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Greenheart Group Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2015

Apr 27, 2015

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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THIS CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of this circular or as to the action to be taken, you should consult your licensed securities dealer or other registered dealer in securities, bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional adviser.

If you have sold or transferred all your shares in Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited , you should at once hand this circular and the accompanying form of proxy to the purchaser or transferee or to the licensed securities dealer or registered institution in securities or other agent through whom the sale or the transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or the transferee.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this circular, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.

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(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) (Stock Code: 00059)

PROPOSED GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE AND REPURCHASE SHARES; RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS; TERMINATION OF EXISTING SHARE OPTION SCHEME AND ADOPTION OF NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME; ADOPTION OF NEW BYE-LAWS; ADOPTION OF SECONDARY NAME

AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

A letter from the board of directors of Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited is set out on pages 4 to 11 of this circular.

A notice convening the annual general meeting of Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited to be held at Empire Room 1, 1st Floor, Empire Hotel Hong Kong • Wanchai, 33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 3:00 p.m. is set out on pages AGM-1 to AGM-5 of this circular. Whether or not you intend to attend such meeting, please complete and return the enclosed form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and return it to the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Tricor Abacus Limited, at Level 22, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible and in any event not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding such meeting. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting at the meeting or any adjourned meeting if you so wish.

27 April 2015

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CONTENTS

Page
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Letter from the Board
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
2. General Mandate to Repurchase Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3. General Mandate to Issue New Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6
4. Re-election of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5. Proposed Termination of Existing Share Option Scheme and Adoption of
New Share Option Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
6. Proposed Adoption of New Bye-laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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7. Proposed Adoption of Secondary Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10
8. Responsibility Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
9. Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
10. Annual General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
Appendix I – Explanatory Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I-1
Appendix II – Details of Retiring Directors Proposed for Re-election. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
II-1
Appendix III – Summary of the principal terms of the New Share Option Scheme. . . . . . .
III-1
Appendix IV – New Bye-laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
IV-1
Notice of Annual General Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AGM-1

DEFINITIONS

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

“Act” the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda;
“Adoption Date” the date on which the New Share Option Scheme is conditionally
adopted by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders in the
AGM;
“Adoption of the Secondary Name” the proposed adoption of the Chinese Name as the secondary
name of the Company which has been used for identification
purposes only;
“AGM” the annual general meeting of the Company to be convened and
held at Empire Room 1, 1st Floor, Empire Hotel Hong Kong •
Wanchai, 33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Tuesday,
9 June 2015, at 3:00 p.m.;
“associate” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules;
“Board” the board of Directors;
“business day(s)” any day on which the Stock Exchange is open for the business of
dealing in securities;
“Bye-laws” the existing bye-laws of the Company;
“Chinese Name” “天譽置業(控股)有限公司”, the Chinese name proposed to be
adopted as the secondary name of the Company;
“close associate” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules;
“Company” Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited, a company incorporated in
Bermuda with limited liability, the issued shares of which are
listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange;
“connected person” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules;
“core connected person” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules;
“Director(s)” the director(s) of the Company;

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DEFINITIONS

“Employee(s)” any employee or proposed employee (whether full time or
part time) of any member of the Group or any Invested Entity,
including any executive director of any member of the Group or
any Invested Entity;
“Existing Share Option Scheme” the existing share option scheme adopted by the Company on
4 August 2005;
“Grantee” any Participant who accepts the offer of the grant of any Option
in accordance with the terms of the New Share Option Scheme or
(where the context so permits) any person who is entitled to any
such Option in consequence of the death of the original Grantee
(if he or she is an individual);
“Group” the Company and its subsidiaries;
“HK$” Hong Kong Dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region of the PRC;
“Invested Entity/Entities” an entity/entities in which the Group holds any equity interest;
“Latest Practicable Date” 23 April 2015, being the latest practicable date prior to the
printing of this circular for ascertaining certain information
contained herein;
“Listing Committee” the listing sub-committee of the directors of the Stock Exchange
elected or appointed in accordance with the Articles of
Association of the Stock Exchange and, where the context so
permits, any committee or sub-committee thereof;
“Listing Rules” the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock
Exchange;
“New Bye-laws” the new Bye-laws proposed to be adopted by the Company at the
AGM as set out in Appendix IV to this circular;
“New Issue Mandate” a general mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors to
exercise the power of the Company to allot, issue and deal with
new Shares on the terms set out in the Notice;
“New Share Option Scheme” the new share option scheme of the Company proposed to be
adopted by the Company at the AGM, the principal terms of
which are set out in Appendix III to this circular;
“Notice” the notice convening the AGM;

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DEFINITIONS

“Option(s)” option(s) to subscribe for Shares pursuant to the New Share
Option Scheme;
“Option Period” a period to be notified by the Board to each Participant, which
period shall not in any event be more than ten (10) years from the
date of the grant of the Option;
“Participant(s)” person(s) who or which is/are eligible to participate as grantee(s)
in and receive Options under the New Share Option Scheme, as
set out in the paragraph headed “(C) Who may join” in Appendix
III to this circular;
“PRC” the People’s Republic of China, for the purpose of this circular,
shall exclude Hong Kong, the Macau Special Administrative
Region of the PRC and Taiwan;
“Preference Shares” convertible non-voting preference shares of par value HK$0.01
each in the share capital of the Company;
“Repurchase Mandate” a general mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors to
exercise the power of the Company to repurchase Shares on the
terms set out in the Notice;
“SFO” Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of
Hong Kong);
“Share(s)” share(s) of par value of HK$0.01 each in the share capital of the
Company;
“Shareholders” the holders of the Shares;
“Stock Exchange” The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;
“Subscription Price” the price per Share at which a Grantee may subscribe for Shares
on the exercise of an Option pursuant to the New Share Option
Scheme;
“substantial shareholder” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules;
“Takeovers Code” the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers;
“%” per cent.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

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(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) (Stock Code: 00059)

Executive Directors:

YU Pan (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer) WEN Xiaobing (Deputy Chief Executive Officer) WONG Lok

Registered Office: Clarendon House 2 Church Street Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda

Non-executive Director:

ZHONG Guoxing

Independent Non-executive Directors:

CHOY Shu Kwan CHENG Wing Keung, Raymond CHUNG Lai Fong

Head office and principal place of Business in the PRC:

32nd to 33rd Floors of HNA Tower 8 Linhe Zhong Road, Tianhe District Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, the PRC

Principal place of business in Hong Kong:

Unit 1401, AXA Centre 151 Gloucester Road Wanchai, Hong Kong

27 April, 2015

To the Shareholders

Dear Sir and Madam,

PROPOSED GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE AND REPURCHASE SHARES; RE-ELECTION OF RETIRING DIRECTORS; TERMINATION OF EXISTING SHARE OPTION SCHEME AND ADOPTION OF NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME; ADOPTION OF NEW BYE-LAWS; ADOPTION OF SECONDARY NAME AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

1. INTRODUCTION

At the forthcoming AGM to be held at Empire Room 1, 1st Floor, Empire Hotel Hong Kong • Wanchai, 33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on 9 June 2015 at 3:00 p.m., the following resolutions will be proposed, among other things:

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  • (a) to grant to the Directors a general mandate authorizing them to allot, issue and deal with additional Shares and to make or grant offers, agreements, and options, including bonds, warrants, debentures and other securities convertible into shares not exceeding 20% of the aggregate nominal value of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing such resolution;

  • (b) to grant to the Directors a general mandate authorizing them to repurchase Shares not exceeding 10% of the aggregate nominal value of the shares capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing such resolution;

  • (c) subject to the passing of the proposed ordinary resolutions to approve the New Issue Mandate and the Repurchase Mandate at the AGM, to add to the New Issue Mandate set out in (a) above the number of Shares repurchased by the Company pursuant to the Repurchase Mandate set out in (b) above;

  • (d) to-relect Directors;

  • (e) to terminate the Existing Share Option Scheme and to adopt the New Share Option Scheme;

  • (f) to re-classify all convertible non-voting preference shares of HK$0.01 each (if any) and all ordinary shares of HK$0.01 each in the authorized share capital of the Company as Shares and each existing issued ordinary share of HK$0.01 each of the Company shall be reclassified as a Share;

  • (g) to adopt the New Bye-laws; and

  • (h) to adopt the Chinese Name “天譽置業(控股)有限公司” as the secondary name of the Company.

2. GENERAL MANDATE TO REPURCHASE SHARES

The existing repurchase general mandate was granted to the Directors to repurchase 221,653,117 shares of HK$0.01 each in the share capital of the Company at the annual general meeting of the Company held on 10 June 2014. No share under the existing repurchase mandate has been repurchased since the last annual general meeting held on 10 June 2014. Such mandate will lapse at the conclusion of the AGM.

At the AGM, it will be proposed, by way of an ordinary resolution, that the Directors be granted a general and unconditional mandate to exercise all powers of the Company to repurchase Shares on the Stock Exchange up to a maximum of 10% of the Shares in issue at the date of passing such ordinary resolution granting the general mandate. As at the Latest Practicable Date, there were 2,216,531,175 Shares in issue. Subject to the passing of the relevant ordinary resolution approving the Repurchase Mandate and on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased by the Company between the Latest Practicable Date and the date of the AGM, the Company would be authorized to repurchase a maximum of 221,653,117 Shares under the Repurchase Mandate.

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The Repurchase Mandate, if granted, will continue in force until (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the AGM; or (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required to be held under its bye-laws or laws applicable to the Company; or (iii) it is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution passed in a general meeting of the Company.

An explanatory statement containing information relating to the Repurchase Mandate as required pursuant to the Listing Rules is set out in Appendix I on pages I-1 to 1-3 to this circular.

3. GENERAL MANDATE TO ISSUE NEW SHARES

The existing general mandate to issue new shares was granted to the Directors to allot, issue and deal with 443,306,235 new shares in the annual general meeting held on 10 June 2014. No share under the existing general mandate to issue new shares has been issued since the last annual general meeting held on 10 June 2014. Such mandate will lapse at the conclusion of the AGM. At the AGM, it will also be proposed, by way of an ordinary resolution, that the Directors be granted a general and unconditional mandate to exercise all powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with new Shares up to 20% of the aggregate nominal value of the issued share capital of the Company as at the date of the passing of such ordinary resolution. As at the Latest Practicable Date, there were 2,216,531,175 Shares in issue. Subject to the passing of the relevant ordinary resolution to approve the New Issue Mandate and on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased between the Latest Practicable Date and the date of the AGM, the Company would be authorized to allot, issue and deal with up to a maximum of 443,306,235 Shares under the New Issue Mandate.

In addition, it is further proposed, by way of a separate ordinary resolution, that the New Issue Mandate be extended so that the Directors be given a general mandate to issue further Shares of an aggregate nominal value equal to the aggregate nominal value of the share capital of the Company repurchased under the Repurchase Mandate. The New Issue Mandate if granted will continue in force until (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the AGM; or (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required to be held under its bye-laws or laws applicable to the Company; or (iii) it is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution passed in a general meeting of the Company.

4. RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. YU Pan, Mr. WEN Xiaobing and Mr. WONG Lok are the Executive Directors; Mr. ZHONG Guoxing is the Non-executive Director and Mr. CHOY Shu Kwan, Mr. CHENG Wing Keung, Raymond and Ms. CHUNG Lai Fong are the Independent Non-executive Directors. Pursuant to Bye-Law 87(1) of the Bye-laws and Corporate Governance Code as set out in Appendix 14 to the Listing Rules, Mr. YU Pan, Mr. CHENG Wing Keung, Raymond and Ms. CHUNG Lai Fong will retire at the AGM by rotation. All retiring directors, being eligible, will offer themselves for reelection at the AGM.

Details of the Directors proposed to be re-elected at the AGM are set out in Appendix II on pages II-1 to II-2 to this circular.

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5. PROPOSED TERMINATION OF EXISTING SHARE OPTION SCHEME AND ADOPTION OF NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME

The Existing Share Option Scheme, with a term of 10 years, will expire on 3 August 2015. In view that the Existing Share Option Scheme is to expire soon, an ordinary resolution will be proposed at the AGM to terminate the Existing Share Option Scheme and to approve and adopt the New Share Option Scheme and to give the Directors the power to implement and administer the New Share Option Scheme with effect from the Adoption Date.

Following the termination of the Existing Share Option Scheme, no further options will be granted under such scheme, but in all other respects the provisions of the Existing Share Option Scheme will remain in full force and effect and options granted prior to such termination will continue to be valid and exercisable in accordance with the rules of the Existing Share Option Scheme.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, there were in total 46,917,870 options outstanding under the Existing Share Option Scheme and the Company had no other share option scheme.

Reason for adopting the New Share Option Scheme

The purpose of the New Share Option Scheme is to provide incentives or rewards to Participants for contribution they have made or may make to the Group and to enable the Group to recruit and retain high-calibre employees and attract human resources that are valuable to the Group and/or any Invested Entity.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, there were 2,216,531,175 Shares in issue. Assuming that there is no change in the issued share capital of the Company during the period from the Latest Practicable Date to the date of AGM, the maximum number of Shares that may be issued upon exercise of all options to be granted under the New Share Option Scheme and any other share option scheme of the Company (if any) will be 221,653,117 Shares, being 10% of the total number of Shares in issue.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, no Options had been granted or agreed to be granted under the New Share Option Scheme.

Conditions

The New Share Option Scheme is conditional upon the following:

  • (a) the passing of an ordinary resolution by the Shareholders at the AGM to terminate the Existing Share Option Scheme and to approve and adopt the New Share Option Scheme and authorize the Board to grant Options thereunder and to allot, issue and deal with the Shares which fall to be issued by the Company pursuant to the exercise of the Options granted under the New Share Option Scheme; and

  • (b) the Listing Committee granting approval of the listing of and permission to deal in the Shares to be issued and allotted pursuant to the exercise of the Options to be granted under the New Share Option Scheme.

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Application will be made to the Listing Committee for the granting of the approval of the listing of and permission to deal in the Shares which may fall to be issued upon exercise of the Options which may be granted under the New Share Option Scheme.

The New Share Option Scheme does not specify a minimum period for which an Option must be held nor a performance target which must be achieved before an Option can be exercised. However, the New Share Option Scheme provides that the Directors may, at their discretion, fix any minimum period for which an Option must be held, any performance targets that must be achieved and/or any other conditions that must be fulfilled before an Option can be exercised. The Board may also provide restrictions on the exercise of an Option during the period an Option may be exercised. Such conditions may assist the Group to retain employees of the Group and/or Invested Entities and its relation with other Participants and provide incentive to the Participants to work for the betterment of business of the Group and/or Invested Entities.

Value of the Options

The Directors consider it inappropriate to state the value of any Options which may be granted under the New Share Option Scheme, as a number of variables which are crucial for the valuation (such as the possibility of lapses or cancellations of Options granted, cessation of the Grantee as a Participant not foreseeable nor controllable by the Directors at this stage) cannot be determined evidently at this stage. Such variables also include the exercise price of the Options and the conditions, if any, that an Option is subject to. Accordingly, any valuation of the Options based on a large number of speculative assumptions would not be meaningful and may be misleading to the Shareholders.

None of the Directors is a trustee of the New Share Option Scheme or has a direct or indirect interest in such a trustee.

Summary of the principal terms of the New Share Option Scheme are set out in Appendix III on page III-1 to III-8 to this circular. A copy of the New Share Option Scheme is available for inspection at the principal place of business of the Company in Hong Kong at Unit 1401, 14/F., AXA Centre, 151 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong during normal business hours from the date hereof up to and including the AGM.

6. PROPOSED ADOPTION OF NEW BYE-LAWS

The Bye-laws of the Company have not been amended since 8 June 2009. In order to bring the constitution of the Company in line with amendments made to applicable laws of Bermuda and the Listing Rules since then and to incorporate certain housekeeping amendments, which amendments are rather extensive, the Board proposes to put forward to the Shareholders for approval at the AGM a special resolution to adopt the New Bye-laws which consolidates all of the proposed amendments and all previous amendments made pursuant to resolutions passed by the Shareholders.

Below is a short summary of the major changes to the Bye-laws:

  • (i) to insert the definition of “close associate” and update the provisions in the Bye-laws containing references to “associate” in light of amendments to the Listing Rules;

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  • (ii) to remove all references and provisions in the Bye-laws relating to Preference Shares of the Company as the Company no longer has any Preference Share in issue;

  • (iii) to delete the provisions relating to financial assistance which is no longer prohibited under Bermuda law;

  • (iv) to provide that all resolutions at general meetings of the Company shall be decided by poll other than resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter as may be permitted under the Listing Rules to be voted by a show of hands;

  • (v) to provide that an annual general meeting of the Company shall be called by notice of not less than 21 clear days and not less than 20 clear business days and all other general meetings (including a special general meeting) shall be called by notice of not less than 14 clear days and not less than 10 clear business days;

  • (vi) to no longer permit a Director to disregard 5% interests when considering whether a Director has a material interest which would prevent him from forming part of the quorum of or voting at a board meeting;

  • (vii) to provide that if a substantial shareholder or a Director has a conflict of interest in a matter to be considered by the Board which the Board has determined to be material, the matter shall be dealt with by a physical board meeting rather than a written resolution;

  • (viii) in line with the amended requirements under the Act, to provide that no dividend shall be paid or distribution made out of contributed surplus if to do so would render the Company unable to pay its liabilities as they become due or the realizable value of its assets would thereby become less than its liabilities (instead of the previous requirement of not being less than the aggregate of the Company’s liabilities and its issued share capital and share premium account).

The proposed adoption of the New Bye-laws will be subject to the approval by the Shareholders by way of a special resolution at the AGM.

The New Bye-laws is set out in Appendix IV on pages IV-1 to IV-50 to this circular. Shareholders are advised that the New Bye-laws are written in English only and there is no official Chinese translation. The Chinese translation of the New Bye-laws is for reference purpose only. In case of any inconsistency, the English version shall prevail.

The legal adviser of the Company as to Hong Kong laws has confirmed that the New Bye-laws comply with the requirements of the Listing Rules and the legal adviser of the Company as to Bermuda laws has confirmed to the Company that the New Bye-laws do not contravene or violate the applicable laws of Bermuda. In addition, the Company confirms that there is nothing unusual about the proposed amendments to the Bye-laws.

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7. PROPOSED ADOPTION OF SECONDARY NAME

The Board proposes to adopt its current Chinese Name “天譽置業(控股)有限公司” as the secondary name of the Company.

Reasons for the Adoption of the Secondary Name

The Chinese Name is currently the Chinese translation of the English name of the Company which has been used for identification purposes only. The Company’s major subsidiaries are engaged in the business of real estate development in mainland China. The Board considers that the Adoption of the Secondary Name can strengthen the Company’s corporate image and identity as a developer in China, and is in the interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a whole.

Conditions

The Adoption of the Secondary Name is conditional upon:

  • (i) the passing of the special resolution to approve the Adoption of the Secondary Name by the Shareholders at the AGM; and

  • (ii) the entry of the secondary name of the Company on the register maintained by the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda.

Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions as set out above, the Adoption of the Secondary Name will take effect from the date of entry of the secondary name of the Company on the register by the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda. The Company will then carry out all necessary filing procedures with the Companies Registry in Hong Kong.

Effects of the Adoption of the Secondary Name

The Adoption of Secondary Name will not affect any rights of the Shareholders. All existing share certificates in issue bearing the existing name of the Company will, after the Adoption of the Secondary Name becomes effective, continue to be evidence of title to the Shares and will continue to be valid for trading, settlement, registration and delivery purposes. Accordingly, there will not be any arrangements for free exchange of the existing share certificates of the Company for new share certificates bearing the secondary name. Once the Adoption of Secondary Name has become effective, new share certificates bearing the secondary name of the Company will be deployed for share transactions thereafter.

Further announcement will be made by the Company regarding the effective date of the Adoption of the Secondary Name.

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8. RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT

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

9. RECOMMENDATION

The Directors are of the opinion that (i) the grant of the Repurchase Mandate, (ii) the grant of the New Issue Mandate, (iii) the extension of the New Issue Mandate, (iv) the election of retiring Directors, (v) the proposed adoption of the New Share Option Scheme and termination of the existing Share Option Scheme, (vi) to re-classify all convertible non-voting preference shares of HK$0.01 each (if any) and all ordinary shares of HK$0.01 each in the authorized share capital of the Company as Shares; (vii) the adoption of the New Bye-laws, and (viii) the Adoption of the Secondary Name are all in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a whole and recommend the Shareholders to vote in favour of the relevant resolutions to be proposed at the AGM.

10. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

A notice convening the AGM is set out on pages AGM-1 to AGM-5 of this circular. Ordinary resolutions will be proposed at the AGM to approve, among other things, the granting of the New Issue Mandate (including to extend the New Issue Mandate) and the Repurchase Mandate, the adoption of the New Share Option Scheme and termination of the Existing Share Option Scheme and special resolutions will be proposed to approve the adoption of the New Bye-laws and Adoption of the Secondary Name.

A form of proxy for use at the AGM is enclosed with this circular. Whether or not you are able to attend the meeting, you are requested to complete the enclosed form of proxy and return it to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Tricor Abacus Limited at Level 22, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong, as soon as possible and in any event not later than 48 hours before the time of the meeting or any adjournment thereof. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting at the meeting or any adjournment thereof should you wish to do so. All the resolutions proposed to be approved at the AGM will be taken by poll and an announcement of the voting result of the AGM will be made by the Company after the AGM.

Yours faithfully,

For and on behalf of the Board

Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited

YU Pan

Chairman

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Appendix i

This appendix serves as an explanatory statement, as required by the Listing Rules, to provide the requisite information to you for your consideration of the Repurchase Mandate.

1. SHARE CAPITAL

As at the Latest Practicable Date, there were 2,216,531,175 fully paid up Shares in issue. Subject to the passing of the relevant ordinary resolution approving the Repurchase Mandate and on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased prior to the date of the AGM, the Company would be authorised to repurchase up to a maximum of 221,653,117 Shares representing 10% of the total issued share capital of the Company.

2. REASONS FOR THE REPURCHASES

The Directors believe that it is in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders to have general authority from the Shareholders to enable the Directors to repurchase Shares on the Stock Exchange. Such repurchase may, depending on market conditions and funding arrangements at the time, lead to an enhancement of the net asset value per Share and/or its earnings per Share and will only be made when the Directors believe that such repurchase will benefit the Company and its Shareholders as a whole.

3. FUNDING OF THE REPURCHASES

It is proposed that repurchases of Shares under the Repurchase Mandate would be financed from available cash flow or working capital facilities of the Company and its subsidiaries. In repurchasing the Shares, the Company may only apply funds legally available for such purpose in accordance with its bye-laws and the laws of Bermuda. The laws of Bermuda provide that the amount of capital repaid in connection with a share repurchase may only be paid out of either the capital paid up on the relevant Shares, or funds of the Company which would otherwise be available for dividend or distribution or the proceeds of a new issue of Shares made for the purpose of the repurchase. The amount of premium payable on the repurchase may only be paid out of either funds of the Company which would otherwise be available for dividend or distribution or out of the share premium account of the Company before the Shares are repurchased.

In the event that the proposed Repurchase Mandate was to be exercised in full at any time during the proposed repurchase period, the repurchase of Shares might have a material adverse impact on the working capital or gearing position of the Company (as compared with the position disclosed in the latest published audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2014). Should there be a material adverse effect on the working capital or the gearing levels of the Company, the Directors will not propose to exercise the Repurchase Mandate.

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4. SHARE PRICES

The highest and lowest prices at which the Shares have been traded on the Stock Exchange in each of the previous twelve months up to the Latest Practicable Date were as follows:

Per Share
Highest Lowest
HK$ HK$
2014
March 0.890 0.750
April* 0.940 0.780
May 0.950 0.820
June 0.880 0.800
July 0.900 0.770
August 0.870 0.750
September 0.880 0.760
October 0.850 0.700
November 0.800 0.750
December 0.800 0.700
2015
January 0.750 0.630
February 0.670 0.620
March 0.970 0.610
April (up to the Latest Practicable Date) 0.860 0.730
  • Trading of shares was suspended from 24 April 2014 to 29 April 2014.

5. DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTS

None of the Directors, nor to the best of their knowledge and belief having made all reasonable enquiries, any of their close associates has any present intention, in the event that the Repurchase Mandate is approved by the Shareholders, to sell any of the Shares to the Company.

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

6. UNDERTAKING OF THE DIRECTORS

The Directors have undertaken to the Stock Exchange that if they shall exercise the powers of the Company to make repurchase of Shares pursuant to the Repurchase Mandate, they will exercise the same in accordance with the Listing Rules and the laws of Bermuda.

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7. EFFECT OF THE TAKEOVERS CODE

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

As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. YU Pan, together with companies controlled by him, beneficially held 1,587,168,407 Shares, representing approximately 71.61% of the issued shares of the Company. On the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased and in the event that the Repurchase Mandate is exercised in full and there is no change in shareholding in the Company owned by Mr. YU Pan and companies controlled by him, the shareholding in the Company owned by Mr. YU Pan and companies controlled by him would be increased to approximately 79.56%. Should such increase arise, Mr. YU Pan together with companies controlled by him would not be required to make a mandatory offer under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code because the shareholding held by Mr. YU Pan and companies controlled by him already exceeds 50% of the issued shares of the Company. Nevertheless, the Directors have no present intention to exercise the Repurchase Mandate and will not effect repurchase to such an extent which will result in the Company failing to comply with Rule 8.08 of the Listing Rules which requires a public float of 25%.

8. SHARE REPURCHASES MADE BY THE COMPANY

No repurchase of the Shares (whether on the Stock Exchange or otherwise) has been made by the Company during the six months preceding the Latest Practicable Date.

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Mr. YU Pan , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, aged 50, has over 25 years of experience in the development high-end residential, commercial and hotel projects in the PRC. Mr. Yu is a founder of the prestigious real estate company, 廣州市天譽房地產開發有限公司 (Guangzhou Tianyu Real Estate Development Company Limited*), which was set up in July 1997 from which the Company acquired some real estate projects in 2007. He oversees the strategic planning and corporate development of the Group.

Mr. YU, is a director and substantial shareholder of a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, namely 綠景控股股份有限公司 (Lvjing Holding Co., Ltd.*). Other than the aforesaid, Mr. YU did not hold any directorship in other listed companies in the last three years and does not have relationship with any other Directors, senior management, substantial shareholders or controlling shareholders of the Company.

Mr. YU is personally beneficially interested in 141,504,000 Shares and is deemed to be interested in 1,445,664,407 Shares which are held by companies controlled by Mr YU as at the Latest Practicable Date. Apart from these, Mr. YU does not have any other interest in Shares and underlying shares of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO as at the Latest Practicable Date.

Mr. YU has entered into a service agreement with the Company with no specific term of service but he is subject to retirement and re-election provision in the Bye-laws. He received an annual remuneration of HK$2,650,620 (including discretionary incentive-based bonus) for acting as an executive Director for the year ended 31 December 2014. The Company has provided a residential apartment in Hong Kong to Mr. YU for his accommodation during his term of office. His remuneration will be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company taking reference to his duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation.

Mr. CHENG Wing Keung, Raymond , independent non-executive director of the Company, aged 55, is a practising solicitor in Hong Kong. Mr. CHENG holds an honour degree in laws in The University of London and a Master degree of Business Administration awarded by The University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Mr. CHENG also holds a Diploma in Chinese Professional Laws in the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, PRC. He has over 27 years of experience in corporate, company secretarial and listing affairs. At present, Mr. CHENG is an independent non-executive director in a listed company in Hong Kong, namely Sino Resources Group Limited (stock code: 223). He resigned as independent nonexecutive director in Emperor Capital Group Limited (stock code: 717) on 27 March 2014.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. CHENG does not hold any directorship in other listed companies in the last three years. He does not have any relationship with any other Directors, senior management, substantial shareholders or controlling shareholders of the Company.

  • for identification purpose only

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Within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO, as at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. CHENG is beneficially interested in 625,571 share options of the Company. Save as disclosed, Mr. CHENG does not have, and is not deemed to have, any interests or short positions in any Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company and its associated corporations.

Mr. CHENG has entered into a service agreement with the Company. He is entitled to a director fee of HK$240,000 per annum for acting as an independent non-executive Director with fixed term of service for one year, subject to automatic renewal and retirement provision under the Bye-laws. His director fee will be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company taking reference to his duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation.

Ms. CHUNG Lai Fong , independent non-executive director of the Company, aged 47, is a practising barrister in Hong Kong. Ms. CHUNG holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Accountancy and a Master of Laws degree in Chinese Law. She is also a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (UK) and the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries. Ms. CHUNG has over 19 years of professional experience in accounting, taxation, company secretarial, legal, regulatory and corporate affairs. Currently, Ms. CHUNG is an independent non-executive director of Far City Mining Limited, a company listed on Canadian National Stock Exchange.

Save as disclosed above, Ms. CHUNG does not hold any directorship in other listed companies in the last three years. She does not have any relationship with any other Directors, senior management, substantial shareholders or controlling shareholders of the Company.

Within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO, as at the Latest Practicable Date, Ms. CHUNG is beneficially interested in 625,571 share options of the Company. Save as disclosed, Ms. CHUNG does not have, and is not deemed to have, any interests or short positions in any Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company and its associated corporations.

Ms. CHUNG has entered into a service agreement with the Company. She is entitled to a director fee of HK$240,000 per annum for acting as an independent non-executive Director with fixed term of service for one year, subject to automatic renewal and retirement provision under the Bye-laws. Her director fee will be reviewed and determined by the Board annually with authorization granted by the Shareholders at an annual general meeting of the Company taking reference to her duties and responsibilities with the Company, the Company’s performance and the prevailing market situation.

In relation to the re-election of directors as mentioned above, there is no any other information is required to be disclosed pursuant to any of the requirements of the provision under paragraphs 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the main board Listing Rules nor are there other matters that need to be brought to the attention of the Shareholders of the Company.

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APPENDIX III

The following is a summary of the principal terms of the New Share Option Scheme to be adopted at the AGM:

(A) PURPOSE OF THE NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME

The New Share Option Scheme enables the Company to grant options to selected persons as incentives or rewards for contribution they have made or may make to the Group or any Invested Entity.

(B) ADMINISTRATION OF THE NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME

The New Share Option Scheme shall be subject to the administration by the Board which includes a duly authorised committee thereof and the decision of the Board shall be final and binding on all parties.

(C) WHO MAY JOIN

The Board may, at its discretion, grant Options to any of the Participants.

Participants means (i) any Employee; (ii) any directors (including executive, non-executive and independent non-executive directors) of any member of the Group or any Invested Entity, and for the purposes of the New Share Option Scheme, Options may be granted to any company wholly owned by one or more persons belonging to any of the above classes of Participants.

(D) SUBSCRIPTION PRICE

The Subscription Price of a Share in respect of any particular Option shall be price as the Board in its absolute discretion shall determine, save that such price will not be less than the highest of (i) the closing price of the Shares as stated in the Stock Exchange’s daily quotations sheet on the date of grant, which must be a business day; (ii) the average of the closing prices of the Shares as stated in the Stock Exchange’s daily quotations sheets for the five business days immediately preceding the date of grant; and (iii) the normal value of the Shares.

(E) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SHARES AVAILABLE FOR SUBSCRIPTION

  • (i) The total number of Shares which may be issued upon exercise of all outstanding options granted and yet to be exercised under the New Share Option Scheme and any other share option scheme of the Company must not, in aggregate, exceed 30% of the Shares in issue from time to time.

  • (ii) Subject to sub-paragraph (i) above, the total number of Shares available for issue upon exercise of all options to be granted under the New Share Option Scheme and any other share option scheme of the Company must not, in aggregate, exceed 10% of the Shares in issue as at the Adoption Date (the “Scheme Mandate Limit”), unless Shareholders’ approval has been obtained pursuant to sub-paragraphs (iii) and (iv) below. Options lapsed in accordance with the terms of the New Share Option Scheme will not be counted for the purpose of calculating the Scheme Mandate Limit.

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  • (iii) Subject to sub-paragraph (i) above, the Company may refresh the Scheme Mandate Limit at any time subject to approval of the Shareholders in general meeting. However, the Scheme Mandate Limit as refreshed must not exceed 10% of the Shares in issue as at the date of the aforesaid Shareholders’ approval (the “Refreshed Limit”). Options previously granted under the New Share Option Scheme and any other share option scheme of the Company (including those outstanding, cancelled, lapsed in accordance with such schemes or exercised options) will not be counted for the purpose of calculating the Refreshed Limit. The Company must send a circular to the Shareholders in compliance with the requirements under the Listing Rules.

  • (iv) Subject to sub-paragraph (i) above, the Company may also seek separate approval of the Shareholders in general meeting for granting Options beyond the Scheme Mandate Limit provided that the Options in excess of the Scheme Mandate Limit are granted only to Participants specifically identified by the Company before such approval is sought. The Company must send a circular to the Shareholders containing a generic description of the specified Participants, the number and terms of Options to be granted, the purpose of granting Options to the specified Participants with an explanation as to how the Options serve such purpose and such other requirements under the Listing Rules.

(F) MAXIMUM ENTITLEMENT OF EACH PARTICIPANT

The total number of Shares issued and to be issued upon exercise of the options granted and to be granted to each Participant (including exercised, cancelled and outstanding options) under the New Share Option Scheme and any other share option scheme of the Company in any 12-month period up to and including the date of grant shall not exceed 1% of the Shares in issue (the “Individual Limit”). Any further grant of options in excess of the Individual limit must be subject to Shareholders’ approval in general meeting with such Participant and his, her or its close associates (or his, her or its associates if the Participant is a connected person) abstaining from voting. The Company must send a circular to the Shareholders disclosing the identity of the Participant, the number and terms of the Options to be granted (and options previously granted) to such Participant and such other requirements under the Listing Rules. The number and terms (including the Subscription Price) of the Options to be granted to such Participant must be fixed before the date of the relevant Shareholders’ meeting and the date of the relevant Board meeting for proposing such further grant of the Options should be taken as the date of grant for the purpose of calculating the Subscription Price.

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(G) GRANT OF OPTIONS

  • (i) Any offer of grant of Options proposed to be made to a director, chief executive or substantial shareholder of the Company or any of their respective associates must be approved by the independent non-executive Directors (excluding any independent nonexecutive Director who is the proposed Grantee of the Options).

  • (ii) Where any offer of grant of Options proposed to be made to a substantial shareholder of the Company or an independent non-executive Director or any of their respective associates would result in the total number of Shares issued and to be issued upon exercise of all options already granted and to be granted (including options exercised, cancelled and outstanding) under the New Share Option Scheme and any other share option scheme of the Company to such person in the 12-month period up to and including the date of such grant:

  • (aa) representing in aggregate over 0.1% of the Shares in issue; and

  • (bb) having an aggregate value, based on the closing price of the Shares at the date of each grant, in excess of HK$5 million.

such further offer of grant of Options must be subject to approval of the Shareholders in general meeting. The Company must send a circular to the Shareholders. The Grantee, his associates and all core connected persons of the Company must abstain from voting in favour of such resolution to be proposed at such general meeting for the approval of the offer of the grant of Option (except where such persons intend to vote against such resolution at the general meeting and their intention to do so have been stated in the circular). In addition, Shareholders’ approval as described above is also required for any change in the terms of Options already granted to a Participant who is substantial shareholder, an independent nonexecutive Director or any of their respective associates.

  • (iii) The requirements for the granting of Options to a Director or chief executive of the Company set out above do not apply where the Participant is only a proposed Director or chief executive of the Company.

(H) TIME OF AND PAYMENT ON ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT OF OPTION

An offer of grant of an Option shall remain open for acceptance by the Participant to whom an offer of grant of an Option is made for a period of twenty-one (21) days from the date on which an Offer is made, provided that no such offer shall be open for acceptance after the tenth (10th) anniversary of the Adoption Date or after the New Share Option Scheme has been terminated in accordance with the provision thereof. A consideration of HK$1 is payable on acceptance of the offer.

(I) TIME OF EXERCISE OF OPTION

An Option may be exercised in accordance with the terms of the New Share Option Scheme at any time during a period to be notified by the Board to each Participant but may not be exercised after the expiry of ten (10) years from the date of grant of the Option. The Board may provide restrictions on the exercise of an Option during the period an Option may be exercised including, if appropriate, a minimum period for which an Option must be held or any performance targets which must be achieved before an Option can be exercised.

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(J) RIGHTS ARE PERSONAL TO GRANTEE

An Option may not be transferred or assigned and is personal to the Grantee.

(K) RIGHTS ON CESSATION OF EMPLOYMENT BY DISMISSAL

If the Grantee is an Employee and ceases to be an Employee by reason of the termination of his or her employment on the grounds that he or she has been guilty of serious misconduct, or appears either to be unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect being able to pay debts or has become insolvent or has made any arrangement or composition with his or her creditors generally, or has been convicted of any criminal offence involving his or her integrity or honesty or on any ground on which an employer would be entitled to terminate his or her employment at common law or pursuant to any applicable laws or under the Grantee’s service contract with the Group or Invested Entity, his or her Option will lapse on the date of termination of the employment.

(L) RIGHTS ON DEATH

If the Grantee is an Employee and ceases to be an Employee by reason of his or her death before exercising the Option in full and none of the events referred to in paragraph (K) above as ground for termination of his or her employment arises, his or her legal personal representative(s) may exercise the Option (to the extent not already exercised) within a period of twelve (12) months from the date of death, failing which it will lapse.

(M) RIGHTS ON CESSATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHER REASONS

If the grantee of an Option is an Employee and ceases to be an Employee for any reason other than paragraphs (K) and (L) above, his or her Option may be exercised within three (3) months following the date of such cessation up to his or her entitlement at the date of cessation (to the extent not already exercised), which date shall be the last actual working day with the Group or the Invested Entity, whether salary is paid in lieu of notice or not.

(N) CANCELLATION OF OPTIONS

Any cancellation of any Option which has been duly granted in accordance with the New Share Option Scheme and has neither lapsed or been exercised in full shall be conditional on the approval by the Board and the Grantee concerned. In the event that such Options have been cancelled, the issue of new Options to the same Grantee shall be made with available unissued Options (excluding the cancelled Options) within the Scheme Mandate Limit or the Refreshed Limit, as the case may be.

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(O) EFFECTS OF ALTERATIONS TO SHARE CAPITAL

In the event of any alteration in the capital structure of the Company whilst any Option remains exercisable, whether by way of capitalisation issue, rights issue, sub-division or consolidation of Shares or reduction of capital of the Company or otherwise howsoever, other than any alteration as a result of an issue of Shares as consideration in a transaction to which any member of the Group is a party, such corresponding alterations (if any) shall be made to the aggregate number of Shares in respect of which Options may be granted and/or the number of Shares to which any Options relate so far as unexercised and/or the Subscription Price of each outstanding Option as the independent financial adviser or the auditors of the Company shall certify in writing to the Board to be in their opinion to be fair and reasonable and have satisfied the requirements of the relevant provisions of the Listing Rules and such applicable guidance and/or interpretation of the Listing Rules from time to time issued by the Stock Exchange (including but without limitation, “Supplemental Guidance on Main Board Listing Rule 17.03(13) and the Note immediately after the Rule” attached to the letter issued by the Stock Exchange dated 5 September 2005 to all issuers relating share option schemes) (except in the case of a capitalisation issue where no such certification is required). Any such alterations will be made on the basis that the aggregate Subscription Price payable on the full exercise of any Option is to remain as nearly as possible the same (and in any event not greater than) as it was before such event. No such alteration will be made the effect of which would be to enable a Share to be issued at less than its nominal value or which would change the proportion of the issued share capital of the Company for which any Grantee of an Option is entitled to subscribe pursuant to the Options held by him or her before such alteration. The issue of Shares as consideration in a transaction is not to be regarded as a circumstance requiring any such alterations.

(P) RIGHTS ON A GENERAL OFFER

  • (i) In the event of a general offer (other than by way of scheme of arrangement referred to below) being made to all the Shareholders (or all such holders other than the offeror, any person controlled by the offeror and any person acting in association or concert with the offeror) and such offer becomes or is declared unconditional prior to the expiry date of the relevant Option, the Grantee (or his or her legal personal representatives) shall be entitled to exercise the Option (to the extent not already exercised) in full or to the extent specified in such notice at any time within one (1) month of the notice given by the offeror to acquire the remaining Shares.

  • (ii) In the event of a general offer by way of scheme of arrangement being made to all the Shareholders and having been approved by the necessary number of Shareholders at the requisite meetings, the Grantee (or his or her legal personal representatives) may thereafter (but before such time as shall be notified by the Company) exercise the Option (to the extent not already exercised) to its full extent or to the extent specified in such notice.

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(Q) RIGHTS ON WINDING UP

In the event a notice is given by the Company to the Shareholders to convene a general meeting for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving a resolution to voluntarily wind up the Company, the Company shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Grantee and the Grantee (or his or her legal personal representatives) may be notice in writing to the Company (such notice to be received by the Company not later than four (4) business days prior to the proposed general meeting) exercise the Option (to the extent not already exercised) either to its full extent or to the extent specified in such notice and the Company shall as soon as possible and in any event no later than the business day immediately prior to the date of the proposed general meeting, allot and issue such number of Shares to the Grantee which falls to be issued on such exercise.

(R) RIGHTS ON COMPROMISE OR ARRANGEMENT

Other than a scheme of arrangement referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (P) above, in the event of a compromise or arrangement between the Company and its members or creditors being proposed in connection with the scheme for the reconstruction or amalgamation of the Company, the Company shall give notice thereof to all Grantees on the same day as it gives notice of the meeting to its members or creditors to consider such a scheme or arrangement and the Grantee (or his or her legal personal representatives) may be notice in writing to the Company accompanied by the remittance for the exercise price in respect of the relevant Option (such notice to be received by the Company not later than four (4) business days prior to the proposed meeting) exercise the Option (to the extent not already exercised) either to its full extent or to the extent specified in such notice and the Company shall as soon as possible and in any event no later than the business day immediately prior to the date of the proposed meeting, allot and issue such number of Shares to the Grantee which falls to be issued on such exercise credited as fully paid and registered the Grantee as holder thereof.

(S) RANKING OF SHARES

Shares to be allotted and issued on the exercise of Options will rank pari passu with the fully-paid Shares in issue as from the date when the name of the Grantee is registered on the register of members of the Company and accordingly will entitle the holders to participate in all dividends or other distributions paid or made on or after the date when the name of the Grantee is registered on the register of members of the Company.

(T) DURATION OF THE NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME

Subject to earlier termination by the Company in general meeting or by the Board, the New Share Option Scheme shall be valid and effective for a period of ten (10) years from the Adoption Date. After the expiry of the ten-year period, no further Options will be offered or granted but the provisions of the New Share Option Scheme shall remain in full force and effect in all other respects.

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(U) TERMINATION OF THE NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME

The Company by ordinary resolution in general meeting or the Board may at any time terminate the operation of the New Share Option Scheme and in such event no further Options will be offered or granted but in all other respects the provisions of the New Share Option Scheme shall remain in full force and effect. Options complying with the provisions of Chapter 17 of the Listing Rules which are granted during the life of the New Share Option Scheme and remain unexpired immediately prior to the termination of the operation of the New Share Option Scheme shall continue to be exercisable thereafter.

(V) LAPSE OF OPTION

An Option shall lapse automatically(to the extent not already exercised) on the earliest of:

  • (i) the expiry of the Option Period;

  • (ii) the expiry of the periods referred to in paragraphs (L), (M) or (R), respectively;

  • (iii) subject to the scheme of arrangement becoming effective, the expiry of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (P);

  • (iv) where the grantee of an Option is an Employee, the date on which he or she ceases to be an Employee by reason of the termination of his or her employment on the grounds referred to in paragraph (K);

  • (v) subject to the provision referred to in paragraph (Q), the date of the commencement of the voluntary winding up of the Company;

  • (vi) the date on which the Grantee sells, transfers, charges, mortgages, encumbers or creates any interest in favour of any third party over or in relation to the Option in breach of the New Share Option Scheme;

  • (vii) the expiry of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (P) provided that if any court of competent jurisdiction makes an order the effect of which is to prevent the offeror from acquiring Shares in the offer, the relevant period within which Options may be exercised shall not begin to run until the discharge of the order in question or unless the offer lapses or is withdrawn before that date; or

  • (viii) the date on which the Grantee commits a breach of any terms or conditions attached to the grant of the Option, unless otherwise resolved to the contrary by the Board.

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APPENDIX III

(W) ALTERATIONS TO THE NEW SHARE OPTION SCHEME

The New Share Option Scheme may subject to the Listing Rules be altered in any respect by resolution of the Board except that the provisions of the New Share Option Scheme as to:

  • (i) the definitions of “Participant”, “Grantee” and “Option Period” in paragraph 1.1 of the New Share Option Scheme; and

  • (ii) the purpose of the New Share Option Scheme, the duration of the New Share Option Scheme, the grant of Options, the Subscription Price, the exercise of Options, the lapse of Options, the maximum number of Shares available for subscription, the reorganisation of the capital structure of the Company and the alteration of the New Share Option Scheme.

are governed by Rule 17.03 of the Listing Rules and shall not be altered to the advantage of Grantees or prospective Grantees except with the prior sanction of a resolution of the Company in general meeting (with all Grantees, prospective Grantees and their associates abstaining from voting). No such alteration shall operate to affect adversely the terms of issue of any Option granted or agreed to be granted prior to such alteration except with the consent or sanction of such majority of the Grantees as would be required of the Shareholders under the bye-laws for the time being of the Company for a variation of the rights attached to the Shares. Any alterations to the terms and conditions of the New Share Option Scheme which are of a material nature or any change to the terms of Options granted must be approved by the Shareholders at a general meeting, except where such alterations take effect automatically under the existing terms of the New Share Option Scheme. Any change to the authority of the Board in relation to any alteration to the terms of the New Share Option Scheme must be approved by the Shareholders at a general meeting. The amended terms of the New Share Option Scheme or the Options must still comply with the relevant requirements of Chapter 17 of the Listing Rules.

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APPENDIX IV

INTERPRETATION

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

WORD MEANING

  • “Act” the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda;

  • “Auditor” the auditor of the Company for the time being and may include any individual or partnership;

“business day” shall mean a day on which the Designated Stock Exchange generally is open for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Designated Stock Exchange is closed for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong on a business day by reason of a Number 8 or higher typhoon signal, black rainstorm warning or other similar event, such day shall for the purposes of these Bye-laws be counted as a business day;

  • “Bye-laws” these Bye-laws in their present form or as supplemented or amended or substituted from time to time;

  • “Board” or “Directors” the board of directors of the Company or the directors present at a meeting of directors of the Company at which a quorum is present;

  • “capital” the share capital of the Company from time to time;

“clear days” in relation to the period of 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;

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

  • “close associate”

  • in relation to any Director, shall have the same meaning as defined in the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange (“Listing Rules”) as modified from time to time, except that for purposes of Bye-law 100 where the transaction or arrangement to be approved by the Board is a connected transaction referred to in the Listing Rules, it shall have the same meaning as that ascribed to “associate” in the Listing Rules;

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“Company”

Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited 天譽置業(控股)有限公司;

  • “competent regulatory authority”

  • a competent regulatory authority in the territory where the shares of the Company are listed or quoted on a stock exchange in such territory;

  • “debenture” and “debenture holder”

  • include debenture stock and debenture stockholder respectively;

  • “Designated Stock Exchange”

  • a stock exchange which is an appointed stock exchange for the purposes of the Act in respect of which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted and where such appointed stock exchange deems such listing or quotation to be the primary listing or quotation of the shares of the Company;

  • “dollars” and “$” dollars, the legal currency of Hong Kong;

  • “head office”

  • such office of the Company as the Directors may from time to time determine to be the principal office of the Company;

  • “Member” a duly registered holder from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company;

  • “month” a calendar month;

  • “Notice” written notice unless otherwise specifically stated and as further defined in these Bye-laws;

  • “Office” the registered office of the Company for the time being;

  • “paid up” paid up or credited as paid up;

  • “Register” the principal register and where applicable, any branch register of Members to be kept pursuant to the provisions of the Act;

  • “Registration Office” in respect of any class of share capital such place as the Board may from time to time determine to keep a branch register of Members in respect of that class of share capital and where (except in cases where the Board otherwise directs) the transfers or other documents of title for such class of share capital are to be lodged for registration and are to be registered;

  • “Seal” common seal or any one or more duplicate seals of the Company (including a securities seal) for use in Bermuda or in any place outside Bermuda;

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any person firm or corporation appointed by the Board to perform any of the duties of secretary of the Company and includes any assistant, deputy, temporary or acting secretary;

“Secretary” any person firm or corporation appointed by the Board to perform any of the duties of secretary of the Company and includes any assistant, deputy, temporary or acting secretary; “Statutes” the Act and every other act of the Legislature of Bermuda for the time being in force applying to or affecting the Company, its memorandum of association and/or these Bye-laws; “substantial shareholder” a person who is entitled to exercise, or to control the exercise of, 10% or more (or such other percentage as may be prescribed by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time) of the voting power at any general meeting of the Company;

“year” a calendar year.

  1. In these Bye-laws, unless there be something within the subject or context inconsistent with such construction:

  2. (a) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;

  3. (b) words importing a gender include both gender and the neuter;

  4. (c) words importing persons include companies, associations and bodies of persons whether corporate or not;

  5. (d) the words:

    • (i) “may” shall be construed as permissive;

    • (ii) “shall” or “will” shall be construed as imperative;

  6. (e) expressions referring to writing shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing words or figures in a visible form, and including where the representation takes the form of electronic display, provided that both the mode of service of the relevant document or notice and the Member’s election comply with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations;

  7. (f) references to any act, ordinance, statute or statutory provision shall be interpreted as relating to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force;

  8. (g) save as aforesaid words and expressions defined in the Statutes shall bear the same meanings in these Bye-laws if not inconsistent with the subject in the context;

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  • (h) a resolution shall be a special resolution when it has been passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of votes cast by such Members as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, in the case of such Members as are corporations, by their respective duly authorised representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Bye-law 59;

  • (i) a resolution shall be an ordinary resolution when it has been passed by a simple majority of votes cast by such Members as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, in the case of any Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which Notice has been duly given in accordance with Bye-law 59;

  • (j) a special resolution shall be effective for any purpose for which an ordinary resolution is expressed to be required under any provision of these Bye-laws or the Statutes;

  • (k) references to a document being executed include references to it being executed under hand or under seal or by electronic signature or by any other method and references to a notice or document include a notice or document recorded or stored in any digital, electronic, electrical, magnetic or other retrievable form or medium and information in visible form whether having physical substance or not.

SHARE CAPITAL

  1. (1) The share capital of the Company at the date on which these Bye-laws come into effect shall be divided into shares of $0.01 each.

  2. (2) Subject to the Act, the Company’s memorandum of association and, where applicable, the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange and/or any competent regulatory authority, any power of the Company to purchase or otherwise acquire its own shares shall be exercisable by the Board upon such terms and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit.

  3. (3) Subject to compliance with the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange and any other relevant regulatory authority, the Company may give financial assistance for the purpose of or in connection with a purchase made or to be made by any person of any shares in the Company.

ALTERATION OF CAPITAL

  1. The Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution in accordance with Section 45 of the

Act:

  • (a) increase its capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amounts, as the resolution shall prescribe;

  • (b) consolidate and divide all or any of its capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;

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  • (c) divide its shares into several classes and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares attach thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges, conditions or such restrictions which in the absence of any such determination by the Company in general meeting, as the Directors may determine provided always that where the Company issues shares which do not carry voting rights, the words “non-voting” shall appear in the designation of such shares and where the equity capital includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares, other than those with the most favourable voting rights, must include the words “restricted voting” or “limited voting”;

  • (d) sub-divide its shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the memorandum of association (subject, nevertheless, to the Act), and may by such resolution determine that, as between the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, one or more of the shares may have any such preferred rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the other or others as the Company has power to attach to unissued or new shares;

  • (e) change the currency denomination of its share capital;

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

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

  • The Board may settle as it considers expedient any difficulty which arises in relation to any consolidation and division under the last preceding Bye-law and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may issue certificates in respect of fractions of shares or arrange for the sale of the shares representing fractions and the distribution of the net proceeds of sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) in due proportion amongst the Members who would have been entitled to the fractions, and for this purpose the Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares representing fractions to their purchaser or resolve that such net proceeds be paid to the Company for the Company’s benefit. Such purchaser will not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor will his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.

  • The Company may from time to time by special resolution, subject to any confirmation or consent required by law, reduce its authorised or issued share capital or, save for the use of share premium as expressly permitted by the Act, any share premium account or other undistributable reserve.

  • Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue, or by these Bye-laws, any capital raised by the creation of new shares shall be treated as if it formed part of the original capital of the Company, and such shares shall be subject to the provisions contained in these Bye-laws with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, cancellation, surrender, voting and otherwise.

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SHARE RIGHTS

  1. Subject to any special rights conferred on the holders of any shares or class of shares, any share in the Company (whether forming part of the present capital or not) may be issued with or have attached thereto such rights or restrictions whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise as the Company may by ordinary resolution determine or, if there has not been any such determination or so far as the same shall not make specific provision, as the Board may determine.

  2. Subject to Sections 42 and 43 of the Act, these Bye-laws, and to any special rights conferred on the holders of any shares or attaching to any class of shares, any preference shares may be issued or converted into shares that, at a determinable date or at the option of the Company or the holder if so authorised by its memorandum of association, are liable to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the Company before the issue or conversion may by ordinary resolution of the Members determine. Where the Company purchases for redemption a redeemable share, purchases not made through the market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price as may from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting, either generally or with regard to specific purchases. If purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all Members alike.

VARIATION OF RIGHTS

  1. Subject to the Act and without prejudice to Bye-law 8, all or any of the special rights for the time being attached to the shares or any class of shares may, unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, from time to time (whether or not the Company is being wound up) be varied, modified or abrogated either with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than three-fourths of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To every such separate general meeting all the provisions of these Bye-laws relating to general meetings of the Company shall, mutatis mutandis , apply, but so that:

  2. (a) the necessary quorum (other than at an adjourned meeting) shall be two persons (or in the case of a Member being a corporation, its duly authorised representative) holding or representing by proxy not less than one-third in nominal value of the issued shares of that class and at any adjourned meeting of such holders, two holders present in person or (in the case of a Member being a corporation) its duly authorised representative or by proxy (whatever the number of shares held by them) shall be a quorum; and

  3. (b) every holder of shares of the class shall be entitled to one vote for every such share held by him.

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

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SHARES

  1. (1) Subject to the Act, these Bye-laws, any direction that may be given by the Company in general meeting and, where applicable, the rules of any Designated Stock Exchange and without prejudice to any special rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any shares or any class of shares, the unissued shares of the Company (whether forming part of the original or any increased capital) shall be at the disposal of the Board, which may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, at such times and for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the Board may in its absolute discretion determine but so that no shares shall be issued at a discount. Neither the Company nor the Board shall be obliged, when making or granting any allotment of, offer of, option over or disposal of shares, to make, or make available, any such offer, option or shares to Members or others with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories being a territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, this would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be, or be deemed to be, a separate class of members for any purpose whatsoever.

  2. (2) The Board may issue warrants conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for any class of shares or securities in the capital of the Company on such terms as it may from time to time determine.

  3. The Company may in connection with the issue of any shares exercise all powers of paying commission and brokerage conferred or permitted by the Act. Subject to the Act, the commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash or by the allotment of fully or partly paid shares or partly in one and partly in the other.

  4. Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or required in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any fractional part of a share or (except only as otherwise provided by these Bye-laws or by law) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

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

SHARE CERTIFICATES

  1. Every share certificate shall be issued under the Seal or a facsimile thereof or with the Seal printed thereon and shall specify the number and class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the shares to which it relates, and the amount paid up thereon and may otherwise be in such form as the Directors may from time to time determine. The seal of the Company may only be affixed to a share certificate with the authority of the Directors, or be executed under the signature of appropriate officials with statutory

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authority, unless otherwise determined by the Directors. No certificate shall be issued and representing shares of more than one class. The Board may by resolution determine, either generally or in any particular case or cases, that any signatures on any such certificates (or certificates in respect of other securities) need not be autographic but may be affixed to such certificates by some mechanical means or may be printed thereon or that such certificates need not be signed by any person.

  1. (1) In the case of a share held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate therefor and delivery of a certificate to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

  2. (2) Where a share stands in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the Register shall as regards service of notices and, subject to the provisions of these Bye-laws, all or any other matters connected with the Company, except the transfer of the shares, be deemed the sole holder thereof.

  3. Every person whose name is entered, upon an allotment of shares, as a Member in the Register shall be entitled, without payment, to receive one certificate for all such shares of any one class or several certificates each for one or more of such shares of such class upon payment for every certificate after the first of such reasonable out-of-pocket expenses as the Board from time to time determines.

  4. Share certificates shall be issued within the relevant time limit as prescribed in the Act or as the Designated Stock Exchange may from time to time determine, whichever is the shorter, after allotment or, except in the case of a transfer which the Company is for the time being entitled to refuse to register and does not register, after lodgment of a transfer with the Company.

  5. (1) Upon every transfer of shares the certificate held by the transferor shall be given up to be cancelled, and shall forthwith be cancelled accordingly, and a new certificate shall be issued to the transferee in respect of the shares transferred to him at such fee as is provided in paragraph (2) of this Bye-law. If any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shall be retained by the transferor a new certificate for the balance shall be issued to him at the aforesaid fee payable by the transferor to the Company in respect thereof.

  6. (2) The fee referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be an amount not exceeding the relevant maximum amount as the Designated Stock Exchange may from time to time determine provided that the Board may at any time determine a lower amount for such fee.

  7. If a share certificate shall be damaged or defaced or alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed a new certificate representing the same shares may be issued to the relevant Member upon request and on payment of such fee as the Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be the maximum fee payable or such lesser sum as the Board may determine and, subject to compliance with such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and to payment of the costs and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Company in investigating such evidence and preparing such indemnity as the Board may think fit and, in case of damage or defacement, on delivery of the old certificate to the Company provided always that where share warrants have been issued, no new share warrant shall be issued to replace one that has been lost unless the Directors are satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the original has been destroyed.

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LIEN

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

  2. Subject to these Bye-laws, the Company may sell in such manner as the Board determines any share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable, or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged nor until the expiration of fourteen (14) clear days after a notice 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 the intention to sell in default, has been served on the registered holder for the time being of the share or the person entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.

  3. The net proceeds of the sale shall be received by the Company and applied in or towards payment or discharge of the debt or liability in respect of which the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the share prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the share at the time of the sale. To give effect to any such sale the Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares so transferred and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale.

CALLS ON SHARES

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

  2. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Board authorising the call was passed and may be made payable either in one lump sum or by instalments.

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  1. A person upon whom a call is made shall remain liable for calls made upon him notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the shares in respect of which the call was made. The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls and instalments due in respect thereof or other moneys due in respect thereof.

  2. If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the amount unpaid from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate (not exceeding twenty per cent. (20%) per annum) as the Board may determine, but the Board may in its absolute discretion waive payment of such interest wholly or in part.

  3. No Member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or to be present and vote (save as proxy for another Member) at any general meeting either personally or by proxy, or be reckoned in a quorum, or exercise any other privilege as a Member until all calls or instalments due by him to the Company, whether alone or jointly with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) shall have been paid.

  4. On the trial or hearing of any action or other proceedings for the recovery of any money due for any call, it shall be sufficient to prove that the name of the Member sued is entered in the Register as the holder, or one of the holders, of the shares in respect of which such debt accrued, that the resolution making the call is duly recorded in the minute book, and that notice of such call was duly given to the Member sued, in pursuance of these Bye-laws; and it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of the Directors who made such call, nor any other matters whatsoever, but the proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the debt.

  5. Any amount payable in respect of a share upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether in respect of nominal value or premium or as an instalment of a call, shall be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date fixed for payment and if it is not paid the provisions of these Bye-laws shall apply as if that amount had become due and payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

  6. On the issue of shares the Board may differentiate between the allottees or holders as to the amount of calls to be paid and the times of payment.

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

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FORFEITURE OF SHARES

  1. (1) If a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable the Board may give to the person from whom it is due not less than fourteen (14) clear days’ Notice:

    • (a) requiring payment of the amount unpaid together with any interest which may have accrued and which may still accrue up to the date of actual payment; and

    • (b) stating that if the Notice is not complied with the shares on which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

  2. (2) If the requirements of any such Notice are not complied with, any share in respect of which such Notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before payment of all calls and interest due in respect thereof has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that effect, and such forfeiture shall include all dividends and bonuses declared in respect of the forfeited share but not actually paid before the forfeiture.

  3. When any share has been forfeited, notice of the forfeiture shall be served upon the person who was before forfeiture the holder of the share. No forfeiture shall be invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such Notice.

  4. The Board may accept the surrender of any share liable to be forfeited hereunder and, in such case, references in these Bye-laws to forfeiture will include surrender.

  5. Until cancelled in accordance with the requirements of the Act, a forfeited share shall be the property of the Company and may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of to such person, upon such terms and in such manner as the Board determines, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture may be annulled by the Board on such terms as the Board determines.

  6. A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited shares but nevertheless shall remain liable to pay the Company all moneys which at the date of forfeiture were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares, with (if the Directors shall in their discretion so require) interest thereon from the date of forfeiture until payment at such rate (not exceeding twenty per cent. (20%) per annum) as the Board determines. The Board may enforce payment thereof if it thinks fit, and without any deduction or allowance for the value of the forfeited shares, at the date of forfeiture, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all such moneys in respect of the shares. For the purposes of this Bye-law any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, is payable thereon at a fixed time which is subsequent to the date of forfeiture, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, shall notwithstanding that time has not yet arrived be deemed to be payable at the date of forfeiture, and the same shall become due and payable immediately upon the forfeiture, but interest thereon shall only be payable in respect of any period between the said fixed time and the date of actual payment.

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  1. A declaration by a Director or the Secretary that a share has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share, and such declaration shall (subject to the execution of an instrument of transfer by the Company if necessary) constitute a good title to the share, and the person to whom the share is disposed of shall be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the consideration (if any), nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share. When any share shall have been forfeited, notice of the declaration shall be given to the Member in whose name it stood immediately prior to the forfeiture, and an entry of the forfeiture, with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the register, but no forfeiture shall be in any manner invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such notice or make any such entry.

  2. Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid the Board may at any time, before any shares so forfeited shall have been sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, permit the shares forfeited to be bought back upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the share, and upon such further terms (if any) as it thinks fit.

  3. The forfeiture of a share shall not prejudice the right of the Company to any call already made or instalment payable thereon.

  4. The provisions of these Bye-laws as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

REGISTER OF MEMBERS

  1. (1) The Company shall keep in one or more books a Register and shall enter therein the following particulars, that is to say:

    • (a) the name and address of each Member, the number and class of shares held by him and, in respect of any shares that are not fully paid, the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on such shares;

    • (b) the date on which each person was entered in the Register; and

    • (c) the date on which any person ceased to be a Member.

  2. (2) Subject to the Act, the Company may keep an overseas or local or other branch register of Members resident in any place, and the Board may make and vary such regulations as it determines in respect of the keeping of any such register and maintaining a Registration Office in connection therewith.

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

RECORD DATES

  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Bye-laws the Company or the Directors may fix any date as the record date for:

  2. (a) determining the Members entitled to receive any dividend, distribution, allotment or issue and such record date may be on, or at any time not more than thirty (30) days before or after, any date on which such dividend, distribution, allotment or issue is declared, paid or made;

  3. (b) determining the Members entitled to receive notice of and to vote at any general meeting of the Company.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

  1. Subject to these Bye-laws, any Member may transfer all or any of his shares in any manner permitted by and in accordance with the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or in a form prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange or in any other form approved by the Board and may be under hand or, if the transferor or transferee is a clearing house or its nominee(s), by hand or by machine imprinted signature or by such other manner of execution as the Board may approve from time to time.

  2. The instrument of transfer shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferee provided that the Board may dispense with the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferee in any case which it thinks fit in its discretion to do so. Without prejudice to Bye-law 46, the Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register in respect thereof. Nothing in these Bye-laws shall preclude the Board from recognising a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.

  3. (1) The Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without giving any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) to a person of whom it does not approve, or any share issued under any share incentive scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby still subsists, and it may also, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, refuse to register a transfer of any share to more than four (4) joint holders or a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) on which the Company has a lien.

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  • (2) No transfer shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.

  • (3) The Board in so far as permitted by any applicable law may, in its absolute discretion, at any time and from time to time transfer any share upon the Register to any branch register or any share on any branch register to the Register or any other branch register. In the event of any such transfer, the shareholder requesting such transfer shall bear the cost of effecting the transfer unless the Board otherwise determines.

  • (4) Unless the Board otherwise agrees (which agreement may be on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board in its absolute discretion may from time to time determine, and which agreement the Board shall, without giving any reason therefor, be entitled in its absolute discretion to give or withhold), no shares upon the Register shall be transferred to any branch register nor shall shares on any branch register be transferred to the 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 Register, at the Office or such other place in Bermuda at which the Register is kept in accordance with the Act.

  • Without limiting the generality of the last preceding Bye-law, the Board may decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:-

  • (a) a fee of such maximum sum as the Designated Stock Exchange may determine to be payable or such lesser sum as the Board may from time to time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof;

  • (b) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of share;

  • (c) the instrument of transfer is lodged at the Office or such other place in Bermuda at which the Register is kept in accordance with the Act or the Registration Office (as the case may be) accompanied by the relevant share certificate(s) and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer (and, if the instrument of transfer is executed by some other person on his behalf, the authority of that person so to do); and

  • (d) if applicable, the instrument of transfer is duly and properly stamped.

  • If the Board refuses to register a transfer of any share, it shall, within two (2) months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to each of the transferor and transferee notice of the refusal.

  • The registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may, after notice has been given by advertisement in any newspapers in accordance with the requirements of any Designated Stock Exchange or by any means in such manner as may be accepted by the Designated Stock Exchange to that effect be suspended at such times and for such periods (not exceeding in the whole thirty (30) days in any year) as the Board may determine.

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TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

  1. If a Member dies, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and his legal personal representatives where he was a sole or only surviving holder, will be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing in this Bye-law will release the estate of a deceased Member (whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share which had been solely or jointly held by him.

  2. Subject to Section 52 of the Act, any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may be required by the Board, elect either to become the holder of the share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof. If he elects to become the holder he shall notify the Company in writing either at the Registration Office or Office, as the case may be, to that effect. If he elects to have another person registered he shall execute a transfer of the share in favour of that person. The provisions of these Bye-laws relating to the transfer and registration of transfers of shares shall apply to such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or bankruptcy of the Member had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a transfer signed by such Member.

  3. A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share. However, the Board may, if it thinks fit, withhold the payment of any dividend payable or other advantages in respect of such share until such person shall become the registered holder of the share or shall have effectually transferred such share, but, subject to the requirements of Bye-law 72(2) being met, such a person may vote at meetings.

UNTRACEABLE MEMBERS

  1. (1) Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under paragraph (2) of this Bye-law, the Company may cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants by post if such cheques or warrants have been left uncashed on two consecutive occasions. However, the Company may exercise the power to cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion on which such a cheque or warrant is returned undelivered.

  2. (2) The Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner as the Board thinks fit, any shares of a Member who is untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless:

    • (a) all cheques or warrants in respect of dividends of the shares in question, being not less than three in total number, for any sum payable in cash to the holder of such shares in respect of them sent during the relevant period in the manner authorised by the Bye-laws have remained uncashed;

    • (b) so far as it is aware at the end of the relevant period, the Company has not at any time during the relevant period received any indication of the existence of the Member who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law; and

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  • (c) the Company, if so required by the rules governing the listing of shares on the Designated Stock Exchange, has given notice to, and caused advertisement in newspapers in accordance with the requirements of, the Designated Stock Exchange to be made of its intention to sell such shares in the manner required by the Designated Stock Exchange, and a period of three (3) months or such shorter period as may be allowed by the Designated Stock Exchange has elapsed since the date of such advertisement.

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

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

GENERAL MEETINGS

  1. An annual general meeting of the Company shall be held in each year other than the year in which its statutory meeting is convened at such time (within a period of not more than fifteen (15) months after the holding of the last preceding annual general meeting unless a longer period would not infringe the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, if any) and place as may be determined by the Board.

  2. Each general meeting, other than an annual general meeting, shall be called a special general meeting. General meetings may be held in any part of the world as may be determined by the Board.

  3. The Board may whenever it thinks fit call special general meetings, and Members holding at the date of deposit of the requisition not less than one-tenth of the paid up capital of the Company carrying the right of voting at general meetings of the Company shall at all times have the right, by written requisition to the Board or the Secretary of the Company, to require a special general meeting to be called by the Board for the transaction of any business specified in such requisition; and such meeting shall be held within two (2) months after the deposit of such requisition. If within twenty-one (21) days of such deposit the Board fails to proceed to convene such meeting the requisitionists themselves may do so in accordance with the provisions of Section 74(3) of the Act.

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NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

  1. (1) An annual general meeting shall be called by Notice of not less than twenty-one (21) clear days and not less than twenty (20) clear business days. All other general meetings (including a special general meeting) must be called by Notice of not less than fourteen (14) clear days and not less than ten (10) clear business days but if permitted by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, a general meeting may be called by shorter notice if it is so agreed:

    • (a) in the case of a meeting called as an annual general meeting, by all the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and

    • (b) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of the Members having the right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together representing not less than ninety-five per cent. (95%) of the total voting rights at the meeting of all the Members.

  2. (2) The Notice shall specify the time and place of the meeting and particulars of resolutions to be considered at the meeting and, in case of special business, the general nature of the business. The Notice convening an annual general meeting shall specify the meeting as such. Notice of every general meeting shall be given to all Members other than to such Members as, under the provisions of these Bye-laws or the terms of issue of the shares they hold, are not entitled to receive such notices from the Company, to all persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a Member and to each of the Directors and the Auditors.

  3. The accidental omission to give Notice of a meeting or (in cases where instruments of proxy are sent out with the Notice) to send such instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of such Notice or such instrument of proxy by, any person entitled to receive such Notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or the proceedings at that meeting.

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

  1. (1) All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at a special general meeting, and also all business that is transacted at an annual general meeting, with the exception of sanctioning dividends, the reading, considering and adopting of the accounts and balance sheet and the reports of the Directors and Auditors and other documents required to be annexed to the balance sheet, the election of Directors and appointment of Auditors and other officers in the place of those retiring, the fixing of the remuneration of the Auditors, and the voting of remuneration or extra remuneration to the Directors.

  2. (2) No business other than the appointment of a chairman of a meeting shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum is present at the commencement of the business. Two (2) Members entitled to vote and present in person or (in the case of a Member being a corporation) by its duly authorised representative or by proxy shall form a quorum for all purposes.

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  1. If within thirty (30) minutes (or such longer time not exceeding one hour as the chairman of the meeting may determine to wait) after the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved. In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Board may determine. If at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the meeting shall be dissolved.

  2. The president of the Company or the chairman, if one is appointed, shall preside as chairman at every general meeting. If at any meeting the president or the chairman, as the case may be, is not present within fifteen (15) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, or if neither of them is willing to act as chairman, or if no such officer is appointed, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to act, or if one Director only is present he shall preside as chairman if willing to act. If no Director is present, or if each of the Directors present declines to take the chair, or if the chairman chosen shall retire from the chair, the Members present in person or (in the case of a Member being a corporation) by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and entitled to vote shall elect one of their number to be chairman.

  3. The chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place as the meeting shall determine, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business which might lawfully have been transacted at the meeting had the adjournment not taken place. When a meeting is adjourned for fourteen (14) days or more, at least seven (7) clear days’ Notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given specifying the time and place of the adjourned meeting but it shall not be necessary to specify in such notice the nature of the business to be transacted at the adjourned meeting and the general nature of the business to be transacted. Save as aforesaid, it shall be unnecessary to give notice of an adjournment.

  4. If an amendment is proposed to any resolution under consideration but is in good faith ruled out of order by the chairman of the meeting, the proceedings on the substantive resolution shall not be invalidated by any error in such ruling. In the case of a resolution duly proposed as a special resolution, no amendment thereto (other than a mere clerical amendment to correct a patent error) may in any event be considered or voted upon.

VOTING

  1. (1) Subject to any special rights or restrictions as to voting for the time being attached to any shares by or in accordance with these Bye-laws, at any general meeting on a poll every Member present in person or by proxy or, in the case of a Member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative shall have one vote for every fully paid share of which he is the holder but so that no amount paid up or credited as paid up on a share in advance of calls or instalments is treated for the foregoing purposes as paid up on the share. A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided by way of a poll save that the chairman of the meeting may in good faith, allow a resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter to be voted on by a show of hands in which case every Member present in person (or being a corporation, is present by a duly authorized representative), or by proxy(ies) shall have one vote provided that where more than one proxy is appointed by a

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Member which is a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), each such proxy shall have one vote on a show of hands. For purposes of this Bye-law, procedural and administrative matters are those that (i) are not on the agenda of the general meeting or in any supplementary circular that may be issued by the Company to its Members; and (ii) relate to the chairman’s duties to maintain the orderly conduct of the meeting and/or allow the business of the meeting to be properly and effectively dealt with, whilst allowing all Members a reasonable opportunity to express their views.

  • (2) Where a show of hands is allowed, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll may be demanded:

  • (a) by at least three Members present in person or in the case of a Member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or

  • (b) by a Member or Members present in person or in the case of a Member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and representing not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all Members having the right to vote at the meeting; or

  • (c) by a Member or Members present in person or in the case of a Member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and holding shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than one-tenth of the total sum paid up on all shares conferring that right.

A demand by a person as proxy for a Member or in the case of a Member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative shall be deemed to be the same as a demand by the Member.

  1. Where a resolution is voted on by a show of hands, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or not carried by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect made in the minute book of the Company, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded for or against the resolution. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting. The Company shall only be required to disclose the voting figures on a poll if such disclosure is required by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  2. On a poll votes may be given either personally or by proxy.

  3. A person entitled to more than one vote on a poll need not use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.

  4. In the case of an equality of votes, the chairman of such meeting shall be entitled to a second or casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have.

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

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

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

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

  5. (2) Where the Company has knowledge that any Member is, under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, required to abstain from voting on any particular resolution of the Company or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution of the Company, any votes cast by or on behalf of such Member in contravention of such requirement or restriction shall not be counted.

  6. If:

  7. (a) any objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter; or

  8. (b) any votes have been counted which ought not to have been counted or which might have been rejected; or

  9. (c) any votes are not counted which ought to have been counted;

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

PROXIES

  1. Any Member entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company shall be entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him. A Member who is the holder of two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to represent him and vote on his behalf at a general meeting of the Company or at a class meeting. A proxy need not be a Member. In addition, a proxy or proxies representing either a Member who is an individual or a Member which is a corporation shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the Member which he or they represent as such Member could exercise.

  2. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under its seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person authorised to sign the same. In the case of an instrument of proxy purporting to be signed on behalf of a corporation by an officer thereof it shall be assumed, unless the contrary appears, that such officer was duly authorised to sign such instrument of proxy on behalf of the corporation without further evidence of the fact.

  3. The instrument appointing a proxy and (if required by the Board) the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority, shall be delivered to such place or one of such places (if any) as may be specified for that purpose in or by way of note to or in any document accompanying the notice convening the meeting (or, if no place is so specified at the Registration Office or the Office, as may be appropriate) not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve (12) months from the date named in it as the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting in cases where the meeting was originally held within twelve (12) months from such date. Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a Member from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

  4. Instruments of proxy shall be in any common form or in such other form as the Board may approve (provided that this shall not preclude the use of the two-way form) and the Board may, if it thinks fit, send out with the notice of any meeting forms of instrument of proxy for use at the meeting. The instrument of proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to vote on any amendment of a resolution put to the meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit. The instrument of proxy shall, unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which it relates.

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  1. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal, or revocation of the instrument of proxy or of the authority under which it was executed, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity or revocation shall have been received by the Company at the Office or the Registration Office (or such other place as may be specified for the delivery of instruments of proxy in the notice convening the meeting or other document sent therewith) two (2) hours at least before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting, at which the instrument of proxy is used.

  2. Anything which under these Bye-laws a Member may do by proxy he may likewise do by his duly appointed attorney and the provisions of these Bye-laws relating to proxies and instruments appointing proxies shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to any such attorney and the instrument under which such attorney is appointed.

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES

  1. (1) Any corporation which is a Member may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members. The person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of such corporation as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member and such corporation shall for the purposes of these Bye-laws be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting if a person so authorised is present thereat.

  2. (2) Where a Member is a clearing house (or its nominee(s) and, in each case, being a corporation), it may authorise such persons as it thinks fit to act as its representatives at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members provided that 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 Byelaw shall be deemed to have been duly authorised without further evidence of the facts and be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) as if such person was the registered holder of the shares of the Company held by the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) in respect of the number and class of shares specified in the relevant authorisation including, where a show of hands is allowed, the right to vote individually on a show of hands.

  3. (3) Any reference in these Bye-laws to a duly authorised representative of a Member being a corporation shall mean a representative authorised under the provisions of this Bye-law.

WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS OF MEMBERS

  1. (1) Subject to the Act, a resolution in writing signed (in such manner as to indicate, expressly or impliedly, unconditional approval) by or on behalf of all persons for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company shall, for the purposes of these Bye-laws, be treated as a resolution duly passed at a general meeting of the Company and, where relevant, as a special resolution so passed. Any such resolution shall be deemed to have been passed at a meeting held on the date on which it was signed by the

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last Member to sign, and where the resolution states a date as being the date of his signature thereof by any Member the statement shall be prima facie evidence that it was signed by him on that date. Such a resolution may consist of several documents in the like form, each signed by one or more relevant Members.

  • (2) Notwithstanding any provisions contained in these Bye-laws, a resolution in writing shall not be passed for the purpose of removing a Director before the expiration of his term of office under Bye-law 83(4) or for the purposes set out in Bye-law 152(3) relating to the removal and appointment of the Auditor.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  1. (1) Unless otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the number of Directors shall not be less than two (2). There shall be no maximum number of Directors unless otherwise determined from time to time by the Members in general meeting. The Directors shall be elected or appointed in the first place at the statutory meeting of Members and thereafter at the annual general meeting in accordance with Bye-law 84 or at any special general meeting called for such purpose and who shall hold office for such term as the Members may determine or, in the absence of such determination, in accordance with Byelaw 84 or until their successors are elected or appointed or their office is otherwise vacated. Any general meeting may authorise the Board to fill any vacancy in their number left unfilled at a general meeting.

  2. (2) The Directors shall have the power from time to time and at any time to appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy on the Board or, subject to authorisation by the Members in general meeting, as an addition to the existing Board but so that the number of Directors so appointed shall not exceed any maximum number determined from time to time by the Members in general meeting. Any Director appointed by the Board to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office until the first general meeting of Members after his appointment and be subject to re-election at such meeting and any Director appointed by the Board as an addition to the existing Board shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election.

  3. (3) Neither a Director nor an alternate Director shall be required to hold any shares of the Company by way of qualification and a Director or alternate Director (as the case may be) who is not a Member shall be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at any general meeting of the Company and of all classes of shares of the Company.

  4. (4) The Members may, at any general meeting convened and held in accordance with these Bye-laws, by ordinary resolution remove a Director at any time before the expiration of his period of office notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Bye-laws or in any agreement between the Company and such Director (but without prejudice to any claim for damages under any such agreement) provided that the Notice of any such meeting convened for the purpose of removing a Director shall contain a statement of the intention so to do and be served on such Director fourteen (14) days before the meeting and at such meeting such Director shall be entitled to be heard on the motion for his removal.

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  • (5) A vacancy on the Board created by the removal of a Director under the provisions of subparagraph (4) above may be filled by the election or appointment by the Members at the meeting at which such Director is removed to hold office until the next appointment of Directors or until their successors are elected or appointed or, in the absence of such election or appointment such general meeting may authorise the Board to fill any vacancy in the number left unfilled.

  • (6) The Company may from time to time in general meeting by ordinary resolution increase or reduce the number of Directors but so that the number of Directors shall never be less than two (2).

RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS

  1. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions in the Bye-laws, at each annual general meeting one-third of the Directors for the time being (or, if their number is not a multiple of three (3), the number nearest to but not less than one-third) shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Director shall be subject to retirement at least once every three years.

  2. (2) A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election and shall continue to act as a Director throughout the meeting at which he retires. The Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to ascertain the number of directors to retire by rotation) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those of the other Directors subject to retirement by rotation who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that as between persons who became or were last re-elected Directors on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. Any Director appointed pursuant to Bye-law 83(2) shall not be taken into account in determining which particular Directors or the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation.

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

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DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS

  1. The office of a Director shall be vacated if the Director:

  2. (1) resigns his office by notice in writing delivered to the Company at the Office or tendered at a meeting of the Board;

  3. (2) becomes of unsound mind or dies;

  4. (3) without special leave of absence from the Board, is absent from meetings of the Board for six consecutive months, and his alternate Director, if any, shall not during such period have attended in his stead and the Board resolves that his office be vacated;

  5. (4) becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or suspends payment or compounds with his creditors;

  6. (5) is prohibited by law from being a Director; or

  7. (6) ceases to be a Director by virtue of any provision of the Statutes or is removed from office pursuant to these Bye-laws.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

  1. The Board may from time to time appoint any one or more of its body to be a managing director, joint managing director or deputy managing director or to hold any other employment or executive office with the Company for such period (subject to their continuance as Directors) and upon such terms as the Board may determine and the Board may revoke or terminate any of such appointments. Any such revocation or termination as aforesaid shall be without prejudice to any claim for damages that such Director may have against the Company or the Company may have against such Director. A Director appointed to an office under this Bye-law shall be subject to the same provisions as to removal as the other Directors of the Company, and he shall (subject to the provisions of any contract between him and the Company) ipso facto and immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the office of Director for any cause.

  2. Notwithstanding Bye-laws 93, 94, 95 and 96, an executive director appointed to an office under Bye-law 87 hereof shall receive such remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise or by all or any of those modes) and such other benefits (including pension and/ or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances as the Board may from time to time determine, and either in addition to or in lieu of his remuneration as a Director.

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ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

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

  2. An alternate Director shall only be a Director for the purposes of the Act and shall only be subject to the provisions of the Act insofar as they relate to the duties and obligations of a Director when performing the functions of the Director for whom he is appointed in the alternative and shall alone be responsible to the Company for his acts and defaults and shall not be deemed to be the agent of or for the Director appointing him. An alternate Director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified by the Company to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director but he shall not be entitled to receive from the Company any fee in his capacity as an alternate Director except only such part, if any, of the remuneration otherwise payable to his appointor as such appointor may by Notice to the Company from time to time direct.

  3. Every person acting as an alternate Director shall have one vote for each Director for whom he acts as alternate (in addition to his own vote if he is also a Director). If his appointor is for the time being absent from Hong Kong or otherwise not available or unable to act, the signature of an alternate Director to any resolution in writing of the Board or a committee of the Board of which his appointor is a member shall, unless the notice of his appointment provides to the contrary, be as effective as the signature of his appointor.

  4. An alternate Director shall ipso facto cease to be an alternate Director if his appointor ceases for any reason to be a Director, however, such alternate Director or any other person may be re-appointed by the Directors to serve as an alternate Director PROVIDED always that, if at any meeting any Director retires but is re-elected at the same meeting, any appointment of such alternate Director pursuant to these Bye-laws which was in force immediately before his retirement shall remain in force as though he had not retired.

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DIRECTORS’ FEES AND EXPENSES

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

  2. Each Director shall be entitled to be repaid or prepaid all travelling, hotel and incidental expenses reasonably incurred or expected to be incurred by him in attending meetings of the Board or committees of the Board or general meetings or separate meetings of any class of shares or of debentures of the Company or otherwise in connection with the discharge of his duties as a Director.

  3. Any Director who, by request, goes or resides abroad for any purpose of the Company or who performs services which in the opinion of the Board go beyond the ordinary duties of a Director may be paid such extra remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) as the Board may determine and such extra remuneration shall be in addition to or in substitution for any ordinary remuneration provided for by or pursuant to any other Bye-law.

  4. The Board shall obtain the approval of the Company in general meeting before making any payment to any Director or past Director of the Company by way of compensation for loss of office, or as consideration for or in connection with his retirement from office (not being payment to which the Director is contractually entitled).

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

  1. A Director may:

  2. (a) hold any other office or place of profit with the Company (except that of Auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and, subject to the relevant provisions of the Act, upon such terms as the Board may determine. Any remuneration (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) paid to any Director in respect of any such other office or place of profit shall be in addition to any remuneration provided for by or pursuant to any other Bye-law;

  3. (b) act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company (otherwise than as Auditor) and he or his firm may be remunerated for professional services as if he were not a Director;

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  • (c) continue to be or become a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer or member of any other company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as a vendor, shareholder or otherwise and (unless otherwise agreed) no such Director shall be accountable for any remuneration, profits or other benefits received by him as a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer or member of or from his interests in any such other company. Subject as otherwise provided by these Bye-laws the Directors may exercise or cause to be exercised the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company, or exercisable by them as directors of such other company in such manner in all respects as they think fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing themselves or any of them directors, managing directors, joint managing directors, deputy managing directors, executive directors, managers or other officers of such company) or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officers of such other company and any Director may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or about to be, appointed a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other officer of such a company, and that as such he is or may become interested in the exercise of such voting rights in manner aforesaid.

  • Subject to the Act and to these Bye-laws, no Director or proposed or intending Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, either with regard to his tenure of any office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or in any other manner whatsoever, nor shall any such contract or any other contract or arrangement in which any Director is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company or the Members for any remuneration, profit or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason of such Director holding that office or of the fiduciary relationship thereby established provided that such Director shall disclose the nature of his interest in any contract or arrangement in which he is interested in accordance with Bye-law 99 herein.

  • A Director who to his knowledge is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or arrangement or proposed contract or arrangement with the Company shall declare the nature of his interest at the meeting of the Board at which the question of entering into the contract or arrangement is first considered, if he knows his interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Board after he knows that he is or has become so interested. For the purposes of this Bye-law, a general Notice to the Board by a Director to the effect that:

  • (a) he is a member or officer of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the Notice be made with that company or firm; or

  • (b) he is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the Notice be made with a specified person who is connected with him;

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

  1. (1) A Director shall not vote (nor be counted in the quorum) on any resolution of the Board approving any contract or arrangement or any other proposal in which he or any of his close associates is materially interested, but this prohibition shall not apply to any of the following matters namely:

    • (i) any contract or arrangement for the giving to such Director or his close associate(s) any security or indemnity in respect of money lent by him or any of his close associate(s) or obligations incurred or undertaken by him or any of his close associate(s) at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

    • (ii) any contract or arrangement for the giving of any security or indemnity to a third party in respect of a debt or obligation of the Company or any of its subsidiaries for which the Director or his close associate(s) has himself/themselves assumed responsibility in whole or in part whether alone or jointly under a guarantee or indemnity or by the giving of security;

    • (iii) any contract or arrangement concerning an offer of shares or debentures or other securities of or by the Company or any other company which the Company may promote or be interested in for subscription or purchase, where the Director or his close associate(s) is/are or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the offer;

    • (iv) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his close associate(s) is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company; or

    • (v) any proposal or arrangement concerning the adoption, modification or operation of a share option scheme, a pension fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme or other arrangement which relates both to Directors or his close associate(s) and to employees of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any Director, or his close associate(s), as such any privilege or advantage not accorded generally to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates.

  2. (2) If any question shall arise at any meeting of the Board as to the materiality of the interest of a Director (other than the chairman of the meeting) or as to the entitlement of any Director (other than such chairman) to vote and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting, such question shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting and his ruling in relation to such other Director shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Director concerned as known to

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such Director has not been fairly disclosed to the Board. If any question as aforesaid shall arise in respect of the chairman of the meeting such question shall be decided by a resolution of the Board (for which purpose such chairman 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 such chairman as known to such chairman has not been fairly disclosed to the Board.

GENERAL POWERS OF THE DIRECTORS

  1. (1) The business of the Company shall be managed and conducted by the Board, which may pay all expenses incurred in forming and registering the Company and may exercise all powers of the Company (whether relating to the management of the business of the Company or otherwise) which are not by the Statutes or by these Bye-laws required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting, subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Statutes and of these Bye-laws and to such regulations being not inconsistent with such provisions, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, but no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if such regulations had not been made. The general powers given by this Bye-law shall not be limited or restricted by any special authority or power given to the Board by any other Bye-law.

  2. (2) Any person contracting or dealing with the Company in the ordinary course of business shall be entitled to rely on any written or oral contract or agreement or deed, document or instrument entered into or executed as the case may be by any two of the Directors acting jointly on behalf of the Company and the same shall be deemed to be validly entered into or executed by the Company as the case may be and shall, subject to any rule of law, be binding on the Company.

  3. (3) Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these Bye-laws it is hereby expressly declared that the Board shall have the following powers:

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

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

    • (c) to resolve that the Company be discontinued in Bermuda and continued in a named country or jurisdiction outside Bermuda subject to the provisions of the Act.

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  1. The Board may establish any regional or local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company in any place, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents, and may fix their remuneration (either by way of salary or by commission or by conferring the right to participation in the profits of the Company or by a combination of two or more of these modes) and pay the working expenses of any staff employed by them upon the business of the Company. The Board may delegate to any regional or local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in or exercisable by the Board (other than its powers to make calls and forfeit shares), with power to sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any of them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies. Any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board may think fit, and the Board may remove any person appointed as aforesaid, and may revoke or vary such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.

  2. The Board may by power of attorney appoint under the Seal any company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Board, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Board under these Bye-laws) and for such period and subject to such conditions as it may think fit, and any such power of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Board may think fit, and may also authorise any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him. Such attorney or attorneys may, if so authorised under the Seal of the Company, execute any deed or instrument under their personal seal with the same effect as the affixation of the Seal.

  3. The Board may entrust to and confer upon a managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, an executive director or any Director any of the powers exercisable by it upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as it thinks fit, and either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of, its own powers, and may from time to time revoke or vary all or any of such powers but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of such revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.

  4. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other instruments, whether negotiable or transferable or not, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Board shall from time to time by resolution determine. The Company’s banking accounts shall be kept with such banker or bankers as the Board shall from time to time determine.

  5. (1) The Board may establish or concur or join with other companies (being subsidiary companies of the Company or companies with which it is associated in business) in establishing and making contributions out of the Company’s moneys to any schemes or funds for providing pensions, sickness or compassionate allowances, life assurance or other benefits for employees (which expression as used in this and the following paragraph shall include any Director or ex-Director who may hold or have held any executive office or any office of profit under the Company or any of its subsidiary companies) and ex-employees of the Company and their dependants or any class or classes of such person.

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  • (2) The Board may pay, enter into agreements to pay or make grants of revocable or irrevocable, and either subject or not subject to any terms or conditions, pensions or other benefits to employees and ex-employees and their dependants, or to any of such persons, including pensions or benefits additional to those, if any, to which such employees or ex-employees or their dependants are or may become entitled under any such scheme or fund as mentioned in the last preceding paragraph. Any such pension or benefit may, as the Board considers desirable, be granted to an employee either before and in anticipation of or upon or at any time after his actual retirement.

BORROWING POWERS

  1. The Board may exercise all the powers of the Company to raise or borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company and, subject to the Act, to issue debentures, bonds and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

  2. Debentures, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.

  3. Any debentures, bonds or other securities may be issued at a discount (other than shares), premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.

  4. (1) Where any uncalled capital of the Company is charged, all persons taking any subsequent charge thereon shall take the same subject to such prior charge, and shall not be entitled, by notice to the Members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.

  5. (2) The Board shall cause a proper register to be kept, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, of all charges specifically affecting the property of the Company and of any series of debentures issued by the Company and shall duly comply with the requirements of the Act in regard to the registration of charges and debentures therein specified and otherwise.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS

  1. The Board may meet for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it considers appropriate. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes. In the case of any equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have an additional or casting vote.

  2. A meeting of the Board may be convened by the Secretary on request of a Director or by any Director. The Secretary shall convene a meeting of the Board whenever he shall be required so to do by any Director. Notice of a meeting of the Board shall be deemed to be duly given to a Director if it is given to such Director in writing or verbally (including in person or by telephone) or via electronic mail or in such other manner as the Board may from time to time determine.

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  1. (1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Board may be fixed by the Board and, unless so fixed at any other number, shall be two (2). An alternate Director shall be counted in a quorum in the case of the absence of a Director for whom he is the alternate provided that he shall not be counted more than once for the purpose of determining whether or not a quorum is present.

  2. (2) Directors may participate in any meeting of the Board by means of a conference telephone, electronic or other communications equipment through which all persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously and, for the purpose of counting a quorum, such participation shall constitute presence at a meeting as if those participating were present in person.

  3. (3) Any Director who ceases to be a Director at a Board meeting may continue to be present and to act as a Director and be counted in the quorum until the termination of such Board meeting if no other Director objects and if otherwise a quorum of Directors would not be present.

  4. The continuing Directors or a sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board but, if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum number fixed by or in accordance with these Bye-laws, the continuing Directors or Director, notwithstanding that the number of Directors is below the number fixed by or in accordance with these Bye-laws as the quorum or that there is only one continuing Director, may act for the purpose of filling vacancies in the Board or of summoning general meetings of the Company but not for any other purpose.

  5. The Board may elect a chairman and one or more deputy chairman of its meetings and determine the period for which they are respectively to hold such office. If no chairman or deputy chairman is elected, or if at any meeting neither the chairman nor any deputy chairman is present within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

  6. A meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board.

  7. (1) The Board may delegate any of its powers, authorities and discretions to committees, consisting of such Director or Directors and other persons as it thinks fit, and they may, from time to time, revoke such delegation or revoke the appointment of and discharge any such committees either wholly or in part, and either as to persons or purposes. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers, authorities and discretions so delegated, conform to any regulations which may be imposed on it by the Board.

  8. (2) All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such regulations, and in fulfilment of the purposes for which it was appointed, but not otherwise, shall have like force and effect as if done by the Board, and the Board shall have power, with the consent of the Company in general meeting, to remunerate the members of any such committee, and charge such remuneration to the current expenses of the Company.

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  1. The meetings and proceedings of any committee consisting of two or more members shall be governed by the provisions contained in these Bye-laws for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board so far as the same are applicable and are not superseded by any regulations imposed by the Board under the last preceding Bye-law.

  2. A resolution in writing signed by all the Directors except such as are temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability, and all the alternate Directors, if appropriate, whose appointors are temporarily unable to act as aforesaid shall be as valid and effectual as if a resolution had been passed at a meeting of the Board duly convened and held provided that such number is sufficient to constitute a quorum and that a copy of such resolution has been given or the contents thereof communicated to all the Directors for the time being entitled to receive notices of Board meetings in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given by these Bye-laws and further provided that no Director is aware of or has received any objection to the resolution from any Director. Such resolution may be contained in one document or in several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or alternate Directors and for this purpose a facsimile signature of a Director or an alternate Director shall be treated as valid. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a resolution in writing shall not be passed in lieu of a meeting of the Board for the purposes of considering any matter or business in which a substantial shareholder of the Company or a Director has a conflict of interest and the Board has determined that such conflict of interest to be material.

  3. All acts bona fide done by the Board or by any committee or by any person acting as a Director or members of a committee, shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any member of the Board or such committee or person acting as aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified and had continued to be a Director or member of such committee.

MANAGERS

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

  2. The appointment of such general manager, manager or managers may be for such period as the Board may decide, and the Board may confer upon him or them all or any of the powers of the Board as it may think fit.

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

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OFFICERS

  1. (1) The officers of the Company shall consist of the Directors and Secretary and such additional officers (who may or may not be Directors) as the Board may from time to time determine, all of whom shall be deemed to be officers for the purposes of the Act and, subject to Byelaw 128(4), these Bye-laws.

  2. (2) The officers shall receive such remuneration as the Directors may from time to time determine.

  3. (3) Where the Company appoints and maintains a resident representative ordinarily resident in Bermuda in accordance with the Act, the resident representative shall comply with the provisions of the Act.

  4. (4) The Company shall provide the resident representative with such documents and information as the resident representative may require in order to be able to comply with the provisions of the Act.

  5. (5) The resident representative shall be entitled to have notice of, attend and be heard at all meetings of the Directors or of any committee of such Directors or general meetings of the Company.

  6. (1) The Secretary and additional officers, if any, shall be appointed by the Board and shall hold office on such terms and for such period as the Board may determine. If thought fit, two (2) or more persons may be appointed as joint Secretaries. The Board may also appoint from time to time on such terms as it thinks fit one or more assistant or deputy Secretaries.

  7. (2) The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Members and shall keep correct minutes of such meetings and enter the same in the proper books provided for the purpose. He shall perform such other duties as are prescribed by the Act or these Bye-laws or as may be prescribed by the Board.

  8. The officers of the Company shall have such powers and perform such duties in the management, business and affairs of the Company as may be delegated to them by the Directors from time to time.

  9. A provision of the Act or of these Bye-laws requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director and as or in place of the Secretary.

REGISTER OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

  1. (1) The Board shall cause to be kept in one or more books at the Office a Register of Directors and Officers and shall enter therein the following particulars with respect to each Director and Officer, that is to say:

  2. (a) in the case of an individual, his or her present first name, surname and address; and

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  • (b) in the case of a company, its name and registered office.

  • (2) The Board shall within a period of fourteen (14) days from the occurrence of:

  • (a) any change among the Directors and Officers; or

  • (b) any change in the particulars contained in the Register of Directors and Officers,

  • cause to be entered on the Register of Directors and Officers the particulars of such change.

  • (3) The Register of Directors and Officers shall be open to inspection by members of the public without charge at the Office between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon during business hours.

  • (4) In this Bye-law “Officer” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 92A(7) of the Act.

MINUTES

  1. (1) The Board shall cause Minutes to be duly entered in books provided for the purpose:

    • (a) of all elections and appointments of officers;

    • (b) of the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors;

    • (c) of all resolutions and proceedings of each general meeting of the Members and meetings of the Board.

  2. (2) Minutes prepared in accordance with the Act and these Bye-laws shall be kept by the Secretary at the Office.

SEAL

  1. (1) The Company shall have one or more Seals, as the Board may determine. For the purpose of sealing documents creating or evidencing securities issued by the Company, the Company may have a securities seal which is a facsimile of the Seal with the addition of the words “Securities Seal” on its face or in such other form as the Board may approve. The Board shall provide for the custody of each Seal and no Seal shall be used without the authority of the Board or of a committee of the Board authorised by the Board in that behalf. Subject as otherwise provided in these Bye-laws, any instrument to which a Seal is affixed shall be signed autographically by one Director and the Secretary or by two Directors or by such other person (including a Director) or persons as the Board may appoint, either generally or in any particular case, save that as regards any certificates for shares or debentures or other securities of the Company the Board may by resolution determine that such signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with or affixed by some method or system of mechanical signature. Every instrument executed in the manner provided by this Bye-law shall be deemed to be sealed and executed with the authority of the Board previously given.

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  • (2) Where the Company has a Seal for use abroad, the Board may by writing under the Seal appoint any agent or committee abroad to be the duly authorised agent of the Company for the purpose of affixing and using such Seal and the Board may impose restrictions on the use thereof as may be thought fit. Wherever in these Bye-laws reference is made to the Seal, the reference shall, when and so far as may be applicable, be deemed to include any such other Seal as aforesaid.

AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

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

DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS

  1. (1) The Company shall be entitled to destroy the following documents at the following times:

  2. (a) any share certificate which has been cancelled at any time after the expiry of one (1) year from the date of such cancellation;

  3. (b) any dividend mandate or any variation or cancellation thereof or any notification of change of name or address at any time after the expiry of two (2) years from the date such mandate variation cancellation or notification was recorded by the Company;

  4. (c) any instrument of transfer of shares which has been registered at any time after the expiry of seven (7) years from the date of registration;

  5. (d) any allotment letters after the expiry of seven (7) years from the date of issue thereof; and

  6. (e) copies of powers of attorney, grants of probate and letters of administration at any time after the expiry of seven (7) years after the account to which the relevant power of attorney, grant of probate or letters of administration related has been closed;

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

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

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

DIVIDENDS AND OTHER PAYMENTS

  1. Subject to the Act, the Company in general meeting may from time to time declare dividends in any currency to be paid to the Members but no dividend shall be declared in excess of the amount recommended by the Board. The Company in general meeting may also make a distribution to the Members out of any contributed surplus (as ascertained in accordance with the Act).

  2. No dividend shall be paid or distribution made out of contributed surplus if to do so would render the Company unable to pay its liabilities as they become due or the realisable value of its assets would thereby become less than its liabilities.

  3. Except in so far as the rights attaching to, or the terms of issue of, any share otherwise provide:

  4. (a) all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up on the shares in respect of which the dividend is paid, but no amount paid up on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of this Bye-law as paid up on the share; and

  5. (b) all dividends shall be apportioned and paid pro rata according to the amounts paid up on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid.

  6. The Board may from time to time pay to the Members such interim dividends as appear to the Board to be justified by the profits of the Company and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes, the Board may pay such interim dividends in respect of those shares in the capital of the Company which confer on the holders thereof deferred or non-preferential rights as well as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to dividend and provided that the Board acts bona fide the Board shall not incur any responsibility to the holders of shares conferring any preference for any damage that they may suffer by reason of the payment of an interim dividend on any shares having deferred or non-preferential rights and may also pay any fixed dividend which is payable on any shares of the Company half-yearly or on any other dates, whenever such profits, in the opinion of the Board, justifies such payment.

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  1. The Board may deduct from any dividend or other moneys payable to a Member by the Company on or in respect of any shares all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.

  2. No dividend or other moneys payable by the Company on or in respect of any share shall bear interest against the Company.

  3. Any dividend, interest or other sum payable in cash to the holder of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post addressed to the holder at his registered address or, in the case of joint holders, addressed to the holder whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the shares at his address as appearing in the Register or addressed to such person and at such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall, unless the holder or joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the order of the holder whose name stands first on the Register in respect of such shares, and shall be sent at his or their risk and payment of the cheque or warrant by the bank on which it is drawn shall constitute a good discharge to the Company notwithstanding that it may subsequently appear that the same has been stolen or that any endorsement thereon has been forged. Any one of two or more joint holders may give effectual receipts for any dividends or other moneys payable or property distributable in respect of the shares held by such joint holders.

  4. All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one (1) year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Board for the benefit of the Company until claimed. Any dividend or bonuses unclaimed after a period of six (6) years from the date of declaration shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company. The payment by the Board of any unclaimed dividend or other sums payable on or in respect of a share into a separate account shall not constitute the Company a trustee in respect thereof.

  5. Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared, the Board may further resolve that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warrants to subscribe securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Board may settle the same as it thinks expedient, and in particular may issue certificates in respect of fractions of shares, disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets, or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Board and may appoint any person to sign any requisite instruments of transfer and other documents on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend, and such appointment shall be effective and binding on the Members. The Board may resolve that no such assets shall be made available to Members with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, such distribution of assets would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable and in such event the only entitlement of the Members aforesaid shall be to receive cash payments as aforesaid. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.

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  1. (1) Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on any class of the share capital of the Company, the Board may further resolve either:

  2. (a) that such dividend be satisfied wholly or in part in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up, provided that the shareholders entitled thereto will be entitled to elect to receive such dividend (or part thereof if the Board so determines) in cash in lieu of such allotment. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

    • (i) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;

    • (ii) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two (2) weeks’ Notice to the holders of the relevant shares of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

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

    • (iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the allotment of shares as aforesaid) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the cash election has not been duly exercised (“the non-elected shares”) and in satisfaction thereof shares of the relevant class shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the non-elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company (including profits carried and standing to the credit of any reserves or other special account other than the Subscription Rights Reserve (as defined below)) as the Board may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis; or

  3. (b) that the shareholders entitled to such dividend shall be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Board may think fit. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

    • (i) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;

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  - (ii) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two (2) weeks’ Notice to the holders of the relevant shares of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;

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

  - (iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (“the elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares of the relevant class shall be allotted credited as fully paid up to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shall capitalise and apply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company (including profits carried and standing to the credit of any reserves or other special account other than the Subscription Rights Reserve (as defined below)) as the Board may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such basis.
  • (2) (a) The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law shall rank pari passu in all respects with shares of the same class (if any) then in issue save only as regards participation in the relevant dividend or in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend unless, contemporaneously with the announcement by the Board of their proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with their announcement of the distribution, bonus or rights in question, the Board shall specify that the shares to be allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.

  • (b) The Board may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalisation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law, with full power to the Board to make such provisions as it thinks fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). The Board may authorise any person to enter into on behalf of all Members interested, an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made pursuant to such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

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  • (3) The Company may upon the recommendation of the Board by ordinary resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Bye-law a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.

  • (4) The Board may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (1) of this Bye-law shall not be made available or made to any shareholders with registered addresses in any territory where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, the circulation of an offer of such rights of election or the allotment of shares would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable, and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination. Members affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of Members for any purpose whatsoever.

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

RESERVES

  1. Before recommending any dividend, the Board may set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as it determines as reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Board, be applicable for any purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied and pending such application may, also at such discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments as the Board may from time to time think fit and so that it shall not be necessary to keep any investments constituting the reserve or reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the Company. The Board may also without placing the same to reserve carry forward any profits which it may think prudent not to distribute.

CAPITALISATION

  1. The Company may, upon the recommendation of the Board, at any time and from time to time pass an ordinary resolution to the effect that it is desirable to capitalise all or any part of any amount for the time being standing to the credit of any reserve or fund (including the profit and loss account) whether or not the same is available for distribution and accordingly that such amount be set free for distribution among the Members or any class of Members who would be entitled thereto if it were distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions or such other proportions as the Members may by ordinary resolution determine, on the footing that the same is not paid in cash but is applied either in or towards

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paying up the amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares in the Company held by such Members respectively or in paying up in full unissued shares, debentures or other obligations of the Company, to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid up among such Members, or partly in one way and partly in the other, and the Board shall give effect to such resolution provided that, for the purposes of this Bye-law, a share premium account and any reserve or fund representing unrealised profits, may be applied only in paying up in full unissued shares of the Company to be allotted to such Members credited as fully paid. In carrying sums to reserve and in applying the same the Board shall comply with the provisions of the Act.

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

SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS RESERVE

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

  2. (1) If, so long as any of the rights attached to any warrants issued by the Company to subscribe for shares of the Company shall remain exercisable, the Company does any act or engages in any transaction which, as a result of any adjustments to the subscription price in accordance with the provisions of the conditions of the warrants, would reduce the subscription price to below the nominal value of a share, then the following provisions shall apply:

  3. (a) as from the date of such act or transaction the Company shall establish and thereafter (subject as provided in this Bye-law) maintain in accordance with the provisions of this Bye-law a reserve (the “Subscription Rights Reserve”) the amount of which shall at no time be less than the sum which for the time being would be required to be capitalised and applied in paying up in full the nominal amount of the additional shares required to be issued and allotted credited as fully paid pursuant to subparagraph (c) below on the exercise in full of all the subscription rights outstanding and shall apply the Subscription Rights Reserve in paying up such additional shares in full as and when the same are allotted;

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • (2) Shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of this Bye-law shall rank pari passu in all respects with the other shares allotted on the relevant exercise of the subscription rights represented by the warrant concerned. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1) of this Bye-law, no fraction of any share shall be allotted on exercise of the subscription rights.

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  • (3) The provision of this Bye-law as to the establishment and maintenance of the Subscription Rights Reserve shall not be altered or added to in any way which would vary or abrogate, or which would have the effect of varying or abrogating the provisions for the benefit of any warrantholder or class of warrantholders under this Bye-law without the sanction of a special resolution of such warrantholders or class of warrantholders.

  • (4) A certificate or report by the auditors for the time being of the Company as to whether or not the Subscription Rights Reserve is required to be established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription Rights Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrantholders credited as fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Rights Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding upon the Company and all warrantholders and shareholders.

ACCOUNTING RECORDS

  1. The Board shall cause true accounts to be kept of the sums of money received and expended by the Company, and the matters in respect of which such receipt and expenditure take place, and of the property, assets, credits and liabilities of the Company and of all other matters required by the Act or necessary to give a true and fair view of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.

  2. The accounting records shall be kept at the Office or, subject to the Act, at such other place or places as the Board decides and shall always be open to inspection by the Directors. No Member (other than a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any accounting record or book or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board or the Company in general meeting.

  3. Subject to Section 88 of the Act and Bye-law 150, a printed copy of the Directors’ report, accompanied by the balance sheet and profit and loss account, including every document required by law to be annexed thereto, made up to the end of the applicable financial year and containing a summary of the assets and liabilities of the Company under convenient heads and a statement of income and expenditure, together with a copy of the Auditors’ report, shall be sent to each person entitled thereto at least twenty-one (21) days before the date of the general meeting and at the same time as the notice of annual general meeting and laid before the Company at the annual general meeting in accordance with the requirements of the Act provided that this Bye-law shall not require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person whose address the Company is not aware of or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.

  4. To the extent permitted by and subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, and to obtaining all necessary consents, if any, required thereunder, the requirements of Bye-law 149 shall be deemed satisfied in relation to any person by sending to the person in any manner not prohibited by the Statutes, summarised financial statements derived from the Company’s annual accounts and the directors’ report which shall be in the form and containing the information required by applicable laws and regulations, provided that any person who is otherwise entitled to the annual financial statements of the Company and

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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 summarised financial statements, a complete printed copy of the Company’s annual financial statement and the directors’ report thereon.

  1. The requirement to send to a person referred to in Bye-law 149 the documents referred to in that provision or a summary financial report in accordance with Bye-law 150 shall be deemed satisfied where, in accordance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company publishes copies of the documents referred to in Byelaw 149 and, if applicable, a summary financial report complying with Bye-law 150, on the Company’s computer network or in any other permitted manner (including by sending any form of electronic communication), and that person has agreed or is deemed to have agreed to treat the publication or receipt of such documents in such manner as discharging the Company’s obligation to send to him a copy of such documents.

AUDIT

  1. (1) Subject to Section 88 of the Act, at the annual general meeting or at a subsequent special general meeting in each year, the Members shall appoint an auditor to audit the accounts of the Company and such auditor shall hold office until the Members appoint another auditor. Such auditor may be a Member but no Director or officer or employee of the Company shall, during his continuance in office, be eligible to act as an auditor of the Company.

  2. (2) Subject to Section 89 of the Act, a person, other than an incumbent Auditor, shall not be capable of being appointed Auditor at an annual general meeting unless notice in writing of an intention to nominate that person to the office of Auditor has been given not less than twenty-one (21) days before the annual general meeting and furthermore, the Company shall send a copy of any such notice to the incumbent Auditor.

  3. (3) The Members may, at any general meeting convened and held in accordance with these Bye-laws, by special resolution remove the Auditor at any time before the expiration of his term of office and shall by ordinary resolution at that meeting appoint another Auditor in his stead for the remainder of his term.

  4. Subject to Section 88 of the Act the accounts of the Company shall be audited at least once in every year.

  5. The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Company in general meeting or in such manner as the Members may determine.

  6. If the office of auditor becomes vacant by the resignation or death of the Auditor, or by his becoming incapable of acting by reason of illness or other disability at a time when his services are required, the Directors shall fill the vacancy and fix the remuneration of the Auditor so appointed.

  7. The Auditor shall at all reasonable times have access to all books kept by the Company and to all accounts and vouchers relating thereto; and he may call on the Directors or officers of the Company for any information in their possession relating to the books or affairs of the Company.

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  1. The statement of income and expenditure and the balance sheet provided for by these Bye-laws shall be examined by the Auditor and compared by him with the books, accounts and vouchers relating thereto; and he shall make a written report thereon stating whether such statement and balance sheet are drawn up so as to present fairly the financial position of the Company and the results of its operations for the period under review and, in case information shall have been called for from Directors or officers of the Company, whether the same has been furnished and has been satisfactory. The financial statements of the Company shall be audited by the Auditor in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. The Auditor shall make a written report thereon in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and the report of the Auditor shall be submitted to the Members in general meeting. The generally accepted auditing standards referred to herein may be those of a country or jurisdiction other than Bermuda. If the auditing standards of a country or jurisdiction other than Bermuda are used, the financial statements and the report of the Auditor should disclose this fact and name such country or jurisdiction.

NOTICES

  1. Any Notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange), whether or not, to be given or issued under these Bye-laws from the Company to a Member shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or communication and any such Notice and document may be served or delivered by the Company on or to any Member either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such Member at his registered address as appearing in the Register or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose or, as the case may be, by transmitting it to any such address or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of Notice to him or which the person transmitting the notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the Notice being duly received by the Member or may also be served by advertisement in appointed newspapers (as defined in the Act) or in newspapers published daily and circulating generally in the territory of and in accordance with the requirements of the Designated Stock Exchange or, to the extent permitted by the applicable laws, by placing it on the Company’s website or the website of the Designated Stock Exchange, and giving to the member a notice stating that the notice or other document is available there (a “notice of availability”). The notice of availability may be given to the Member by any of the means set out above other than by posting it on a website. 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 deemed a sufficient service on or delivery to all the joint holders.

  2. Any Notice or other document:

  3. (a) if served or delivered by post, shall where appropriate be sent by airmail and shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which the envelope containing the same, properly prepaid and addressed, is put into the post; in proving such service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the Notice or other document was so addressed and put into the post shall be conclusive evidence thereof;

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  • (b) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent. A Notice placed on the Company’s website or the website of the Designated Stock Exchange is deemed given by the Company to a Member on the day following that on which a notice of availability is deemed served on the Member;

  • (c) if served or delivered in any other manner contemplated by these Bye-laws, shall be deemed to have been served or delivered at the time of personal service or delivery or, as the case may be, at the time of the relevant despatch, transmission or publication; and in proving such service or delivery a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board as to the fact and time of such service, delivery, despatch, transmission or publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof; and

  • (d) may be given to a Member either in the English language or the Chinese language, subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations.

  • (1) Any Notice or other document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address of any Member in pursuance of these Bye-laws shall, notwithstanding that such Member is then dead or bankrupt or that any other event has occurred, and whether or not the Company has notice of the death or bankruptcy or other event, be deemed to have been duly served or delivered in respect of any share registered in the name of such Member as sole or joint holder unless his name shall, at the time of the service or delivery of the Notice or document, have been removed from the Register as the holder of the share, and such service or delivery shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service or delivery of such Notice or document on all persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the share.

  • (2) A Notice may be given by the Company to the person entitled to a share in consequence of the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a Member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter, envelope or wrapper addressed to him by name, or by the title of representative of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so entitled, or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the Notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy had not occurred.

  • (3) Any person who by operation of law, transfer or other means whatsoever shall become entitled to any share shall be bound by every Notice in respect of such share which prior to his name and address being entered on the Register shall have been duly given to the person from whom he derives his title to such share.

SIGNATURES

  1. For the purposes of these Bye-laws, a facsimile or electronic transmission message purporting to come from a holder of shares or, as the case may be, a Director or alternate Director, or, in the case of a corporation which is a holder of shares from a director or the secretary thereof or a duly appointed attorney or duly authorised representative thereof for it and on its behalf, shall in the absence of express

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evidence to the contrary available to the person relying thereon at the relevant time be deemed to be a document or instrument in writing signed by such holder or Director or alternate Director in the terms in which it is received.

WINDING UP

  1. (1) The Board shall have power in the name and on behalf of the Company to present a petition to the court for the Company to be wound up.

  2. (2) A resolution that the Company be wound up by the court or be wound up voluntarily shall be a special resolution.

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

INDEMNITY

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

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  • (2) Each Member agrees to waive any claim or right of action he might have, whether individually or by or in the right of the Company, against any Director on account of any action taken by such Director, or the failure of such Director to take any action in the performance of his duties with or for the Company; PROVIDED THAT such waiver shall not extend to any matter in respect of any fraud or dishonesty which may attach to such Director.

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

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

INFORMATION

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

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) (Stock Code: 00059)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited (the “ Company ”) will be held at Empire Room 1, 1st Floor, Empire Hotel Hong Kong • Wanchai, 33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 3:00 p.m. for the following purposes:

  1. To receive and consider the audited Financial Statements of the Company; the Directors’ Report and Independent Auditor’s Report for the year ended 31 December 2014.

  2. (A) To re-elect Mr. YU Pan as executive director.

  3. (B) To re-elect Mr. CHENG Wing Keung, Raymond as independent non-executive director.

  4. (C) To re-elect Ms. CHUNG Lai Fong as independent non-executive director.

  5. (D) To authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix the directors’ remuneration.

  6. To re-appoint Messrs BDO Limited as auditor of the Company and to authorize the board of directors of the Company to fix their remuneration.

As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, pass, with or without amendments, the following resolutions, as ordinary or, as the case may be, special resolutions:

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

4(A). “ THAT :

  • (a) subject to paragraph (c) below, the exercise by the directors of the Company (the “ Directors ”) during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined below) of all powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements and options, including bonds, warrants, debentures and other securities convertible into shares of the Company, which would or might require the exercise of such powers subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and bye-laws of the Company (the “ Bye-laws ”) be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

  • (b) the approval in paragraph (a) above shall in addition to any authorization given to the Directors and shall authorize the Directors during the Relevant Period to make and grant offers, agreements and options, including bonds, warrants, debentures and other securities convertible into shares of the Company, which would or might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;

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  • (c) the aggregate nominal amount of share capital allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) and issued by the Directors pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to (i) a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined); or (ii) any issue of shares of the Company on exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under any bonds, warrants, notes, debentures and securities which are convertible into shares of the Company; or (iii) any issue of shares of the Company under any share option scheme or similar arrangement for the time being adopted for the grant to employees (including directors) of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries of the rights to subscribe for shares of the Company; or (iv) any scrip dividend scheme or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares of the Company in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares in accordance with the Bye-laws, shall not exceed 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of share capital of the Company in issue at the date of this resolution, and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

  • (d) for the purpose of this resolution:

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

  • (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

  • (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Bye-laws or any laws applicable to the Company to be held; or

  • (iii) the revocation or variation of the authority set out in this resolution by the passing of an ordinary resolution in a general meeting of the Company.

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

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4(B). “ THAT :

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

  • (b) the aggregate nominal amount of shares of the Company to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing of this resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

  • (c) for the purpose of this resolution:

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

  • (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

  • (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Bye-laws or any laws applicable to the Company to be held; or

  • (iii) the revocation or variation of the authority set out in this resolution by an ordinary resolution in a general meeting of the Company.”

  • 4(C). “ THAT conditional upon resolutions numbered 4(A) and 4(B) in the notice convening this meeting being passed, the general mandate granted to the Directors to allot, issue and deal with additional shares pursuant to resolution numbered 4(A) above be and is hereby extended by the addition thereto of an amount representing the aggregate nominal amount of the share of the Company which had been repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to resolution numbered 4(B) above, provided that such amount shall not exceed 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of passing this resolution.”

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  1. THAT

  2. (a) conditional on the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange (“ Listing Committee ”) granting approval for the listing of, and permission to deal in, the Shares which may fall to be issued pursuant to the exercise of any options which may be granted under the share option scheme (a copy of which is produced to the meeting and marked “A” and signed by the chairman of the meeting for the purpose of identification) (the “ New Share Option Scheme ”), the New Share Option Scheme be and is hereby approved and adopted by the Company and the directors of the Company be and are hereby authorised to grant options to subscribe for Shares thereunder and to allot, issue and deal with Shares pursuant to the exercise of any options granted thereunder and to do all such acts and enter into all such transactions, arrangements and agreements as may be necessary or expedient as they think fit from time to time in order to give effect to the New Share Option Scheme; and

  3. (b) the existing share option scheme adopted by the Company on 4 August 2005 be terminated with effect from the date on which the Listing Committee granting the relevant approval and permission referred to above and no further options may be offered pursuant thereto.”

  4. THAT all of the convertible non-voting preference shares of HK$0.01 each of the Company and all of the ordinary shares in the authorized share capital of the Company shall be re-classified as shares of HK$0.01 each of the Company so that the authorized share capital of the Company shall be HK$300,000,000 divided into 30,000,000,000 shares of HK$0.01 each.”

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS

  1. THAT

  2. (a) the amended and restated bye-laws of the Company in the form of the document marked “B” and tabled before the Meeting and initialed by the chairman of the Meeting for identification purpose, be approved and adopted as the new bye-laws of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of the existing bye-laws of the Company with effect after the conclusion of this meeting; and

  3. (b) the Board be and is hereby authorised to sign, execute and deliver all such documents, instruments and agreements (including the affixation of the common seal of the Company when required), and to do all such acts or things, as it may consider necessary, appropriate, desirable or expedient to give effect to or otherwise in connection with the matters contemplated in paragraph (a) of this resolution.”

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  1. THAT :

  2. (a) subject to and conditional upon the approval of the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda and compliance with other requirements under the laws of Bermuda, the Chinese name “天譽置業(控股)有限公司” be adopted as the secondary name of the Company with effect from the date of entry of the secondary name of the Company on the register by the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda; and

  3. (b) the Board be and is hereby authorised to sign, execute and deliver all such documents, instruments and agreements (including the affixation of the common seal of the Company where required) and to do all such acts or things as it may consider necessary, appropriate, desirable or expedient to give effect or otherwise in connection with the matters contemplated in paragraph (a) of this resolution.”

By Order of the Board Skyfame Realty (Holdings) Limited CHEUNG Lin Shun Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 27 April 2015

Notes:

  1. Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the meeting by the above notice shall be entitled to appoint another person as his/her proxy to attend and vote instead of such member. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

  2. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his/her attorney duly authorized in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under its seal or under the hand of an officer, attorney or other person authorized to sign the same.

  3. The instrument appointing a proxy and (if required by the Board) the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority must be delivered to the office of Tricor Abacus Limited, the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong at Level 22, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong or by way of notice to or in any document accompanying the notice convening the meeting not less than fortyeight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposed to vote and in default, the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.

  4. Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a member of the Company from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

  5. In the case of joint holders of any share, if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person, or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register in respect of the joint holding.

  6. As at the date of this notice, the Board comprises Mr. YU Pan, Mr. WEN Xiaobing and Mr. WONG Lok as the executive directors; Mr. ZHONG Guoxing as the non-executive director and Mr. CHOY Shu Kwan, Mr. CHENG Wing Keung, Raymond and Ms. CHUNG Lai Fong as the independent non-executive directors.

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