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YGG AGM Information 2018

Jul 18, 2018

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Stock Code: 1589

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Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技集團有限公司

Meeting Agenda for the 2018 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Meeting Time: 9:00 a.m. on Thusday, June 5, 2018 Meeting Place: No.777, Daguan Rd., Dayuan Dist., Taoyuan City, Taiwan (Taoyuan Hall on the Second floor of Hotel Orchard Park)

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Table of Contents

I. Meeting Procedure ..........................................................................
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II. Meeting Agenda ...............................................................................
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1. Reporting Matters ..................................................................................... 4
2. Recognition Matters .................................................................................. 6
3. Matters for Discussion ............................................................................... 7
4. Election ..................................................................................................... 8
5. Other Matters............................................................................................. 8
6. Ad Hoc Motions ......................................................................................... 8
7. Adjournment .............................................................................................. 8
**III. ** Exhibits .............................................................................................
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Exhibit 1: Business Report for Fiscal Year 2017 ........................................ 9
Exhibit 2: Audit Committee’s Review Report for Fiscal Year 2017 ......... 11
Exhibit 3: Status of the Company’s 1st & 2nd Issuance of Domestic
Unsecured Convertible Bonds for Fiscal Year 2017 ................. 12
Exhibit 4: Independent Auditors’ Report and Consolidated Financial
Statements .................................................................................... 13
Exhibit 5: Profit Distribution Table for Fiscal Year 2017 .......................... 22
Exhibit 6: Revised “Article of Association” and Comparison table ......... 23
**IV. ** Appendices ....................................................................................... 75
Appendix 1: Rules of Procedure for Shareholders Meetings .................. 75
Appendix 2: Articles of Association ........................................................... 83
Appendix 3:
Procedures for Election of Directors ...................................
123
Appendix 4: Table of Shareholding of All Directors ................................ 126
Appendix 5: The Impact of Stock Dividend Issuance on Business
Performance, EPS, and Shareholder Return Rate ............ 127

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I. Meeting Procedure

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited

永冠能源科技集團有限公司

Procedure for the 2018 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

  1. Call the Meeting to Order

  2. Chairman Remarks

  3. Reporting Matters

  4. Recognition Matters

  5. Matters for Discussion

  6. Election

  7. Other Matters

  8. Ad Hoc Motions

  9. Adjournment

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II. Meeting Agenda

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技集團有限公司

Year 2018

Agenda of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Time: 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 5[th] , 2018 Place: No.777, Daguan Rd., Dayuan Dist., Taoyuan City, Taiwan

(Taoyuan Hall on the Second floor of Hotel Orchard Park)

  1. Call the Meeting to Order

  2. Chairman Remarks

  3. Reporting Matters

  4. (1) Business Report for Fiscal Year 2017

  5. (2) Audit Committee’s Review Report for Fiscal Year 2017

  6. (3) Report of Distribution Plan of Compensation for the director and employees for Fiscal Year 2017

  7. (4) Status of the Company’s 1[st] and 2[nd] Issuance of Domestic Unsecured Convertible Bonds for Fiscal Year 2017

  8. (5) Report on Treasury Shares Buyback

  9. Recognition Matters

  10. (1) Ratification of the Business Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for Fiscal Year 2017

  11. (2) Ratification of the Proposal for Distribution of Profits for Fiscal Year 2017

  12. Matters for Discussion

  13. (1) Proposal to amend the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company (to be resolved by special resolution).

  14. Election

  15. (1) Proposal for the election of one Director

  16. Other Matters

  17. (1) Proposal for release the new elected Director from non-competition (to be resolved by supermajority resolution)

  18. Ad Hoc Motions

  19. Adjournment

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1. Reporting Matters

Report No. 1:

Business Report for Fiscal Year 2017

Explanation:

The Business Report for Fiscal Year 2017 is attached hereto as Exhibit 1. Please refer to page 9.

Report No. 2

Audit Committee’s Review Report for Fiscal Year 2017

Explanation:

  1. The Audit Committee has examined and approved the 2017 financial statements.

  2. The Audit Committee’s Review Report for Fiscal Year 2017 is attached hereto as Exhibit 2. Please refer to page10

Report No. 3

Report of Distribution Plan of Compensation for the director and employees as compensation for Fiscal Year 2017

Explanation:

  1. According to the Articles of Association of the Company, the Company shall set aside between two per cent (2%) and fifteen per cent (15%) of the surplus profit as compensation to employees (including the employees of the Company's subsidiaries, who meet certain qualifications) and shall set aside no more than three per cent (3%) of the surplus profit as remuneration for the directors.

  2. The Company's 2017 net profit before tax is NTD$270,473,797. Pursuant to the relevant laws and the Articles of Association of the Company, 6.24% net profit before tax (i.e., NT$ 18,000,000) will be set aside as compensation to employees and will be distributed in cash.

  3. The Company will not distribute any director's remuneration for Fiscal Year 2017.

Report No. 4:

Status of the Company’s 1st and 2nd Issuance of Domestic Unsecured Convertible Bonds for Fiscal Year 2017

Explanation:

  1. In order to repay bank loans and enrich the working capital, the Company issued the First Domestic Unsecured Convertible Bonds in Taiwan in June 3, 2014 and such project has been completed.

  2. For the need of future business development, construction of the factory, purchase of machines and equipment and increase in the working capital, the Company

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issued the Second Domestic Unsecured Convertible Bonds in Taiwan in August 18, 2015 and such project is still ongoing

  1. The Status of the Company’s 1[st] and 2[nd] Issue of Domestic Unsecured Convertible Bonds for Fiscal Year 2016 is attached hereto as Exhibit 3. Please refer to pages 11~12.

Report No. 5:

Report on Treasury Shares Buyback Explanation:

  1. This report is made pursuant to Article 28-2 of “Securities & Exchange Act” and “Regulations Governing Share Repurchase by Exchange-Listed and OTC-Listed Companies.”

  2. Status of the relevant shares buyback is summarized as follows:

Time of Buyback First Time to buyback the Company's Share
Purpose of Buyback To maintain credit of the Company and
interest of the shareholders
Period of Buyback January10,2018 to March 9,2018
Price Interval of Buyback 45.85~99.44
Type & Number of Buyback Shares Common Shares / 7,200,000 Shares
Total Amount for Shares Already Bought
Back
549,584,268
Average Per Share's Buyback Price 76.33
Reason for Uncompleted Execution N/A
Number of Shares Already Cancelled and
Transferred
7,200,000 Shares
Percentage of Total Shares Held by the
Company to Total Issued Shares of the
Company (%)
-

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2. Recognition Matters

Proposal No. 1: Proposed by the Board of Directors

  • Ratification of the Business Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for Fiscal Year 2017

Explanation:

  1. The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements for the Fiscal Year 2017 have been certified and audited by certified public accountants (CPAs), Chen,Chih Yuan and Chang,Ching Jen of Deloitte & Touche, approved by the Board of Directors on March 8, 2018, and examined and approved by the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee has issued its Audit's Review Report.

  2. The Business Report for the Fiscal Year 2017, CPAs’ Audit Report, and Consolidated Financial Statements are attached hereto as Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 4. Please refer to page 9 (Exhibit 1) and pages 13~24 (Exhibit 4).

  3. Resolution:

Proposal No. 2: Proposed by the Board of Directors Ratification of the Proposal for Distribution of Profits for Fiscal Year 2017 Explanation:

  1. The Company's 2017 net profit after tax is NTD$270,473,797. The Company set aside statutory reserve of NTD$27,047,380 (10% of the net profit) in accordance with the applicable law and the Articles of Association of the Company, and special reserve in the amount of NT$218,680,892. Together with the increase on the retained earnings due to the investment adjustment for the investment used the equity method and the undistributed earnings of NT$1,535,491,766 at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2017, the total distributable earnings is NT$1,542,485,177.

  2. It is proposed to set aside NTD$171,186,779 from the distributable net profit of 2017 to distribute NTD$1.5 per share to shareholders as cash dividend. The distribution of cash dividend will be calculated by the method of “rounding down the digits below dollar”, and the amount of less than one dollar will be counted as the other income of the Company. After the ratification of this proposal in the Annual General Meeting, it is proposed that the Board is authorized with full power to take any actions that may be required in connection with the related issues of dividend distribution.

  3. It is proposed to authorize the Board of Directors of the Company to set the record date, distribution date and to handle other relevant matters after the proposal is approved in the Annual General Meeting. It is further proposed to authorise the Chairman with full power to handle relevant matters if the distribution ratio needs to be adjusted due to purchase of the Company's shares by the Company, transfer, cancellation of the treasury shares, conversion of convertible bonds, or exercise of employee stock options.

  4. Profit Distribution Table for Fiscal Year 2017 is attached hereto as Exhibit 5. Please refer to page 25.

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3. Matter for Discussion

  • Proposal No. 1: Proposed by the Board of Directors Proposal for the amendment of the Articles of Association of the Company.

  • Explanation:

  • Due to the amendments to the Shareholders Rights Protection Checklist announced by the Taiwan Stock Exchange on September 19, 2017 (Tai-Zheng-Shang-Er-Zi No. 1061732511), it is proposed to the current Articles of Association be amended by replacing in its entirety with the revised Articles of Association.

  • The revised Articles of Association and the comparison table for the amendments are attached hereto as Appendix 6. Please refer to pages 49~124.

  • It is proposed that the Registered Office of the Company be and is hereby authorised and instructed to arrange for the requisite filing to be done at the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands.

  • This proposed shall be resolved by special resolution. Resolution:

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4. Election

Proposal No. 1: Proposed by the Board of Directors

Proposal for the election of one Director Explanation:

  1. 11 directors (the fifth term of the board of the director of the Company) were elected in the 2016 annual shareholders meeting.

  2. Due to one director's resignation and the Company’s business needs, it is proposed that the Company elect one director with the term from the election date to the date on which the directors of next term are elected.

Election Result:

5. Other Matters

Proposal No. 1: Proposed by the Board of Directors

Proposal for release the new elected Director from non-competition

Explanation:

  1. The Articles of Association of the Company provides that "a Director who is engaged in anything on his own account or on behalf of another person, which is within the scope of the Company's business, shall explain to the Members in a general meeting the essential contents of such conduct and seek their approval by supermajority resolution".

  2. Considering the business need, it is proposed that the newly-elected director is released from such non-competition restriction.

  3. This proposed shall be resolved by supermajority resolution.

  4. Resolution:

6. Ad Hoc Motions

7. Adjournment

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III. Exhibits

Exhibit 1: 2017 Business Report

Business Report

  1. Operating Performance in 2017

  2. (1) Implementation of Business Plan:

Yeong Guan Group’s 2017 consolidate revenue is NT$6.404 billion, 13.2% lower than that in 2016. Output volume was 145,623 tons 3.5% lower than that in 2016. With respect to the profit, gross profit ratio and operating net profit ratio are 22% and 4% respectively, which, compared with that in 2016 (33% and 16%), declined 11% and 12% respectively. The major reasons of the decrease in gross profit ratio and operating net profit ratio are lower demand in energy products and the increase of the Company’s operation costs and expenses resulting from raw material price increase, human power cost increase, and compliance and implementation of environmental, occupational health and industry safety policies in China. Consolidated after-tax net profit for this year is NT$270,474,000, NT$737,824 lower than that in 2016. Earnings per share is NT$2.28, NT$6.22 lower than that in 2016.

  • (2) Analysis of revenues, expenditures and profitability: Please refer to the Consolidated Comprehensive Income Statements.

  • (3) Research and Development Status:

The 2017 R&D expenditure accounted for 2.54% of net operating revenue. The Company will continue on research and improvement of production process to shorten the development time of the new product, decrease the defect loss and gradually improve the ability and technology of new products development.

  1. 2017 Business Plan Summary:

Yeong Guan is a primary casting supplier of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbine, injection molding machine, and industrial machinery. The Company owns advanced process technology and high-tech metallurgical and engineering technology. The Company provides high quality products and always deliver the products with the customers' request time, and therefore, is highly recognized and relied upon by customers. The core competitive of the Company is the production scale larger than the competitors in the same industries, meticulous casting technology, and vertical integration capabilities. The Company is also devoted itself to pursue a better growth on both revenue and profit than the competitors and the whole industries.

Estimated output target for 2018 is 140 thousand ~160 thousand tons. With respect to production capacity expansion, Shanghai No.1 Machine Tool Foundry Co., Ltd. has already started small amount production in 2017. A new round of labor recruitment will be conducted in the first quarter of 2018 in

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order to increase production capacity. On the other hand, Jiangshu Bright Steel Fine Machinery Co., Ltd. has already completed expansion of the factory and will start production in the first half of 2018 in order to mitigate the short of production capacity within the group. Furthermore, Taichung Harbor factory plan has already completed the execution of the contract, and has already started the factory building related matters.

Considering the growth trend of industry high-end product in the future, this group will continue to expand the source of customers, enter into new product market and develop new manufacturing equipment and enhance competitiveness. Furthermore, this group will make the best of the long-term trend in increasing percentage of contracted manufacturing in the spheroidal graphite cast iron industry to establish a leading position and pursue stable profit growth in such industry the market structure of which is still decentralized.

Chairman: General Manager: Chief Accountant:

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Exhibit 2: 2017 Audit Committee’s Review Report

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited

永冠能源科技集團有限公司

Audit Report of the Audit Committee

To: Annual General Meeting for Year 2018

The Board of Directors has prepared and submitted to the Audit Committee the Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements and

Profits Distribution proposal. The above Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements and Profits Distribution proposal have been

examined and determined to be correct and accurate. This Report is duly submitted in accordance with applicable laws.

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技 集團有限公司

The Convener of the Audit Committee:

March 8, 2018

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Exhibit 3: The Status of the Company’s 1st & 2nd Issue of Domestic Unsecured Convertible Bonds in Taiwan for Fiscal Year of 2017

Current Status of Com an Bonds p y

Current Current **Status of Company ** Bonds
Type of Corporate Bond 1stIssue of DomesticUnsecured Convertible
Bonds
2ndIssue of Domestic Unsecured Convertible
Bonds
Issue(offer)Date June 3,2014 August 18,2015
Denomination NTD$100,000 each NTD$100,000 each
Issuingand Traction Place Taipei Exchange Taipei Exchange
IssuingPrice fullyissued atparprice fullyissued atparprice
Total Amount NTD$1,500,000,000 NTD$2,500,000,000
Interest Rate 0% 0%
Deadline 5-yearperiod;Due Date: June 3,2019 5-yearperiod;Due Date: August 18,2020
Guarantee Agency None None
Trustee Trusts Department of Land Bank of Taiwan Trusts Department of Land Bank of Taiwan
Underwriter KGI Securities Co. LTD. KGI Securities Co. LTD.
Certified Lawyer Attorney Tian-Hsiang Song from Lee an Li
Attorneys-At-Law
Attorney Ya-Hsien Wang from Lee an Li
Attorneys-At-Law
Certified Accountant Deloitte Touche
Accountants Dong-fongLee and Zhe-li Gong
Deloitte Touche
Accountants Dong-fongLee and Zhe-li Gong
Payback method Except for redemption by the company or the
exercise of put option or conversion by the
bondholders , the sum to be repaid at maturity
will include the face amount of the bonds plus
coupon payment at 105.10% of the par value
(annual yield is about 1%) in a one-off cash
payment.
Except for redemption by the company or or
the exercise of put option or conversion by the
bondholders, the sum to be repaid at maturity
will include the face amount of the bonds plus
coupon payment at 102.53.% of the par value
(annual yield is about 0.5%) in a one-off cash
payment.
OutstandingPrinciples NTD$2,100,000 NTD$2,500,000,000
Provisions of redemption and prepayment Please refer to the issuance and conversion
plan.
Please refer to the issuance and conversion
plan.
Restrictions None None
Credit rating agency, credit rating date, and
corporate bond rating results
None None
Other
rights
Converted (exchanged or
subscribed) common shares, global
depository receipts, or amount of
other securities.
As of April 7, 2018, a total of
NT$1,354,900,000 have been converted into
8,928,504 ordinary shares of a face value of
NT$10 each.
No conversion has occurred as of April 7,
2018.
Issuance and conversion (exchange
or subscription) procedures
Please refer to the market observation post
system for bond issuance information
Please refer to the market observation post
system for bond issuance information
Issuance and conversion, exchange and
subscription, possible dilution on stock equity and
impact on shareholder’s equity from issuance
conditions
According to the current conversion price of
NTD$137.2, if all bonds are converted to
common shares, 15,306 shares need to be
issued. The impact on shareholders’ equity is
limited so far.
According to the current conversion price of
NTD$199.9, if all bonds are converted to
common shares, 12,506,253 shares need to be
issued. The impact on shareholders’ equity is
limited so far.
Commissioned agency for exchanged object Not applicable Not applicable

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Exhibit 4: Independent Auditors’ Report and Consolidated Financial Statements

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT

TO THE MEMBERS OF YEONG GUAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.

Opinion

We have audited the accompanying financial report of Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries, which comprise the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31st, 2016 and 2017, and the consolidated income statement, table of consolidated statement of changes in equity, consolidated statement of cash-flows and notes to consolidated financial statement (including Explanation of Summarized Significant Accounting Policy) from January 1st to December 31st of 2016 and 2017.

In our opinion, all material aspects of aforementioned financial statements were compiled in accordance with Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers of R.O.C. as well as International Financial Reporting Standards (hereinafter referred to as “IRFSs”), International Accounting Standards (hereinafter referred to as “IAS”), interpretation from International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee and announcement made by Standing Interpretations Committee which are recognized and promulgated by the Financial Supervisory Commission. These statements can be utilized to appropriately describe consolidated financial status for Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries as of December 31st, 2016 and 2017, as well as consolidated financial performance and consolidated cash-flow from January 1st to December 31st for 2016 and 2017.

Basis for Opinion

We conducted our audits in accordance with the Regulations Governing Auditing and Attestation of Financial Statements by Certified Public Accountants and generally accepted auditing standards in the Republic of China. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries in accordance with the code of ethics for professional accountants, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with the code. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Key Audit Matters

Key Audit Matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ financial statements for 2017. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole and, in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.

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Explanation of key audit matters on 2017 consolidated financial statement for Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries is as follows:

Closing Date for Operating Income

Operating income for both Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries mainly comes from export. Sea freight must be utilized due to product characteristics. According to related guidelines on income recognition timing prescribed in International Accounting Standards #18, condition for income recognition can only be qualified when enterprises transfer ownership major risks and compensation to buyers. Please refer to note #4 of consolidated financial statement. As such, the most critical matter for this audit is to verify if year-end export income has already been recorded correctly in accordance with business income recognition timing point.

With respect to this most critical matter, accountant hereto considered Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ operating income recognition policy, assessed operating income related internal control design and implementation, selected samples of this implementation details from export income for verification and test, and checked audit procedure on transaction documents for the purpose of verifying if operating income has been recorded in correct timing point.

Accounting Judgments for Bad Debt Allowance

As described in note #8 of consolidated financial statement, for bad debt allowance, consideration of account receivable’s collectability is also needed in addition to assessment over bad debt allowance recognition policy drafted by the company. This part involves major accounting assessment and judgment. In the event that future actual cash flow is lower than expected one, it is possible to incur major impairment loss. Disclosure of related major accounting assessment and judgment explanation is described in note #4 and #5 of consolidated financial statement. With this, this is the key audit matter for this audit.

With respect to most critical matter, accountant hereto reviewed Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ bad debt allowance recognition policy, assessed design and implementation of account receivable assessment related internal control, tested management’s assessment on bad debt and materials utilized, tested collectability through subsequent collection documents, re-calculated bad debt allowance amount which was then compared with Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ recognized bad debt allowance. This is to verify if recognition has already been conducted as well as its adequacy in accordance with Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ bad debt allowance policy.

Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Consolidated Financial Statements

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free form material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

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In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is responsible for assessing Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Those charged with governance (including audit committee) are responsible for overseeing Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ financial reporting process.

Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements

Our Objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these consolidated financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with the auditing standards generally accepted in the Republic of China, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:

  1. Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

  2. Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ internal control.

Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by management.

  1. Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries to cease to continue as a going concern.

  2. Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the consolidated financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the consolidated financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

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  1. Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the entities or business activities within the group to express an opinion on the consolidated financial statements. We are responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the group audit. We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion.

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.

From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters for Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries’ 2017 consolidated financial statement. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.

Deloitte & Touche CPA Chen,Chih Yuan CPA Chang,Ching Jen

Financial Supervisory Commission Securities & Futures Committee, Executive Yuan Ministry of Finance Approval Document No. Approval Document No. Tai-Cai-Zheng-6-Tze Gin-Guan-Zheng-Shen-Tze No. 0920123784 No. 1060023872

March 8, 2018

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Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. & Subsidiaries Consolidated Balance Sheets Dec. 31, 2016 & 2017

Unit: in thousands of NTD

Code

1100
1110
1147
1150
1170
130X
1419
1479
11XX

1600
1760
1805
1840
1915
1985
1990
15XX
1XXX
Code


2100
2120
2150
2170
2219
2230
2321
2322
2399
21XX

2500
2530
2540
2570
2613
2670
25XX
2XXX

3110
3200
3310
3320
3350
3300
3410
31XX
36XX

3XXX
Asset
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash & cash equivalent(Notes 4 and 6)
Current financial assets at fair value through profit or loss(Notes 4, 5, 7 and 17)
Current investments in debt security with no active market(Notes 4 and 8)
Notes receivable(Notes 4 and 30)
Account receivables, net(Notes 4, 5, 9 and 30)
Inventories, net(Notes 4, 5 and 10)
Prepayments
Other current assets(Notes 4, 15, 23, 30 and 31)
Total Current Assets
NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Property, plant & equipment(Notes 4, 5, 12, 30 and 31)
Investment property, net(Notes 4, 13, 27 and 31)
Goodwill(Notes 4, 5 and 14)
Deferred income tax assets(Notes 4, 5 and 23)
Equipment prepayments
Long-term prepaid rents(Notes 4, 15 and 31)
Other non-current assets(Notes 4 and 30)
Total Non-Current Assets
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Short-term debts(Notes 16 and 31)
Current financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss(Notes 4, 5,7 and 17)
Notes payable(Note 13)
Accounts payable (Note 30)
Other accounts payable(Notes 19 and 30)
Current income tax liabilities(Notes 4, 5 and 23)
Exercise of Corporate Bond Payable Put Option Within One Year (Note 4 and 17)
Long term liabilities due within one year (Note 16 and 31)
Other current liabilities(Note 18)
Total Current Liabilities
NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES
Financial debts at fair value through profit and loss – non-current
(Notes 4, 5 , 7 and 17)
Bonds payable(Notes 4 and 17)
Long-term debts(Notes 16 and 31)
Deferred income tax debts(Notes 4, 5 and 23)
Rent payable-non-current(Note 18)
Other non-current liabilities
Total Non-Current Liabilities
TOTAL LIABILITIES
Shareholder’s Equity
Common stock capital
Additional paid-in capital
Retained earnings
Legal reserve
Special reserve
Unappropriated retained earnings
Total Retained Earnings
Other Shareholder’s Equity
Exchange difference on translation of foreign financial statements
The Company’s Total Shareholder’s Equity
Non-controlling interest
TOTAL SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY
TOTAL LIABILITIS & SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY
Dec.31,2017
Amount

$ 3,316,285
23
17,121
-
307,146
2
1,718,582
12
1,256,181
8
272,346
2
244,671

2
7,312,847
50
6,279,225
44
20,799
-
144,002
1
100,380
1
160,702
1
413,696
3
51,139

-
7,169,943
50
$ 14,482,790
100
$ 523,055
4
27,000
-
387,713
3
748,615
5
447,948
3
75,690
-
2,438,634
17
-
-
8,622

-
4,657,277
32
-
-
2,146
-
89,370
1
18,093
-
714
-
3

-
110,326

1
4,767,603
33
1,188,175

8
6,204,774
43
460,025
3
620,848
4
1,788,213
13
2,869,086
20
838,663)
(
6)
9,423,372
65
291,815

2
9,715,187
67
$ 14,482,790
100
Dec.31,2016
Amount

$ 4,240,818
28
8,386
-
278,886
2
1,907,569
13
1,261,237
8
246,282
2
184,588

1
8,127,766
54
5,700,681
38
27,405
-
145,208
1
72,066
-
561,335
4
380,547
3
37,381

-
6,924,623
46

$ 15,052,389
100
$ 521,950
3
2,190
-
369,993
2
728,110
5
528,177
4
93,153
1
145,360
1
96,780
1
60,309

-
2,546,022
17
20,500
-
2,392,775
16
-
-
14,046
-
735
-
3

-
2,428,059
16

4,974,081
33
1,188,175

8
6,204,774
41
359,195
2
8,214
-
2,635,112
18
3,002,521
20
621,320)
(
4)
9,774,150
65

304,158

2

10,078,308
67

$ 15,052,389
100
Amount
$ 3,316,285
17,121
307,146
1,718,582
1,256,181
272,346
244,671
7,312,847
6,279,225
20,799
144,002
100,380
160,702
413,696
51,139
7,169,943
$ 14,482,790
$ 523,055
27,000
387,713
748,615
447,948
75,690
2,438,634
-
8,622
4,657,277
-
2,146
89,370
18,093
714
3
110,326
4,767,603
1,188,175
6,204,774
460,025
620,848
1,788,213
2,869,086
838,663)
9,423,372
291,815
9,715,187
$ 14,482,790
Amount
$ 4,240,818

8,386
278,886
1,907,569

1,261,237
246,282
184,588

8,127,766

5,700,681

27,405
145,208
72,066
561,335
380,547
37,381

6,924,623

$ 15,052,389

$ 521,950
2,190
369,993
728,110
528,177
93,153
145,360
96,780
60,309

2,546,022

20,500
2,392,775

-
14,046
735
3

2,428,059

4,974,081

1,188,175

6,204,774

359,195
8,214
2,635,112

3,002,521

621,320)

9,774,150

304,158

10,078,308

$ 15,052,389
















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The accompanying notes constitute an integral part of this consolidated financial statement.

Chairman: Chang, Hsien-Ming General Manager: Chang, Hsien-Ming

Chief Accountant: Lin, Yu-Yi

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This is the English translation. In case of discrepancies between the Chinese Text and the English translation, the Chinese text shall prevail.

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Income Statement

for periods from January to December 30 of 2016 and 2017

Unit: In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Except Earnings Per Share

Code
4000
OPEARTING REVENUE (Notes 4 and 30)
5000
OPERATING COSTS
(Notes 4, 10, 22 and 30)
5900
OPERATING GROSS PROFIT
OPERATING EXPENSES(Note 22)
6100
Marketing expenses
6200
General & administrative expenses
6300
Research & development expenses
6000
Total Operating Expenses
6900
OPERATING NET PROFIT
NON-OPEARTING INCOME & EXPENSES
7100
Interest income
7110
Rent income(Note 30)
7190
Other income & losses(Note 4, 17 and 22)
7235
Financial product net profit (loss) at fair value through profit & loss
(Notes 4, 5, 7 and 17)
7630
Foreign currency exchange net profit(loss) (Notes 22 and 32)
7510
Interest expenses(Note 17)
7000
Total Non-Operating Income & Expenses
7900
Pretax net profit
7950
Income tax(Notes 4 and 22)
8200
Current net profit
Other Comprehensive Income
8361
Exchange Differences on Translation of Foreign Financial Statements
8500
Current Total Comprehensive Income
Net Profit Attributed to:
8610
Shareholders
8620
Non-Controlling Interest
8600
Comprehensive Income Attributed to:
8710
Shareholders
8720
Non-Controlling Interest
8700
Earnings Per Share(Note 23)
9750
Basic
9850
Diluted
2017
100
78
22
6
9
3
18
4
1
-
1
1

1 )
1)
1
5
1
4
3)
1
4
-
4
1
-
1
2016
100
67
33

7

8

2
17
16

-

-

1

-

2
(
1)

2
18

5
13
(12)

1
14

-
14

1

-

1
Amount
$ 6,404,342
4,972,143
1,432,199
406,421
567,153
163,176
1,136,750
295,449
64,938
656
77,749
25,461

54,013 )
68,473)
46,318
$ 341,767
83,843
257,924
217,094)
$ 40,830
$ 270,474
12,550)
$ 257,924
$ 53,131
12,301)
$ 40,830
$ 2.28
$ 2.27
Amount
$ 7,373,888
4,955,142

2,418,746

496,660
590,688
187,517

1,274,865

1,143,881

39,682
1,344
66,047

18,004 )
150,299
58,591)

180,777

$ 1,324,658
327,239

997,419
899,614)

$ 97,805

$ 1,008,298
10,879)

$ 997,419

$ 114,169
16,364)

$ 97,805

$ 8.50
$ 7.89






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The accompanying notes constitute an integral part of this consolidated financial statement. Chairman: Chang, Hsien-Ming General Manager: Chang, Hsien-Ming Chief Accountant: Lin, Yu-Yi

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This is the English translation. In case of discrepancies between the Chinese Text and the English translation, the Chinese text shall prevail.

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. and Subsidiaries Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for periods from January 1[s t] to December 31[s t] of 2017 & 2016

Unit: in thousands of NTD

EQUITY ATTRIBUTED TO SHAREHOLDERS (Notes 4, 17 and 21)

Code

A1
Balance, January 1st, 2016

Appropriation & distribution
Of 2015 earnings:
B1
Legal reserve
B5
Cash dividend

Sub-total

D1
2016 Net profit

D3
2016 Other consolidated income

D5
2016 Total consolidated income
I1
Convertible corporate bond
converted
O1
Non-controlling Interest change
Z1
Balance, Dec. 31, 2016

2016 Earnings appropriation and
distribution:
B1
Legal reserve
B3
Special reserve
B5
Cash dividend

Sub-total

D1
2017 Net profit

D3
2017 Other consolidated income

D5
2017 Total consolidated income
T1
Convertible corporate bond sold
back
O1
Controlling Interest change

Z1
Balance, Dec. 31, 2017
Common Share
$ 1,179,796

-

-


-

-

-


-


8,379


-

1,188,175

-
-

-


-

-

-


-


-


-

$ 1,188,175
Capital Surplus Capital Surplus Capital Surplus total
$ 6,091,651
-
-
-
-
-
-
113,123
-
6,204,774
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
$ 6,204,774
Retained Earnings Earnings TOTAL
$ 2,998,411

-
1,004,188)

1,004,188)

1,008,298
-

1,008,298

-

-

3,002,521

-
-

386,157)


386,157)

270,474
-

270,474

-


17,752)

$ 2,869,086
Exchange
Differences on
Translation of
Foreign
Financial
Statements
$ 272,809

-

-


-

-

(
894,129)

(
894,129)


-


-

(
621,320)

-
-

-


-

-
(
217,343)

(
217,343)


-


-

($ 838,663)
The Company’s
Total
Shareholder’s
Equity
$ 10,542,667
-
(1,004,188)
(1,004,188)
1,008,298
(
894,129)

114,169

121,502

-
9,774,150
-
-
(
386,157)
(
386,157)
270,474
(
217,343)

53,131

-
(
17,752)
$ 9,423,372
Non-Controlling
Interests
(Notes 4 & 21)
$ 111,775
-

-

-
(
10,879 )
(
5,485)
(
16,364)

-

208,747

304,158
-
-

-

-
(
12,550 )

249
(
12,301)

-
(
42)
$ 291,815
Total
Shareholder’s
Equity
Total
Shareholder’s
Equity
Additional
Paid-In Capital
$ 5,928,934
-

-

-
-

-

-

118,827

-
6,047,761
-
-

-

-
-

-

-

-

-
$ 6,047,761
Stock Option
$ 162,717

-
-

-

-
-

-


5,704)

-

157,013

-
-
-

-

-
-

-


6,562)

-

$ 150,451
Invalid
Stock Option
$ -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6,562
-
$ 6,562
Legal Reserve
$ 224,123
135,072

-

135,072
-

-

-

-

-

359,195
100,830
-

-

100,830
-

-

-

-

-
$ 460,025
Special Reserve
$ 8,214
-

-

-
-

-

-

-

-

8,214
-
612,634

-

612,634
-

-

-

-

-
$ 620,848
Retained
Earnings
$ 2,766,074

135,072 )
1,004,188)
1,139,260)
1,008,298
-
1,008,298
-
-
2,635,112

100,830 )

612,634 )

386,157)
1,099,621)
270,474
-
270,474
-

17,752)
$ 1,788,213

































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(
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$ 10,654,442
-
1,004,188)
1,004,188)
997,419

899,614)
97,805
121,502
208,747
10,078,308
-
-

386,157)

386,157)
257,924

217,094)
40,830
-

17,794)
$ 9,715,187

The accompanying notes constitute an integral part of this consolidated financial statement.

Chairman: Chang, Hsien-Ming

General Manager: Chang, Hsien-Ming Chief Accountant: Lin, Yu-Yi

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Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. & Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

For periods from January 1 to Dec. 31 of 2017 & 2016

Unit: in thousands of NTD

Codes
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
A10000
Pre-tax net profit
A20010
Income/Expense item not affecting cash flows
A20100
Depreciation expense
A20200
Amortization expense
A20300
Gain on reversal of bad debts
A20400
Financial instrument net profit at fair value through
profit and loss
A20900
Interest expense
A21200
Interest income
A22500
Net loss from disposal & abolishment of property,
factory and equipment
A22900
Net profit from disposal of subsidiary
A23800
Inventory devaluation & obsolescence loss (price
recovery gain)
A24100
Unrealized foreign currency exchange net profit
A24200
Loss from corporate bond payable sold back
A29900
Amortization of prepaid lease payment
A30000
Net change on operating assets and liabilities
A31130
Notes receivable
A31150
Account receivable
A31200
Inventory
A31230
Advance payments
A31240
Other current assets
A32110
Financial instrument at fair value through profit
and loss
A32130
Notes payable
A32150
Account payable
A32180
Other payables
A32230
Other Current Liabilities
A33000
Operating net cash inflows
A33300
Interest paid
A33500
Income tax paid
AAAA
Operating Activity Net Cash Inflows
2017
$ 341,767
491,223
8,583
6,826

10,635 )
68,473

64,938 )
10,200

584 )
40,128

1,685 )
2,944
10,588

33,307 )
143,014

58,912 )

30,782 )

60,666 )
6,196
24,668
34,407

58,954 )
50,208)
818,346

21,795 )
124,359)
672,192
2016

(
(
(
(
(
(
(
(
(
(
(
(



(


(

(

(

(

(
(
(

(
(

(
(
$ 1,324,658
467,847
5,617
3,087
14,304
58,591

39,682 )
2,773
-
31,371

7,427 )
-
9,037

20,058 )
134,324

56,449 )

90,654 )
96,426

2,971 )

33,419 )

60,464 )

54,285 )
8,010)
1,774,616

19,882 )
415,523)
1,339,211

(to be continued)

20

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(brought forward)

Codes
Investment Activity Cash Flows
B02300
Disposal of subsidiaries
B00600
Investments in Debt Securities with No
Active Market
B02200
Acquisition of subsidiaries
B02700
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
B02800
Disposal of property, plant and equipment
B04500
Payment for intangible assets
B06700
Increase in other non-current assets
B07100
Increase in equipment prepayments
B07300
Long term lease prepayments
B07500
Interests collected
BBBB
Investment Activity Net Cash Outflow
Financing Activity Cash Flows
C00100
Increase in short term loan
C00200
Decrease in short term loan
C01200
Issuance of Corporate Bond
C01600
Long term loan
C01700
Long term loan repayment
C03000
Increase in deposit received
C04500
Cash dividend
C05800
Non-controlling Interest change
CCCC
Financing Activity Net Cash Inflow (Outflow)
DDDD
Exchange rate change effects on cash & cash equivalents
EEEE
Cash & cash equivalents increase (decrease)
E00100
Cash & cash equivalents, beginning of the period
E00200
Cash & cash equivalents, end of the period
2017
$ 3,005

178,210 )
-

766,735 )
27,904

17,898 )

5,018 )
16,450

51,846 )
63,796
908,552)
12,679
-

147,333 )
88,229

93,668 )
-

386,157 )
17,794)
544,044)
144,129)

924,533 )
4,240,818
$ 3,316,285
from January 1 30,
2016
from January 1 30,
2016

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(
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(
(

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(
(
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(
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(
(

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(
(

$ -
-
935

326,794 )
24,296

12,142 )

767 )

594,237 )
11,056
40,532
857,121)
-

227,739 )
-
-

129,121 )
3

1,004,188 )
-
1,361,045)
288,036)

1,166,991 )
5,407,809
$ 4,240,818

The accompanying notes constitute an integral part of this consolidated financial statement.

Chairman: Chang, Hsien-Ming General Manager: Chang, Hsien-Ming Chief Accountant: Lin, Yu-Yi

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Exhibit 5: Profit Distribution Table for Year 2017

PROFIT DISTRIBUTION TABLE

Year 2017

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd.

Unit: NTD$

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd.
Unit: NTD$
Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd.
Unit: NTD$
Items
Beginning retained earnings
Plus: Net profit after tax
Minus:
Investment Adjustment to Retained Earnings under Equity Method
10% legal reserve
Special Reserve (Note)
Distributable profit for the period
Distributable items:
Cash dividend-NT$1.50 per share
End-of-yearUndistributed Earnings
Amount
1,535,491,766
270,473,797
(17,752,114)
(27,047,380)
(218,680,892)
1,542,485,177
171,186,779
1,371,298,398
Note:
Details for Special Reserve: Exchange Differences Calculated from Financial Statements for
Offshore Operation Institute

Chairman: General Manager: Chief Accountant:

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Exhibit 6Revised “Article of Association” and Comparison table

Comparison table for the amendments of “Artilce of Association”

Proposal for the Amendment Proposal for the Amendment Original Article Reason for
Amendments
1.1 In thesetenthAmended and
Restated Articles, the following
words and expressions shall,
where not inconsistent with the
context,
have
the
following
meanings, respectively:
Law
The Companies Law(Revised)
of the Cayman Islands and every
modification,
reenactment
or
revision thereof for the time
being in force;
1.1
In theseninthAmended and
Restated Articles, the following
words and expressions shall,
where not inconsistent with the
context,
have
the
following
meanings, respectively:
Law
The Companies Law of the
Cayman
Islands
and
every
modification,
reenactment
or
revision thereof for the time
being in force;
This Article is
amended due to
the change of
the version of
the Articles of
Association.
This definition
is amended due
to the change of
the version of
the Companies
Law
of
the
Cayman
Islands.
66. OTHERS
Shareholder
Protection
Mechanism
If the Company proposes to
undertake:
(a)
a merger or consolidation
which will result in the
Company being dissolved;
(b)
a
sale,
transfer
or
assignment of all of the
Company's
assets
and
businesses
to
another
entity;
(c)
a share exchange; or
(d)
a demerger (spin off),
which
would
result
in
the
termination of the Company's
listing on the TSE, and where (in
the case of (a) above) the
surviving entity, (in the case of
(b) above) the transferee, (in the
case of (c) above) the entity
whose shares has been allotted in
exchange for the Company's
shares and, (in the case of (d)
(New Article) This Article was
added pursuant
to the revised
Shareholders'
Rights
Protection
Checklist
published by the
Taiwan
Stock
Exchange
on
September
19,
2017.

23

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Proposal for the Amendment Proposal for the Amendment Original Article Reason for
Amendments
above) the existing or newly
incorporated spun-off company's
shares are not listed on the TSE
or the Taipei Exchange, then in
addition to any requirements to
be satisfied under the Law, such
action shall be first approved at a
general meeting by a resolution
passed by members holding
two-thirds or more of the votes of
the total number of issued shares
of the Company.

24

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Amended ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

TENTH AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技集團有限公司

(Adopted by a special resolution passed by the members of the company on [-], 2018)

25

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table A
INTERPRETATION
1. Definitions
SHARES
2. Power to Issue Shares
3. Redemption and Purchase
of Shares
4. Rights Attaching to Shares
5. Share Certificates
6. Preferred Shares
REGISTRATION OF
SHARES
7. Register of Members
8. Registered Holder Absolute
Owner
9. Transfer of Registered
Shares
10. Transmission of Shares
ALTERATION OF SHARE
CAPITAL
11. Power to Alter Capital
12. Variation of Rights
Attaching to Shares
DIVIDENDS AND
CAPITALISATION
13. Dividends
14. Capital Reserve and Power
to Set Aside Profits
15. Method of Payment
16. Capitalisation
MEETINGS OF MEMBERS
17. Annual General Meetings
18. Extraordinary General
Meetings
19. Notice
20. Giving Notice
21. Postponement of General
Meeting
22. Quorum and Proceedings at
General Meetings
23. Chairman to Preside
24. Voting on Resolutions
25. Proxies
26. Proxy Solicitation
27. Dissenting Member's
Appraisal Right
28. Shares that May Not be
Voted
29. Voting by Joint Holders of
Shares
30. Representation of Corporate
Member
31. Adjournment of General
Meeting
32. Directors Attendance at
General Meetings
DIRECTORS AND
OFFICERS
33. Number and Term of Office
of Directors
34. Election of Directors
35. Removal of Directors
36. Vacancy in the Office of
Director
37. Compensation of Director
38. Defect in Election of
Director
39. Directors to Manage
Business
40. Powers of the Board of
Directors
41. Register of Directors and
Officers
42. Officers
43. Appointment of Officers
44. Duties of Officers
45. Compensation of Officers
46. Conflicts of Interest
47. Indemnification and
Exculpation of Directors
and Officers
MEETINGS OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
48. Board Meetings
49. Notice of Board Meetings
50. Participation in Meetings
by Video Conference
51. Quorum at Board Meetings
52. Board to Continue in the
Event of Vacancy
53. Chairman to Preside
54. Validity of Prior Acts of the
Board
CORPORATE RECORDS
55. Minutes
56. Register of Mortgages and
Charges
57. Form and Use of Seal
TENDER OFFER AND
ACCOUNTS
58. Tender Offer
59. Books of Account
60. Financial Year End
AUDIT COMMITTEE
61. Number of Committee
Members
62. Powers of Audit Committee
VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP
AND DISSOLUTION
63. Winding-Up
CHANGES TO
CONSTITUION
64. Changes to Articles
65. Discontinuance
OTHERS
66. Shareholder Protection
Mechanism

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TENTH AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited

永冠能源科技集團有限公司

(Adopted by a special resolution passed by the members of the company on June [-], 2018)

Table A

The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Law (as defined below) do not apply to the Company.

INTERPRETATION

1. Definitions

  • 1.1 In these tenth Amended and Restated Articles, the following words and expressions shall, where not inconsistent with the context, have the following meanings, respectively:

Applicable Law

Applicable Public Company Rules

Articles

the Applicable Public Company Rules, the Law or such other rules or legislation applicable to the Company;

the ROC laws, rules and regulations (including, without limitation, the Company Law, the Securities and Exchange Law, the rules and regulations promulgated by the FSC and the rules and regulations promulgated by the TSE, as amended from time to time) affecting public reporting companies or companies listed on any ROC stock exchange or securities market that from time to time are required by the relevant regulator as applicable to the Company;

these Articles of Association as altered from time to time;

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  • Audit Committee

  • the audit committee under the Board, which shall comprise solely of Independent Directors of the Company;

  • Board the board of directors appointed or elected pursuant to these Articles and acting at a meeting of directors at which there is a quorum in accordance with these Articles;

  • Capital Reserve for the purpose of these Articles only, comprises of the premium (meaning such amount above par value of the shares) paid on the issuance of any share under the Law and income from endowments received by the Company;

  • Chairman the Director elected by and amongst all the Directors as the chairman of the Board;

  • Company Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技集團有限公司 ;

  • Compensation Committee a committee established by the Board, which shall be comprised of professional individuals appointed by the Board and having the functions, in each case, prescribed by the Applicable Public Company Rules;

  • Cumulative Voting the voting mechanism for an election of Directors as described in Article 34.2;

  • Directors

  • the directors for the time being of the Company and shall include any and all Independent Director(s);

  • Electronic Record has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Law;

  • Electronic Transactions Law the Electronic Transactions Law (2003 Revision) of the Cayman Islands;

  • Family Relationship within Second Degree of Kinship

FSC

in respect of a person, means another person who is related to the first person either by blood or by marriage of a member of the family and within the second degree to include the parents, siblings, grandparents, children and grandchildren of the person as well as spouse’s parents, siblings and grandparents;

The Financial Supervisory Commission of the Republic of China;

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Independent Directors

Joint Operation Contract

Law

Lease Contract

  • Management Contract

  • Market Observation Post System

  • Member

  • Memorandum

  • Notice

the Directors who are elected as "Independent Directors" for the purpose of Applicable Public Company Rules;

a contract between the Company and one or more person(s) or entit(ies) where the parties to the contract agree to pursue the same business venture and jointly bear losses and enjoy profits arising out of such business venture in accordance with the terms of such contract;

The Companies Law (Revised) of the Cayman Islands and every modification, reenactment or revision thereof for the time being in force;

a contract or arrangement between the Company and any other person(s) pursuant to which such person(s) lease or rent from the Company the necessary means and assets to operate the whole business of the Company in the name of such person, and as consideration, the Company receives a pre-determined compensation from such person;

  • a contract or arrangement between the Company and any other person(s) pursuant to which such person(s) manage and operate the business of the Company in the name of the Company and for the benefits of the Company, and as consideration, such person(s) receive a pre-determined compensation while the Company continues to be entitled to the profits (or losses) of such business;

  • the public company reporting system maintained by the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, via http://mops.twse.com.tw/;

  • the person registered in the Register of Members as the holder of shares in the Company and, when two or more persons are so registered as joint holders of shares, means the person whose name stands first in the Register of Members as one of such joint holders or all of such persons, as the context so requires;

the memorandum of association of the Company;

written notice as further provided in these Articles unless otherwise specifically stated;

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Merger

a transaction whereby:

(a) (i) all of the companies participating in such transaction are combined into a new company, which new company generally assumes all rights and obligations of the combined companies; or (ii) all of the companies participating in such transaction are merged into one of such companies as the surviving company, and the surviving company generally assumes all rights and obligations of the merged companies, and in each case the consideration for the transaction being the shares of the surviving or new company or any other company, cash or other assets; or

  • (b) other forms of mergers and acquisitions which fall within the definition of "merger and/or consolidation" under the Applicable Public Company Rules;

month calendar month;

Officer any person appointed by the Board to hold an office in the Company;

  • ordinary resolution a resolution passed at a general meeting (or, if so specified, a meeting of Members holding a class of shares) of the Company by not less than a simple majority of the votes cast;

Private Placement has the meaning given thereto in Article 11.6;

  • Preferred Shares has the meaning given thereto in Article 6;

  • Register of Directors and Officers the register of directors and officers referred to in these Articles;

  • Register of Members the register of members of the Company maintained in accordance with the Law and (as long as the Company is listed on the TSE) the Applicable Public Company Rules;

Registered Office

the registered office for the time being of the Company;

Related Person(s) the persons as defined in Article 33.2; ROC Taiwan, the Republic of China; Seal the common seal or any official or duplicate seal of the Company;

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Secretary

share(s)

special resolution

Subsidiary

supermajority resolution

the person appointed to perform any or all of the duties of secretary of the Company and includes any deputy or assistant secretary and any person appointed by the Board to perform any of the duties of the Secretary;

  • share(s) of par value NT$10 each in the Company and includes fraction of a share;

a resolution passed by a majority of at least two-thirds (or such greater number as may be specified in these Articles, if any) of such Members as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given;

with respect to any company, (1) the entity, one half or more of whose total number of the issued voting shares or the total amount of the share capital are directly or indirectly held by such company; (2) the entity that such company has a direct or indirect control over its personnel, financial or business operation; (3) the entity, one half or more of whose shareholders involved in management or board of directors are concurrently acting as the shareholders involved in management or board of directors of such company; and (4) the entity, one half or more of whose total number of the issued voting shares or the total amount of the share capital are held by the same shareholder(s) of such company;

a resolution passed by Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) who represent a majority of the outstanding issued shares of the Company as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, in the case of such Members as are corporations, by their respective duly representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a duly convened general meeting attended by Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) who represent two-thirds or more of the total outstanding shares of the

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  • Company entitled to vote thereon or, if the total number of shares represented by the Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) at the general meeting is less than two-thirds of the total outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote thereon, but more than one half of the total outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote thereon, means instead, a resolution adopted at such general meeting by the Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) who represent two-thirds or more of the total number of shares entitled to vote on such resolution at such general meeting;

TDCC

Treasury Shares

Threshold

TSE

Year

means the Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation;

has the meaning given thereto in Article 3.11;

  • means the spousal relationship and/or Family Relationship within Second Degree of Kinship threshold for members of the Board as defined in Article 33.2;

The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation; and calendar year.

  • 1.2 In these Articles, where not inconsistent with the context:

  • (a) words denoting the plural number include the singular number and vice versa;

  • (b) words denoting the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders;

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

  • (d) the words:

    • (i) "may" shall be construed as permissive; and

    • (ii) "shall" shall be construed as imperative;

  • (e) "written" and "in writing" include all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form, including the form of an Electronic Record;

  • (f) a reference to statutory provision shall be deemed to include any amendment or reenactment thereof;

  • (g) unless otherwise provided herein, words or expressions defined in

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the Law shall bear the same meaning in these Articles; and

  • (h) Section 8 of the Electronic Transactions Law shall not apply to the extent that it imposes obligations or requirements in addition to those set out.

  • 1.3 In these Articles expressions referring to writing or its cognates shall, unless the contrary intention appears, include facsimile, printing, lithography, photography, electronic mail and other modes of representing words in visible form.

  • 1.4 Headings used in these Articles are for convenience only and are not to be used or relied upon in the construction hereof.

SHARES

2. Power to Issue Shares

  • 2.1 Subject to these Articles and any resolution of the Members to the contrary, and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of any existing shares or class of shares, the Board shall have the power to issue any unissued shares of the Company on such terms and conditions as it may determine and any shares or class of shares (including the issue or grant of options, warrants and other rights, renounceable or otherwise in respect of shares) may be issued 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 by resolution of the Members prescribe, provided that no share shall be issued at a discount except in accordance with the Law.

  • 2.2 Unless otherwise provided in these Articles, the issue of new shares of the Company shall be approved by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors. The issue of new shares shall at all times be subject to the sufficiency of the authorized capital of the Company.

  • 2.3 Where the Company increases its issued share capital by issuing new shares for cash consideration in the ROC the Company shall allocate 10% of the total amount of the new shares to be issued, for offering in the ROC to the public ("Public Offering Portion") unless it is not necessary or appropriate, as determined by the FSC or TSE, for the Company to conduct the aforementioned public offering. However, if a percentage higher than the aforementioned 10% is resolved by the Members in a general meeting by ordinary resolution to be offered, the percentage determined by such resolution shall prevail and shares corresponding to such percentage shall be reserved as Public Offering Portion. The Company may also reserve up to 15% of such new shares

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for subscription by its employees (the “Employee Subscription Portion”).

  • 2.4 Unless otherwise resolved by the Members in general meeting by ordinary resolution, where the Company increases its issued share capital by issuing new shares for cash consideration, after allocation of the Public Offering Portion and the Employee Subscription Portion pursuant to Article 2.3 hereof, the Company shall make a public announcement and notify each Member that he is entitled to exercise a pre-emptive right to purchase his pro rata portion of the remaining new shares, to be issued in the capital increase for cash consideration. The Company shall state in such announcement and notices to the Members the procedures for exercising such pre-emptive rights and that if any Member fails to purchase his pro rata portion of such remaining newly-issued shares within the prescribed period, such Member shall be deemed to forfeit his pre-emptive right to purchase such newly-issued shares. Where an exercise of the pre-emptive right may result in fractional entitlement of a Member, the entitlements (including fractional entitlements) of two or more Members may be combined to jointly subscribe for one or more whole new shares in the name of a single Member, subject to compliance with such directions and terms and conditions as determined by the Board and the Applicable Public Company Rules. If the total number of the new shares to be issued has not been fully subscribed for by the Members within the prescribed period, the Company may consolidate such shares into the public offering tranche or offer any un-subscribed new shares to a specific person or persons in such manner as is consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 2.5 Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may issue new shares subject to restrictions and conditions (" Restricted Shares ") to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries with the sanction of a Supermajority Resolution provided that Article 2.3 hereof shall not apply in respect of the issue of such shares. For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE, the terms of issue of the Restricted Shares, including but not limited to the number of Restricted Shares so issued, issue price of Restricted Shares and other related matters shall be in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 2.6 The Public Offering Portion and the Employee Subscription Portion under Article 2.3 and the pre-emptive right of Members under Article 2.4 shall not apply in the event that new shares are issued due to the following reasons or for the following purposes:

  • (a) in connection with a Merger, spin-off, or pursuant to any reorganization of the Company;

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  • (b) in connection with meeting the Company's obligations under share subscription warrants and/or options, including those rendered in Articles 2.8 and 2.10 hereof;

  • (c) in connection with the issue of Restricted Shares in accordance with Article 2.5 hereof;

  • (d) in connection with meeting the Company’s obligations under convertible bonds or corporate bonds vested with rights to acquire shares;

  • (e) in connection with meeting the Company’s obligations under Preferred Shares vested with rights to acquire shares; or

  • (f) in connection with a Private Placement of the securities issued by the Company.

  • 2.7 The Company shall not issue any unpaid shares or partly paid-up shares.

  • 2.8 Notwithstanding Article 2.5 hereof, the Company may, upon approval by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors, adopt one or more employee incentive programmes and may issue shares or options, warrants or other similar instruments, to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and for the avoidance of doubt, approval by the Members is not required.

  • 2.9 Options, warrants or other similar instruments issued in accordance with Article 2.8 above are not transferable save by inheritance.

  • 2.10 The Company may enter into agreements with employees of the Company and the employees of its Subsidiaries in relation to the incentive programme approved pursuant to Article 2.8 above, whereby employees may subscribe, within a specific period of time, a specific number of the shares. The terms and conditions of such agreements shall not be less favorable than the terms specified in the applicable incentive programme.

3. Redemption and Purchase of Shares

  • 3.1 Subject to the Law, the Company is authorised to issue shares which are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company or a Member.

  • 3.2 The Company is authorised to make payments in respect of the redemption of its shares out of capital or out of any other account or fund authorised for this purpose in accordance with the Law.

  • 3.3 The redemption price of a redeemable share, or the method of calculation thereof, shall be fixed by the Board at or before the time of issue.

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  • 3.4 Every share certificate relating to redeemable share shall indicate that the share is redeemable.

  • 3.5 Subject to the provisions of the Applicable Law and these Articles, the Company may, upon approval by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors, purchase its own shares (including any redeemable shares) on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine and hold them as treasury shares of the Company in accordance with the Law (“ Treasury Shares ”). If any purchase of the Company’s own shares involves any immediate cancellation of shares of the Company, such repurchase of shares is subject to approval by the Members by way of an ordinary resolution and the number of shares of the Company to be cancelled shall be allocated among all the Members as of the date of such cancellation on a pro rata basis (as rounded up or down to the nearest whole number as determined by the Directors) based on the then prevailing percentage of shareholding of the Members, unless otherwise provided for in the Law or the Applicable Public Company Rules.

Upon approval by Members by way of an ordinary resolution to repurchase and cancel shares of the Company, the repurchase price may be paid in cash or in kind, provided that where any repurchase price is to be paid in kind, the monetary equivalent value of such payment in kind shall be (a) assessed by an ROC certified public accountant before being submitted by the Board to the Members for approval as part of the ordinary resolution authorising the repurchase and cancellation of shares of the Company; and (b) agreed to individually by each Member who will be receiving the repurchase price in kind.

  • 3.6 In the event that the Company proposes to purchase any share listed on the TSE pursuant to the preceding Article and hold them as Treasury Shares of the Company, the resolution of the Board approving such proposal and the implementation thereof should be reported to the Members in the next general meeting in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules. Such reporting obligation shall also apply even if the Company does not implement the proposal to purchase its shares listed on the TSE for any reason.

  • 3.7 Subject to Article 3.5, the redemption or repurchase price may be paid in any manner permissible under the Law as determined by the Directors, including out of capital.

  • 3.8 A delay in payment of the redemption price shall not affect the redemption but, in the case of a delay of more than thirty days, interest shall be paid for the period from the due date until actual payment at a rate which the Directors, after due enquiry, estimate to be representative

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of the rates being offered by banks holding “A” licenses (as defined in the Banks and Trust Companies Law (Revised) of the Cayman Islands) in the Cayman Islands for thirty day deposits in the same currency.

  • 3.9 Subject to Article 3.5, the Directors may exercise as they think fit the powers conferred on the Company by Section 37(5) of the Law (payment out of capital).

  • 3.10 Subject as aforesaid and to Article 3.5, the Directors may determine, as they think fit all questions that may arise concerning the manner in which the redemption of the shares shall or may be effected.

  • 3.11 No share may be redeemed unless it is fully paid-up.

  • 3.12 Subject to Article 3.5, shares that the Company purchases, redeems or acquires (by way of surrender or otherwise) shall be cancelled immediately or be held as Treasury Shares .

  • 3.13 No dividend may be declared or paid, and no other distribution (whether in cash or otherwise) of the Company's assets (including any distribution of assets to Members on a winding up of the Company) may be made to the Company in respect of a Treasury Share.

  • 3.14 The Company shall be entered in the Register of Members as the holder of the Treasury Shares provided that:

  • (a) the Company shall not be treated as a Member for any purpose and shall not exercise any right in respect of the Treasury Shares, and any purported exercise of such a right shall be void;

  • (b) a Treasury Share shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting of the Company and shall not be counted in determining the total number of issued shares at any given time, whether for the purposes of these Articles or the Law.

  • 3.15 After the Company purchases its shares listed on the TSE, any proposal to transfer the Treasury Shares to the employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries at a price below the average actual repurchase price must be approved by special resolution in the next general meeting and the items required by the Applicable Public Company Rules shall be specified in the notice of the general meeting and may not be proposed as an extemporary motion. The aggregate number of Treasury Shares resolved at all general meetings and transferred to the employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not exceed 5% of the total number of issued shares, and each employee may not subscribe for more than 0.5% of the total number of issued shares in aggregate. The Company may prohibit such employees from transferring such Treasury Shares within a certain period; provided, however, that such a period cannot be more than two years from the date that such employees became the registered holders

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of the relevant Treasury Shares.

  • 3.16 Subject to Article 3.15, Treasury Shares may be disposed of by the Company on such terms and conditions as determined by the Directors.

4. Rights Attaching to Shares

  • 4.1 Subject to Article 2.1, the Memorandum and these Articles, other contractual obligations or restrictions that the Company is bound by and any resolution of the Members to the contrary and without prejudice to any special rights conferred thereby on the holders of any other shares or class of shares, the share capital of the Company shall be divided into shares of a single class the holders of which shall, subject to the provisions of these Articles:

    • (a) be entitled to one vote per share;

    • (b) be entitled to such dividends as recommended by the Board and approved by the Members at general meeting may from time to time declare;

    • (c) in the event of a winding-up or dissolution of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or for the purpose of a reorganization or otherwise or upon any distribution of capital, be entitled to the surplus assets of the Company; and

    • (d) generally be entitled to enjoy all of the rights attaching to shares.

5. Share Certificates

  • 5.1 Shares of the Company shall be issued in uncertificated/scripless form unless the issuance of share certificates is required by the provisions of the Applicable Public Company Rules. Where share certificates are issued, every Member shall be entitled to a certificate issued under the Seal (or a facsimile thereof), which shall be affixed or imprinted with the authority of the Board, specifying the number and, where appropriate, the class of shares held by such Member. The Board may by resolution determine, either generally or in a particular case, that any or all signatures on certificates may be printed thereon or affixed by mechanical means.

  • 5.2 If any share certificate shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board to have been worn out, lost, mislaid, or destroyed the Board may cause a new certificate to be issued and request an indemnity for the lost certificate if it sees fit.

  • 5.3 Share may not be issued in bearer form.

  • 5.4 When the Company issue share certificates pursuant to Article 5.1 hereof, the Company shall deliver the share certificates to the allottees of such shares within thirty (30) days from the date such share certificates may

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be issued pursuant to the Law, the Memorandum, the Articles, and the Applicable Public Company Rules, and shall make a public announcement prior to the delivery of such share certificates pursuant to the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 5.5 Where the Company shall issue the shares in uncertificated/scripless form, the Company shall upon the issue of such shares cause the name of the subscriber and other particulars to be entered onto the Register of Members in accordance with the Law and the Applicable Public Company Rules.

6. Preferred Shares

  • 6.1 Notwithstanding any provisions of these Articles, the Company may by special resolution designate one or more classes of shares with preferred or other special rights as the Company, by special resolution, may determine (shares with such preferred or other special rights, the "Preferred Shares"), and cause to be set forth in these Articles.

  • 6.2 The rights and obligations of Preferred Shares may include (but not limited to) the following terms and shall be consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules:

  • (a) the order of priority and fixed amount or fixed ratio of allocation of dividends and bonus on Preferred Shares;

  • (b) the order of priority and fixed amount or fixed ratio of allocation of surplus assets of the Company;

  • (c) the order of priority for or restriction on the voting right(s) (including declaring no voting rights whatsoever) of the Members holding the Preferred Shares;

  • (d) the method by which the Company is authorized or compelled to redeem the Preferred Shares, or a statement that redemption rights shall not apply; and

  • (e) other matters concerning rights and obligations incidental to Preferred Shares.

REGISTRATION OF SHARES

7. Register of Members

  • (a) For so long as shares are listed on the TSE, the Board shall cause to be kept a Register of Members which may be kept outside the Cayman Islands at such place as the Directors shall appoint and which shall be maintained in accordance with the Law and the Applicable Public Company Rules.

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  • (b) In the event that the Company has shares that are not listed on the TSE, the Company shall also cause to be kept a register of such shares in accordance with Section 40 of the Law.

8. Registered Holder Absolute Owner

Except as required by Law:

  • (a) no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share on any trust; and

  • (b) no person other than the Member shall be recognised by the Company as having any right in a share.

9.

Transfer of Registered Shares

  • 9.1 Title to shares listed on the TSE may be evidenced and transferred in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules (including through the book-entry system of the TDCC) that are applicable to shares listed on the TSE.

  • 9.2 All transfers of shares which are in certificated form may be effected by an instrument of transfer in writing in any usual form or in any other form which the Board may approve and shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and, if the Board so requires, by or on behalf of the transferee. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers.

  • 9.3 The Board may refuse to recognise any instrument of transfer in respect of shares in certificated form unless it is accompanied by the certificate in respect of the shares to which it relates and by such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer.

  • 9.4 The joint holders of any share may transfer such share to one or more of such joint holders, and the surviving holder or holders of any share previously held by them jointly with a deceased Member may transfer any such share to the executors or administrators of such deceased Member.

  • 9.5 The Board may in its absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor refuse to register the transfer of a share in certificated form in the event such registration of transfer would (i) conflict with the Applicable Law; or (ii) conflict with the Memorandum and/or these Articles. If the Board refuses to register a transfer of any share, the Secretary shall, within three months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferor and transferee notice of the refusal.

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  • 9.6 Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the Board from recognizing a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members in respect of it.

10. Transmission of Shares

  • 10.1 In the case of the death of a Member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased Member was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased Member where the deceased Member was a sole holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the deceased Member's interest in the shares. Nothing herein contained shall release the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any share which had been jointly held by such deceased Member with other persons. Subject to the provisions of Section 39 of the Law, for the purpose of this Article, legal personal representative means the executor or administrator of a deceased Member or such other person as the Board may, in its absolute discretion, decide as being properly authorised to deal with the shares of a deceased Member.

  • 10.2 Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any way other than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Board, elect, by a notice in writing sent by him to the Company, either to become the holder of such share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the holder of such share. If he elects to have another person registered as the holder of such share, he shall sign an instrument of transfer of that share to that person.

  • 10.3 A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any case other than by transfer) shall be entitled to the same dividend, other distributions and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of such share. However, he shall not, before becoming a Member in respect of a share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to general meetings of the Company. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, the Board may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to have some person nominated by him be registered as the holder of the share. If the notice is not complied with within ninety days of being received or deemed to be received (as determined pursuant to the Articles), the Board may thereafter withhold payment of all dividend, other distributions, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the Share until the requirements of the notice have

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been complied with.

  • 10.4 Notwithstanding the above, for as long as the shares are listed on the TSE, the transmission of the shares may be evidenced and transferred in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules (including through the book-entry system of the TDCC) that are applicable to shares listed on the TSE.

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL

11. Power to Alter Capital

  • 11.1 Subject to the Law, the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution alter the conditions of its Memorandum to increase its authorized share capital by such amount as it thinks expedient.

  • 11.2 Subject to the Law, the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution alter the conditions of its Memorandum to:

  • (a) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares in such manner as permitted by Applicable Law; or

  • (b) cancel 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 in such manner as permitted by Applicable Law.

  • 11.3 Subject to the Law and the Articles, the Company may from time to time by special resolution:

  • (a) change its name;

  • (b) alter or add to the Articles;

  • (c) alter or add to the Memorandum with respect to any objects, powers or other matters specified therein; or

  • (d) reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund in any manner authorised by the Law and the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 11.4 Subject to the Law and Article 11.5, the following actions by the Company shall require the approval of the Members by a supermajority resolution:

  • (a) effecting any capitalization of distributable dividends and/or bonuses and/or any other amount prescribed under Article 16 hereof;

  • (b) effecting any Merger (except for any Merger which falls within

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the definition of "merger" and/or "consolidation" under the Law, which requires the approval of the Company by special resolution only) or spin-off or Private Placement of the securities issued by the Company;

  • (c) entering into, amend, or terminate any Lease Contract, Management Contract or Joint Operation Contract;

  • (d) the transferring of the whole or any essential part of the business or assets of the Company; or

  • (e) acquiring or assuming the whole business or assets of another person, which has a material effect on the Company's operation.

  • 11.5 Subject to the Law, the Company may be wound up voluntarily:

  • (a) if the Company resolves by supermajority resolution that it be wound up voluntarily because the Company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or

  • (b) if the Company resolves by special resolution that it be wound up voluntarily for reasons other than set out in Article 11.5(a) above.

  • 11.6 Subject to the Law and in addition to approval by the Board in accordance with Article 2.2, the Company may, with a resolution approved by at least two-thirds of the votes of the Members present at a general meeting attended by Members representing a majority of the total number of issued shares, issue securities to the following persons by way of private placement within the territory of the ROC in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules (“ Private Placement ”):

  • (a) banks, bills finance enterprises, trust enterprises, insurance enterprises, securities enterprises, or other legal entities or institutions approved by the FSC;

  • (b) natural person, legal entities or funds meeting the qualifications set forth by the FSC; and

  • (c) directors, supervisors (if any) or managers of the Company or its Subsidiaries.

12. Variation of Rights Attaching to Shares

If, at any time, the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound-up, be varied with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of the class with a quorum of such number of holders holding more than one-half of the total outstanding shares of such class being present in person, by proxy or corporate representatives.

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any modification or alteration in the Articles is prejudicial to the preferential rights of any class of shares, such modification or alteration shall be adopted by a special resolution and shall also be adopted by a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of Members of that class of shares. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.

DIVIDENDS AND CAPITALISATION

13. Dividends

  • 13.1 The Board may, subject to approval by the Members by way of ordinary resolution or, in the case of Article 11.4(a), supermajority resolution and subject to these Articles and any direction of the Company in general meeting, declare a dividend to be paid to the Members in proportion to the number of shares held by them, and such dividend may be paid in cash, shares or wholly or partly in specie in which case the Board may fix the value for distribution in specie of any assets. No unpaid dividend shall bear interest as against the Company.

  • 13.2 The Directors may determine that a dividend shall be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets (which may consist of the shares or securities of any other company) and may settle all questions concerning such distribution. Without limiting the foregoing generality, the Directors may fix the value of such specific assets, may determine that cash payments shall be made to some Members in lieu of specific assets and may vest any such specific assets in trustees on such terms as the Directors think fit.

  • 13.3 Subject to the Law, Article 11.4(a) and these Articles and except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any shares, the Company may distribute profits in accordance with a proposal for profits distribution approved by the Board and sanctioned by the Members by an ordinary resolution, in annual general meetings. No dividends or other distribution shall be paid except out of profits of the Company, realised or unrealised, out of share premium account or any reserve, fund or account as otherwise permitted by the Law. Except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any shares, all dividends and other distributions shall be paid according to the number of the shares that a Member holds and the amount paid up on such shares. If any share is issued on terms providing that it shall be entitled to dividends as from a particular date only, such shares shall be entitled to dividends accordingly.

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  • 13.4 Upon the final settlement of the Company's accounts, if there is "surplus profit" (as defined below), the Company shall set aside between two per cent (2%) and fifteen per cent (15%) as compensation to employees (" Employees' Compensations ") and Employees' Compensations may be distributed to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, who meet certain qualifications. The Company shall, from the surplus profit, set aside no more than three per cent (3%) thereof as remuneration for the Directors (" Directors' Remuneration "). The distribution proposals in respect of Employees' Compensation and Directors' Remuneration shall be approved by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors and submitted to the shareholders' meeting for report. However, if the Company has accumulated losses, the Company shall reserve an amount thereof for making up the losses before proceeding with the abovementioned distributions and allocation. The "surplus profit" referred to above means the net profit before tax of the Company and for the avoidance of doubt, such amount is before any payment of compensation to employees and remuneration for the Directors.

  • 13.5 In determining the Company's dividend policy, the Board recognises that the Company operates in a mature industry, and has stable profit streams and a sound financial structure. In determining the amount, if any, of the dividend or other distribution it recommends to Members for approval in any financial year, the Board:

  • (a) may take into consideration the earnings of the Company, overall development, financial planning, capital needs, industry outlook and future prospects of the Company in the relevant financial year, so as to ensure the protection of Members' rights and interests; and

  • (b) shall set aside out of the current year profits of the Company, in addition to the provision in Article 13.4: (i) a reserve for payment of tax for the relevant financial year; (ii) an amount to offset losses; (iii) ten per cent (10%) as a general reserve, and (iv) a special surplus reserve as required by the applicable securities authority under the Applicable Public Company Rules or a reserve as determined by the Board pursuant to Article 14.1.

  • 13.6 Subject to compliance with the Law and after setting aside the amounts for Employees' Compensations and Directors’ Remuneration in accordance with Article 13.4 and such amounts as the Board deems fit in accordance with the distribution policy set out in Article 13.5, the Board shall recommend to Members for approval to distribute no less than twenty per cent (20%) of the distributable amount as dividend to the Members and the allocation will be made upon the passing of the

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resolution by the Members.

  • 13.7 Dividends to the Members and the Employees' Compensation may be distributed, in the discretion of the Board, by way of cash or by way of applying such sum in paying up in full unissued shares or a combination of both for allocation and distribution to employees or the Members, provided that, in the case of a distribution to Members, no less than ten per cent (10%) of the total amount of such dividend shall be paid in cash. No unpaid dividend and compensation shall bear interest as against the Company.

  • 13.8 The Board shall fix any date as the record date for determining the Members entitled to receive any dividend or other distribution.

  • 13.9 For the purpose of determining Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distributions, the Directors may provide that the Register of Members be closed for transfers for five (5) days before the relevant record date or such other period consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules subject to compliance with the Law .

14. Capital Reserve and Power to Set Aside Profits

  • 14.1 The Board may, before declaring a dividend, set aside out of the surplus or profits of the Company, such sum as it thinks proper as a reserve to be used to meet contingencies or for meeting the deficiencies for implementing dividend distribution plans or for any other purpose to which those funds may be properly applied. Pending application, such sums may be in the absolute discretion of the Directors either be employed in the business of the Company or invested in such investment as Directors may from time to time think fit, and need not be kept separate from other assets of the Company. The Directors may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profit which they decide not to distribute.

  • 14.2 Subject to any direction from the Company in general meeting, the Directors may on behalf of the Company exercise all the powers and options conferred on the Company by the Law in regard to the Capital Reserve. Subject to compliance with the Law, the Directors may on behalf of the Company set off accumulated losses against credits standing in the Capital Reserve and make distributions out of the Capital Reserve.

15. Method of Payment

  • 15.1 Any dividend, interest, or other monies payable in cash in respect of the shares may be paid by wire transfer to the Member’s designated account or by cheque or draft sent through the post directed to the Member at such Member's address in the Register of Members.

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  • 15.2 In the case of joint holders of shares, any dividend, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by wire transfer to the holder first named in the Register of Members to such holder’s designated account or by cheque or draft sent through the post directed to the address of the holder first named in the Register of Members. If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any shares any one can give an effectual receipt for any dividend paid in respect of such shares.

16. Capitalisation

  • Subject to Article 11.4(a), the Board may capitalise any sum for the time being standing to the credit of any of the Company's Capital Reserve or other reserve accounts or to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution by applying such sum in paying up unissued shares to be allotted as fully paid bonus shares pro rata to the Members.

MEETINGS OF MEMBERS

17. Annual General Meetings

  • 17.1 The Company shall hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting within six months following the end of each fiscal year. The Board shall convene all annual general meetings.

  • 17.2 The general meetings (including annual general meetings and extraordinary general meetings) shall be held at such time and place as the Chairman or any two Directors or any Director and the Secretary or the Board shall appoint provided that unless otherwise provided by the Law, the general meetings shall be held in the ROC. If the Board resolves to hold a general meeting outside the ROC, the Company shall apply for the approval of the TSE thereof within two days after the Board adopts such resolution. Where a general meeting is to be held outside the ROC, the Company shall engage a professional stock affairs agent in the ROC to handle the administration of such general meeting (including but not limited to the handling of the voting of proxies submitted by Members).

18. Extraordinary General Meetings

  • 18.1 General meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.

  • 18.2 The Board may convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company whenever in their judgment such a meeting is necessary or upon requisition in accordance with Article 18.3.

  • 18.3 One or more Member(s) of the Company holding at the date of deposit of the requisition not less than 3% of the total number of the outstanding

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shares of the Company continuously for a period of one year or more may make a requisition that contains the details set out in Article 18.4 below to request the Board to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company.

  • 18.4 The requisition must state in writing the matters to be discussed at the extraordinary general meeting and the reason therefor and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the Registered Office and the Company's stock affairs agent located in the ROC, and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists.

  • 18.5 If the Board does not within fifteen days from the date of the deposit of the requisition dispatch the notice of an extraordinary general meeting, the requisitionists may themselves convene an extraordinary general meeting, provided that if the extraordinary general meeting will be held outside the ROC, an application shall be submitted by such requisitionists to the TSE for its prior approval.

19. Notice

  • 19.1 At least thirty days' notice of an annual general meeting shall be given to each Member entitled to attend and vote thereat, stating the date, place and time at which the meeting is to be held and the general nature of business to be conducted at the meeting.

  • 19.2 At least fifteen days' notice of an extraordinary general meeting shall be given to each Member entitled to attend and vote thereat, stating the date, place and time at which the meeting is to be held and the general nature of the business to be considered at the meeting.

  • 19.3 The Board shall fix a record date for determining the Members entitled to receive notice of and to vote at any general meeting of the Company in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules and close its Register of Members accordingly in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 19.4 Subject to Article 22.4, the accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of a notice of a general meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.

  • 19.5 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE, the Company shall announce to the public by via the Market Observation Post System in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules the notice of a general meeting, the proxy instrument, agendas and materials relating to the matters to be reported and discussed in the general meetings, including but not limited to, election or discharge of Directors, in

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accordance with Articles 19.1 and 19.2 hereof. If the voting power of a Member at a general meeting shall be exercised by way of a written instrument, the Company shall also send the written document for the Member to exercise his voting power together with the above mentioned materials in accordance with Articles 19.1 and 19.2. The Directors shall prepare a meeting handbook of the relevant general meeting and supplemental materials, which will be sent to or made available to all Members and shall be transmitted to the Market Observation Post System in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 19.6 The following matters shall be stated in the notice of a general meeting, with a summary of the major content to be discussed, and shall not be proposed as an extemporary motion:

  • (a) election or discharge of Directors,

  • (b) alteration of the Memorandum or Articles,

  • (c) (i) dissolution, Merger, any scheme or arrangement involving a transfer of all issued shares of the Company to a corporate acquirer in exchange for the issuance of shares by that corporate acquirer to the Members as consideration or spin-off, (ii) entering into, amending, or terminating any Lease Contract, Management Contract or Joint Operation Contract, (iii) transfer of the whole or any essential part of the business or assets of the Company, and (iv) acquisition or assumption of the whole of the business or assets of another person, which has a material effect on the operations of the Company,

  • (d) ratification of an action by Director(s) who engage(s) in business for himself or on behalf of another person that is within the scope of the Company's business,

  • (e) distribution of the whole or part of the surplus profit of the Company in the form of new shares, capitalization of Capital Reserve and any other amount in accordance with Article 16, and

  • (f) Private Placement of any equity-related securities to be issued by the Company.

  • 19.7 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE and unless the Law provides otherwise, the Board shall keep the Memorandum and Articles, minutes of general meetings, financial statements, the Register of Members, and the counterfoil of any corporate bonds issued by the Company at the office of the Company’s registrar (if applicable) and the Company’s stock affairs agent located in the ROC. The Members may request, from time to time, by submitting document(s) evidencing

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his/her interests involved and indicating the designated scope of the inspection, access to inspect, review or make copies of the foregoing documents.

  • 19.8 The Company shall make available all the statements and records prepared by the Board and the report prepared by the Audit Committee which will be submitted to the Members at the annual general meeting at the Registered Office (if applicable) and its stock affairs agent located in the ROC ten (10) days prior to such annual general meeting in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules. Members may inspect and review the foregoing documents from time to time and may be accompanied by their lawyers or certified public accountants for the purpose of such inspection and review.

20. Giving Notice

  • 20.1 Any Notice or document, whether or not to be given or issued under these Articles from the Company to a Member, shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or communication, and any such Notice and document may be served or delivered by the Company on or to any Member either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such Member at his registered address as appearing in the Register of Members or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose or, as the case may be, by transmitting it to any such address or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of Notice to him or which the person transmitting the Notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the Notice being duly received by the Member or to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, may also be served by advertisement in appropriate newspapers. In the case of joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register of Members and notice so given shall be deemed a sufficient service on or delivery to all the joint holders.

Any Notice or other document:

  • (a) if served or delivered by post, shall where appropriate be sent by airmail and shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which the envelope containing the same, properly prepaid and addressed, is put into the post; in proving such service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post and a certificate in

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writing signed by the secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or other document was so addressed and put into the post shall be conclusive evidence thereof;

  • (b) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent;

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

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

This Article 20.1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the service of any document by a Member on the Company under these Articles.

21. Postponement of General Meeting

The Board may postpone any general meeting called in accordance with the provisions of these Articles provided that notice of postponement is given to each Member before the time for such meeting. A notice stating the date, time and place for the postponed meeting shall be given to each Member in accordance with the provisions of these Articles.

22 Quorum and Proceedings at General Meetings

  • 22.1 No resolutions shall be adopted unless a quorum is present. Unless otherwise provided for in the Articles, Members present in person or by proxy or in the case of a corporate Member, by corporate representative, representing more than one-half of the total issued shares of the Company entitled to vote, shall constitute a quorum for any general meeting.

  • 22.2 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE and unless the Law provides otherwise, the Board shall submit business reports, financial statements and proposals for distribution of profits or allocation of losses prepared by it for the purposes of annual general meetings of the Company for confirmation and adoption by the Members in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules. After confirmation and adoption at the general meeting, the Board shall send

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or announce to the public via the Market Observation Post System in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules copies of the adopted financial statements and the minutes of the general meeting containing the resolutions passed on the distribution of profits or allocation of losses, to each Member or otherwise make the same available to the Members in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 22.3 Unless otherwise provided in the Articles, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll. No resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided by a show of hands.

  • 22.4 Nothing in these Articles shall prevent any Member from initiating proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction for an appropriate remedy in connection with the convening of any general meeting or the passage of any resolution in violation of applicable laws or regulations or these Articles within 30 days after passing of such resolution. The Taiwan Taipei District Court, ROC, may be the court of the first instance for adjudicating any disputes arising out of the foregoing.

  • 22.5 Unless otherwise expressly required by the Law, the Memorandum or the Articles, any matter which has been presented for resolution, approval, confirmation or adoption by the Members at any general meeting may be passed by an ordinary resolution.

  • 22.6 Member(s) holding one per cent (1%) or more of the Company's total number of issued shares immediately prior to the relevant book close period, during which the Company closed its Register of Members, may propose to the Company in writing one matter for discussion at an annual general meeting. The Company shall give a public notice in such manner as permitted by Applicable Law at such time deemed appropriate by the Board specifying the place and a period of not less than ten (10) days for Members to submit proposals. Proposals submitted for discussion at an annual general meeting shall not be included in the agenda of the annual general meeting where (a) the proposing Member(s) holds less than one cent (1%) of the Company's total issued shares, (b) the matter of such proposal may not be resolved by a general meeting; (c) the proposing Member(s) has proposed more than one proposal; or (d) the proposal is submitted to the Company after the date fixed and announced by the Company for accepting Member(s)' proposal(s).

23. Chairman to Preside

Unless otherwise agreed by a majority of those attending and entitled to vote thereat, the Chairman, shall act as chairman at all meetings of the Members at which such person is present. In his absence a chairman shall be appointed or

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elected in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

24. Voting on Resolutions

  • 24.1 Subject to any rights, privileges or restrictions attached to any share, every Member who (being an individual) is present in person or by proxy (or in the case of a corporation or other non-natural person by duly authorized representative(s) or by proxy) shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder. A Member holding more than one share shall cast the votes in respect of his/her/its shares in the same way on a resolution proposed at a general meeting unless otherwise provided by the Applicable Public Company Rules, in which circumstance, the qualifications, application, manners for the exercise of such respective voting rights, procedures and other related matters thereof shall comply with the Applicable Public Company Rules, these Articles and the Law.

  • 24.2 No person shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of a class of shares unless he is registered as a Member on the record date for such meeting.

  • 24.3 Votes may be cast either in person or by proxy. A Member may appoint another person as his proxy by specifying the scope of appointment in the proxy instrument prepared by the Company to attend and vote at a general meeting, provided that a Member may appoint only one proxy under one instrument to attend and vote at such meeting.

  • 24.4 To the extent permitted by Applicable Law and notwithstanding any provisions provided in these Articles, the Board may resolve to allow Members not attending and voting at a general meeting in person, by proxy or by duly authorized representatives (where a Member is a corporation or other non-natural person), to exercise their voting power and cast their votes by a written instrument approved by the Board or by way of electronic transmission (as provided under the ROC Electronic Signatures Act) prior to commencement of the general meeting, provided that (1) the Board shall allow the voting rights in respect of shares held by a Member to be exercised by way of electronic transmission if the Company meets the requirements set forth in the Applicable Public Company Rules; and (2) the relevant methods and procedures are specified in the notice of that meeting and complied with by such Member(s). However, if a general meeting is convened outside the territory of the ROC, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company must allow the Members to exercise their voting rights and cast their votes by way of a written instrument approved by the Board or by way of electronic transmission in the manner referred to in the foregoing. Any Member who intends to exercise his voting power by a

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written instrument or by way of electronic transmission shall serve the Company with his/her/its voting decision at least two (2) calendar days prior to the date of such general meeting. Where more than one voting instrument is received from the same Member by the Company, the first voting instrument shall prevail, unless an explicit written statement is made by the relevant Member to revoke the previous voting instrument in the later-received voting instrument. For the avoidance of doubt, those Members voted in the manner mentioned in the foregoing shall, for purposes of these Articles and the Law, be deemed to have appointed the chairman of the general meeting as their proxy to vote their shares at the general meeting only in the manner directed by their written instrument or electronic document. The chairman as proxy shall not have the power to exercise the voting rights of such Members with respect to any matters not referred to or indicated in the written or electronic document and/or any amendment to resolution(s) proposed at the general meeting, and the Members shall be deemed to have waived their voting rights with respect to any extemporary matters or amendment to resolution(s) proposed at the general meeting.

  • 24.5 In the event any Member who has served the Company with his/her/its declaration of intention to exercise his/her/its voting power by means of a written instrument or by means of electronic transmission pursuant to Article 24.4 hereof later intends to attend general meetings in person, he/she/it shall, at least two (2) calendar days prior to the date of the general meeting, serve a separate declaration of intention to revoke his/her/its previous votes casted by written instrument or electronic transmission in the same manner previously used in exercising his/her/its voting power, failing which, the Member shall be deemed to have waived his right to attend and vote at the relevant general meeting in person, the deemed appointment by the Member of the chairman as proxy shall remain valid and the Company shall not count any votes cast by such Member physically at the relevant general meeting.

  • 24.6 A Member who is deemed to have appointed the chairman as proxy pursuant to Article 24.4 for purposes of casting his vote by written instrument approved by the Board or by way of electronic transmission shall have the right to appoint another person as its proxy to attend the meeting in accordance with these Articles, in which case the express appointment of another proxy shall be deemed to have revoked the deemed appointment of the chairman as proxy under Article 24.4 and the Company shall only count the vote(s) casted by such expressly appointed proxy at the meeting.

25. Proxies

  • 25.1 The instrument of proxy shall be in the form approved by the Board and

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be expressed to be for a particular meeting only. The form of proxy shall include at least the following information: (a) instructions on how to complete such proxy, (b) the matters to be voted upon pursuant to such proxy, and (c) basic identification information relating to the relevant Member, proxy and the solicitor for proxy solicitation (if any). The form of proxy shall be provided to the Members together with the relevant notice for the relevant general meeting, and such notice and proxy materials shall be distributed to all Members on the same day.

  • 25.2 An instrument of proxy shall be in writing, be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation, under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised for that purpose. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company.

  • 25.3 In the event that a Member exercises his voting power by way of a written instrument or electronic transmission and is deemed to have appointed the chairman of the meeting as his/her/its proxy pursuant to Article 24.4, and has also validly authorised another proxy to attend a general meeting by completing and returning the requisite proxy form, then the voting power exercised by the proxy (rather than the chairman of the meeting) at the general meeting shall prevail. In the event that any Member who has authorised a proxy to attend a general meeting (excluding the deemed appointment of the chairman of the meeting pursuant to Article 24.4) later intends to attend the general meeting in person or to exercise his voting power by way of a written instrument or electronic transmission, he shall, at least two (2) days prior to the date of such general meeting, serve the Company with a separate notice revoking his previous appointment of the proxy. Votes by way of proxy shall remain valid if the relevant Member fails to revoke his appointment of such proxy before the prescribed time.

  • 25.4 Subject to the Applicable Public Company Rules, except for an ROC trust enterprise or stock agencies approved by the ROC competent authority, save with respect to the chairman being deemed appointed as proxy under Article 24.4, when a person acts as the proxy for two or more Members, the total number of voting shares that the proxy may vote shall not exceed three percent (3%) of the total number of voting shares of the Company; otherwise, such number of voting shares in excess of the aforesaid threshold shall not be counted towards the number of votes cast for or against the relevant resolution or the number of voting shares entitled to vote on such resolution but shall be included in the quorum. Upon such exclusion, the number of voting shares being excluded and attributed to each Member represented by the same proxy shall be determined on a pro-rata basis based on the total number

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of voting shares being excluded and the number of voting shares that such Members have appointed the proxy to vote for.

  • 25.5 The instrument of proxy shall be deposited at the Registered Office or the office of the Company's stock affairs agent in the ROC or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting, or in any instrument of proxy sent out by the Company not less than five days before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote and in default, save with respect to the deemed appointment of the chairman as proxy under Article 24.4, the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid PROVIDED that the chairman of the meeting may in his discretion accept an instrument of proxy sent by telex or telefax upon receipt of telex or telefax confirmation that the signed original thereof has been sent. Where multiple instruments of proxy are received by the Company from the same Member, the first written duly executed and valid instrument of proxy received by the Company shall prevail, unless an explicit written statement revoking the previous instrument(s) appointing a proxy is made in the subsequent duly executed and valid instrument of proxy received by the Company. The chairman of the meeting shall have the discretion to determine which instrument of proxy shall be accepted where there is any dispute. Unless otherwise provided in these Articles, delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a Member from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

26. Proxy Solicitation

For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE and subject to the laws of the Cayman Islands, the use and solicitation of proxies shall be in compliance with the Applicable Public Company Rules, including but not limited to "Regulations Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at Shareholder Meetings of Public Companies."

27. Dissenting Member’s Appraisal Right

  • 27.1 Subject to compliance with the Law, in the event any of the following resolutions is passed at general meetings, any Member who has notified the Company in writing of his objection to such matter prior to the meeting and has raised again his objection at the meeting, may request the Company to purchase all of his shares at the then prevailing fair price:

  • (a) the Company proposes to enter into, amend, or terminate any Lease Contract, Management Contract or Joint Operation Contract;

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  • (b) the Company transfers the whole or an essential part of its business or assets, provided that, the foregoing does not apply where such transfer is pursuant to the dissolution of the Company; or

  • (c) acquires or assumes the whole business or assets of another person, which has a material effect on the operation of the Company.

  • 27.2 In the event any part of the Company’s business is spun off or involved in any Merger, any Member, who has abstained from voting in respect of such matter and expressed his dissent therefor, in writing or verbally (with a record) before or during the general meeting approving such spin off or Merger, may request the Company to purchase all of his shares at the then prevailing fair price.

28. Shares that May Not be Voted

  • 28.1 Shares held:

  • (a) by the Company itself;

  • (b) by any entity in which the Company owns, legally or beneficially, more than fifty per cent (50%) of its total issued and voting share or share capital; or

  • (c) by any entity in which the Company, together with (i) the holding company of the Company and/or (ii) any Subsidiary of (a) the holding company of the Company or (b) the Company owns, legally or beneficially, directly or indirectly, more than fifty per cent (50%) of its issued and voting share or share capital;

shall not carry any voting rights nor be counted in the total number of issued shares at any given time.

  • 28.2 A Member who has a personal interest in any motion discussed at a general meeting, which interest may be in conflict with and impair those of the Company, shall abstain from voting such Member’s shares in regard to such motion and such shares shall not be counted in determining the number of votes of the Members present at the said meeting. However, such shares may be counted in determining the number of shares of the Members present at such general meeting for the purposes of determining the quorum. The aforementioned Member shall also not vote on behalf of any other Member. To the extent that the Company has knowledge, any votes cast by or on behalf of such Member in contravention of the foregoing shall not be counted by the Company.

  • 28.3 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE, in the event that a Director creates or has created security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage

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or lien over any shares held by him, then he shall notify the Company of such security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien. If at any time the security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien created by a Director is in respect of more than half of the shares held by him at the time of his appointment, then the voting rights attaching to the shares held by such Director at such time shall be reduced, such that the shares over which security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien has been created which are in excess of half of the shares held by the Director at the date of his appointment shall not carry voting rights and shall not be counted in the number of votes casted by the Members at a general meeting but shall be counted towards the quorum of the general meeting.

29. Voting by Joint Holders of Shares

In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote (whether in person or by proxy) shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register of Members.

30. Representation of Corporate Member

  • 30.1 A corporation or non-natural person which is a Member may, by written instrument, authorise such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Members and any person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation or non-natural person which such person represents as that corporation or non-natural person could exercise if it were an individual Member, and that Member shall be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting attended by its authorised representative or representatives.

  • 30.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the chairman of the meeting may accept such assurances as he thinks fit as to the right of any person to attend and vote at general meetings on behalf of a corporation or non-natural person which is a Member.

31. Adjournment of General Meeting

The chairman of a general meeting may, with the consent of a majority in number of the Members present at any general meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall if so directed, adjourn the meeting. Unless the meeting is adjourned to a specific date, place and time announced at the meeting being adjourned, a notice stating the date, place and time for the resumption of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each Member entitled to attend and vote thereat in accordance with the provisions of these Articles.

32. Directors Attendance at General Meetings

The Directors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notice of, attend and

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be heard at any general meeting.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

33. Number and Term of Office of Directors

  • 33.1 There shall be a board of Directors consisting of no less than eleven (11) persons, each of whom shall be appointed to a term of office of three (3) years. Directors may be eligible for re-election. The Company may from time to time by special resolution increase or reduce the number of Directors subject to the above number limitation provided that the requirements under the Applicable Law are met. The Directors shall elect a vice chairman ("Vice Chairman") amongst all the Directors. In case the Chairman is on leave or absent or can not exercise his/her power and authority for any cause, the Vice Chairman shall act on his/her behalf.

  • 33.2 A spousal relationship and/or a Family Relationship within the Second Degree of Kinship may not exist among more than half (1/2) of the members of the Board (the “Threshold”), unless with prior approval by the ROC competent authority. Where any person among the persons elected for appointment as a Director has a spousal relationship and/or a Family Relationship within the Second Degree of Kinship with any existing member of the Board or with any other person(s) also elected for appointment as a director (collectively, the “Related Persons” and each a “Related Person”), in respect of the Related Person who was elected by way of Cumulative Voting and who received the lowest number of votes from the Members for its appointment among all such elected Related Persons, with the intent that the Threshold will not be breached as a result of his/her appointment: (i) if his/her appointment is already effective, shall automatically cease to be a director of the Company on and from the date that the Company has actual knowledge of a breach of the Threshold; (ii) if his/her appointment has not yet taken effect, his/her appointment shall not take effect if the Company has actual knowledge of a possible breach of the Threshold if his/her appointment takes effect.

  • 33.3 Unless otherwise permitted under the Applicable Public Company Rules, there shall be at least three (3) Independent Directors accounting for not less than one-fifth of the total number of Directors. To the extent required by the Applicable Public Company Rules, at least one of the Independent Directors shall be domiciled in the ROC and at least one of them shall have accounting or financial expertise.

  • 33.4 The Independent Directors shall be nominated by adopting the candidate nomination system specified in the Applicable Public Company Rules.

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Independent Directors shall have professional knowledge and shall maintain independence within the scope of their directorial duties, and shall not have any direct or indirect interests in the Company. The professional qualifications, restrictions on shareholdings and concurrent positions, and assessment of independence with respect to Independent Directors shall be consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 33.5 Unless provided otherwise in these Articles, the qualifications, composition, appointment, removal, exercise of power in performing duties and other matters with respect to the Directors, Independent Directors, Compensation Committee and Audit Committee, shall comply with the provisions under ROC Securities and Exchange Act and the regulations issued pursuant to the ROC Securities and Exchange Act applicable to the Company.

34. Election of Directors

  • 34.1 The Company may at a general meeting elect any person to be a Director, which vote shall be calculated in accordance with Article 34.2 below. Members present in person or by proxy, representing more than one-half of the total issued shares shall constitute a quorum for any general meeting to elect one or more Directors.

  • 34.2 The Director(s) shall be elected by Members upon a poll vote by way of cumulative voting (the manner of voting described in this Article to be referred to as “Cumulative Voting”) in the following manner:

  • (i) on an election of Directors, the numbers of votes attached to each voting share held by a Member shall be cumulative and correspond to the number of Directors nominated for appointment at the general meeting provided that such votes shall only cumulate in respect of such number of Directors nominated within the same category (namely, independent or non-independent) of Directors to be appointed;

  • (ii) the Member(s) may vote all or part of their cumulated votes in respect of one or more Director candidates within the same category of Directors to be elected;

  • (iii) such number of Director candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the same category of Directors to be elected shall be appointed; and

  • (iv) where two or more Director candidates receive the same number of votes and as a result the total number of new Directors intended to be appointed is exceeded, there shall be a draw by such Director candidates receiving the same number of votes to determine who shall be appointed; the chairman of the meeting

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shall draw for a Director nominated for appointment who is not present at the general meeting.

  • 34.3 If the number of Independent Directors is less than three (3) persons due to the resignation or removal of such Independent Directors for any reason, the Company shall hold an election of Independent Directors at the next following general meeting. If all of the Independent Directors are resigned or removed, the Board shall hold, within sixty (60) days from the date of resignation or removal of last Independent Director, an extraordinary general meeting to elect succeeding Independent Directors to fill the vacancies.

  • 34.4 If the number of Directors is less than five (5) persons due to the vacancy of Director(s) for any reason, the Company shall call an election of Director(s) at the next following general meeting to fill the vacancies. When the number of vacancies in the Board of the Company equals to one third of the total number of Directors elected, the Board shall hold, within sixty (60) days from the date of the occurrence of vacancies, a general meeting of Members to elect succeeding Directors to fill the vacancies.

35. Removal and Re-election of Directors

  • 35.1 The Company may from time to time by supermajority resolution remove any Director from office, whether or not appointing another in his stead.

  • 35.2 In case a Director has, in the course of performing his duties, committed any act resulting in material damages to the Company or is in serious violation of applicable laws, regulations and/or these Articles, but has not been removed by a supermajority resolution, the Member(s) holding three per cent (3%) or more of the total number of issued shares of the Company may, within thirty (30) days after such general meeting, to the extent permissible under Applicable Law, institute a lawsuit to remove such Director. The Taiwan Taipei District Court, ROC, may be the court of the first instance for this matter.

  • 35.3 Prior to the expiration of the term of office of the current Directors, the Members may at a general meeting elect or re-elect all Directors, which vote shall be calculated in accordance with Article 34.2 above. If no resolution is passed to approve that the existing Director(s) who is/are not re-elected at the general meeting that such Director(s) shall remain in office until expiry of his/her original term of office, such non-re-eleted Directors shall vacate their office with effect from the date the other Directors elected or re-elected at the same general meeting commence their office. Members present in person or by proxy, representing more than one-half of the total issued shares shall constitute a quorum for any

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general meeting to re-elect all Directors. If the term of office of all Directors expires at the same time and no general meeting was held before such expiry for re-election, their term of office shall continue and be extended to such time when new Directors are elected or re-elected in the next general meeting and they commence their office.

36. Vacancy in the Office of Director

  • 36.1 The office of Director shall be vacated if the Director:

  • (a) is removed from office pursuant to these Articles;

  • (b) dies or becomes bankrupt, or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally;

  • (c) is automatically discharged from his office in accordance with Article 33.2;

  • (d) resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company;

  • (e) an order is made by any competent court or official on the grounds that he has no legal capacity, or his legal capacity is restricted according to Applicable Law;

  • (f) having committed an offence as specified in the ROC statute of prevention of organizational crimes and subsequently adjudicated guilty by a final judgment, and the time elapsed after he has served the full term of the sentence is less than five years;

  • (g) having committed an offence involving fraud, breach of trust or misappropriation and subsequently punished with imprisonment for a term of more than one year, and the time elapsed after he has served the full term of such sentence is less than two years;

  • (h) having been adjudicated guilty by a final judgment for misappropriating public funds during the time of his public service, and the time elapsed after he has served the full term of such sentence is less than two years;

  • (i) having been dishonored for unlawful use of credit instruments, and the term of such sanction has not expired yet;

  • (j) subject to Article 35.3, upon expiry of term of office (if any) of the relevant Director;

  • (k) is automatically removed in accordance with Article 36.2; or

  • (l) ceases to be a Director in accordance with Article 36.3.

In the event that the foregoing events described in clauses (b), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) has occurred in relation to a candidate for election of Director, such person shall be disqualified from being elected as a Director.

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  • 36.2 In case a Director that has, during the term of office as a Director, transferred more than one half of the Company's shares being held by him/her at the time he/she is elected, he/she shall, ipso facto, be removed automatically from the position of Director with immediate effect and no shareholders' approval shall be required.

  • 36.3 If any Director has, after having been elected and before his/her inauguration of the office of Director, transferred more than one half of the Company's shares being held by him/her at the time of his/her election as a Director, then he/she shall immediately cease to be a Director and no shareholders' approval shall be required. If any Director has, after having been elected as a Director, transferred more than one half of the Company's shares being held by him/her within the share transfer prohibition period prior to the convention of a shareholders' meeting according to the Applicable Public Company Rules, then he/she shall immediately cease to be a Director and no shareholders' approval shall be required.

37. Compensation of Directors

  • 37.1 The Board may establish a Compensation Committee comprised of at least three members appointed by the Board, one of whom shall be an Independent Director. The professional qualifications of the members of the Compensation Committee, the exercise by the members of the Compensation Committee of its responsibilities, powers and other related matters of the Compensation Committee shall comply with the Applicable Public Company Rules. Upon the establishment of the Compensation Committee, the Board shall, by a resolution, adopt a charter for the Compensation Committee the provisions of which shall be consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 37.2 The compensation referred in the preceding Article shall include the compensation, stock option and other incentive payments of Directors and managers of the Company.

  • 37.3 The compensation of the Directors may be decided by the Board by reference to recommendation made by the Compensation Committee (if established), the standard generally adopted by other enterprises in the same industry, and shall be paid in cash only. The Directors may also be paid all travel, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in attending and returning from the meetings of the Board, any committee appointed by the Board, general meetings of the Company, or in connection with the business of the Company or their duties as Directors generally. A Director is also entitled to distribution of profits of the Company if permitted by the Law, the Applicable Public Company Rules, the service agreement or other similar contract that he/she has entered

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into with the Company.

38. Defect in Election of Director

All acts done in good faith by the Board or by a committee of the Board or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the election of any Director, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly elected and was qualified to be a Director, subject to and upon ratification by the Members of such acts in a general meeting.

39. Directors to Manage Business

The business of the Company shall be managed and conducted by the Board. In managing the business of the Company, the Board may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, by the Law or by these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting subject, nevertheless, to these Articles, the provisions of the Law, and to such directions as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting.

40.

Powers of the Board of Directors

Without limiting the generality of Article 39, the Board may subject to Article 11.4:

  • (a) appoint, suspend, or remove any manager, secretary, clerk, agent or employee of the Company and may fix their compensation and determine their duties;

  • (b) exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge or otherwise grant a security interest in its undertaking, property and uncalled capital, or any part thereof, and may issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or any third party;

  • (c) appoint one or more Directors to the office of managing director or chief executive officer of the Company, who shall, subject to the control of the Board, supervise and administer all of the general business and affairs of the Company;

  • (d) appoint a person to act as manager of the Company's day-to-day business and may entrust to and confer upon such manager such powers and duties as it deems appropriate for the transaction or conduct of such business;

  • (e) by power of attorney, appoint any company, firm, person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Board, to be an attorney of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable

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by the Board) 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 so vested in the attorney. Such attorney may, if so authorised, execute any deed or instrument in any manner permitted by the Law;

  • (f) procure that the Company pays all expenses incurred in promoting and incorporating the Company;

  • (g) delegate any of its powers (including the power to sub-delegate) to a committee of one or more persons appointed by the Board and every such committee shall conform to such directions as the Board shall impose on them. Subject to any directions or regulations made by the Directors for this purpose, the meetings and proceedings of any such committee shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board;

  • (h) delegate any of its powers (including the power to sub-delegate) to any person on such terms and in such manner as the Board sees fit;

  • (i) present any petition and make any application in connection with the liquidation or reorganisation of the Company;

  • (j) in connection with the issue of any share, pay such commission and brokerage as may be permitted by law; and

  • (k) authorise any company, firm, person or body of persons to act on behalf of the Company for any specific purpose and in connection therewith to execute any agreement, document or instrument on behalf of the Company.

41. Register of Directors and Officers

  • 41.1 The Board shall cause to be kept in one or more books at the Registered Office a Register of Directors and Officers in accordance with the Law and shall enter therein the following particulars with respect to each Director and Officer:

  • (a) first name and surname; and

  • (b) address.

  • 41.2 The Board shall, within the period of thirty days from the occurrence of:-

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

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

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cause to be entered on the Register of Directors and Officers the particulars of such change and the date on which such change occurred, and shall notify the Registrar of Companies in accordance with the Law.

42. Officers

The Officers shall consist of a Secretary and such additional Officers as the Board may determine all of whom shall be deemed to be Officers for the purposes of these Articles.

43. Appointment of Officers

The Secretary (and additional Officers, if any) shall be appointed by the Board from time to time.

44. Duties of Officers

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

45. Compensation of Officers

The Officers shall receive such compensation as the Board may determine.

46. Conflicts of Interest

  • 46.1 Any Director, or any Director's firm, partner or any company with whom any Director is associated, may act in any capacity for, be employed by or render services to the Company and such Director or such Director's firm, partner or company shall be entitled to compensation as if such Director were not a Director; provided that this Article 46.1 shall not apply to Independent Directors.

  • 46.2 A Director who is directly or indirectly interested in a contract or proposed contract or arrangement with the Company shall declare the nature of such interest as required by the Applicable Law.

  • 46.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Articles, a Director who has a personal interest in the matter under discussion at a meeting of the Board shall disclose and explain material contents of such personal interest at the meeting of the Board. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article 46, a Director who has a personal interest in the matter under discussion at a meeting of the Directors, which may conflict with and impair the interest of the Company, shall not vote nor exercise voting rights on behalf of another Director; the voting right of such Director who cannot vote or exercise any voting right as prescribed above shall not be counted in the number of votes of Directors present at the board meeting.

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Director who is engaged in anything on his own account or on behalf of another person, which is within the scope of the Company's business, shall explain to the Members in a general meeting the essential contents of such conduct and seek their approval by supermajority resolution.

47. Indemnification and Exculpation of Directors and Officers

  • 47.1 Unless otherwise provided in these Articles, The Directors and Officers of the Company and any trustee for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and every former director, officer or trustee and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, and personal representatives (each of which persons being referred to in this Article as an "indemnified party") shall be indemnified and secured harmless out of the assets of the Company from and against all actions, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may incur or sustain by or by reason of any act done, concurred in or omitted in or about the execution of their duty, or supposed duty, or in their respective offices or trusts, and no indemnified party shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of the others of them or for joining in any receipts for the sake of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or effects belonging to the Company shall or may be lodged or deposited for safe custody, or for insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any moneys of or belonging to the Company shall be placed out on or invested, or for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto, PROVIDED THAT this indemnity shall not extend to any matter in respect of any breach of duties, fraud or dishonesty which may attach to any of the said persons.

  • 47.2 Without prejudice and subject to the general directors’ duties that a Director owes to the Company and its shareholders under common law principals and the laws of the Cayman Islands, a Director shall perform his/her fiduciary duties of loyalty and due care of a good administrator in the course of conducting the Company’s business, and shall indemnify the Company, to the maximum extent legally permissible, from any loss incurred or suffered by the Company arising from breach of his/her fiduciary duties. If a Director has made any profit for the benefit of himself/herself or any third party as a result of any breach of his/her fiduciary duties, the Company shall, if so resolved by the Members by way of an ordinary resolution, take all such actions and steps as may be appropriate and to the maximum extent legally permissible to seek to recover such profit from such relevant Director. If a Director has, in the course of conducting the Company’s business, violated any laws or regulations that causes the Company to become liable for any

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compensation or damages to any person, such Director shall become jointly and severally liable for such compensation or damages with the Company and if for any reason such Director is not made jointly and severally liable with the Company, such Director shall indemnify the Company for any loss incurred or suffered by the Company caused by a breach of duties by such Director.

  • 47.3 The Officers, in the course of performing their duties to the Company, shall assume such duties and obligations to indemnify the Company in the same manner as if they are Directors.

  • 47.4 The Company may purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any Director or Officer of the Company against any liability incurred by him in his capacity as a Director or Officer of the Company or indemnifying such Director or Officer in respect of any loss arising or liability attaching to him by virtue of any rule of law in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which the Director or Officer may be guilty in relation to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof.

  • 47.5 To the extent permitted under the laws of the Cayman Islands and there is a cause of action under applicable laws by the Company against such relevant Director(s), a Member or Members collectively continuously holding three per cent (3%) or more of the total issued shares of the Company for a year or longer may:

  • (a) request in writing the Board to authorise any Independent Director of the Audit Committee to file a petition with the Taipei District Court, ROC for and on behalf of the Company against any of the Directors; or

  • (b) request in writing any Independent Director of the Audit Committee to file a petition with the Taipei District Court, ROC for and on behalf of the Company against any of the Directors with the approval of the Board;

within thirty (30) days after the Member(s) having made the request under the preceding clause (a) or (b), if (i) in the case of clause (a), the Board fails to make such authorisation or the Independent Director of the Audit Committee having been authorised by the Board fails to file such petition, or (ii) in the case of clause (b), the Independent Director of the Audit Committee fails to file such petition or the Board disapproves such action, to the extent permitted under the laws of the Cayman Islands and there is a cause of action under applicable laws by the Company against such relevant Director(s), such Member(s) may file a petition with the Taipei District Court, ROC for and on behalf of the Company against any of the Directors.

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MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

48. Board Meetings

Subject to the Applicable Public Company Rules, the Chairman may call a meeting of the Board and the Board may meet for the transaction of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it sees fit. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at least on a quarterly basis to review the Company's performance during the previous fiscal quarter and to decide on matters customarily requiring approval of the Board as stipulated herein. A resolution put to the vote at a meeting of the Board shall be carried by the affirmative votes of a majority of the votes cast and in the case of an equality of votes the resolution shall fail.

49. Notice of Board Meetings

The Chairman may, and the Secretary on the requisition of the Chairman shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Board. To convene a meeting of the Board, a notice setting forth therein the matters to be considered and if appropriate, approved at the meeting shall be given to each Director no later than seven (7) days prior to the scheduled meeting date. However, in the case of emergency as agreed by a majority of the Directors, the meeting may be convened with a shorter notice period in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules. Notice of a meeting of the Board shall be deemed to be duly given to a Director if, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, it is given to such Director verbally (in person or by telephone) or otherwise communicated or sent to such Director by post, cable, telex, telecopier, facsimile, electronic mail or other mode of representing words in a legible form at such Director's last known address or any other address given by such Director to the Company for this purpose.

50. Participation in Meetings by Video Conference

Directors may participate in any meeting of the Board by means of video conference or other communication facilities, as permitted by the Applicable Law, where 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.

51. Quorum at Board Meetings

The quorum for a meeting of the Board shall be more than one-half of the total number of the Directors. Any of the Directors may appoint another Director as proxy to represent him at any meeting of the Board if such Director is unable to do so in person for any reason. If a Director appoints a proxy then for all purposes the presence or vote of the proxy shall be deemed to be that of the appointing Director. The appointed Director may only act as the proxy of one Director only.

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52. Board to Continue in the Event of Vacancy

The Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its number.

53. Chairman to Preside

Unless otherwise agreed by a majority of the Directors attending, the Chairman, if there be one, shall act as chairman at all meetings of the Board at which such person is present. In his absence a chairman shall be appointed or elected in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

54. Validity of Prior Acts of the Board

No regulation or alteration to these Articles made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if that regulation or alteration had not been made.

CORPORATE RECORDS

55. Minutes

The Board shall cause minutes to be duly entered in books provided for the purpose:

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

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

  • (c) of all resolutions and proceedings of general meetings of the Members, meetings of the Board, meetings of managers and meetings of committees appointed by the Board.

56. Register of Mortgages and Charges

  • 56.1 The Directors shall cause to be kept the Register of Mortgages and Charges required by the Law.

  • 56.2 The Register of Mortgages and Charges shall be open to inspection by Members and creditors in accordance with the Law, at the Registered Office on every business day in the Cayman Islands, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the Board may impose, so that not less than two (2) hours in each such business day be allowed for inspection.

57. Form and Use of Seal

  • 57.1 The Seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf; and, until otherwise determined by the Directors, the Seal shall be affixed in the presence of a Director or the Secretary or an assistant secretary or some other person authorised for this purpose by the Directors or the committee of Directors.

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  • 57.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Seal may without further authority be affixed by way of authentication to any document required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands, and may be so affixed by any Director, Secretary or assistant secretary of the Company or any other person or institution having authority to file the document as aforesaid.

  • 57.3 The Company may have one or more duplicate Seals, as permitted by the Law; and, if the Directors think fit, a duplicate Seal may bear on its face of the name of the country, territory, district or place where it is to be issued.

TENDER OFFER AND ACCOUNTS

58. Tender Offer

Within seven (7) days after the receipt of the copy of a tender offer application form and relevant documents by the Company or its litigious and non-litigious agent (訴訟及非訴訟代理人 , which term shall be construed under the laws of ROC ) appointed by the Company pursuant to the Applicable Public Company Rules, the Board shall resolve to recommend to the Members whether to accept or object to the tender offer and make a public announcement of the following:

  • (a) the types and number of the shares held by the Directors and the Members holding more than ten per cent (10%) of the total issued shares in their own names or in the names of other persons.

  • (b) recommendations to the Members on the tender offer, which shall set forth the names of the Directors who abstain or object to the tender offer and the reason(s) therefor.

  • (c) whether there is any material change in the financial condition of the Company after the submission of the latest financial report and an explanation of the change, if any.

  • (d) the types, numbers and amount of the shares of the tender offeror or its affiliates held by the Directors and the Members holding more than ten per cent (10%) of the total number of issued shares held in their own names or in the name of other persons.

59. Books of Account

  • 59.1 The Board shall cause to be kept proper records of account with respect to all transactions of the Company and in particular with respect to:-

  • (a) all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure relates;

  • (b) all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; and

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(c) all assets and liabilities of the Company.

Such books of account shall be kept for at least five (5) years from the date they are prepared.

  • 59.2 Such records of account shall be kept and proper books of account shall not be deemed to be kept with respect to the matters aforesaid if there are not kept, at such place as the Board thinks fit, such books as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company's affairs and to explain its transactions.

  • 59.3 The instruments of proxy, documents, forms/statements and information in electronic media prepared in accordance with the Articles and relevant rules and regulations shall be kept for at least one (1) year. However, if a Member institutes a lawsuit with respect to such instruments of proxy, documents, forms/statements and/or information mentioned herein, they shall be kept until the conclusion of the litigation if longer than one (1) year.

60. Financial Year End

The financial year end of the Company shall be 31st December in each year but, subject to any direction of the Company in general meeting, the Board may from time to time prescribe some other period to be the financial year, provided that the Board may not without the sanction of an ordinary resolution prescribe or allow any financial year longer than eighteen months.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

61. Number of Committee Members

The Board shall set up an Audit Committee. The Audit Committee shall comprise solely of Independent Directors and the number of committee members shall not be less than three (3). One of the Audit Committee members shall be appointed as the convener to convene meetings of the Audit Committee from time to time and at least one of the Audit Committee members shall have accounting or financial expertise. A valid resolution of the Audit Committee requires approval of one-half or more of all its members.

62. Powers of Audit Committee

The Audit Committee shall have the responsibilities and powers as specified under the Applicable Public Company Rules. Any of the following matters of the Company shall require the consent of one-half or more of all Audit Committee members and be submitted to the Board for resolution:

  • (a) adoption of or amendment to an internal control system;

  • (b) assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control system;

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  • (c) adoption of or amendment to the handling procedures for financial or operational actions of material significance, such as acquisition or disposal of assets, derivatives trading, extension of monetary loans to others, or endorsements or guarantees for others;

  • (d) any matter relating to the personal interest of the Directors;

  • (e) a material asset or derivatives transaction;

  • (f) a material monetary loan, endorsement, or provision of guarantee;

  • (g) the offering, issuance, or Private Placement of any equity-related securities;

  • (h) the hiring or dismissal of an attesting certified public accountant, or the compensation given thereto;

  • (i) the appointment or discharge of a financial, accounting, or internal auditing officer;

  • (j) approval of annual and semi-annual financial reports; and

  • (k) any other matter so determined by the Company from time to time or required by any competent authority overseeing the Company.

With the exception of item (j), any other matter that has not been approved with the consent of one-half or more of all Audit Committee members may be undertaken upon the consent of two-thirds or more of the members of the Board, and the resolution of the Audit Committee shall be recorded in the minutes of the Directors meeting.

VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP AND DISSOLUTION

63. Winding-Up

  • 63.1 The Company may be voluntarily wound-up in accordance with Article 11.5.

  • 63.2 If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution, divide amongst the Members in specie or in kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may, for such purpose, set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members. The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in the trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as the liquidator shall think fit, but so that no Member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities or assets whereon there is any liability.

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CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION

64. Changes to Articles

Subject to the Law and to the conditions contained in its Memorandum, the Company may, by special resolution, alter or add to its Articles.

65. Discontinuance

The Board may exercise all the powers of the Company to transfer by way of continuation the Company to a named country or jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands pursuant to the Law.

OTHERS

66. Shareholder Protection Mechanism

If the Company proposes to undertake:

  • (a) a merger or consolidation which will result in the Company being dissolved;

  • (b) a sale, transfer or assignment of all of the Company's assets and businesses to another entity;

  • (c) a share exchange; or

  • (d) a demerger (spin off),

which would result in the termination of the Company's listing on the TSE, and where (in the case of (a) above) the surviving entity, (in the case of (b) above) the transferee, (in the case of (c) above) the entity whose shares has been allotted in exchange for the Company's shares and, (in the case of (d) above) the existing or newly incorporated spun-off company's shares are not listed on the TSE or the Taipei Exchange, then in addition to any requirements to be satisfied under the Law, such action shall be first approved at a general meeting by a resolution passed by members holding two-thirds or more of the votes of the total number of issued shares of the Company.

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IV. Appendices

Appendix 1: Rules of Procedure for Shareholders Meetings

Article 1 To establish a strong governance system and sound supervisory capabilities for this Corporation's shareholders meetings, and to strengthen management capabilities, these Rules are adopted pursuant to the rules provided by rules and regulations established by the competent securities authority.

Article 2 The rules of procedures for this Corporation's shareholders meetings, except as otherwise provided by applicable laws (Cayman Islands laws and Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation regulations) or the articles of incorporation, shall be as provided in these Rules.

Article 3 Unless otherwise provided by law or regulation, this Corporation's shareholders meetings shall be convened by the board of directors. This Corporation shall prepare electronic versions of the shareholders meeting notice and proxy forms, and the origins of explanatory materials relating to all proposals, including proposals for ratification, matters for deliberation, or the election or dismissal of directors, and upload them to the Market Observation Post System (MOPS) before 30 days before the date of a regular shareholders meeting or before 15 days before the date of a special shareholders meeting. This Corporation shall prepare electronic versions of the shareholders meeting agenda and supplemental meeting materials and upload them to the MOPS before 21 days before the date of the regular shareholders meeting or before 15 days before the date of the special shareholders meeting. In addition, before 15 days before the date of the shareholders meeting, this Corporation shall also have prepared the shareholders meeting agenda and supplemental meeting materials and made them available for review by shareholders at any time. The meeting agenda and supplemental materials shall also be displayed at this Corporation and its shareholder services agent designated by this Corporation as well as being distributed on-site at the meeting place. The reasons for convening a shareholders meeting shall be specified in the meeting notice and public announcement. With the consent of the addressee, the meeting notice may be given in electronic form.

Election or dismissal of directors, amendments to the articles of incorporation, the dissolution, merger, or demerger of the corporation, or any matter under Article 185, paragraph 1 of the Company Act or Articles 26-1 and 43-6 of the Securities and Exchange Act or Article 56-1 and Article 60-2 of the Regulations Governing the Offering and Issuance of Securities by Securities Issuers shall be set out in the notice of the reasons for convening the shareholders meeting. None of the above matters may be raised by an extraordinary motion.

A shareholder holding 1 percent or more of the total number of issued shares may submit to this Corporation a written proposal for discussion at a regular shareholders meeting. Such proposals,

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however, are limited to one item only, and no proposal containing more than one item will be included in the meeting agenda. In addition, when the circumstances of any subparagraph of Article 172-1, paragraph 4 of the Company Act apply to a proposal put forward by a shareholder, the board of directors may exclude it from the agenda.

Prior to the book closure date before a regular shareholders meeting is held, this Corporation shall publicly announce that it will receive shareholder proposals, and the location and time period for their submission; the period for submission of shareholder proposals may not be less than 10 days.

Shareholder-submitted proposals are limited to 300 words, and no proposal containing more than 300 words will be included in the meeting agenda. The shareholder making the proposal shall be present in person or by proxy at the regular shareholders meeting and take part in discussion of the proposal.

Prior to the date for issuance of notice of a shareholders meeting, this Corporation shall inform the shareholders who submitted proposals of the proposal screening results, and shall list in the meeting notice the proposals that conform to the provisions of this article. At the shareholders meeting the board of directors shall explain the reasons for exclusion of any shareholder proposals not included in the agenda.

Article 4 For each shareholders meeting, a shareholder may appoint a proxy to attend the meeting by providing the proxy form issued by this Corporation and stating the scope of the proxy's authorization.

A shareholder may issue only one proxy form and appoint only one proxy for any given shareholders meeting, and shall deliver the proxy form to this Corporation before 5 days before the date of the shareholders meeting. When duplicate proxy forms are delivered, the one received earliest shall prevail unless a declaration is made to cancel the previous proxy appointment.

After a proxy form has been delivered to this Corporation, if the shareholder intends to attend the meeting in person or to exercise voting rights by correspondence or electronically, a written notice of proxy cancellation shall be submitted to this Corporation before 2 business days before the meeting date. If the cancellation notice is submitted after that time, votes cast at the meeting by the proxy shall prevail.

Article 5 The venue for a shareholders meeting shall be the premises of this Corporation, or a place easily accessible to shareholders and suitable for a shareholders meeting.

Shareholders meetings shall be convened in Taiwan if shares of this company are already traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. If the board of directors resolves to convene a shareholders meeting in areas other than Taiwan, the company shall apply for permission by the Taiwan Stock Exchange within three days upon adoption of said resolution by the board of directors.

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The meeting may begin no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 3 p.m. Full consideration shall be given to the opinions of the independent directors with respect to the place and time of the meeting.

Article 6 This Corporation shall specify in its shareholders meeting notices the time during which shareholder attendance registrations will be accepted, the place to register for attendance, and other matters for attention.

The time during which shareholder attendance registrations will be accepted, as stated in the preceding paragraph, shall be at least 30 minutes prior to the time the meeting commences. The place at which attendance registrations are accepted shall be clearly marked and a sufficient number of suitable personnel assigned to handle the registrations.

Shareholders and their proxies (collectively, "shareholders") shall attend shareholders meetings based on attendance cards, sign-in cards, or other certificates of attendance. No arbitrary requirements shall be imposed on shareholders to provide additional evidentiary documents beyond those showing eligibility to attend.

Solicitors soliciting proxy forms shall also bring identification documents for verification.

This Corporation shall furnish the attending shareholders with an attendance book to sign, or attending shareholders may hand in a sign-in card in lieu of signing in.

This Corporation shall furnish attending shareholders with the meeting agenda book, annual report, attendance card, speaker's slips, voting slips, and other meeting materials. Where there is an election of directors, pre-printed ballots shall also be furnished.

When the government or a juristic person is a shareholder, it may be represented by more than one representative at a shareholders meeting. When a juristic person is appointed to attend as proxy, it may designate only one person to represent it in the meeting.

Article 7 If a shareholders meeting is convened by the board of directors, the meeting shall be chaired by the chairperson of the board. When the chairperson of the board is on leave or for any reason unable to exercise the powers of the chairperson, the vice chairperson shall act in place of the chairperson; if there is no vice chairperson or the vice chairperson also is on leave or for any reason unable to exercise the powers of the vice chairperson, the chairperson shall appoint one of the managing directors to act as chair, or, if there are no managing directors, one of the directors shall be appointed to act as chair. Where the chairperson does not make such a designation, the managing directors or the directors shall select from among themselves one person to serve as chair.

When a managing director or a director serves as chair, as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the managing director or director shall be one who has held that position for six months or more and who understands the financial and business conditions of the company. The same shall be true for a representative of a juristic person director that

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serves as chair.

For a shareholders meeting called by the board of directors, it is advisable that the board chairperson chair the meeting, that a majority of the directors attend in person, and that at least one member of each functional committee attend as representative. Attendance details should be recorded in the shareholders meeting minutes.

If a shareholders meeting is convened by a party with power to convene but other than the board of directors, the convening party shall chair the meeting. When there are two or more such convening parties, they shall mutually select a chair from among themselves. This Corporation may appoint its attorneys, certified public accountants, or related persons retained by it to attend a shareholders meeting in a non-voting capacity.

Article 8 This Corporation, beginning from the time it accepts shareholder attendance registrations, shall make an uninterrupted audio and video recording of the registration procedure, the proceedings of the shareholders meeting, and the voting and vote counting procedures. The recorded materials of the preceding paragraph shall be retained for at least 1 year. If, however, a shareholder files a lawsuit pursuant to Article 189 of the Company Act, the recording shall be retained until the conclusion of the litigation.

Article 9 Attendance at shareholders meetings shall be calculated based on numbers of shares. The number of shares in attendance shall be calculated according to the shares indicated by the attendance book or sign-in cards handed in plus the number of shares whose voting rights are exercised by correspondence or electronically.

The chair shall call the meeting to order at the appointed meeting time. However, when the attending shareholders do not represent a majority of the total number of issued shares, the chair may announce a postponement, provided that no more than two such postponements, for a combined total of no more than 1 hour, may be made. If the quorum is not met after two postponements and the attending shareholders still represent less than one third of the total number of issued shares, the chair shall declare the meeting adjourned.

If the quorum is not met after two postponements as referred to in the preceding paragraph, but the attending shareholders represent one third or more of the total number of issued shares, a tentative resolution may be adopted pursuant to Article 175, paragraph 1 of the Company Act; all shareholders shall be notified of the tentative resolution and another shareholders meeting shall be convened within 1 month.

When, prior to conclusion of the meeting, the attending shareholders represent a majority of the total number of issued shares, the chair may resubmit the tentative resolution for a vote by the shareholders meeting pursuant to Article 174 of the Company Act.

Article 10 If a shareholders meeting is convened by the board of directors, the meeting agenda shall be set by the board of directors. The meeting shall proceed in the order set by the agenda, which may not be

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changed without a resolution of the shareholders meeting.

The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a shareholders meeting convened by a party with the power to convene that is not the board of directors.

The chair may not declare the meeting adjourned prior to completion of deliberation on the meeting agenda of the preceding two paragraphs (including extraordinary motions), except by a resolution of the shareholders meeting. If the chair declares the meeting adjourned in violation of the rules of procedure, the other members of the board of directors shall promptly assist the attending shareholders in electing a new chair in accordance with statutory procedures, by agreement of a majority of the votes represented by the attending shareholders, and then continue the meeting.

The chair shall allow ample opportunity during the meeting for explanation and discussion of proposals and of amendments or extraordinary motions put forward by the shareholders; when the chair is of the opinion that a proposal has been discussed sufficiently to put it to a vote, the chair may announce the discussion closed and call for a vote.

Article 11 Before speaking, an attending shareholder must specify on a speaker's slip the subject of the speech, his/her shareholder account number (or attendance card number), and account name. The order in which shareholders speak will be set by the chair.

A shareholder in attendance who has submitted a speaker's slip but does not actually speak shall be deemed to have not spoken. When the content of the speech does not correspond to the subject given on the speaker's slip, the spoken content shall prevail.

Except with the consent of the chair, a shareholder may not speak more than twice on the same proposal, and a single speech may not exceed 5 minutes. If the shareholder's speech violates the rules or exceeds the scope of the agenda item, the chair may terminate the speech.

When an attending shareholder is speaking, other shareholders may not speak or interrupt unless they have sought and obtained the consent of the chair and the shareholder that has the floor; the chair shall stop any violation.

When a juristic person shareholder appoints two or more representatives to attend a shareholders meeting, only one of the representatives so appointed may speak on the same proposal.

After an attending shareholder has spoken, the chair may respond in person or direct relevant personnel to respond.

  • Article 12 Voting at a shareholders meeting shall be calculated based the number of shares.

With respect to resolutions of shareholders meetings, the number of shares held by a shareholder with no voting rights shall not be calculated as part of the total number of issued shares.

When a shareholder is an interested party in relation to an agenda item, and there is the likelihood that such a relationship would

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prejudice the interests of this Corporation, that shareholder may not vote on that item, and may not exercise voting rights as proxy for any other shareholder.

The number of shares for which voting rights may not be exercised under the preceding paragraphs shall not be calculated as part of the voting rights represented by attending shareholders.

With the exception of a trust enterprise or a shareholder services agent approved by the competent securities authority, when one person is concurrently appointed as proxy by two or more shareholders, the voting rights represented by that proxy may not exceed 3 percent of the voting rights represented by the total number of issued shares. If that percentage is exceeded, the voting rights in excess of that percentage shall not be included in the calculation.

Article 13 A shareholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share held, except when the shares are restricted shares or are deemed non-voting shares under Article 179, paragraph 2 of the Company Act.

When this Corporation holds a shareholders meeting, it may allow the shareholders to exercise voting rights by correspondence or electronic means; when voting rights are exercised by correspondence or electronic means, the method of exercise shall be specified in the shareholders meeting notice. A shareholder exercising voting rights by correspondence or electronic means will be deemed to have attended the meeting in person, but to have waived his/her rights with respect to the extraordinary motions and amendments to original proposals of that meeting.

A shareholder intending to exercise voting rights by correspondence or electronic means under the preceding paragraph shall deliver a written declaration of intent to this Corporation before 2 days before the date of the shareholders meeting. When duplicate declarations of intent are delivered, the one received earliest shall prevail, except when a declaration is made to cancel the earlier declaration of intent. After a shareholder has exercised voting rights by correspondence or electronic means, in the event the shareholder intends to attend the shareholders meeting in person, a written declaration of intent to retract the voting rights already exercised under the preceding paragraph shall be made known to this Corporation, by the same means by which the voting rights were exercised, before 2 business days before the date of the shareholders meeting. If the notice of retraction is submitted after that time, the voting rights already exercised by correspondence or electronic means shall prevail. When a shareholder has exercised voting rights both by correspondence or electronic means and by appointing a proxy to attend a shareholders meeting, the voting rights exercised by the proxy in the meeting shall prevail.

Except as otherwise provided in the Company Act of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and in this Corporation's articles of incorporation, the passage of a proposal shall require an affirmative vote of a majority of the voting rights represented by the attending shareholders. At the time of a vote, for each proposal, the chair or a person designated by the chair shall first announce the total number of voting rights represented by the attending shareholders

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and to arrange for their shareholders to vote on each separate proposal in the shareholders meeting agenda, and following conclusion of the meeting, to enter the voting results the same day, namely the numbers of votes cast for and against and the number of abstentions, on the Market Observation Post System.

When there is an amendment or an alternative to a proposal, the chair shall present the amended or alternative proposal together with the original proposal and decide the order in which they will be put to a vote. When any one among them is passed, the other proposals will then be deemed rejected, and no further voting shall be required. Vote monitoring and counting personnel for the voting on a proposal shall be appointed by the chair, provided that all monitoring personnel shall be shareholders of this Corporation.

Vote counting for shareholders meeting proposals or elections shall be conducted in public at the place of the shareholders meeting. Immediately after vote counting has been completed, the results of the voting, including the statistical tallies of the numbers of votes, shall be announced on-site at the meeting, and a record made of the vote.

Article 14 The election of directors (including independent directors)at a shareholders meeting shall be held in accordance with the applicable “Election and Appointment Procedures of Directors” adopted by this Corporation, and the voting results shall be announced on-site immediately, including the names of those elected as directors (including independent directors) and the numbers of votes with which they were elected.

The ballots for the election referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be sealed with the signatures of the monitoring personnel and kept in proper custody for at least 1 year. If, however, a shareholder files a lawsuit pursuant to Article 189 of the Company Act, the ballots shall be retained until the conclusion of the litigation.

  • Article 15 Matters relating to the resolutions of a shareholders meeting shall be recorded in the meeting minutes. The meeting minutes shall be signed or sealed by the chair of the meeting and a copy distributed to each shareholder within 20 days after the conclusion of the meeting. The meeting minutes may be produced and distributed in electronic form. This Corporation may distribute the meeting minutes of the preceding paragraph by means of a public announcement made through the MOPS.

The meeting minutes shall accurately record the year, month, day, and place of the meeting, the chair's full name, the methods by which resolutions were adopted, and a summary of the deliberations and their results, and shall be retained for the duration of the existence of this Corporation.

  • Article 16 On the day of a shareholders meeting, this Corporation shall compile in the prescribed format a statistical statement of the number of shares obtained by solicitors through solicitation and the number of shares represented by proxies, and shall make an express disclosure of the same at the place of the shareholders meeting.

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If matters put to a resolution at a shareholders meeting constitute material information under applicable laws or regulations or under Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation regulations, this Corporation shall upload the content of such resolution to the MOPS within the prescribed time period.

Article 17 Staff handling administrative affairs of a shareholders meeting shall wear identification cards or arm bands.

The chair may direct the proctors or security personnel to help maintain order at the meeting place. When proctors or security personnel help maintain order at the meeting place, they shall wear an identification card or armband bearing the word "Proctor."

At the place of a shareholders meeting, if a shareholder attempts to speak through any device other than the public address equipment set up by this Corporation, the chair may prevent the shareholder from so doing.

When a shareholder violates the rules of procedure and defies the chair's correction, obstructing the proceedings and refusing to heed calls to stop, the chair may direct the proctors or security personnel to escort the shareholder from the meeting.

Article 18 When a meeting is in progress, the chair may announce a break based on time considerations. If a force majeure event occurs, the chair may rule the meeting temporarily suspended and announce a time when, in view of the circumstances, the meeting will be resumed.

If the meeting venue is no longer available for continued use and not all of the items (including extraordinary motions) on the meeting agenda have been addressed, the shareholders meeting may adopt a resolution to resume the meeting at another venue.

A resolution may be adopted at a shareholders meeting to defer or resume the meeting within 5 days in accordance with Article 182 of the Company Act.

Article 19 If the regulations set forth in these rules conflict with the articles of incorporation of this company, the regulations set forth in the articles of incorporation shall prevail.

If these rules conflict with applicable laws (applicable regulations set forth in the laws of the Cayman Islands and the Taiwan Stock Exchange). The relevant provisions that conflict with said laws shall be invalid and matters governed by these provisions shall be handled pursuant to relevant applicable laws

Article 20 These regulations and all amendments hereof shall come into effect upon approval by a shareholders meeting and the date of listing of the stocks of this company on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. These rules were formulated on May 5, 2010 These rules were amended for the first time on June 17, 2013. These rules were amended for the second time on June 6, 2014. These rules were amended for the third time on June 13, 2017.

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Appendice 2: Articles of Association

NINTH AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技集團有限公司

(Adopted by a special resolution passed by the members of the company on 7 June 2016)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table A
INTERPRETATION
67. Definitions
SHARES
68. Power to Issue Shares
69. Redemption and Purchase
of Shares
70. Rights Attaching to Shares
71. Share Certificates
72. Preferred Shares
REGISTRATION OF
SHARES
73. Register of Members
74. Registered Holder Absolute
Owner
75. Transfer of Registered
Shares
76. Transmission of Shares
ALTERATION OF SHARE
CAPITAL
77. Power to Alter Capital
78. Variation of Rights
Attaching to Shares
DIVIDENDS AND
CAPITALISATION
79. Dividends
80. Capital Reserve and Power
to Set Aside Profits
81. Method of Payment
82. Capitalisation
MEETINGS OF MEMBERS
83. Annual General Meetings
84. Extraordinary General
Meetings
85. Notice
86. Giving Notice
87. Postponement of General
Meeting
88. Quorum and Proceedings at
General Meetings
89. Chairman to Preside
90. Voting on Resolutions
91. Proxies
92. Proxy Solicitation
93. Dissenting Member's
Appraisal Right
94. Shares that May Not be
Voted
95. Voting by Joint Holders of
Shares
96. Representation of Corporate
Member
97. Adjournment of General
Meeting
98. Directors Attendance at
General Meetings
DIRECTORS AND
OFFICERS
99. Number and Term of Office
of Directors
100. Election of Directors
101. Removal of Directors
102. Vacancy in the Office of
Director
103. Compensation of Director
104. Defect in Election of
Director
105. Directors to Manage
Business
106. Powers of the Board of
Directors
107. Register of Directors and
Officers
108. Officers
109. Appointment of Officers
110. Duties of Officers
111. Compensation of Officers
112. Conflicts of Interest
113. Indemnification and
Exculpation of Directors
and Officers
MEETINGS OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
114. Board Meetings
115. Notice of Board Meetings
116. Participation in Meetings
by Video Conference
117. Quorum at Board Meetings
118. Board to Continue in the
Event of Vacancy
119. Chairman to Preside
120. Validity of Prior Acts of the
Board
CORPORATE RECORDS
121. Minutes
122. Register of Mortgages and
Charges
123. Form and Use of Seal
TENDER OFFER AND
ACCOUNTS
124. Tender Offer
125. Books of Account
126. Financial Year End
AUDIT COMMITTEE
127. Number of Committee
Members
128. Powers of Audit Committee
VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP
AND DISSOLUTION
129. Winding-Up
CHANGES TO
CONSTITUION
130. Changes to Articles
131. Discontinuance

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NINTH AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited

永冠能源科技集團有限公司

(Adopted by a special resolution passed by the members of the company on 7 June 2016)

Table A

The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Law (as defined below) do not apply to the Company.

INTERPRETATION

1. Definitions

  • 1.1 In these ninth Amended and Restated Articles, the following words and expressions shall, where not inconsistent with the context, have the following meanings, respectively:

Applicable Law the Applicable Public Company Rules, the Law or such other rules or legislation applicable to the Company; Applicable Public Company Rules the ROC laws, rules and regulations (including, without limitation, the Company Law, the Securities and Exchange Law, the rules and regulations promulgated by the FSC and the rules and regulations promulgated by the TSE, as amended from time to time) affecting public reporting companies or companies listed on any ROC stock exchange or securities market that from time to time are required by the relevant regulator as applicable to the Company;

Articles these Articles of Association as altered from time to time; Audit Committee the audit committee under the Board, which shall comprise solely of Independent Directors of the Company;

Board the board of directors appointed or elected pursuant to these Articles and acting at a meeting of

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directors at which there is a quorum in accordance with these Articles;

  • Capital Reserve for the purpose of these Articles only, comprises of the premium (meaning such amount above par value of the shares) paid on the issuance of any share under the Law and income from endowments received by the Company;

  • Chairman the Director elected by and amongst all the Directors as the chairman of the Board;

  • Company Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group Company Limited 永冠能源科技集團有限公司 ;

  • Compensation Committee a committee established by the Board, which shall be comprised of professional individuals appointed by the Board and having the functions, in each case, prescribed by the Applicable Public Company Rules;

  • Cumulative Voting the voting mechanism for an election of Directors as described in Article 34.2;

  • Directors the directors for the time being of the Company and shall include any and all Independent Director(s);

  • Electronic Record has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Law;

  • Electronic Transactions Law the Electronic Transactions Law (2003 Revision) of the Cayman Islands;

Family Relationship within Second in respect of a person, means another person who is Degree of Kinship related to the first person either by blood or by marriage of a member of the family and within the second degree to include the parents, siblings, grandparents, children and grandchildren of the person as well as spouse’s parents, siblings and grandparents;

  • FSC The Financial Supervisory Commission of the Republic of China;

  • Independent Directors the Directors who are elected as "Independent Directors" for the purpose of Applicable Public Company Rules;

  • Joint Operation Contract a contract between the Company and one or more person(s) or entit(ies) where the parties to the contract agree to pursue the same business venture and jointly bear losses and enjoy profits arising out

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of such business venture in accordance with the terms of such contract;

Law

Lease Contract

  • Management Contract

  • Market Observation Post System

  • Member

  • Memorandum

  • Notice

  • Merger

The Companies Law of the Cayman Islands and every modification, reenactment or revision thereof for the time being in force;

  • a contract or arrangement between the Company and any other person(s) pursuant to which such person(s) lease or rent from the Company the necessary means and assets to operate the whole business of the Company in the name of such person, and as consideration, the Company receives a pre-determined compensation from such person;

  • a contract or arrangement between the Company and any other person(s) pursuant to which such person(s) manage and operate the business of the Company in the name of the Company and for the benefits of the Company, and as consideration, such person(s) receive a pre-determined compensation while the Company continues to be entitled to the profits (or losses) of such business; the public company reporting system maintained by the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, via http://mops.twse.com.tw/;

  • the person registered in the Register of Members as the holder of shares in the Company and, when two or more persons are so registered as joint holders of shares, means the person whose name stands first in the Register of Members as one of such joint holders or all of such persons, as the context so requires;

the memorandum of association of the Company;

  • written notice as further provided in these Articles unless otherwise specifically stated;

a transaction whereby:

(a) (i) all of the companies participating in such transaction are combined into a new company, which new company generally assumes all rights and obligations of the combined companies; or (ii) all of the companies participating in such transaction are merged into one of such companies as the surviving company, and the surviving company generally assumes all rights and obligations of the merged companies, and in each

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case the consideration for the transaction being the
shares of the surviving or new company or any
other company, cash or other assets; or
(b) other forms of mergers and acquisitions which
fall within the definition of "merger and/or
consolidation" under the Applicable Public
Company Rules;
month calendar month;
Officer any person appointed by the Board to hold an
office in the Company;
ordinary resolution a resolution passed at a general meeting (or, if so
specified, a meeting of Members holding a class of
shares) of the Company by not less than a simple
majority of the votes cast;
Private Placement has the meaning given thereto in Article 11.6;
Preferred Shares has the meaning given thereto in Article 6;
Register of Directors and Officers the register of directors and officers referred to in
these Articles;
Register of Members the register of members of the Company
maintained in accordance with the Law and (as
long as the Company is listed on the TSE) the
Applicable Public Company Rules;
Registered Office the registered office for the time being of the
Company;
Related Person(s) the persons as defined in Article 33.2;
ROC Taiwan, the Republic of China;
Seal the common seal or any official or duplicate seal of
the Company;
Secretary the person appointed to perform any or all of the
duties of secretary of the Company and includes
any deputy or assistant secretary and any person
appointed by the Board to perform any of the
duties of the Secretary;
share(s) share(s) of par value NT$10 each in the Company
and includes fraction of a share;
special resolution a resolution passed by a majority of at least
two-thirds (or such greater number as may be
specified in these Articles, if any) of such Members
as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where
proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting

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of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been duly given;

Subsidiary

supermajority resolution

TDCC

with respect to any company, (1) the entity, one half or more of whose total number of the issued voting shares or the total amount of the share capital are directly or indirectly held by such company; (2) the entity that such company has a direct or indirect control over its personnel, financial or business operation; (3) the entity, one half or more of whose shareholders involved in management or board of directors are concurrently acting as the shareholders involved in management or board of directors of such company; and (4) the entity, one half or more of whose total number of the issued voting shares or the total amount of the share capital are held by the same shareholder(s) of such company;

  • a resolution passed by Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) who represent a majority of the outstanding issued shares of the Company as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, in the case of such Members as are corporations, by their respective duly representative or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a duly convened general meeting attended by Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) who represent two-thirds or more of the total outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote thereon or, if the total number of shares represented by the Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) at the general meeting is less than two-thirds of the total outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote thereon, but more than one half of the total outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote thereon, means instead, a resolution adopted at such general meeting by the Members (present in person, by proxy or corporate representative) who represent two-thirds or more of the total number of shares entitled to vote on such resolution at such general meeting;

means the Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation;

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Treasury Shares has the meaning given thereto in Article 3.11; Threshold means the spousal relationship and/or Family Relationship within Second Degree of Kinship threshold for members of the Board as defined in Article 33.2; TSE The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation; and Year calendar year.

  • 1.2 In these Articles, where not inconsistent with the context:

  • (a) words denoting the plural number include the singular number and vice versa;

  • (b) words denoting the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders;

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

  • (d) the words:

    • (i) "may" shall be construed as permissive; and

    • (ii) "shall" shall be construed as imperative;

  • (e) "written" and "in writing" include all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form, including the form of an Electronic Record;

  • (f) a reference to statutory provision shall be deemed to include any amendment or reenactment thereof;

  • (g) unless otherwise provided herein, words or expressions defined in the Law shall bear the same meaning in these Articles; and

  • (h) Section 8 of the Electronic Transactions Law shall not apply to the extent that it imposes obligations or requirements in addition to those set out.

  • 1.3 In these Articles expressions referring to writing or its cognates shall, unless the contrary intention appears, include facsimile, printing, lithography, photography, electronic mail and other modes of representing words in visible form.

  • 1.4 Headings used in these Articles are for convenience only and are not to be used or relied upon in the construction hereof.

SHARES

2. Power to Issue Shares

  • 2.1 Subject to these Articles and any resolution of the Members to the contrary, and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of any existing shares or class of shares, the Board shall have the power to issue any unissued shares of the Company on such terms and conditions as it may determine and any shares or class of shares (including the issue or grant of options, warrants and other rights, renounceable or otherwise in respect of shares) may be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital, or

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otherwise as the Company may by resolution of the Members prescribe, provided that no share shall be issued at a discount except in accordance with the Law.

  • 2.2 Unless otherwise provided in these Articles, the issue of new shares of the Company shall be approved by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors. The issue of new shares shall at all times be subject to the sufficiency of the authorized capital of the Company.

  • 2.3 Where the Company increases its issued share capital by issuing new shares for cash consideration in the ROC the Company shall allocate 10% of the total amount of the new shares to be issued, for offering in the ROC to the public ("Public Offering Portion") unless it is not necessary or appropriate, as determined by the FSC or TSE, for the Company to conduct the aforementioned public offering. However, if a percentage higher than the aforementioned 10% is resolved by the Members in a general meeting by ordinary resolution to be offered, the percentage determined by such resolution shall prevail and shares corresponding to such percentage shall be reserved as Public Offering Portion. The Company may also reserve up to 15% of such new shares for subscription by its employees (the “Employee Subscription Portion”).

  • 2.4 Unless otherwise resolved by the Members in general meeting by ordinary resolution, where the Company increases its issued share capital by issuing new shares for cash consideration, after allocation of the Public Offering Portion and the Employee Subscription Portion pursuant to Article 2.3 hereof, the Company shall make a public announcement and notify each Member that he is entitled to exercise a pre-emptive right to purchase his pro rata portion of the remaining new shares, to be issued in the capital increase for cash consideration. The Company shall state in such announcement and notices to the Members the procedures for exercising such pre-emptive rights and that if any Member fails to purchase his pro rata portion of such remaining newly-issued shares within the prescribed period, such Member shall be deemed to forfeit his pre-emptive right to purchase such newly-issued shares. Where an exercise of the pre-emptive right may result in fractional entitlement of a Member, the entitlements (including fractional entitlements) of two or more Members may be combined to jointly subscribe for one or more whole new shares in the name of a single Member, subject to compliance with such directions and terms and conditions as determined by the Board and the Applicable Public Company Rules. If the total number of the new shares to be issued has not been fully subscribed for by the Members within the prescribed period, the Company may consolidate such shares into the public offering tranche or offer any un-subscribed new shares to a specific person or persons in such manner as is consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 2.5 Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may issue new shares subject to restrictions and conditions (" Restricted Shares ") to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries with the sanction of a Supermajority Resolution provided that Article 2.3 hereof shall not apply in respect of the issue of such shares. For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE, the terms of issue of the Restricted Shares, including but not limited to the number of Restricted Shares so issued, issue price of Restricted Shares and other related matters shall be in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 2.6 The Public Offering Portion and the Employee Subscription Portion under Article 2.3 and

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the pre-emptive right of Members under Article 2.4 shall not apply in the event that new shares are issued due to the following reasons or for the following purposes:

  - (c) in connection with a Merger, spin-off, or pursuant to any reorganization of the Company;

  - (d) in connection with meeting the Company's obligations under share subscription warrants and/or options, including those rendered in Articles 2.8 and 2.10 hereof;

  - (e) in connection with the issue of Restricted Shares in accordance with Article 2.5 hereof;

  - (f) in connection with meeting the Company’s obligations under convertible bonds or corporate bonds vested with rights to acquire shares;

  - (g) in connection with meeting the Company’s obligations under Preferred Shares vested with rights to acquire shares; or

  - (h) in connection with a Private Placement of the securities issued by the Company.
  • 2.7 The Company shall not issue any unpaid shares or partly paid-up shares.

  • 2.8 Notwithstanding Article 2.5 hereof, the Company may, upon approval by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors, adopt one or more employee incentive programmes and may issue shares or options, warrants or other similar instruments, to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and for the avoidance of doubt, approval by the Members is not required.

  • 2.9 Options, warrants or other similar instruments issued in accordance with Article 2.8 above are not transferable save by inheritance.

  • 2.10 The Company may enter into agreements with employees of the Company and the employees of its Subsidiaries in relation to the incentive programme approved pursuant to Article 2.8 above, whereby employees may subscribe, within a specific period of time, a specific number of the shares. The terms and conditions of such agreements shall not be less favorable than the terms specified in the applicable incentive programme.

3. Redemption and Purchase of Shares

  • 3.1 Subject to the Law, the Company is authorised to issue shares which are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Company or a Member.

  • 3.2 The Company is authorised to make payments in respect of the redemption of its shares out of capital or out of any other account or fund authorised for this purpose in accordance with the Law.

  • 3.3 The redemption price of a redeemable share, or the method of calculation thereof, shall be fixed by the Board at or before the time of issue.

  • 3.4 Every share certificate relating to redeemable share shall indicate that the share is redeemable.

  • 3.5 Subject to the provisions of the Applicable Law and these Articles, the Company may, upon approval by a majority of the Directors at a meeting attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors, purchase its own shares (including any redeemable shares) on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may determine and hold them as treasury

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shares of the Company in accordance with the Law (“ Treasury Shares ”). If any purchase of the Company’s own shares involves any immediate cancellation of shares of the Company, such repurchase of shares is subject to approval by the Members by way of an ordinary resolution and the number of shares of the Company to be cancelled shall be allocated among all the Members as of the date of such cancellation on a pro rata basis (as rounded up or down to the nearest whole number as determined by the Directors) based on the then prevailing percentage of shareholding of the Members, unless otherwise provided for in the Law or the Applicable Public Company Rules.

Upon approval by Members by way of an ordinary resolution to repurchase and cancel shares of the Company, the repurchase price may be paid in cash or in kind, provided that where any repurchase price is to be paid in kind, the monetary equivalent value of such payment in kind shall be (a) assessed by an ROC certified public accountant before being submitted by the Board to the Members for approval as part of the ordinary resolution authorising the repurchase and cancellation of shares of the Company; and (b) agreed to individually by each Member who will be receiving the repurchase price in kind.

  • 3.6 In the event that the Company proposes to purchase any share listed on the TSE pursuant to the preceding Article and hold them as Treasury Shares of the Company, the resolution of the Board approving such proposal and the implementation thereof should be reported to the Members in the next general meeting in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules. Such reporting obligation shall also apply even if the Company does not implement the proposal to purchase its shares listed on the TSE for any reason.

  • 3.7 Subject to Article 3.5, the redemption or repurchase price may be paid in any manner permissible under the Law as determined by the Directors, including out of capital.

  • 3.8 A delay in payment of the redemption price shall not affect the redemption but, in the case of a delay of more than thirty days, interest shall be paid for the period from the due date until actual payment at a rate which the Directors, after due enquiry, estimate to be representative of the rates being offered by banks holding “A” licenses (as defined in the Banks and Trust Companies Law (Revised) of the Cayman Islands) in the Cayman Islands for thirty day deposits in the same currency.

  • 3.9 Subject to Article 3.5, the Directors may exercise as they think fit the powers conferred on the Company by Section 37(5) of the Law (payment out of capital).

  • 3.10 Subject as aforesaid and to Article 3.5, the Directors may determine, as they think fit all questions that may arise concerning the manner in which the redemption of the shares shall or may be effected.

  • 3.11 No share may be redeemed unless it is fully paid-up.

  • 3.12 Subject to Article 3.5, shares that the Company purchases, redeems or acquires (by way of surrender or otherwise) shall be cancelled immediately or be held as Treasury Shares .

  • 3.13 No dividend may be declared or paid, and no other distribution (whether in cash or otherwise) of the Company's assets (including any distribution of assets to Members on a winding up of the Company) may be made to the Company in respect of a Treasury Share.

  • 3.14 The Company shall be entered in the Register of Members as the holder of the Treasury Shares provided that:

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  • (i) the Company shall not be treated as a Member for any purpose and shall not exercise any right in respect of the Treasury Shares, and any purported exercise of such a right shall be void;

  • (j) a Treasury Share shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting of the Company and shall not be counted in determining the total number of issued shares at any given time, whether for the purposes of these Articles or the Law.

  • 3.15 After the Company purchases its shares listed on the TSE, any proposal to transfer the Treasury Shares to the employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries at a price below the average actual repurchase price must be approved by special resolution in the next general meeting and the items required by the Applicable Public Company Rules shall be specified in the notice of the general meeting and may not be proposed as an extemporary motion. The aggregate number of Treasury Shares resolved at all general meetings and transferred to the employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not exceed 5% of the total number of issued shares, and each employee may not subscribe for more than 0.5% of the total number of issued shares in aggregate. The Company may prohibit such employees from transferring such Treasury Shares within a certain period; provided, however, that such a period cannot be more than two years from the date that such employees became the registered holders of the relevant Treasury Shares.

  • 3.16 Subject to Article 3.15, Treasury Shares may be disposed of by the Company on such terms and conditions as determined by the Directors.

4. Rights Attaching to Shares

  • 4.1 Subject to Article 2.1, the Memorandum and these Articles, other contractual obligations or restrictions that the Company is bound by and any resolution of the Members to the contrary and without prejudice to any special rights conferred thereby on the holders of any other shares or class of shares, the share capital of the Company shall be divided into shares of a single class the holders of which shall, subject to the provisions of these Articles:

  • (a) be entitled to one vote per share;

  • (b) be entitled to such dividends as recommended by the Board and approved by the Members at general meeting may from time to time declare;

  • (c) in the event of a winding-up or dissolution of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or for the purpose of a reorganization or otherwise or upon any distribution of capital, be entitled to the surplus assets of the Company; and

  • (d) generally be entitled to enjoy all of the rights attaching to shares.

5. Share Certificates

  • 5.1 Shares of the Company shall be issued in uncertificated/scripless form unless the issuance of share certificates is required by the provisions of the Applicable Public Company Rules. Where share certificates are issued, every Member shall be entitled to a certificate issued under the Seal (or a facsimile thereof), which shall be affixed or imprinted with the authority of the Board, specifying the number and, where appropriate, the class of shares held by such Member. The Board may by resolution determine, either generally or in a particular case, that any or all signatures on certificates may be printed thereon or affixed by mechanical means.

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  • 5.2 If any share certificate shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board to have been worn out, lost, mislaid, or destroyed the Board may cause a new certificate to be issued and request an indemnity for the lost certificate if it sees fit.

  • 5.3 Share may not be issued in bearer form.

  • 5.4 When the Company issue share certificates pursuant to Article 5.1 hereof, the Company shall deliver the share certificates to the allottees of such shares within thirty (30) days from the date such share certificates may be issued pursuant to the Law, the Memorandum, the Articles, and the Applicable Public Company Rules, and shall make a public announcement prior to the delivery of such share certificates pursuant to the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 5.5 Where the Company shall issue the shares in uncertificated/scripless form, the Company shall upon the issue of such shares cause the name of the subscriber and other particulars to be entered onto the Register of Members in accordance with the Law and the Applicable Public Company Rules.

6. Preferred Shares

  • 6.1 Notwithstanding any provisions of these Articles, the Company may by special resolution designate one or more classes of shares with preferred or other special rights as the Company, by special resolution, may determine (shares with such preferred or other special rights, the "Preferred Shares"), and cause to be set forth in these Articles.

  • 6.2 The rights and obligations of Preferred Shares may include (but not limited to) the following terms and shall be consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules:

  • (a) the order of priority and fixed amount or fixed ratio of allocation of dividends and bonus on Preferred Shares;

  • (b) the order of priority and fixed amount or fixed ratio of allocation of surplus assets of the Company;

  • (c) the order of priority for or restriction on the voting right(s) (including declaring no voting rights whatsoever) of the Members holding the Preferred Shares;

  • (d) the method by which the Company is authorized or compelled to redeem the Preferred Shares, or a statement that redemption rights shall not apply; and

  • (e) other matters concerning rights and obligations incidental to Preferred Shares.

REGISTRATION OF SHARES

7. Register of Members

  • (a) For so long as shares are listed on the TSE, the Board shall cause to be kept a Register of Members which may be kept outside the Cayman Islands at such place as the Directors shall appoint and which shall be maintained in accordance with the Law and the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • (b) In the event that the Company has shares that are not listed on the TSE, the Company shall also cause to be kept a register of such shares in accordance with Section 40 of the Law.

8. Registered Holder Absolute Owner

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Except as required by Law:

  • (a) no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share on any trust; and

  • (b) no person other than the Member shall be recognised by the Company as having any right in a share.

9. Transfer of Registered Shares

  • 9.1 Title to shares listed on the TSE may be evidenced and transferred in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules (including through the book-entry system of the TDCC) that are applicable to shares listed on the TSE.

  • 9.2 All transfers of shares which are in certificated form may be effected by an instrument of transfer in writing in any usual form or in any other form which the Board may approve and shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and, if the Board so requires, by or on behalf of the transferee. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers.

  • 9.3 The Board may refuse to recognise any instrument of transfer in respect of shares in certificated form unless it is accompanied by the certificate in respect of the shares to which it relates and by such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer.

  • 9.4 The joint holders of any share may transfer such share to one or more of such joint holders, and the surviving holder or holders of any share previously held by them jointly with a deceased Member may transfer any such share to the executors or administrators of such deceased Member.

  • 9.5 The Board may in its absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor refuse to register the transfer of a share in certificated form in the event such registration of transfer would (i) conflict with the Applicable Law; or (ii) conflict with the Memorandum and/or these Articles. If the Board refuses to register a transfer of any share, the Secretary shall, within three months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferor and transferee notice of the refusal.

  • 9.6 Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the Board from recognizing a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members in respect of it.

10. Transmission of Shares

  • 10.1 In the case of the death of a Member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased Member was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased Member where the deceased Member was a sole holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the deceased Member's interest in the shares. Nothing herein contained shall release the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any share which had been jointly held by such deceased Member with other persons. Subject to the provisions of Section 39 of the Law, for the purpose of this Article, legal personal representative means the executor or administrator of a deceased Member or such other person as the Board may, in its absolute discretion, decide as being properly

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authorised to deal with the shares of a deceased Member.

  • 10.2 Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any way other than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Board, elect, by a notice in writing sent by him to the Company, either to become the holder of such share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the holder of such share. If he elects to have another person registered as the holder of such share, he shall sign an instrument of transfer of that share to that person.

  • 10.3 A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any case other than by transfer) shall be entitled to the same dividend, other distributions and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of such share. However, he shall not, before becoming a Member in respect of a share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to general meetings of the Company. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, the Board may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to have some person nominated by him be registered as the holder of the share. If the notice is not complied with within ninety days of being received or deemed to be received (as determined pursuant to the Articles), the Board may thereafter withhold payment of all dividend, other distributions, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the Share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.

  • 10.4 Notwithstanding the above, for as long as the shares are listed on the TSE, the transmission of the shares may be evidenced and transferred in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules (including through the book-entry system of the TDCC) that are applicable to shares listed on the TSE.

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL

11. Power to Alter Capital

  • 11.1 Subject to the Law, the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution alter the conditions of its Memorandum to increase its authorized share capital by such amount as it thinks expedient.

  • 11.2 Subject to the Law, the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution alter the conditions of its Memorandum to:

  • (a) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares in such manner as permitted by Applicable Law; or

  • (b) cancel 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 in such manner as permitted by Applicable Law.

  • 11.3 Subject to the Law and the Articles, the Company may from time to time by special resolution:

  • (a) change its name;

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  • (b) alter or add to the Articles;

  • (c) alter or add to the Memorandum with respect to any objects, powers or other matters specified therein; or

  • (d) reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund in any manner authorised by the Law and the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 11.4 Subject to the Law and Article 11.5, the following actions by the Company shall require the approval of the Members by a supermajority resolution:

  • (f) effecting any capitalization of distributable dividends and/or bonuses and/or any other amount prescribed under Article 16 hereof;

  • (g) effecting any Merger (except for any Merger which falls within the definition of "merger" and/or "consolidation" under the Law, which requires the approval of the Company by special resolution only) or spin-off or Private Placement of the securities issued by the Company;

  • (h) entering into, amend, or terminate any Lease Contract, Management Contract or Joint Operation Contract;

  • (i) the transferring of the whole or any essential part of the business or assets of the Company; or

  • (j) acquiring or assuming the whole business or assets of another person, which has a material effect on the Company's operation.

  • 11.5 Subject to the Law, the Company may be wound up voluntarily:

  • (a) if the Company resolves by supermajority resolution that it be wound up voluntarily because the Company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or

  • (b) if the Company resolves by special resolution that it be wound up voluntarily for reasons other than set out in Article 11.5(a) above.

  • 11.6 Subject to the Law and in addition to approval by the Board in accordance with Article 2.2, the Company may, with a resolution approved by at least two-thirds of the votes of the Members present at a general meeting attended by Members representing a majority of the total number of issued shares, issue securities to the following persons by way of private placement within the territory of the ROC in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules (“ Private Placement ”):

  • (a) banks, bills finance enterprises, trust enterprises, insurance enterprises, securities enterprises, or other legal entities or institutions approved by the FSC;

  • (b) natural person, legal entities or funds meeting the qualifications set forth by the FSC; and

  • (c) directors, supervisors (if any) or managers of the Company or its Subsidiaries.

12. Variation of Rights Attaching to Shares

If, at any time, the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound-up, be varied with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of the class with a quorum of such number of

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holders holding more than one-half of the total outstanding shares of such class being present in person, by proxy or corporate representatives. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any modification or alteration in the Articles is prejudicial to the preferential rights of any class of shares, such modification or alteration shall be adopted by a special resolution and shall also be adopted by a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of Members of that class of shares. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.

DIVIDENDS AND CAPITALISATION

13. Dividends

  • 13.1 The Board may, subject to approval by the Members by way of ordinary resolution or, in the case of Article 11.4(a), supermajority resolution and subject to these Articles and any direction of the Company in general meeting, declare a dividend to be paid to the Members in proportion to the number of shares held by them, and such dividend may be paid in cash, shares or wholly or partly in specie in which case the Board may fix the value for distribution in specie of any assets. No unpaid dividend shall bear interest as against the Company.

  • 13.2 The Directors may determine that a dividend shall be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets (which may consist of the shares or securities of any other company) and may settle all questions concerning such distribution. Without limiting the foregoing generality, the Directors may fix the value of such specific assets, may determine that cash payments shall be made to some Members in lieu of specific assets and may vest any such specific assets in trustees on such terms as the Directors think fit.

  • 13.3 Subject to the Law, Article 11.4(a) and these Articles and except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any shares, the Company may distribute profits in accordance with a proposal for profits distribution approved by the Board and sanctioned by the Members by an ordinary resolution, in annual general meetings. No dividends or other distribution shall be paid except out of profits of the Company, realised or unrealised, out of share premium account or any reserve, fund or account as otherwise permitted by the Law. Except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any shares, all dividends and other distributions shall be paid according to the number of the shares that a Member holds and the amount paid up on such shares. If any share is issued on terms providing that it shall be entitled to dividends as from a particular date only, such shares shall be entitled to dividends accordingly.

  • 13.4 Upon the final settlement of the Company's accounts, if there is "surplus profit" (as defined below), the Company shall set aside between two per cent (2%) and fifteen per cent (15%) as compensation to employees (" Employees' Compensations ") and Employees' Compensations may be distributed to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, who meet certain qualifications. The Company shall, from the surplus profit, set aside no more than three per cent (3%) thereof as remuneration for the Directors (" Directors' Remuneration "). The distribution proposals in respect of Employees' Compensation and Directors' Remuneration shall be approved by a majority of the Directors at a meeting

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attended by two-thirds or more of the total number of the Directors and submitted to the shareholders' meeting for report. However, if the Company has accumulated losses, the Company shall reserve an amount thereof for making up the losses before proceeding with the abovementioned distributions and allocation. The "surplus profit" referred to above means the net profit before tax of the Company and for the avoidance of doubt, such amount is before any payment of compensation to employees and remuneration for the Directors.

  • 13.5 In determining the Company's dividend policy, the Board recognises that the Company operates in a mature industry, and has stable profit streams and a sound financial structure. In determining the amount, if any, of the dividend or other distribution it recommends to Members for approval in any financial year, the Board:

  • (a) may take into consideration the earnings of the Company, overall development, financial planning, capital needs, industry outlook and future prospects of the Company in the relevant financial year, so as to ensure the protection of Members' rights and interests; and

  • (b) shall set aside out of the current year profits of the Company, in addition to the provision in Article 13.4: (i) a reserve for payment of tax for the relevant financial year; (ii) an amount to offset losses; (iii) ten per cent (10%) as a general reserve, and (iv) a special surplus reserve as required by the applicable securities authority under the Applicable Public Company Rules or a reserve as determined by the Board pursuant to Article 14.1.

  • 13.6 Subject to compliance with the Law and after setting aside the amounts for Employees' Compensations and Directors’ Remuneration in accordance with Article 13.4 and such amounts as the Board deems fit in accordance with the distribution policy set out in Article 13.5, the Board shall recommend to Members for approval to distribute no less than twenty per cent (20%) of the distributable amount as dividend to the Members and the allocation will be made upon the passing of the resolution by the Members.

  • 13.7 Dividends to the Members and the Employees' Compensation may be distributed, in the discretion of the Board, by way of cash or by way of applying such sum in paying up in full unissued shares or a combination of both for allocation and distribution to employees or the Members, provided that, in the case of a distribution to Members, no less than ten per cent (10%) of the total amount of such dividend shall be paid in cash. No unpaid dividend and compensation shall bear interest as against the Company.

  • 13.8 The Board shall fix any date as the record date for determining the Members entitled to receive any dividend or other distribution.

  • 13.9 For the purpose of determining Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distributions, the Directors may provide that the Register of Members be closed for transfers for five (5) days before the relevant record date or such other period consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules subject to compliance with the Law .

14. Capital Reserve and Power to Set Aside Profits

  • 14.1 The Board may, before declaring a dividend, set aside out of the surplus or profits of the Company, such sum as it thinks proper as a reserve to be used to meet contingencies or for meeting the deficiencies for implementing dividend distribution plans or for any other

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purpose to which those funds may be properly applied. Pending application, such sums may be in the absolute discretion of the Directors either be employed in the business of the Company or invested in such investment as Directors may from time to time think fit, and need not be kept separate from other assets of the Company. The Directors may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profit which they decide not to distribute.

  • 14.2 Subject to any direction from the Company in general meeting, the Directors may on behalf of the Company exercise all the powers and options conferred on the Company by the Law in regard to the Capital Reserve. Subject to compliance with the Law, the Directors may on behalf of the Company set off accumulated losses against credits standing in the Capital Reserve and make distributions out of the Capital Reserve.

15. Method of Payment

  • 15.1 Any dividend, interest, or other monies payable in cash in respect of the shares may be paid by wire transfer to the Member’s designated account or by cheque or draft sent through the post directed to the Member at such Member's address in the Register of Members.

  • 15.2 In the case of joint holders of shares, any dividend, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by wire transfer to the holder first named in the Register of Members to such holder’s designated account or by cheque or draft sent through the post directed to the address of the holder first named in the Register of Members. If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any shares any one can give an effectual receipt for any dividend paid in respect of such shares.

16. Capitalisation

Subject to Article 11.4(a), the Board may capitalise any sum for the time being standing to the credit of any of the Company's Capital Reserve or other reserve accounts or to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution by applying such sum in paying up unissued shares to be allotted as fully paid bonus shares pro rata to the Members.

MEETINGS OF MEMBERS

17. Annual General Meetings

  • 17.1 The Company shall hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting within six months following the end of each fiscal year. The Board shall convene all annual general meetings.

  • 17.2 The general meetings (including annual general meetings and extraordinary general meetings) shall be held at such time and place as the Chairman or any two Directors or any Director and the Secretary or the Board shall appoint provided that unless otherwise provided by the Law, the general meetings shall be held in the ROC. If the Board resolves to hold a general meeting outside the ROC, the Company shall apply for the approval of the TSE thereof within two days after the Board adopts such resolution. Where a general meeting is to be held outside the ROC, the Company shall engage a professional stock affairs agent in the ROC to handle the administration of such general meeting (including but not limited to the handling of the voting of proxies submitted by Members).

18. Extraordinary General Meetings

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  • 18.1 General meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.

  • 18.2 The Board may convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company whenever in their judgment such a meeting is necessary or upon requisition in accordance with Article 18.3.

  • 18.3 One or more Member(s) of the Company holding at the date of deposit of the requisition not less than 3% of the total number of the outstanding shares of the Company continuously for a period of one year or more may make a requisition that contains the details set out in Article 18.4 below to request the Board to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the Company.

  • 18.4 The requisition must state in writing the matters to be discussed at the extraordinary general meeting and the reason therefor and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the Registered Office and the Company's stock affairs agent located in the ROC, and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists.

  • 18.5 If the Board does not within fifteen days from the date of the deposit of the requisition dispatch the notice of an extraordinary general meeting, the requisitionists may themselves convene an extraordinary general meeting, provided that if the extraordinary general meeting will be held outside the ROC, an application shall be submitted by such requisitionists to the TSE for its prior approval.

19. Notice

  • 19.1 At least thirty days' notice of an annual general meeting shall be given to each Member entitled to attend and vote thereat, stating the date, place and time at which the meeting is to be held and the general nature of business to be conducted at the meeting.

  • 19.2 At least fifteen days' notice of an extraordinary general meeting shall be given to each Member entitled to attend and vote thereat, stating the date, place and time at which the meeting is to be held and the general nature of the business to be considered at the meeting.

  • 19.3 The Board shall fix a record date for determining the Members entitled to receive notice of and to vote at any general meeting of the Company in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules and close its Register of Members accordingly in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 19.4 Subject to Article 22.4, the accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of a notice of a general meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.

  • 19.5 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE, the Company shall announce to the public by via the Market Observation Post System in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules the notice of a general meeting, the proxy instrument, agendas and materials relating to the matters to be reported and discussed in the general meetings, including but not limited to, election or discharge of Directors, in accordance with Articles 19.1 and 19.2 hereof. If the voting power of a Member at a general meeting shall be exercised by way of a written instrument, the Company shall also send the written document for the Member to exercise his voting power together with the above mentioned materials in accordance with Articles 19.1 and 19.2. The Directors shall prepare a meeting handbook of the relevant

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general meeting and supplemental materials, which will be sent to or made available to all Members and shall be transmitted to the Market Observation Post System in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 19.6 The following matters shall be stated in the notice of a general meeting, with a summary of the major content to be discussed, and shall not be proposed as an extemporary motion:

  • (a) election or discharge of Directors,

  • (b) alteration of the Memorandum or Articles,

  • (c) (i) dissolution, Merger, any scheme or arrangement involving a transfer of all issued shares of the Company to a corporate acquirer in exchange for the issuance of shares by that corporate acquirer to the Members as consideration or spin-off, (ii) entering into, amending, or terminating any Lease Contract, Management Contract or Joint Operation Contract, (iii) transfer of the whole or any essential part of the business or assets of the Company, and (iv) acquisition or assumption of the whole of the business or assets of another person, which has a material effect on the operations of the Company,

  • (d) ratification of an action by Director(s) who engage(s) in business for himself or on behalf of another person that is within the scope of the Company's business,

  • (e) distribution of the whole or part of the surplus profit of the Company in the form of new shares, capitalization of Capital Reserve and any other amount in accordance with Article 16, and

  • (f) Private Placement of any equity-related securities to be issued by the Company.

  • 19.7 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE and unless the Law provides otherwise, the Board shall keep the Memorandum and Articles, minutes of general meetings, financial statements, the Register of Members, and the counterfoil of any corporate bonds issued by the Company at the office of the Company’s registrar (if applicable) and the Company’s stock affairs agent located in the ROC. The Members may request, from time to time, by submitting document(s) evidencing his/her interests involved and indicating the designated scope of the inspection, access to inspect, review or make copies of the foregoing documents.

  • 19.8 The Company shall make available all the statements and records prepared by the Board and the report prepared by the Audit Committee which will be submitted to the Members at the annual general meeting at the Registered Office (if applicable) and its stock affairs agent located in the ROC ten (10) days prior to such annual general meeting in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules. Members may inspect and review the foregoing documents from time to time and may be accompanied by their lawyers or certified public accountants for the purpose of such inspection and review.

20. Giving Notice

  • 20.1 Any Notice or document, whether or not to be given or issued under these Articles from the Company to a Member, shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or communication, and any such Notice and document may be served or delivered by the Company on or to any Member either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such

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Member at his registered address as appearing in the Register of Members or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose or, as the case may be, by transmitting it to any such address or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of Notice to him or which the person transmitting the Notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the Notice being duly received by the Member or to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, may also be served by advertisement in appropriate newspapers. In the case of joint holders of a share, all notices shall be given to that one of the joint holders whose name stands first in the Register of Members and notice so given shall be deemed a sufficient service on or delivery to all the joint holders.

Any Notice or other document:

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

  • (b) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent;

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

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

This Article 20.1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the service of any document by a Member on the Company under these Articles.

21. Postponement of General Meeting

The Board may postpone any general meeting called in accordance with the provisions of these Articles provided that notice of postponement is given to each Member before the time for such meeting. A notice stating the date, time and place for the postponed meeting shall be given to each Member in accordance with the provisions of these Articles.

22 Quorum and Proceedings at General Meetings

  • 22.1 No resolutions shall be adopted unless a quorum is present. Unless otherwise provided for in the Articles, Members present in person or by proxy or in the case of a corporate Member, by corporate representative, representing more than one-half of the total issued shares of the

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Company entitled to vote, shall constitute a quorum for any general meeting.

  • 22.2 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE and unless the Law provides otherwise, the Board shall submit business reports, financial statements and proposals for distribution of profits or allocation of losses prepared by it for the purposes of annual general meetings of the Company for confirmation and adoption by the Members in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules. After confirmation and adoption at the general meeting, the Board shall send or announce to the public via the Market Observation Post System in accordance with Applicable Public Company Rules copies of the adopted financial statements and the minutes of the general meeting containing the resolutions passed on the distribution of profits or allocation of losses, to each Member or otherwise make the same available to the Members in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 22.3 Unless otherwise provided in the Articles, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll. No resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided by a show of hands.

  • 22.4 Nothing in these Articles shall prevent any Member from initiating proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction for an appropriate remedy in connection with the convening of any general meeting or the passage of any resolution in violation of applicable laws or regulations or these Articles within 30 days after passing of such resolution. The Taiwan Taipei District Court, ROC, may be the court of the first instance for adjudicating any disputes arising out of the foregoing.

  • 22.5 Unless otherwise expressly required by the Law, the Memorandum or the Articles, any matter which has been presented for resolution, approval, confirmation or adoption by the Members at any general meeting may be passed by an ordinary resolution.

  • 22.6 Member(s) holding one per cent (1%) or more of the Company's total number of issued shares immediately prior to the relevant book close period, during which the Company closed its Register of Members, may propose to the Company in writing one matter for discussion at an annual general meeting. The Company shall give a public notice in such manner as permitted by Applicable Law at such time deemed appropriate by the Board specifying the place and a period of not less than ten (10) days for Members to submit proposals. Proposals submitted for discussion at an annual general meeting shall not be included in the agenda of the annual general meeting where (a) the proposing Member(s) holds less than one cent (1%) of the Company's total issued shares, (b) the matter of such proposal may not be resolved by a general meeting; (c) the proposing Member(s) has proposed more than one proposal; or (d) the proposal is submitted to the Company after the date fixed and announced by the Company for accepting Member(s)' proposal(s).

23. Chairman to Preside

Unless otherwise agreed by a majority of those attending and entitled to vote thereat, the Chairman, shall act as chairman at all meetings of the Members at which such person is present. In his absence a chairman shall be appointed or elected in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

24. Voting on Resolutions

24.1 Subject to any rights, privileges or restrictions attached to any share, every Member who

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(being an individual) is present in person or by proxy (or in the case of a corporation or other non-natural person by duly authorized representative(s) or by proxy) shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder. A Member holding more than one share shall cast the votes in respect of his/her/its shares in the same way on a resolution proposed at a general meeting unless otherwise provided by the Applicable Public Company Rules, in which circumstance, the qualifications, application, manners for the exercise of such respective voting rights, procedures and other related matters thereof shall comply with the Applicable Public Company Rules, these Articles and the Law.

  • 24.2 No person shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of a class of shares unless he is registered as a Member on the record date for such meeting.

  • 24.3 Votes may be cast either in person or by proxy. A Member may appoint another person as his proxy by specifying the scope of appointment in the proxy instrument prepared by the Company to attend and vote at a general meeting, provided that a Member may appoint only one proxy under one instrument to attend and vote at such meeting.

  • 24.4 To the extent permitted by Applicable Law and notwithstanding any provisions provided in these Articles, the Board may resolve to allow Members not attending and voting at a general meeting in person, by proxy or by duly authorized representatives (where a Member is a corporation or other non-natural person), to exercise their voting power and cast their votes by a written instrument approved by the Board or by way of electronic transmission (as provided under the ROC Electronic Signatures Act) prior to commencement of the general meeting, provided that (1) the Board shall allow the voting rights in respect of shares held by a Member to be exercised by way of electronic transmission if the Company meets the requirements set forth in the Applicable Public Company Rules; and (2) the relevant methods and procedures are specified in the notice of that meeting and complied with by such Member(s). However, if a general meeting is convened outside the territory of the ROC, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company must allow the Members to exercise their voting rights and cast their votes by way of a written instrument approved by the Board or by way of electronic transmission in the manner referred to in the foregoing. Any Member who intends to exercise his voting power by a written instrument or by way of electronic transmission shall serve the Company with his/her/its voting decision at least two (2) calendar days prior to the date of such general meeting. Where more than one voting instrument is received from the same Member by the Company, the first voting instrument shall prevail, unless an explicit written statement is made by the relevant Member to revoke the previous voting instrument in the later-received voting instrument. For the avoidance of doubt, those Members voted in the manner mentioned in the foregoing shall, for purposes of these Articles and the Law, be deemed to have appointed the chairman of the general meeting as their proxy to vote their shares at the general meeting only in the manner directed by their written instrument or electronic document. The chairman as proxy shall not have the power to exercise the voting rights of such Members with respect to any matters not referred to or indicated in the written or electronic document and/or any amendment to resolution(s) proposed at the general meeting, and the Members shall be deemed to have waived their voting rights with respect to any extemporary matters or amendment to resolution(s) proposed at the general meeting.

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  • 24.5 In the event any Member who has served the Company with his/her/its declaration of intention to exercise his/her/its voting power by means of a written instrument or by means of electronic transmission pursuant to Article 24.4 hereof later intends to attend general meetings in person, he/she/it shall, at least two (2) calendar days prior to the date of the general meeting, serve a separate declaration of intention to revoke his/her/its previous votes casted by written instrument or electronic transmission in the same manner previously used in exercising his/her/its voting power, failing which, the Member shall be deemed to have waived his right to attend and vote at the relevant general meeting in person, the deemed appointment by the Member of the chairman as proxy shall remain valid and the Company shall not count any votes cast by such Member physically at the relevant general meeting.

  • 24.6 A Member who is deemed to have appointed the chairman as proxy pursuant to Article 24.4 for purposes of casting his vote by written instrument approved by the Board or by way of electronic transmission shall have the right to appoint another person as its proxy to attend the meeting in accordance with these Articles, in which case the express appointment of another proxy shall be deemed to have revoked the deemed appointment of the chairman as proxy under Article 24.4 and the Company shall only count the vote(s) casted by such expressly appointed proxy at the meeting.

25. Proxies

  • 25.1 The instrument of proxy shall be in the form approved by the Board and be expressed to be for a particular meeting only. The form of proxy shall include at least the following information: (a) instructions on how to complete such proxy, (b) the matters to be voted upon pursuant to such proxy, and (c) basic identification information relating to the relevant Member, proxy and the solicitor for proxy solicitation (if any). The form of proxy shall be provided to the Members together with the relevant notice for the relevant general meeting, and such notice and proxy materials shall be distributed to all Members on the same day.

  • 25.2 An instrument of proxy shall be in writing, be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation, under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised for that purpose. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company.

  • 25.3 In the event that a Member exercises his voting power by way of a written instrument or electronic transmission and is deemed to have appointed the chairman of the meeting as his/her/its proxy pursuant to Article 24.4, and has also validly authorised another proxy to attend a general meeting by completing and returning the requisite proxy form, then the voting power exercised by the proxy (rather than the chairman of the meeting) at the general meeting shall prevail. In the event that any Member who has authorised a proxy to attend a general meeting (excluding the deemed appointment of the chairman of the meeting pursuant to Article 24.4) later intends to attend the general meeting in person or to exercise his voting power by way of a written instrument or electronic transmission, he shall, at least two (2) days prior to the date of such general meeting, serve the Company with a separate notice revoking his previous appointment of the proxy. Votes by way of proxy shall remain valid if the relevant Member fails to revoke his appointment of such proxy before the prescribed time.

  • 25.4 Subject to the Applicable Public Company Rules, except for an ROC trust enterprise or

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stock agencies approved by the ROC competent authority, save with respect to the chairman being deemed appointed as proxy under Article 24.4, when a person acts as the proxy for two or more Members, the total number of voting shares that the proxy may vote shall not exceed three percent (3%) of the total number of voting shares of the Company; otherwise, such number of voting shares in excess of the aforesaid threshold shall not be counted towards the number of votes cast for or against the relevant resolution or the number of voting shares entitled to vote on such resolution but shall be included in the quorum. Upon such exclusion, the number of voting shares being excluded and attributed to each Member represented by the same proxy shall be determined on a pro-rata basis based on the total number of voting shares being excluded and the number of voting shares that such Members have appointed the proxy to vote for.

  • 25.5 The instrument of proxy shall be deposited at the Registered Office or the office of the Company's stock affairs agent in the ROC or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting, or in any instrument of proxy sent out by the Company not less than five days before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote and in default, save with respect to the deemed appointment of the chairman as proxy under Article 24.4, the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid PROVIDED that the chairman of the meeting may in his discretion accept an instrument of proxy sent by telex or telefax upon receipt of telex or telefax confirmation that the signed original thereof has been sent. Where multiple instruments of proxy are received by the Company from the same Member, the first written duly executed and valid instrument of proxy received by the Company shall prevail, unless an explicit written statement revoking the previous instrument(s) appointing a proxy is made in the subsequent duly executed and valid instrument of proxy received by the Company. The chairman of the meeting shall have the discretion to determine which instrument of proxy shall be accepted where there is any dispute. Unless otherwise provided in these Articles, delivery of an instrument appointing a proxy shall not preclude a Member from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened and in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

26. Proxy Solicitation

For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE and subject to the laws of the Cayman Islands, the use and solicitation of proxies shall be in compliance with the Applicable Public Company Rules, including but not limited to "Regulations Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at Shareholder Meetings of Public Companies."

27. Dissenting Member’s Appraisal Right

  • 27.1 Subject to compliance with the Law, in the event any of the following resolutions is passed at general meetings, any Member who has notified the Company in writing of his objection to such matter prior to the meeting and has raised again his objection at the meeting, may request the Company to purchase all of his shares at the then prevailing fair price:

  • (a) the Company proposes to enter into, amend, or terminate any Lease Contract, Management Contract or Joint Operation Contract;

  • (b) the Company transfers the whole or an essential part of its business or assets, provided that, the foregoing does not apply where such transfer is pursuant to the

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dissolution of the Company; or

  • (c) acquires or assumes the whole business or assets of another person, which has a material effect on the operation of the Company.

  • 27.2 In the event any part of the Company’s business is spun off or involved in any Merger, any Member, who has abstained from voting in respect of such matter and expressed his dissent therefor, in writing or verbally (with a record) before or during the general meeting approving such spin off or Merger, may request the Company to purchase all of his shares at the then prevailing fair price.

28. Shares that May Not be Voted

  • 28.1 Shares held:

  • (a) by the Company itself;

  • (b) by any entity in which the Company owns, legally or beneficially, more than fifty per cent (50%) of its total issued and voting share or share capital; or

  • (c) by any entity in which the Company, together with (i) the holding company of the Company and/or (ii) any Subsidiary of (a) the holding company of the Company or (b) the Company owns, legally or beneficially, directly or indirectly, more than fifty per cent (50%) of its issued and voting share or share capital;

  • shall not carry any voting rights nor be counted in the total number of issued shares at any given time.

  • 28.2 A Member who has a personal interest in any motion discussed at a general meeting, which interest may be in conflict with and impair those of the Company, shall abstain from voting such Member’s shares in regard to such motion and such shares shall not be counted in determining the number of votes of the Members present at the said meeting. However, such shares may be counted in determining the number of shares of the Members present at such general meeting for the purposes of determining the quorum. The aforementioned Member shall also not vote on behalf of any other Member. To the extent that the Company has knowledge, any votes cast by or on behalf of such Member in contravention of the foregoing shall not be counted by the Company.

  • 28.3 For so long as the shares are listed on the TSE, in the event that a Director creates or has created security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien over any shares held by him, then he shall notify the Company of such security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien. If at any time the security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien created by a Director is in respect of more than half of the shares held by him at the time of his appointment, then the voting rights attaching to the shares held by such Director at such time shall be reduced, such that the shares over which security, charge, encumbrance, mortgage or lien has been created which are in excess of half of the shares held by the Director at the date of his appointment shall not carry voting rights and shall not be counted in the number of votes casted by the Members at a general meeting but shall be counted towards the quorum of the general meeting.

29. Voting by Joint Holders of Shares

In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote (whether in person or by

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proxy) shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register of Members.

30.

Representation of Corporate Member

  • 30.1 A corporation or non-natural person which is a Member may, by written instrument, authorise such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Members and any person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation or non-natural person which such person represents as that corporation or non-natural person could exercise if it were an individual Member, and that Member shall be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting attended by its authorised representative or representatives.

  • 30.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the chairman of the meeting may accept such assurances as he thinks fit as to the right of any person to attend and vote at general meetings on behalf of a corporation or non-natural person which is a Member.

31. Adjournment of General Meeting

The chairman of a general meeting may, with the consent of a majority in number of the Members present at any general meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall if so directed, adjourn the meeting. Unless the meeting is adjourned to a specific date, place and time announced at the meeting being adjourned, a notice stating the date, place and time for the resumption of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each Member entitled to attend and vote thereat in accordance with the provisions of these Articles.

32. Directors Attendance at General Meetings

The Directors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notice of, attend and be heard at any general meeting.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

33. Number and Term of Office of Directors

  • 33.1 There shall be a board of Directors consisting of no less than eleven (11) persons, each of whom shall be appointed to a term of office of three (3) years. Directors may be eligible for re-election. The Company may from time to time by special resolution increase or reduce the number of Directors subject to the above number limitation provided that the requirements under the Applicable Law are met. The Directors shall elect a vice chairman ("Vice Chairman") amongst all the Directors. In case the Chairman is on leave or absent or can not exercise his/her power and authority for any cause, the Vice Chairman shall act on his/her behalf.

  • 33.2 A spousal relationship and/or a Family Relationship within the Second Degree of Kinship may not exist among more than half (1/2) of the members of the Board (the “Threshold”), unless with prior approval by the ROC competent authority. Where any person among the persons elected for appointment as a Director has a spousal relationship and/or a Family Relationship within the Second Degree of Kinship with any existing member of the Board or with any other person(s) also elected for appointment as a director (collectively, the “Related Persons” and each a “Related Person”), in respect of the Related Person who was

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elected by way of Cumulative Voting and who received the lowest number of votes from the Members for its appointment among all such elected Related Persons, with the intent that the Threshold will not be breached as a result of his/her appointment: (i) if his/her appointment is already effective, shall automatically cease to be a director of the Company on and from the date that the Company has actual knowledge of a breach of the Threshold; (ii) if his/her appointment has not yet taken effect, his/her appointment shall not take effect if the Company has actual knowledge of a possible breach of the Threshold if his/her appointment takes effect.

  • 33.3 Unless otherwise permitted under the Applicable Public Company Rules, there shall be at least three (3) Independent Directors accounting for not less than one-fifth of the total number of Directors. To the extent required by the Applicable Public Company Rules, at least one of the Independent Directors shall be domiciled in the ROC and at least one of them shall have accounting or financial expertise.

  • 33.4 The Independent Directors shall be nominated by adopting the candidate nomination system specified in the Applicable Public Company Rules. Independent Directors shall have professional knowledge and shall maintain independence within the scope of their directorial duties, and shall not have any direct or indirect interests in the Company. The professional qualifications, restrictions on shareholdings and concurrent positions, and assessment of independence with respect to Independent Directors shall be consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 33.5 Unless provided otherwise in these Articles, the qualifications, composition, appointment, removal, exercise of power in performing duties and other matters with respect to the Directors, Independent Directors, Compensation Committee and Audit Committee, shall comply with the provisions under ROC Securities and Exchange Act and the regulations issued pursuant to the ROC Securities and Exchange Act applicable to the Company.

34. Election of Directors

  • 34.1 The Company may at a general meeting elect any person to be a Director, which vote shall be calculated in accordance with Article 34.2 below. Members present in person or by proxy, representing more than one-half of the total issued shares shall constitute a quorum for any general meeting to elect one or more Directors.

  • 34.2 The Director(s) shall be elected by Members upon a poll vote by way of cumulative voting (the manner of voting described in this Article to be referred to as “Cumulative Voting”) in the following manner:

  • (v) on an election of Directors, the numbers of votes attached to each voting share held by a Member shall be cumulative and correspond to the number of Directors nominated for appointment at the general meeting provided that such votes shall only cumulate in respect of such number of Directors nominated within the same category (namely, independent or non-independent) of Directors to be appointed;

  • (vi) the Member(s) may vote all or part of their cumulated votes in respect of one or more Director candidates within the same category of Directors to be elected;

  • (vii) such number of Director candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the same category of Directors to be elected shall be appointed; and

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  • (viii) where two or more Director candidates receive the same number of votes and as a result the total number of new Directors intended to be appointed is exceeded, there shall be a draw by such Director candidates receiving the same number of votes to determine who shall be appointed; the chairman of the meeting shall draw for a Director nominated for appointment who is not present at the general meeting.

  • 34.3 If the number of Independent Directors is less than three (3) persons due to the resignation or removal of such Independent Directors for any reason, the Company shall hold an election of Independent Directors at the next following general meeting. If all of the Independent Directors are resigned or removed, the Board shall hold, within sixty (60) days from the date of resignation or removal of last Independent Director, an extraordinary general meeting to elect succeeding Independent Directors to fill the vacancies.

  • 34.4 If the number of Directors is less than five (5) persons due to the vacancy of Director(s) for any reason, the Company shall call an election of Director(s) at the next following general meeting to fill the vacancies. When the number of vacancies in the Board of the Company equals to one third of the total number of Directors elected, the Board shall hold, within sixty (60) days from the date of the occurrence of vacancies, a general meeting of Members to elect succeeding Directors to fill the vacancies.

35. Removal and Re-election of Directors

  • 35.1 The Company may from time to time by supermajority resolution remove any Director from office, whether or not appointing another in his stead.

  • 35.2 In case a Director has, in the course of performing his duties, committed any act resulting in material damages to the Company or is in serious violation of applicable laws, regulations and/or these Articles, but has not been removed by a supermajority resolution, the Member(s) holding three per cent (3%) or more of the total number of issued shares of the Company may, within thirty (30) days after such general meeting, to the extent permissible under Applicable Law, institute a lawsuit to remove such Director. The Taiwan Taipei District Court, ROC, may be the court of the first instance for this matter.

  • 35.3 Prior to the expiration of the term of office of the current Directors, the Members may at a general meeting elect or re-elect all Directors, which vote shall be calculated in accordance with Article 34.2 above. If no resolution is passed to approve that the existing Director(s) who is/are not re-elected at the general meeting that such Director(s) shall remain in office until expiry of his/her original term of office, such non-re-eleted Directors shall vacate their office with effect from the date the other Directors elected or re-elected at the same general meeting commence their office. Members present in person or by proxy, representing more than one-half of the total issued shares shall constitute a quorum for any general meeting to re-elect all Directors. If the term of office of all Directors expires at the same time and no general meeting was held before such expiry for re-election, their term of office shall continue and be extended to such time when new Directors are elected or re-elected in the next general meeting and they commence their office.

36. Vacancy in the Office of Director

  • 36.1 The office of Director shall be vacated if the Director:

  • (a) is removed from office pursuant to these Articles;

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  • (b) dies or becomes bankrupt, or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally;

  • (c) is automatically discharged from his office in accordance with Article 33.2;

  • (d) resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company;

  • (e) an order is made by any competent court or official on the grounds that he has no legal capacity, or his legal capacity is restricted according to Applicable Law;

  • (f) having committed an offence as specified in the ROC statute of prevention of organizational crimes and subsequently adjudicated guilty by a final judgment, and the time elapsed after he has served the full term of the sentence is less than five years;

  • (g) having committed an offence involving fraud, breach of trust or misappropriation and subsequently punished with imprisonment for a term of more than one year, and the time elapsed after he has served the full term of such sentence is less than two years;

  • (h) having been adjudicated guilty by a final judgment for misappropriating public funds during the time of his public service, and the time elapsed after he has served the full term of such sentence is less than two years;

  • (i) having been dishonored for unlawful use of credit instruments, and the term of such sanction has not expired yet;

  • (j) subject to Article 35.3, upon expiry of term of office (if any) of the relevant Director;

  • (k) is automatically removed in accordance with Article 36.2; or

  • (l) ceases to be a Director in accordance with Article 36.3.

In the event that the foregoing events described in clauses (b), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) has occurred in relation to a candidate for election of Director, such person shall be disqualified from being elected as a Director.

  • 36.2 In case a Director that has, during the term of office as a Director, transferred more than one half of the Company's shares being held by him/her at the time he/she is elected, he/she shall, ipso facto, be removed automatically from the position of Director with immediate effect and no shareholders' approval shall be required.

  • 36.3 If any Director has, after having been elected and before his/her inauguration of the office of Director, transferred more than one half of the Company's shares being held by him/her at the time of his/her election as a Director, then he/she shall immediately cease to be a Director and no shareholders' approval shall be required. If any Director has, after having been elected as a Director, transferred more than one half of the Company's shares being held by him/her within the share transfer prohibition period prior to the convention of a shareholders' meeting according to the Applicable Public Company Rules, then he/she shall immediately cease to be a Director and no shareholders' approval shall be required.

37. Compensation of Directors

  • 37.1 The Board may establish a Compensation Committee comprised of at least three members

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appointed by the Board, one of whom shall be an Independent Director. The professional qualifications of the members of the Compensation Committee, the exercise by the members of the Compensation Committee of its responsibilities, powers and other related matters of the Compensation Committee shall comply with the Applicable Public Company Rules. Upon the establishment of the Compensation Committee, the Board shall, by a resolution, adopt a charter for the Compensation Committee the provisions of which shall be consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

  • 37.2 The compensation referred in the preceding Article shall include the compensation, stock option and other incentive payments of Directors and managers of the Company.

  • 37.3 The compensation of the Directors may be decided by the Board by reference to recommendation made by the Compensation Committee (if established), the standard generally adopted by other enterprises in the same industry, and shall be paid in cash only. The Directors may also be paid all travel, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in attending and returning from the meetings of the Board, any committee appointed by the Board, general meetings of the Company, or in connection with the business of the Company or their duties as Directors generally. A Director is also entitled to distribution of profits of the Company if permitted by the Law, the Applicable Public Company Rules, the service agreement or other similar contract that he/she has entered into with the Company.

38. Defect in Election of Director

All acts done in good faith by the Board or by a committee of the Board or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the election of any Director, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly elected and was qualified to be a Director, subject to and upon ratification by the Members of such acts in a general meeting.

39. Directors to Manage Business

The business of the Company shall be managed and conducted by the Board. In managing the business of the Company, the Board may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, by the Law or by these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting subject, nevertheless, to these Articles, the provisions of the Law, and to such directions as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting.

40. Powers of the Board of Directors

Without limiting the generality of Article 39, the Board may subject to Article 11.4:

  • (a) appoint, suspend, or remove any manager, secretary, clerk, agent or employee of the Company and may fix their compensation and determine their duties;

  • (b) exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge or otherwise grant a security interest in its undertaking, property and uncalled capital, or any part thereof, and may issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or any third party;

  • (c) appoint one or more Directors to the office of managing director or chief executive officer of the Company, who shall, subject to the control of the Board, supervise and administer all

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of the general business and affairs of the Company;

  • (d) appoint a person to act as manager of the Company's day-to-day business and may entrust to and confer upon such manager such powers and duties as it deems appropriate for the transaction or conduct of such business;

  • (e) by power of attorney, appoint any company, firm, person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Board, to be an attorney of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Board) 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 so vested in the attorney. Such attorney may, if so authorised, execute any deed or instrument in any manner permitted by the Law;

  • (f) procure that the Company pays all expenses incurred in promoting and incorporating the Company;

  • (g) delegate any of its powers (including the power to sub-delegate) to a committee of one or more persons appointed by the Board and every such committee shall conform to such directions as the Board shall impose on them. Subject to any directions or regulations made by the Directors for this purpose, the meetings and proceedings of any such committee shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Board;

  • (h) delegate any of its powers (including the power to sub-delegate) to any person on such terms and in such manner as the Board sees fit;

  • (i) present any petition and make any application in connection with the liquidation or reorganisation of the Company;

  • (j) in connection with the issue of any share, pay such commission and brokerage as may be permitted by law; and

  • (k) authorise any company, firm, person or body of persons to act on behalf of the Company for any specific purpose and in connection therewith to execute any agreement, document or instrument on behalf of the Company.

41. Register of Directors and Officers

  • 41.1 The Board shall cause to be kept in one or more books at the Registered Office a Register of Directors and Officers in accordance with the Law and shall enter therein the following particulars with respect to each Director and Officer:

  • (a) first name and surname; and

  • (b) address.

  • 41.2 The Board shall, within the period of thirty days from the occurrence of:-

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

  • (b) any change in the particulars contained in the Register of Directors and Officers, cause to be entered on the Register of Directors and Officers the particulars of such change

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and the date on which such change occurred, and shall notify the Registrar of Companies in accordance with the Law.

42. Officers

The Officers shall consist of a Secretary and such additional Officers as the Board may determine all of whom shall be deemed to be Officers for the purposes of these Articles.

43. Appointment of Officers

The Secretary (and additional Officers, if any) shall be appointed by the Board from time to time.

44. Duties of Officers

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

45. Compensation of Officers

The Officers shall receive such compensation as the Board may determine.

46. Conflicts of Interest

  • 46.1 Any Director, or any Director's firm, partner or any company with whom any Director is associated, may act in any capacity for, be employed by or render services to the Company and such Director or such Director's firm, partner or company shall be entitled to compensation as if such Director were not a Director; provided that this Article 46.1 shall not apply to Independent Directors.

  • 46.2 A Director who is directly or indirectly interested in a contract or proposed contract or arrangement with the Company shall declare the nature of such interest as required by the Applicable Law.

  • 46.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Articles, a Director who has a personal interest in the matter under discussion at a meeting of the Board shall disclose and explain material contents of such personal interest at the meeting of the Board. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article 46, a Director who has a personal interest in the matter under discussion at a meeting of the Directors, which may conflict with and impair the interest of the Company, shall not vote nor exercise voting rights on behalf of another Director; the voting right of such Director who cannot vote or exercise any voting right as prescribed above shall not be counted in the number of votes of Directors present at the board meeting.

  • 46.4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article 46, a Director who is engaged in anything on his own account or on behalf of another person, which is within the scope of the Company's business, shall explain to the Members in a general meeting the essential contents of such conduct and seek their approval by supermajority resolution.

47. Indemnification and Exculpation of Directors and Officers

  • 47.1 Unless otherwise provided in these Articles, The Directors and Officers of the Company and any trustee for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and every former director, officer or trustee and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, and personal representatives (each of which persons being referred to in this Article as an "indemnified party") shall be indemnified and secured harmless out of the

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assets of the Company from and against all actions, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may incur or sustain by or by reason of any act done, concurred in or omitted in or about the execution of their duty, or supposed duty, or in their respective offices or trusts, and no indemnified party shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of the others of them or for joining in any receipts for the sake of conformity, or for any bankers or other persons with whom any moneys or effects belonging to the Company shall or may be lodged or deposited for safe custody, or for insufficiency or deficiency of any security upon which any moneys of or belonging to the Company shall be placed out on or invested, or for any other loss, misfortune or damage which may happen in the execution of their respective offices or trusts, or in relation thereto, PROVIDED THAT this indemnity shall not extend to any matter in respect of any breach of duties, fraud or dishonesty which may attach to any of the said persons.

  • 47.2 Without prejudice and subject to the general directors’ duties that a Director owes to the Company and its shareholders under common law principals and the laws of the Cayman Islands, a Director shall perform his/her fiduciary duties of loyalty and due care of a good administrator in the course of conducting the Company’s business, and shall indemnify the Company, to the maximum extent legally permissible, from any loss incurred or suffered by the Company arising from breach of his/her fiduciary duties. If a Director has made any profit for the benefit of himself/herself or any third party as a result of any breach of his/her fiduciary duties, the Company shall, if so resolved by the Members by way of an ordinary resolution, take all such actions and steps as may be appropriate and to the maximum extent legally permissible to seek to recover such profit from such relevant Director. If a Director has, in the course of conducting the Company’s business, violated any laws or regulations that causes the Company to become liable for any compensation or damages to any person, such Director shall become jointly and severally liable for such compensation or damages with the Company and if for any reason such Director is not made jointly and severally liable with the Company, such Director shall indemnify the Company for any loss incurred or suffered by the Company caused by a breach of duties by such Director.

  • 47.3 The Officers, in the course of performing their duties to the Company, shall assume such duties and obligations to indemnify the Company in the same manner as if they are Directors.

  • 47.4 The Company may purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any Director or Officer of the Company against any liability incurred by him in his capacity as a Director or Officer of the Company or indemnifying such Director or Officer in respect of any loss arising or liability attaching to him by virtue of any rule of law in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which the Director or Officer may be guilty in relation to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof.

  • 47.5 To the extent permitted under the laws of the Cayman Islands and there is a cause of action under applicable laws by the Company against such relevant Director(s), a Member or Members collectively continuously holding three per cent (3%) or more of the total issued shares of the Company for a year or longer may:

  • (a) request in writing the Board to authorise any Independent Director of the Audit Committee to file a petition with the Taipei District Court, ROC for and on behalf of the Company against any of the Directors; or

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  • (b) request in writing any Independent Director of the Audit Committee to file a petition with the Taipei District Court, ROC for and on behalf of the Company against any of the Directors with the approval of the Board;

within thirty (30) days after the Member(s) having made the request under the preceding clause (a) or (b), if (i) in the case of clause (a), the Board fails to make such authorisation or the Independent Director of the Audit Committee having been authorised by the Board fails to file such petition, or (ii) in the case of clause (b), the Independent Director of the Audit Committee fails to file such petition or the Board disapproves such action, to the extent permitted under the laws of the Cayman Islands and there is a cause of action under applicable laws by the Company against such relevant Director(s), such Member(s) may file a petition with the Taipei District Court, ROC for and on behalf of the Company against any of the Directors.

MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

48. Board Meetings

Subject to the Applicable Public Company Rules, the Chairman may call a meeting of the Board and the Board may meet for the transaction of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it sees fit. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at least on a quarterly basis to review the Company's performance during the previous fiscal quarter and to decide on matters customarily requiring approval of the Board as stipulated herein. A resolution put to the vote at a meeting of the Board shall be carried by the affirmative votes of a majority of the votes cast and in the case of an equality of votes the resolution shall fail.

49. Notice of Board Meetings

The Chairman may, and the Secretary on the requisition of the Chairman shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Board. To convene a meeting of the Board, a notice setting forth therein the matters to be considered and if appropriate, approved at the meeting shall be given to each Director no later than seven (7) days prior to the scheduled meeting date. However, in the case of emergency as agreed by a majority of the Directors, the meeting may be convened with a shorter notice period in a manner consistent with the Applicable Public Company Rules. Notice of a meeting of the Board shall be deemed to be duly given to a Director if, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, it is given to such Director verbally (in person or by telephone) or otherwise communicated or sent to such Director by post, cable, telex, telecopier, facsimile, electronic mail or other mode of representing words in a legible form at such Director's last known address or any other address given by such Director to the Company for this purpose.

50. Participation in Meetings by Video Conference

Directors may participate in any meeting of the Board by means of video conference or other communication facilities, as permitted by the Applicable Law, where 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.

51. Quorum at Board Meetings

The quorum for a meeting of the Board shall be more than one-half of the total number of the Directors. Any of the Directors may appoint another Director as proxy to represent him at any

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meeting of the Board if such Director is unable to do so in person for any reason. If a Director appoints a proxy then for all purposes the presence or vote of the proxy shall be deemed to be that of the appointing Director. The appointed Director may only act as the proxy of one Director only.

52. Board to Continue in the Event of Vacancy

The Board may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its number.

53. Chairman to Preside

Unless otherwise agreed by a majority of the Directors attending, the Chairman, if there be one, shall act as chairman at all meetings of the Board at which such person is present. In his absence a chairman shall be appointed or elected in accordance with the Applicable Public Company Rules.

54. Validity of Prior Acts of the Board

No regulation or alteration to these Articles made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if that regulation or alteration had not been made.

CORPORATE RECORDS

55. Minutes

The Board shall cause minutes to be duly entered in books provided for the purpose:

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

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

  • (c) of all resolutions and proceedings of general meetings of the Members, meetings of the Board, meetings of managers and meetings of committees appointed by the Board.

56. Register of Mortgages and Charges

  • 56.1 The Directors shall cause to be kept the Register of Mortgages and Charges required by the Law.

  • 56.2 The Register of Mortgages and Charges shall be open to inspection by Members and creditors in accordance with the Law, at the Registered Office on every business day in the Cayman Islands, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the Board may impose, so that not less than two (2) hours in each such business day be allowed for inspection.

57. Form and Use of Seal

  • 57.1 The Seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf; and, until otherwise determined by the Directors, the Seal shall be affixed in the presence of a Director or the Secretary or an assistant secretary or some other person authorised for this purpose by the Directors or the committee of Directors.

  • 57.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Seal may without further authority be affixed by way of authentication to any document required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands, and may be so affixed by any Director, Secretary or assistant secretary of

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the Company or any other person or institution having authority to file the document as aforesaid.

  • 57.3 The Company may have one or more duplicate Seals, as permitted by the Law; and, if the Directors think fit, a duplicate Seal may bear on its face of the name of the country, territory, district or place where it is to be issued.

TENDER OFFER AND ACCOUNTS

58. Tender Offer

Within seven (7) days after the receipt of the copy of a tender offer application form and relevant documents by the Company or its litigious and non-litigious agent (訴訟及非訴訟代理人 , which term shall be construed under the laws of ROC ) appointed by the Company pursuant to the Applicable Public Company Rules, the Board shall resolve to recommend to the Members whether to accept or object to the tender offer and make a public announcement of the following:

  • (a) the types and number of the shares held by the Directors and the Members holding more than ten per cent (10%) of the total issued shares in their own names or in the names of other persons.

  • (b) recommendations to the Members on the tender offer, which shall set forth the names of the Directors who abstain or object to the tender offer and the reason(s) therefor.

  • (c) whether there is any material change in the financial condition of the Company after the submission of the latest financial report and an explanation of the change, if any.

  • (d) the types, numbers and amount of the shares of the tender offeror or its affiliates held by the Directors and the Members holding more than ten per cent (10%) of the total number of issued shares held in their own names or in the name of other persons.

59. Books of Account

  • 59.1 The Board shall cause to be kept proper records of account with respect to all transactions of the Company and in particular with respect to:-

  • (a) all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure relates;

  • (b) all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; and

  • (c) all assets and liabilities of the Company.

Such books of account shall be kept for at least five (5) years from the date they are prepared.

  • 59.2 Such records of account shall be kept and proper books of account shall not be deemed to be kept with respect to the matters aforesaid if there are not kept, at such place as the Board thinks fit, such books as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company's affairs and to explain its transactions.

  • 59.3 The instruments of proxy, documents, forms/statements and information in electronic media prepared in accordance with the Articles and relevant rules and regulations shall be kept for at least one (1) year. However, if a Member institutes a lawsuit with respect to such instruments of proxy, documents, forms/statements and/or information mentioned herein,

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they shall be kept until the conclusion of the litigation if longer than one (1) year.

60. Financial Year End

The financial year end of the Company shall be 31st December in each year but, subject to any direction of the Company in general meeting, the Board may from time to time prescribe some other period to be the financial year, provided that the Board may not without the sanction of an ordinary resolution prescribe or allow any financial year longer than eighteen months.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

61. Number of Committee Members

The Board shall set up an Audit Committee. The Audit Committee shall comprise solely of Independent Directors and the number of committee members shall not be less than three (3). One of the Audit Committee members shall be appointed as the convener to convene meetings of the Audit Committee from time to time and at least one of the Audit Committee members shall have accounting or financial expertise. A valid resolution of the Audit Committee requires approval of one-half or more of all its members.

62. Powers of Audit Committee

The Audit Committee shall have the responsibilities and powers as specified under the Applicable Public Company Rules. Any of the following matters of the Company shall require the consent of one-half or more of all Audit Committee members and be submitted to the Board for resolution:

  • (a) adoption of or amendment to an internal control system;

  • (b) assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control system;

  • (c) adoption of or amendment to the handling procedures for financial or operational actions of material significance, such as acquisition or disposal of assets, derivatives trading, extension of monetary loans to others, or endorsements or guarantees for others;

  • (d) any matter relating to the personal interest of the Directors;

  • (e) a material asset or derivatives transaction;

  • (f) a material monetary loan, endorsement, or provision of guarantee;

  • (g) the offering, issuance, or Private Placement of any equity-related securities;

  • (h) the hiring or dismissal of an attesting certified public accountant, or the compensation given thereto;

  • (i) the appointment or discharge of a financial, accounting, or internal auditing officer;

  • (j) approval of annual and semi-annual financial reports; and

  • (k) any other matter so determined by the Company from time to time or required by any competent authority overseeing the Company.

With the exception of item (j), any other matter that has not been approved with the consent of one-half or more of all Audit Committee members may be undertaken upon the consent of two-thirds or more of the members of the Board, and the resolution of the Audit Committee shall be recorded in the minutes of the Directors meeting.

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VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP AND DISSOLUTION

63. Winding-Up

  • 63.1 The Company may be voluntarily wound-up in accordance with Article 11.5.

  • 63.2 If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution, divide amongst the Members in specie or in kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may, for such purpose, set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members. The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in the trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as the liquidator shall think fit, but so that no Member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities or assets whereon there is any liability.

CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION

64. Changes to Articles

Subject to the Law and to the conditions contained in its Memorandum, the Company may, by special resolution, alter or add to its Articles.

65. Discontinuance

The Board may exercise all the powers of the Company to transfer by way of continuation the Company to a named country or jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands pursuant to the Law.

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Appendix 3: Comparison table for the Procedures for Election of Directors

Article 1 To ensure a just, fair, and open election of directors and supervisors, these Procedures are adopted pursuant to Articles 21 and 41 of the Corporate Governance Best-Practice Principles for TWSE/GTSM Listed Companies.

Article 2 Except as otherwise provided by law and regulation or by this Corporation's articles of incorporation, elections of directors and shall be conducted in accordance with these Procedures.

Article 3 The overall composition of the board of directors shall be taken into consideration in the selection of the Company's directors. The composition of the board of directors shall be determined by taking diversity into consideration and formulating an appropriate policy on diversity based on the company's business operations, operating dynamics, and development needs. It is advisable that the policy include, without being limited to, the following two general standards: (1) Basic requirements and values: Gender, age, nationality, and culture. (2) Professional knowledge and skills: A professional background (e.g., law, accounting, industry, finance, marketing, technology), professional skills, and industry experience. Each board member shall have the necessary knowledge, skill, and experience to perform their duties; the abilities that must be present in the board as a whole are as follows: (1) The ability to make judgments about operations. (2) Accounting and financial analysis ability. (3) Business management ability. (4) Crisis management ability. (5) Knowledge of the industry. (6) An international market perspective. (7) Leadership ability. (8) Decision-making ability. More than half of the directors shall be persons who have neither a spousal relationship nor a relationship within the second degree of kinship with any other director.

The board of directors of the Company shall consider adjusting its composition based on the results of performance evaluation.

Article 4 Each independent director shall have the below qualifications:

  1. creditable and dependable;

  2. with fair judgment;

  3. with professional knowledge;

  4. with fluent experience; and

  5. the ability to understand financial statements. In addition to the above qualifications, at least one of the independent directors shall have accounting or finance background.

Article 5 The qualifications and election for the independent directors of this Corporation shall comply with Articles of the Regulations.

  • Article 6 Election of independent directors at the Company shall be conducted in accordance with the candidate nomination system and procedures set

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out in Article 192-1 of the Company Act. The Company shall review the qualifications, education, working experience, background, and the existence of any other matters set forth in Article 30 of the Company Act with respect to nominee independent directors and may not arbitrarily add requirements for documentation of other qualifications. It shall further provide the results of the review to shareholders for their reference, so that qualified independent directors will be elected. When the number of directors falls below five due to the dismissal of a director for any reason, the Company shall hold a by-election to fill the vacancy at its next shareholders meeting. When the number of directors falls short by one third of the total number prescribed in the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, the Company shall call a special shareholders meeting within 60 days from the date of occurrence to hold a by-election to fill the vacancies.

When the number of independent directors falls below that required under paragraph 1 of Article 14-2 of the Securities and Exchange Act, listing rules of TWSE-listed companies, or item 8 of the “Standards for Determining Unsuitability for TPEx Listing under Article 10, Paragraph 1 of the Taipei Exchange Rules Governing the Review of Securities for Trading on the TPEx”, a by-election shall be held at the next shareholders meeting to fill the vacancy. When the independent directors are dismissed en masse, a special shareholders meeting shall be called within 60 days from the date of occurrence to hold a by-election to fill the vacancies.

  • Article 7 The cumulative voting method shall be used for election of the directors at the Company. Each share will have voting rights in number equal to the directors to be elected, and may be cast for a single candidate or split among multiple candidates.

  • Article 8 The board of directors shall prepare separate ballots for directors in numbers corresponding to the directors to be elected. The number of voting rights associated with each ballot shall be specified on the ballots, which shall then be distributed to the attending shareholders at the shareholders meeting. Attendance card numbers printed on the ballots may be used instead of recording the names of voting shareholders.

  • Article 9 The number of directors and independent directors will be as specified in the Company's Articles of Incorporation, with voting rights separately calculated for independent and non-independent director positions. Those receiving ballots representing the highest numbers of voting rights will be elected sequentially according to their respective numbers of votes. When two or more persons receive the same number of votes, thus exceeding the specified number of positions, they shall draw lots to determine the winner, with the chair drawing lots on behalf of any person not in attendance.

  • Article 10 Before the election begins, the chair shall appoint a number of persons to perform the respective duties of vote monitoring and counting

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personnel. The ballot boxes shall be prepared by the board of directors and publicly checked by the vote monitoring personnel before voting commences.

  • Article 11 If a candidate is a shareholder, a voter must enter the candidate's account name and shareholder account number in the "candidate" column of the ballot; for a non-shareholder, the voter shall enter the candidate's full name and identity card number. When the candidate is a juristic-person shareholder, the name of the juristic-person shareholder shall be entered in the column for the candidate's account name in the ballot paper, or both the name of the juristic-person shareholder and the name of its representative may be entered. When there are multiple representatives, the names of each respective representative shall be entered.

  • Article 12 A ballot is invalid under any of the following circumstances: 1. The ballot was not prepared by the board of directors.

  • A blank ballot is placed in the ballot box.

  • The writing is unclear and indecipherable or has been altered.

  • The candidate whose name is entered in the ballot is a shareholder, but the candidate's account name and shareholder account number do not conform with those given in the shareholder register, or the candidate whose name is entered in the ballot is a non-shareholder, and a cross-check shows that the candidate's name and identity card number do not match.

  • Other words or marks are entered in addition to the candidate's account name or shareholder account number or identity card number and the number of voting rights allotted.

  • The name of the candidate entered in the ballot is identical to that of another shareholder, but no shareholder account number or identity card number is provided in the ballot to identify such individual.

  • Article 13 The voting rights shall be calculated on site immediately after the end of the poll, and the results of the calculation, including the list of persons elected as directors and independent directors and the numbers of votes with which they were elected, shall be announced by the chair on the site.

  • The ballots for the election referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be sealed with the signatures of the monitoring personnel and kept in proper custody for at least one year. If, however, a shareholder files a lawsuit pursuant to the Company Act, the ballots shall be retained until the conclusion of the litigation.

  • Article 14 The board of directors of the Company shall issue notifications to the persons elected as directors or independent directors.

  • Article 15 These Procedures, and any amendments hereto, shall be implemented after approval by a shareholders meeting. These Procedures were formulated on January 29, 2010. These Procedures were amended for the first time on June 13, 2017.

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Appendix 4: Table of Shareholding of All Directors

Shareholding of All Directors

Record Date: June 5th, 2018

  1. The paid-in capital is NTD$1,116,175,190. The total number of issued shares outstanding is 111,617,519.

  2. The minimum required combined shareholding of all directors by law is 8,000,000 shares. The combined shareholding of all directors on the book closure date is 24,023,680 shares, which meets the requirements of Article 26 of “Securities Exchange Law” and the “Rules and “Review Procedures for Director and Supervisor Share Ownership Ratios at Public Companies”.

  3. The company has set up an Audit Committee, so the rule of minimum required combined shareholding of all supervisors by law is not applicable.

Title Name Date Elected Current Shareholding Current Shareholding
Shares Shares %
Chairman Chang, Hsien-Ming 2016/06/07 13,693,540 12.27%
Director Tasi, Shu-Ken 2016/06/07 780,156 0.7%
Director Chang, Cheng-Chung 2016/06/07 3,494,408 3.13%
Director Chen, Wu-Chi 2016/06/07 1,614,263 1.45%
Director Chang, Wen-Lung 2016/06/07 4,426,313 3.97%
Director Kong Hsing-Yuan 2016/06/07 0 0.00%
Director Huang Wen-Hung 2016/06/07 15,000 0.01%
Independent
Director
Chang, Cheng-Lung 2016/06/07 0 0%
Independent
Director
Chen, Ching-Hung 2016/06/07 0 0%
Independent
Director
Wei, Chia-Min 2016/06/07 0 0%
Total of All Directors 24,023,680 21.53%

Note: 1.The book closure date for the annual general meeting of

shareholders is April 6, 2018. The book closure period is from April 7, 2018 to June 5, 2018.

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Appendix 5: The Impact of Stock Dividend Issuance on Business Performance, EPS, and Shareholder Return Rate

This is not applicable since there was no proposal for stock dividend issuance in the annual general meeting of shareholders.

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