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Futong Technology Development Holdings Limited Governance Information 2012

Mar 28, 2012

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If there is any inconsistency between the English and Chinese versions of their document, the English version shall prevail.

THE COMPANIES LAW EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF

FUTONG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED 富通科技發展控股有限公司

  1. The name of the Company is FUTONG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED 富通 .

科技發展控股有限公司

  1. The Registered Office of the Company shall be at the offices of Codan Trust Company (Cayman) Limited, Cricket Square, Hutchins Drive, PO Box 2681, Grand Cayman, KY1-1111, Cayman Islands.

  2. Subject to the following provisions of this Memorandum, the objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and shall include, but without limitation:

  3. (a) To act and to perform all the functions of a holding company in all its branches and to coordinate the policies, administration, management, supervision, control, research, planning, trading and any other activities of any subsidiary or affiliated company or companies wherever incorporated or carrying on business or of any group of companies of which the Company or any subsidiary or affiliated company is now or may become a member or which are now or may become in any manner associated with or controlled directly or indirectly by the Company;

  4. (b) To carry on all, or any one or more, of the following businesses in all or any of their various aspects:

    • (i) Providing services of any kind, financial or otherwise, in, from and to any part of the world outside the Cayman Islands;

    • (ii) General trading, importing, exporting, buying, selling and dealing in goods, materials, substances, articles and merchandise of all kinds in, from and to any part of the world, whether as principle or as agent;

    • (iii) Manufacturing, processing and/or extracting or taking goods, materials, substances, articles and merchandise of all kinds in any part of the world; and

    • (iv) Investing, developing, dealing in and/or managing real estate or interests therein any part of the world outside the Cayman Islands;

  5. (c) To carry on any other business of any nature whatsoever which may seem to the directors of the Company to be capable of being conveniently carried on in connection or conjunction with any business of the Company hereinbefore or hereinafter authorized or to be expedient with a view to rendering profitable or more profitable any of the Company’s assets or utilizing its know-how or expertise; and

  6. (d) To act as an investment company and for that purpose to acquire and hold upon any terms and, either in the name of the Company or that of any nominee, shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, annuities, notes mortgages, bonds, obligations and securities, foreign exchange, foreign currency deposits and commodities, issued or guaranteed by any company wherever incorporated or carrying on business, or by any government, sovereign, ruler, commissioners, public body or authority, supreme, municipal, local or otherwise, by original subscription, tender, purchase, exchange, underwriting, participation in syndicates or in any other manner and whether or not fully paid up, and to make payments thereon as called up or in advance of calls otherwise and to subscribe for the same, whether conditionally or absolutely, and to hold the same with a view to investment, but with the power to vary any investments, and to exercise and enforce all rights and powers conferred by or incident to the ownership thereof, and to invest and deal with moneys of the Company not immediately required upon such securities and such manner as may be from time to time determined.

  7. Subject to the following provisions of this Memorandum, the Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit, as provided by Section 27(2) of The Companies Law.

  8. Nothing in this Memorandum shall permit the Company to carry on a business for which a license is required under the laws of the Cayman Islands unless duly licensed.

  9. The Company shall not trade in the Cayman Islands with any person, firm or corporation except in furtherance of the business of the Company carried on outside the Cayman Islands; provided that nothing in this clause shall be construed as to prevent the Company effecting and concluding contracts in the Cayman Islands, and exercising in the Cayman Islands all of its powers necessary for the carrying on of its business outside the Cayman Islands,

  10. The liability of each member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such member’s shares.

  11. The share capital of the Company is HK$100,000 divided into 1,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of HK$0.10 each, with power for the Company insofar as is permitted by law to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to increase or reduce the said capital subject to the provisions of the Companies Law and the Articles of Association and to issue any part of its capital, whether original, redeemed or increased with or without any preference, priority or special privilege or subject to any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions and so that unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly declare every issue of

shares whether stated to be preference or otherwise shall be subject to the powers hereinbefore contained.

  1. The Company may exercise the power contained in the Companies Law to deregister in the Cayman Islands and be registered by way of continuation in another jurisdiction.

We, the undersigned, are desirous of being formed into a company pursuant to this Memorandum of Association and the Companies Law, and we hereby agree to take the numbers of shares set opposite our respective names below.

Dated this 29th day of July, 2009

SIGNATURE, NAME, OCCUPATION AND ADDRESS OF SUBSCRIBER

NUMBER OF SHARES TAKEN BY SUBSCRIBER

CODAN TRUST COMPANY (CAYMAN) LIMITED a Cayman Islands Company of :

One (1)

Cricket Square, Hutchins Drive, P.O. Box 2681 Grand Cayman KY1-1111 Cayman Islands by :

( Signature ) Sharon Pierson

( Signature ) Theresa L. Pearson-Thomas Witness to the above signature

Address : Cricket Square, George Town, Grand Cayman

Occupation : Corporate Administrator

I, Melanie E. Rivers-Woods, Asst. Registrar of Companies in and for the Cayman Islands DO HEREBY CARTIFY that this is a true copy of the Memorandum of Association of this Company duly registered on the 29th day of July, 2009.

( Signature ) REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

Futong Technology Development Holdings Limited 富通科技發展控股有限公司 (adopted pursuant to written resolutions passed on 11 November 2009)

Table of Contents

PRELIMINARY ........................................................................................................................................ 1 SHARES, WARRANTS AND MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS ........................................................... 6 INITIAL AND ALTERATIONS OF CAPITAL .................................................................................... 8 PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES ................................................................................................... 11 REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS AND SHARE CERTIFICATES ................................................ 11 LIEN ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 CALLS ON SHARES ............................................................................................................................. 15 TRANSFER OF SHARES ...................................................................................................................... 17 TRANSMISSION OF SHARES ............................................................................................................ 20 FORFEITURE OF SHARES .................................................................................................................. 21 GENERAL MEETINGS ......................................................................................................................... 23 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS ..................................................................................... 25 VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS ............................................................................................................. 27 REGISTERED OFFICE .......................................................................................................................... 32 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ..................................................................................................................... 32 APPOINTMENT AND ROTATION OF DIRECTORS ...................................................................... 42 BORROWING POWERS ....................................................................................................................... 44 MANAGING DIRECTORS, ETC. ........................................................................................................ 44 MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................................... 45 MANAGERS ........................................................................................................................................... 46 CHAIRMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS .............................................................................................. 47 PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS .............................................................................................. 47 MINUTES AND CORPORATE RECORDS ........................................................................................ 49 SECRETARY .......................................................................................................................................... 50 GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE SEAL .................................................................. 51 AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS ............................................................................................ 53 CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES .................................................................................................... 53 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES ............................................................................................................ 55 RECORD DATE ..................................................................................................................................... 63 DISTRIBUTION OF REALISED CAPITAL PROFITS ..................................................................... 63 ANNUAL RETURNS ............................................................................................................................. 64 ACCOUNTS ............................................................................................................................................ 64 AUDITORS ............................................................................................................................................. 65 NOTICES ................................................................................................................................................. 67 INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................... 71 WINDING UP ......................................................................................................................................... 71 INDEMNITY ........................................................................................................................................... 72 UNTRACEABLE SHAREHOLDERS .................................................................................................. 73 DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS .................................................................................................... 74 SUBSCRIPTION RIGHT RESERVE.................................................................................................... 75 STOCK ..................................................................................................................................................... 78 INDEX TO ARTICLES .......................................................................................................................... 80

THE COMPANIES LAW, CHAPTER 22 (LAW 3 OF 1961, AS CONSOLIDATED AND REVISED) EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

Futong Technology Development Holdings Limited 富通科技發展控股有限公司

PRELIMINARY

  1. (A) The regulations contained or incorporated in Table A of the Schedule to the Companies Law, Chapter 22 (Law 3 1961 consolidated and revised) shall not apply to this Company.

Marginal notes etc

Headings and marginal notes to, and the index of, these Articles do not form part of these Articles and shall not affect their interpretation and, in the interpretation of these Articles, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:

“appointor” shall mean, in relation to an alternate Director, the Director who appointed the alternate to act as his alternate;

General

“these Articles” or “these presents” shall mean these Articles of Association in their present form and all supplementary, amended or substituted Articles for the time being in force;

“associates”, in relation to any Director, shall have the meaning as ascribed to it in the Listing Rules;

“Auditors” shall mean the persons for the time being performing the duties of that office;

“business day” shall mean a day on which The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited generally is open for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong. For the avoidance of doubt, where The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited is closed for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong on a business day for the reason of a Number 8 or higher Typhoon Signal, Black Rainstorm Warning or other similar event, such day shall for the purposes of these Articles be counted as a business day;

“the Board” or “the Directors” shall mean the Directors from

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time to time of the Company or (as the context may require) the majority of Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Directors;

“call” shall include any instalment of a call;

“capital” shall mean the share capital of the Company from time to time;

“clear days” in relation to the period of a notice that period excluding the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect;

“the Chairman” shall mean, except in Article 129, the Chairman presiding at any meeting of shareholders or of the Directors;

“clearing house” shall mean a clearing house recognised by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted with the permission of the Company on a stock exchange in such jurisdiction;

“the Companies Law” shall mean The Companies Law, Cap. 22 (Law 3 of 1961, as consolidated and revised) of the Cayman Islands, as amended from time to time;

“the Company” or “this Company” shall mean Futong Technology Development Holdings Limited 富通科技發展 控股有限公司 incorporated in the Cayman Islands on 29 July, 2009;

“Company's website” the website of the Company to which any shareholder may have access, the address or domain name of which has been notified to the shareholders at the time the Company seeks the relevant shareholder's consent for the purposes of Article 177(B) or, as subsequently amended by notice given to the shareholders in accordance with Article 177;

“debenture” and “debenture holder” shall respectively include “debenture stock” and “debenture stockholder”;

“Director” shall mean a director of the Company and includes an alternate in his capacity as a director of the Company;

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“dividend” shall include scrip dividends, distributions in specie or in kind, capital distributions and capitalisation issues;

“Head Office” shall mean such office of the Company as the Directors may from time to time determine to be the principal office of the Company;

“HK$” shall mean Hong Kong dollars;

“holding company” and “subsidiary” shall have the meanings ascribed to them by section 2 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32) of the laws of Hong Kong as in force at the adoption of these Articles;

“Hong Kong” shall mean The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China;

“Listing Rules” shall mean the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;

“month” shall mean a calendar month;

“Newspapers”, in relation to the publication in newspapers of any notice, shall mean in English in one leading English language daily newspaper and (unless unavailable) in Chinese in one leading Chinese language daily newspaper, in each case published and circulating generally in the Relevant Territory and specified or not excluded for this purpose by the stock exchange in the Relevant Territory;

“Notice” written notice unless otherwise specifically stated and as further defined in these Articles;

“paid” in relation to a share, shall mean paid or credited as paid;

“the Register” shall mean the principal register and any branch register of shareholders of the Company to be maintained at such place within or outside the Cayman Islands as the Board may determine from time to time;

“Registered Office” shall mean the registered office of the Company for the time being;

“Registration Office” shall mean in respect of any class of share capital, such place or places in the Relevant Territory or elsewhere where the Directors from time to time

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determine to keep a branch register of shareholders of the Company in respect of that class of share capital and where (except in cases where the Directors otherwise agree) transfers of other documents of title for such class of share capital are to be lodged for registration and are to be registered;

“Relevant Period” shall mean the period commencing from the date on which any of the securities of the Company become listed on a stock exchange in the Relevant Territory with the consent of the Company to and including the date immediately before the day on which none of the securities are so listed (and so that if at any time listing of any such securities is suspended, they shall nevertheless be treated, for the purpose of this definition, as listed);

“Relevant Territory” shall mean Hong Kong or such other territory as the Directors may from time to time decide if the issued ordinary share capital of the Company is listed on a stock exchange in such territory;

“Seal” shall mean the common seal of the Company and any one or more facsimile seals from time to time of the Company for use in the Cayman Islands or in any place outside the Cayman Islands;

“Secretary” shall mean the person or corporation for the time being performing the duties of that office and includes any assistant, deputy, acting or temporary secretary;

“share” shall mean share in the capital of the Company and includes stock except where a distinction between stock and shares is expressed or implied;

“shareholder” shall mean the duly registered holder from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company;

“Statutes” shall mean the Companies Law and every other act, order regulation or other instrument having statutory effect (as amended from time to time) for the time being in force in the Cayman Islands applying to or affecting the Company, the Memorandum of Association and/or these presents;

“Transfer Office” shall mean the place where the principal register of shareholders is situate for the time being;

“writing” or “printing” shall include writing, printing,

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lithography, photography, typewriting and every other mode of representing words or figures in a legible and nontransitory form, and including where the representation takes the form of electronic display, provided that the same is available for download onto a user’s computer or for printing through conventional small office equipment or is placed on the Company's website and, in each case, the shareholder concerned (where the relevant provision of these Articles require the delivery or service of any document or notice on him in his capacity as shareholder) has elected for the receipt of the relevant download or notice through electronic means and both the mode of service of the relevant document or notice and the shareholder’s election comply with all applicable laws and regulations and the requirements of the stock exchange of the Relevant Territory.

  • (B) In these Articles, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent herewith:

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

words importing any gender shall include every gender and words importing persons shall include partnerships, firms, companies and corporations;

subject to the foregoing provisions of this Article, any words or expressions defined in the Companies Law (except any statutory modification thereof not in force when these Articles become binding on the Company) shall bear the same meaning in these Articles, save that “company” shall where the context permits include any company incorporated in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere; and

references to any statute or statutory provision shall be construed as relating to any statutory modification or reenactment thereof for the time being in force.

  • (C) At all times during the Relevant Period (but not otherwise) a resolution shall be a Special Resolution when it has been passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or by proxy or, in the cases of shareholders which are corporations, by their respective duly authorised representatives at a general meeting of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Article 65.

  • (D) A resolution shall be an Ordinary Resolution when it has

Ordinary Resolution

App. 13B 1

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been passed by a simple majority of such shareholders as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, in the case of any shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting held in accordance with these presents and of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Article 65.

  • (E) A resolution in writing signed (in such manner as to indicate, expressly or impliedly, unconditional approval) by or on behalf of the persons for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company shall, for the purpose of these Articles, be treated as an Ordinary Resolution duly passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held and, where relevant as a Special Resolution so passed. Any such resolution shall be deemed to have been passed at a meeting held on the date on which it was signed by the last person to sign, and where the resolution states a date as being the date of his signature thereof by any shareholder the statement shall be prima facie evidence that it was signed by him on that date. Such a resolution may consist of several documents in the like form, and signed by one or more relevant shareholders.

  • (F) A Special Resolution shall be effective for any purpose for which an Ordinary Resolution is expressed to be required under any provision of these Articles.

  • (G) Except during the Relevant Period, an Ordinary Resolution shall be effective of any purpose for which a Special Resolution is expressed to be required under any provision of these Articles.

  • Without prejudice to any other requirements of the Statutes and subject to Article 13, a Special Resolution shall be required to alter the memorandum of association of the Company, to approve any amendment of these presents or to change the name of the Company.

Written resolutions of shareholders

Special Resolution effective as Ordinary Resolution Ordinary Resolution effective as Special Resolution (Relevant Period only)

When Special App. 13B Resolution is 1 Required

SHARES, WARRANTS AND MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS

  1. Without prejudice to any special rights or restrictions for the time being attaching to any shares or any class of shares, any share may be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise, as the Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution determine (or, in the absence of any such determination or so far as the same

Issue of shares App. 3 6(1)

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may not make specific provision, as the Directors may determine) and any preference share maybe issued on the terms that it is liable to be redeemed upon the happening of a specified event or upon a given date and either at the option of the Company, or at the option of the holder.

4. The Directors may issue warrants to subscribe for any class of
shares or securities of the Company, which warrants may be issued
The Directors may issue warrants to subscribe for any class of
shares or securities of the Company, which warrants may be issued
Subscription
Warrants
App. 3
2(2)
on such terms as the Directors may from time to time determine.
Where warrants are issued to bearer, no certificate thereof shall be
issued to replace one that has been lost unless the Directors are
satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the original certificate thereof
has been destroyed and the Company has received an indemnity in
such form as the Directors shall think fit with regard to the issue of
any such replacement certificate.
5. (A) If at any time the capital is divided into different classes of
shares, all or any of the special rights attached to any class
How rights of shares
may be modified
(where more than
App. 3
6(2)
App. 13B
(unless otherwise provided for by the terms of issue of the one class of shares) 2(1)
shares of that class) may, subject to the provisions of the
Companies Law, be varied or abrogated either with the
consent in writing of the holders of not less than three-
fourths in nominal value of the issued shares of that class or
with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate
general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To
every such separate general meeting the provisions of these
Articles relating to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis
apply, but so that the necessary quorum (other than at an
adjourned meeting) shall be not less than two persons
holding (or, in the case of a shareholder being a corporation,
by its duly authorised representative) or representing by
proxy one-third in nominal value of the issued shares of that
class, that the quorum for any meeting adjourned for want of
quorum shall be two shareholders present in person (or, in
the case of a shareholder being a corporation, by its duly
authorised representative) or by proxy (whatever the number
of shares held by them).
(B) The provisions of this Article shall apply to the variation or
abrogation of the rights attached to the shares of any class as
Where shares are of
same class
if each group of shares of the class differently treated formed
a separate class the rights whereof are to be varied or
abrogated.
(C) The special rights conferred upon the holders of any shares
or class of shares shall not, unless otherwise expressly
Issue of shares not
an abrogation
provided in the rights attaching to or the terms of issue of
such shares, be deemed to be altered by the creation or issue

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of further shares ranking pari passu therewith or in priority thereto.

INITIAL AND ALTERATIONS OF CAPITAL

6. The authorised share capital of the Company on the date of its
incorporation is HK$100,000 divided into 1,000,000 shares of
Initial capital
Structure
App. 3
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HK$0.10 each.
7. The Company in general meeting may from time to time, whether or
not all the shares for the time being authorised shall have been
Power to increase
Capital
issued and whether or not all the shares for the time being issued
shall have been fully paid up, by Ordinary Resolution increase its
share capital by the creation of new shares, such new capital to be of
such amount and to be divided into shares of such class or classes
and of such amounts in Hong Kong dollars or United States dollars
or such other currency as the shareholders may think fit and as the
resolution may prescribe.
8. Any new shares shall be issued upon such terms and conditions and
with such rights, privileges or restrictions attached thereto as the
On what conditions
new shares may be
issued
general meeting resolving upon the creation thereof shall direct, and
if no direction be given, subject to the provisions of the Statutes and
of these Articles, as the Directors shall determine; and in particular
such shares may be issued with a preferential or qualified right to
dividends and in the distribution of assets of the Company and with
a special right or without any right of voting. The Company may,
subject to the provisions of the Statutes, issue shares which are, or at
the option of the Company or the holders are liable, to be redeemed.
9. The Directors may before the issue of any new shares, determine
that the same, or any of them, shall be offered in the first instance,
When to be offered
to existing
shareholders
and either at par or at a premium, to all the existing holders of any
class of shares in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of
shares of such class held by them respectively, or make any other
provisions as to the allotment and issue of such shares, but in default
of any such determination or so far as the same shall not extend,
such shares may be dealt with as if they formed part of the capital of
the Company existing prior to the issue of the same.
10. Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue or by
these Articles, any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall
New shares to form
part of original
capital
be treated as if it formed part of the original capital of the Company
and such shares shall be subject to the provisions contained in these
Articles with reference to the payment of calls and instalments,
transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, cancellation, surrender,
voting and otherwise.

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Shares at disposal of Directors

11. (A) All unissued shares and other securities of the Company
shall be at the disposal of the Directors and they may offer,
Shares at disposal of
Directors
allot (with or without conferring a right of renunciation),
grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such
persons, at such times, for such consideration and generally
on such terms (subject to Article 9) as they in their absolute
discretion think fit, but so that no shares shall be issued at a
discount. The Directors shall, as regards any offer or
allotment of shares, comply with the provisions of the
Companies Law, if and so far as such provisions may be
applicable thereto.
(B) Neither the Company nor the Directors shall be obliged,
when making or granting any allotment of, offer of, option
over or disposal of shares or other securities of the
Company, to make, or make available, and may resolve not
to make, or make available, any such offer, option or shares
or other securities to shareholders or others with registered
addresses in any jurisdiction outside of the Relevant
Territory, or in any particular territory or territories being a
territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration
statement or other special formalities, this would or might, in
the opinion of the Directors, be unlawful or impracticable, or
the existence or extent of the requirement for such
registration statement or special formalities might be
expensive (whether in absolute terms or in relation to the
rights of the shareholder(s) who may be affected) or time
consuming to determine. The Directors shall be entitled to
make such arrangements to deal with fractional entitlements
arising on an offer of any unissued shares or other securities
as they think fit, including the aggregation and the sale
thereof for the benefit of the Company. Shareholders who
may be affected as a result of any of the matters referred to
in this paragraph (B) shall not be, and shall be deemed not to
be, a separate class of shareholders for any purposes
whatsoever.
12. (A) The Company may at any time pay commission to any
person for subscribing or agreeing to subscribe (whether
Company may pay
commission
absolutely or conditionally) for any shares in the Company
or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether
absolute or conditional) for any shares in the Company, but
so that the conditions and requirements of the Companies
Law shall be observed and complied with, and in each case
the commission shall not exceed ten (10) per cent. of the
price at which the shares are issued.
(B) If any shares of the Company are issued for the purpose of Power to charge

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raising money to defray the expenses of the construction of any works or buildings or the provision of any plant which cannot be made profitable within a period of one year, the Company may pay interest on so much of that share capital as is for the time being paid up for the period and, subject to any conditions and restrictions mentioned in the Companies Law, may charge the sum so paid by way of interest to capital as part of the cost of construction of the works or buildings, or the provision of the plant.

  1. The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution:

  2. (i) increase its share capital as provided by Article 7;

  3. (ii) consolidate or divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger or smaller amount than its existing shares; and on any consolidation of fully paid shares into shares of larger amount, the Directors may settle any difficulty which may arise as it thinks expedient and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) may as between the holders of shares to be consolidated determine which particular shares are to be consolidated into a consolidated share, and if it shall happen that any person shall become entitled to fractions of a consolidated share or shares, such fractions may be sold by some person appointed by the Directors for that purpose and the person so appointed may transfer the shares so sold to the purchaser thereof and the validity of such transfer shall not be questioned, and so that the net proceeds of such sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) may either be distributed among the persons who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction or fractions of a consolidated share or shares rateably in accordance with their rights and interest or may be paid to the Company for the Company’s benefit;

interest to capital

Increase, consolidation and division of capital, sub-division and cancellation of shares and redenomination etc.

  • (iii) divide its shares into several classes and attach thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges or conditions;

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

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power to attach to unissued or new shares;

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

  • (vi) make provision for the issue and allotment of shares which do not carry any voting rights; and

  • (vii) change the currency of denomination of its share capital.

The Company may apply the share premium account in any manner permitted by the Statutes. The Company shall at all times comply with the provisions of the Statutes in relation to its share premium account.

  1. The Company may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital or undistributable reserve in any manner authorised, and subject to any conditions prescribed, by law.

Reduction of capital

PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES

  1. Subject to the Statutes, the power of the Company to purchase or otherwise acquire its shares (including its redeemable shares) and warrants or other securities for the subscription or purchase of its own shares (including redeemable shares) shall be exercisable by the Directors upon such terms and subject to such conditions as they think fit provided that, in respect of a purchase of redeemable shares:

  2. (i) the price per share for purchases proposed to be made otherwise than by tender in the manner prescribed in (ii) below or on or through a stock exchange on which such shares are listed with the consent of the Company shall not exceed one hundred (100) per cent. of the average closing prices for dealings in one or more board lots of such shares on the principal stock exchange on which the shares are traded for the five (5) trading days immediately before the date on which the purchase is made (whether conditionally or otherwise); and

  3. (ii) where any such purchase is proposed to be made by tender, tenders shall be made available to all holders of such shares on the same terms.

Company may purchase its own shares and warrants

App. 3 8(1)

App. 3 8(2)

REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS AND SHARE CERTIFICATES

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16. Except as otherwise expressly provided by these Articles or as
required by law or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction,
Except as otherwise expressly provided by these Articles or as
required by law or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction,
Trusts of shares not
Recognised
no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share
upon any trust and, except as aforesaid, the Company shall not be
bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when
having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial
interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share
or any other right or claim to or in respect of any shares except an
absolute right to the entirety thereof of the registered holder.
17. (A) The Directors shall cause to be kept the Register and there Share register
shall be entered therein the particulars required under the
Companies Law.
(B) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Law, if the
Directors consider it necessary or appropriate, the Company
Local or branch
Register
App. 13B
3(2)
may establish and maintain a local or branch register of
shareholders at such location as the Directors think fit and,
while the issued share capital of the Company is, with the
consent of the Directors, listed on any stock exchange in
Hong Kong, the Company shall keep its principal or a
branch register of shareholders in Hong Kong.
(C) For so long as any part of the share capital of the Company
is listed on a stock exchange in Hong Kong, any member
Inspection of register App. 13B
3(2)
may inspect the principal register or branch register of the
Company maintained in Hong Kong without charge and
require the provision to him of copies or extracts thereof in
all respects as if the Company were incorporated under and
is subject to the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32 of the Laws
of Hong Kong).
18. (A) Every person whose name is entered as a shareholder in the Share certificates
register shall be entitled without payment to receive within
ten (10) business days after allotment or lodgement of a
transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of
issue shall provide or is required by the applicable rules of
the stock exchange of the Relevant Territory) one certificate
for all his shares, or, if he shall so request, in a case where
the allotment or transfer is of a number of shares in excess of
the number for the time being forming a stock exchange
board lot for the purposes of the stock exchange on which
the shares are listed, upon payment, in the case of a transfer,
of such sum (not exceeding in the case of any share capital
listed on a stock exchange in Hong Kong, HK$2.50 or such
other sum as may from time to time be allowed or not
prohibited under the rules of the relevant stock exchange in
Hong Kong, and in the case of any other shares, such sum in

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such currency as the Directors may from time to time determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the relevant register is situated, or otherwise such other sum as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution determine) for every certificate after the first as the Director may from time to time determine, such number of certificates for shares in stock exchange board lots or whole multiples thereof as he shall request and one for the balance (if any) of the shares in question, provided that in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons the Company shall not be bound to issue a certificate or certificates to each such person, and the issue and delivery of a certificate or certificates to one of the joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

(B) The Company may, in the event of a change in the form of definitive share certificate adopted by the Directors, issue new definitive certificates to all holders of shares appearing on the Register in replacement of old definitive certificates issued to such holders. The Directors may resolve whether or not to require the return of the old certificates as a condition precedent to the issue of replacement certificates and, as regards any old certificates which have been lost or defaced, to impose such conditions (including as to indemnity) as the Directors shall see fit. If the Directors elect not to require the return of the old certificates, the same shall be deemed to have been cancelled and of no further effect for all purposes. 19. Every certificate for shares, warrants or debentures or representing any other form of securities of the Company shall be issued under the Seal of the Company, which for this purpose may be a duplicate Seal. 20. Every share certificate hereafter issued shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which it is issued and the amount paid thereon and may otherwise be in such form as the Directors may from time to time prescribe. A share certificate shall relate to only one class of shares, and where the capital of the Company includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares, other than those which carry the general right to vote at general meetings, must include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting” or some other appropriate designation which is commensurate with the rights attaching to the relevant class of shares. 21. (A) The Company shall not be bound to register more than four persons as joint holders of any share.

Share certificates to App. 3 be sealed 2(1) Certificate to specify number and class of shares

Joint holders App. 3 1(3)

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  • (B) If any share shall stand in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the register shall be deemed the sole holder thereof as regards service of notice and, subject to the provisions of these Articles, all or any other matter connected with the Company, except the transfer of the share.
22. If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be replaced
on payment of such fee, if any, (not exceeding, in the case of any
Replacement of
share certificates
share capital listed on a stock exchange in Hong Kong, HK$2.50 or
such other sum as may from time to time be allowed or not
prohibited under the rules of the relevant stock exchange in Hong
Kong, and, in the case of any other capital, such sum in such
currency as the Directors may from time to time determine to be
reasonable in the territory in which the relevant register is situated,
or such other sum as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution
determine) as the Directors shall from time to time determine and on
such terms and conditions, if any, as to publication of notices,
evidence and indemnity as the Directors think fit and in the case of
wearing out or defacement, after delivery up of the old certificate.
In the case of destruction or loss, the person to whom such
replacement certificate is given shall also bear and pay to the
Company all costs and out-of-pocket expenses incidental to the
investigation by the Company of the evidence of such destruction or
loss and of such indemnity.
LIEN
23. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share
(not being a fully paid share) for all moneys, whether presently
Company’s lien App. 3
1(2)
payable or not, called or payable at a fixed time in respect of such
share; and the Company shall also have a first and paramount lien
and charge on all shares (other than fully paid shares) standing
registered in the name of a shareholder, whether singly or jointly
with any other person or persons, for all the debts and liabilities of
such shareholder or his estate to the Company and whether the same
shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of
any equitable or other interest of any person other than such
shareholder, and whether the period for the payment or discharge of
the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that
the same are joint debts or liabilities of such shareholder or his
estate and any other person, whether a shareholder of the Company
or not. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all
dividends and bonuses declared in respect thereof. The Directors
may at any time either generally or in any particular case waive any
lien that has arisen, or declare any share to be exempt wholly or
partially from the provisions of this Article.

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24. The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit,
any shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be
Sale of shares
subject to lien
made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is
presently payable or the liability or engagement in respect of which
such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged, nor
until the expiration of fourteen (14) clear days after a notice in
writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently
payable or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding
fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving notice of intention to sell
in default, shall have been given, in the manner in which notices
may be sent to shareholders of the Company as provided in these
Articles, to the registered holder for the time being of the shares or
the person entitled by reason of such holder’s death, bankruptcy or
winding-up to the shares.
25. The net proceeds of such sale after the payment of the costs of such
sale shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the
Application of
proceeds of sale
debt or liability or engagement in respect whereof the lien exists, so
far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to
a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed
upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the
shares at the time of the sale. For the purpose of giving effect to any
such sale, the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the
shares sold to the purchaser thereof and may enter the purchaser’s
name in the register as holder of the shares, and the purchaser shall
not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor
shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or
invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.
CALLS ON SHARES
26. The Directors may from time to time make such calls as they may Calls/instalments
think fit upon the shareholders in respect of any moneys unpaid on
the shares held by them respectively (whether on account of the
nominal value of shares or by way of premiums) and not by the
conditions of allotment thereof made payable at a fixed time. A call
may be made payable either in one sum or by instalments.
27. Fourteen (14) clear days’ notice at least of any call shall be given Notice of call
specifying the time and place of payment and to whom such call
shall be paid.
28. A copy of the notice referred to in Article 27 shall be sent to
shareholders in the manner in which notices may be sent to
Copy of notice to be
sent to shareholders
shareholders by the Company as herein provided.
29. In addition to the giving of notice in accordance with Article 28,
notice of the person appointed to receive payment of every call and
Notice supplemental
to call may be given

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of the times and places appointed for payment may be given to the shareholders by notice to be inserted at least once in the Newspapers.

30. Every shareholder upon whom a call is made shall pay the amount
of every call so made on him to the person and at the time or times
Time and place for
payment of calls
and place or places as the Directors shall appoint.
31. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the When call deemed to
resolution of the Directors authorising such call was passed. have been made
32. The joint holders of a share shall be severally as well as jointly
liable for the payment of all calls and instalments due in respect of
Liability of joint
Holders
such share or other moneys due in respect thereof.
33. The Directors may from time to time at its discretion extend the
time fixed for any call, and may extend such time as regards all or
Directors may
extend time fixed for
call
any of the shareholders, whom due to residence outside the Relevant
Territory or other cause the Directors may deem entitled to any such
extension but no shareholder shall be entitled to any such extension
except as a matter of grace and favour.
34. If the sum payable in respect of any call or instalment is not paid on
or before the day appointed for payment thereof, the person or
Interest on unpaid
Calls
persons from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the same at
such rate not exceeding twenty (20) per cent. per annum as the
Directors shall fix from the day appointed for the payment thereof to
the time of the actual payment, but the Directors may waive
payment of such interest wholly or in part.
35. No shareholder shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or
to be present or vote (save as proxy for another shareholder) at any
Suspension of
privileges while call
unpaid
general meeting, either personally, or (save as proxy for another
shareholder) by proxy, or be reckoned in a quorum, or to exercise
any other privilege as a shareholder until all calls or instalments due
from him to the Company, whether alone or jointly or jointly and
severally with any other person, together with interest and expenses
(if any) shall have been paid.
36. On the trial or hearing of any action or other proceedings for the
recovery of any money due for any call, it shall be sufficient to
Evidence in action
for call
prove that the name of the shareholder sued is entered in the register
as the holder, or one of the holders, of the shares in respect of which
such debt accrued; that the resolution of the Directors making the
call has been duly recorded in the minute book of the Directors; and
that notice of such call was duly given to the shareholder sued, in
pursuance of these Articles; and it shall not be necessary to prove
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matters whatsoever, but the proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the debt.

37. (A)
Any sum which by the terms of allotment of a share is made
payable upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether on
Sums payable on
allotment deemed a
call
account of the nominal value of the share and/or by way of
premium, shall for all purposes of these Articles be deemed
to be a call duly made and notified and payable on the date
fixed for payment, and in case of non-payment all the
relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest
and expenses, forfeiture and the like, shall apply as if such
sums had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and
notified.
(B)
The Directors may on the issue of shares differentiate
between the allottees or holders as to the amount of calls to
Shares may be
issued subject to
different conditions
be paid and the time of payment. as to calls, etc.
38. The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any shareholder
willing to advance the same, and either in money or money’s worth,
Payment of calls in
Advance
App. 3
3(1)
all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid or instalments
payable upon any shares held by him, and in respect of all or any of
the moneys so advanced the Company may pay interest at such rate
(if any) not exceeding twenty (20) per cent. per annum as the
Directors may decide but a payment in advance of a call shall not
entitle the shareholder to receive any dividend or to exercise any
other rights or privileges as a shareholder in respect of the share or
the due portion of the shares upon which payment has been
advanced by such shareholder before it is called up. The Directors
may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such
shareholder not less than one (1) month’s notice in writing of its
intention in that behalf, unless before the expiration of such notice
the amount so advanced shall have been called up on the shares in
respect of which it was advanced.
TRANSFER OF SHARES
39. Subject to the Companies Law, all transfers of shares shall be Form of transfer
effected by transfer in writing in the usual or common form or
(during the Relevant Period) in such standard form prescribed by the
stock exchange in the Relevant Territory or in such other form as the
Directors may accept and may be under hand only or, if the
transferor or transferee is a clearing house or its nominee(s), by hand
or by machine imprinted signature or by such other means of
execution as the Directors may approve from time to time.
40. The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on Execution of transfer
behalf of the transferor and the transferee provided that the Directors

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may dispense with the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferor or the transferee or accept mechanically executed transfers in any case in which they in their absolute discretion think fit to do so. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof. Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the Directors from recognising a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.

  1. (A) The Directors may, in their absolute discretion, at any time and from time to time transfer any share on the principal register to any branch register of shareholders or any share on any branch register of shareholders to the principal register or any other branch register of shareholders.

Shares registered on principal register, branch register, etc.

  • (B) Unless the Directors otherwise agree (which agreement may be on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors in their absolute discretion may from time to time stipulate, and which agreement they shall, without giving any reason therefor, be entitled in their absolute discretion to give or withhold) no shares on the principal register shall be transferred to any branch register nor shall shares on any branch register be transferred to the principal register or any other branch register and all transfers and other documents of title shall be lodged for registration, and registered, in the case of any shares on a branch register, at the relevant Registration Office, and, in the case of any shares on the principal register, at the Transfer Office. Unless the Directors otherwise agree, all transfers and other documents of title shall be lodged for registration with, and registered at, the relevant Registration Office.

  • (C) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article, the Company shall as soon as practicable and on a regular basis record in the principal register all transfers of shares effected on any branch register and shall at all times maintain the principal register and all branch registers in all respects in accordance with the Companies Law.

  • The Directors may, in their absolute discretion, refuse to register a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) to a person of whom they do not approve or any share issued under any share option scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby still subsists, and they may also refuse to register a transfer of any share (whether fully paid up or not) to more than four joint holders or a transfer of any shares (not being a fully paid up share) on which the Company has a lien.

Directors may refuse
to register a transfer
App. 3
1(2)
1(3)

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43. The Directors may also decline to recognise any instrument of
transfer unless:
Requirements as to
Transfer
(i)
such sum, if any, (not exceeding, in the case of any share
capital listed on a stock exchange in Hong Kong, HK$2.50
App. 3
1(1)
or such other sum as may from time to time be allowed or
not prohibited under the rules of the relevant stock exchange
in Hong Kong, and, in the case of any other capital, such
sum in such currency as the Directors may from time to time
determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the
relevant register is situate, or such other sum as the
Company may by Ordinary Resolution determine) as the
Directors shall from time to time determine has been paid;
(ii)
the instrument of transfer is lodged at the relevant
Registration Office or, as the case may be, the Transfer
Office accompanied by the certificate of the shares to which
it relates, and such other evidence as the Directors may
reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make
the transfer (and, if the instrument of transfer is executed by
some other person on his behalf, the authority of that person
so to do);
(iii)
the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of
share;
(iv)
the shares concerned are free of any lien in favour of the
Company; and
(v)
if applicable, the instrument of transfer is properly stamped.
44. The Directors may refuse to register a transfer of any share to an
infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.
Transfers to an
infant, etc.
45. If the Directors shall refuse to register a transfer of any share, they Notice of refusal
shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was
lodged with the Company, send to each of the transferor and the
transferee notice of such refusal and, except where the subject share
is not a fully paid share, the reason(s) for such refusal.
46. Upon every transfer of shares the certificate held by the transferor
shall be given up to be cancelled, and shall forthwith be cancelled
Certificate to be
given up on transfer
accordingly, and a new certificate shall be issued to the transferee in
respect of the shares transferred to him as provided in Article 18,
and if any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shall
be retained by the transferor a new certificate in respect thereof shall
be issued to him as provided in Article 18. The Company shall

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retain the instrument of transfer.

47. The registration of transfers may be suspended and the register
closed, on giving notice by advertisement in the Newspapers or by
When transfer books
and register may be
closed
App. 13B
3(2)
any electronic means in such manner as may be accepted by the
stock exchange in the Relevant Territory, at such times and for such
periods as the Directors may from time to time determine and either
generally or in respect of any class of shares, provided that the
register shall not be closed for periods exceeding in the whole thirty
(30) days in any year.
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
48. In the case of the death of a shareholder, the survivor or survivors
where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal
Deaths of registered
holder or of joint
holder of shares
representatives of the deceased where he was a sole or only
surviving holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the
Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing
herein contained shall release the estate of a deceased holder
(whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share
solely or jointly held by him.
49. Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death
or bankruptcy or winding-up of a shareholder may, upon such
Registration of
Personal
representatives and
evidence as to his title being produced as may from time to time be trustees in bankruptcy
required by the Directors, and subject as hereinafter provided, elect
either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to have some
person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof.
50. If the person becoming entitled to a share pursuant to Article 49
shall elect to be registered himself as the holder of such share, he
Notice of election to
be registered and
registration of
shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by nominee
him, at (unless the Directors otherwise agrees) the Registration
Office, stating that he so elects. If he shall elect to have his nominee
registered, he shall testify his election by executing a transfer of
such share to his nominee. All the limitations, restrictions and
provisions of these presents relating to the right to transfer and the
registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable to any such
notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death, bankruptcy or
winding-up of the shareholder had not occurred and the notice or
transfer were a transfer executed by such shareholder.
51. A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death,
bankruptcy or winding-up of the holder shall be entitled to the same
Retention of
dividends, etc.
pending transfer of
dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he
were the registered holder of the share. However, the Directors
shares of a deceased
or bankrupt
shareholder
may, if they think fit, withhold the payment of any dividend payable
or other advantages in respect of such share until such person shall

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become the registered holder of the share or shall have effectually transferred such share, but, subject to the requirements of Article 77 being met, such a person may vote at general meetings of the Company.

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

52. If a shareholder fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on the
day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time
If call or instalment
not paid notice may
be given
thereafter during such time as any part of the call or instalment
remains unpaid, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 35,
serve notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or
instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have
accrued and which may still accrue up to the date of actual payment.
53. The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration
of fourteen (14) clear days from the date of the notice) on or before
Contents of notice of
call
which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and it shall
also name the place where payment is to be made such place being
the Registered Office or a Registration Office or another place
within the Relevant Territory. The notice shall also state that, in the
event of non-payment at or before the time appointed, the shares in
respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
54. If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied
with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may at
If notice not
complied with shares
may be forfeited
any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has
been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that
effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends and bonuses
declared in respect of the forfeited share and not actually paid before
the forfeiture. The Directors may accept the surrender of any share
liable to be forfeited hereunder and in such cases references in these
Articles to forfeiture shall include surrender.
55. Any share so forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of the
Company, and may be re-allotted, sold or otherwise disposed of on
Forfeited shares to
become property of
Company
such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and at any
time before a sale or disposition, the forfeiture may be cancelled on
such terms as the Directors think fit.
56. A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a
shareholder in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall,
Arrears to be paid
notwithstanding
forfeiture
notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all moneys
which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the
Company in respect of the forfeited shares, together with (if the
Directors shall in their discretion so require) interest thereon from
the date of forfeiture until the date of actual payment (including the
payment of such interest) at such rate not exceeding twenty (20) per

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cent. per annum as the Directors may prescribe, and the Directors may enforce the payment thereof if they think fit, and without any deduction or allowance for the value of the shares at the date of forfeiture, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all such moneys in respect of the shares. For the purposes of this Article any sum which by the terms of issue of a share, is payable thereon at a fixed time which is subsequent to the date of forfeiture, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, shall notwithstanding that such time has not yet arrived be deemed to be payable on the date of forfeiture, and the same shall become due and payable immediately upon the forfeiture, but interest thereon shall only be payable in respect of any period between the said fixed time and the date of actual payment.

Evidence of forfeiture and transfer of forfeited share

57. A certificate in writing that the declarant is a Director or the
Secretary, and that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited
Evidence of
forfeiture and
transfer of forfeited
or surrendered on a date stated in the certificate, shall be conclusive share
evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to
be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the
consideration, if any, given for the share on any re-allotment, sale or
disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour
of the person to whom the share is re-allotted, sold or disposed of
and such person shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the
share, and shall not be bound to see to the application of the
subscription or purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the
share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings
in reference to the forfeiture, re-allotment, sale or disposal of the
share.
58. When any share shall have been forfeited, notice of the forfeiture
shall be given to the shareholder in whose name it stood
Notice after
Forfeiture
immediately prior to the forfeiture, and an entry of the forfeiture,
with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the register, but no
forfeiture shall be in any manner invalidated by any omission or
neglect to give such notice or make any such entry.
59. Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid the Directors may
at any time, before any shares so forfeited shall have been sold, re-
Power to redeem
forfeited shares
allotted or otherwise disposed of, cancel the forfeiture on such terms
as the Directors think fit or permit the shares so forfeited to be
bought back or redeemed upon the terms of payment of all calls and
interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the shares, and
upon such further terms (if any) as they think fit.
60. The forfeiture of a share shall not prejudice the right of the
Company to any call already made or any instalment payment
Forfeiture no
prejudice to right to
call or instalment
thereon.

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61. (A)
The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply
in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by terms of
Forfeiture for non-
payment of any sum
due on shares
issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on
account of the nominal value of the share or by way of
premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call
duly made and notified.
(B)
In the event of a forfeiture of shares the shareholder shall be
bound to deliver and shall forthwith deliver to the Company
the certificate or certificates held by him for the shares so
forfeited and in any event the certificates representing shares
so forfeited shall be void and of no further effect.
GENERAL MEETINGS
62. At all times during the Relevant Period (but not otherwise) the
Company shall in each year hold a general meeting as its annual
When annual general
meeting to be held
App. 13B
3(3)
4(2)
general meeting in addition to any other meeting in that year and
shall specify the meeting as such in the notice calling it; and not
more than fifteen months (or such longer period as may be permitted
by the rules of the stock exchange on which any securities of the
Company are listed with the permission of the Company) shall
elapse between the date of one annual general meeting of the
Company and that of the next. The annual general meeting shall be
held in the Relevant Territory or elsewhere as may be determined by
the Directors and at such time and place as the Directors shall
appoint. A meeting of the shareholders or any class thereof may be
held by means of such telephone, electronic or other communication
facilities as permit all persons participating in the meeting to
communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously,
and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in
person at such meeting.
63. All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be
called extraordinary general meetings.
Extraordinary
general meeting
64. The Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene an
Extraordinary General Meeting. Extraordinary General Meetings
Convening of
extraordinary
general meeting
shall also be convened on the requisition of one or more
shareholders holding, at the date of deposit of the requisition, not
less than one tenth of the paid up capital of the Company having the
right of voting at general meetings. Such requisition shall be made
in writing to the Directors or the Secretary for the purpose of
requiring an Extraordinary General Meeting to be called by the
Directors for the transaction of any business specified in such
requisition. Such meeting shall be held within two months after the
deposit of such requisition. If within twenty-one (21) days of such

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deposit the Directors fail to proceed to convene such meeting, the requisitionist(s) himself (themselves) may do so in the same manner, and all reasonable expenses incurred by the requisitionist(s) as a result of the failure of the Directors shall be reimbursed to the requisitionist(s) by the Company.

65. An annual general meeting shall be called by Notice of not less than
twenty-one (21) clear days and not less than twenty (20) clear
Notice of meetings App. 13B
3(1)
business days and any extraordinary general meeting at which the
passing of a special resolution is to be considered shall be called by
Notice of not less than twenty-one (21) clear days and not less than
ten (10) clear business days. All other extraordinary general
meetings may be called by Notice of not less than fourteen (14)
clear days and not less than ten (10) clear business days. The Notice
shall be exclusive of the day on which it is served or deemed to be
served and of the day for which it is given, and shall specify the
place, the day and the hour of meeting and particulars of resolutions
to be considered at the meeting and, in case of special business, the
general nature of that business, and shall be given, in manner
hereinafter mentioned or in such other manner, if any, as may be
prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as
are, under these Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the
Company, provided that a meeting of the Company shall
notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified
in this Article be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed:
(i)
in the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting,
by all the shareholders entitled to attend and vote thereat;
and
(ii)
in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of
the shareholders having a right to attend and vote at the
meeting, being a majority together holding not less than
ninety-five (95) per cent. in nominal value of the shares
giving that right.
66. (A)
The accidental omission to give any notice to, or the non-
receipt of any notice by, any person entitled to receive notice
Omission to give
notice/proxy form/
notice of
shall not invalidate any resolution passed or any proceedings
at any such meeting.
appointment of
corporate
representative
(B)
In the case where forms of proxy or notice of appointment of
corporate representative are sent out with any notice, the
accidental omission to send such forms of proxy or notice of
appointment of corporate representative to, or the non-
receipt of such forms by, any person entitled to receive
notice of the relevant meeting shall not invalidate any
resolution passed or any proceeding at any such meeting.

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PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

67. (A)
All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an
extraordinary general meeting, and also all business that is
Special business,
business of annual
general meeting
transacted at an annual general meeting with the exception of
sanctioning dividends, the reading, considering and adopting
of the accounts and balance sheet and the reports of the
Directors and Auditors and other documents required to be
annexed to the balance sheet, the election of Directors and
appointment of Auditors and other officers in the place of
those retiring, the fixing of or delegation of power to the
Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors, and the
voting of or delegation of power to the Directors to fix the
ordinary or extra or special remuneration to the Directors,
the grant of a general mandate to the Directors to allot, issue
or deal with shares and to enter into agreements for such
purposes, and the grant of a general mandate authorising
Directors to exercise the power of the Company to
repurchase its own securities.
(B)
During the Relevant Period (but not otherwise), neither the
Memorandum of Association nor these Articles may be
Special resolutions
required for
alteration of
App.13B
1
altered except by a Special Resolution. Memorandum and
Articles of
Association
68. For all purposes the quorum for a general meeting shall be two Quorum
shareholders present in person (or, in the case of a shareholder being
a corporation, by its duly authorised representative) or by proxy and
entitled to vote. No business shall be transacted at any general
meeting unless the requisite quorum shall be present at the
commencement of the meeting.
69. If within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for the meeting a
quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition
When if quorum not
present meeting to
be dissolved and
of shareholders, shall be dissolved, but in any other case it shall
stand adjourned to the same day in the next week and at such time
when to be
adjourned
and place as shall be decided by the Directors, and if at such
adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes
from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the shareholder or
his representative or proxy present (if the Company has only one
shareholder), or the shareholders present in person (or, in the case of
a shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorised
representative) or by proxy and entitled to vote shall be a quorum
and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.
70. The Chairman (if any) of the Board or, if he is absent or declines to
take the chair at such meeting, the Deputy Chairman (if any) shall
Chairman of general
Meeting

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take the chair at every general meeting, or, if there be no such
Chairman or Deputy or Vice Chairman, or, if at any general meeting
neither of such Chairman or Deputy or Vice Chairman is present
within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such
meeting, or both such persons decline to take the chair at such
meeting, the Directors present shall choose one of their number as
Chairman of the meeting, and if no Director be present or if all the
Directors present decline to take the chair or if the Chairman chosen
shall retire from the chair, then the shareholders present shall choose
one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.
71. The Chairman of the meeting may, with the consent of any general
meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed by the
Power to adjourn
general meeting,
notice and business
meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time and from place to
place as the meeting shall determine. Whenever a meeting is
of adjourned
meeting
adjourned for fourteen (14) days or more, at least seven (7) clear
days’ notice, specifying the place, the day and the hour of the
adjourned meeting shall be given in the same manner as in the case
of an original meeting but it shall not be necessary to specify in such
notice the nature of the business to be transacted at the adjourned
meeting. Save as aforesaid, no notice of an adjournment or of the
business to be transacted at any adjourned meeting needs to be given
nor shall any shareholder be entitled to any such notice. No
business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than the
business which might have been transacted at the meeting from
which the adjournment took place.
72. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting
shall be decided by way of a poll.
Voting by poll App. 13B
2(3)
73. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the
meeting. The Company shall only be required to disclose the voting
Poll results to be
resolution of meeting
figures on a poll if such disclosure is required by the Listing Rules.
74. In the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman of the meeting,
shall be entitled to a second or casting vote. In case of any dispute
Chairman to have
casting vote
as to the admission or rejection of any vote the Chairman shall
determine the same, and such determination shall be final and
conclusive.

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75. If an amendment shall be proposed to any resolution under
consideration but shall in good faith be ruled out of order by the
Amendment to
Resolutions
Chairman, the proceedings shall not be invalidated by any error in
such ruling. In the case of a resolution duly proposed as a Special
Resolution no amendment thereto (other than a mere clerical
amendment to correct a patent error) may in any event be considered
or voted upon.
VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS
76. Subject to any special rights, privileges or restrictions as to voting
for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, at any
Votes of
Shareholders
general meeting on a poll every shareholder present in person (or, in
the case of a shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorised
representative) or by proxy, shall have one vote for every share of
which he is the holder which is fully paid or credited as fully paid
(but so that no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance
of calls or instalments shall be treated for the purposes of this
Article as paid on the share). On a poll a shareholder entitled to
more than one vote need not use all his votes or cast all his votes in
the same way.
77. Any person entitled under Article 51 to be registered as the holder of
any shares may vote at any general meeting in respect thereof in the
Votes in respect of
deceased and
bankrupt
same manner as if he were the registered holder of such shares, shareholders
provided that at least 48 hours before the time of the holding of the
meeting or adjourned meeting (as the case may be) at which he
proposes to vote, he shall satisfy the Directors of his right to be
registered as the holder of such shares or the Directors shall have
previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect
thereof.
78. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of Joint holders
such persons may vote at any meeting, either personally or by
proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto;
but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting
personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present
whose name stands first on the register in respect of such share shall
alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. Several executors or
administrators of a deceased shareholder, and several trustees in
bankruptcy or liquidators of a shareholder in whose name any share
stands shall for the purposes of this Article be deemed joint holders
thereof.
79. A shareholder of unsound mind or in respect of whom an order has
been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy may vote, on a
Votes of shareholder
of unsound mind
poll, by his committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person in the
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court, and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person may on a poll vote by proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Directors of the authority of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote shall be delivered to such place or one of such places (if any) as is specified in accordance with these Articles for the deposit of instruments of proxy or, if no place is specified, at the Registration Office, not later than the latest time at which an instrument of proxy must, if it is to be valid for the meeting, be delivered.

80. Save as expressly provided in these Articles, no person other than a
shareholder duly registered and who shall have paid everything for
Qualification for
voting
the time being due from him payable to the Company in respect of
his shares shall be entitled to be present or to vote (save as proxy for
another shareholder) whether personally, by proxy or by attorney or
to be reckoned in the quorum, at any general meeting.
81. (A)
Subject to paragraph (B) of this Article 81, no objection shall
Admissibility of votes
be raised to the qualification of any person exercising or
purporting to exercise a vote or the admissibility of any vote
except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote
objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not
disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes.
Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the
Chairman, whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
(B)
At all times during the Relevant Period (but not otherwise),
where any shareholder is, under the Listing Rules, required
App. 3
14
to abstain from voting on any particular resolution or
restricted to voting only for or only against any particular
resolution, any votes cast by or on behalf of such shareholder
(whether by way of proxy or, as the case may be, corporate
representative) in contravention of such requirement or
restriction shall not be counted.
82. Any shareholder entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the
Company shall be entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to
Proxies App. 13B
2(2)
attend and vote instead of him. A shareholder who is the holder of
two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to represent
him and vote on his behalf at a general meeting of the Company or
at a class meeting. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the
Company. On a poll votes may be given either personally (or, in the
case of a shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorised
representative) or by proxy. A proxy shall be entitled to exercise the
same powers on behalf of a shareholder who is an individual and for
whom he acts as proxy as such shareholder could exercise. In
addition, a proxy shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on
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as proxy as such shareholder could exercise if it were an individual shareholder.

83. No appointment of a proxy shall be valid unless it names the person
appointed and his appointor. The Directors may, unless they are
Admissibility of proxy
votes
satisfied that the person purporting to act as proxy is the person
named in the relevant instrument for his appointment and the
validity and authenticity of the signature of his appointor, decline
such person’s admission to the relevant meeting, reject his vote and
no shareholder who may be affected by any exercise by the
Directors of their power in this connection shall have any claim
against the Directors or any of them nor may any such exercise by
the Directors of their powers invalidate the proceedings of the
meeting in respect of which they were exercised or any resolution
passed or defeated at such meeting.
84. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the
hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing,
Instrument appointing
proxy to be in writing
App. 3
11(2)
or if the appointor is a corporation, either under seal or under the
hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised.
85. The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or
other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially
Appointment of proxy
must be deposited
certified copy of that power or authority shall be deposited at such
place or one of such places (if any) as is specified in the notice of
meeting or in the instrument of proxy issued by the Company (or, if
no place is specified, at the Registration Office) not less than forty-
eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned
meeting (as the case may be) at which the person named in such
instrument proposes to vote, and in default the instrument of proxy
shall not be treated as valid. No instrument appointing a proxy shall
be valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its
execution, except at an adjourned meeting in a case where the
meeting was originally held within twelve months from such date.
Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a
shareholder from attending and voting in person at the meeting and,
in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to
be revoked.
86. Every instrument of proxy, whether for a specified meeting or
otherwise, shall be in such form as the Directors may from time to
Form of proxy App. 3
11(1)
time approve, provided that any form issued to a shareholder for use
by him for appointing a proxy to attend and vote at a special general
meeting or at an annual general meeting at which any business is to
be transacted shall be such as to enable the shareholder, according to
his intentions, to instruct the proxy to vote in favour of or against
(or, in default of instructions, to exercise his discretion in respect of)
each resolution dealing with any such business.

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87. The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a general meeting
shall: (i) be deemed to confer authority upon the proxy to vote on
The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a general meeting
shall: (i) be deemed to confer authority upon the proxy to vote on
Authority under
instrument appointing
proxy
any resolution (or amendment thereto) put to the meeting for which
it is given as the proxy thinks fit; and (ii) unless the contrary is
stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting
as for the meeting to which it relates.
88. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy
or by the duly authorised representative of a corporation shall be
When vote by proxy
valid though authority
revoked
valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal
or revocation of the proxy or power of attorney or other authority
under which the proxy was executed or the transfer of the share in
respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in
writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid
shall have been received by the Company at its Registration Office,
or at such other place as is referred to in Article 85, at least two
hours before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the proxy is used.
89. (A) Any corporation which is a shareholder of the Company
may, by resolution of its directors or other governing body or
Corporations/
clearing house acting
by representative(s) at
App. 13B
2(2)
by power of attorney, authorise any person as it thinks fit to meetings
act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of
any class of shareholders of the Company, and the person so
authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on
behalf of the corporation which he represents as that
corporation could exercise if it were an individual
shareholder of the Company. References in these Articles to
a shareholder present in person at a meeting shall, unless the
context otherwise requires, include a corporation which is a
shareholder represented at the meeting by such duly
authorised representative.
(B) Where a shareholder is a clearing house (or its nominee(s)),
it may authorise such persons as it thinks fit to act as its
App. 13B
6
representatives at any meeting of the Company or at any
meeting of any class of shareholders provided that, the
authorisation shall specify the number and class of shares in
respect of which each such representative is so authorised.
Each person so authorised under the provisions of this
Article shall be entitled to exercise the same rights and
powers on behalf of the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) as
if such person was the registered holder of the shares of the
Company held by the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) in
respect of the number and class of shares specified in the
relevant authorisation.

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90. Unless the Directors agree otherwise, an appointment of a corporate
representative shall not be valid as against the Company unless:-
Unless the Directors agree otherwise, an appointment of a corporate
representative shall not be valid as against the Company unless:-
(A) in the case of such an appointment by a shareholder which is
a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), a written notification of
the appointment issued by any director, the secretary or any
authorised officer(s) of such shareholder shall have been
delivered at such place or one of such places(if any) as is
specified in the notice of meeting or in the form of notice
issued by the Company, or, if no place is specified, at the
principal place of business maintained by the Company in
the Relevant Territory from time to time before the time of
holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the
person so authorised proposes to vote; and
(B) in the case of such an appointment by any other corporate
shareholder, a copy of the resolution of the governing body
of the shareholder authorising the appointment of the
corporate representative or a form of notice of appointment
of corporate representative issued by the Company for such
purpose or a copy of the relevant power of attorney, together
with an up-to-date copy of the shareholder’s constitutive
documents and a list of directors or members of the
governing body of the shareholder as at the date of such
resolution (or, as the case may be, power of attorney), in
each case certified by a director, secretary or a member of
the governing body of that shareholder and notarised (or, in
the case of a form of notice of appointment issued by the
company as aforesaid, completed and signed in accordance
with the instructions thereon or in the case of a power of
attorney a notarised copy of the relevant authority under
which it was signed), shall have been deposited at such place
or one of such places (if any) as is specified in the notice of
meeting or in the form of notice issued by the Company as
aforesaid (or, if no place is specified, at the Registration
Office) not less than forty-eight hours before the time for
holding the meeting or adjourned meeting (as the case may
be) at which the corporate representative proposes to vote.
91. No appointment of a corporate representative shall be valid unless it
names the person authorised to act as the appointor’s representative
and the appointor is also named. The Directors may, unless they are
satisfied that a person purporting to act as a corporate representative
is the person named in the relevant instrument for his appointment,
decline such person’s admission to the relevant meeting and no
shareholder who may be affected by any exercise by the Directors of
their power in this connection shall have any claim against the
Directors or any of them nor may any such exercise by the Directors

Notice of appointment of corporate representative must be delivered

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of their powers invalidate the proceedings of the meeting in respect of which they were exercised or any resolution passed or defeated at such meeting.

REGISTERED OFFICE

92. The Registered Office of the Company shall be at such place in the Registered office
Cayman Islands as the Directors shall from time to time appoint.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
93. The number of Directors shall not be fewer than one. The Company Constitution of Board
shall keep at its Registered Office a register of its directors and
officers in accordance with the Companies Law.
94. A Director may at any time, by notice in writing signed by him Alternate Directors
delivered to the Registered Office or at the Head Office or at a
meeting of the Directors, appoint any person (including another
Director) to act as alternate Director in his place during his absence
and may in like manner at any time determine such appointment. If
such person is not another Director such appointment unless
previously approved by the Directors shall have effect only upon
and subject to being so approved. The appointment of an alternate
Director shall determine on the happening of any event which were
he a Director, would cause him to vacate such office or if his
appointor ceases to be a Director. An alternate Director may act as
alternate to more than one Director.
95. (A)
An alternate Director shall (subject to his giving to the
Company an address, telephone and facsimile number within
Powers of alternate
Directors
the territory of the Head Office for the time being for the
giving of notices on him and except when absent from the
territory in which the Head Office is for the time being
situate) be entitled (in addition to his appointor) to receive
and (in lieu of his appointor) to waive notices of meetings of
the Directors and of any committee of the Directors of which
his appointor is a member and shall be entitled to attend and
vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director
appointing him is not personally present and generally at
such meeting to perform all the functions of his appointor as
a Director and for the purposes of the proceedings at such
meeting the provisions of these presents shall apply as if he
(instead of his appointor) were a Director. If he shall be
himself a Director or shall attend any such meeting as an
alternate for more than one Director his voting rights shall be
cumulative. If his appointor is for the time being absent
from the territory in which the Head Office is for the time
being situate or otherwise not available or unable to act, his

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signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors or any such committee shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor. His attestation of the affixing of the Seal shall be as effective as the signature and attestation of his appointor. An alternate Director shall not, save as aforesaid, have power to act as a Director nor shall he be deemed to be a Director for the purposes of these Articles.

  • (B) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director, but he shall not be entitled to receive from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director any remuneration except only such part (if any) of the ordinary remuneration otherwise payable to his appointor as such appointor may by notice in writing to the Company from time to time direct.

  • (C) A certificate by a Director (including for the purpose of this paragraph (C) an alternate Director) or the Secretary that a Director (who may be the one signing the certificate) was at the time of a resolution of the Directors or any committee thereof absent from the territory of the Head Office or otherwise not available or unable to act or has not supplied an address, telephone and facsimile number within the territory of the Head Office for the purposes of giving of notice to him shall in favour of all persons without express notice to the contrary, be conclusive of the matter so certified.

  • A Director or an alternate Director shall not be required to hold any qualification shares but shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at all general meetings of the Company and all meetings of any class of shareholders of the Company.

  • The Directors shall be entitled to receive by way of ordinary remuneration for their services as Directors such sum as shall from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting, such sum (unless otherwise directed by the resolution by which it is voted) to be divided amongst the Directors in such proportions and in such manner as they may agree, or failing agreement, equally, except that in such event any Director holding office for less than the whole of the relevant period in respect of which the ordinary remuneration is paid shall only rank in such division in proportion to the time during such period for which he has held office. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a Director who holds any salaried employment or office in the Company except in the case of

No qualification shares for Directors

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sums paid or payable in respect of Directors' fees.

98. The Directors shall also be entitled to be repaid all travelling, hotel Directors' expenses
and other expenses reasonably incurred by them respectively in or
about the performance of their duties as Directors, including their
expenses of travelling to and from Directors' meetings, committee
meetings or general meetings or otherwise incurred whilst engaged
on the business of the Company or in the discharge of their duties as
Directors.
99. The Directors may grant special remuneration to any Director who Special remuneration
shall perform or has performed any special or extra services to or at
the request of the Company. Such special remuneration may be
made payable to such Director in addition to or in substitution for
his ordinary remuneration as a Director, and may be made payable
by way of salary, commission or participation in profits or otherwise
as may be arranged.
100. Notwithstanding Articles 97, 98 and 99, the remuneration of a
Managing Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing
Remuneration of
Managing Directors,
etc.
Director or an Executive Director or a Director appointed to any
other office in the management of the Company may from time to
time be fixed by the Directors and may be by way of salary,
commission, or participation in profits or otherwise or by all or any
of those modes and with such other benefits (including pension
and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances
as the Directors may from time to time decide. Such remuneration
shall be in addition to his ordinary remuneration as a Director.
101. (A)
Payments to any Director or past Director of any sum by
way of compensation for loss of office or as consideration
Payments for
compensation for loss
of office
App. 13B
5(4)
for or in connection with his retirement from office (not
being a payment to which the Director or past Director is
contractually or statutorily entitled) must be approved by the
Company in general meeting.
(B)
Except with the approval of, or ratified by, the Company in
general meeting, the Company may not make any loans to,
App. 13B
5(2)
or provide any guarantee, indemnity or security in respect of
any loan to a Director or any of his associates, provided that
this Article does not prohibit the granting of any loan or the
provision of any guarantee, indemnity or security:
(i)
to be applied for, or is in respect of a liability
incurred for, any business of the Company;
(ii)
for the purchase by a Director (or the repayment of a
loan for his purchase) of a residence where the

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amount of the loan, the liability under the guarantee or indemnity or the value of the security does not exceed eighty (80) per cent. of the fair market value of such residence nor five (5) per cent. of the consolidated net asset value of the Company as shown in its latest audited accounts; provided that any such loan is on normal commercial terms and is secured by a legal charge over the residence; or

  - (iii) of any amount to, or in respect of a liability of, a company in which the Company has an equity interest, and the amount of such loan, or the liability assumed by the Company under such guarantee, indemnity or security, does not exceed its proportional interest in such company.
  • C) the prohibitions prescribed by paragraphs (A) and (B) of this Article shall only apply during the Relevant Period.

  • A Director shall vacate his office:

When office of Director to be vacated

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

  • (ii) if he becomes a lunatic or of unsound mind;

  • (iii) if he absents himself from the meetings of the Directors during a continuous period of six months, without special leave of absence from the Directors, and his alternate Director (if any) shall not during such period have attended in his stead, and the Directors pass a resolution that he has by reason of such absence vacated his office;

  • (iv) if he becomes prohibited by law from acting as a Director;

  • (v) if he has been validly required by the stock exchange of the Relevant Territory to cease to be a Director and the relevant time period for application for review of or appeal against such requirement has lapsed and no application for review or appeal has been filed or is underway against such requirement;

  • (vi) if by notice in writing delivered to the Company at its Registered Office or at the Head Office he resigns his office; or

  • (vii) if he shall be removed from office by an Ordinary

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Resolution of the Company under Article 111.

  1. No Director shall be required to vacate office or be ineligible for reNo automatic retirement on ground

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

  1. (A) A Director may hold any other office or place of profit with Director's interests the Company (except that of Auditors) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and upon such terms as the Directors may determine, and may be paid such extra remuneration therefor (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) as the Directors may determine, and such extra remuneration shall be in addition to any remuneration provided for, by or pursuant to any other Article.

(B) A Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company (otherwise than as Auditors) and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director.

(C) A Director may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any company promoted by the Company or any other company in which the Company may be interested, and shall not be liable to account to the Company or the shareholders for any remuneration, profit or other benefit received by him as a director or officer of or from his interest in such other company. The Directors may also cause the voting power conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company to be exercised in such manner in all respects as they think fit, including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them to be directors or officers of such other company, or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors or officers of such other company.

  • (D) A Director shall not vote or be counted in the quorum on any resolution of the Directors concerning his own appointment or the appointment of any of his associates as the holder of any office or place of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof).

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variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) of two or more Directors or any of the associates of any such Directors to offices or places of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested, a separate resolution may be put in relation to each Director or, as the case may be, the associates of such Director and in such case each of the Directors concerned shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment or the appointment of any of his associates (or the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) and (in the case of an office or place of profit with any such other company as aforesaid) where the other company is a company in which the Director and his associates in aggregate own five (5) per cent. or more of the issued shares of any class of the voting equity share capital of such company or of the voting rights of any class of shares of such company (other than shares which carry no voting rights at general meetings and no or nugatory dividend and return of capital rights).

(F) Subject to the next paragraph of this Article, no Director or proposed or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, either with regard to his tenure of any office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or in any other manner whatever, nor shall any contract with regard thereto or any other contract or arrangement in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company or the shareholders for any remuneration, profit or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement, by reason only of such Director holding that office or the fiduciary relationship thereby established.

(G) If to the knowledge of a Director, he or any of his associates, is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or arrangement or proposed contract or arrangement with the Company, he shall declare the nature of his or, as the case may be, his associate(s)’ interest at the meeting of the Directors at which the question of entering into the contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration, if he knows his interest or that of his associates then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Directors after he knows that he or his associates is or has become so interested. For the purposes of this Article, a general notice to the Directors by a Director to the effect that (a) he or his associates is a shareholder of a specified company or firm

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and is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the notice be made with that company or firm or (b) he or his associates is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the notice be made with a specified person who is connected with him or any of his associates, shall be deemed to be a sufficient declaration of interest under this Article in relation to any such contract or arrangement; provided that no such notice shall be effective unless either it is given at a meeting of the Directors or the Director takes reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read at the next meeting of the Directors after it is given.

  • (H) A Director shall not vote (nor be counted in the quorum) on any resolution of the Directors approving any contract or arrangement or proposal in which he or his associates is to his knowledge materially interested, and if he shall do so his vote shall not be counted (nor is he counted in the quorum for that resolution), and such Director shall excuse himself from any meeting or part of any meeting of the Board and shall not participate in any discussions in respect of any resolutions where any contract or arrangement or other proposal in which he or any of his associates is materially interested is discussed or resolved, unless the attendance or participation of such Director at such meeting of the Board is specifically requested by the remaining Directors, but the above prohibitions shall not apply to any of the following matters namely:

App. 3 4(1)

  • (i) any contract or arrangement for the giving by the Company of any security or indemnity to the Director or his associates in respect of money lent or obligation undertaken by him or any of them at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any company in which the Company has interest;

  • (ii) any contract or arrangement for the giving by the Company of any security or indemnity to a third party in respect of a debt or obligation of the Company or any company in which the Company has interest which the Director or his associates has himself/themselves guaranteed or secured or otherwise assumed responsibility in whole or in part and whether alone or jointly under a guarantee or by the giving of security;

  • (iii) any contract or arrangement by the Director or his associates to subscribe for shares or debentures or

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other securities of the Company to be issued pursuant to any offer or invitation to the shareholders or debenture or securities holders of the Company or to the public which does not provide the Director or his associates any privilege not accorded to any other shareholders or debenture or securities holders of the Company or to the public;

  • (iv) any contract or arrangement concerning an offer of the shares or debentures or other securities of or by the Company or any other company which the Company may promote or be interested in for subscription or purchase where the Director or his associates is/are or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the offer and/or for the purposes of making any representations, the giving of any covenants, undertakings or warranties or assuming any other obligations in connection with such offer;

  • (v) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his associates is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their respective interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company and/or his/their being the offeror or one of the offerors or is interested in one of the offerors for the purchase or effective acquisition of such shares, debentures or other securities;

  • (vi) any contract or arrangement concerning any other company in which the Director or his associates is/are interested only, whether directly or indirectly or as an officer or an executive or a shareholder in which the Director or his associates is/are beneficially interested in shares of that company provided that, he or his associates, is/are not in aggregate beneficially interested in five (5) per cent. or more of the issued shares of any class of the voting equity share capital of such company or of the voting rights of any class of shares of such company (other than shares which carry no voting rights at general meetings and no or nugatory dividend and return of capital rights);

  • (vii) any proposal or arrangement for the benefit of employees of the Company or its subsidiaries including the adoption, modification or operation of a

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pension fund or retirement, death or disability benefit scheme or personal pension plan under which a Director, his associate(s) and employees of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries may benefit and which has been approved by or is subject to and conditional on approval by the relevant taxing authorities for taxation purposes or relates both to Directors, associate(s) of Directors and employees of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries and does not give the Director or his associates any privilege not accorded to the class of persons to whom such scheme or fund relates;

  • (viii) any proposal concerning the adoption, modification or operation of any employees' share scheme involving the issue or grant of options over shares or other securities by the Company to, or for the benefit of the employees of the Company or its subsidiaries under which the Director or his associates may benefit; and

  • (ix) any contract, transaction or proposal concerning the purchase and/or maintenance of any insurance policy for the benefit of any Director, his associate(s), officer or employee pursuant to these Articles.

(I) A company shall be deemed to be a company in which a Director and his associates own five (5) per cent. or more of any class of the voting equity share capital of such company or of the voting rights of any class of shares of such company if and so long as (but only if and so long as) he and his associates are (either directly or indirectly) the holder of or beneficially interested in five (5) per cent. or more of any class of the issued voting equity share capital of such company (or of any third company, other than the Company or any of its subsidiaries, through which his interest is derived) or of the voting rights of any class of shares of the company. For the purpose of this paragraph there shall be disregarded any shares held by a Director or any of his associate(s) as bare or custodian trustee and in which he or such associate(s) has/have no beneficial interest, any shares comprised in a trust in which the interest of the Director or any of his associates is in reversion or remainder if and so long as some other person is entitled to receive the income thereof, any shares comprised in an authorised unit trust scheme in which the Director or any of his associates is interested only as a unit holder, and shares which carry no voting right at general meetings and no or nugatory dividend

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and return of capital rights.

  • (J) Where a company (other than a company which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company or a subsidiary or associated company of the Company in the voting equity capital of which neither the Director nor any of his associates has any interests) in which a Director and any of his associates hold five (5) per cent. or more of any class of the voting equity share capital of such company or of the voting rights of any class of shares available to shareholders of the company is materially interested in a transaction, then that Director shall also be deemed materially interested in such transaction.

  • (K) If any question shall arise at any meeting of the Directors as to the materiality of the interest of a Director or any of his associates as to the entitlement of any Director to vote or be counted in the quorum and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or not to be counted in the quorum, such question (unless it relates to the Chairman) shall be referred to the Chairman and his ruling in relation to such Director shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Director concerned or his associates as known to such Director has not been fairly disclosed to the other Directors. If any question as aforesaid shall arise in respect of the Chairman such question shall be decided by a resolution of the Directors (for which purpose the Chairman shall not be counted in the quorum and shall not vote thereon) and such resolution shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Chairman or his associates as known to him has not been fairly disclosed to the other Directors.

(L) The provisions of paragraphs (D), (E), (H), (I), (J) and (K) of this Article 104 shall apply during the Relevant Period but not otherwise. In respect of all periods other than the Relevant Period, a Director may vote in respect of any contract, arrangement or transaction or proposed contract, arrangement or transaction notwithstanding that he or any of his associates is or may be interested therein and, if he does so, his vote shall be counted and he may be counted in the quorum at any meeting of the Directors at which any such contract, arrangement or transaction or proposed contract, arrangement or transaction shall come before the meeting for consideration provided that he has, where relevant, first disclosed his interest in accordance with paragraph (G).

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  • (M) The Company may by Ordinary Resolution suspend or relax the provisions of this Article to any extent or ratify any transaction not duly authorised by reason of a contravention of this Article.

APPOINTMENT AND ROTATION OF DIRECTORS

  1. (A) At each annual general meeting one-third of the Directors for the time being, or, if their number is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to but not less than onethird, shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Director, including those appointed for a specific term, shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election and shall continue to act as a Director throughout the meeting at which he retires. The Company at the general meeting at which a Director retires may fill the vacated office.

Rotation and retirement of Directors

  • (B) The Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to obtain the number required) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that as between persons who became or were last reelected Directors on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot.

  • (C) A Director is not required to retire upon reaching any particular age.

  • If at any general meeting at which an election of Directors ought to take place, the places of the retiring Directors are not filled, the retiring Directors or such of them as have not had their places filled shall be deemed to have been re-elected and shall, if willing, continue in office until the next annual general meeting and so on from year to year until their places are filled, unless:

Retiring Directors to remain in office until successors appointed

  • (i) it shall be determined at such meeting to reduce the number of Directors; or

  • (ii) it is expressly resolved at such meeting not to fill such vacated offices; or

  • (iii) in any such case the resolution for re-election of a Director is put to the meeting and lost; or

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(iv)
such Director has given notice in writing to the Company
that he is not willing to be re-elected.
107. The Company in general meeting shall from time to time fix and
may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase or reduce
Power of general
meeting to increase or
reduce number of
the maximum and minimum number of Directors but so that the Directors
number of Directors shall not be fewer than one.
108. Subject to the Statutes and the provisions of these Articles, the
Company may from time to time in general meeting by Ordinary
Appointment of
Directors by
shareholders
Resolution elect any person to be a Director either to fill a casual
vacancy or as an additional Director.
109. The Directors shall have power from time to time and at any time to
appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as
Appointment of
Directors by Directors
App. 3
4(2)
an additional Director but so that the number of Directors so
appointed shall not exceed the maximum number determined from
time to time by the shareholders in general meeting. Any Director
so appointed shall hold office only until the next following general
meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election at
the meeting but shall not be taken into account in determining the
Directors or the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation at
such meeting.
110. No person, other than a retiring Director, shall, unless recommended
by the Directors for election, be eligible for election to the office of
Notice of proposed
Director to be given
App. 3
4(4)
4(5)
Director at any general meeting, unless notice in writing of the
intention to propose that person for election as a Director and notice
in writing by that person of his willingness to be elected shall have
been lodged at the Head Office or at the Registration Office at least
seven (7) clear days before the date of the general meeting and the
period for lodgement of such notices shall commence no earlier than
the day after the despatch of the notice of the general meeting
appointed for such election and shall be at least seven (7) clear days
in length.
111. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director
(including a Managing Director or other Executive Director) before
Power to remove
Director by Ordinary
Resolution
App. 3
4(3)
App 13B
the expiration of his period of office notwithstanding anything in 5(1)
these Articles or in any agreement between the Company and such
Director (but without prejudice to any claim which such Director
may have for damages for any breach of any contract between him
and the Company) and may elect another person in his stead. Any
person so elected shall hold office only until the next following
annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible
for re-election, but shall not be taken into account in determining the
Directors or the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation at
such meeting.

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BORROWING POWERS

112. The Directors may from time to time at their discretion exercise all Power to borrow
the powers of the Company to raise or borrow or to secure the
payment of any sum or sums of money for the purposes of the
Company and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and
uncalled capital or any part thereof.
113. The Directors may raise or secure the payment or repayment of such
sum or sums in such manner and upon such terms and conditions in
Conditions on which
money may be
borrowed
all respects as they think fit and in particular but subject to the
provisions of the Companies Law, by the issue of debentures,
debenture stock, bonds or other securities of the Company, whether
outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation
of the Company or of any third party.
114. Debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities (other than
shares which are not fully paid) may be made assignable free from
Assignment of
debentures etc.
any equities between the Company and the person to whom the
same may be issued.
115. Any debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities (other
than shares) may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and
Special privileges of
debentures etc.
with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings,
allotment or subscription of or conversion into shares, attending and
voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of
Directors and otherwise.
116. The Directors shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance
with the provisions of the Companies Law, of all mortgages and
Register of charges to
be kept
charges specifically affecting the property of the Company and shall
duly comply with such provisions of the Companies Law with
regard to the registration of mortgages and charges as may be
specified or required.
117. If the Company issues a series of debentures or debenture stock not
transferable by delivery, the Directors shall cause a proper register
Register of debentures
or debenture stock
to be kept of the holders of such debentures.
118. Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons
taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to
Mortgage of uncalled
capital
such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the
shareholders or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
MANAGING DIRECTORS, ETC.
119. The Directors may from time to time appoint any one or more of Powers to appoint

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them to the office of Managing Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director or other Executive Director and/or such other office in the management of the business of the Company as they may decide for such period and upon such terms as they think fit and upon such terms as to remuneration as they may decide in accordance with Article 100.

Managing Directors, etc.

120. Every Director appointed to an office under Article 119 hereof shall,
but without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any
Removal of Managing
Director, etc.
contract of service between himself and the Company, be liable to
be dismissed or removed therefrom by the Directors.
121. A Director appointed to an office under Article 119 shall be subject
to the same provisions as to rotation, resignation and removal as the
Cessation of
appointment
other Directors of the Company, and he shall ipso facto and
immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the
office of Director for any cause.
122. The Directors may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a
Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Vice Chairman, Managing Director,
Powers may be
delegated
Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director or Executive
Director all or any of the powers of the Directors that they may
think fit provided that the exercise of all powers by such Director
shall be subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Directors
may from time to time make and impose, and, subject to the terms
thereof, the said powers may at any time be withdrawn, revoked or
varied, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of
such withdrawal, revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.
123. The Directors may from time to time appoint any person to an office
or employment having a designation or title including the word
Inclusion of
“Director” in title
“Director” or attach to any existing office or employment with the
Company such a designation or title. The inclusion of the word
“Director” in the designation or title of any office or employment
with the Company (other than the office of Managing Director or
Joint Managing Director or Deputy Managing Director or Executive
Director) shall not imply that the holder thereof is a Director nor
shall such holder be empowered in any respect to act as a Director
or be deemed to be a Director for any of the purposes of these
Articles.
MANAGEMENT
124. The management of the business of the Company shall be vested in
the Directors who, in addition to the powers and authorities by these
General powers of
Company vested in
Directors
Articles expressly conferred upon them, may exercise all such
powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done
or approved by the Company and are not hereby or by the Statutes

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expressly directed or required to be exercised or done by the Company in general meeting, but subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Statutes and of these Articles and to any regulations from time to time made by the Company in general meeting not being inconsistent with such provisions or these Articles, provided that no regulation so made shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made.

  1. Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these Articles, it is hereby expressly declared that the Directors shall have the following powers:

Specific powers of management

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

  • (b) to give to any Directors, officers or employees of the Company an interest in any particular business or transaction or participation in the profits thereof or in the general profits of the Company either in addition to or in substitution for a salary or other remuneration.

MANAGERS

  1. The Directors may from time to time appoint a general manager, Appointment and remuneration of

manager or managers of the business of the Company and may fix managers his or their remuneration either by way of salary or commission or by conferring the right to participation in the profits of the Company or by a combination of two or more of these modes and pay the working expenses of any of the staff of the general manager, manager or managers who may be employed by him or them upon the business of the Company.

  1. The appointment of such general manager, manager or managers Tenure of office and powers

may be for such period as the Directors may decide and the Directors may confer upon him or them all or any of the powers of the Directors and such title or titles as they may think fit.

  1. The Directors may enter into such agreement or agreements with Terms and conditions of appointment

any such general manager, manager or managers upon such terms and conditions in all respects as they may in their absolute discretion think fit, including a power for such general manager, manager or managers to appoint an assistant manager or managers or other employees whatsoever under them for the purpose of carrying on the business of the Company.

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CHAIRMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS

129. The Directors may from time to time elect or otherwise appoint one
of them to the office of Chairman of the Company and another to be
Chairman and
Deputy/Vice
Chairman
the Deputy or Vice Chairman (or two or more Deputy or Vice
Chairman) and determine the period for which each of them is to
hold office. The Chairman or, in his absence, the Deputy or Vice
Chairman shall preside as chairman at meetings of the Directors, but
if no such Chairman or Deputy or Vice Chairman be elected or
appointed, or if at any meeting the Chairman or Deputy or Vice
Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed
for holding the same and willing to act, the Directors present shall
choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting. All the
provisions of Articles 100, 120, 121 and 122 shall mutatis mutandis
apply to any Directors elected or otherwise appointed to any office
in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS
130. The Directors may meet together for the despatch of business,
adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings as
Meeting of the
Directors, quorum,
etc.
they think fit and may determine the quorum necessary for the
transaction of business. Unless otherwise determined two Directors
shall be a quorum. For the purpose of this Article an alternate
Director shall be counted in a quorum separately in respect of
himself (if a Director) and in respect of each Director for whom he
is an alternate and his voting rights shall be cumulative and he need
not use all his votes or cast all his votes in the same way. A meeting
of the Directors or any committee of the Directors may be held by
means of such telephone, electronic or other communication
facilities as permit all persons participating in the meeting to
communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously,
and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in
person at such meeting. Notwithstanding any common law rule to
the contrary, a meeting of the Directors may be constituted by one
Director.
131. A Director may, and on the request of a Director the Secretary shall,
at any time summon a meeting of the Directors which may be held
Convening of
Directors' meetings
in any part of the world but no such meeting shall be summoned to
be held outside the territory in which the Head Office is for the time
being situate without the prior approval of the Directors. Notice of a
Directors’ meeting shall be deemed to be duly given to a Director if
it is given to such Director in writing or verbally (including in
person or by telephone) or via electronic mail or in such other
manner as the Directors may from time to time determine. A
Director absent or intending to be absent from the territory in which
the Head Office is for the time being situate may request the

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Directors or the Secretary that notices of Directors' meetings shall during his absence be sent in writing to him at his last known address, facsimile or telex number or any other address, facsimile or telex number given by him to the Company for this purpose, but such notices need not be given any earlier than notices given to Directors not so absent and in the absence of any such request it shall not be necessary to give notice of a Directors' meeting to any Director who is for the time being absent from such territory.

132. Questions arising at any meeting of the Directors shall be decided
by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the
How questions to be
decided
chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
133. A meeting of the Directors for the time being at which a quorum is Powers of meeting
present shall be competent to exercise all or any of the authorities,
powers and discretions by or under these Articles for the time being
vested in or exercisable by the Directors generally.
134. The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees
consisting of such member(s) of them and such other person(s) as
Power to appoint
committee and to
delegate
they think fit, and they may from time to time revoke such
delegation or revoke the appointment of and discharge any such
committees either wholly or in part, and either as to persons or
purposes, but every committee so formed shall in the exercise of the
powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may from time
to time be imposed upon it by the Directors.
135. All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such
regulations and in fulfilment of the purposes for which it is
Act of committee to
be of same effect as
acts of Directors
appointed, but not otherwise, shall have the like force and effect as
if done by the Directors, and the Directors shall have power, with
the consent of the Company in general meeting, to remunerate the
members of any special committee, and charge such remuneration to
the current expenses of the Company.
136. The meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of
two or more members shall be governed by the provisions herein
Proceedings of
committee
contained for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the
Directors so far as the same are applicable thereto and are not
replaced by any regulations imposed by the Directors pursuant to
Article 134.
137. All acts bona fide done by any meeting of the Directors or by any
such committee or by any person acting as a Director shall,
When acts of
Directors or
committee to be valid
notwithstanding that it shall be afterwards discovered that there was
some defect in the appointment of such Director or persons acting as
notwithstanding
defects
aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid
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be a Director or member of such committee.

  1. The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Director or Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number or of summoning a general meeting of the Company but for no other purpose.

  2. (A) A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors (or their alternate Directors) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held. Any such resolutions in writing may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or alternate Directors.

(B) Where a Director is, on the date on which a resolution in writing is last signed by a Director, absent from the territory in which the Head Office is for the time being situated, or cannot be contacted at his last known address or contact telephone or facsimile number, or it temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability and, in each case, his alternate (if any) is affected by any of these events, the signature of such Director (or his alternate) to the resolution shall not be required, and the resolution in writing, so long as such a resolution shall have been signed by at least two Directors or their alternates who are entitled to vote thereon or such number of Directors as shall form a quorum, shall be deemed to have been passed at a meeting of Directors duly convened and held, provided that a copy of such resolution has been given or the contents thereof communicated to all the Directors (or their alternates) for the time being entitled to receive notices of meetings of the Directors at their respective last known address, telephone or facsimile number or, if none, at the Head Office and provided further that no Director is aware of or has received from any Director any objection to the resolution.

Directors' powers where vacancies exist Directors' written resolutions

  • (C) A certificate signed by a Director (who may be one of the signatories to the relevant resolution in writing) or the Secretary as to any of the matters referred to in paragraph (A) or (B) of this Article shall in the absence of express notice to the contrary of the person relying thereon, be conclusive of the matters stated on such certificate.

MINUTES AND CORPORATE RECORDS

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  1. (A) The Directors shall cause minutes to be made of:

  2. (i) all appointments of officers made by them;

Minutes of proceedings of meetings and Directors

  • (ii) the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and the names of the members present at each meeting of managers and committees appointed pursuant to Articles 126 and 134; and

  • (iii) all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company and of the Directors and of such managers and committees.

  • (B) Any such minutes shall be conclusive evidence of any such proceedings if they purport to be signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings were held or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting.

  • (C) The Directors shall duly comply with the provisions of the Companies Law in regard to keeping a register of shareholders and to the production and furnishing of copies of or extracts from such register.

  • (D) Any register, index, minute book, book of account or other book required by these presents or the Statutes to be kept by or on behalf of the Company may be kept in writing on one or more sheets in bound or unbound books.

SECRETARY

  1. The Secretary shall be appointed by the Directors for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may, without prejudice to his right under any contract with the Company, be removed by the Directors. Anything by the Statutes or these Articles required or authorised to be done by or to the Secretary, if the office is vacant or there is for any other reason no Secretary capable of acting, may be done by or to any assistant or deputy Secretary, or if there is no assistant or deputy Secretary capable of acting, by or to any officer of the Company authorised generally or specially on behalf of the Directors. If the Secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised.

  2. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the shareholders and shall keep correct minutes of such meetings and enter the same in the proper books provided for the purpose. He shall perform such other duties as are prescribed by the Companies Law and these Articles,

Appointment of Secretary

Duties of Secretary

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together with such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Directors.

143. A provision of the Statutes or of these Articles requiring or
authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary
A provision of the Statutes or of these Articles requiring or
authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary
Same person not to act
in two capacities at
once
shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person
acting both as Director and as, or in place of, the Secretary.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE SEAL
144. (A) Subject to the Statutes, the Company shall have one or more
Seals as the Directors may determine, and may have a Seal
Custody of Seal App. 3
2(1)
for use outside the Cayman Islands. The Directors shall
provide for the safe custody of each Seal, and no Seal shall
be used without the authority of the Directors or a committee
authorised by the Directors in that behalf.
(B) Every instrument to which a Seal shall be affixed shall be
signed autographically by one Director and the Secretary, or
Use of Seal App. 3
2(1)
by two Directors, or by some other person(s) appointed by
the Directors for the purpose, provided that as regards any
certificates for shares or debentures or other securities of the
Company the Directors may by resolution determine that
such signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with or
affixed by some method or system of mechanical signature
other than autographic as specified in such resolution.
145. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other
negotiable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the
Cheques and banking
arrangements
Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, indorsed or otherwise
executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall
from time to time by resolution determine. The Company’s banking
accounts shall be kept with such banker or bankers as the Directors
shall from time to time determine.
146. (A) The Directors may from time to time and at any time, by
power of attorney under the Seal, appoint any company, firm
Power to appoint
attorney
or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether
nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the
attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and
with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding
those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these
Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions
as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney may
contain such provisions for the protection and convenience
of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors
may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to
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discretions vested in him.

(B)
The Company may, by writing under its Seal, empower any
person, either generally or in respect of any specified matter,
Execution of deeds by
attorney
as its attorney to execute deeds and instruments on its behalf
and to enter into contracts and sign the same on its behalf
and every deed signed by such attorney on behalf of the
Company and under his seal shall bind the Company and
have the same effect as if it were under the Seal duly affixed
by the Company.
147. The Directors may establish any committees, regional or local Regional or local
boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, boards and agents
either in the Relevant Territory or elsewhere, and may appoint any
persons to be members of such committees, regional or local boards
or agencies and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate to any
committee, regional or local board or agent any of the powers,
authorities and discretions vested in the Directors (other than its
powers to make calls and forfeit shares), with power to sub-delegate,
and may authorise the members of any regional or local board or
any of them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding
vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be upon
such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think
fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed and may
annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good
faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be
affected thereby.
148. The Directors may establish and maintain or procure the Power to establish
establishment and maintenance of any contributory or non- pension funds
contributory pension or superannuation funds or personal pension
plans for the benefit of, or give or procure the giving of donations,
gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to, any persons who
are or were at any time in the employment or service of the
Company, or of any company which is a subsidiary of the Company,
or is allied or associated with the Company or with any such
subsidiary company, or who are or were at any time directors or
officers of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid,
and holding or who have held any salaried employment or office in
the Company or such other company, and the spouses, widows,
widowers, families and dependants of any such persons. The
Directors may also establish and subsidise or subscribe to any
institutions, associations, clubs or funds calculated to be for the
benefit of or to advance the interests and well-being of the Company
or of any such other company as aforesaid or of any such persons as
aforesaid, and may make payments for or towards the insurance of
any such persons as aforesaid, and subscribe or guarantee money for
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public, general or useful object. The Directors may do any of the matters aforesaid, either alone or in conjunction with any such other company as aforesaid. Any Director holding any such employment or office shall be entitled to participate in and retain for his own benefit any such donation, gratuity, pension, allowance or emolument.

AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

149. (A) Any Director or the Secretary or other authorised officer of Power to authenticate
the Company shall have power to authenticate any
documents affecting the constitution of the Company and
any resolutions passed by the Company or the Directors or
any committee, and any books, records, documents and
accounts relating to the business of the Company, and to
certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies of
extracts; and where any books, records, documents or
accounts are elsewhere than at the Registered Office or the
Head Office, the local manager or such other officer of the
Company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be
the authorised officer of the Company as aforesaid.
(B) A document purporting to be a document so authenticated or
a copy of a resolution, or an extract from the minutes of a
meeting, of the Company or of the Directors or any local
board or committee, or of any books, records, documents or
accounts or extracts therefrom as aforesaid, and which is
certified as aforesaid, shall be conclusive evidence in favour
of all persons dealing with the Company upon the faith
thereof that the document authenticated (or, if this be
authenticated as aforesaid, the matter so authenticated) is
authentic or, as the case may be, that such resolution has
been duly passed or, as the case may be, that any minute so
extracted is a true and accurate record of proceedings at a
duly constituted meeting or, as the case may be, that the
copies of such books, records, documents or accounts were
true copies of their originals or, as the case may be, the
extracts of such books, records, documents or accounts have
been properly extracted and are true and accurate records of
the books, records, documents or accounts from which they
were extracted.

CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES

  1. (A) The Company in general meeting may, upon the Power to capitalise recommendation of the Directors, resolve to capitalise any sum standing to the Company’s reserves (including any share premium account or undistributable reserve,) or any

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undivided profits not required for the payment or provision of the dividend on any shares with a preferential right to dividend, by appropriating such sum or profits to the holders of shares on the register at the close of business on the date of the relevant resolution (or such other date as may be specified therein or determined as provided therein) in the proportion in which such sum would have been divisible amongst them had the same been a distribution of profits by way of dividend on shares either in or towards paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such shareholders respectively or paying up in full unissued shares or debentures or other securities of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid to and amongst such shareholders in the proportion aforesaid, or partly in one way and partly in the other.

(B) Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed the Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the reserves or profits and undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares, debentures, or other securities and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto. For the purpose of giving effect to any resolution under this Article, the Directors may settle any difficulty which may arise in regard to a capitalisation issue as they think fit, and in particular may disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any shareholders in lieu of fractional entitlements or that fractions of such value as the Directors may determine may be disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all parties or that fractional entitlements shall be aggregated and sold and the benefit shall accrue to the Company rather than to the shareholders concerned, and no shareholders who are affected thereby shall be deemed to be, and they shall be deemed not to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purposes whatsoever. The Directors may authorise any person to enter on behalf of all shareholders interested in a capitalisation issue any agreement with the Company or other(s) providing for such capitalisation and matters in connection therewith and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding upon all concerned. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any such agreement may provide for the acceptance by such persons of the shares, debentures or other securities to be allotted and distributed to them respectively in satisfaction of their claims in respect of the sum so capitalised.

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  • (C) The provisions of paragraph (E) of Article 157 shall apply to the power of the Company to capitalise under this Article as it applies to the grant of election thereunder mutatis mutandis and no shareholder who may be affected thereby shall, and they shall be deemed not to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purpose whatsoever.

DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES

Power to declare dividends

  1. The Company in general meeting may declare dividends in any Power to declare dividends

currency but no dividends shall exceed the amount recommended by the Directors.

  1. (A) The Directors may subject to Article 153 from time to time Directors' power to pay interim and

pay to the shareholders such interim dividends as appear to special dividends the Directors to be justified by the financial conditions and the net realisable value of the assets of the Company and, in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing), if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes, the Directors may pay such interim dividends in respect of those shares in the capital of the Company which confer to the holders thereof deferred or non-preferential rights as well as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to dividend and provided that the Directors act bona fide they shall not incur any responsibility to the holders of shares conferring any preference for any damage that they may suffer by reason of the payment of an interim dividend on any shares having deferred or non-preferential rights.

(B) The Directors may also pay half-yearly or at other suitable intervals to be settled by them any dividend which may be payable at a fixed rate if the Directors are of the opinion that the financial conditions and the net realisable value of the assets of the Company justify the payment.

(C) The Directors may in addition from time to time declare and pay special dividends of such amounts and on such dates and out of such distributable funds of the Company (including share premium) and as they think fit, and the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article as regards the power and exemption from liability of the Directors as relate to the declaration and payment of interim dividends shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the declaration and payment of any such special dividends.

  1. (A) No dividend shall be declared or paid shall be made Restrictions on payments of the

otherwise than in accordance with the Statutes. dividends and

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distributions

  • (B) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Law (but without prejudice to paragraph (A) of this Article), where any asset, business or property is bought by the Company as from a past date (whether such date be before or after the incorporation of the Company) the profits and losses thereof as from such date may at the discretion of the Directors in whole or in part be carried to revenue account and treated for all purposes as profits or losses of the Company, and be available for dividend accordingly. Subject as aforesaid, if any shares or securities are purchased cum dividend or interest, such dividend or interest may at the discretion of the Directors be treated as revenue, and it shall not be obligatory to capitalise the same or any part thereof or to apply the same towards reduction of or writing down the book cost of the asset, business or property acquired.

  • (C) Subject to paragraph (D) of this Article all dividends and other distributions in respect of shares in the Company shall be stated and discharged, in the case of shares denominated in Hong Kong dollars, in Hong Kong dollars, and in the case of shares denominated in United States dollars, in United States dollars, provided that, in the case of shares denominated in Hong Kong dollars, the Directors may determine in the case of any distribution that shareholders may elect to receive the same in United States dollars or any other currency selected by the Directors, converted at such rate of exchange as the Directors may determine.

  • (D) If, in the opinion of the Directors, any dividend or other distribution in respect of shares or any other payment to be made by the Company to any shareholder is of such a small amount as to make payment to that shareholder in the relevant currency impracticable or unduly expensive either for the Company or the shareholder then such dividend or other distribution or other payment may, at the absolute discretion of the Directors, be, if this be practicable, converted at such rate of exchange as the Directors may determine and paid or made in the currency of the country of the relevant shareholder (as indicated by the address of such shareholder on the Register).

  • Notice of the declaration of an interim dividend shall be given by advertisement in the Relevant Territory and in such other territory or territories and in such manner as the Directors shall determine.

  • No dividend or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share shall bear interest as against the Company.

  • Notice of interim dividend

  • No interest on dividends

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  1. Whenever the Directors have or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared, the Directors may further resolve that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warrants to subscribe securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, with or without offering any rights to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient, and in particular may disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets, or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any shareholders upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties and may determine that fractional entitlements shall be aggregated and sold and the benefit shall accrue to the Company rather than to the shareholders concerned, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Directors and may authorise any person to sign any requisite instruments of transfer and other documents on behalf of all shareholders interested in the dividend and such instrument and document shall be effective. The Directors may further authorise any person to enter into on behalf of all shareholders having an interest in any agreement with the Company or other(s) providing for such dividend and matters in connection therewith and any such agreement made under such authority shall be effective. The Directors may resolve that no such assets shall be made available or made to shareholders with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories being a territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, this would or might, in the opinion of the Directors, be unlawful or impracticable or the legality or practicality of which may be time consuming or expensive to ascertain whether in absolute terms or in relation to the value of the holding of shares of the shareholder concerned and in any such event the only entitlement of the shareholders aforesaid shall be to receive cash payments as aforesaid. Shareholders affected as a result of exercise by the Directors of their discretion under this Article shall not be, and shall be deemed not to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purposes whatsoever.

  2. (A) Whenever the Directors or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on the share capital of the Company, the Directors may further resolve:

Dividend in specie

Scrip dividend

either

  • (i) that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part in the form

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of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid on the basis that the shares so allotted shall be of the same class or classes as the class or classes already held by the allottee, provided that the shareholders entitled thereto will be entitled to elect to receive such dividend (or part thereof) in cash in lieu of such allotment. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

  • (a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Directors;

  • (b) the Directors, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than fourteen (14) clear days’ notice in writing to the shareholders of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

  • (c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and

  • (d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the allotment of shares as aforesaid) shall not be payable in cash in respect whereof the cash election has not been duly exercised (“the nonelected shares”) and in lieu and in satisfaction thereof shares shall be allotted credited as fully paid to the holders of the non-elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Directors shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company or any part of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including any special account, or share premium account (if there be any such reserve)) as the Directors may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the nonelected shares on such basis;

or

(ii) that shareholders entitled to such dividend will be entitled to

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elect to receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Directors may think fit on the basis that the shares so allotted shall be of the same class or classes as the class or classes of shares already held by the allottee. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

  • (a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Directors;

  • (b) the Directors, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than fourteen (14) clear days’ notice in writing to the shareholders of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

  • (c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and

  • (d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable on shares in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (“the elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares shall be allotted credited as fully paid to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Directors shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company or any part of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including any special account, contributed surplus account, share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund (if there be any such reserve)) as the Directors may determine, a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such basis.

  • (B) The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article shall rank pari passu in all respects with the shares then in issue and held by the allottee in respect of which they were allotted, save only as regards participation:

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  • (i) in the relevant dividend (or the right to receive or to elect to receive an allotment of shares in lieu thereof as aforesaid); or

  • (ii) in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend unless, contemporaneously with the announcement by the Directors of their proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (A) of this Article in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with their announcement of the distribution, bonus or rights in question, the Directors shall have specified that the shares to be allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.

  • (C) The Directors may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalisation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article with full power to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the shareholders concerned), and no shareholders who will be affected thereby shall be, and they shall be deemed not to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purposes whatsoever. The Directors may authorise any person to enter into on behalf of all shareholders interested, an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made pursuant to such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

  • (D) The Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors by Ordinary Resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Article a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.

  • (E) The Directors may on any occasion determine that rights of

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election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (A) of this Article shall not be made available or made to any shareholders with registered addresses in any territory where in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities the circulation of an offer of such rights of election or the allotment of shares would or might be unlawful or impracticable or the legality or practicability of which may be time consuming or expensive to ascertain whether in absolute terms or in relation to the value of the holding of shares of the shareholder concerned, and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination and no shareholder who may be affected by any such determination shall be, and they shall be deemed not to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purposes whatsoever.

158. The Directors may, before recommending any dividend, set aside Reserves
out of the profits of the Company such sums as they think fit as a
reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be
applicable for meeting claims on or liabilities of the Company or
contingencies or for paying off any loan capital or for equalising
dividends or for any other purpose to which the profits of the
Company may be properly applied, and pending such application
may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the
Company or be invested in such investments (including in the
repurchase by the Company of its own securities or the giving of
any financial assistance for the acquisition of its own securities) as
the Directors may from time to time think fit, and so that it shall not
be necessary to keep any investments constituting the reserve or
reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the
Company. The Directors may also without placing the same to
reserve carry forward any profits which they may think prudent not
to distribute by way of dividend.
159. Unless and to the extent that the rights attached to any shares or the
terms of issue thereof otherwise provide, all dividends shall (as
Dividends to be paid
in proportion to paid
up capital
App. 3
3(1)
regards any shares not fully paid throughout the period in respect of
which the dividend is paid) be apportioned and paid pro rata
according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares
during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the
dividend is paid. For the purposes of this Article no amount paid on
a share in advance of calls shall be treated as paid on the share.
160. (A)
The Directors may retain any dividends or other moneys
payable on or in respect of a share upon which the Company
Retention of dividends
etc.
has a lien, and may apply the same in or towards satisfaction
of the debts, liabilities or engagements in respect of which
the lien exists.

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  • (B) The Directors may deduct from any dividend or other money payable to any shareholder all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls, instalments or otherwise.

Deduction for debts

  1. Any general meeting sanctioning a dividend may make a call on the Dividend and call together

shareholders of such amount as the meeting fixes, but so that the call on each shareholder shall not exceed the dividend payable to him, and so that the call shall be made payable at the same time as the dividend, and the dividend may, if so arranged between the Company and the shareholder, be set off against the call.

  1. A transfer of shares shall not, as against the Company but without Effect of transfer prejudice to the rights of the transferor and transferee inter se, pass the right to any dividend or bonus declared thereon before the registration of the transfer.

  2. If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, Receipt for dividends etc. by joint holders

any one of such persons may give effectual receipts for any dividends and other moneys payable and bonuses, rights and other distributions in respect of such shares.

  1. Unless otherwise directed by the Directors, any dividend or other Payment etc. by post moneys payable or bonuses, rights or other distributions in respect of any share may be paid or satisfied by cheque or warrant or certificate or other documents or evidence of title sent through the post to the registered address of the shareholder entitled, or, in the case of joint holders, to the registered address of that one whose name stands first in the register in respect of the joint holding or to such person and to such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every cheque, warrant, certificate or other document or evidence of title so sent shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent or, in the case of certificates or other documents or evidence of title as aforesaid, in favour of the shareholder(s) entitled thereto, and the payment on any such cheque or warrant by the banker upon whom it is drawn shall operate as a good discharge to the Company in respect of the dividend and/or other moneys represented thereby, notwithstanding that it may subsequently appear that the same has been stolen or that any endorsement thereon has been forged. Every such cheque, warrant, certificate or other document or evidence of title as aforesaid shall be sent at the risk of the person entitled to the dividend, money, bonus, rights and other distributions represented thereby.

  2. All dividends, bonuses or other distributions or the proceeds of the Unclaimed dividend App. 3 etc. 3(2)

realisation of any of the foregoing unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by

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the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed and, notwithstanding any entry in any books of the Company or otherwise howsoever, the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends, bonuses or other distributions or the proceeds of the realisation of any of the foregoing unclaimed for six years after having been declared may be forfeited by the Directors and, upon such forfeiture, shall revert to the Company and, in the case where any of the same are securities of the Company, may be re-allotted or re-issued for such consideration as the Directors think fit and the proceeds thereof shall accrue to the benefit of the Company absolutely.

RECORD DATE

  1. Any resolution declaring a dividend or other distribution on shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in general meeting or a resolution of the Directors, may specify that the same shall be payable or made to the persons registered as the holder of such shares at the close of business on a particular date or at a particular time on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon the dividend or other distribution shall be payable or made to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend or other distribution between the transferors and transferees of any such shares. The provisions of this Article shall mutatis mutandis apply to bonuses, capitalisation issues, distributions of realised and unrealised capital profits or other distributable reserves or accounts of the Company and offers or grants made by the Company to the shareholders.

Record date

DISTRIBUTION OF REALISED CAPITAL PROFITS

  1. The Company in general meeting may at any time and from time to time resolve that any surplus moneys in the hands of the Company representing capital profits arising from moneys received or recovered in respect of or arising from the realisation of any capital assets of the Company or any investments representing the same and not required for the payment or provision of any fixed preferential dividend instead of being applied in the purchase of any other capital assets or for other capital purposes be distributed amongst its shareholders on the footing that they receive the same as capital and in the shares and proportions in which they would have been entitled to receive the same if it had been distributed by way of dividend, provided that no such surplus moneys as aforesaid shall be so distributed unless the Company will remain solvent after the distribution, or the net realisable value of the assets of the Company will after the distribution be greater than the aggregate of its

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liabilities, share capital and share premium account.

ANNUAL RETURNS

168. The Directors shall make or cause to be made such annual or other Annual Returns
returns or filings as may be required to be made in accordance with
the Statutes.
ACCOUNTS
169. The Directors shall cause true accounts to be kept of the sums of
money received and expended by the Company, and the matters in
Accounts to be kept App. 13B
4(1)
respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place; and of the
property, assets, credits and liabilities of the Company and of all
other matters required by the Statutes or necessary to give a true and
fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to show and
explain its transactions.
170. The books of account shall be kept at the Head Office or at such
other place or places as the Directors think fit and shall always be
Where accounts to be
kept
open to the inspection of the Directors.
171. No shareholder (not being a Director) or other person shall have any
right of inspecting any account or book or document of the
Inspection by
shareholders
Company except as conferred by the Statutes or ordered by a court
of competent jurisdiction or authorised by the Directors or the
Company in general meeting.
172. (A)
The Directors shall from time to time cause to be prepared
and laid before the Company at its annual general meeting
Annual profit and loss
account and balance
sheet
App. 13B
4(1)
4(2)
profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if
any) and reports and, so long as any shares in the Company
are with the consent of the Company listed on The Stock
Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, the accounts of the
Company shall be prepared and audited based on the
generally accepted accounting principles of Hong Kong, the
International Financial Reporting, or such other standards as
may be permitted by the stock exchange in the Relevant
Territory on which any of the shares in the Company are
with the consent of the Company listed on such exchange,
and the accounting principles or standards adopted shall be
disclosed in the financial statements and the report of the
Auditors.
(B)
Every balance sheet of the Company shall be signed on
behalf of the Directors by two of the Directors and a copy of
Annual report of
Directors and balance
sheet to be sent to
App. 3
5
App. 13B
every balance sheet (including every document required by shareholders 3(3)
law to be comprised therein or annexed thereto) and profit

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and loss account which is to be laid before the Company at its annual general meeting, together with a copy of the Directors' report and a copy of the Auditors' report thereon, shall not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of the meeting be sent to every shareholder of, and every holder of debentures of, the Company and every other person entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the Company under the provisions of these Articles, provided that this Article shall not affect the operation of paragraph (C) of this Article, or require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures, but any shareholder or holder of debentures to whom a copy of those documents has not been sent shall be entitled to receive a copy free of charge on application at the Head Office or the Registration Office. If all or any of the shares or debentures or other securities of the Company shall for the time being be (with the consent of the Company) listed or dealt in on any stock exchange or market, there shall be forwarded to such stock exchange or market such number of copies of such documents as may for the time being be required under its regulations or practice.

(C) Subject to due compliance with the Statutes and the rules of the stock exchange in the Relevant Territory, and to obtaining all necessary consents, if any, required thereunder and such consents being in full force and effect, the requirements of Article 172(B) shall be deemed satisfied in relation to any person by sending to the person in any manner not prohibited by the Statutes and instead of such copies, a summary financial statement derived from the Company’s annual financial statements and the directors’ report thereon, which shall be in the form and containing the information required by applicable laws and regulation, provided that any person who is otherwise entitled to the annual financial statements of the Company and the directors’ report thereon may, if he so requires by notice in writing served on the Company, demand that the Company sends to him, in addition to a summary financial statement, a complete printed copy of the Company’s annual financial statement and the directors’ report thereon.

Company may send summary financial statement only, and members’ right to additional printed copies of annual financial statements

AUDITORS

  1. (A) The Company shall at each annual general meeting appoint one or more firms of auditors to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting on such terms and with such duties as may be agreed with the Directors,

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but if an appointment is not made, the Auditors in office shall continue in office until a successor is appointed. A Director, officer or employee of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries or a partner, officer or employee of any such Director, officer or employee shall not be appointed Auditors of the Company. The Directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of Auditors, but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing Auditor or Auditors (if any) may act. The remuneration of the Auditors shall be fixed by or on the authority of the Company in the annual general meeting except that in any particular year the Company in general meeting may delegate the fixing of such remuneration to the Directors and the remuneration of any Auditors appointed to fill any casual vacancy may be fixed by the Directors.

(B) The shareholders may, at any general meeting convened and held in accordance with these Articles, remove the Auditor or Auditors by Special Resolution at any time before the expiration of the term of office and shall, by Ordinary Resolution, at that meeting appoint another Auditor in its place for the remainder of the term.

174. The Auditors of the Company shall have a right of access at all
times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and
Auditors to have right
of access to books and
accounts
shall be entitled to require from the Directors and officers of the
Company such information as may be necessary for the performance
of his or their duties, and the Auditors shall make a report to the
shareholders on the accounts examined by them and on every
balance sheet, consolidated balance sheet and consolidated profit
and loss account intended to be laid before the Company in the
annual general meeting during their tenure of office.
175. No person other than the retiring Auditors shall be appointed as
Auditors at an annual general meeting unless notice of an intention
Appointment of
auditors other than the
retiring auditors
to nominate that person to the office of Auditors has been given to
the Company not less than fourteen (14) clear days before the
annual general meeting, and the Company shall send a copy of any
such notice to the retiring Auditors and shall give notice thereof to
the shareholders not less than seven (7) days before the annual
general meeting provided that the above requirement for sending a
copy of such notice to the retiring Auditors may be waived by notice
in writing by the retiring Auditors to the Secretary.
176. All acts done by any person acting as Auditors shall, as regards all Defect of appointment
persons dealing in good faith with the Company, be valid,
notwithstanding that there was some defect in their appointment or
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appointment or subsequently became disqualified.

NOTICES

177. (A) Subject to Article 177(B), any notice or document to be
given or issued under these Articles shall be in writing, and
Service of notices App. 3
7(1)
7(2)
may be served by the Company on any shareholder either 7(3)
personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid
envelope or wrapper addressed to such shareholder at his
registered address as appearing in the register or by
delivering or leaving it at such registered address as
aforesaid or (in the case of a notice) by advertisement in the
Newspapers or displaying the relevant notice conspicuously
at the Registered Office and the Head Office. In the case of
joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that one
of the joint holders whose name stands first in the register
and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint
holders.
(B) Subject to due compliance with the rules of the stock
exchange in the Relevant Territory, and to obtaining all
necessary consents, if any, required and such consents being
in full force and effect, any notice or document (including
any document or notice issued or to be issued by the
Company for the information and/or action of holders of any
of its securities and whether or not given or issued under
these Articles) may also be served by the Company on any
shareholder or holder of other securities of the Company by
electronic means:
  • (i) at his electronic address or website as appearing in the Register (if any); or

  • (ii) at any other electronic address or website supplied by him to the Company for the purpose of such transmission; or

  • (iii) by placing it on the Company’s website provided that where the relevant documents are the Company's directors' report, annual financial statements, auditors' report, interim report (and, where applicable, summary interim report) and, where Article 172(C) applies, a summary financial statement, any service of such documents by placing on the Company's website shall also be accompanied by a notice of the publication (" notice of publication ") of such documents on the Company's website given to the shareholder concerned in the

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manner referred to in Article 177(A) or in any other manner agreed between the shareholder concerned and the Company;

provided that (aa) in the case of joint holders of share, any consent required from the shareholder concerned for the purposes of this Article 177(B) shall be given by that one of the joint holders who is entitled to receive notice pursuant to Article 177(A); and (bb) the Company may, for the purposes of this Article 177(B), propose to its shareholders any one or more or all of the above means of electronic communication.

  1. (A) Any shareholder whose registered address is outside the Relevant Territory may notify the Company in writing of an address in the Relevant Territory which for the purpose of service of notice shall be deemed to be his registered address. Where the registered address of the shareholder is outside the Relevant Territory, notice, if given through the post, shall be sent by prepaid airmail letter where available.

(B) Any shareholder who fails (and, where a share is held by joint holders, where the first joint holder named on the register fails) to supply his registered address or electronic address (as the case may be) or a correct registered address or electronic address (as the case may be) to the Company for service of notices and documents on him shall not (and where a share is held by joint holders, none of the other joint holders whether or not they have supplied a registered address or electronic address (as the case may be) shall) be entitled to service of any notice or documents by the Company and any notice or document which is otherwise required to be served on him may, if the Directors in their absolute discretion so elect (and subject to them re-electing otherwise from time to time), be served, in the case of notices, by displaying a copy of such notice conspicuously at the Registered Office and the Head Office or, if the Directors see fit, by advertisement in the Newspapers, and, in the case of documents, by posting up a notice conspicuously at the Registered Office and the Head Office addressed to such shareholder which notice shall state the address within the Relevant Territory at which he may obtain a copy of the relevant document, or by displaying or otherwise making available the relevant notice or document on the Company’s website and stating the address within the Relevant Territory at which he may obtain a copy of the notice or document. Any notice or document served in the manner so described shall be sufficient service as regards shareholders with no registered or electronic address (as the case may be) or

Shareholders out of App. 3 the Relevant Territory 7(3)

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incorrect addresses, provided that nothing in this paragraph (B) shall be construed as requiring the Company to serve any notice or document on any shareholder with no or an incorrect registered address or electronic address (as the case may be) for the service of notice or document on him or on any shareholder other than the first named on the register of members of the Company.

Where previous notices etc. returned undelivered

(C) If on three consecutive occasions notices or other documents Where previous notices etc. returned have been sent through the post to any shareholder (or, in the undelivered case of joint holders of shares, the first holder named on the register) at his registered address or by electronic means to his electronic address or website (in the event that the shareholder concerned has elected for service of any notice or document at this electronic address or website pursuant to Article 177(B)) but have been returned undelivered, such shareholder (and, in the case of joint holders of a share, all other joint holders of the share) shall not thereafter be entitled to receive or be served (save as the Directors may elect otherwise pursuant to paragraph (B) of this Article) and shall be deemed to have waived the service of notices and other documents from the Company until he shall have communicated with the Company and supplied in writing a new registered address or electronic address (in the event that the shareholder concerned has elected for service of any notice or document at his electronic address or website pursuant to Article 177(B)) for the service of notices on him. (D) Notwithstanding any election by a member, if the Company Company’s right to suspend electronic is advised that the sending of any notice or other document service of notices etc to any electronic address supplied by a shareholder may or might infringe the law of any relevant jurisdiction, or if the Company cannot verify the location of the server at which the electronic address of the member located, the Company may in lieu of the sending of any notice or other document to the electronic address supplied by the shareholder concerned, place the same on the Company’s website, and any such placement shall be deemed effective service on the shareholder, and the relevant notice and document shall be deemed to be served on the shareholder on which the same is first placed on the Company’s website. (E) Notwithstanding any election by a member from time to time Member’s right to printed copies of to receive any notice or document through electronic means, notices etc such member may, at any time require the Company to send to him, in addition to an electronic copy thereof a printed copy of any notice or document which he, in his capacity as shareholder, is entitled to receive.

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179. (A) Any notice or document sent by post shall be deemed to
have been served on the day following that on which the
When notice by post
deemed to be served
envelope or wrapper containing the same is put into a post
office situated within the Relevant Territory and in proving
such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope
or wrapper containing notice or document was properly
prepaid (and in the case of an address outside the Relevant
Territory where airmail service is available, airmail postage
prepaid), addressed and put into such post office and a
certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other person
appointed by the Directors that the envelope or wrapper
containing the notice or document was so addressed and put
into such post office shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
(B) A notice served by advertisement in the Newspapers shall be
deemed to have been served on the day on which the notice
When notice by
advertisement deemed
to be served
is first published.
(C) Any notice or document sent by electronic transmission shall
be deemed to have been served on the day on which the
When notice by
electronic
transmission deemed
notice is sent. to be served
(D) Any notice or document placed on the Company’s website is
deemed given by the Company to a shareholder on the day
When notice posted
on Company’s
website deemed to be
the notice or document is placed on the Company’s website served
except where the document is the Company’s directors’
report, annual financial statements or auditors’ report and,
where applicable, summary financial statement, then such
document shall be deemed to be served on the day following
that on which a notice of publication is deemed served on the
shareholder.
(E) A notice served by display of the same at the Registered
Office and Head Office shall be deemed to have been served
When notice by
display deemed to be
served
24 hours after the notice was first so displayed.
(F) Any notice or document served pursuant to Article 178(B)
shall be deemed duly served 24 hours after the relevant
When notice to
shareholders with no
or incorrect addresses
notice was first displayed. deemed to be served
180. A notice or document may be given by the Company to the person
entitled to a share in consequence of the death, mental disorder,
Transferee to be
bound by prior notices
bankruptcy or liquidation of a shareholder by sending it through the
post in a prepaid envelope or wrapper addressed to him by name, or
by the title of representative of the deceased, the trustee of the
bankrupt or the liquidation of the shareholder, or by any like
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supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so entitled, or
(until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the notice or
document in any manner in which the same might have been given
if the death, mental disorder, bankruptcy or winding up had not
occurred.
181. Any person who by operation of law, transfer or other means
whatsoever shall become entitled to any share shall be bound by
Transferee to be
bound by prior notices
every notice in respect of such share which prior to his name and
address being entered on the register shall have been duly served or
deemed to have been duly served to the person from whom he
derives his title to such share.
182. Any notice or document delivered or sent by post or electronic
means to, or left at the registered address of any shareholder in
Notice valid though
shareholder deceased,
bankrupt or wound up
pursuance of these presents, shall notwithstanding that such
shareholder be then deceased, bankrupt or wound up and whether or
not the Company has notice of his death, bankruptcy or winding up,
be deemed to have been duly served in respect of any registered
shares whether held solely or jointly with other persons by such
shareholder until some other person be registered in his stead as the
holder or joint holder thereof, and such service shall for all purposes
of these presents be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or
document on his personal representatives and all persons (if any)
jointly interested with him in any such shares.
183. The signature to any notice or document to be given by the
Company may be written or printed.
How notice to be
signed
INFORMATION
184. No shareholder (not being a Director) shall be entitled to require
discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the
Shareholders not
entitled to information
Company’s trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of
a trade secret, mystery of trade or secret process which may relate to
the conduct of the business of the Company which in the opinion of
the Directors it will be inexpedient in the interests of the
shareholders of the Company to communicate to the public.
WINDING UP
185. A resolution that the Company be wound up by the Court or be Modes of winding up
wound up voluntarily shall be passed by way of a Special
Resolution.
186. If the Company shall be wound up, the surplus assets remaining
after payment to all creditors shall be divided among the
Distribution of assets
in winding up
shareholders in proportion to the capital paid up on the shares held

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by them respectively, and if such surplus assets shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up capital, they shall be distributed, subject to the rights of any shares which may be issued on special terms and conditions, so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the shareholders in proportion to the capital paid on the shares held by them respectively.

187. If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is
voluntary or ordered or sanction by the court) the liquidator may,
Assets may be
distributed in specie
with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction
required by the Companies Law, divide among the shareholders in
specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company
whether the assets shall consist of property of one kind or shall
consist of properties of different kinds and the liquidator may, for
such purpose, set such value as he deems fair upon any one or more
class or classes of property to be divided as aforesaid and may
determine how such division shall be carried out as between the
shareholders or different classes of shareholders and the
shareholders within each class. The liquidator may, with the like
sanction, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for
the benefit of shareholders as the liquidator, with the like sanction,
shall think fit, but so that no shareholder shall be compelled to
accept any shares or other assets upon which there is a liability.
INDEMNITY
188. The Directors, Managing Directors, alternate Directors, Auditors, Indemnity
Secretary and other officers for the time being of the Company and
the trustees (if any) for the time being acting in relation to any of the
affairs of the Company, and their respective executors or
administrators, shall be indemnified and secured harmless out of the
assets of the Company from and against all actions, costs, charges,
losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them, their or
any of their executors or administrators, shall or may incur or
sustain by reason of any act done, concurred in or omitted in or
about the execution of their duty or supposed duty in their respective
offices or trusts, except such (if any) as they shall incur or sustain
through their own fraud or dishonesty, and none of them shall be
answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other of
them, or for joining in any receipt for the sake of conformity, or for
any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or effects of
the Company shall be lodged or deposited for safe custody, or for
the insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any
moneys of the Company shall be placed out or invested, or for any
other loss, misfortune or damage which may arise in the execution
of their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto, except as
the same shall happen by or through their own fraud or dishonesty.
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for the maintenance of insurance, bonds and other instruments for the benefit either of the Company or the Directors (and/or other officers) or any of them to indemnify the Company and/or the Directors (and/or other officers) named therein for this purpose against any loss, damage, liability and claim which they may suffer or sustain in connection with any breach by the Directors (and/or other officers) or any of them of their duties to the Company.

UNTRACEABLE SHAREHOLDERS

The Company may exercise the power to cease sending cheques for Company cease App. 3 sending dividend 13(1) dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion warrants etc. on which such a cheque or warrant is returned undelivered. The provisions of this Article shall apply to certificates of and other documents or evidence of title to, and proceeds of realisation of, distributions on shares other than money. (A) The Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner Company may sell shares of untraceable as the Directors think fit, any shares of a shareholder who is shareholders untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless: App. 3 (i) during the period of twelve (12) years prior to the 13(2)(a) date of publication of the advertisements referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) below (or, if published more than once, the first thereof) at least three dividends or other distributions in respect of the shares in question have become payable or been made and no dividend or other distribution in respect of the shares has been claimed; App. 3 (ii) the Company has caused an advertisement to be 13(2)(b) inserted in the Newspapers of its intention to sell such shares and a period of three months has elapsed since the date of such advertisement (or, if published more than once, the first thereof); (iii) the Company has not at any time during the said periods of twelve years and three months received any indication of the existence of the shareholder who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law; and (iv) the Company has notified the stock exchange in the App. 3 13(2)(b) Relevant Territory of its intention of such sale. (B) To give effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise any person to transfer the said shares and the instrument of

  1. The Company may exercise the power to cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion on which such a cheque or warrant is returned undelivered. The provisions of this Article shall apply to certificates of and other documents or evidence of title to, and proceeds of realisation of, distributions on shares other than money. 190. (A) The Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any shares of a shareholder who is untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless:

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transfer signed or otherwise executed by or on behalf of such person shall be as effective as if it had been executed by the registered holder or the person entitled by transmission to such shares, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale. The net proceeds of the sale will belong to the Company and upon receipt by the Company of such proceeds it shall become indebted to the former shareholder for an amount equal to such net proceeds. Notwithstanding any entries made by the Company in any of its books or otherwise howsoever, no trusts shall be created in respect of such debt and no interest shall be payable in respect of it and the Company shall not be required to account for any money earned from the net proceeds which may be employed in the business of the Company or as it thinks fit. Any sale under this Article shall be valid and effective notwithstanding that the shareholder holding the shares sold is dead, bankrupt, wound up or otherwise under any legal disability or incapacity.

DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS

  1. The Company may destroy:

Destruction of Documents

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

  • (b) any dividend mandate or any variation or cancellation thereof or any notification of change of name or address at any time after the expiry of two years from the date on which such mandate, variation, cancellation or notification was recorded by the Company;

  • (c) any instrument of transfer of shares which has been registered at any time after the expiry of six years from the date of registration; and

  • (d) any other document, on the basis of which any entry in the register of members of the Company is made, at any time after the expiry of six years from the date on which an entry in the register was first made in respect of it;

and it shall conclusively be presumed in favour of the Company that every share certificate so destroyed was a valid certificate duly and properly cancelled and that every instrument of transfer so destroyed was a valid and effective instrument duly and properly registered

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and that every other document destroyed hereunder was a valid and effective document in accordance with the recorded particulars thereof in the books or records of the Company. Provided always that:

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

  • (ii) nothing contained in this Article shall be construed as imposing upon the Company any liability in respect of the destruction of any such document earlier than as aforesaid or in any case where the conditions of proviso (i) above are not fulfilled; and

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

SUBSCRIPTION RIGHT RESERVE

  1. The following provisions shall have effect to the extent that they are not prohibited by and are in compliance with the Statutes:

Subscription right reserve

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

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

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(iii) in respect of such additional shares as and when the same are allotted;

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

  • (iii) upon the exercise of all or any of the subscription rights represented by any warrant, the relevant subscription rights shall be exercisable in respect of a nominal amount of shares equal to the amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be, the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights) and, in addition, there shall be allotted in respect of such subscription rights to the exercising warrantholder, credited as fully paid, such additional nominal amount of shares as is equal to the shortfall between:

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

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

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

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

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

  • (C) The provisions of this Article as to the establishment and maintenance of the Subscription Right Reserve shall not be altered or added to in any way which would vary or abrogate, or which would have the effect of varying or abrogating, the provisions for the benefit of any warrantholder or class of warrantholders under this Article without the sanction of a Special Resolution of such warrant holder(s) or class of warrant holders.

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the Subscription Right Reserve is required to be established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription Right Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrantholders credited as fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Right Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding upon the Company and all warrantholders and shareholders.

STOCK

  1. The following provisions shall have effect at any time and from time to time that they are not prohibited by or inconsistent with the Statutes:

Conversion of shares into stock

(i) The Company may by Ordinary Resolution convert any fully paid shares into stock, and may from time to time by like resolution reconvert any stock into fully paid shares of any denomination. (ii) The holders of stock may transfer the same or any part thereof in the same manner, and subject to the same regulations as and subject to which the shares from which the stock arose might prior to conversion have been transferred or as near thereto as circumstances admit, but the Directors may from time to time, if they think fit, fix the minimum amount of stock transferable and restrict or prohibit the transfer of fractions of that minimum, but so that such minimum shall not exceed the nominal amount of the shares from which the stock arose. No warrants to bearer shall be issued in respect of any stock.

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

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and “shareholder” herein shall include “stock” and “stockholder” and “member”.

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INDEX TO ARTICLES

Article no.
Accounts 169-172
Articles of Association, alteration 67(B)
Auditors 173-176, 188
Authentication of documents 149
Calls 10, 26-38, 52, 53, 159-161
Chairman
Appointment 70, 129
Duties and powers 71, 74, 75, 81, 104(K), 132, 140(B)
Cheques 145
Corporations acting by representatives 69, 90-91
Definitions 1
Directors:
Alternate, appointment and powers 94-96, 130, 139, 188
Appointment 108, 109
Borrowing powers 112-113
Chairman, appointment and powers 129, 104(K), 132, 140(B)
Committees 134-137, 140, 144, 149
Compensation for loss of office 101
Convening of meetings 131
Expenses 98, 135, 188
Interest in contracts 104
Management power 124, 125
Managing and Executive Directors 119-123
Meetings and proceedings 130-139
Minutes 140
Number 93, 107
Powers 67, 71, 95, 109, 112, 119, 122-126,
128-131, 133-135, 138, 141, 146-149, 152, 157(A)
Qualification 96, 110
Quorum 130
Removal by Ordinary Resolution 102, 111
Remuneration 67, 95(B), 97, 99-100, 104, 119, 125, 135, 147
Right to speak at general and class meetings 96
Rotation 105, 121
Title 123
Vacation of office 102
Written resolutions 139
Dividends 3, 8, 23, 35, 38, 51, 54, 67, 104, 150-167,
189-191, 193
General Meetings:
Admissibility of votes 81
Adjournment 71, 87
Annual General Meeting 62, 65, 67, 86, 105, 106, 108, 109, 111, 172-175
Chairman 70

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Convening of meetings 64
Notice 65, 66, 71
Minutes 140
Proceedings 67-75
Quorum 68
Special business, meaning of 67(A)
Voting 67-69
Indemnity 188
Joint holders of shares 21,23, 32, 42, 48, 78, 163, 164, 177, 178, 182
Memorandum of Association, alteration 67(B)
Notices 177-183
Pension, power to establish 148
Polls 72-74
Proxies 5, 35, 66, 68, 69, 76, 78-80, 82-88
Purchase of own securities 15
Record Date 166
Registered office 92
Register of members
Closure and suspension 47
Maintenance 17, 140(C)
Transfer between principal
And branch registers 41
Replacement of share and warrant certificates 4, 18(B), 22
Reserves 14, 150, 157, 158, 166, 192
Seals 19, 95, 144, 146
Secretary 57, 95, 131, 139, 141-143, 144, 149
179, 188
Share Capital:
Alterations of 6-14
Increase 7, 13
Reduction 14
Stocks 193
Sub-division, consolidation, etc. 13
Subscription warrants, issue of 4
Securities Seal 19, 144
Shares certificate 18-20, 22, 61, 189
Shares:
Calls on 10, 26-38, 52, 53, 59-61, 159, 161
Commissions 12
Equitable interests 16, 23
Forfeiture and lien 10, 23-25, 37, 52-61
Stock, conversion into 193
Transfer 10, 13, 18, 21, 39-47, 50, 51, 57, 88,
162, 181, 190, 191, 193
Transmission 10, 48-51, 77, 180, 181, 190
Variation of rights 5
Stocks 193
Subscription right reserve 192

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Transmission of shares 10, 48-51, 77, 180, 181, 190
Votes of members 20, 35, 51, 65, 72, 74, 76, 77-91,
95, 97, 104, 193
Untraceable shareholders 189, 190
Warrants 4, 192
Winding Up 185-187
Written resolutions
Directors 139
Shareholders 1(E)

The above index does not form part of the Articles of the Company.

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