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KLN Logistics Group Limited — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2022
Apr 27, 2022
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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 Kerry Logistics Network Limited, you should at once hand this circular and the enclosed form of proxy to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, licensed securities dealer or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this circular, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.
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(Incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and continued into Bermuda as an exempted company with limited liability)
Stock Code 636
PROPOSALS FOR GENERAL MANDATES TO REPURCHASE AND ISSUE SHARES, RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS, AMENDMENTS TO BYE-LAWS AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Resolutions will be proposed at the Annual General Meeting of Kerry Logistics Network Limited to be held via the e-Meeting System on Monday, 23 May 2022 at 2:30 p.m. to approve the matters referred to in this circular.
The notice convening the Annual General Meeting together with the form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting are enclosed with this circular. Whether or not you are able to attend the meeting via the e-Meeting System, you are requested to complete the form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and return it to the Company’s Hong Kong branch share registrar and transfer office, Tricor Investor Services Limited, at Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the Annual General Meeting, i.e. by no later than 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, 21 May 2022. Completion and return of the form of proxy shall not preclude you from attending and voting via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting or any adjourned meeting thereof should you so desire.
28 April 2022
CONTENTS
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| Definitions | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
| Special Arrangements for the Annual General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
4 | ||
| Letter from | the Board | ||
| 1. | Introduction . . . . . . . . . |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 5 |
| 2. | General Mandate to Repurchase Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 6 | |
| 3. | General Mandate to Issue | New Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 6 |
| 4. | Re-election of Directors | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 6 |
| 5. | Directors’ Fees . . . . . . . |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 7 |
| 6. | Final Dividend . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 7 |
| 7. | Amendments to Bye-laws | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 7 |
| 8. | Voting by Poll . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 7 |
| 9. | Annual General Meeting | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 8 |
| 10. | Recommendation . . . . . |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 8 |
| 11. | Responsibility Statement | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 8 |
| Appendix I | – Details of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
I-1 | |
| Appendix II | – Explanatory Statement on Share Repurchase Mandate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
II-1 | |
| Appendix III – Particulars of Amendments to Bye-laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
III-i | ||
| Notice of Annual General Meeting . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | N-1 |
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DEFINITIONS
In this circular, the following expressions have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires:
| “Annual General Meeting” | the annual general meeting of the Company to be held |
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| via the e-Meeting System on Monday, 23 May 2022 at | |
| 2:30 p.m., or where the context so admits, any | |
| adjournment thereof | |
| “Board” | the board of Directors |
| “Bye-laws” | the Amended and Restated Bye-laws of the Company |
| adopted on 26 May 2021, with effect from 16 September | |
| 2021, as amended from time to time | |
| “China” or “PRC” | the People’s Republic of China |
| “Company” | Kerry Logistics Network Limited, incorporated in the |
| British Virgin Islands and continued into Bermuda to | |
| become an exempted company with limited liability, the | |
| Shares of which are listed on the Main Board of the Stock | |
| Exchange | |
| “Controlling Shareholder(s)” | shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing |
| Rules | |
| “Director(s)” | the director(s) of the Company |
| “e-Meeting System” | electronic platform for the registered Shareholders, |
| proxies and corporate representatives attending the | |
| Annual General Meeting via internet | |
| “Executive Director(s)” | the executive director(s) of the Company |
| “Group” | the Company and its subsidiaries |
| “HK$” | Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong |
| “Hong Kong” | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC |
| “Independent Non-executive Director(s)” | the independent non-executive director(s) of the |
| Company | |
| “KGL” | Kerry Group Limited, one of the Controlling Shareholders |
| of the Company |
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DEFINITIONS
“Latest Practicable Date” 11 April 2022, being the latest practicable date prior to the printing of this circular for the purpose of ascertaining certain information contained in this circular “Listing Rules” the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange, as amended from time to time “Mainland of China” the PRC, and for the purpose of this circular only, excludes Hong Kong, Macau Special Administrative Region of the PRC and Taiwan “Non-executive Director(s)” the non-executive director(s) of the Company “S.F. Holding” S.F. Holding Co., Ltd., a joint stock company incorporated in the PRC with limited liability and the shares of which are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (stock code: 002352.SZ), is a subsidiary of Shenzhen Mingde “SFO” Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong) “Share(s)” share(s) of nominal value of HK$0.50 each of the Company, or, if there has been a subdivision, consolidation, reclassification or reconstruction of the share capital of the Company, shares forming part of the ordinary share capital of the Company “Share Repurchase Mandate” a general and unconditional mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to repurchase Shares at any time until the next annual general meeting of the Company or such earlier period as stated in the Share Repurchase Resolution “Share Repurchase Resolution” the proposed ordinary resolution referred to in item 13B of the notice of the Annual General Meeting “Shareholder(s)” the holder(s) of the Share(s) “Shenzhen Mingde” Shenzhen Mingde Holding Development Co., Ltd., one of the Controlling Shareholders of the Company “Stock Exchange” The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited
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DEFINITIONS
“subsidiary” or “subsidiaries” shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules "Substantial Shareholder(s)" shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules “Takeovers Code” the Code on Takeovers and Mergers, approved by the Securities and Futures Commission, as amended from time to time
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
All registered Shareholders will be able to join the Annual General Meeting via the e-Meeting System. The e-Meeting System can be accessed from any location with access to the internet via smartphone, tablet device or computer.
Through the e-Meeting System, registered Shareholders will be able to view the live video broadcast and participate in voting and submit questions online. Login details and information will be included in our letters to registered Shareholders regarding the e-Meeting System which will be despatched on 28 April 2022.
HOW TO ATTEND AND VOTE
Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting and exercise their voting rights can do one of the following:
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(1) attend the Annual General Meeting via the e-Meeting System which enables live streaming and interactive platform for submitting questions and voting online; or
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(2) appoint the chairman of the Annual General Meeting or other person(s) as your proxy(ies) by providing their email address(es) for receiving the designated log-in username and password to attend and vote on your behalf via the e-Meeting System.
Your proxy’s authority and instruction will be revoked if you attend and vote via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting.
If you are a non-registered Shareholder, you may consult directly with your banks, brokers, custodians or Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (as the case may be) for necessary arrangement to attend and vote via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting if you wish.
If you have any questions relating to the Annual General Meeting, please contact the Company’s Hong Kong branch share registrar and transfer office, Tricor Investor Services Limited, as follows:
Address: Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Telephone: (852) 2980 1333 during business hours from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding Hong Kong public holidays
Due to the constantly evolving COVID-19 pandemic situation in Hong Kong, the Company may be required to adopt further changes to the Annual General Meeting arrangements at short notice. Shareholders are advised to check the Company’s website at www.kln.com and the Stock Exchange’s website at www.hkexnews.hk for the latest announcement and information relating to the Annual General Meeting.
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LETTER FROM THE BOARD
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(Incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and continued into Bermuda as an exempted company with limited liability)
Stock Code 636
Chairman, Non-executive Director: Mr WANG Wei
Vice Chairman, Non-executive Director: Mr KUOK Khoon Hua
Registered Office: Victoria Place, 5th Floor 31 Victoria Street Hamilton HM 10 Bermuda
Executive Directors:
Mr MA Wing Kai William (Group Managing Director) Mr CHEUNG Ping Chuen Vicky
Non-executive Directors: Mr CHAN Fei Mr HO Chit Ms CHEN Keren
Corporate Headquarters and Principal Place of Business in Hong Kong: 16/F, Kerry Cargo Centre 55 Wing Kei Road Kwai Chung New Territories Hong Kong
Independent Non-executive Directors:
Dr CHEUNG Wai Man Mr LAI Sau Cheong Simon Mr TAN Chuen Yan Paul Ms WONG Yu Pok Marina
28 April 2022
To the Shareholders
Dear Sir or Madam
PROPOSALS FOR GENERAL MANDATES TO REPURCHASE AND ISSUE SHARES, RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS, AMENDMENTS TO BYE-LAWS AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
1. INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this circular is to provide you with information relating to, inter alia , the proposed renewal of the Share Repurchase Mandate, the proposed re-election of Directors who are going to retire and offer themselves for re-election at the Annual General Meeting and the proposed Directors’ fees, the proposed amendments to the Bye-laws, and to give you the notice of the Annual General Meeting.
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LETTER FROM THE BOARD
2. GENERAL MANDATE TO REPURCHASE SHARES
An ordinary resolution will be proposed at the Annual General Meeting to approve the granting of the Share Repurchase Mandate to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to repurchase Shares representing up to 10 per cent. of the number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of passing of the Share Repurchase Resolution. The Share Repurchase Mandate will continue in force until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or any earlier date as referred to in item 13B of the notice of the Annual General Meeting.
An explanatory statement required by the Listing Rules to be sent to the Shareholders in connection with the proposed Share Repurchase Mandate is set out in Appendix II to this circular. This explanatory statement contains all information reasonably necessary to enable the Shareholders to make an informed decision on whether to vote for or against the relevant resolution at the Annual General Meeting.
3. GENERAL MANDATE TO ISSUE NEW SHARES
In order to ensure flexibility and give discretion to the Directors, in the event that it becomes desirable for the Company to issue any new Shares, an ordinary resolution to grant a general mandate to the Directors to allot, issue and deal with additional Shares not exceeding 10 per cent. of the number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of passing of the relevant ordinary resolution will be proposed at the Annual General Meeting.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, the total number of issued Shares of the Company was 1,807,374,842. If there is no allotment or repurchase of the Shares between the Latest Practicable Date and the date of the Annual General Meeting, the general mandate to allot, issue and deal with additional Shares shall not exceed 180,737,484 Shares.
4. RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
In accordance with Article 99 of the Bye-laws, the number of Directors retiring at each annual general meeting shall not be less than such number as is nearest to but not exceeding one-third of the Directors for the time being (not including those Directors who were appointed to fill casual vacancies or as additions to the Board further to Article 102), and any retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election at the same annual general meeting. Accordingly, Mr CHEUNG Ping Chuen Vicky shall retire by rotation and shall be eligible for re-election at the Annual General Meeting.
In addition, in accordance with Article 102 of the Bye-laws, any Director appointed by the Board as an addition to the existing Board shall hold office until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election. Accordingly, Mr WANG Wei, Mr CHAN Fei, Mr HO Chit, Ms CHEN Keren, Dr CHEUNG Wai Man, Mr LAI Sau Cheong Simon and Mr TAN Chuen Yan Paul, who were appointed by the Board effective from 13 October 2021, will be retiring and be subject to re-election at the Annual General Meeting respectively.
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LETTER FROM THE BOARD
In proposing Dr CHEUNG Wai Man, Mr LAI Sau Cheong Simon and Mr TAN Chuen Yan Paul for re-election, the Board considered their biographies and qualifications, performance and contributions to date in their roles (including that they have since their respective appointment continued to offer impartial views and guidance to the Board, its committees and the senior management) and independence confirmations provided under Rule 3.13 of the Listing Rules. Taking into account their extensive knowledge, expertise and exposure in the academic study of logistics or legal industry (as applicable), the Board considers that the re-election of Dr CHEUNG Wai Man, Mr LAI Sau Cheong Simon and Mr TAN Chuen Yan Paul as Independent Non-executive Directors will bring considerable benefits to the Company as they are able to provide valuable insight and advice in different areas. The Board also believes that the varying academic backgrounds, age, professional knowledge and work experience of Dr CHEUNG Wai Man, Mr LAI Sau Cheong Simon and Mr TAN Chuen Yan Paul will allow them to bring new perspectives, fresh ideas and diversity to the Board.
The Board is of the view that all of the Directors proposed to be re-elected will make contributions to the Group in promoting Board diversity. Details of each of the above Directors who is subject to re-election at the Annual General Meeting are set out in Appendix I to this circular in accordance with Rule 13.74 and the relevant requirements of the Listing Rules.
5. DIRECTORS’ FEES
The resolution to fix the remuneration of the Directors will be proposed at the Annual General Meeting. The proposed details of the Directors’ fees are set out in Appendix I to this circular.
6. FINAL DIVIDEND
Reference is made to the results announcement for the year ended 31 December 2021 of the Company dated 30 March 2022. The Board resolved to propose to the Shareholders in the Annual General Meeting on 23 May 2022 for the distribution of a final dividend of 50 HK cents per Share for the year ended 31 December 2021 payable to the Shareholders whose names are listed in the registers of members of the Company on 27 May 2022.
7. AMENDMENTS TO BYE-LAWS
In view of the recent amendments to the Listing Rules requiring, among others, all issuers to adopt one common set of core shareholder protection standards, the Board proposes to make certain amendments to align the Bye-laws with such changes. Please refer to Appendix III for the particulars of the proposed amendments (marked to show changes to the existing Bye-laws).
8. VOTING BY POLL
All the resolutions set out in the notice of the Annual General Meeting would be decided by poll in accordance with the Listing Rules and the Bye-laws. The chairman of the Annual General Meeting would explain the detailed procedures for conducting a poll at the commencement of the Annual General Meeting.
The poll results will be published on the Company’s website at www.kln.com and the Stock Exchange’s website at www.hkexnews.hk after the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.
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LETTER FROM THE BOARD
9. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Notice of the Annual General Meeting is set out on pages N-1 to N-6 of this circular. A form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting is enclosed with this circular. Whether or not you are able to attend the meeting via the e-Meeting System, you are requested to complete the form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and return it to the Company’s Hong Kong branch share registrar and transfer office, Tricor Investor Services Limited, at Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the Annual General Meeting, i.e. by no later than 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, 21 May 2022. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not prevent you from attending and voting via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting if you so wish.
10. RECOMMENDATION
The Directors consider that the resolutions approving, including without limitation to, the Share Repurchase Mandate, the re-election of Directors and the amendments to the Bye-laws, as set out respectively in the notice of the Annual General Meeting are in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders. Accordingly, the Directors recommend the Shareholders to vote in favour of all such resolutions to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting.
11. 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.
Yours faithfully, For and on behalf of
Kerry Logistics Network Limited WANG Wei Chairman
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DETAILS OF DIRECTORS
APPENDIX I
The following are the particulars of each of the Directors proposed to be re-elected at the Annual General Meeting (as required by the Listing Rules).
WANG Wei
WANG Wei, aged 51, has been the Chairman and a Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Mr Wang has over 28 years of experience in the logistics industry. Having founded S.F. Holding in 1993, Mr Wang is S.F. Holding’s controlling shareholder and has been its chairman of the board of directors and general manager since December 2016. S.F. Holding is a Controlling Shareholder of the Company.
Since February 2021, Mr Wang has acted as non-executive director and chairman of the board of directors of SF REIT Asset Management Limited, the manager of SF Real Estate Investment Trust (a Hong Kong collective investment scheme authorised under section 104 of the SFO and listed on the Stock Exchange, stock code 2191).
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr Wang was interested in (i) 931,209,117 Shares held through his controlled corporations, and (ii) the registered capital of Shenzhen Mingde in the amount of Renminbi 113,286,600 as beneficial owner. Apart from that, Mr Wang has no other interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
CHEUNG Ping Chuen Vicky
CHEUNG Ping Chuen Vicky, aged 62, has been an Executive Director of the Company since April 2020.
Mr Cheung is a director of Apex Maritime Co., Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Apex Group”), which are currently subsidiaries of the Company. In 1990, Mr Cheung founded his own freight forwarding company, Apex Group, and has been a director since then. Apex Group has been recognised as one of the top three volume providers for the Transpacific Trade and the Company acquired 51% equity interests in Apex Group in 2016 and subsequently acquired the remaining 49% equity interests in Apex Group in 2020.
Mr Cheung obtained a bachelor’s degree in science (business administration and accounting) from San Francisco State University in the United States in 1985.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr Cheung was interested in (i) 3,332,068 Shares as beneficial owner, and (ii) award granted under the share award scheme of the Company conferring the conditional right upon vesting in the form of 55,076 Shares. Apart from that, Mr Cheung has no other interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
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DETAILS OF DIRECTORS
APPENDIX I
CHAN Fei
CHAN Fei, aged 47, has been a Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Mr Chan has over 20 years of experience in management. He joined S.F. Holding in March 2016 as assistant chief executive officer, and acted as chief strategy officer between January 2018 and March 2021. Mr Chan has served as S.F. Holding’s director and deputy general manager since December 2019. Prior to joining S.F. Holding, Mr Chan was executive director of the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs (a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, stock code GS) from July 2006 to March 2016. S.F. Holding is a Controlling Shareholder of the Company.
Since December 2019, Mr Chan has acted as non-executive director and chairman of the board of directors of Hangzhou SF Intra-city Industrial Co., Ltd. (a company listed on the Stock Exchange on 14 December 2021, stock code 9699).
Mr Chan obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong in December 1999, a bachelor’s degree in law from University of London in the United Kingdom in August 2003 and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States in May 2006.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr Chan had no interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
HO Chit
HO Chit, aged 47, has been a Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Mr Ho has over 20 years of experience in auditing, financial control and corporate finance and business management. He joined S.F. Holding in September 2021 as deputy general manager and chief financial officer. Mr Ho has served as non-independent director of S.F. Holding since November 2021. Prior to joining S.F. Holding, Mr Ho served as chief executive officer of Fox Financial Technology Group Limited from April 2014 to September 2021 and held a number of senior financial positions in several NASDAQ listed companies from 2005 to 2014. S.F. Holding is a Controlling Shareholder of the Company.
Since April 2022, Mr Ho has acted as non-executive director of SF REIT Asset Management Limited, the manager of SF Real Estate Investment Trust (a Hong Kong collective investment scheme authorised under section 104 of the SFO and listed on the Stock Exchange, stock code 2191). Since August 2015, he has also acted as independent director of China Great Wall Securities Co., Ltd. (a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, stock code 002939). Mr Ho served as independent non-executive director of 7Road Holdings Limited (a company listed on the Stock Exchange, stock code 00797) from July 2018 to December 2018 and independent director of Zhaopin.com Limited (whose American depositary shares were delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in October 2017) from June 2014 to September 2017.
Mr Ho obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration (accounting and finance) from the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong in December 1997 and an executive master of business administration degree from Tsinghua University in the PRC in July 2013. Mr Ho is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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DETAILS OF DIRECTORS
APPENDIX I
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr Ho had no interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
CHEN Keren
CHEN Keren, aged 56, has been a Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Ms Chen has over 30 years of experience in legal and corporate services. She worked at an international law firm, Sinclair, Roche & Temperley, London between September 1988 and February 1994, and joined the firm’s Hong Kong office in March 1994 as solicitor. She remained with Sinclair, Roche & Temperley, Hong Kong as partner until February 1998. In March 1998, Ms Chen joined Kerry Trading Co., Limited as legal counsel, and has since become group co-general counsel, company secretary, head of company secretarial and compliance and director of corporate services of KGL. KGL is one of the Controlling Shareholders of the Company.
Ms Chen obtained a bachelor’s degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom in July 1987. She is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong and England and Wales.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Ms Chen had no interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
CHEUNG Wai Man
CHEUNG Wai Man, aged 63, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Dr Cheung is currently associate dean, Graduate Studies of Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (“CUHK”) in Hong Kong. Dr Cheung has been director of the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics as well as the Center of Cyber Logistics at CUHK since 2006. He has also served as executive director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business at CUHK since 2016. Dr Cheung joined the department of decision sciences and managerial economics at CUHK as assistant professor in 1992, and has since become a full professor at the same department.
Dr Cheung obtained a bachelor’s degree in science (civil engineering) from the National Taiwan University in Taiwan in June 1982, a master of business administration degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States in December 1986 and completed his doctor of philosophy degree in decision sciences and engineering systems at the same institute in December 1991.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Dr Cheung had no interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
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DETAILS OF DIRECTORS
APPENDIX I
LAI Sau Cheong Simon
LAI Sau Cheong Simon, aged 61, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Mr Lai has over 30 years of experience in corporate finance and commercial law fields. He joined Deacons in 1985 and was head of its corporate finance practice before retiring from partnership in 2008. Mr Lai re-joined Deacons as a consultant in January 2012 and in November 2016, he joined the Chow Tai Fook group. Mr Lai has since acted as general counsel (head of legal and secretarial) of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited and as group general counsel and joint company secretary of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited (a company listed on the Stock Exchange, stock code 1929).
Mr Lai obtained a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Hong Kong (“HKU”) in Hong Kong in November 1982 and a postgraduate certificate in law from HKU in July 1983. He is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong, England and Wales, New South Wales, Australia and Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and is a qualified barrister in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Mr Lai currently serves on a number of committees of The Law Society of Hong Kong including as chairman of its company law committee, prior to which he acted as director and council member between 2016 and 2019. Mr Lai had also served on a number of public appointments in Hong Kong.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr Lai had no interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
TAN Chuen Yan Paul
TAN Chuen Yan Paul, aged 63, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since October 2021.
Mr Tan has over 35 years of experience in the legal industry, having practised as a solicitor in both Hong Kong and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He joined Baker McKenzie in July 1982 and was managing partner of its Hong Kong, the Mainland of China, Vietnam and Korea offices in 1997 to 1999, and 2013 to 2015. He had also served as chairman of the Firm Global Nominating Committee and head of Hong Kong Commercial and Securities Practice. Mr Tan retired as a partner of Baker McKenzie in December 2019. Mr Tan has since become a vice chairman and company secretary of the Hong Chi Association, a government subvented charity dedicated to the welfare and training of mentally challenged children in Hong Kong.
Mr Tan was vice president of the Law Society of Hong Kong from 2000 to 2003, having been a council member since 1995. He was the convenor of Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and currently serves as a member of the Tribunal. Mr Tan has also served on a number of public appointments in Hong Kong, including as chairman of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Appeal Board, Occupational Retirement Schemes Appeal Board and the Appeal Tribunal Panel (Buildings). He also served as the independent trustee of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Staff Superannuation Scheme and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ancillary Staff Superannuation Scheme.
Mr Tan received from the University of Sydney in Australia a bachelor’s degree in economics in April 1980, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in law in February 1982 and June 1985, respectively. He is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong and New South Wales, Australia.
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DETAILS OF DIRECTORS
APPENDIX I
As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr Tan had no interest in the Shares, underlying Shares or debentures of the Company or any of its associated corporations within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.
DIRECTOR’S TERM AND FEES
According to Article 99 of the Bye-laws, the number of Directors retiring at each annual general meeting shall not be less than such number as is nearest to but not exceeding one-third of the Directors for the time being (not including those Directors who were appointed to fill casual vacancies or as additions to the Board further to Article 102), and any retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election at the same annual general meeting. Each of the Directors who stands for re-election has signed an appointment letter with the Company for an initial term commencing from his/her respective date of appointment until the next general meeting of the Company, at which he/she will be eligible for re-election. Upon being re-elected, the appointment of each such Director shall continue for a period of three years and until the conclusion of the third annual general meeting of the Company or such earlier date pursuant to the Bye-laws. The appointments are subject to the provisions in relation to the retirement and rotation of directors in accordance with the Bye-laws.
Subject to such terms (including that the payment may be made on a pro-rata basis for the financial year, if applicable) as the Directors (or a duly authorised committee thereof) may in their absolute discretion see fit, the Directors recommended the amount of Directors’ fees for the year ending 31 December 2022 to be as follows:
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(a) a fee of HK$300,000 per annum be payable to each Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director);
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(b) a fee of HK$80,000 per annum be payable to the chairman of the Remuneration Committee who is a Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director);
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(c) a fee of HK$50,000 per annum be payable to each member of the Remuneration Committee who is a Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director);
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(d) a fee of HK$200,000 per annum be payable to the chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee who is a Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director);
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(e) a fee of HK$120,000 per annum be payable to each member of the Audit and Compliance Committee who is a Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director);
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(f) a fee of HK$80,000 per annum be payable to the chairman of the Nomination Committee who is a Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director);
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(g) a fee of HK$50,000 per annum be payable to each member of the Nomination Committee who is a Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director); and
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- (h) a fee of HK$5,000 for attendance at each Board meeting, Remuneration Committee meeting, Audit and Compliance Committee meeting and Nomination Committee meeting be payable to each Non-executive Director (including Independent Non-executive Director),
except that neither the Chairman nor the Vice Chairman of the Board is entitled to any annual fee or attendance fee in relation to his directorship in the Company and membership of Board committee(s).
The Directors’ fees are determined with reference to the level of fees payable by listed companies in Hong Kong and respective level of responsibilities, skills and commitments required of the Non-executive Directors (including Independent Non-executive Directors).
DIRECTOR’S INTEREST
Save as disclosed in this circular, to the best knowledge of the Company, each of the Directors who stands for re-election (i) does not hold other positions in the Company or other members of the Group, (ii) does not hold any directorship in other public companies the securities of which are listed on any securities market in Hong Kong or overseas in the last three years, (iii) does not have any relationship with any other Director, senior management, Substantial Shareholder or Controlling Shareholder of the Company and (iv) has no information to disclose pursuant to any of the requirements of Rule 13.51(2)(h)-13.51(2)(v) of the Listing Rules; and there are no other matters that need to be brought to the attention of the Shareholders.
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APPENDIX II
The following is the explanatory statement required to be sent to Shareholders under the Listing Rules to enable them to make an informed decision on whether to vote for or against the ordinary resolution in relation to the Share Repurchase Mandate to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting.
1. SHARE REPURCHASE PROPOSAL
As at the Latest Practicable Date, the total number of issued Shares of the Company was 1,807,374,842. It is proposed that pursuant to the Share Repurchase Mandate, up to a maximum of 10 per cent. of the number of issued Shares as at the date of passing of the Share Repurchase Resolution may be repurchased by the Directors. Subject to the passing of the Share Repurchase Resolution, on the basis that no further Shares are issued prior to the Annual General Meeting and ignoring other restrictions (if any), the Company would be allowed under the Share Repurchase Mandate to repurchase up to a maximum of 180,737,484 Shares.
2. REASONS FOR REPURCHASES
The Directors believe that it is in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders to have a general authority from the Shareholders to enable the Company to repurchase Shares in the market. Such repurchases may, depending on market conditions and funding arrangements at the time, lead to an enhancement of the net asset value of the Company and/or earnings per Share of the Company and will only be made when the Directors believe that such a repurchase will benefit the Company and its Shareholders.
3. FUNDING OF REPURCHASES
In repurchasing 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 the profits that would otherwise be available for dividend or the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purpose. The premium payable on repurchase may only be paid out of either the profits that would otherwise be available for dividend or out of the share premium or contributed surplus accounts of the Company.
The Directors propose that such repurchases of Shares would be appropriately financed by the Company’s internal resources and/or available banking facilities. There might be a material adverse impact on the working capital or gearing position of the Company as compared with the position disclosed in the audited consolidated financial statements contained in the annual report of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2021 and taking into account the financial position of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date, in the event that the proposed share repurchases were to be carried out in full at any time during the proposed repurchase period. However, the Directors do not propose to exercise the Share Repurchase Mandate to such extent as would, in the circumstances, have a material adverse effect on the working capital requirements of the Company or the gearing levels which in the opinion of the Directors are from time to time appropriate for the Company.
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4. DIRECTORS’ UNDERTAKING AND CORE CONNECTED PERSONS
The Directors have undertaken to the Stock Exchange that, so far as the same may be applicable, the exercise of the power of the Company to make repurchases pursuant to the Share Repurchase Resolution will be in accordance with the Listing Rules and the applicable laws of Bermuda.
None of the Directors nor, to the best of their knowledge having made all reasonable enquiries, any of their respective close associates (as defined in the Listing Rules) have a present intention, in the event that the Share Repurchase Resolution is adopted by Shareholders, to sell Shares to the Company or its subsidiaries.
No core connected persons (as defined in the Listing Rules) have notified the Company that they have a present intention to sell Shares held by them to the Company, or have undertaken not to do so, in the event that the Company is authorised to make repurchases of its Shares.
5. EFFECT OF THE TAKEOVERS CODE
If a Shareholder’s proportionate interest in the voting rights of the Company increases as a result of a share repurchase, any 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 Shareholders’ interests) could obtain or consolidate control of the Company and become obliged to make a mandatory offer in accordance with Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr WANG Wei was directly or indirectly interested in 931,209,117 Shares as disclosed under the SFO, which constituted approximately 51.52 per cent. of the total number of issued Shares of the Company. If the Share Repurchase Mandate were to be exercised in full, which is considered to be unlikely in the current circumstances, Mr WANG Wei would (assuming that there is no change in relevant facts and circumstances) hold approximately 57.25 per cent. of the total number of issued Shares of the Company. As at the Latest Practicable Date, KGL was directly or indirectly interested in 595,928,608 Shares as disclosed under the SFO, which constituted approximately 32.97 per cent. of the total number of issued Shares of the Company. If the Share Repurchase Mandate were to be exercised in full, which is considered to be unlikely in the current circumstances, KGL would (assuming that there is no change in relevant facts and circumstances) hold approximately 36.64 per cent. of the total number of issued Shares of the Company. It is considered that, in the absence of any special circumstances, an obligation to make a mandatory offer as referred to above as a result of a share repurchase is unlikely to arise. Save as aforesaid, the Directors are not aware of any consequences which would arise under the Takeovers Code as a consequence of any repurchases pursuant to the Share Repurchase Mandate.
6. SHARE REPURCHASES MADE BY THE COMPANY
There was no repurchase by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of the Shares during the six months prior to the Latest Practicable Date.
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7. MARKET PRICES
During each of the 12 months preceding and up to the Latest Practicable Date, the highest and lowest prices at which the Shares were traded on the Stock Exchange are as follows:
| Shares | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Month | Highest Price | Lowest Price |
| HK$ | HK$ | ||
| 2021 | April | 23.80 | 22.55 |
| May | 23.70 | 23.10 | |
| June | 23.70 | 23.00 | |
| July | 24.30 | 23.00 | |
| August | 24.80 | 23.05 | |
| September | 27.15 | 16.20 | |
| October | 19.96 | 16.86 | |
| November | 25.15 | 18.00 | |
| December | 22.70 | 19.00 | |
| 2022 | January | 22.55 | 18.60 |
| February | 20.45 | 18.62 | |
| March | 19.44 | 15.06 | |
| April (up to the Latest Practicable Date) | 18.90 | 17.20 |
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MEMORANDUM OF CONTINUANCE AND
AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS
OF
KERRY LOGISTICS NETWORK LIMITED
(Amended and Restated Bye-laws as ~~conditionally~~ adopted by a Special Resolution passed on 2 ~~6~~ 3 May 2022 ~~1 and with effect from 16 September 2021~~ )
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FORM NO. 7a
Registration No. 28390
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BERMUDA CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT OF MEMORANDUM OF INCREASE OF SHARE CAPITAL
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that a Memorandum of Increase of Share Capital
of
Kerry Logistics Network Limited
was delivered to the Registrar of Companies on the 4[th] day of December 2013 in accordance with section 45(3) of the Companies Act 1981 (“theAct”).
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Given under my hand and Seal of the REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES this 9[th] day of December 2013
(sd.) for Registrar of Companies
Capital prior to increase: HK$ 500,000.00 Amount of increase: HK$ 2,999,500,000.00 Present Capital: HK$ 3,000,000,000.00
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CERTIFIED BY:
(sd.)
Name: Lee Pui Nee Capacity: ~~Director/~~ Secretary
Kerry Logistics Network Limited
(Company)
Certified Copy of the Resolutions duly passed by the Sole Shareholder of the Company pursuant to the Bye-laws of the Company effective as of 25 November, 2013.
“ Authorised Share Capital
RESOLVED THAT each of the 500,000 Shares with a par value of HK$1 be subdivided into 2 Shares with a par value of HK$0.5 each, such that thereafter, the total number of issued shares shall in aggregate be 1,000,000 Shares with a par value of HK$0.5 each (the “ Subdivision of Shares ”).
FURTHER RESOLVED THAT subsequent to the Subdivision of Shares, the authorised share capital of the Company be increased from HK$500,000 divided into 1,000,000 Shares with a par value of HK$0.5 each, to HK$3,000,000,000 divided into 6,000,000,000 Shares of par value of HK$0.5 each, by the creation of 5,999,000,000 Shares of par value of HK$0.5 each (“ Increase of Authorised Share Capital ”)”
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FORM NO. 6[B]
Registration No. 28390
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BERMUDA
CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY NAME
I hereby in accordance with section 10A of the Companies Act 1981 issue this Certificate of Secondary Name and do certify that on the 7th day of October 2009
Kerry Logistics Network Limited
was registered with the secondary name 嘉里物流聯網有限公司 by me in the Register maintained by me under the provisions of section 14 of the Companies Act 1981 .
Given under my hand and the Seal of the REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES this 13th day of October 2009
(sd.) for Registrar of Companies
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FORM NO. 3a
Registration No. 28390
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BERMUDA
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME
I HEREBY CERTIFY that in accordance with section 10 of the Companies Act 1981 KERRY WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS LIMITED by resolution and with the approval of the Registrar of Companies has changed its name and was registered as Kerry Logistics Network Limited on the 12th day of July, 2000 .
Given under my hand and the Seal of the REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES this 14th day of July, 2000 .
(sd.) for Registrar of Companies
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Registration No. EC28390
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BERMUDA
CERTIFICATE OF CONTINUANCE
I hereby in accordance with section 132C(4)(d) of the Companies Act 1981 issue this Certificate of Continuance and do certify that on the 20th day of April, 2000
KERRY WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS LIMITED
was registered by me in the Register maintained by me under the provisions of the said section and that the status of the said company is that of an exempted company.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES this 28th day of April, 2000 .
(sd.) for Registrar of Companies
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MEMORANDUM OF CONTINUANCE OF
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BERMUDA
THE COMPANIES ACT 1981
MEMORANDUM OF CONTINUANCE OF COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
(Section 132C(2))
MEMORANDUM OF CONTINUANCE
OF
KERRY WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS LIMITED
(hereinafter referred to as “the Company”)
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The liability of the members of the Company is limited to the amount (if any) for the time being unpaid on the shares respectively held by them.
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The Company is an exempted company as defined by the Companies Act 1981.
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The authorised share capital of the Company is HK$500,000 divided into 500,000 shares of HK$1 each.The minimum share capital of the Company is HK$100,000.
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The Company shall not have power to hold land situated in Bermuda.
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Details of Incorporation:
The Company was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands under the International Business Companies Ordinance (No. 8 of 1984) under the name of Pink Shek Services Limited on the 9th day of July, 1991, and subsequently changing its name to Kerry Godown Holdings (BVI) Limited on the 24th day of June, 1992 and further changing its name to Kerry Warehouse Holdings Limited on the 15th day of July, 1999.
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The objects of the Company from the date of continuance are:–
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(i) To carry on the business as a holding company and to acquire, deal in and hold shares, stocks, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, mortgages, obligations and securities of any kind issued or guaranteed by any company, corporation or undertaking of whatever nature and wherever constituted or carrying on business, and shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, obligations and other securities issued or guaranteed by any government, sovereign ruler, commissioners, trust, local authority or other public body, whether in Bermuda or elsewhere, and to vary, transpose, dispute of or otherwise deal with from time to time as may be considered expedient any of the Company’s investments for the time being;
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(ii) To acquire any such shares and other securities as are mentioned in the preceding paragraph by subscription, syndicate participation, tender, purchase, exchange or otherwise and to subscribe for the same, either conditionally or otherwise, and to hold the same with a view to investment but with the power to vary any investments and to guarantee the subscription thereof and to exercise and enforce all rights and powers conferred by or incident to the ownership thereof, and to invest and deal with the monies of the Company not immediately required upon such securities and in such manner as may from time to time be determined;
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(iii) To co-ordinate the administration, policies, management, supervision, control, research, planning, trading and any and all other activities of any company or companies now or hereafter incorporated or acquired which may be or may become a company, wherever incorporated, which is or becomes a holding company or a subsidiary of, or affiliated with, the Company within the meanings respectively assigned to those terms in The Companies Act 1981 or, with the prior written approval of the Minister of Finance, any company or companies now or hereafter incorporated or acquired with which the Company may be or may become associated;
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(iv) To provide accounting, managerial, investment advisory, investigatory and other executive, supervisory or consultancy services to any subsidiary company of the Company (as defined in The Companies Act 1981) wheresoever situate;
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(v) To carry on in any part of the world the businesses of, and to act as merchants, general traders, agents, manufacturers’ representatives, carriers or in any other capacity, and to import, export, re-export, buy, sell, manufacture, distribute, barter, exchange, pledge, make advances upon or otherwise deal in goods, products, commodities, raw materials, articles and merchandise of every description and to carry on, acquire, undertake and execute any business, undertaking, transaction or operation whether manufacturing, financial, mercantile, agricultural, extractive or otherwise as may, in the opinion of the Company, be necessary or incidental to the attainment of such objects;
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(vi) To purchase or otherwise acquire, obtain options over, take over, manage, supervise, control and undertake all or any part of the business, undertaking, goodwill, property, assets, rights and liabilities of any person or company, or to acquire the control of shares of any company or any interest therein and to act as a director or manager of any company;
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(vii) As set forth in paragraphs (b) to (n) and (p) to (u) inclusive of the Second Schedule to The Companies Act 1981.
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The Company shall have the powers set out in the First Schedule to The Companies Act 1981 together with the powers set out in the Schedule hereto.
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Signed by duly authorised persons in the presence of at least one witness attesting the signature thereof: –
(sd.) (sd.) Director Witness KUOK KHOON LOONG, EDWARD CHEW FOOK AUN (sd.) (sd.) Director Witness ANG KENG LAM CHOW YIN PING, ANITA Dated this 13th day of April, 2000.
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The Schedule
(referred to in Clause 7 of the Memorandum of Continuance)
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(a) to borrow and raise money in any currency or currencies and to secure or discharge any debt or obligation in any manner and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) by mortgages of or charges upon all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the company or by the creation and issue of securities;
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(b) to enter into any guarantee, contract of indemnity or suretyship and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) to guarantee, support or secure, with or without consideration, whether by personal obligation or by mortgaging or charging all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the company or by both such methods or in any other manner, the performance of any obligations or commitments of, and the repayment or payment of the principal amounts of and any premiums, interest, dividends and other moneys payable on or in respect of any securities or liabilities of, any person, including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) any company which is for the time being a subsidiary or a holding company of the company or another subsidiary of a holding company of the company or otherwise associated with the company;
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(c) to accept, draw, make, create, issue, execute, discount, endorse, negotiate and deal in bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other instruments and securities, whether negotiable or otherwise;
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(d) to sell, exchange, mortgage, charge, let on rent, share of profit, royalty or otherwise, grant licences, easements, options, servitudes and other rights over, and in any other manner deal with or dispose of, all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) of the company for any consideration and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) for any securities;
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(f) to grant pensions, annuities, or other allowances, including allowances on death, to any directors, officers or employees or former directors, officers or employees of the company or any company which at any time is or was a subsidiary or a holding company or another subsidiary of a holding company of the company or otherwise associated with the company or of any predecessor in business of any of them, and to the relations, connections or dependants of any such persons, and to other persons whose service or services have directly or indirectly been of benefit to the company or whom the company considers have any moral claim on the company or to their relations connections or dependants, and to establish or support any associations, institutions, clubs, schools, building and housing schemes, funds and trusts, and to make payment towards insurance or other arrangements likely to benefit any such persons or otherwise advance the interests of the company or of its members or for any national, charitable, benevolent, educational, social, public, general or useful object;
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THE COMPANIES ACT 1981
FIRST SCHEDULE
(section 11(1))
A company limited by shares, or other company having a share capital, may exercise all or any of the following powers subject to any provision of law or its memorandum –
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(1) [repealed by 1992:51]
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(2) to acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business, property and liabilities of any person carrying on any business that the company is authorised to carry on;
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(3) to apply for, register, purchase, lease, acquire, hold, use, control, licence, sell, assign or dispose of patents, patent rights, copyrights, trade marks, formulae, licences, inventions, processes, distinctive marks and similar rights;
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(4) to enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing of profits, union of interests, co-operation, joint venture, reciprocal concession or otherwise with any person carrying on or engaged in or about to carry on or engage in any business or transaction that the company is authorised to carry on or engage in or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as to benefit the company;
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(5) to take or otherwise acquire and hold securities in any other body corporate having objects altogether or in part similar to those of the company or carrying on any business capable of being conducted so as to benefit the company;
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(6) subject to section 96 to lend money to any employee or to any person having dealings with the company or with whom the company proposes to have dealings or to any other body corporate any of whose shares are held by the company;
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(9) to promote any company for the purpose of acquiring or taking over any of the property and liabilities of the company or for any other purpose that may benefit the company;
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(10) to purchase, lease, take in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any personal property and any rights or privileges that the company considers necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business;
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(11) to construct, maintain, alter, renovate and demolish any buildings or works necessary or convenient for its objects;
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(12) to take land in Bermuda by way of lease or letting agreement for a term not exceeding fifty years, being land bona fide required for the purposes of the business of the company and with the consent of the Minister granted in his discretion to take land in Bermuda by way of lease or letting agreement for a term not exceeding twenty-one years in order to provide accommodation or recreational facilities for its officers and employees and when no longer necessary for any of the above purposes to terminate or transfer the lease or letting agreement;
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(16) to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as the company may think fit;
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(20) to adopt such means of making known the products of the company as may seem expedient, and in particular by advertising, by purchase and exhibition of works of art or interest, by publication of books and periodicals and by granting prizes and rewards and making donations;
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(21) to cause the company to be registered and recognised in any foreign jurisdiction, and designate persons therein according to the laws of that foreign jurisdiction or to represent the company and to accept service for and on behalf of the company of any process or suit;
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(22) to allot and issue fully-paid shares of the company in payment or part payment of any property purchased or otherwise acquired by the company or for any past services performed for the company;
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(23) to distribute among the members of the company in cash, kind, specie or otherwise as may be resolved, by way of dividend, bonus or in any other manner considered advisable, any property of the company, but not so as to decrease the capital of the company unless the distribution is made for the purpose of enabling the company to be dissolved or the distribution, apart from this paragraph, would be otherwise lawful;
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(28) to do any of the things authorised by this Schedule and all things authorised by its memorandum as principals, agents, contractors, trustees or otherwise, and either alone or in conjunction with others;
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(29) to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objects and the exercise of the powers of the company.
Every company may exercise its powers beyond the boundaries of Bermuda to the extent to which the laws in force where the powers are sought to be exercised permit.
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(SECTION 11(2))
A company limited by shares may amongst its objects by reference include in its memorandum any of the objects set out in the Second Schedule.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Subject to section 4A a company may by reference include in its memorandum any of the following objects that is to say the business of –
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~~a) insurance and re-insurance of all kinds;~~
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b) packaging of goods of all kinds;
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c) buying, selling and dealing in good of all kinds;
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d) designing and manufacturing of goods of all kinds;
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e) mining and quarrying and exploration for metals, fossil fuel and precious stones of all kinds and their preparation for sale or use;
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f) exploring for, the drilling for, the moving, transporting and refining petroleum and hydro carbon products including oil and oil products;
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g) scientific research including the improvement, discovery and development of processes, inventions, patents and designs and the construction, maintenance and operation of laboratories and research centers;
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h) land, sea and air undertakings including the land, ship and air carriage of passengers, mails and good of all kinds;
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i) ships and aircraft owners, managers, operators, agents, builders and repairers;
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~~o) developing, operating, advising or acting as technical consultants to any other enterprise or business;~~
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p) farmer, livestock breeders and keepers, grazers, butchers, tanners and processors of and dealers in all kinds of live or dead stock, wool, hides, tallow, grain, vegetables and other produce;
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q) acquiring by purchase or otherwise and holding as an investment inventions, patents, trade marks, trade names, trade secrets, designs and the like;
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r) buying, selling, hiring, letting and dealing in conveyances of any sort; and
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s) employing, providing, hiring out and acting as agent for artists, actors, entertainers of all sorts, authors, composers, producers, directors, engineers and experts or specialists of any kind.
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t) to acquire by purchase or otherwise and hold, sell, dispose of and deal in real property situated outside Bermuda and in personal property of all kinds wheresoever situated.
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u) to enter into any guarantee, contract or indemnity or suretyship and to assure, support or secure with or without consideration or benefit the performance of any obligations of any person or persons and to guarantee the fidelity of individuals filling or about to fill situations of trust or confidence.
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~~v) to be and carry on business of a mutual fund within the meaning of section 156A.~~
Provided that none of these objects shall enable the company to carry on restricted business activity as set out in the Ninth Schedule except with the consent of the Minister.
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYE-LAWS
OF
KERRY LOGISTICS NETWORK LIMITED
(Adopted by a Special Resolution passed on 23 May 2022)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PRELIMINARY AND INTERPRETATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHARES, WARRANTS AND MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHARES AND INCREASE OF CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS AND SHARE CERTIFICATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CALLS ON SHARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRANSFER OF SHARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRANSMISSION OF SHARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FORFEITURE OF SHARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALTERATION OF CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GENERAL MEETINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REGISTERED OFFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BOARD OF DIRECTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BORROWING POWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MANAGING DIRECTORS, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MANAGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MANAGERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAIRMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MINUTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SECRETARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE SEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| DIVIDENDS, CONTRIBUTED SURPLUS AND RESERVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 43 |
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| DISTRIBUTION OF REALISED CAPITAL PROFITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 49 |
| ANNUAL RETURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 49 |
| ACCOUNTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 50 |
| AUDITORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 51 |
| NOTICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 52 |
| INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 55 |
| WINDING UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 55 |
| INDEMNITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 56 |
| UNTRACEABLE SHAREHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 57 |
| DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 58 |
| RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 59 |
| SUBSCRIPTION RIGHT RESERVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| RECORD DATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 61 |
| STOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 61 |
| Schedule 1_(Board Reserved Matters)_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 63 |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED BYE-LAWS
(As ~~conditionally~~ adopted by a Special Resolution passed on 2 ~~6~~ 3 May 2022 ~~1 and with effect from 16 September 2021~~ )
OF
Kerry Logistics Network Limited
PRELIMINARY AND INTERPRETATION
- (A) In these Bye-laws, the following expressions shall have the following meanings except where the Definitions context otherwise requires:
“ address ” shall have the ordinary meaning given to it and shall include any facsimile number, electronic number or address or website used for the purposes of any communication pursuant to these Bye-laws;
“ appointed newspaper ” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Companies Act;
“ ~~associates~~ ” ~~shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Listing Rules from time to time;~~
“ Auditors ” shall mean the persons for the time being performing the duties of that office;
“ Bermuda ” shall mean the Islands of Bermuda;
“ the Board ” shall mean the board of directors of the Company as constituted from time to time or (as the context may require) the majority of Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Directors at which a quorum is present;
“ Board Reserved Matters ” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Bye-law 122A(A);
“ business day ” shall mean any day on which the Designated Stock Exchange is generally open for the business of dealing in securities. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Designated Stock Exchange is closed for the business of dealing in securities in Hong Kong on a business day by reason of a Number 8 or higher typhoon signal or black rainstorm warning, such day shall for the purposes of these Bye-laws be counted as a business day;
“ these Bye-laws ” or “ these presents ” shall mean these Bye-laws in their present form and all supplementary, amended or substituted bye-laws of the Company for the time being in force;
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“ call ” shall include any instalment of a call;
“ capital ” shall mean the share capital from time to time of the Company;
“ the Chairman ” shall mean the Chairman presiding at any meeting of shareholders or of the Board;
“ Clearing House ” shall mean a recognised clearing house within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong) or a clearing house or authorised shares depository 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 ” shall have the meaning given to the term “close associate” in the Listing Rules from time to time;
“ the Companies Act ” shall mean the CompaniesAct 1981 of Bermuda as may be amended from time to time;
“ the Company ” or “ this Company ” shall mean Kerry Logistics Network Limited incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 9 July 1991 and continued into Bermuda on 20 April 2000;
“ Connected Transaction ” shall have the meaning given to the term “connected transaction” in the Listing Rules from time to time;
“ Continuing Connected Transaction ” shall have the meaning given to the term “continuing connected transaction” in the Listing Rules from time to time;
“ corporate representative ” shall mean any person appointed to act in that capacity pursuant to Bye-laws 87(A) or 87(B);
“ debenture ” and “ debenture holder ” shall respectively include “debenture stock” and “debenture stockholder”;
“ Designated Stock Exchange ” shall mean a stock exchange which is an appointed stock exchange for the purposes of the Companies 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;
“ Director ” shall mean any director of the Company appointed or elected to the Board from time to time pursuant to these Bye-laws and, where the context requires, shall also include an alternate of a Director;
“ dividend ” shall include scrip dividends, distributions in specie or in kind, capital distributions and capitalisation issues, if not inconsistent with the subject or context;
“ electronic ” shall mean relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical electromagnetic or similar capabilities and such other meanings as given to it in the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 of Bermuda as may be amended from time to time;
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“ electronic notice ” or “ e-Notice ” shall mean notice through telecopy, telegraph, telex, facsimile transmission, internet, e-mail or other electronic means of communication, capable of making a written record;
“ electronic proxy ” or “ e-Proxy ” shall mean a proxy intended where provided for within these - Bye laws whereby a party so authorised herein may designate another party to attend, represent or to vote for them, where appropriate and provided for, through telecopy, telegraph, telex, facsimile transmission, internet, e-mail or other electronic means of communication, capable of making a written record;
“ full financial statements ” shall mean the financial statements that are required under section 87(1) of the Companies Act as may be amended from time to time;
“ Group Companies ” shall mean the Company and its subsidiaries from time to time, and “ Group Company ” shall mean any one of them;
“ Head Office ” shall mean such office of the Company as the Directors may from time to time determine to be the principal office of the Company;
“ Hong Kong ” shall mean the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China;
“ HK$ ” shall mean Hong Kong dollars or other lawful currency of Hong Kong;
“ holding company ” and “ subsidiary ” shall have the meanings ascribed to them by the Companies Act;
“ Listing Rules ” shall mean the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (as amended from time to time);
“ month ” shall mean a calendar month;
“ Memorandum of Continuance ” shall mean the Memorandum of Continuance of the Company as may be amended from time to time;
“ Minimum Shareholding ” shall mean ten per cent. (10%) of the total issued share capital of the Company;
“ Newspapers ” in relation to the publication in newspapers of any notice, shall mean in English in one leading English language daily newspaper and in Chinese in one leading Chinese language daily newspaper published and circulating generally in the Relevant Territory and specified for this purpose by the stock exchange in the Relevant Territory;
“ paid up ” in relation to a share, shall mean paid up or credited as paid up;
“ the Principal Register ” shall mean the register of shareholders of the Company maintained in Bermuda;
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“ Register ” shall mean the Principal Register and any branch register to be kept pursuant to the provisions of the Statutes;
“ Registered Office ” shall mean the registered office of the Company for the time being;
“ Registration Office ” shall mean in respect of any class of share capital, such place or places in the Relevant Territory or elsewhere where the Directors from time to time determine to keep a branch register of shareholders in respect of that class of share capital and where (except in cases where the Directors otherwise agree) transfers or other documents of title for such class of share capital are to be lodged for registration and are to be registered;
“ Relevant Territory ” shall mean Hong Kong or such other territory as the Directors may from time to time decide if the issued ordinary share capital of the Company is listed on a stock exchange in such territory;
“ Seal ” shall mean any one or more common seals from time to time of the Company for use in Bermuda or in any place outside Bermuda;
“ Secretary ” shall mean the person or corporation for the time being performing the duties of that office;
“ Securities Seal ” shall mean a seal for use for sealing certificates for shares or other securities issued by the Company which is a facsimile of the Seal of the Company with the addition on its face of the words “Securities Seal”;
“ share ” shall mean a share in the capital of the Company;
“ shareholder ” shall mean the duly registered holder from time to time of the shares in the capital of the Company;
“ Statutes ” shall mean the Companies Act, the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 of Bermuda, and every other act (as amended from time to time) for the time being in force of the Legislature of Bermuda applying to or affecting the Company, the Memorandum of Continuance and/or these presents;
“ summarized financial statements ” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in section 87A(3) of the Companies Act as may be amended from time to time;
“ Transfer Office ” shall mean the place where the Principal Register is situate for the time being; and
“ writing ” or “ printing ” shall include writing, printing, lithography, photography, typewriting and every other mode of representing words or figures in a legible and non-transitory form.
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- (B) In these Bye-laws, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent herewith:
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(i) words denoting the singular shall include the plural and words denoting the plural shall include the singular;
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(ii) words importing any gender shall include every gender and words importing persons shall include partnerships, firms, companies and corporations;
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(iii) references in these Bye laws to notices and proxies will apply mutatis mutandis to electronic notices and electronic proxies provided always that said electronic notices and electronic proxies shall be designed, restricted and limited to their respective use in accordance with these - Bye laws for notices or proxies as may be relevant;
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(iv ~~ii~~ ) subject as aforesaid, any words or expressions defined in the Companies Act (except any statutory modification thereof not in force when these Bye-laws become binding on the Company) shall, if not inconsistent with the subject and/or context, bear the same meaning in these Bye-laws, save that “company” shall where the context permits include any company incorporated in Bermuda or elsewhere; and
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(D) A resolution shall be a Special Resolution when it has been passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or by duly authorised corporate representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting held in accordance with these presents and of which notice has been given in accordance with Bye-law 63.
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(E) A resolution shall be an Ordinary Resolution when it has been passed by a simple majority of the votes cast by such shareholders as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or by duly authorised corporate representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting held in accordance with these presents and of which notice has been given in accordance with Bye-law 63.
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Issue of Shares
SHARES, WARRANTS AND MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS
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Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), and without prejudice to any special rights or restrictions for the time being attaching to any shares or any class of shares, any share may be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise, as the Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution determine (or, in the absence of any such determination or so far as the same may not make specific provision, as the Board may determine) and any preference share may, subject to the Companies Act and with the sanction of a Special Resolution, be issued on the terms that it is liable to be redeemed upon the happening of a specified event or upon a given date and either at the option of the Company or, if so authorised by the Memorandum of Continuance of the Company, at the option of the holder.
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Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), the Board may, subject to the approval by the shareholders in general meeting, issue warrants to subscribe for any class of shares or securities of the Company on such terms as the Board may from time to time determine.Where warrants are issued to bearer, no certificate thereof shall be issued to replace one that has been lost unless the Board is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the original certificate thereof has been destroyed and the Company has received an indemnity in such form as the Board shall think fit with regard to the issue of any such replacement certificate.
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(A) For the purposes of section 47 of the Companies Act, if at any time the capital is divided into different classes of shares, all or any of the special rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided for by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws and the Companies Act, be varied or abrogated ~~either with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than three-fourths in nominal value of the issued shares of that class or~~ with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. To every such separate general meeting the provisions of these Bye-laws relating to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be not less than two persons holding (or, in the case of a Shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative) or representing by proxy not less than one-third in nominal value of the issued shares of that clas ~~s, and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy or by a duly authorised corporate representative may demand a poll~~ .
Warrants
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How rights of shares may be
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(C) 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 altered by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.
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SHARES AND INCREASE OF CAPITAL
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(A) The authorized share capital of the Company at the date on which these Bye-laws come into effect is HK$3,000,000,000 divided into 6,000,000,000 shares of HK$0.5 each.
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Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )) and the Statutes, the power contained in the Memorandum of own shares Continuance for the Company to purchase or otherwise acquire its shares shall be exercisable by the Board upon such terms and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit.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, and if purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all shareholders alike.
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(C) Subject, where applicable, to the rules of any relevant stock exchange, the Company may in accordance with an employees’ share scheme approved by the shareholders in general meeting provide money on such terms as the Board thinks fit for the acquisition of fully or partly paid shares in the Company or its holding company. For the purposes of this Bye-law, an employees’ share scheme is a scheme for encouraging or facilitating the holding of shares or debentures in the Company by or for the benefit of bona fide employees or former employees (including, notwithstanding section 96 of the Companies Act, any such bona fide employee or former employee who is or was also a director) of the Company, a subsidiary of the Company or holding company or a subsidiary of the Company’s holding company, or the wives, husbands, widows, widowers or children or step-children under the age of twenty-one of such employees or former employees.
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(D) Subject, where applicable, to the rules of any relevant stock exchange, the Company, a subsidiary of the Company or holding company or a subsidiary of the Company’s holding company may make loans to persons (including, notwithstanding section 96 of the Companies Act, any such bona fide employee or former employee who is or was also a director) employed in good faith by the Company with a view to enabling those persons to acquire fully or partly paid shares in the Company or its holding company to be held by them by way of beneficial ownership.
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(E) The conditions subject to which money and loans are provided under paragraphs (C) and (D) of this Bye-law may include a provision to the effect that when an employee ceases to be employed by the Company, the shares acquired with such financial assistance shall or may be sold to the Company on such terms as the Board thinks fit.
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Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), the Company in general meeting may from time to time, whether or not all the shares for the time being authorised shall have been issued and whether or not all the shares for the time being issued shall have been fully paid up, by Ordinary Resolution increase its share capital by the creation of new shares, such new capital to be of such amount and to be divided into shares of such class or classes and of such amounts in Hong Kong dollars or United States dollars or such other currency as the shareholders may think fit and as the resolution may prescribe.
Power to increase capital
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Any new shares shall be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such rights, privileges or restrictions annexed thereto as the general meeting resolving upon the creation thereof shall direct, and if no direction be given, subject to the provisions of the Statutes and of these Bye-laws, as the Board shall determine; and in particular such shares may be issued with a preferential or qualified right to dividends and in the distribution of assets of the Company and with a special right or without any right of voting.
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Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), the Company may by Ordinary Resolution, before the issue of any new shares, determine that the same, or any of them, shall be offered in the first instance, and either at par or at a premium, to all the existing holders of any class of shares in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of shares of such class held by them respectively, or make any other provisions as to the issue and allotment of such shares, but in default of any such determination or so far as the same shall not extend, such shares may be dealt with as if they formed part of the capital of the Company existing prior to the issue of the same.
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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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Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), all unissued shares shall be at the disposal of the Board and it may offer, allot (with or without conferring a right of renunciation), grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, at such times, for such consideration and generally on such terms as it in its absolute discretion thinks fit, but so that no shares shall be issued at a discount. The Directors shall, as regards any offer or allotment of shares, comply with the provisions of the Companies Act, if and so far as such provisions may be applicable thereto. 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 shareholders 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. Shareholders affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be, or be deemed to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purpose whatsoever.
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The Company may at any time pay a commission to any person for subscribing or agreeing to subscribe (whether absolutely or conditionally) for any shares in the Company or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or conditional) for any shares in the Company, but so that the conditions and requirements of the Companies Act shall be observed and complied with, and in each case the commission shall not exceed ten per cent. of the price at which the shares are issued.
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Except as otherwise expressly provided by these Bye-laws or as required by law or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and, except as aforesaid, the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share or any other right or claim to or in respect of any shares except an absolute right to the entirety thereof of the registered holder.
On what conditions new shares may be issued
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When to be offered to existing
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shareholders
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New shares to form part of original capital
Shares at the disposal of the Board
Company may pay commission
Company not to recognise trusts in respect of shares
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APPENDIX III
REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS AND SHARE CERTIFICATES
- (A) The Board shall cause to be kept a register of the shareholders and there shall be entered therein the particulars required under the Companies Act.
Share register
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(B) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act, if the Board considers it necessary or appropriate, the Company may establish and maintain a local or branch register at such location outside Bermuda as the Board thinks fit and, while the issued share capital of the Company is, with the consent of the Board, listed on any stock exchange in the RelevantTerritory, the Company shall keep a branch register in the Relevant Territory.
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Local or branch
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Register
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(C) The Principal Register and branch register, as the case may be, shall be open to inspection between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on every business day by shareholders without charge, or by any other person, upon a maximum payment of five Bermuda dollars, at the Registered Office or such other place in Bermuda at which the Principal Register is kept in accordance with the Statutes or, if appropriate, upon a maximum payment of HK$10, at the Registration Office.
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Inspection of register
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Every person whose name is entered as a shareholder in the Register shall be entitled without payment to receive within two months after allotment or lodgment of a transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide or, such shorter period as such stock exchange may from time to time prescribe) one certificate for all his shares, or, if he shall so request, in a case where the allotment or transfer is of a number of shares in excess of the number for the time being forming a stock exchange board lot for the purposes of the stock exchange on which the shares are listed, upon payment, in the case of a transfer, of such sum (not exceeding in the case of any share capital listed on a stock exchange in the Relevant Territory, HK$2.50 or such greater sum as such stock exchange may from time to time permit, and in the case of any other shares, such sum in such currency as the Board may from time to time determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the relevant register is situate, or otherwise such other sum as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution determine) for every certificate after the first as the Board may from time to time determine, such number of certificates for shares in stock exchange board lots or multiples thereof as he shall request and one for the balance (if any) of the shares in question, provided that in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons the Company shall not be bound to issue a certificate or certificates to each such person, and the issue and delivery of a certificate or certificates to one of the joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.
Share certificates
- Every certificate for shares, warrants or debentures or representing any other form of securities of the Company shall be issued under the Seal of the Company, which for this purpose may be a Securities Seal.
Share certificates to be sealed
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Every share certificate hereafter issued shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which it is issued and the amount paid thereon and may otherwise be in such form as the Board may from time to time prescribe. A share certificate shall relate to only one class of shares.
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Share
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certificate to specify
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number and class of shares
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(A) The Company shall not be bound to register more than four persons as joint holders of any share. Joint holders
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(B) If any share shall stand in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the Register shall be deemed the sole holder thereof as regards service of notice and, subject to the provisions of these Bye-laws, all or any other matter connected with the Company, except the transfer of the shares.
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APPENDIX III
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If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be replaced on payment of such fee, if any, (not exceeding, in the case of any share capital listed on a stock exchange in the Relevant Territory, HK$2.50 or such greater sum as such stock exchange may from time to time permit, and, in the case of any other capital, such sum in such currency as the Board may from time to time determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the relevant Register is situate, or otherwise such sum as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution determine) as the Board shall from time to time determine and on such terms and conditions, if any, as to publication of notices, evidence and indemnity as the Board thinks fit and in the case of wearing out or defacement, after delivery up of the old certificate. In the case of destruction or loss, the person to whom such replacement certificate is given shall also bear and pay to the Company any exceptional costs and the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incidental to the investigation by the Company of the evidence of such destruction or loss and of such indemnity.
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Replacement of share
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certificates
LIEN
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The Company shall have a first and paramount lien and charge on every share (not being a fully paid up share) for all moneys, whether presently payable or not, called or payable at a fixed time in respect of such share.The Company shall also have a first and paramount lien and charge on all shares (other than fully paid up shares) standing registered in the name of a shareholder, whether singly or jointly with any other person or persons, for all the debts and liabilities of such shareholders or his estate to the Company and whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any equitable or other interest of any person other than such shareholder, and whether the period for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such shareholder or his estate and any other person, whether a shareholder of the Company or not. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all dividends and bonuses declared in respect thereof. The Board may at any time either generally or in any particular case waive any lien that has arisen, or declare any share to be exempt wholly or partially from the provisions of this Bye-law.
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The Company may sell, in such manner as the Board thinks fit, any shares 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 days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving notice of intention to sell in default, shall have been given to the registered holder for the time being of the shares or the person entitled to the shares by reason of such holder’s death, bankruptcy or winding-up.
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The net proceeds of such sale after the payment of the costs of such sale shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debt or liability or engagement in respect whereof the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the time of the sale. For the purpose of giving effect to any such sale, the Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof and may enter the purchaser’s name in the Register as holder of the shares, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relating to the sale.
Company’s lien
Sale of shares subject to lien
Application of proceeds of sale
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APPENDIX III
CALLS ON SHARES
| 23. | The Board may from time to time make such calls as it may think fit upon the shareholders in respect of any | Calls/ |
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| moneys unpaid on the shares held by them respectively (whether on account of the nominal value of shares | instalments | |
| or by way of premium) and not by the conditions of issue or allotment thereof made payable at a fixed time. | ||
| A call may be made payable either in one sum or by instalments. | ||
| 24. | Fourteen days’ notice at least of any call shall be given specifying the time and place of payment and to | Notice of |
| whom such call shall be paid. | call | |
| 25. | A copy of the notice referred to in Bye-law 24 shall be sent to shareholders in the manner in which notices | Copy of |
| may be sent to shareholders by the Company as herein provided. | notice to be sent to |
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| shareholders | ||
| 26. | In addition to the giving of notice in accordance with Bye-law 25, notice of the person appointed to receive | Notice of |
| payment of every call and of the times and places appointed for payment may be given to the shareholders | call may be given |
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| by notice to be published at least once in the Newspapers. | ||
| 27. | Every shareholder upon whom a call is made shall pay the amount of every call so made on him to the person | Time and |
| and at the time or times and place or places as the Board shall appoint. | place for payment of |
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| 28. | A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Board authorising such call | When call |
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| 29. | The joint holders of a share shall be severally as well as jointly liable for the payment of all calls and | Liability of |
| instalments due in respect of such share or other moneys due in respect thereof. | joint holders | |
| 30. | The Board may from time to time at its discretion extend the time fixed for any call, and may extend such | The Board |
| time as regards all or any of the shareholders whom due to residence outside the Relevant Territory or other | may extend time fixed |
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| cause the Board may deem entitled to any such extension but no shareholder shall be entitled to any such | for call | |
| extension except as a matter of grace and favour. | ||
| 31. | If the sum payable in respect of any call or instalments is not paid on or before the day appointed for | Interest on |
| payment thereof, the person or persons from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the same at such | unpaid calls | |
| rate not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the Board shall fix from the day appointed for the payment | ||
| thereof to the time of the actual payment, but the Board may waive payment of such interest wholly or in | ||
| part. | ||
| 32. | No shareholder shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or to be present and vote (save as proxy for | Suspension |
| another shareholder) at any general meeting, either personally, or (save as proxy for another shareholder) by | of privileges while call |
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| proxy or by a duly authorised corporate representative, or be reckoned in a quorum, or to exercise any other | unpaid | |
| privilege as a shareholder until all calls or instalments due from him to the Company, whether alone or jointly | ||
| with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) shall have been paid. |
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APPENDIX III
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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 shareholder sued is entered in the Register as the holder, or one of the holders, of the shares in respect of which such debt accrued; that the resolution of the Board making the call has been duly recorded in the minute book of the Board; and that notice of such call was duly given to the shareholder sued, in pursuance of these Bye-laws; and it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of the Board who made such call, nor any other matters whatsoever, but the proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the debt.
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Any sum which by the terms of allotment of a share is made payable upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the nominal value of the share and/or by way of premium, shall for all purposes of these Bye-laws be deemed to be a call duly made, notified, and payable on the date fixed for payment, and in case of non-payment all the relevant provisions of these Bye-laws as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture and the like, shall apply as if such sums had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified. The Board may on the issue of shares differentiate between the allottees or holders as to the amount of calls to be paid and the time of payment.
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The Board may, if it thinks fit, receive from any shareholder willing to advance the same, and either in money or money’s worth, all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid or instalments payable upon any shares held by him, and in respect of all or any of the moneys so advanced the Company may pay interest at such rate (if any) not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the Board may decide but a payment in advance of a call shall not entitle the shareholder to receive any dividend or to exercise any other rights or privileges as a shareholder in respect of the share or the due portion of the shares upon which payment has been advanced by such shareholder before it is called up. The Board may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such shareholder not less than one month’s notice in writing of their 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.
Evidence in action for call
Sums payable on allotment deemed a call
Shares may be issued subject to different conditions as to calls, etc.
Payment of calls in advance
TRANSFER OF SHARES
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Subject to the Companies Act, all transfers of shares may be effected by transfer in writing in the usual or common form or in such other form as the Board may accept and may be under hand or by means of mechanically imprinted signatures or such other manner as the Board may from time to time approve.
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The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and by or on behalf of the transferee provided that the Board may dispense with the execution of the instrument of transfer by the transferee in any case in which it thinks fit, in its absolute discretion, to do so. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof. Nothing in these Bye-laws shall preclude the Board from recognising a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.
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(A) The Board may, in its absolute discretion, at any time and from time to time transfer any share upon the Principal Register to any branch register or any share on any branch register to the Principal Register or any other branch register.
Form of transfer
Execution of transfer
Shares registered on the Principal Register, branch register, etc.
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APPENDIX III
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(B) 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 stipulate, and which agreement it shall, without giving any reason therefor, be entitled in its absolute discretion to give or withhold) no shares on the Principal Register shall be transferred to any branch register nor shall shares on any branch register be transferred to the Principal Register or any other branch register and all transfers and other documents of title shall be lodged for registration, and registered, in the case of any shares on a branch register, at the relevant Registration Office, and, in the case of any shares on the Principal Register, at the Transfer Office. Unless the Board otherwise agrees, all transfers and other documents of title shall be lodged for registration with, and registered at, the relevant Registration Office.
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(C) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Bye-law, the Company shall as soon as practicable and on a regular basis record in the Principal Register all transfers of shares effected on any branch register and shall at all times maintain the Principal Register in all respects in accordance with the Companies Act.
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The Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without assigning any reason, 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 option scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby still subsists, and it may also refuse to register a transfer of any share (whether fully paid up or not) to more than four joint holders or a transfer of any shares (not being a fully paid up share) on which the Company has a lien.
The Board may refuse to register a transfer
- The Board may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:–
Requirements as to transfer
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(i) such sum, if any, (not exceeding, in the case of any share capital listed on a stock exchange in the Relevant Territory, HK$2.50 or such greater sum as such stock exchange may from time to time permit, and, in the case of any other capital, such sum in such currency as the Board may from time to time determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the relevant Register is situate, or otherwise such sum as the Company may by Ordinary Resolution determine) as the Board shall from time to time determine is paid to the Company in respect thereof has been paid;
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(ii) the instrument of transfer is lodged at the relevant Registration Office or, as the case may be, the Transfer Office accompanied by the certificate of the shares to which it relates, and such other evidence as the 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);
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(iii) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of share;
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(iv) the shares concerned are free of any lien in favour of the Company;
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(v) if applicable, the instrument of transfer is properly stamped; and
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(vi) where applicable, the permission of the Bermuda Monetary Authority with respect thereto has been obtained.
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APPENDIX III
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No transfer of any shares (not being a fully paid up share) shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.
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If the Board shall refuse to register a transfer of any share, it shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal.
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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 without charge to the transferee in respect of the shares transferred to him, and if any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shall be retained by the transferor a new certificate in respect thereof shall be issued to him without charge. The Company shall also retain the instrument of transfer.
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Subject to the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, the registration of transfers may be suspended and the Register may be closed at such times or for such periods not exceeding in the whole 30 days in any year as the Board may determine and either generally or in respect of any class of shares.
No transfer to an infant
Notice of refusal
- Certificate to be given up on transfer
When transfer books and the Register may be closed
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
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In the case of the death of a shareholder, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was a sole or only surviving holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares; but nothing herein contained shall release the estate of a deceased holder (whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share solely or jointly held by him.
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Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of a shareholder may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may from time to time be required by the Board, and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof.
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If the person becoming entitled to a share pursuant to Bye-law 46 shall elect to be registered himself, as the holder of such share he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by him at (unless the Board otherwise agrees) the Registration Office, stating that he so elects. If he shall elect to have his nominee registered, he shall testify his election by executing a transfer of such shares to his nominee. All the limitations, restrictions and provisions of these presents relating to the right to transfer and the registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable to any such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death, bankruptcy or winding-up of the shareholder had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a transfer executed by such shareholder.
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A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death, bankruptcy or winding-up of the holder shall be entitled to the same 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 77 being met, such a person may vote at general meetings of the Company.
Deaths of registered holder or of joint holder of shares
Registration of personal representatives and trustees in bankruptcy Notice of election to be registered and registration of nominee
Retention of dividends, etc. until transfer or transmission of shares of a deceased or bankrupt shareholder
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APPENDIX III
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
- If a shareholder fails to pay any call or instalment of a call on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Board may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call or instalment remains unpaid, without prejudice to the provisions of Bye-law 32, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and which may thereafter accrue up to the date of actual payment.
If call or instalment not paid notice may be given
- The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and it shall also name the place where payment is to be made, such place being either the Registered Office or a Registration Office. The notice shall also state that, in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed, the shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
Content of notice of call
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If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends and bonuses declared in respect of the forfeited share and not actually paid before the forfeiture. The Directors may accept the surrender of any shares liable to be forfeited hereunder and in such cases references in these Bye-laws to forfeiture shall include surrender.
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If notice not complied
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Any share so forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of the Company, and may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Board thinks fit and at any time before a sale or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Board thinks fit.
Forfeited shares to become property of Company
- A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a shareholder in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all moneys which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the Company in respect of the forfeited shares, together with (if the Board shall in its discretion so require) interest thereon from the date of forfeiture until the date of actual payment at such rate not exceeding twenty per cent. per annum as the Board may prescribe, and the Board may enforce the payment thereof if it thinks fit, and without any deduction or allowance for the value of the shares at the date of forfeiture, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all such moneys in respect of the shares. For the purposes of this 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 such 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.
Arrears to be paid notwithstanding forfeiture
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APPENDIX III
- A statutory declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or the Secretary of the Company, and that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited or surrendered on a date stated in the declaration, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share.The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share, and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share.
Evidence of forfeiture and transfer of forfeited share
- When any share shall have been forfeited, notice of the forfeiture shall be given to the shareholder 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.
Notice after forfeiture
- 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, cancel the forfeiture on such terms as the Board thinks fit or permit the shares so forfeited to be bought back or redeemed upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the shares, and upon such further terms (if any) as it thinks fit.
Power to redeem forfeited Shares
- The forfeiture of a share shall not prejudice the right of the Company to any call already made or instalment payment thereon.
Forfeiture not to payment thereon. prejudice Company’s right to call or instalment 58. (A) The provisions of these Bye-laws as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum payment which, by terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the Forfeiturefor nonnominal value of the share or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call payment of any sum due duly made and notified. on shares
- (B) In the event of a forfeiture of shares the shareholder shall be bound to deliver and shall forthwith deliver to the Company the certificate or certificates held by him for the shares so forfeited and in any event the certificates representing shares so forfeited shall be void and of no further effect.
ALTERATION OF CAPITAL
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(A) Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), the Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution:–
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(i) increase its capital as provided by Bye-law 7;
Increase in capital, consolidation and division of capital and sub-division, cancellation of shares and re-denomination etc.
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APPENDIX III
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(ii) consolidate or divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares; and on any consolidation of fully paid shares into shares of larger amount, the Board may settle any difficulty which may arise as it thinks expedient and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) may as between the holders of shares to be consolidated determine which particular shares are to be consolidated into a consolidated share, and if it shall happen that any person shall become entitled to fractions of a consolidated share or shares, such fractions may be sold by some person appointed by the Board for that purpose and the person so appointed may transfer the shares so sold to the purchaser thereof and the validity of such transfer shall not be questioned, and so that the net proceeds of such sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) may either be distributed among the persons who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction or fractions of a consolidated share or shares rateably in accordance with their rights and interest or may be paid to the Company for the Company’s benefit;
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(iii) divide its shares into several classes and attach thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges or conditions;
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(iv) sub-divide its shares or any of them into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Continuance, subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Companies Act, and so that the resolution whereby any share is sub-divided may determine that, as between the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, one or more of the shares may have any such preferred or other special rights over, or may have such deferred rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the others as the Company has power to attach to unissued or new shares;
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(v) cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person, and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled;
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(vi) make provision for the issue and allotment of shares which do not carry any voting rights; and
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(vii) change the currency denomination of its share capital.
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(B) Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Reduction of capital
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Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), the Company may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital, any capital redemption reserve fund or any share premium account or other undistributable reserve in any manner authorised and subject to any conditions prescribed by law.
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When annual general meeting to be held
GENERAL MEETINGS
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(A) The Company shall in each financial year hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting in addition to any other meeting in that financial year and shall specify the meeting as such in the notice calling it. ~~;~~ The annual general meeting shall be held within six months after the end of the Company’s financial year; and not more than fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting of the Company and that of the next. The annual general meeting shall be held in the Relevant Territory or elsewhere as may be determined by the Board and at such time and place as the Board shall appoint.A meeting of the shareholders or any class thereof may be held by means of such telephone, electronic or other communication facilities as permit all persons participating in the meeting to communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously, and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. Each shareholder who is entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the shareholders or any class thereof may speak or communicate at that meeting.
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(B) Save where a general meeting is required by the Companies 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 an Ordinary Resolution duly passed at a general meeting of the Company and, where relevant, as a Special Resolution so passed.Any such resolution shall be deemed to have been passed at a meeting held on the date on which it was signed by the last shareholder to sign, and where the resolution states a date as being the date of his signature thereof by any shareholder the statement shall be prima facie evidence that it was signed by him on that date. Such a resolution may consist of several documents in the like form, each signed by one or more relevant shareholders.
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All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called special general meetings.
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The Board may, whenever it thinks fit, convene a special general meeting, and special general meetings shall also be convened on the requisition of one or more shareholders holding, at the date of the deposit of the requisition, not less than one tenth of the paid-up share capital of the Company, as provided by the Companies Act, and, in default, may be convened by the requisitionists. Any shareholder who is entitled to requisition a special general meeting of the Company pursuant to this Bye-law is also entitled to add resolutions to the agenda for any general meeting of the Company by giving a notice in writing to the Board or the Secretary.
Written Resolutions of Shareholders
Special general meeting
Convening of special general meeting
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Notice of meetings
APPENDIX III
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Subject to the provisions in the Companies Act, an annual general meeting and a special general meeting called for the passing of a Special Resolution shall be called by at least 21 days’ notice in writing, and a meeting of the Company other than an annual general meeting or a special general meeting for the passing of an Ordinary Resolution shall be called by at least 14 days’ notice in writing. The notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is served or deemed to be served and of the day for which it is given, and shall specify the place, the day and the hour of meeting and, in case of special business, the general nature of that business, and shall be given, in manner hereinafter mentioned or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under these Bye-laws, entitled to receive such notices from the Company, provided that, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act and if permitted by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, a meeting of the Company shall notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified in this Bye-law be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed:
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(i) in the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting, by all the shareholders entitled to attend and vote thereat; and
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(ii) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of the shareholders having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority together holding not less than 95 per cent. in nominal value of issued shares giving that right.
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(A) The accidental omission to give any notice to, or the non-receipt of any notice by, any person entitled Omission to give notice
to receive notice shall not invalidate any resolution passed or any proceedings at any such meeting.
- (B) In the case where instruments of proxy are sent out with any notice, the accidental omission to send such instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of such instrument of proxy by, any person entitled to receive notice of the relevant meeting shall not invalidate any resolution passed or any proceeding at any such meeting.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
- 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 ordinary or extra or special remuneration to the Directors.
Special business, business of annual general meeting
- Unless otherwise specified, f ~~Fo~~ r all purposes the quorum for a general meeting shall be two shareholders present in person or by duly authorised corporate representative or by proxy and entitled to vote. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless the requisite quorum shall be present at the commencement of the meeting and continues to be present until the conclusion of the meeting.
Quorum
- If within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of shareholders, shall be dissolved, but in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week and at such time and place as shall be decided by the Board.
When if quorum not present meeting to be dissolved and when to be adjourned
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The Chairman (if any) of the Board or, if he is absent or declines to take the chair at such meeting, the Deputy Chairman (if any) shall take the chair at every general meeting, or, if there be no such Chairman or Deputy Chairman, or, if at any general meeting neither of such Chairman or Deputy Chairman is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such meeting, or both such persons decline to take the chair at such meeting, the Directors present shall choose one of their number as Chairman, and if no Director be present or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair or if the Chairman chosen shall retire from the chair, then the shareholders present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman.
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The Chairman may, with the consent of any general meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed by the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time and from place to place as the meeting shall determine. Whenever a meeting is adjourned for fourteen days or more, at least seven days’ notice, specifying the place, the day and the hour of the adjourned meeting shall be given in the same manner as in the case of an original meeting but it shall not be necessary to specify in such notice the nature of the business to be transacted at the adjourned meeting. Save as aforesaid, no shareholder shall be entitled to any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting. No business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than the business which might have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
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At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided ~~on~~ 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 ~~unless a poll is~~ in which case every shareholder present in person (or, in the case of a shareholder being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative), or by proxy(ies) shall have one vote, provided that where more than one proxy is appointed by a shareholder which is a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), each such proxy shall have one vote on a show of hands. For the - purposes of this Bye law, procedural and administrative matters are those that: (i) are not on the agenda of the general meeting or in any supplementary circular that may be issued by the Company to the shareholders; 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 shareholders a reasonable opportunity to express their views.
Chairman of general meeting
Power to adjourn general meeting, business of adjourned meeting
What is to be evidence of the passing of a resolution where poll not demanded
Where a show of hands is allowed, ~~(~~ before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, ~~or on the withdrawal of any other demand for~~ a poll ~~)~~ may be demanded by:–
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(i) ~~by~~ the Chairman of the meeting; or
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(ii) ~~by~~ at least ~~three~~ two shareholders present in person or by duly authorised corporate representative or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or
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(iii) ~~by~~ any shareholder or shareholders present in person or by duly authorised corporate representative or by proxy and representing not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all the shareholders having the right to vote at the meeting; or
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Poll
- (iv) ~~by~~ any shareholder or shareholders present in person or by duly authorised corporate 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 the shares conferring that right.
~~Unless a poll be so demanded and the demand is not withdrawn W~~ here a resolution is voted on by a show of hands, a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Company shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour or against such resolution.
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70A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Bye-laws:
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(a) if the aggregate proxies held by (i) the Chairman of a particular meeting, and (ii) the Directors, account for 5 per cent. or more of the total voting rights at that meeting, and
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(b) if on a show of hands in respect of any resolution, the shareholders at the meeting vote in the opposite manner to that instructed in the proxies referred to in (a) above,
the Chairman of the meeting and/or any Director holding the proxies referred to above shall demand a poll. However, if it is apparent from the total proxies held by the persons referred to in (a) above that a vote taken on a poll will not reverse the vote taken on a show of hands, then no poll shall be required.
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If a poll is demanded as aforesaid, it shall (subject as provided in Bye-law 72) be taken in such manner (including the use of ballot or voting papers or tickets) and at such time and place not being more than thirty days from the date of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the poll was demanded, as the Chairman directs. No notice need be given of a poll not taken immediately.The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn, with the consent of the Chairman, at any time before the close of the meeting at which the poll was demanded or the taking hands of the poll, whichever is the earlier.
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Any poll duly demanded on the election of a Chairman of a meeting or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting and without adjournment.
In what case poll taken without adjournment
- In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at Chairman to have
which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting casting vote vote. In case of any dispute as to the admission or rejection of any vote the Chairman shall determine the same, and such determination shall be final and conclusive.
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The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll has been demanded.
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For the purposes of section 106 of the Companies Act, a Special Resolution of the Company, and of any relevant class of shareholders, shall be required to approve any amalgamation agreement as referred to in that section.
Business may proceed notwithstanding demand for poll
Approval of amalgamation agreement
VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS
- Subject to any special rights, privileges or restrictions as to voting for the time being attached to any class or Votes of shareholders
classes of shares and subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), at any general meeting:
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(i) on a show of hands, every shareholder who is present in person or by proxy shall have one vote, provided that (subject to Bye-law 87(B)) where a shareholder has appointed more than one proxy to represent him:
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(a) only one such proxy shall be entitled to cast vote on a show of hands;
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(b) the form of appointment of proxy shall clearly indicate which proxy is designated as the voting proxy for the purposes of a vote on a show of hands; and
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(c) failure by a shareholder to designate the proxy entitled to vote on his behalf on a show of hands, or the designation of more than one proxy so to do, shall preclude any proxy representing that shareholder from voting on a show of hands; and
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(ii) on a poll, every shareholder present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder which is fully paid or credited as fully paid (but so that no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls or instalments shall be treated for the purposes of this Bye-law as paid on the share). On a poll a shareholder entitled to more than one vote need not use all his votes or cast all his votes in the same way.
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76A. Each shareholder has the right to: (a) speak or communicate at a general meeting; and (b) vote at a general meeting except where a shareholder is required, by the Listing Rules, to abstain from voting to approve the matter under consideration. Where the Company has knowledge that any shareholder is, under the Listing Rules, required to abstain from voting on any particular resolution or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution, any votes cast by or on behalf of such shareholder in contravention of such requirement or restriction shall not be counted.
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electronic means pursuant to Bye law 60(A) may cast their vote by electronic means as may be provided for by these Bye-laws.
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Any person entitled under Bye-law 46 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 at least 48 hours before the time of the holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting (as the case may be) at which he proposes to vote, he shall satisfy the Board of his right to be registered as the holder of such shares or the Board shall have previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect thereof.
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Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at any meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the Register in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. Several executors or administrators of a deceased shareholder in whose name any share stands shall for the purposes of this Bye-law be deemed joint holders thereof.
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A shareholder of unsound mind or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver or curator bonis appointed by that court, and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person may on a poll vote by proxy. Evidence to the satisfaction of the Board of the authority of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote shall be delivered to such place or one of such places (if any) as is specified in accordance with these Bye-laws for the deposit of instruments of proxy or, if no place is specified, at the Registration Office.
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(A) Save as expressly provided in these Bye-laws, no person other than a shareholder duly registered and who shall have paid everything for the time being due from him payable to the Company in respect of his shares shall be entitled to be present or to vote (save as proxy for another shareholder) either personally or by proxy or to be reckoned in a quorum (save as proxy for another shareholder), at any general meeting.
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(B) No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman, whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
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Any shareholder of the Company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company or a meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company shall be entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him. Votes may be given either personally or by a duly authorised corporate representative or by proxy. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. A shareholder who is the holder of two or more shares may appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion. In addition, a proxy or proxies representing either an individual shareholder or a shareholder which is a corporation, shall be entitled to speak, communicate and vote, and to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the shareholder which he or they represent as such shareholder could exercise. A corporation may execute a form of proxy under the hand of a duly authorised officer.
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Votes in
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deceased and bankrupt
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shareholders
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shareholder of unsound mind
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Qualification for voting
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Proxies
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APPENDIX III
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81A. (A) No appointment of a proxy shall be valid unless it names the person appointed and his appointor.The Directors may, unless they are satisfied that the person purporting to act as proxy is the person named in the relevant instrument for his appointment and the validity and authenticity of the signature of his appointor, decline such person’s admission to the relevant meeting, reject his vote or demand for a poll.
- Admissibility of proxy votes
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(B) Subject to Bye-law 87(B), where a shareholder appoints more than one proxy to represent him, as permitted by Bye-law 81, on the same occasion at a general meeting, the relevant proxy forms shall clearly state:
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(i) the class and number of shares which each proxy represents; and
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(ii) which of the two proxies so appointed is designated as the voting proxy for the purpose of voting on a show of hands as required by Bye-law 76,
and failure to specify either of the foregoing shall, subject to the absolute discretion of the Chairman to decide (upon such terms and conditions as he may see fit) otherwise, invalidate the appointment and form of proxy and prevent either proxy form representing the appointor at the general meeting concerned.
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(C) No shareholder who may be affected by any exercise by the Directors or the Chairman of their powers under this Bye-law shall have any claim against the Directors or Chairman or any of them nor may any such exercise by the Directors or the Chairman of their powers under this Bye-law invalidate the proceedings of the meeting in respect of which they were exercised or any resolution passed or defeated at such meeting.
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~~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 seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised.~~ [Intentionally deleted]
~~Instrument appointing proxy to be in writing~~
- ~~The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is Appointment of proxy~~
~~signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority shall be deposited at such place or one of such must be deposited~~
~~places (if any) as is specified in the notice of meeting or in the instrument of proxy issued by the Company (or, if no place is specified, at the Registration Office) not less than forty-eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or poll (as the case may be) at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting or on a poll demanded at a meeting or an adjourned meeting in a case where the meeting was originally held within twelve months from such date. Delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a shareholder from attending and voting in person at the meeting or upon the poll concerned and, in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.~~ [Intentionally deleted]
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Form of proxy
Authority under instrument appointing proxy
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Every instrument of proxy, whether for a specified meeting or otherwise, shall be in such form as the Board may from time to time approve.
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The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a general meeting shall: (i) be deemed to confer authority upon the proxy to demand or join in demanding a poll and to vote on any resolution (or amendment thereto) put to the meeting for which it is given as the proxy thinks fit. Provided that any form issued to a shareholder for use by him for appointing a proxy to attend and vote at a special general meeting or at an annual general meeting at which any business is to be transacted shall be such as to enable the shareholder, according to his intentions, to instruct the proxy to vote in favour of or against (or, in default of instructions, to exercise his discretion in respect of) each resolution dealing with any such business; and (ii) unless the contrary is stated therein, be valid as well for any adjournment of the meeting as for the meeting to which it relates.
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A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy or power of attorney shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or power of attorney or other authority under which the proxy was executed or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at its Registration Office, or at such other place as is referred to in Bye-law 83, at least two hours before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used.
When vote by proxy valid though authority revoked
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(A) Any corporation which is a shareholder of the Company may, by resolution of its directors or other governing body or by power of attorney, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its corporate representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of shareholders of the Company, and the person so authorised shall be entitled to vote and to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual shareholder of the Company.
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(B) If a Clearing House (or its nominee) is a shareholder of the Company, it may appoint such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its proxy or proxies or as its corporate representative or representatives, to the extent permitted by the Companies Act, at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of shareholders of the Company or any meeting of creditors provided that, if more than one proxy or, corporate representative is so appointed, the appointment shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which each such proxy or corporate representative is so appointed.A person so appointed under the provisions of this Bye-law shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the Clearing House (or its nominee) which he represents as that Clearing House (or its nominee) could exercise as if it were an individual shareholder, including the right to vote individually on a show of hands and the right to speak or communicate.The number of persons a Clearing House (or its nominee) may appoint to act as its corporate representative or representatives shall not exceed the number of shares held by a Clearing House (or its nominee), being shares in respect of which there is an entitlement to attend and vote at the relevant meeting. Any proxies appointed as aforesaid shall not be subject to the provisions of Bye-law 76 or 81A(B) limiting the number of proxies so appointed which may vote on a show of hands or requiring the relevant appointment of proxy to designate which proxy is entitled to vote on a show of hands.
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- (C) References in these Bye-laws to a shareholder present in person at a meeting shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include a corporation which is a shareholder represented at the meeting by such duly authorised corporate representative or by one or more proxies.
REGISTERED OFFICE
- The Registered Office shall be at such place in Bermuda as the Board shall from time to time appoint.
Registered Office
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- The number of Directors shall not be less than two. The Company shall keep at the Registered Office a Constitution of the Board
register of its directors and officers in accordance with the Statutes.
- A Director may at any time, by notice in writing signed by him delivered to the Registered Office of the Company or at the Head Office or at a meeting of the Directors, appoint any person (including another Director) to act as alternate Director in his place during his absence and may in like manner at any time determine such appointment. If such person is not another Director, such appointment (unless previously approved by the Directors) shall have effect only upon and subject to being so approve ~~d being so approved~~ . The appointment of an alternate Director shall determine on the happening of any event which, were he a Director, would cause him to vacate such office or if his appointor ceases to be a Director. An alternate Director may act as alternate to more than one Director.
Alternate Directors
- (A) An alternate Director shall (subject to his giving to the Company an address, telephone and facsimile number within the territory of the Head Office for the time being for the giving of notices on him and except when absent from the territory in which the Head Office is for the time being situate) be entitled (in addition to his appointor) to receive and (in lieu of his appointor) to waiver notice of meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors of which his appointor is a member and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Directors of which his appointor is a member and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is not personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all the functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purposes of the proceedings at such meeting, the provision of these presents shall apply as if he (instead of his appointer) were a Director. If he shall be himself a Director or shall attend any such meeting as an alternate for more than one Director, his voting rights shall be cumulative. If his appointor is for the time being absent from the territory in which the Head Office is for the time being situate or otherwise not available or unable to act, his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors or any such committee shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor. His attestation of the affixing of the Seal shall be as effective as the signature and attestation of is appointor. All alternate Directors shall not, save as aforesaid, have power to act as a Director nor shall be deemed to be a Director for the purposes of these Bye-laws.
Powers of alternate Directors
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(B) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director, but he shall not be entitled to receive from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director any remuneration except only such part (if any) of the ordinary remuneration otherwise payable to his appointor as such appointor may be notice in writing to the Company from time to time direct.
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(C) A certificate by a Director (including for the purpose of this paragraph (C) an alternate Director) or the Secretary that a Director (who may be the one signing the certificate) was at the time of a resolution of the Directors or any committee thereof absent from the territory of the Head Office or otherwise not available or unable to act or has not supplied an address, telephone and facsimile number within the territory of the Head Office for the purposes of giving of notice of him shall in favor of all persons without express notice to the contrary, be conclusive of the matter so certified.
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A Director or an alternate Director shall not be required to hold any qualification shares but shall nevertheless be entitled to attend and speak at all general meetings of the Company and all meetings of any class of shareholders of the Company.
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The Directors shall be entitled to receive by way of remuneration for their services as Directors such sum as shall from time to time be determined by the Company in general meeting, such sum (unless otherwise directed by the resolution by which it is voted) to be divided amongst the Directors in such proportions and in such manner as the Board may agree, or failing agreement, equally, except that in such event any Director holding office for less than the whole of the relevant period in respect of which the remuneration is paid shall only rank in such division in proportion to the time during such period for which he has held office. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a Director who holds any salaried employment or office in the Company except in the case of sums paid in respect of Directors’ fees.
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The Directors shall also be entitled to be repaid all travelling, hotel and other expenses reasonably incurred by them respectively in or about the performance of their duties as Directors, including their expenses of travelling to and from board meetings, committee meetings or general meetings or otherwise incurred whilst engaged in the business of the Company or in the discharge of their duties as Directors.
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The Board may grant special remuneration to any Director who, being called upon, shall perform any special or extra services to or at the request of the Company. Such special remuneration may be made payable to such Director in addition to or in substitution for his ordinary remuneration as a Director, and may be made payable by way of salary, commission or participation in profits or otherwise as the Board may determine.
Attendance at general meetings
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Directors’ expenses
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- (A) Notwithstanding Bye-laws 93, 94 and 95, the remuneration of a Managing Director, Joint Managing Remuneration of Managing
Director, Deputy Managing Director or an Executive Director or a Director appointed to any other Directors, etc.
office in the management of the Company may from time to time be fixed by the Board and may be by way of salary, commission, or participation in profits or otherwise or by all or any of those modes and with such other benefits (including pension and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement) and allowances as the Board may from time to time decide. Such remuneration shall be in addition to his ordinary remuneration as a Director.
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(B) Payments to any Director or past Director of any sum by way of compensation for loss of office or as Payments for compensation
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consideration for or in connection with his retirement from office (not being a payment to which the for loss of office
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Director is contractually entitled) must be approved by the Company in general meeting.
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(A) A Director shall vacate his office:–
When office of Director to be vacated
- (i) if he becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or suspends payment or compounds with his creditors generally;
- (ii) if he becomes a lunatic or of unsound mind;
- (iii) if he absents himself from the meetings of the Board during a continuous period of six months, without special leave of absence from the Board, and his alternate Director (if any) shall not during such period have attended in his stead, and the Board passes a resolution that he has by reason of such absence vacated his office;
- (iv) if he becomes prohibited by law from acting as a Director;
- (v) if by notice in writing delivered to the Company at its Registered Office or at the Head Office he resigns his office;
- (vi) if he shall be removed from office by an Ordinary Resolution of the Company under Bye-law 104.
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(B) No Director shall be required to vacate office or be ineligible for re-election or re-appointment as a Director, and no person shall be ineligible for appointment as a Director, by reason only of his having attained any particular age.
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(A) Subject to the Companies Act, a Director may hold any other office or place of profit with the Company (except that of Auditors) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and upon such terms as the Board may determine, and may be paid such extra remuneration therefor (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 any remuneration provided for, by or pursuant to any other Bye-law.
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(B) A Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company (otherwise than as Auditors) and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director.
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(C) A Director may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any company promoted by the Company or any other company in which the Company may be interested, and shall not be liable to account to the Company or the shareholders for any remuneration, profit or other benefit received by him as a director or officer of or from his interest in such other company. The Board may also cause the voting power conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company to be exercised in such manner in all respects as it thinks fit, including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution appointing the Directors or any of them to be directors or officers of such other company, or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors or officers of such other company.
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(CA) A Director may be or become a director or other officer of any other company which involve ventures in competition with, or similar to, those of the Company or any other Group Company, provided that such Director shall disclose to the Board any such directorships held by them. Such disclosures shall be made:
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(i) upon appointment as a Director in the case of any such directorships held at the time a Director is appointed; or
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(ii) at the next Board meeting in the case of the acceptance by a Director of any such directorship during their period of service with the Company.
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(D) A Director shall not vote or be counted in the quorum on any resolution of the Board concerning his own appointment as the holder of any office or place of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof).
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(E) Where arrangements are under consideration concerning the appointment (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) of two or more Directors to offices or places of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested, a separate resolution may be put in relation to each Director and in such case each of the Directors concerned shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment (or the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) and except (in the case of an office or place of profit with any such other company as aforesaid) where he or any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates have ~~s a~~ material interests (as defined below) in such other company.
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(F) Subject to the Companies Act and to the next paragraph of this Bye-law, no Director or proposed or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company, either with regard to his tenure or the tenure of any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates of any office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or in any other manner whatever, nor shall any such contract or any other contract or arrangement in which any Director or any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates is in any way interested be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company or the shareholders for any remuneration, profit or other benefits realised by any such contract or arrangement, by reason only of such Director holding that office or the fiduciary relationship thereby established.
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(G) If a Director or any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates, whom to the Director’s knowledge, is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or arrangement or proposed contract or arrangement with the Company, he shall declare the nature of his interest or the interest of any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates at the meeting of the Board at which the question of entering into the contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration, if he knows his interest or the interest of any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Board after he knows that he or any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates 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 by reason of facts specified in such notice, he or any of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociates, 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, shall be deemed to be a sufficient declaration of interest under this Bye-law in relation to any such contract or arrangement; provided that no such notice shall be effective unless either it is given at a meeting of the Board or the Director takes reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read at the next Board meeting after it is given.
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(H) A Director shall not vote (nor shall he be counted in the quorum) on any resolution of the Board in respect of any contract or arrangement or proposal in which he or any of his Close ~~Aa~~ ssociates has/have a material interest, and if he shall do so his vote shall not be counted (nor shall he be counted in the quorum for that resolution), but (in the absence of the material interest other than is authorized below) none of these prohibitions shall apply to:–
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(i) the giving of any security or indemnity either:–
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(a) to the Director or his CloseA ~~a~~ ssociate(s) in respect of money lent or obligations incurred or undertaken by him or any of them at the request of or for the benefit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or
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(b) 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 A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) has himself/themselves assumed responsibility in whole or in part and whether alone or jointly under a guarantee or indemnity or by the giving of security;
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(ii) any proposal concerning an offer of shares or debentures or other securities of or by the Company or any other company which the Company may promote or be interested in for subscription or purchase where the Director or his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) is/are or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the offer;
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~~(iii) any proposal concerning any other company in which the Director or his associate(s) is/are interested only, whether directly or indirectly, as an officer or executive or shareholder or in which the Director or his associate(s) is/are beneficially interested in shares of that company, provided that the Director and any of his associates are not in aggregate beneficially interested in 5% or more of the issued shares of any class of such company (or of any third company through which his interest or that of his associate(s) is derived) or of the voting rights;~~
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(iii ~~v~~ ) any proposal or arrangement concerning the benefit of employees of the Company or its subsidiaries including:–
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(a) the adoption, modification or operation of any employees’ share scheme or any share incentive or share option scheme under which the Director or his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) may benefit; or
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(b) the adoption, modification or operation of a pension fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme which relates ~~both~~ to the Director ~~s~~ , his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) and employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any Director or his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s), as such any privilege or advantage not generally accorded to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates; and
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(iv) any contract or arrangement in which the Director or his CloseA ~~a~~ ssociate(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 ~~.;~~
~~and so that the interest of a Director or of any of his associates shall not be treated as material in case of any proposal concerning any company other than the Company in which the Director or any of his associates is/are interested only, whether directly or indirectly, as an officer or executive or shareholder or in which the Director or any of his associates is/are beneficially interested in shares of that company, provided that the Director and any of his associates are not in aggregate beneficially interested in 5% or more of the issued shares of any class of such company (or of any third company through which his interest or that of his associates is derived) or of the voting rights.~~
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(I) Where proposals are under consideration concerning the appointment (including fixing or varying the terms of or terminating the appointment) of two or more Directors to offices or employments with the Company or any company in which the Company is interested, such proposals shall be divided and considered in relation to each Director separately and in such case each of the Directors concerned (if not prohibited from voting under paragraph (C)) shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment.
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(J ~~I~~ ) If any question shall arise at any meeting of the Board as to the materiality of the interest of a Director or that of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) (other than the Chairman) or as to the entitlement of any Director (other than such Chairman) to vote or be counted in the quorum and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or not to be counted in the quorum, such question shall be referred to the Chairman 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 or that of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) as known to such Director has not been fairly disclosed to the Board. If any question as aforesaid shall arise in respect of the Chairman or his Close ~~Aa~~ ssociate(s) such question shall be decided by a resolution of the Board (for which purpose such Chairman shall not be counted in the quorum and shall not vote thereon) and such resolution shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of such Chairman or that of his Close A ~~a~~ ssociate(s) as known to him has not been fairly disclosed to the Board.
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(K) For the avoidance of doubt, each reference to “Close Associate(s)” in paragraph (H) of this Bye-law above shall be deemed to be a reference to “associate(s)” (as defined in the Listing Rules from time to time) where the proposal, transaction, contract or arrangement concerned is a Connected Transaction or Continuing Connected Transaction.
APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS
- (A) Every Director shall retire from office no later than the third annual general meeting after he was last elected or re-elected.
Rotation and retirement of Directors
- (B) At each annual general meeting, if the number of Directors retiring under Bye-law 99(A) is less than one-third (or the number nearest to but not exceeding one-third if the total number of Directors is not three or a multiple of three) of the Directors for the time being, then additional Directors shall retire from office by rotation under this Bye-law 99(B) to make up the shortfall.The Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to obtain the number required) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that, as between persons who became or were last re-elected Directors on the same day, those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determine by lot.
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(C) A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election. The Company at the annual general meeting at which a Director retires may fill the vacated office.
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(D) A retirement under this Bye-law shall not have effect until the conclusion of the meeting, except where a resolution is passed to elect some other person in the place of the retiring Director or a resolution for his re-election is put to the meeting and lost, and, accordingly, a retiring Director who is re-elected or deemed to have been re-elected will continue in office without a break.
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If at any general meeting at which an election of Directors ought to take place the places of the retiring Directors are not filled, the retiring Directors or such of them as have not had their places filled shall be deemed to have been re-elected and shall, if willing, continue in office until the next annual general meeting and so on from year to year until their places are filled, unless:–
Retiring Directors to remain in office until successors appointed
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(i) it shall be determined at such meeting to reduce the number of Directors; or
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(ii) it is expressly resolved at such meeting not to fill up such vacated offices; or
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(iii) in any such case the resolution for re-election of a Director is put to the meeting and lost; or
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(iv) such Director is required to retire from office at such meeting by virtue of the provisions in Bye-law 99(A); or
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(v) such Director has given notice in writing to the Company that he is not willing to be re-elected.
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The Company in general meeting shall from time to time fix and may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase or reduce the maximum and minimum number of Directors but so that the number of Directors shall never be less than two.
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(A) The Company may from time to time in general meeting by Ordinary Resolution elect any person to be a Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board. Any Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election at the meeting but shall not be taken into account in determining the Directors or the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.
Power of general meeting to increase or reduce number of Directors
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Appointment of Directors
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(B) The Board shall have power from time to time and at any time to appoint any person as a Director either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board but so that the number of Directors so appointed shall not exceed the maximum number determined from time to time by the shareholders in general meeting. Any Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election at the meeting but shall not be taken into account in determining the Directors or the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.
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- No person, other than a retiring Director, shall, unless recommended by the Board for election, be eligible for election to the office of Director at any general meeting, unless notice in writing of the intention to propose that person for election as a Director and notice in writing by that person of his willingness to be elected shall have been lodged at the Head Office or at the Registration Office. The period for lodgment of the notice required under this Bye-law will be at least 7 days commencing no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the general meeting appointed for such election and ending no later than 7 days prior to the date of such general meeting.
Notice of proposed Director to be given
- The Company may by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director (including a Managing Director or other Executive Director) before the expiration of his period of office notwithstanding anything in these Bye-laws or in any agreement between the Company and such Director (but without prejudice to any claim which such Director may have for damages for any breach of any contract between him and the Company) and may elect another person in his stead.Any person so elected shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company and shall then be eligible for re-election at such meeting, but shall not be taken into account in determining the Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.
Power to remove Director by Ordinary Resolution
BORROWING POWERS
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The Board may from time to time at its discretion exercise all the powers of the Company to raise or borrow or to secure the payment of any sum or sums of money for the purposes of the Company and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital or any part thereof.
- Power to borrow
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The Board may raise or secure the payment or repayment of such sum or sums in such manner and upon Conditions on which
such terms and conditions in all respects as it thinks fit and in particular by the issue of debentures, money may be borrowed
debenture stock, bonds or other securities of the Company, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.
- Debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities may be made assignable free from any equities Assignment of debentures
between the Company and the person to whom the same may be issued. etc.
- Any debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities may be issued at a discount (other than shares), Special privileges of
premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawings, allotment of debentures etc.
shares, attending and voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
- (A) The Board shall cause a proper register to be kept of all mortgages and charges specifically affecting Register of charges to be
the property of the Company and shall duly comply with such provisions of the Companies Act with kept regard to the registration of mortgages and charges as may be specified or required.
- (B) If the Company issues a series of debentures or debenture stock not transferable by delivery, the Board shall cause a proper register to be kept of the holders of such debentures.
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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 shareholders or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
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Mortgage of uncalled capital
MANAGING DIRECTORS, ETC.
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The Board may from time to time appoint any one or more of its body to the office of Managing Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director or other Executive Director and/or such other office in the management of the business of the Company as it may decide for such period and upon such terms as it thinks fit (subject always to the provisions of these Bye-Laws, including without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )) and upon such terms as to remuneration as it may decide in accordance with Bye-law 96.
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Every Director appointed to an office under Bye-law 111 hereof shall, but without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any contract of service between himself and the Company, be liable to be dismissed or removed therefrom by the Board.
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A Director appointed to an office under Bye-law 111 shall be subject to the same provisions as to rotation, resignation and removal as the other Directors of the Company, and he shall ipso facto immediately cease to hold such office if he shall cease to hold the office of Director for any cause.
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The Board may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director, Joint Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director or Executive Director all or any of the powers of the Board that it may think fit provided that the exercise of all powers by such Director shall be subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Board may from time to time make and impose (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), and the said powers may at any time be withdrawn, revoked or varied, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of such withdrawal, revocation or variation shall be affected thereby.
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Powers to appoint
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Managing Directors, etc.
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Removal of Managing
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Director, etc.
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Cessation of appointment
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Powers may be delegated
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114A. The Board may from time to time appoint any person to an office or employment having a designation or title including the word “Director” or attach to any existing office or employment with the Company such a designation or title. The inclusion of the word “Director” in the designation or title of any office or employment with the Company (other than the office of Managing Director or Joint Managing Director or Deputy Managing Director or Executive Director) shall not imply that the holder thereof is a Director of the Company nor shall such holder be empowered in any respect to act as a Director of the Company or be deemed to be a Director for any of the purposes of these Bye-laws.
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MANAGEMENT
- (A) The management of the business of the Company shall be vested in the Board which, in addition to the powers and authorities expressly conferred upon it by these Bye-laws, may exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done or approved by the Company and which are not hereby or by the Statutes expressly directed or required to be exercised or done by the Company in general meeting, but subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Statutes and of these Bye-laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )) and to any regulations from time to time made by the Company in general meeting not being inconsistent with such provisions of these Bye-laws, provided that no regulation so made shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made.
General powers of Company vested in the Board
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(B) Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by these Bye-laws but subject always to Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters ), it is hereby expressly declared that the Board shall have the following powers:–
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(i) to give to any person the right or option of requiring at a future date that an allotment shall be made to him of any share at par or at such premium and on such other terms as may be agreed; and
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(ii) to give to any Directors, officers or employees of the Company an interest in any particular business or transaction or participation in the profits thereof or in the general profits of the Company either in addition to or in substitution for a salary or other remuneration.
MANAGERS
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The Board may from time to time appoint a general manager, manager or managers of the business 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.
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Appointment and
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remuneration of managers
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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 and such title or titles as it may think fit.
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Tenure of office and powers
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The Board may enter into such agreement or agreements with any such general manager, manager or Terms and conditions of
managers upon such terms and conditions in all respects as the Board may in its absolute discretion think fit, appointment including a power for such general manager, manager or managers to appoint an assistant manager or managers or other employees whatsoever under them for the purpose of carrying on the business of the Company.
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CHAIRMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS
- The Board shall as soon as practicable following each annual general meeting elect one of its body to the office of Chairman of the Company and another to be the Deputy Chairman (or two or more Deputy Chairman) and may from time to time elect or otherwise appoint other officers and determine the period for which each of them is to hold office. The Chairman or, in his absence, the Deputy Chairman shall preside at meetings of the Board, but if no such Chairman or Deputy Chairman be elected or appointed, or if at any meeting the Chairman or Deputy Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.All the provisions of Bye-laws 112, 113 and 114 shall mutatis mutandis apply to any Directors elected or otherwise appointed to any office in accordance with the provisions of this Bye-law.
Chairman, Deputy Chairman and officers
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DIRECTORS
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The Board may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings and proceedings as it thinks fit and may determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise determined two Directors shall be a quorum. For the purpose of this Bye-law an alternate Director shall be counted in a quorum but, notwithstanding that an alternate Director is also a Director or is an alternate for more than one Director, he shall for quorum purposes count as only one Director.A meeting of the Board or any committee of the Board may be held by means of such telephone, electronic or other communication facilities as permit all persons participating in the meeting to communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously, and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.
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(A) A Director may, and on the request of a Director the Secretary shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors which may be held in any part of the world provided that no such meeting shall be summoned to be held outside the territory in which the Head Office is for the time being situate without the prior approval of the Directors. Notice thereof shall be given to each Director and alternate Director in person orally or in writing or by telephone or by telex or telegram or facsimile transmission at the telephone or facsimile number or address from time to time notified to the Company by such Director or in such other manner as the Directors may from time to time determine. A Director may waive notice of any meeting either prospectively or retrospectively.
Meeting of the Board, quorum, etc.
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Convening of Board
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(B) A Director absent or intended to be absent from the territory in which the Head Office is for the time being situate may request the Directors or the Secretary that notices of Directors’ meetings shall during his absence be sent in writing to him at his last known address, facsimile or telex number or any other address, facsimile or telex number given by him to the Company for this purpose, but such notices need not be given any earlier than notices given to Directors not so absent and, in the absence of any such request, it shall not be necessary to give notice of a Directors’ meeting to any Director who is for the time being absent from such territory.
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(C) A Director or alternate Director who fails to supply to the Company an address in the territory of the Head Office, or a telephone, facsimile or telex number for the purposes of giving of notices to him shall not be entitled to receive any notice to him as Director or alternate Director for so long as the failure subsists and shall be deemed to have waived all such notices.
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Subject to the provisions of these Bye-laws in relation to Board Reserved Matters (as defined below) (including but not limited to Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 (Board Reserved Matters)), questions arising at any meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
How questions to be decided
- 122A. (A) Subject to Bye-law 122A(B), none of those matters set out in Schedule 1 (Board Reserved Matters) (“Board Reserved Matters”) shall be taken by the Company or, where applicable, any Group Company without the prior approval of Directors representing two-thirds or more in number of the Directors in attendance and entitled to vote at the relevant Board meeting (the “Board Super Majority”) provided that this Bye-law shall cease to have effect and be operative if the aggregate number of shares in the share capital of the Company legally and beneficially held by Kerry Holdings Limited, Kerry Properties Limited and each of its holding company, subsidiary or other subsidiary of such holding company from time to time, falls below the Minimum Shareholding.
Board Reserved Matters and Board Super Majority
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(B) A series of related transactions shall be construed as a single transaction, and any amounts involved in the related transactions shall be aggregated, to determine whether a matter is a Board Reserved Matter.
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A meeting of the Board for the time being at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all or any of the authorities, powers and discretions by or under these Bye-laws for the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board generally.
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Powers of meeting
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Save for the power to approve the Board Reserved Matters, the Board may delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of such member or members of its body and such other persons as the Board thinks fit, and it may from time to time revoke such delegation or revoke the appointment of and discharge any such committees either wholly or in part, and either as to persons or purposes, but every committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may from time to time be imposed upon it by the Board.
Power to appoint committee and to delegate
- All acts done by any such committee in conformity with such regulations and in fulfilment of the purposes for which it is appointed, but not otherwise, shall have the 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 special committee, and charge such remuneration to the current expenses of the Company.
Act of committee to be of same effect as acts of the Board
- The meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of two or more members shall be governed Proceedings of committee
by the provisions herein contained for regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board so far as the same are applicable thereto and are not replaced by any regulations imposed by the Board pursuant to Bye-law 124.
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All acts bona fide done by any meeting of the Board or by any such committee or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it shall be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of such Director or persons acting as aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a Director or member of such committee.
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When acts of the Board or committee to be valid
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notwithstanding defects
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The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Bye-laws as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Director or Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number or of summoning a general meeting of the Company but for no other purpose.
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Directors’
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powers when vacancies exists
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(A) Subject to Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters ), a resolution in writing signed by all the Directors (or their alternate Directors) except such as are absent from the territory in which the Head Office is for the time being situate or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability (or their alternate Directors) shall (so long as such a resolution shall be signed by at least two Directors or their alternates and provided that a copy of such resolution has been given or the contents thereof communicated to all the Directors (or their alternates) for the time being entitled to receive notices of Board meetings) be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Board duly convened and held, with the exception that Board Reserved Matters may only be approved in accordance with Bye-law 122A.Any such resolutions in writing may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more of the Directors or alternate Directors.
Directors’ resolutions
- (B) A certificate signed by a Director (who may be one of the signatories to the relevant resolution in writing) or the Secretary as to any of the matters referred to in paragraph (A) of this Bye-law shall, in the absence of express notice to the contrary of the person relying thereon, be conclusive of the matters stated on such certificate.
MINUTES
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(A) The Board shall cause minutes to be made of:–
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(i) all appointments of officers made by the Board;
Minutes of proceedings of meetings and Directors
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(ii) the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Board and of committees appointed pursuant to Bye-law 124; and
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(iii) all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company and of the Board and of such committees.
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(B) Any such minutes shall be conclusive evidence of any such proceedings if they purport to be signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings were held or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting.
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(C) The Directors shall duly comply with the provisions of the Companies Act in regard to keeping a register of shareholders and to the production and furnishing of copies of or extracts from such register.
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(D) Any register, index, minute book, book of account or other book required by these presents or the Statutes to be kept by or on behalf of the Company may be kept either by making entries in bound books or by recording them in any other manner which shall include, without prejudice to the generality thereof, recording by means of magnetic tape, microfilm, computer or any other non-manual system of recording. In any case in which bound books are not used, the Directors shall take adequate precautions for guarding against falsification and for facilitating its discovery.
SECRETARY
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The Secretary shall be appointed by the Board for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as it may think fit, and any Secretary so appointed may be removed by the Board. Anything by the Statutes or these Bye-laws required or authorised to be done by or to the Secretary, if the office is vacant or there is for any other reason no Secretary capable of acting, may be done by or to any assistant or deputy Secretary, or if there is no assistant or deputy Secretary capable of acting, by or to any officer of the Company authorised generally or specially on behalf of the Board. If the Secretary appointed is a corporation or other body, it may act and sign by the hand of any one or more of its directors or officers duly authorised.
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Appointment of Secretary
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The duties of the Secretary shall be those prescribed by the CompaniesAct and these Bye-laws, together with such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board.
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Duties of
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the Secretary
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A provision of the Statutes or of these Bye-laws requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a Director Same person not to act
and the Secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as Director in two capacities
and as, or in place of, the Secretary. at once
GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE SEAL
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(A) Subject to the Statutes, the Company shall have one or more Seals as the Directors may determine. The Directors shall provide for the safe custody of each Seal, and no Seal shall be used without the authority of the Directors or a committee authorised by the Directors in that behalf.
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Custody of Seal
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(B) Every instrument to which a Seal shall be affixed shall be signed autographically by one Director and Use of Seal the Secretary or by two Directors or some other person appointed by the Board for the purpose provided that as regards any certificates for shares or debentures or other securities of the Company the Directors may by resolution determine that such signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with or affixed by some method or system of mechanical signature other than autographic as specified in such resolution or that such certificates need not be signed by any person.
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(C) The Company may have a Securities Seal for use for sealing certificates for shares or other securities issued by the Company and no signature of any Director, officer or other person and no mechanical reproduction thereof shall be required on any such certificates or other document and any such certificates or other document to which such Securities Seal is affixed shall be valid and deemed to have been sealed and executed with the authority of the Board notwithstanding the absence of any such signature or mechanical reproduction as aforesaid.
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All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Board shall from time to time by resolution determine. The Company’s banking accounts shall be kept with such banker or bankers as the Board shall from time to time determine.
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(A) The Board may from time to time and at any time, by power of attorney under the Seal, appoint 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.
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(B) The Company may, by writing under its Seal, empower any person, either generally or in respect of any specified matter, as its attorney to execute deeds and instruments on its behalf and to enter into contracts and sign the same on its behalf and every deed signed by such attorney on behalf of the Company and under his seal shall bind the Company and have the same effect as if it were under the Seal.
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The Board may establish any committees, regional or local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in the Relevant Territory or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees, regional or local boards or agencies and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate to any committee, regional or local board or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Board (other than with respect to Board Reserved Matters and its powers to make calls and forfeit shares), with power to sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any regional or local board or any of them to fill any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding any such vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board may think fit, and the Board may remove any person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
Securities Seal
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Cheques
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arrangements
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Execution
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Power to establish pension funds
- The Board may establish and maintain or procure the establishment and maintenance of any contributory or non-contributory pension or superannuation funds for the benefit of, or give or procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to, any persons who are or were at any time in the employment or service of the Company, or of any company which is a subsidiary of the Company, or is allied or associated with the Company or with any such subsidiary, or who are or were at any time directors or officers of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid and the spouses, widows, widowers, families and dependants of any such persons.The Board may also establish and subsidise or subscribe to any institutions, associations, clubs or funds calculated to be for the benefit of or to advance the interests and well-being of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid or of any such persons as aforesaid, and may make payments for or towards the insurance of any such persons as aforesaid, and subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibition or for any public, general or useful object. The Board may do any of the matters aforesaid, either alone or in conjunction with any such other company as aforesaid. Any Director holding any such employment or office shall be entitled to participate in and retain for his own benefit any such donation, gratuity, pension, allowance or emolument.
AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS
- Any Director or the Secretary or other authorised officer of the Company shall have power to authenticate any documents affecting the constitution of the Company and any resolutions passed by the Company or the Directors or any committee, and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of the Company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies of extracts; and where any books, records, documents or accounts are elsewhere than at the Registered Office or the Head Office, the local manager or such other officer of the Company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be the authorised officer of the Company as aforesaid. 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 Directors or any local board or committee which is certified as aforesaid 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 any minute so extracted is a true and accurate record of proceedings at a duly constituted meeting.
Power to authenticate
CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES
- (A) The Company in general meeting may, upon the recommendation of the Board, resolve to capitalise any part of the Company’s reserves (including any contributed surplus account and also including any share premium account or other undistributable reserve, but subject to the provisions of the law with regard to unrealised profits) or undivided profits not required for the payment or provision of the dividend on any shares with a preferential right to dividend, and accordingly that such part be sub-divided amongst the shareholders in such proportion as may be approved by the Board, whether pro-rata to all shareholders or otherwise, on condition that the same be not paid in cash but be applied either in or towards paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such shareholders respectively or paying up in full unissued shares or debentures or other securities of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid to and amongst such shareholders in such proportion as may be approved by the Board as aforesaid, or partly in one way and partly in the other provided that for the purpose of this Bye-law, any amount standing to the credit of any share premium account may only be applied in the paying up of unissued shares to be issued to shareholders of the Company as fully paid and provided further that any sum standing to the credit of the share premium account may only be applied in crediting as fully paid shares of the same class as that from which the relevant share premium was derived.
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- (B) Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed the Board shall make all appropriations and applications of the reserves or undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares, debentures, or other securities and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto. For the purpose of giving effect to any resolution under this Bye-law, the Board may settle any difficulty which may arise in regard to a capitalisation issue as it thinks fit, and in particular may disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any shareholders in lieu of fractional entitlements or that fractions of such value as the Board may determine may be disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all parties or that fractional entitlements shall be aggregated and sold and the benefit shall accrue to the Company rather than to the shareholders concerned. The Board may appoint any person to sign on behalf of the persons entitled to share in a capitalisation issue a contract for allotment and such appointment shall be effective and binding upon all concerned, and the contract may provide for the acceptance by such persons of the shares, debentures or other securities to be allotted and distributed to them respectively in satisfaction of their claims in respect of the sum so capitalised.
Effect of resolution to capitalize
DIVIDENDS, CONTRIBUTED SURPLUS AND RESERVES
- (A) The Company may by an Ordinary Resolution declare dividends or make distributions out of assets or funds of the Company legally available therefor, including distributions out of contributed surplus, to the shareholders in any currency, but no such dividends or distributions shall exceed the amount recommended by the Board.
Power to declare dividends
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(B) The Board may from time to time make distributions out of assets or funds of the Company legally available therefor, including distributions out of contributed surplus, to the shareholders.
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(A) The Board may subject to Bye-law 143 from time to time pay to the shareholders such interim dividends as appear to the Board to be justified by the position 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 to the holders thereof deferred or non-preferential rights as well as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential rights with regard to dividend and provided that the 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.
Board’s power to pay interim dividends
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(B) The Board may also pay half-yearly or at other suitable intervals to be settled by it any dividend or distribution out of assets or funds of the Company legally available therefor, including distributions out of contributed surplus, to be payable at a fixed rate if the Board is of the opinion that the payment is justified.
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(A) No dividend shall be declared or paid and no distribution out of contributed surplus shall be made otherwise than in accordance with the Statutes. No dividend shall be paid otherwise than out of profits or reserves available for distribution.
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not to be paid out of capital/ Distribution
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of contributed surplus
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(B) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (but without prejudice to paragraph (A) of this Bye-law), where any asset, business or property is bought by the Company as from a past date (whether such date be before or after the incorporation of the Company) the profits and losses thereof as from such date may at the discretion of the Directors in whole or in part be carried to revenue account and treated for all purposes as profits or losses of the Company, and be available for dividend accordingly. Subject as aforesaid, if any shares or securities are purchased cum dividend or interest, such dividend or interest may at the discretion of the Board be treated as revenue, and it shall not be obligatory to capitalise the same or any part thereof.
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(C) Subject to Bye-law 143 (D) and 146, all dividends, distribution out of contributed surplus and other distributions in respect of shares in the Company shall be stated and discharged, in the case of shares denominated in Hong Kong dollars, in Hong Kong dollars, and in the case of shares denominated in United States dollars, in United States dollars, provided that, in the case of shares denominated in Hong Kong dollars, the Board may determine in the case of any distribution that shareholders may elect to receive the same in United States dollars or any other currency selected by the Board, conversion to be effected at such rate of exchange as the Board may determine.
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(D) If, in the opinion of the Board, any dividend or other distribution in respect of shares or any other payment to be made by the Company to any shareholder is of such a small amount as to make payment to that shareholder in the relevant currency impracticable or unduly expensive either for the Company or the shareholder then such dividend or other distribution or other payment may, at the discretion of the Board, be paid or made in the currency of the country of the relevant shareholder (as indicated by the address of such shareholder on the Register).
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Notice of the declaration of an interim dividend or a distribution shall be given in such manner as the Board shall determine.
Notice of interim dividend
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No dividend, distribution or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share shall bear interest as against the Company.
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No interest on dividend
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Whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared or a distribution be made, the Board may further resolve that such dividend or distribution be satisfied wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets of any kind and in particular of paid up shares, securities, debentures or warrants to subscribe for securities of the Company or any other company, or in any one or more of such ways, with or without offering any rights to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend or distribution in cash, and where any difficulty arises in regard to the distribution the Board may settle the same as it thinks expedient, and in particular may disregard fractional entitlements or round the same up or down, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets, or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any shareholders upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties and may determine that fractional entitlements shall be aggregated and sold and the benefit shall accrue to the Company rather than to the shareholders concerned, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the 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 or distribution and such appointment shall be effective.Where requisite, the Board may appoint any person to sign a contract on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend or distribution and such appointment shall be effective.The Board may resolve that no such assets shall be made available or paid to shareholders with registered addresses in any particular territory or territories being a territory or territories where, in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities, this would or might, in the opinion of the Board, be unlawful or impracticable and in such event the only entitlement of the shareholders aforesaid shall be to receive cash payments as aforesaid. Shareholders affected as a result of the foregoing sentence shall not be or be deemed to be a separate class of shareholders for any purpose whatsoever.
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(A) Subject to the provisions of these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )), whenever the Board or the Company in general meeting has resolved that a dividend be paid or declared on the share capital of the Company, the Board may further resolve:–
Dividend in specie
Scrip dividends
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(a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;
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(b) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two weeks’ notice in writing to the shareholders of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;
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(c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and
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- (d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the allotment of shares as aforesaid) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the cash election has not been duly exercised (“the non-elected shares”) and in lieu and in satisfaction thereof shares 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 or any part of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including any special account, contributed surplus account, share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund (if there be any such reserve)) as the Board may determine a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis.
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(ii) that shareholders entitled to such dividend will 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 Directors may think fit on the basis that the shares so allotted shall be of the same class or classes as the class or classes of shares already held by the allottee. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:–
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(a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Board;
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(b) the Board, after determining the basis of allotment, shall give not less than two weeks’ notice in writing to the shareholder of the right of election accorded to them and shall send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to be followed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be effective;
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(c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded; and
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(d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable on shares in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (“the elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares shall be allotted credited as fully paid 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 or any part of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including any special account, contributed surplus account, share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund (if there be any such reserve)) as the Board may determine a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the shares to be allotted on such basis and apply the same in paying up in full the appropriate number of shares for allotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such basis.
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(B) The shares allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Bye-law shall rank pari passu in all respects with the shares then in issue save only as regards participation:–
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(ii) in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend.
Unless, contemporaneously with the announcement by the Board of its proposal to apply the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (A) of this Bye-law in relation to the relevant dividend or contemporaneously with its 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 (A) of this Bye-law shall rank for participation in such distribution, bonus or rights.
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(C) The Board may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalisation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Bye-law with full power to the Board to make such provisions as they think fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the shareholders concerned).The Board may authorise any person to enter into on behalf of all shareholders interested an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made pursuant to such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.
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(D) The Company may, upon the recommendation of the Directors, by Ordinary Resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Bye-law, a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.
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(E) The Board may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (A) 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 be unlawful, and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination.
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Reserves
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The Board may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as it thinks fit as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Board, be applicable for meeting claims on or liabilities of the Company or contingencies or for paying off any loan capital or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose to which the profits of the Company may be properly applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the Company) 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 by way of dividend.
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Unless and to the extent that the rights attached to any shares or the terms of issue thereof otherwise provide, all dividends shall (as regards any shares not fully paid throughout the period in respect of which the dividend is paid) be apportioned and paid pro rata according to the amounts paid or credited as paid up on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid. For the purposes of this Bye-law no amount paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated as paid on the share.
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(A) The Board may retain any dividends or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share upon which Retention of dividends
the Company has a lien, and may apply the same in or towards satisfaction of the debts, liabilities or etc. engagements in respect of which the lien exists.
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any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls, instalments or otherwise.
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Any general meeting sanctioning a dividend may make a call on the shareholders of such amount as the meeting fixes, but so that the call on each shareholder shall not exceed the dividend payable to him, and so that the call shall be made payable at the same time as the dividend, and the dividend may, if so arranged between the Company and the shareholder, be set off against the call.
Dividend and call together
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A transfer of shares shall not pass the right to any dividend or bonus declared thereon before the registration of the transfer.
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Effect of transfer
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If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any one of such persons may give effectual receipts for any dividends, interim dividends or bonuses and other moneys payable in respect of such shares.
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Receipt for
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Unless otherwise directed by the Board, any dividend or bonus may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post to the registered address of the shareholder entitled, or, in case of joint holders, to the registered address of that one whose name stands first in the Register in respect of the joint holding or to such person and to such address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every cheque or warrant so sent shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent, and the payment of any such cheque or warrant shall operate as a good discharge to the Company in respect of the dividend and/or bonus represented thereby, notwithstanding that it may subsequently appear that the same has been stolen or that any endorsement thereon has been forged.
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Payment by post
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All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Board for the benefit of the Company until claimed and the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends or bonuses unclaimed for six years after having been declared may be forfeited by the Board and shall revert to the Company.
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Unclaimed dividend
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Any resolution declaring a dividend on shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in general Record dates meeting or a resolution of the Directors, may specify that the same shall be payable or made to the persons registered as the holder of such shares at the close of business on a particular date, notwithstanding that it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is passed, and thereupon the dividend or other distribution shall be payable or made to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend or other distribution between the transferors and transferees of any such shares.The provisions of this 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 shareholders.
DISTRIBUTION OF REALISED CAPITAL PROFITS
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The Company in general meeting may at any time and from time to time resolve that any surplus moneys in the hands of the Company representing capital profits arising from moneys received or recovered in respect of or arising from the realisation of any capital assets of the Company or any investments representing the same and not required for the payment or provision of any fixed preferential dividend instead of being applied in the purchase of any other capital assets or for other capital purposes be distributed amongst the ordinary shareholders on the footing that they receive the same as capital and in the shares and proportions in which they would have been entitled to receive the same if it had been distributed by way of dividend, provided that no such profits as aforesaid shall be so distributed unless there shall remain in the hands of the Company a sufficiency of other assets to answer in full the whole of the liabilities and paid-up share capital of the Company for the time being.
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ANNUAL RETURNS
- The Board shall make or cause to be made such annual or other returns or filings as may be required to be made in accordance with the Statutes.
Annual returns
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ACCOUNTS
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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 receipts and expenditure take place; and of the property, assets, credits and liabilities of the Company and of all other matters required by the Statutes or necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to show and explain its transactions.
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Accounts to be kept
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The books of account shall be kept at the Head Office or at such other place or places as the Board thinks fit and shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors provided that such records as are required by the Statutes shall also be kept at the Registered Office.
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or document of the Company except as conferred by the Statutes or ordered by a court of competent shareholders jurisdiction or authorised by the Board or the Company in general meeting.
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general meeting such profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and reports as loss account are required by the Statutes. and balancesheet
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(B) Subject to paragraph (C) below, every balance sheet of the Company shall be signed on behalf of the Board by two of the Directors and a copy of every balance sheet (including every document required by law to be comprised therein or annexed thereto) and profit and loss account which is to be laid before the Company at its annual general meeting, together with a copy of the Directors’ report and a copy of the Auditors’ report, shall not less than twenty-one days before the date of the meeting be served or delivered by post, by electronic means or by other means in accordance with these Bye-laws to every shareholder of, and every holder of debentures of, the Company and every other person entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the Company under the provisions of the Companies Act or these Bye-laws, provided that this Bye-law shall not require a copy of those documents to be served or delivered to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures, but any shareholder or holder of debentures to whom a copy of those documents has not been served or delivered shall be entitled to receive a copy free of charge on application at the Head Office or the Registration Office. If all or any of the shares or debentures of the Company shall for the time being be (with the consent of the Company) listed or dealt in on any stock exchange, there shall be forwarded to the appropriate officer of such stock exchange such number of copies of such documents as may for the time being be required under its regulations or practice.
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- (D) Subject to section 88 of the Companies Act, the Company shall serve or deliver the full financial statements to a shareholder within seven days of receipt of the shareholder’s election to receive the full financial statements.
AUDITORS
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(A) Auditors shall be appointed and the terms and tenure of such appointment and their duties at all times regulated in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act.
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(B) The Company shall at each annual general meeting by Ordinary Resolution appoint one or more firms of auditors to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting, but if an appointment is not made, the Auditors in office shall continue in office until a successor is appointed. A Director, officer or employee of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries or a partner, officer or employee of any such Director, officer or employee shall not be capable of being appointedAuditors of the Company. The Board may fill any casual vacancy in the office of Auditors, but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuingAuditors (if any) may act. Subject as otherwise provided by the Companies Act, the remuneration of the Auditors shall be fixed by or on the authority of the Company in the annual general meeting by Ordinary Resolution except that in any particular year the Company in general meeting may delegate the fixing of such remuneration to the Board and the remuneration of any Auditors appointed to fill any casual vacancy may be fixed by the Directors.
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(C) The shareholders, by a resolution passed by at least two thirds of the votes cast at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to pass such resolution was given, may remove any auditor before the expiration of their term of office, and shall by Ordinary Resolution appoint a replacement -
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auditor for the remainder of the term provided that at least twenty one days before the date of the meeting, notice in writing of the proposed resolution is given to the incumbent auditor and to the auditor proposed to be appointed.
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TheAuditors shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and officers of the Company such information as may be necessary for the performance of his or their duties, and the Auditors shall make a report to the shareholders on the accounts examined by them and on every balance sheet, consolidated balance sheet and consolidated profit and loss account intended to be laid before the Company in the annual general meeting during their tenure of office as required by the Statutes.
Auditors to have right of access to books and accounts
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APPENDIX III
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A person other than the retiring Auditors shall not be capable of being appointed Auditors at an annual general meeting unless notice of an intention to nominate that person to the office of Auditors has been given to the Company not less than fourteen days before the annual general meeting, and the Company shall send a copy of any such notice to the retiring Auditors and shall give notice thereof to the shareholders not less than seven days before the annual general meeting provided that the above requirements may be waived by notice in writing by the retiringAuditors to the Secretary provided that if after a notice of the intention to nominateAuditors has been so given an annual general meeting is called for a date fourteen days or less after that notice has been given, the notice, though not given within the time required by this Bye-law, shall be deemed to have been properly given for the purposes thereof, and the notice to be sent or given by the Company may instead of being sent or given within the time required by this provision be sent or given at the same time as the notice of the annual general meeting.
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Subject to the provisions of the CompaniesAct, all acts done by any person acting asAuditors shall, as regards all persons dealing in good faith with the Company, be valid, notwithstanding that there was some defect in their appointment or that they were at the time of their appointment not qualified for appointment or subsequently became disqualified.
Appointment of auditors other than retiring auditors
Defect of appointment
NOTICES
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(A) (i) Except where otherwise expressly stated, any notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange) to be given to or by any person pursuant to these Bye-laws shall be in writing or, to the extent permitted by the Statutes and any applicable rules prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time and subject to this Bye-law, contained in an electronic communication. A notice calling a meeting of the Directors need not be in writing.
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Service of notices
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(ii) Any notice or document to be given to or by any person pursuant to these Bye-laws may be served on or delivered to any shareholder of the Company either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope or wrapper addressed to such shareholder at his registered address as appearing in the Register or by leaving it at that address addressed to the shareholder or by any other means authorised in writing by the shareholder concerned or (other than share certificates) by publishing it by way of advertisement in at least one English language newspaper and one Chinese language newspaper circulating generally in Hong Kong. In case of joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing but subject to the Statutes and any rules prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time, a notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange) may be served or delivered by the Company to any shareholder by electronic means to such address as may from time to time be authorised by the shareholder concerned or by publishing it on a website and notifying the shareholder concerned that it has been so published (“notice of availability”). The notice of availability may be given to the shareholder by any of the means set out above (except by way of publishing on a website), subject to compliance with the requirements of the Statutes and the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.
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- (iii) Any such notice or document may be served or delivered by the Company by reference to the Register as it stands at any time not more than fifteen days before the date of service or delivery. No change in the Register after that time shall invalidate that service or delivery. Where any notice or document is served or delivered to any person in respect of a share in accordance with these Bye-laws, no person deriving any title or interest in that share shall be entitled to any further service or delivery of that notice or document.
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(B) (i) Any notice or document required to be sent to or served upon the Company, or upon any officer of the Company, may be sent or served by leaving the same or sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope or wrapper addressed to the Company or to such officer at the Head Office or Registered Office.
- (ii) The Board may from time to time specify the form and manner in which a notice may be given to the Company by electronic means, including one or more addresses for the receipt of an electronic communication, and may prescribe such procedures as they fit for verifying the authenticity or integrity of any such electronic communication.Any notice may be given to the Company by electronic means only if it is given in accordance with the requirements specified by the Board.
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(A) Where the registered address of the shareholder is outside the Relevant Territory, notice, if given through the post, shall be sent by prepaid airmail letter where practicable. Any shareholder whose registered address is outside the RelevantTerritory may notify the Company in writing of an address in the Relevant Territory which for the purpose of service of notice shall be deemed to be his registered address.
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Shareholders out of the Relevant Territory
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(B) Any shareholder who fails (and, where a share is held by joint holders, where the first joint holder Shareholders with no or
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named on the Register fails) to supply his registered address or a correct registered address to the incorrect addresses
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Company for service of notice and documents on him shall not (and where a share is held by joint holders, none of the other joint holders whether or not they have supplied a registered address shall) be entitled to service of any notice of documents by the Company and any notice or document which is otherwise required to be served on him may, if the Directors in their absolute discretion so elect (and subject to them re-electing otherwise from time to time), be served, in the case of notice by displaying a copy of such notice conspicuously at the Registered Office and the Head Office or if the Directors see fit, by advertisement in the Newspapers, and in the case of documents, by posting up a notice conspicuously at the Registered Office and the Head Office addressed to such shareholder which notice shall state the address within the RelevantTerritory at which he may obtain a copy of the relevant document. Any notice or document served in the manner so described shall be sufficient service as regards shareholders with no registered or incorrect addresses, provided that nothing in this paragraph (B) shall be construed as requiring the Company to serve any notice or document on any shareholder with no or an incorrect registered address for the service of notice or document on him or on any shareholder other than the first named on the register of members of the Company.
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(C) If on three consecutive occasions notices or other documents have been sent through the post to any shareholder (or, in the case of joint holders of shares, the first holder named on the Register) at his registered address but have been returned undelivered, such shareholder (and, in the case of joint holders of a share, all other joint holders of the share) shall not thereafter be entitled to receive or be served (save as the Directors may elect otherwise pursuant to paragraph (B) of this Bye-law) and shall be deemed to have waived the service of notices and other documents from the Company until he shall have communicated with the Company and supplied in writing a new registered address for the service of notices on him.
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Where
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previous
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notices etc. returned
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undelivered
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(A) Any notice or document sent by post shall be deemed to have been served on the day following that When notice by post
on which the envelope or wrapper containing the same is put into a post office situated within the deemed to be served
Relevant Territory and in proving such service, it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing notice or document was properly prepaid (and in the case of an address outside the Relevant Territory where airmail service is available, airmail postage prepaid), addressed and put into such post office and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other person appointed by the Directors that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice of document was so addressed and put into such post office shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
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(B) Any notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange), if sent by electronic means (including through any relevant system), shall be deemed to be have been given on the day following that on which the electronic communication was sent by or on behalf of the Company. Any notice or document served or delivered by the Company by any other means authorised in writing by the shareholder concerned shall be deemed to have been served when the Company has carried out the action it has been authorised to take for that purpose. Any notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange) published on a website shall be deemed given by the Company to a shareholder on the later of (i) the date on which a notice of availability is deemed served on such shareholder and (ii) the date on which such notice or document was published on the website.
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When notice by electronic means
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deemed to be served
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(C) A notice or document served by way of advertisement in the Newspapers or in an appointed newspaper shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day it was so published.
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(D) A notice served by display of the same at the Registered Office and Head Office shall be deemed to have been served 24 hours after the notice was first so displayed.
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When
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notice by
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advertisement deemed to be served
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When notice by display deemed to be served
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(E) Any notice or document served pursuant to Bye-law 168(B) shall be deemed duly served 24 hours after the relevant notice was first displayed.
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APPENDIX III
PARTICULARS OF AMENDMENTS TO BYE-LAWS
- 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 shareholder by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope or wrapper addressed to him by name, or by the title of representative of the deceased, 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.
Service of notice to persons entitled on death, mental disorder or bankruptcy
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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.
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Transferee
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to be bound by prior notices
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Any notice or document delivered or sent by post to, or left at the registered address of, any shareholder in pursuance of these presents, shall notwithstanding that such shareholder be then deceased or bankrupt and whether or not the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy, be deemed to have been duly served in respect of any registered shares whether held solely or jointly with other persons by such shareholder until some other person be registered in his stead as the holder or joint holder thereof, and such service shall for all purposes of these presents be deemed a sufficient service of such notice or document on his personal representatives and all persons (if any) jointly interested with him in any such shares.
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Notice valid though
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shareholder deceased, bankrupt
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The signature to any notice to be given by the Company may be written or printed.
How notice to be signed
INFORMATION
- No shareholder (not being a Director) shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting Shareholders not entitled
any detail of the Company’s trading or any matter which is or may be in the nature of a trade secret, mystery to information
of trade or secret process which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Company which in the opinion of the Board it will be inexpedient in the interests of the shareholders of the Company to communicate to the public.
WINDING UP
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A resolution that the Company be wound up by the Court or be wound up voluntarily shall be a Special Resolution.
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Modes of
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winding up
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If the Company shall be wound up, the surplus assets remaining after payment to all creditors shall be divided among the shareholders in proportion to the capital paid up on the shares held by them respectively, and if such surplus assets shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid up capital, they shall be distributed subject to the rights of any shares which may be issued on special terms and conditions, so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the shareholders in proportion to the capital paid up on the shares held by them respectively.
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Distribution of assets in winding up
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APPENDIX III
- If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary or ordered by the Court) the liquidator may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution, divide among the shareholders in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company whether the assets shall consist of property of one kind or shall consist of properties of different kinds and the liquidator may, for such purpose, set such value as he deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the shareholders or different classes of shareholders and the shareholders within each class. The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of shareholders as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall think fit, but so that no shareholder shall be compelled to accept any shares or other assets upon which there is a liability.
Assets may be distributed in specie
INDEMNITY
- (A) Save and except to the extent only that the provisions of this Bye-law shall be avoided by any provisions of the Statutes, the Directors, Managing Directors, alternate Directors, Auditors, Secretary and other officers for the time being of the Company and the trustees (if any) for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company, and their respective executors or administrators, shall be indemnified and secured harmless out of the assets of the Company from and against all actions, costs, charges, liabilities, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them, their or any of their executors or administrators, shall or may incur or sustain:
Indemnity
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(i) in connection with their duties, the exercise of their powers or otherwise in connection with their respective offices or trusts, except such (if any) as they shall incur or sustain through their own wilful neglect, wilful default, fraud or dishonesty, and none of them shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other of them, or for joining in any receipt for the sake of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or effects of the Company shall be lodged or deposited for safe custody, or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any moneys of the Company shall be placed out or invested, or for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may arise in the execution of their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto, except as the same shall happen by or through their own wilful neglect, wilful default, fraud or dishonesty and the indemnity contained in this Bye-law shall extend to any person acting as a Director or officer in the reasonable belief that has been so appointed or elected notwithstanding any defect in such appointment or election; and
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(ii) in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour, or in which he is acquitted, or in connection with any application under the Statutes in which relief from liability is granted to him by the court, and to the extent that any person is entitled to claim an indemnity pursuant to these Bye-laws in respect of amounts paid or discharged by him, such indemnity shall take effect as an obligation of the Company to reimburse the person making such payment or effecting such discharge.
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APPENDIX III
- (B) The Company may take out and pay the premium and other moneys for the maintenance of insurance, bonds and other instruments for the benefit either of the Company or the Directors (and/or other officers and persons referred to in paragraph (A) of this Bye-law) or any of them to indemnify the Company and/or the Directors (and/or other officers and/or other persons) named therein for this purpose against all actions, costs, charges, liabilities, losses, damages and expenses which they may suffer or sustain in connection with any matter in respect of which it may be lawful to insure, including (without limitation) any breach by the Directors (and/or other officers and/or other persons) or any of them of their duties to the Company.
UNTRACEABLE SHAREHOLDERS
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Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under Bye-law 155 and the provisions of Bye-law 180, the Company may cease sending such 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.
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The Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner as the Board thinks fit, any shares of a shareholder who is untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless:–
Company cease sending dividend warrants etc.
Company may sell shares of untraceable shareholders
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(i) all cheques or warrants, 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 these Bye-laws have remained uncashed;
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(ii) 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 shareholder who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law;
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(iii) the Company has caused an advertisement to be inserted in the Newspapers of its intention to sell such shares and a period of three months has elapsed since the date of such advertisement; and
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(iv) the Company has notified the stock exchange in the Relevant Territory of its intention to effect such sale.
For the purpose of the foregoing, “relevant period” means the period commencing twelve years before the date of publication of the advertisement referred to in paragraph (iii) of this Bye-law and ending at the expiry of the period referred to in that paragraph.
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APPENDIX III
To give effect to any such sale, the Board may authorise any person to transfer the said shares and the 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 proceeds it shall become indebted to the former shareholder for an amount equal to such net proceeds. No trusts shall be created in respect of such debt and no interest shall be payable in respect of it and the Company shall not be required to account for any money earned from the net proceeds which may be employed in the business of the Company or as it thinks fit. Any sale under this Bye-law shall be valid and effective notwithstanding that the shareholder holding the shares sold is dead, bankrupt or otherwise under any legal disability or incapacity.
DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS
- Subject to the Companies Act, the Company may destroy:–
Destruction of documents
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(i) any share certificate which has been cancelled at any time after the expiry of one year from the date of such cancellation;
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(ii) any dividend mandate or any variation or cancellation thereof or any notification of change of name or address at any time after the expiry of two years from the date on which such mandate, variation, cancellation or notification was recorded by the Company;
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(iii) any instrument of transfer of shares which has been registered at any time after the expiry of six years from the date of registration; and
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(iv) any other document, on the basis of which any entry in the Register is made, at any time after the expiry of six years from the date on which an entry in the register was first made in respect of it;
and it shall conclusively be presumed in favour of the Company that every share certificate so destroyed was a valid certificate duly and properly cancelled and that every instrument of transfer so destroyed was a valid and effective instrument duly and properly registered and that every other document destroyed hereunder was a valid and effective document in accordance with the recorded particulars thereof in the books or records of the Company. Provided always that:–
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(a) 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;
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(b) 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 (i) above are not fulfilled; and
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(c) references in this Bye-law to the destruction of any document include reference to its disposal in any manner.
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APPENDIX III
RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE
- Pursuant to the provisions of the Statutes, the Board shall, for so long as the Company does not have a quorum of Directors ordinarily resident in Bermuda, appoint a Resident Representative as defined in the Statutes, to act on its behalf in Bermuda and to maintain all such records as may be required by the Statutes to be maintained in Bermuda and to make all necessary filings with the Ministry of Finance and Registrar of Companies in Bermuda as may be required by the Statutes and to fix his or their or its remuneration either by way of salary or fee for the period of the Resident Representative’s service to the Company.
Resident Representative
MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS
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The Company shall keep at the office of its Resident Representative, in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes, the following:–
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Maintenance of records
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(ii) all financial statements required to be prepared by the Company under the Companies Act together with the Auditors’ report thereon;
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(iii) all records of account required by section 83 of the Companies Act to be kept in Bermuda; and
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(iv) all such documents as may be required in order to provide evidence of the continued listing of the Company on an appointed stock exchange within the meaning of the Companies Act.
SUBSCRIPTION RIGHT RESERVE
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(A) Subject to the Statutes and Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters ) if, so long as any of the rights attaching to any warrants issued by the Company to subscribe for shares of the Company shall remain exercisable, the Company does any act or engages in any transaction which, as a result of any adjustments to the subscription price in accordance with the provisions applicable under the terms and conditions of the warrants, would reduce the subscription price to below the par value of a share, then the following provisions shall apply:–
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Subscription right reserve
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(i) 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 Right Reserve”) the amount of which shall at no time be less than the sum which for the time being would be required to be capitalised and applied in paying up in full the nominal amount of the additional shares required to be issued and allotted credited as fully paid pursuant to sub-paragraph (iii) below on the exercise in full of all the subscription rights outstanding and shall apply the Subscription Right Reserve in paying up in full such difference in respect of such additional shares as and when the same are allotted;
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(ii) the Subscription Right Reserve shall not be used for any purpose other than that specified above unless all other reserves of the Company (other than the share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund) have been used and will only be used to make good losses of the Company if and so far as is required by law;
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(iii) upon the exercise of all or any of the subscription rights represented by any warrant, the relevant subscription rights shall be exercisable in respect of a nominal amount of shares equal to the amount in cash which the holder of such warrant is required to pay on exercise of the subscription rights represented thereby (or, as the case may be the relevant portion thereof in the event of a partial exercise of the subscription rights) and, in addition, there shall be allotted in respect of such subscription rights to the exercising warrantholder, credited as fully paid, such additional nominal amount of shares as is equal to the difference between:–
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(a) 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
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(b) 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 Right Reserve as is required to pay up in full such additional nominal amount of shares shall be capitalised and applied in paying up in full such additional nominal amount of shares which shall forthwith be allotted credited as fully paid to the exercising warrantholder; and
- (iv) if upon the exercise of the subscription rights represented by any warrant the amount standing to the credit of the Subscription Right Reserve is not sufficient to pay up in full such additional nominal amount of shares equal to such 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, contributed surplus account, share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund) for such purpose until such additional nominal amount of shares is paid up and allotted as aforesaid and until then no dividend or other distribution shall be paid or made on the fully paid shares of the Company then in issue. Pending such payment up and allotment, the exercising warrantholder shall be issued by the Company with a certificate evidencing his right to the allotment of such additional nominal amount of shares.The rights represented by any such certificate shall be in registered form and shall be transferable in whole or in part in units of one share in the like manner as the shares for the time being are transferable, and the Company shall make such arrangements in relation to the maintenance of a register therefor and other matters in relation thereto as the Board may think fit and adequate particulars thereof shall be made known to each relevant exercising warrantholder upon the issue of such certificate.
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(B) 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 (A) of this Bye-law, no fraction of any share shall be allotted on exercise of the subscription rights.
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(C) The provisions of this Bye-law as to the establishment and maintenance of the Subscription Right Reserve shall not be altered or added to in any way which would vary or abrogate, or which would have the effect of varying or abrogating, the provisions for the benefit of any warrantholder or class of warrantholders under this Bye-law without the sanction of a Special Resolution of such warrantholders or class of warrantholders.
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(D) A certificate or report by the Auditors for the time being of the Company as to whether or not the Subscription Right Reserve is required to be established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription Right Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrantholders credited as fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Right Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding upon the Company and all warrantholders and shareholders.
RECORD DATES
- Notwithstanding any other provision of these Bye-laws the Company or the Board may fix any date as the record date for any dividend, distribution, allotment or issue and such record date may be on or at any time before or after any date on which such dividend, distribution, allotment or issue is declared, paid or made.
STOCK
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The following provisions shall have effect at any time and from time to time that they are not prohibited or inconsistent with the Statutes or these Bye-Laws (including, without limitation, Bye-law 122A and Schedule 1 ( Board Reserved Matters )):
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(i) The Company may by Ordinary Resolution convert any paid up shares into stock, and may from time to time by like resolution reconvert any stock into paid up shares of any denomination.
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(ii) The holders of stock may transfer the same or any part thereof in the same manner, and subject to the same regulations as and subject to which the shares from which the stock arose might prior to conversion have been transferred or as near thereto as circumstances admit, but the Directors may from time to time, if they think fit, fix the minimum amount of stock transferable and restrict or forbid the transfer of fractions of that minimum, but so that such minimum shall not exceed the nominal amount of the shares from which the stock arose. No warrants to bearer shall be issued in respect of any stock.
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(iii) The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of the stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges and advantages as regards dividends, participation in assets on a winding up, voting at meetings, and other matters, as if they held the shares from which the stock arose, but no such privilege or advantage (except participation in the dividends and profits of the Company) shall be conferred by an amount of stock which would not, if existing in shares, have conferred such privilege or advantage.
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(iv) Such of the provisions of these Bye-laws as are applicable to paid up shares shall apply to stock, and the words “share” and “shareholder” therein shall include “stock” and “stockholder”.
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APPENDIX III
Schedule 1
Board Reserved Matters
(Bye-law 122A)
The following matters require the agreement or approval of a Board Super Majority in accordance with Bye-law 122A ( Board Reserved Matters ):
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Any acquisition by the Company or any Group Company (whether in a single transaction or series of related transactions) of:
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1.1 any undertaking, business, company or securities of a company; or
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1.2 any assets or property,
in each case where the total consideration paid is in excess of HK$3,000,000,000.
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Any change to the issued share capital, or the creation or issue of any shares (under any general or specific mandate), or of any other security convertible into shares, of the Company or the grant of any option (including options to be granted under approved employee share option scheme(s) of the Company) or rights to subscribe for or to convert any instrument into such shares, except where shares are issued pursuant to exercise by option holders of the options:
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2.1 already granted to them by the Board under approved employee share option scheme(s) of the Company prior to the date of adoption of these Bye-laws by shareholders of the Company; or
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2.2 granted to them by the Board under approved employee share option scheme(s) of the Company subsequent to the date of adoption of these Bye-laws by shareholders of the Company and such grant of options has been approved by a Board Super Majority in accordance with Bye-law 122A (Board Reserved Matters).
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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(Incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and continued into Bermuda as an exempted company with limited liability)
Stock Code 636
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the annual general meeting (the “Annual General Meeting”) of Kerry Logistics Network Limited (the “Company”) will be held via the e-Meeting System on Monday, 23 May 2022 at 2:30 p.m. for the following purposes:
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To receive and consider the audited financial statements of the Company and the reports of the directors and the auditor for the year ended 31 December 2021.
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To declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2021.
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To re-elect Mr WANG Wei as a non-executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Mr CHEUNG Ping Chuen Vicky as an executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Mr CHAN Fei as a non-executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Mr HO Chit as a non-executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Ms CHEN Keren as a non-executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Dr CHEUNG Wai Man as an independent non-executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Mr LAI Sau Cheong Simon as an independent non-executive director of the Company.
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To re-elect Mr TAN Chuen Yan Paul as an independent non-executive director of the Company.
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To authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix the remuneration of the directors.
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To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor of the Company and authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix its remuneration.
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
- To consider as special business, and if thought fit, pass the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions with or without amendments:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
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A. THAT :
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(a) subject to paragraph (c) below and in substitution for all previous authorities, the exercise by the directors of the Company (the “Directors”) during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the share capital of the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements, options and other rights, or issue warrants and other securities including bonds, debentures and notes convertible into shares of the Company, which would or might require the exercise of such powers, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
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(b) the approval in paragraph (a) above shall authorise the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period to make or grant offers, agreements, options and other rights, or issue warrants and other securities, which would or might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;
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(c) the aggregate number of shares allotted or to be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors of the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to or in consequence of:
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(i) a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined); or
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(ii) the exercise of any option under any share option scheme or similar arrangement for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to option holders of shares in the Company; or
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(iii) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares of the Company in accordance with the bye-laws of the Company (the “Bye-laws”); or
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(iv) any adjustment, after the date of grant or issue of any options, rights to subscribe or other securities referred to above, in the price at which shares in the Company shall be subscribed, and/or in the number of shares in the Company which shall be subscribed, on exercise of relevant rights under such options, warrants or other securities, such adjustment being made in accordance with, or as contemplated by, the terms of such options, rights to subscribe or other securities; or
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(v) a specified authority granted by the shareholders of the Company (the “Shareholders”) in general meeting, shall not exceed the aggregate of:
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(aa) 10 per cent. of the number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this Resolution; and that this Resolution shall be limited by the applicable rules and requirements of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) as amended from time to time, including the restrictions for using the general mandate for the issuance and allotment of shares of the Company to issue (i) securities convertible into new shares of the Company for cash consideration, if the initial conversion price of such convertible securities is lower than the Benchmarked Price (as hereinafter defined) of the shares of the Company at the time of the relevant placing; and (ii) warrants, options or similar rights to subscribe for new shares of the Company or securities convertible into new shares for cash consideration; and
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(bb) (if the Directors of the Company are so authorised by a separate ordinary resolution of the Shareholders) the number of issued shares of the Company repurchased by the Company subsequent to the passing of this Resolution (up to a maximum equivalent to 10 per cent. of the number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this Resolution),
and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and
- (d) for the purposes of this Resolution:
“Benchmarked Price” means the higher of (a) the closing price on the date of the relevant placing agreement or other agreement involving the proposed issue of securities under the general mandate to be approved under this Resolution; and (b) the average closing price in the 5 trading days immediately prior to the earlier of: (i) the date of announcement of the placing or the proposed transaction or arrangement involving the proposed issue of securities under the general mandate to be approved under this Resolution; (ii) the date of the placing agreement or other agreement involving the proposed issue of securities under the general mandate to be approved under this Resolution; and (iii) the date on which the placing or subscription price is fixed.
“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
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(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
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(ii) the expiry of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Bye-laws of the Company or any other applicable laws of Bermuda to be held; or
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- (iii) the revocation, variation or renewal of this Resolution by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders in general meeting.
“Rights Issue” means an offer of shares in the Company, or an offer of warrants, options or other securities giving rights to subscribe for shares, open for a period fixed by the Directors of the Company to holders of shares in the Company on the registers of members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares (subject in all cases to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory outside Hong Kong).
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B. THAT :
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(a) subject to paragraph (b) below, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all powers of the Company to repurchase its own shares on the Stock Exchange or on any other stock exchange on which the shares of the Company may be listed and recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
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(b) the number of issued shares of the Company to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to paragraph (a) above during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10 per cent. of the number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this Resolution and the authority pursuant to paragraph (a) above shall be limited accordingly; and
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(c) for the purposes of this Resolution:
“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
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(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
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(ii) the expiry of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Bye-laws of the Company or any other applicable laws of Bermuda to be held; or
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(iii) the revocation, variation or renewal of this Resolution by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders in general meeting.
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C. THAT , conditional upon the passing of Resolution No. 13B, the general mandate granted to the Directors of the Company (pursuant to Resolution No. 13A or otherwise) and for the time being in force to exercise the powers of the Company to allot shares be and is hereby extended by the addition to the number of shares which may be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted by the Directors of the Company pursuant to such general mandate of an amount representing the number of issued shares of the Company repurchased by the Company under the authority granted by the resolution set out as Resolution No. 13B.
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To consider as special business, and if thought fit, pass the following resolution as special resolution with or without amendments:
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
THAT the amended and restated bye-laws of the Company (the “Bye-laws”, a copy of the document marked “A” and initialled by the chairman of the Annual General Meeting for the purpose of identification is produced to the Annual General Meeting) be and are hereby approved and adopted as the Bye-laws in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the existing Bye-laws.
By Order of the Board LEE Pui Nee Company Secretary
Hong Kong, 28 April 2022
Corporate Headquarters and
Principal Place of Business in Hong Kong:
16/F, Kerry Cargo Centre 55 Wing Kei Road Kwai Chung New Territories Hong Kong
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Notes:
- Registered Shareholders are requested to provide a valid email address of himself/herself or his/her proxy (except for the appointment of the chairman of the Annual General Meeting) for the proxy to receive the log-in username and password to participate online in the e-Meeting System.
All registered Shareholders will be able to join the Annual General Meeting via the e-Meeting System. The e-Meeting System can be accessed from any location with access to the internet via smartphone, tablet device or computer. All non-registered Shareholders may consult directly with their banks, brokers, custodians or Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (as the case may be) for necessary arrangement to attend and vote via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting if they wish.
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Every member entitled to attend and vote via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting (or at any adjournment thereof) is entitled to appoint up to two individuals as his proxies. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. The number of proxies appointed by a clearing house (or its nominee) is not subject to the aforesaid limitation.
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Where there are joint holders of any share, only ONE PAIR of log-in username and password for the e-Meeting System will be provided to the joint holders. Any one of such joint holders may attend or vote in respect of such share(s) as if he/she was solely entitled thereto.
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To be valid, a form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed (or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority), must be deposited at the Company’s Hong Kong branch share registrar and transfer office, Tricor Investor Services Limited, at Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong, not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the Annual General Meeting, i.e. by no later than 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, 21 May 2022. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude a member from attending the Annual General Meeting and voting via the e-Meeting System if he so wishes.
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The registers of members of the Company (the “Registers of Members”) will be closed from Wednesday, 18 May 2022 to Monday, 23 May 2022, during which period no transfer of shares will be effected. In order to be entitled to attend and vote via the e-Meeting System at the Annual General Meeting, all transfers accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged for registration with Tricor Investor Services Limited at the above address before 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 May 2022.
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The Registers of Members will also be closed on Friday, 27 May 2022 and no transfer of shares will be effected on that date. In order to qualify for the proposed final dividend, all transfers accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged for registration with Tricor Investor Services Limited at the above address before 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, 26 May 2022.
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All the resolutions set out in this notice shall be decided by poll.
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If Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above is expected to be hoisted or a Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is expected to be in force any time after 6:00 a.m. on the date of the Annual General Meeting, then the Annual General Meeting will be postponed and the Shareholders will be informed of the date, time and venue of the rescheduled meeting by a supplementary notice posted on the websites of the Company and the Stock Exchange.
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The Annual General Meeting will be held as scheduled when an Amber or Red Rainstorm Warning Signal is in force.
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