuse a person admission or require a person to leave the meeting if:

  • (a) the person is in possession of video recording equipment or sound recording equipment, placards, banners or articles considered by the chairperson to be dangerous, offensive or liable to cause disruption; or

  • (b) the person refuses to produce or permit examination of any article in his possession or the contents of such article.

55 Business at General Meetings

  • 55.1 The ordinary business of an annual General Meeting shall include:

  • (a) considering the Company's annual financial report, the Directors’ report and the Auditor’s report;

  • (b) electing Directors;

  • (c) appointing the Auditors, when necessary, and fixing their remuneration; and

  • (d) transacting any other business that under the Law or the Listing Rules should be transacted at an annual General Meeting.

  • 55.2 No business shall be transacted at any General Meeting except:

  • (a) the ordinary business of the annual General Meeting; and

  • (b) as set out in a notice of the meeting provided to the Members.

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56 Adjournments

  • 56.1 If at a General Meeting at which a quorum is present the Members Present with a majority of votes direct the chairperson to do so or the chairperson decides of his own volition to do so, the meeting or any business, motion, question or resolution being considered or remaining to be considered by the meeting or any debate or discussion or the taking of any poll must be adjourned to the time and place to place determined by the chairperson. The chairperson may adjourn any business, motion, question, resolution, debate, discussion or poll either to a later time at the same meeting or to an adjourned meeting.

  • 56.2 The adjournment of any business, motion, question, resolution, debate, discussion or poll shall not prevent the continuance of any other business remaining to be considered at the General Meeting.

  • 56.3 No business may be transacted at any adjourned General Meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

  • 56.4 A resolution passed at a General Meeting resumed after an adjournment is passed on the day it was passed.

  • 56.5 It is not necessary to give any notice of an adjournment of a General Meeting or of the business to be transacted at the adjourned meeting except if the meeting is adjourned for 30 days or more in which case notice of the adjourned meeting must be given as in the case of an original meeting.

57 Voting Rights

  • 57.1 Subject to this Constitution and to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares:

  • (a) at meetings of Members or classes of Members each Member entitled to attend and vote may attend and vote personally or by proxy or by attorney or in the case of a corporation, by its Representative;

  • (b) no person shall be entitled to vote unless the person is a Member or the proxy or attorney of a Member or in the case of a corporation, its Representative;

  • (c) every Member Present entitled to vote has one vote on a show of hands;

  • (d) on a poll every Member Present entitled to vote has:

    • (i) one vote for every fully paid up share held; and

    • (ii) in the case of a partly paid share, a fraction of a vote equivalent to the proportion which the amount paid up (not credited) on that Member’s share bears to the total amounts paid and payable (excluding amounts credited) on that share.

58 Voting Disqualification

  • 58.1 A Member is not entitled to be present or to vote at any General Meeting unless all Calls and other sums presently payable by the Member in respect of shares held by the Member have been paid.

59 Objection to Qualification to Vote

  • 59.1 Any challenge as to the qualification of a person to vote at a General Meeting or the validity of any vote tendered may only be raised at the meeting and must be determined by the chairperson whose decision shall be final and conclusive and a vote allowed by the chairperson shall be valid for all purposes.

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60 Votes of Joint Holders

  • 60.1 In the case of joint holders of a share any holder may vote but the vote of the person whose name appears first in the Register in respect of the share, whether in person or represented by proxy, attorney or Representative, will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders.

61 Persons of Unsound Mind and Minors

  • 61.1 A Member of unsound mind or whose person or estate is liable to be dealt with in any way under the law relating to mental health or who is a minor, may vote whether on a show of hands or on a poll by his/her committee or by such other person as properly has the management or guardianship of his estate or by the public trustee (as the case may be) and the committee or other person or trustee may vote by proxy or representative.

  • 61.2 Any person having the right of management or guardianship of the person or estate in respect of a Member as referred to in clause 61.1 must not exercise any of the rights conferred under that clause unless and until the person has provided to the Company satisfactory evidence of the appointment of the person accordingly.

62 Voting

  • 62.1 At any General Meeting a resolution to be considered at the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is demanded by:

  • (a) the chairperson of the meeting;

  • (b) at least 5 Members Present and entitled to vote on the resolution; or

  • (c) by a Member Present or Members Present who represent at least 5% of the votes that may be cast on the resolution on a poll.

  • 62.2 Where, under the Listing Rules or the Law, a Member is not entitled to vote on a resolution or if the Member does so vote, the resolution may not be validly passed, then for all purposes under this Constitution the Member is not entitled to vote on that resolution and any vote which the Member or any proxy, attorney or Representative for the Member purports to cast on behalf of the Member must be disregarded.

  • 62.3 Before a vote on a resolution is taken, the chairperson must inform the meeting whether any proxy votes have been received and how the proxy votes are to be cast.

  • 62.4 A declaration by the chairperson of the result of a vote on a resolution by a show of hands and an entry to that effect contained in the minutes of the proceedings of the Company which has been signed by the chairperson of the meeting or the next succeeding meeting shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution.

63 Polls

  • 63.1 A poll may be demanded:

  • (a) before a vote on a resolution is taken;

  • (b) before the voting results on a show of hands are declared; or

  • (c) immediately after the voting results on a show of hands are declared.

  • 63.2 If a poll is demanded it must be taken in such manner and at such time and place as the chairperson of the meeting directs subject to clause 63.5.

  • 63.3 The chairperson must declare the results of the poll including the number of votes cast for and against the resolution. Such declaration and an entry to that effect contained in the minutes of the proceedings of the Company that has been signed by the

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chairperson of the meeting or the next succeeding meeting shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution.

  • 63.4 The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll has been demanded.

  • 63.5 A poll cannot be demanded on the election of a chairperson or any question of adjournment of the meeting.

  • 63.6 The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.

64 Chairperson's Casting Vote

  • 64.1 In the case of an equality of votes whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairperson of that part of the meeting at which the show of hands is taken or at which the poll is demanded is entitled to a casting vote in addition to any vote or votes to which he may be entitled to as a Member.

65 Right of Non-Members to Attend General Meeting

  • 65.1 The chairperson of a General Meeting may invite any person who is not a Member to attend and address a meeting.

  • 65.2 Directors who are not Members shall be entitled to attend and address a General Meeting.

  • 65.3 Any Secretary who is not a Member shall be entitled to attend and, at the request of the chairperson, address a General Meeting.

65.4 The Auditor shall be entitled to attend and address a General Meeting. PROXIES

66 Right to Appoint Proxies

  • 66.1 A Member who is entitled to attend and vote at a General Meeting may appoint a person as the Member’s proxy to attend and vote for the Member at the meeting and such person need not be a Member.

  • 66.2 The instrument appointing the proxy may specify the proportion or number of votes that the proxy may exercise.

  • 66.3 If a Member is entitled to cast 2 or more votes at a General Meeting, the Member may appoint not more than 2 proxies.

  • 66.4 If a Member appoints one proxy only, that proxy is entitled to vote on a show of hands. If a Member appoints two proxies, only one proxy is entitled to vote on a show of hands.

  • 66.5 Where a Member appoints two proxies but the appointment does not specify the proportion or number of votes that each proxy may exercise, each proxy may exercise half of the votes of the Member.

  • 66.6 Any fraction of a vote resulting from a Member appointing two proxies who are entitled to exercise the Member’s voting rights in respect of a proportion of the Member’s shares is to be disregarded.

67 Appointing a Proxy

  • 67.1 The instrument appointing a proxy must be in writing signed by the appointer or the appointer’s attorney duly authorised in writing or if the appointer is a corporation signed by an authorised officer or attorney of the corporation.

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  • 67.2 The instrument of proxy is valid if it contains the information required by the Law that includes:

  • (a) the name and address of the Member;

  • (b) the name of the Company;

  • (c) the proxy’s name or the name of the office of the proxy; and

  • (d) subject to clause 67.3, the meetings at which the instrument of proxy may be used.

  • 67.3 An instrument of proxy may be expressed to be a standing appointment. An instrument of proxy for a specified meeting is only valid for that meeting and any postponement or adjournment of that meeting.

  • 67.4 An instrument of proxy shall not be treated as invalid merely because it does not specify all of the information referred to in clause 67.2.

  • 67.5 An instrument of proxy may be revoked at any time by notice in writing to the Company.

68 Lodgement of Proxies

  • 68.1 An instrument appointing:

  • (a) a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or executed or a certified copy of that power or authority; or

  • (b) an attorney to exercise a Member's voting rights at a General Meeting or a certified copy of that power of attorney,

must be deposited at the Office or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the General Meeting not less than 48 hours (or such shorter period as the Directors may allow) before the time appointed for the holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting as the case may be, at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote and in default the instrument of proxy or the power of attorney will not be treated as valid.

  • 68.2 For the purposes of this clause it will be sufficient that any document lodged by a Member be received in legible form by facsimile at the Office or such other place as specified for that purpose in the notice convening the General Meeting and the document shall be regarded as received at the time the facsimile was received at that place.

69 Validity of Proxies

  • 69.1 A vote exercised pursuant to an instrument of proxy, a power of attorney or other instrument of appointment is valid notwithstanding:

  • (a) the death or unsoundness of mind of the Member;

  • (b) the bankruptcy or liquidation of the Member;

  • (c) the revocation of the instrument of proxy or the power of attorney or any instrument under which the instrument or the power was granted; or

  • (d) the transfer of the share in respect of which the instrument of proxy or the power of attorney was granted,

if the Company has not received actual notice of the matter prior to the time appointed for the holding of the General Meeting or adjourned meeting, as the case may be, at which the instrument of proxy or the power of attorney or other instrument of appointment is exercised.

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  • 69.2 A proxy who is not entitled to vote on a resolution as a Member may vote as a proxy for another Member who can vote if the appointment specifies the way the proxy is to vote on the resolution and the proxy votes that way.

70 Rights of Proxies and Attorneys

  • 70.1 The instrument appointing a proxy will be taken to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll.

  • 70.2 Unless a Member by the instrument of proxy directs the proxy to vote in a certain manner the proxy may vote as the proxy thinks fit on any motion or resolution. Otherwise the proxy shall follow the voting instructions contained in the instrument of proxy.

  • 70.3 A proxy will not be revoked by the appointor attending and taking part in any General Meeting but if the appointor votes on a resolution either on a show of hands or on a poll the person acting as proxy for the appointor shall not be entitled to vote in that capacity in respect of the resolution.

  • 70.4 Notwithstanding clause 60, where an instrument of proxy is signed by all of the joint holders of any share, the votes of the proxy so appointed shall be accepted in respect of that share to the exclusion of any votes tendered by a proxy for any one of those joint holders.

  • 70.5 The chairperson of a General Meeting may require any person acting as a proxy to establish to the satisfaction of the chairperson that he is the person nominated as proxy in the form of proxy lodged with the Company. If the person is unable to establish his identity he may be excluded from voting either upon a show of hands or upon a poll.

APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

71 Number of Directors

  • 71.1 The number of Directors (not including alternate Directors) must not be less than 3 nor more than 10 unless and until otherwise determined by the Company by resolution passed in General Meeting.

72 Director's Qualifications

  • 72.1 A Director is not required to hold shares in the Company.

73 Appointment of Directors

  • 73.1 Subject to the Law, the Company may by resolution passed in General Meeting:

  • (a) remove any Director; or

  • (b) appoint a person as a Director (whether or not as a replacement for a Director who has been removed or otherwise ceased to be a Director).

  • 73.2 Subject to the Law, the Directors may at any time appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to their number. Any Director so appointed must have his appointment confirmed by resolution passed at the next annual General Meeting of the Company after the appointment is made. If the appointment is not confirmed at that meeting, the person ceases to be a Director at the end of that meeting.

  • 73.3 The Directors may act despite any vacancy in their body but if the number falls below the minimum fixed (if any) in accordance with clause 71 the Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to the minimum or of convening a General Meeting or in emergencies but for no other purpose.

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74 Rotation of Directors

  • 74.1 Subject to rules 80.5 and 85:

  • (a) no Director shall hold office for more than 3 years, or until the third annual General Meeting following the Director's appointment, whichever is the longer period, without submitting himself for re-election; and

  • (b) at every annual General Meeting one-third of the Directors or if their number is not a multiple of 3 then the nearest number to but not exceeding one-third (or such number as is necessary to ensure compliance with paragraph (a) above) shall retire from office but shall be eligible for re-election.

75 Determination of Rotation

  • 75.1 The Directors to retire from office in every year shall be those who have been longest in office since their last election or re-election.

  • 75.2 As between two or more Directors who have been in office an equal period of time, the Director to retire shall, failing agreement between them, be determined by lot.

  • 75.3 A Director appointed pursuant to clause 73.2 shall not be taken into account when determining the number or the identity of the Directors required to retire by rotation.

76 Eligibility for Election

  • 76.1 No person except a Director retiring by rotation and a Director who has been appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the office of a Director shall be eligible for election to the office of Director at any General Meeting unless:

  • (a) the person; or

  • (b) a Member intending to propose the person as a Director,

has at least 30 Business Days prior to the meeting delivered to the Office a notice in writing duly signed by the nominee giving the nominee's consent to the nomination and signifying the nominee's candidature for office or the intention of such Member to propose the nominee. Written notice of each candidature shall be forwarded by the Company to the Members at least 28 days prior to the General Meeting at which an election is to take place.

  • 76.2 A Director retiring by rotation shall be eligible for re-election without the need to give any prior notice of an intention to submit for re-election. Such Director shall, if not reelected, hold office until the end of the General Meeting at which the Director retires.

  • 76.3 Unless the Directors decide to reduce the number of Directors in office, the Company at any annual General Meeting at which any Director retires may fill the vacated office by re-electing the retiring Director (if offering himself for re-election) or subject to clause 76.1, electing some other person.

77 Deemed Re-Election

  • 77.1 If at any annual general meeting the vacated office of a Director is not filled, the retiring Director shall, if willing and not disqualified, be deemed to have been re-elected unless the Directors decide to reduce the number of Directors in office or a resolution for the re-election of that Director is put to the meeting and lost.

78 Vacation of Office

  • 78.1 Any Director may retire from office on giving written notice to the Company at the Office of his intention to retire and the resignation shall take effect at the time expressed in the notice (provided the time is not earlier than the date of delivery of the written notice to the Company).

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  • 78.2 In addition to other circumstances in which the office of a Director becomes vacant as provided in this Constitution, the office of a Director shall automatically be vacated if the Director:

  • (a) is prohibited from being or ceases to be or is removed as a Director pursuant to the provisions of the Law or by reason of any order made under the Law;

  • (b) becomes an insolvent under administration or makes any composition or arrangement with his creditors or any class of his creditors;

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

  • (d) is absent from meetings of the Directors during a period of 6 consecutive months without special leave of absence from the Directors and the Directors as a result declare his office to be vacant;

  • (e) fails to pay any Call on shares held by him for the period of 1 month, or such further time as the Directors may permit, after the time when the Call was due to be paid;

  • (f) being a Managing Director or an Executive Director, ceases to be in the employment of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company; or

  • (g) dies.

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

79 Appointment of Alternate Director

  • 79.1 Any Director may by notice in writing signed by the Director and delivered to the Company appoint any person who is approved by the majority of the other Directors to be an alternate Director in the appointor's place during any period the appointor thinks fit.

  • 79.2 A Managing Director may not appoint an alternate to act as Managing Director.

80 Rights and Powers of Alternate Directors

  • 80.1 Every alternate Director is entitled:

  • (a) to receive notice of meetings of the Directors, if the appointor requests notice to be given to the alternate Director; and

  • (b) to attend and vote at meetings of the Directors at which the appointor is not present.

  • 80.2 An alternate Director may exercise all the powers and rights of the appointor in the absence of the appointor and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions affecting the appointor.

  • 80.3 The exercise of any power by an alternate Director shall have the same effect as if the appointing Director had exercised the power. The exercise of such power shall be as agent of the Company and not as agent of the appointor.

  • 80.4 An alternate Director does not require any share qualification and is not entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company for acting as alternate Director although shall be entitled to be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the same manner as Directors are entitled to be reimbursed for expenses under this Constitution.

  • 80.5 An alternate Director shall not be taken into account when determining the number of Directors or the rotation of Directors.

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81 Suspension or Revocation of Appointment

  • 81.1 A Director may at any time revoke or suspend the appointment of an alternate Director appointed by him by notice in writing signed by the Director and delivered to the Company.

  • 81.2 The Directors may at any time suspend or remove an alternate Director by resolution after giving the appointor reasonable notice in writing of their intention to do so.

82 Termination of Appointment

  • 82.1 The appointment of an alternate Director shall automatically terminate if:

  • (a) the appointor of the alternate Director ceases to be a Director;

  • (b) an event occurs which if the alternate Director were a Director would result in the vacation of the office of Director; or

  • (c) the alternate Director resigns as an alternate Director by written notice delivered to the Company and the appointor of the alternate Director.

83 Acting as Alternate for More Than One Director

  • 83.1 A Director or any other person may act as an alternate Director to represent more than one Director.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

84 Power to Appoint

  • 84.1 The Directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their number to the office of Managing Director for such period (but not for life) and on such terms and conditions (including as to remuneration) as they think fit.

  • 84.2 If there is more than one Managing Director in office, the Managing Directors shall hold office jointly.

85 Qualifications

  • 85.1 While a Managing Director continues to hold that office, the Managing Director shall not be subject to retirement by rotation and shall not be taken into account in determining the retirement by rotation of Directors but shall be subject to the provisions of any contract between him and the Company.

  • 85.2 Clause 85.1 shall not apply where there is more than one Managing Director unless the Directors have determined that it shall not apply to only one Managing Director nominated by the Directors in the resolution prior to the date on which that Director would otherwise have been obliged to retire by rotation.

  • 85.3 The provisions of this Constitution, which apply to the resignation, disqualification, and removal of Directors shall apply to the Managing Director and if the Managing Director ceases to be a Director for any reason then his appointment as Managing Director shall automatically terminate.

86 Powers

  • 86.1 The Directors may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director or an Executive Director any of the powers exercisable by the Directors upon terms and conditions and with any restrictions they think fit.

  • 86.2 Any powers conferred on a Managing Director or an Executive Director shall be concurrent with the powers of the Directors and not to the exclusion of such powers.

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  • 86.3 The Directors may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of the powers conferred upon a Managing Director or an Executive Director.

87 Temporary Appointments

  • 87.1 If a Managing Director or an Executive Director becomes at any time incapable of acting as such, the Directors may appoint any suitably qualified person to temporarily act as Managing Director or Executive Director.

88 Removal or Dismissal

  • 88.1 The Directors may at any time remove or dismiss a Managing Director or an Executive Director from his office and appoint another suitably qualified person in his place regardless of whether the person being removed or dismissed has been appointed for a specific term, subject to the terms of any contract between the Company and the relevant person.

REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS

89 Remuneration of Directors

  • 89.1 The Directors, other than a Managing Director or an Executive Director, shall be paid for their services as Directors such fees (not exceeding in aggregate for any financial year the maximum sum that is from time to time approved by the Company in General Meeting) as the Directors determine.

  • 89.2 The remuneration payable to Directors, other than a Managing Director and an Executive Director, under this clause shall be a fixed sum and not by a commission on, or a percentage of, operating revenue or profits of the Company.

  • 89.3 The sum so fixed shall be divided amongst the Directors in such proportion and manner as they shall agree or, failing agreement, equally.

  • 89.4 The remuneration of each Director for his ordinary services as Director under this clause shall be regarded as accruing from day to day and shall be apportioned accordingly.

  • 89.5 The remuneration payable to the Directors under this clause shall be exclusive of any benefits which the Company is required to provide to the Directors by virtue of any legislative schemes including without limitation, superannuation and shall also be exclusive of any benefit to which a Director may be entitled to under the law or this Constitution.

90 Remuneration of Managing Director

  • 90.1 Subject to the provisions of any contract between the Company and the relevant person the remuneration of a Managing Director and an Executive Director shall from time to time be fixed by the Directors and may be by way of fixed salary or a participation in the profits of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or by any or all of those methods but shall not be by way of commission on or percentage of operating revenue of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company.

  • 90.2 Any Director who is remunerated as a Managing Director or an Executive Director shall not receive Directors’ fees under clause 89.

91 Payment of Expenses

  • 91.1 The Directors shall be entitled to be paid or reimbursed for all travelling and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with any meeting of the Directors, any meeting of a Committee, General Meetings of the Company and otherwise in connection with the business or affairs of the Company.

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92 Payment for Extra Services

  • 92.1 Any Director who with the approval of the Directors performs extra services or makes any special exertions or undertakes any executive or other work for the Company beyond his ordinary duties shall be remunerated either by a fixed sum or a salary as may be determined by the Directors having regard to the value to the Company of the extra services or the special exertions.

93 Increases in Remuneration

  • 93.1 Notice of any proposed increase in the remuneration of Directors (other than a Managing Director and an Executive Director) and the total amount of the remuneration payable to them as a result of the proposed increase, shall be given to Members in the notice convening the General Meeting at which the increase is to be proposed.

94 Retiring Allowances

  • 94.1 Subject to the requirements of the Law, the Company may make any payment or give any benefit to any Director or the estate of the Director or the Director's dependents in connection with the Director's retirement, resignation from or loss of office or death while in office.

  • 94.2 To give effect to clause 94.1 the Company may:

  • (a) make contracts or arrangements with a Director or a person who will become a Director under which the Director or a person nominated by the Director receives a lump sum payment, pension, retirement allowance or other benefit on or after the Director ceasing to hold office for any reason;

  • (b) make any payment under any contract or arrangement referred to in clause 94.2(a); and

  • (c) establish any fund or scheme to provide lump sum payments, pensions, retiring allowances or other benefits for:

    • (i) Directors on them ceasing to hold office; or

    • (ii) any dependent of a Director in the event of the Director's death in office, and may from time to time pay to the fund or scheme any sum as the Company considers fit to provide the benefits, subject to the Law.

  • 94.3 The Company may impose such restrictions and conditions under any contract, arrangement, fund or scheme referred to in clause 94.2 as it thinks fit.

  • 94.4 The Company may also authorise any subsidiary to make a similar contract or arrangement with its Directors and make payments under it or establish and maintain any fund or scheme, whether or not all or any of the directors of the subsidiary are also Directors.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

95 Powers of Directors

  • 95.1 Subject to the Listing Rules, the Law and this Constitution, the management and control of the business and affairs of the Company are vested in the Directors who may exercise all powers of the Company which are not by the Listing Rules, the Law or this Constitution required to be exercised by the Company in General Meeting provided however that any sale of the Company’s main undertaking shall only be made with the approval of a resolution passed at a General Meeting.

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  • 95.2 No resolution passed by the Company in General Meeting shall have the effect of invalidating any prior act of the Directors that would have been valid if the resolution had not been passed.

96 Borrowing Powers

  • 96.1 The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to:

  • (a) raise or borrow any sum or sums of money for the purposes of the Company; and

  • (b) secure the payment or repayment of any amount payable by the Company and any other obligation or liability in such manner and on such terms and conditions as they think fit whether upon the security of any mortgage or by the issue of debentures of the Company or charged upon all or any of the property, undertaking and assets of the Company both present and future and on all or any of its uncalled capital.

97 Negotiable Instruments

  • 97.1 All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for money paid to the Company must be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed as the case may be by the persons and in the manner determined from time to time by the Directors (including by a facsimile signature affixed by mechanical means) and failing such determination by any two Directors.

98 Loans to Directors

  • 98.1 The Company shall not make loans to Directors or provide guarantees, indemnities or securities for the obligations of Directors except as permitted by the Law.

99 Attorneys and Agents

  • 99.1 The Directors may from time to time by resolution, power of attorney or other instrument appoint any firm, company, corporation or person or body of persons whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors to be the attorney or agent of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under this Constitution) and for such period and subject to such conditions as the Directors may from time to time think fit.

  • 99.2 Any such resolution, power of attorney or other instrument may contain provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with the attorney or agent as the Directors think fit and may also authorise the attorney or agent to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in the attorney or agent.

100 Conferment of Powers

  • 100.1 The Directors may from time to time confer upon any Director for the time being or any other person as they may select such of the powers exercisable under this Constitution by the Directors as they may think fit for such time and to be exercised for such purposes and on such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they think expedient.

  • 100.2 Powers conferred under this clause may be exercised concurrently with the powers of the Directors in that regard and the Directors may from time to time withdraw, revoke or vary all or any of such powers.

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101 Inadvertent Omissions

  • 101.1 If it is discovered that a formality required by this Constitution to be done has been inadvertently omitted or has not been carried out, such omission shall not invalidate any resolution, act, matter or thing which but for such omission would have been valid unless it is proved to the satisfaction of a majority of the Directors that such omission has directly and materially prejudiced any Member. The decision of the Directors on any such question shall be conclusive, final and binding on all Members.

DIRECTORS’ DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST

102 Contracts with Directors

  • 102.1 A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company except that of Auditor in conjunction with the office of Director and may act in a professional capacity in relation to the Company and in any such case on such terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the Directors may determine.

  • 102.2 A Director shall not be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company either with regard to such other office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall:

  • (a) any such contract or any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director is in any way interested be voided; and

  • (b) any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of the Director holding that office or of the fiduciary relationship established by the Director holding that office, but the nature of his interest must be disclosed by him in the manner required by the Law and the Listing Rules.

  • 102.3 No Director shall vote as a Director in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he has a material interest and if he does so, his vote shall not be counted for the purpose of a quorum. A Director shall not be regarded as having a material interest in any contract or arrangement solely by reason of the Director holding an office in or place of profit in respect of the Company or any of its Related Bodies Corporate.

  • 102.4 A Director may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any corporation promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as shareholder or otherwise, or which holds any shares in the Company, and no such Director shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such corporation. A Director may exercise the voting power conferred by the shares or other interest in any such other corporation held or owned by the Company, or exercisable by the Director as a director of such other corporation in such manner in all respects as the Director thinks fit, and any Director may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in such manner, notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to be, appointed a director or other officer of such corporation and as such is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in such manner.

103 Disclosure of Interest

  • 103.1 A general notice given to the Directors by a Director that the Director is an officer, a Member of or otherwise interested in any specified corporation or firm stating the nature and the extent of the Director's interest in the corporation or firm shall, in relation to any matter involving the Company and that corporation or firm after the giving of the notice, be a sufficient disclosure of the Director's interest, provided that the extent of the interest is no greater at the time of first consideration of the relevant matter by the Directors than was stated in the notice.

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PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

104 Meetings of Directors

  • 104.1 The Directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings as they think fit.

  • 104.2 A Director may and the Secretary must at the request of a Director call a meeting of the Directors. Unless the Directors resolve to the contrary, at least 24 hours notice of a meeting of Directors, including the date place and time of the meeting, shall be given to all Directors except to a Director whom the Secretary when giving notice to other Directors reasonably believes to be outside Australia or who has been given special leave of absence. In respect of any particular meeting of Directors the requisite period of notice may be waived in writing signed by all Directors.

  • 104.3 It is not necessary to give notice of a meeting of Directors to any alternate Director unless notice is not given to the Director by whom he was appointed.

  • 104.4 Notice of a meeting of Directors need not be in writing.

  • 104.5 Without limiting the discretion of the Directors to regulate their meetings under this rule, a meeting of the Directors may with the consent of all Directors consist of a conference between Directors some or all of whom are in different places if each Director who participates is able:

  • (a) to hear each of the other participating Directors addressing the meeting; and

  • (b) if he so wishes, to address each of the other participating Directors simultaneously,

whether directly, by conference telephone, video conferencing facility or any other form of communications equipment or by a combination of such methods. A meeting held in this way will be taken for the purposes of this Constitution to be held at the place where the largest group of participating Directors is assembled or, if no such group is readily identifiable, at the place where the chairperson of the meeting participates. Any Director may, by prior notice to the Secretary, indicate that he wishes to participate in a meeting in such manner. In this event, the Directors, if they all consent to the meeting being held in the manner referred to in this clause shall procure that an appropriate conference facility is arranged at the expense of the Company. A Director who has consented to a meeting being held in the manner referred to in this clause may only withdraw his consent within a reasonable period before the meeting.

  • 104.6 No Director may leave a conference held in accordance with clause 104.5 by disconnecting his means of communication unless he has previously obtained the express consent of the chairperson of the meeting. A Director will be conclusively presumed to have been present and to have formed part of the quorum at all times during the meeting by telephone or other means of communication unless he has previously obtained the express consent of the chairperson to leave the conference.

  • 104.7 All resolutions of the Directors passed at a meeting of Directors where a quorum is present but where notice of the meeting has not been given as required to each Director, or any act carried out pursuant to such resolution, shall, provided each Director to whom notice was not given subsequently agrees to waive the same, be as valid as if notice of the meeting had been duly given to all Directors.

105 Quorum

105.1 Until the Directors resolve to the contrary two Directors personally present (or in conference in accordance with clause 104.5) form a quorum and a quorum must be present at all times during the meeting. An alternate Director, provided that he is not also a Director, shall be counted in a quorum at a meeting at which his appointor is not present.

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106 Chairperson

  • 106.1 The Directors may elect one of their number to be chairperson of their meetings and determine the period during which the chairperson is to hold office.

  • 106.2 If a meeting of Directors is held and:

  • (a) a chairperson has not been elected; or

  • (b) the chairperson is not present at the time appointed for the holding of the meeting or otherwise does not wish to chair the meeting, the Directors present must elect one of their number to be chairperson of the meeting.

  • 106.3 The chairperson may withdraw as chairperson for part of the business of a meeting. If so:

  • (a) the chairperson must nominate another Director to chair the meeting for that part of the business of the meeting;

  • (b) if the Director nominated is unwilling or unable to chair the meeting, clause 106.2 applies for that part of the meeting; and

  • (c) after the relevant business has been completed, the person who chaired the meeting for that business must cease to act as chairperson and the original chairperson must resume chairing the meeting.

107 Voting

  • 107.1 A resolution of the Directors must be passed by a majority of votes of the Directors present at the meeting who vote on the resolution. A resolution passed by a majority of the votes cast by the Directors will for all purposes be taken to be a determination of the Directors.

  • 107.2 Each Director entitled to vote on a resolution shall have one vote except that a person who is an alternate Director shall be entitled (in addition to his own vote if he is a Director) to one vote on behalf of each Director whom he represents as an alternate Director at the meeting and who is not personally present.

  • 107.3 In case of an equality of votes at a meeting of Directors, the chairperson has a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote except in the following circumstances:

  • (a) where only two Directors are present at the meeting;

  • (b) where only two Directors are competent to vote on the question being considered; or

  • (c) on the chairperson's appointment or reappointment to the position of chairperson.

108 Circular Resolutions by Directors

  • 108.1 A resolution in writing signed by all of the Directors for the time being entitled to vote in relation to the resolution (not being less than a quorum) and stating that the signatories are in favour of the resolution will be as valid and effectual from the time it is signed by the last Director as if it had been passed at a duly convened meeting of Directors provided each Director has received reasonable notice of the resolution.

  • 108.2 A resolution in writing may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more Directors.

  • 108.3 Every such resolution shall be deemed to have been passed on the day and at the time at which the document was last signed by a Director. An alternate Director may sign such a document in the place of an alternate Director's appointor.

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  • 108.4 A facsimile transmission which is received by the Company and which purports to have been signed by a Director or an alternate Director shall for the purposes of this clause be taken to be in writing and signed by that Director or alternate Director at the time of the receipt of the facsimile transmission by the Company in legible form.

109 Committee of Directors

  • 109.1 The Directors may form and delegate any of their powers to a Committee consisting of such persons (including at least one Director) as they think fit and may from time to time revoke such delegation.

  • 109.2 A Committee must in exercise of the powers delegated to it conform to any directions and restrictions that may be imposed on it by the Directors. A power so exercised shall be taken to be exercised by the Directors.

  • 109.3 The meetings and proceedings of any Committee consisting of more than one person will be governed by the provisions for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Directors contained in this Constitution. A Director must be chairperson of the Committee.

  • 109.4 A minute of all the proceedings and decisions of every Committee shall be made, entered and signed in the same manner in all respects as minutes of proceedings of the Directors are required by the Law and this Constitution to be made entered and signed.

  • 109.5 Where a Committee consists of only one Director, a document signed by that Director recording his decision as the Committee shall be valid and effective as if it were a decision made at a meeting of that Committee and that document shall constitute a minute of that decision.

110 Validation of Acts of Directors

110.1 All acts done:

  • (a) at any meeting of the Directors;

  • (b) by a Committee;

  • (c) by any person acting as a Director; or

  • (d) by any person purporting to act as an attorney or agent of the Company under a power of attorney or other instrument executed by the Company,

shall, even if it is discovered afterwards that there was a defect in the appointment or continuance in office of any such Director, person, attorney or agent or that they or any of them were (where applicable) disqualified or not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed or had continued in office and was duly qualified to be a Director, attorney or agent and had (where applicable) been entitled to vote.

MINUTES

111 Minutes

  • 111.1 The Directors must cause minutes to be kept in accordance with the Law for the purposes of recording:

  • (a) the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of Directors and other persons present at each meeting of any Committee;

  • (b) all orders, resolutions and proceedings of General Meetings and of meetings of Directors and of Committees; and

  • (c) such matters as are required by the Law to be recorded in the record books of the Company including without limitation all declarations made or notices given

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by any Director of his interest in any contract or proposed contract or the holding of any office or property whereby any conflict of duty or interest may arise.

  • 111.2 Such minutes shall be signed by the chairperson of the meeting, or the chairperson of the next succeeding meeting and minutes which purport to be signed accordingly shall be received in evidence without any further proof as sufficient evidence that the matters and things recorded by such minutes actually took place or happened as recorded and of the regularity of such matters and things and that the same took place at a meeting duly convened and held.

SECRETARY

112 Appointment and Tenure

  • 112.1 One or more Secretaries shall, in accordance with the Law, be appointed by the Directors on terms and conditions (including remuneration) as they think fit.

  • 112.2 Any Secretary so appointed may be removed by the Directors.

  • 112.3 The Directors may from time to time appoint a person as an acting Secretary or as a temporary substitute for the Secretary.

EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS

113 Execution of Documents

  • 113.1 Without limiting the manner in which the Company may execute any contract, including as permitted under Section 126 of the Law, the Company may execute any agreement, deed or other document by:

  • (a) two Directors signing the same; or

  • (b) one Director and one Secretary signing the same.

  • 113.2 A document to which the Seal is affixed must be witnessed by:

  • (a) two Directors signing the same;

  • (b) one Director and one Secretary signing the same; or

  • (c) one Director and a person appointed by the Directors the purpose of witnessing the affixation of the Seal to the document signing the same.

  • 113.3 Nothing in this Constitution requires the Company to execute any agreement, deed or other document under Seal for the same to be effectively executed by the Company.

DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES

114 Declaration of Dividends

  • 114.1 Subject to the provisions of the Law and any special rights and restrictions attached to any shares, the Directors may from time to time declare and pay Dividends as appear to them to be justified by the profits of the Company.

  • 114.2 No Dividend shall bear interest against the Company.

  • 114.3 Different classes of shares may have different dividend rights attaching to them in accordance with this Constitution as determined by the Company.

  • 115 Crediting and Paying Dividends

  • 115.1 Subject to any special rights and restrictions attached to any shares, all Dividends shall be declared and paid to Members in proportion to the number of shares held by them irrespective of the amount paid or credited as paid on the shares on which the Dividend is to be paid.

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  • 115.2 Dividends will be apportioned and paid according to any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the Dividend is paid but if any share is issued on terms providing that it will rank for Dividend as from a particular date that share will rank for Dividend accordingly.

116 Reserves

  • 116.1 The Directors may at any time set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as they think proper as reserves which shall at the discretion of the Directors be applicable for any purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied.

  • 116.2 Pending any such application the reserves may either be employed in the business of the Company or invested in such investments as the Directors may from time to time think fit.

  • 116.3 The Directors may carry forward any profits that they may think prudent not to distribute as Dividends without placing those profits to reserve.

117 Deductions from Dividends

  • 117.1 The Directors may deduct and retain from any Dividend payable to a Member all sums of money presently payable by the Member to the Company on account of Calls or other sums due in relation to shares held by the Member and may apply that Dividend in or towards satisfaction of such debts and liabilities.

118 Dividends Paid in Kind

  • 118.1 The Directors when declaring a Dividend may direct that the Dividend be paid wholly or partly by cash, the issue of shares or the distribution of specific assets and in particular of fully paid shares of any other company.

  • 118.2 The Directors may settle any difficulty that arises with regard to a distribution of specific assets by way of Dividend as they think expedient and in particular in order to adjust the rights of all Members may:

  • (a) fix the value for distribution of specific assets or any part of them;

  • (b) determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the basis of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties; and

  • (c) vest any cash or specific assets in trustees upon trust for all the Members entitled to the Dividend.

119 Payment of Dividends

  • 119.1 Any Dividend, interest or other money payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by:

  • (a) cheque sent through the post directed to the address of the holder as shown in the Register or in the case of joint holders to the address shown in the Register of the joint holder who is first named in the Register unless the holder or joint holders notify the Company in writing of another address; or

  • (b) by electronic funds transfer to an account with a bank or another financial institution nominated by the Member in writing and acceptable to the Directors.

  • 119.2 Any cheque issued pursuant to this clause shall be made payable to the Member to whom it is sent.

  • 119.3 Any cheque dispatched by post shall be at the risk of the Member from the time of posting.

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  • 119.4 Any one or more of the joint holders of a share may give effectual receipts for any Dividends, interest or other money payable in respect of shares held by them as joint holders.

  • 119.5 Subject to any applicable law, all Dividends declared but unclaimed may be invested or otherwise used by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed or dealt with in accordance with the relevant law.

CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS

120 Capitalisation of Profits

  • 120.1 Subject to the Law and the rights and restrictions attaching to shares, the Members in General Meeting or the Directors may from time to time resolve to capitalise any profits and any other amounts available for distribution to Members in any manner approved by the Members or the Directors (as the case may be) for the benefit of Members in the proportions to which those Members would have been entitled in a distribution of those profits by way of Dividend.

121 Methods of Capitalisation

  • 121.1 The ways in which a sum may be applied for the benefit of Members under clause 120 include:

  • (a) in paying up any amounts unpaid on shares held by Members;

  • (b) in paying up in full as the Directors may resolve unissued shares to be issued to Members as fully paid;

  • (c) partly as mentioned in paragraph (a) and partly as mentioned in paragraph (b) above;

  • (d) in accordance with any Bonus Share Plan adopted by the Company; or

  • (e) any other application permitted by the Listing Rules or the Law.

122 Director's Powers upon Capitalisation

  • 122.1 The Directors shall do all things necessary to give effect to any resolution passed as referred to in clause 120 and in particular to the extent necessary to adjust the rights of the Members may without limitation:

  • (a) make cash payments in cases where securities become issuable in fractions or determine that fractions may be disregarded;

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

  • (c) vest any cash or specific assets in trustees and upon trusts for the person entitled; and/or

  • (d) authorise any person to make on behalf of Members entitled to any further securities upon the capitalisation, an agreement with the Company providing for the issue to them as fully paid up, of any such further securities or for the payment by the Company on their behalf of the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares by the application of their respective proportions of the sum resolved to be capitalised.

  • 122.2 Any agreement made under an authority referred to in clause 122.1(d) is effective and binding on all Members concerned.

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SHARE PLANS

123 Dividend Reinvestment Plan

  • 123.1 The Company in General Meeting may resolve to authorise the Directors to establish and maintain a plan pursuant to which any Member may elect, in accordance with the provisions of the plan, that all or part of the Dividends payable by the Company to the Member shall be applied on behalf of the Member in subscribing for fully paid ordinary shares in accordance with the plan.

  • 123.2 The Directors may at their discretion suspend, terminate or vary the terms and conditions of any Dividend Reinvestment Plan as and when they consider appropriate.

124 Bonus Share Plan

  • 124.1 The Company in General Meeting may resolve to authorise the Directors to establish and maintain a plan pursuant to which any Member may elect, in accordance with the provisions of the plan, that Dividends shall not be payable by the Company to the Member on some or all of the ordinary shares held by the Member and that the Member will be entitled to participate in the plan and receive bonus shares in lieu of cash Dividends.

  • 124.2 The Directors may at their discretion suspend, terminate or vary the terms and conditions of any Bonus Share Plan as and when they consider appropriate.

125 Participation in More than One Plan

  • 125.1 Subject to the terms of any Dividend Reinvestment Plan and Bonus Share Plan which may operate at the same time a Member may elect to participate in both plans but may not participate in more than one plan in respect of the same share.

126 Operation of Plan

  • 126.1 Any Dividend Reinvestment Plan or Bonus Share Plan established shall be given effect to by the Directors in accordance with its terms and the Directors shall be empowered to do all things necessary or desirable to implement a plan including the making of each necessary allotment of shares and of each necessary appropriation, capitalisation, application, payment and distribution of funds which may lawfully be appropriated, capitalised, applied, paid or distributed for the purpose of the allotment.

  • 126.2 For the purposes of giving effect to any Dividend Reinvestment Plan or Bonus Share Plan, the Directors may exercise such of the powers referred to in rules 120 and 122 (with such necessary adjustments as required) even if only some of the Members or holders of any class of shares participate in a plan.

  • 126.3 In offering opportunities to Members to participate in a Dividend Reinvestment Plan or a Bonus Share Plan the Directors may give such information as in their opinion may be useful to assist embers in assessing the opportunities offered by the plan. Neither the Directors nor the Company shall be responsible for nor shall they be obliged to provide any legal, taxation or financial advice in relation to the plans.

  • 126.4 The Directors shall be under no obligation:

  • (a) to admit any Member as a participant in a plan; or

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

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ACCOUNTS AND INSPECTION OF RECORDS

127 Accounts and Inspection

  • 127.1 The Directors shall cause proper financial records to be kept and must distribute copies of the financial reports of the Company together with a Directors’ report and an Auditor’s report in accordance with the requirements of the Law by post or Electronic Communication to the registered address of every Member.

  • 127.2 The Directors shall also from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounting and other records of the Company or any of them will be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors. No Member (not being a Director) has any right of inspection of any account or book or paper of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Directors.

  • 127.3 If all or any of the shares in the Company are for the time being listed on any stock exchange, there shall at the same time be forwarded to the secretary of such stock exchange such number of copies of each of these documents as may be required by the regulations for the time being of such stock exchange.

  • 127.4 Subject to the provisions of the Corporations Act and the securities exchange rules of any other country in which its shares are traded, the Company need not, and if the board of the Company so decides, send the copies of such documents referred to in clause 127.1 to Members, but instead send them a summary financial statement derived from the Company's annual accounts and the Directors report, in such form and containing such information as may be required by the Corporations Act. However, copies of the Company's annual accounts (together with the Directors' report for the financial year and the Auditor's report on those accounts) shall be made available and sent to any Member who wishes to receive them and the Company must comply with any provisions of the Law and/or the securities exchange rules of any other country in which its shares are traded regarding the distribution of company reports.

128 Confidential Information

  • 128.1 No Member (not being a Director) shall be entitled to require or receive any information concerning the business, trading or customers of the Company or any trade secret, secret process or other confidential information of or used by the Company.

NOTICES

129 Service of Notices

  • 129.1 A notice may be given by the Company to any Member by:

  • (a) serving it on the Member personally;

  • (b) sending it by post to the Member or leaving it at the Member's address shown in the Register or otherwise the address supplied by the Member to the Company for the giving of notices;

  • (c) facsimile to the facsimile number supplied by the Member to the Company for the giving of notices; or

  • (d) sending it to the electronic address supplied by the Member to the Company for the giving of notices.

  • 129.2 Any Member who has not left at or sent to the Office his place of address for inclusion in the Register as the place at which notices may be given to the Member shall not be entitled to receive any notice.

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  • 129.3 Any notice to a Member whose address for notices is outside Australia shall be sent by airmail or by facsimile or by other electronic means.

  • 129.4 Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be taken to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the notice and shall be deemed to have been effected on the day after the date of posting. Service of a notice to a Member outside Australia shall be deemed to have been effected on the fifth day after posting.

  • 129.5 Where a notice is sent by facsimile or other electronic means, service of the notice shall be taken to be effected by properly addressing and sending the notice and in such case shall be taken to have been effected on the Business Day after it is sent.

  • 129.6 A notice may be given by the Company to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death, lunacy or bankruptcy of a Member by:

  • (a) service on the Member personally;

  • (b) sending it by post addressed to the person by name or by the title of the representative of the deceased or lunatic or the assignee of the bankrupt or by any like description at the address, if any, within Australia supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be entitled; or

  • (c) by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death, lunacy or bankruptcy had not occurred.

  • 129.7 Evidence of service of a notice may be established by proving that the envelope containing the notice and stamped appropriately was properly posted and a certificate given by any Officer of the Company to that effect shall be conclusive evidence of service.

130 Notices to Joint Holders

  • 130.1 A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of a share by giving notice to the joint holder first named in the Register in respect of the share and such notice shall be taken to be notice to all joint holders.

131 Notices of General Meeting

  • 131.1 Subject to the rights and restrictions attaching to any share and clause 129.2, notice of every General Meeting must be given in any manner authorised by this Constitution to:

  • (a) every Member;

  • (b) every person entitled to a share in the Company in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member or under the law relating to mental health;

  • (c) every Director; and

  • (d) the Auditor.

  • 131.2 Notice shall also be given to any other person who is entitled or required to receive notice pursuant to the Listing Rules.

  • 131.3 No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of General Meetings.

132 Form of Signature

  • 132.1 The signature to any notice to be given by the Company may be written, printed or stamped.

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133 Winding Up

WINDING UP

  • 133.1 Subject to any special rights and restrictions attaching to any shares and to clause 133.2, if the Company is wound up and after the payment of all debts and satisfaction of all liabilities a surplus remains, it must be distributed amongst the Members entitled to it in proportion to the number of shares held by each of them regardless of the amounts paid up on the shares.

  • 133.2 A Member who is in arrears in payment of a Call but whose share has not been forfeited, is not entitled to participate in the distribution under clause 133.1 on the basis of holding that share until the amount owing in respect of the Call has been fully paid and satisfied.

  • 133.3 If the Company is wound up, the liquidator may with the sanction of a special resolution of the Members divide among the Members in kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they consist of property of the same kind or not) and the liquidator may:

  • (a) for that purpose set such value as he considers fair upon any assets to be divided;

  • (b) determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members; and

  • (c) vest the whole or any part of any such assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as the liquidator thinks fit but so that no Member will be compelled to accept any shares or other securities on which there is any liability.

  • 133.4 On a voluntary winding up of the Company no commission or fee may be paid to the liquidator unless the payment of that commission or fee has been approved by a resolution of the Members and the amount of the proposed payment was specified in the notice calling the General Meeting.

INDEMNITY

134 Indemnity

  • 134.1 To the extent permitted by law every Officer (and former Officer) of the Company and of every subsidiary of the Company shall be indemnified out of the funds of the Company against all liabilities incurred as such an Officer (or former Officer). However, no such Officer (or former Officer) shall be indemnified by the Company under this clause in respect of:

  • (a) a liability to the Company or its Related Body Corporate;

  • (b) a liability for a pecuniary penalty order under Section 1317G of the Law or a compensation order under Section 1317H of the Law; or

  • (c) a liability that is owed to a person other than the Company or its Related Body Corporate and did not arise out of conduct in good faith.

  • 134.2 To the extent permitted by law every Officer (and former Officer) of the Company and of every subsidiary of the Company shall be indemnified out of the funds of the Company against all legal costs and expenses incurred in defending an action for a liability incurred as an Officer (or former Officer). However, no such Officer (or former Officer) shall be indemnified by the Company under this clause if the legal costs or expenses are incurred:

  • (a) in defending or resisting proceedings in which the person is found to have a liability for which they could not be indemnified under clause 134.1;

  • (b) in defending or resisting criminal proceedings in which the person is found guilty;

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  • (c) in defending or resisting proceedings brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission or a liquidator for a court order if the grounds for making the order are found by the court to have been established; or

  • (d) in connection with proceedings for relief to the person under the Law in which the court denies the relief.

  • 134.3 However paragraph (c) above does not apply to costs incurred in responding to actions taken by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission or a liquidator as part of an investigation before commencing proceedings for the court order.

135 Payment of Indemnity Policy Premium

  • 135.1 To the extent permitted by law the Company may at the discretion of the Directors enter into and/or pay a premium in respect of a policy of insurance insuring an Officer (or former Officer) of the Company against any liability incurred by such person in that capacity (whether in respect of acts or omissions prior to or after the date of the issue of the policy or both) except for:

  • (a) a liability arising out of conduct involving a wilful breach of duty in relation to the Company; or

  • (b) a contravention of sections 182 or 183 of the Law. The Directors shall have the discretion to approve the terms and conditions of any such policy of insurance.

  • 135.2 Where an Officer (or former Officer) has the benefit of an indemnity pursuant to an insurance policy in respect of his actions or omissions then the Company shall not be required to indemnify the Officer under clause 134 except to the extent that the indemnity affected by the insurance policy does not fully cover the person’s liability.

136 Indemnity to Continue

  • 136.1 The indemnity granted by the Company contained in clause 134 shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding the deletion or modification of that rule, in respect of acts and omissions occurring prior to the date of the deletion or modification.

137 Liability of Directors for Acts of Others

  • 137.1 No Director shall be liable for the acts, omissions, negligence or default of any other Officer or for any other loss, expense or damage which shall arise in the execution of the duties of his office unless the same arises through his own negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust.

138 Conduct of Litigation

  • 138.1 A person having the benefit of an indemnity under clause 134 or the protection of a policy of insurance effected under clause 135 shall notify the Company on receipt of notice of any claim against the person which may be the subject of the indemnity or insurance policy.

  • 138.2 The Company shall be entitled to exclusively conduct any negotiations and legal proceedings in respect of any matter that the Company may be liable to indemnify a person under clause 134 whether in its own name or the name of the indemnified person or both. The Company shall also be entitled to settle or compromise any claim in respect of which it may have a liability to indemnify a person under clause 134.

  • 138.3 A person who has the benefit of an indemnity under clause 134 in respect of an act or omission of the person shall:

  • (a) at the request of the Company do all reasonable things requested by the Company to dispute, defend, compromise or settle any claim or appeal and

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judgment in respect of a claim and generally co-operate with the Company in respect of the claim;

  • (b) not do anything inconsistent with the Company having the exclusive management and control of all legal proceedings and negotiations and will not make any admissions in relation to a claim or take other actions which will be prejudicial to the Company's ability to negotiate or conduct legal proceedings in a manner to minimise any liability of the Company under the indemnity given in clause 134; and

  • (c) do anything reasonably necessary to enable the Company to be subrogated to the rights of the person benefiting from the indemnity in clause 134 in relation to a claim covered by such indemnity.

LISTING RULES

139 Compliance with Listing Rules

  • 139.1 If the Company is admitted to the Official List, the following rules apply:

  • (a) notwithstanding anything contained in this Constitution, if the Listing Rules prohibit an act being done, the act shall not be done;

  • (b) nothing contained in this Constitution prevents an act being done that the Listing Rules require to be done;

  • (c) if the Listing Rules require an act to be done or not to be done, authority is given for that act to be done or not to be done (as the case may be);

  • (d) if the Listing Rules require this Constitution to contain a provision and it does not contain such a provision, this Constitution is deemed to contain that provision;

  • (e) if the Listing Rules require this Constitution not to contain a provision and it does contain such a provision, this Constitution is deemed not to contain that provision; and

  • (f) if any provision of this Constitution is or becomes inconsistent with the Listing Rules, this Constitution is deemed not to contain that provision to the extent of the inconsistency.

140 Restricted Securities

  • 140.1 Despite any other provision of this Constitution:

  • (a) the Company shall not acknowledge, deal with, accept or register any sale, assignment or transfer of restricted securities which is or might be in breach of the Listing Rules or any escrow agreement entered into by the Company under the Listing Rules in relation to Restricted Securities except as permitted by the Exchange;

  • (b) if there is a breach of any escrow agreement entered into by the Company under the Listing Rules in relation to Restricted Securities issued by the Company, the Member holding the relevant Restricted Securities shall cease to be entitled to any Dividends and to any voting rights in respect of those Restricted Securities while the breach continues; or

  • (c) on a winding up of the Company, the holders of Restricted Securities that are the subject of an escrow agreement at the commencement of the winding up shall rank on a return of capital behind all other shares in the Company.

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Schedule 1

1. Classes of Shares

  • Subject to the provisions of clause 6, shares may be issued in any of the following classes: (a) ordinary shares.

2. Rights and Restrictions Attaching to Shares

  • 2.1 The holders of the ordinary shares shall be entitled to the following rights and subject to the following restrictions:

  • (a) a right to receive notice of any General Meeting and attend at a General Meeting;

  • (b) voting rights as set out in this Constitution;

  • (c) Dividends as determined from time to time in accordance with this Constitution; and

  • (d) a right to participate in the distribution of surplus assets on winding up in accordance with this Constitution.

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