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First Tractor Company Limited — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2007
Jan 22, 2007
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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
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GALAXY ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LIMITED
(incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 27)
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting of Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited will be held at Picasso Room, Basement 1, InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, 70 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong at 2:45 p.m. on Friday, 9 February 2007 for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following resolutions which will be proposed as ordinary resolutions with or without amendment:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
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“ THAT :
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(a) the general mandate granted to the Directors of the Company to exercise the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company as approved by the shareholders of the Company pursuant to an ordinary resolution passed at the annual general meeting of the Company held on 29 June 2006 be and is hereby revoked (without prejudice to any valid exercise of such general mandate prior to the passing of this resolution);
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(b) subject to paragraph (c) below, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such powers either during or after the Relevant Period be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
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(c) the aggregate nominal amount of share capital allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors of the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (b) above, otherwise than pursuant to:
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(i) a Rights Issue;
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(ii) the exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under the terms of any warrants issued by the Company or any securities which are convertible into shares of the Company;
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(iii) the exercise of any option under the Company’s share option schemes or similar arrangement for the time being adopted by the Company in accordance with the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited for the grant or issue of shares or rights to acquire shares of the Company; or
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(iv) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares of the Company in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company,
shall not exceed the aggregate of: (aa) 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued share capital of the Company on the date of the passing of this resolution; (bb) (if the directors are so authorised by a separate ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company) the nominal amount of share capital of the Company repurchased by the Company subsequent to the passing of this Resolution (up to a maximum of 329,464,936 Shares, being 10% of the share capital of the Company in issue on 29 June 2006 when the Shareholders approved the repurchase mandate), and this approval shall be limited accordingly, and
- (d) for the purposes of this resolution:
“Rights Issue” means an offer of shares open for a period fixed by the Directors of the Company to holders of shares of the Company on the register on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognized regulatory body or any stock exchange in any territory outside Hong Kong); and
“Relevant Period” means the period from the time of passing of this resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
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(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
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(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Companies Ordinance to be held; or
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(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”
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“ THAT conditional upon the passing of the resolution numbered 1 in the notice convening this meeting, the general mandate granted to the Directors of the Company to exercise the powers of the Company pursuant to paragraph (b) of the resolution numbered 1 be and is hereby extended by the addition thereto of an amount representing the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the
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Company repurchased by the Company under the authority granted by the shareholders at the annual general meeting held on 29 June 2006, provided that such amount shall not exceed 329,464,936 Shares, being 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of such annual general meeting.”
By Order of the Board Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited Kitty Chan Lai Kit Company Secretary
Dated 22 January 2007
Registered Office: Room 1606, 16th Floor Hutchison House 10 Harcourt Road, Central Hong Kong
Notes:
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Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and (on a poll) vote on his behalf. On a poll votes may be given either personally or by proxy. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A member may appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion.
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The instrument appointing a proxy must be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorized in writing, or if the appointor is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorized.
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To be valid, the instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company at Room 1606, 16th Floor, Hutchison House, 10 Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.
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Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the register in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. Several executors or administrators of a deceased member in whose name any share stands shall for this purpose be deemed joint holders thereof.
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Resolution numbered 1 will be voted on by way of poll.
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At the date of this notice, the executive directors of the Company are Dr. Lui Che Woo, Mr. Francis Lui Yiu Tung, Mr. Chan Kai Nang, Mr. Joseph Chee Ying Keung, Mr. William Lo Chi Chung and Ms. Paddy Tang Lui Wai Yu. The non-executive director is Mr. Moses Cheng Mo Chi, and the independent non-executive directors are Dr. Charles Cheung Wai Bun, Mr. James Ross Ancell and Dr. William Yip Shue Lam.
Please also refer to the published version of this announcement in South China Morning Post.
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