FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Report of Foreign Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of August 2018
Commission File Number: 001-11960
AstraZeneca PLC
1 Francis Crick Avenue
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge CB2 0AA
United Kingdom
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
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AstraZeneca PLC (the Company)
Amended and Restated Articles of Association
On 18 May, 2018, amended and restated Articles of Association were adopted at the Companys 2018 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the Articles of Association). A copy of the Articles of Association is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information contained in this report (including the exhibits hereto) is hereby incorporated by reference into the Companys Registration Statement on Form F-3, File No. 333-214756 and Forms S-8 (File No. 333-09062, No. 333-124689, No. 333-152767, No. 333-170381 and No. 333-216901).
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No. 2723534
THE COMPANIES ACT 2006
PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
ASTRAZENECA PLC
Incorporated 17 June 1992
Registered Office :
1 Francis Crick Avenue
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge CB2 0AA
COMPANY NO. 2723534
COMPANIES ACT 2006
A PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
of
AstraZeneca PLC
(adopted by special resolution
passed on 18 May 2018)
1. The regulations in Table A in the schedule to the Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985 as in force at the date of the incorporation of the Company shall not apply to the Company. |
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2. In these Articles, except where the subject or context otherwise requires:
Act means the Companies Act 2006 including any modification or re-enactment of it for the time being in force;
Approved Depositary means a custodian or other person (or a nominee for such custodian or other person) appointed under contractual arrangements with the Company or other arrangements approved by the directors whereby such custodian or other person or nominee holds or is interested in shares of the Company or rights or interests in shares of the Company and issues securities or other documents of title or otherwise evidencing the entitlement of the holder thereof to or to receive such shares, rights or interests, provided and to the extent that such arrangements have been approved by the directors for the purpose of these Articles;
Articles means these articles of association as altered from time to time by special resolution;
auditors means the auditors of the Company;
the board means the directors or any of them acting as the board of directors of the Company; |
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certificated share means a share in the capital of the Company that is not an uncertificated share and references in these Articles to a share being held in certificated form shall be construed accordingly;
clear days in relation to the sending of a notice means the period excluding the day on which a notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect;
director means a director of the Company;
dividend means dividend or bonus;
entitled by transmission means, in relation to a share in the capital of the Company, entitled as a consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder or otherwise by operation of law;
holder in relation to a share in the capital of the Company means the member whose name is entered in the register as the holder of that share;
member means a member of the Company;
office means the registered office of the Company;
Ordinary Shares means the ordinary shares of US$0.25 each in the Company;
paid means paid or credited as paid;
recognised person means a recognised clearing house or a nominee of a recognised clearing house or of a recognised investment exchange, each of which terms has the meaning given to it by section 778 of the Act;
register means either or both of the issuer register of members and the Operator register of members of the Company;
Redeemable Preference Shares means the redeemable preference shares of £1.00 each in the Company;
Regulations means the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001 including any modification or re-enactment of them for the time being in force;
seal means the common seal of the Company and includes any official seal kept by the Company by virtue of section 49 or 50 of the Act;
secretary means the secretary of the Company and includes a joint, assistant, deputy or temporary secretary and any other person appointed to perform the duties of the secretary;
uncertificated share means (subject to Regulation 42(11)(a) of the Regulations) a share in the capital of the Company title to which is recorded on the Operator register of members of the Company and which may, by virtue of the Regulations, be |
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transferred by means of a relevant system and references in these Articles to a share being held in uncertificated form shall be construed accordingly; and
United Kingdom means Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
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3. Where, in relation to a share, these Articles refer to a relevant system , the reference is to the relevant system in which that share is a participating security at the relevant time.
References to a document or information being sent, supplied or given to or by a person mean such document or information, or a copy of such document or information, being sent, supplied, given, delivered, issued or made available to or by, or served on or by, or deposited with or by that person by any method authorised by these Articles, and sending, supplying and giving shall be construed accordingly.
References to writing mean the representation or reproduction of words, symbols or other information in a visible form by any method or combination of methods, whether in electronic form or otherwise, and written shall be construed accordingly.
Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the holding and conducting of a meeting in such a way that persons who are not present together at the same place may by electronic means attend and speak and vote at it.
References to a persons participation in the business of any general meeting include without limitation and as relevant the right (including, in the case of a corporation, through a duly appointed representative) to speak, vote, be represented by a proxy and have access in hard copy or electronic form to all documents which are required by the Companies Acts or these Articles to be made available at the meeting and participate and participating shall be construed accordingly.
References to electronic facility mean a device, system, procedure, method or facility providing an electronic means of attendance at or participation in (or both attendance at and participation in) a general meeting determined by the board pursuant to Article 32.1.
References to a meeting mean a meeting convened and held in any manner permitted by these Articles, including without limitation a general meeting of the Company at which some or all persons entitled to be present attend and participate by means of electronic facility or facilities, and such persons shall be deemed to be present at that meeting for all purposes of the Act and these Articles and attend and participate , attending and participating and attendance and participation shall be construed accordingly.
Words denoting the singular number include the plural number and vice versa; words denoting the masculine gender include the feminine gender; and words denoting persons include corporations.
Words or expressions contained in these Articles which are not defined in Article 2 but are defined in the Act have the same meaning as in the Act (but excluding any |
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modification of the Act not in force at the date of adoption of these Articles) unless inconsistent with the subject or context.
Words or expressions contained in these Articles which are not defined in Article 2 but are defined in the Regulations have the same meaning as in the Regulations (but excluding any modification of the Regulations not in force at the date of adoption of these Articles) unless inconsistent with the subject or context.
Subject to the preceding two paragraphs, references to any provision of any enactment or of any subordinate legislation (as defined by section 21(1) of the Interpretation Act 1978) include any modification or re-enactment of that provision for the time being in force.
Headings and marginal notes are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the construction of these Articles.
In these Articles, (a) powers of delegation shall not be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to them; (b) the word board in the context of the exercise of any power contained in these Articles includes any committee consisting of one or more directors, any director, any other officer of the Company and any local or divisional board, manager or agent of the Company to which or, as the case may be, to whom the power in question has been delegated; (c) no power of delegation shall be limited by the existence or, except where expressly provided by the terms of delegation, the exercise of that or any other power of delegation; and (d) except where expressly provided by the terms of delegation, the delegation of a power shall not exclude the concurrent exercise of that power by any other body or person who is for the time being authorised to exercise it under these Articles or under another delegation of the power. |
SHARE CAPITAL AND LIMITED LIABILITY
4.1 The liability of the members is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares held by them. |
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4.2 The rights attaching to the Redeemable Preference Shares are as follows:
(a) On a distribution of assets of the Company among its members on a winding up or other return of capital (other than a redemption or purchase by the Company of its own shares), the holders of the Redeemable Preference Shares shall be entitled, in priority to any holder of any Ordinary Shares, to receive an amount equal to the aggregate of the capital paid up or credited as paid up on each Redeemable Preference Share.
(b) Save as provided in Article 4.2(a), the holders of the Redeemable Preference Shares shall not be entitled to any participation in the profits or assets of the Company.
(c) The holders of Redeemable Preference Shares have no right to receive notice of and do not have the right to attend any general meeting of the Company subject to the following exceptions: |
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(i) if it is proposed at the meeting to consider any resolution approving the winding up of the Company, the holders of the Redeemable Preference Shares shall be entitled to attend such a meeting but not to speak or vote;
(ii) if it is proposed at the meeting to consider any resolution which abrogates or adversely varies or otherwise directly adversely affects the special rights and privileges attaching to the Redeemable Preference Shares, the holders of the Redeemable Preference Shares shall have the right to attend such a meeting and to speak and vote only on such resolution or any motion for adjournment of the meeting before such resolution is voted on.
(d) If entitled to vote at a general meeting of the Company, every holder of Redeemable Preference Shares present in person or by proxy (or, being a corporation, by a duly authorised representative) shall have one vote for every 50,000 Redeemable Preference Shares held by such holder.
(e) Notwithstanding the rights of the holders of Redeemable Preference Shares under Article 4.2(a), the written consent of the holders of three quarters in nominal value of the issued Redeemable Preference Shares or the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the Redeemable Preference Shares is required if the special rights and privileges attaching to the Redeemable Preference Shares are to be abrogated, or adversely varied or otherwise directly adversely affected in any way. The creation, allotment or issue of shares or securities which rank in priority to or equally with the Redeemable Preference Shares (or of any right to call for the allotment or issue of such shares or securities) is for these purposes deemed not to be an abrogation or variation or to have an effect on the rights and privileges attaching to Redeemable Preference Shares.
(f) All provisions of the Articles relating to general meetings of the Company shall apply mutatis mutandis to every general meeting of the holders of the Redeemable Preference Shares.
(g) Subject to the Act, the Company shall have the right at any time to redeem any such Redeemable Preference Share (provided that it is credited as fully paid) by giving to the registered holder not less than 7 days written notice of its intention to do so (the Redemption Notice ).
(h) The Redemption Notice must specify the number of Redeemable Preference Shares to be redeemed, the amount payable on redemption and the time ( Redemption Date ) and place at which:
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11.1 Subject to the provisions of the Companies Acts, if at any time the capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any class may (unless otherwise provided by the terms of allotment of the shares of that class) be varied or abrogated, whether or not the Company is being wound up, either:
(a) with the consent of the holders of three-quarters in nominal value of the issued shares of the class (excluding any shares of that class held as treasury shares), which consent shall be in hard copy form or in electronic form sent to such address (if any) for the time being specified by, or on behalf of, the Company for that purpose, or in default of such specification to the office, and may consist of several documents, each executed or authenticated in such manner as the board may approve by, or on behalf of, one or more holders, or a combination of both; or
(b) with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of the class,
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11.2 For the purposes of Article 11.1, if at any time the capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares, unless otherwise expressly provided by the rights attached to any share or class of shares, those rights shall be deemed to be varied by: |
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(a) the reduction of the capital paid up on that share or class of shares otherwise than by a purchase or redemption by the Company of its own shares; and
(b) the allotment of another share ranking in priority for payment of a dividend or in respect of capital or which confers on its holder voting rights more favourable than those conferred by that share or class of shares,
but shall not be deemed to be varied by:
(c) the creation or issue of another share ranking equally with, or subsequent to, that share or class of shares or by the purchase or redemption by the Company of its own shares; or
(d) the Company permitting, in accordance with the Regulations, the holding of and transfer of title to shares of that or any other class in uncertificated form by means of a relevant system. |
14.1 The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) for all moneys payable to the Company (whether presently or not) in respect of that share. The board may at any time (generally or in a particular case) waive any lien or declare any share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The Companys lien on a share shall extend to any amount (including, without limitation, dividends) payable in respect of it. |
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14.2 The Company may sell, in such manner as the board determines, any share on which the Company has a lien if a sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable and is not paid within 14 clear days after notice has been sent to the holder of the share, or to the person entitled to it by transmission, demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the share may be sold. |
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14.3 To give effect to that sale the board may, if the share is a certificated share, authorise any person to execute an instrument of transfer in respect of the share sold to, or in accordance with the directions of, the buyer. If the share is an uncertificated share, the board may exercise any of the Companys powers under Article 6.3 to effect the sale of the share to, or in accordance with the directions of, the buyer. The buyer shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money and the buyers title to the share shall not be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in relation to the sale. |
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14.4 The net proceeds of the sale, after payment of the costs, shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of so much of the sum in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable. Any residue shall (if the share sold is a certificated share, on surrender to the Company for cancellation of the certificate in respect of the share sold and, whether the share sold is a certificated or uncertificated share, subject to a like lien for any moneys not presently payable as existed on the share before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the share at the date of the sale. |
15.1 Subject to the terms of allotment, the board may from time to time make calls on the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether in respect of nominal value or premium). Each member shall (subject to receiving at least 14 clear days notice specifying when and where payment is to be made) pay to the Company the amount called on the shares held by such member as required by the notice. A call may be required to be paid by instalments. A call may be revoked in whole or part and the time fixed for payment of a call may be postponed in whole or part as the board may determine. A person on whom a call is made shall remain liable for calls made on such person even if the shares in respect of which the call was made are subsequently transferred. |
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15.2 A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the board authorising the call was passed. |
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15.3 The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect of it. |
22. If a member dies, the survivor or survivors where such member was a joint holder, and such members personal representatives where such member was a sole holder or the only survivor of joint holders, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to such members interest. Nothing in these Articles shall release the estate of a deceased member (whether a sole or joint holder) from any liability in respect of any share held by such member. |
24. All shares created by increase of the Companys share capital, by consolidation, division or sub-division of its share capital or the conversion of stock into paid-up shares shall be subject to all the provisions of these Articles including, without limitation, provisions relating to payment of calls, lien, forfeiture, transfer and transmission. |
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25. Whenever any fractions arise as a result of a consolidation or sub-division of shares, the board may on behalf of the members deal with the fractions as it thinks fit. In particular, without limitation, the board may sell shares representing fractions to which any members would otherwise become entitled to any person (including, subject to the provisions of the Companies Acts, the Company) and distribute the net proceeds of sale in due proportion among those members. Where the shares to be sold are held in certificated form the board may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the shares to, or in accordance with the directions of, the |
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buyer. Where the shares to be sold are held in uncertificated form, the board may do all acts and things it considers necessary or expedient to effect the transfer of the shares to, or in accordance with the directions of, the buyer. The buyer shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase moneys and the buyers title to the shares shall not be affected by any irregularity in, or invalidity of, the proceedings in relation to the sale. |
26. The board shall convene and the Company shall hold general meetings as annual general meetings in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Acts. |
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27. All provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings of the Company shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to every separate general meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the capital of the Company, except that:
(a) the necessary quorum shall be two persons holding or representing by proxy or corporate representative at least one-third in nominal value of the issued shares of the class (excluding any shares of that class held as treasury shares) or, at any adjourned meeting of such holders, one holder present in person or by proxy or corporate representative, whatever the amount of such holders holding, who shall be deemed to constitute a meeting;
(b) any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy or corporate representative may demand a poll; and
(c) each holder of shares of the class shall, on a poll, have one vote in respect of every share of the class held by such holder provided that, where more than one corporate representative purport to exercise a power in respect of the same shares:
(i) if they purport to exercise the power in the same way as each other, the power is treated as exercised in that way; and
(ii) if they do not purport to exercise the power in the same way as each other, the power is treated as not exercised.
For the purposes of this Article, where a person is present by proxy or proxies, that person is treated only as holding the shares in respect of which those proxies are authorised to exercise voting rights. |
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28. The board may call general meetings whenever and at such times as it shall determine. On the requisition of members pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Acts, the board shall promptly convene a general meeting in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Acts. If there are insufficient directors available to call a general meeting any director of the Company may call a general meeting, but where no director is willing or able to do so, any two members of the Company may summon a meeting for the purpose of appointing one or more directors.
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29. The board shall determine in relation to each general meeting means of attendance at and participation in the meeting, including whether the persons entitled to attend and participate in the general meeting shall be enabled to do so by, in addition to simultaneous attendance and participation at a physical place (or places, by way of satellite meetings in accordance with Article 32.1) anywhere in the world determined by it, by means of electronic facility or facilities determined by it in accordance with Article 32.1. |
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receive it, or the non-receipt for any reason of any such notice, resolution or notification or form of proxy by that person, whether or not the Company is aware of such omission or non-receipt, shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting. |
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33.2 The board and, at any general meeting, the chairman may make any arrangement and impose any requirement or restriction it or he considers appropriate to ensure the security of a general meeting held at a physical place including, without limitation, requirements for evidence of identity to be produced by those attending the meeting, the searching of their personal property and the restriction of items that may be taken into the meeting place. The board and, at any general meeting, the chairman are entitled to refuse entry to a person who refuses to comply with these arrangements, requirements or restrictions. |
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33.3 If a general meeting is held partly by means of electronic facility or facilities, the board (and, at a general meeting, the chairman) may make any arrangement and impose any requirement or restriction that is:
(a) necessary to ensure the identification of those taking part and the security of the electronic communication; and
(b) proportionate to the achievement of those objectives.
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PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
34. No business shall be dealt with at any general meeting unless a quorum is present, but the absence of a quorum shall not preclude the choice or appointment of a chairman, which shall not be treated as part of the business of the meeting. Save as otherwise provided by these Articles, two qualifying persons present at a meeting and entitled to vote on the business to be dealt with are a quorum, unless:
(a) each is a qualifying person only because such person is authorised under the Companies Acts to act as a representative of a corporation in relation to the meeting, and they are representatives of the same corporation; or
(b) each is a qualifying person only because such person is appointed as proxy of a member in relation to the meeting, and they are proxies of the same member.
For the purposes of this Article a qualifying person means: (i) an individual who is a member of the Company; (ii) a person authorised under the Companies Acts to act as a representative of a corporation which is a member of the Company in relation to the meeting; or (iii) a person appointed as proxy of a member of the Company in relation to the meeting. |
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35. If such a quorum is not present within five minutes (or such longer time not exceeding 30 minutes as the chairman of the meeting may decide to wait) from the time appointed for the meeting, or if during a meeting such a quorum ceases to be present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of members, shall be dissolved, and in any other case shall stand adjourned to such time and with such means of attendance and participation (including at such place and by means of such electronic |
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sum paid up on all the shares conferring that right (excluding any shares conferring a right to vote on the resolution which are held as treasury shares).
The appointment of a proxy to vote on a matter at a meeting authorises the proxy to demand, or join in demanding, a poll on that matter. In applying the provisions of this Article, a demand by a proxy counts (i) for the purposes of paragraph (b) of this Article, as a demand by the member, (ii) for the purposes of paragraph (c) of this Article, as a demand by a member representing the voting rights that the proxy is authorised to exercise, and (iii) for the purposes of paragraph (d) of this Article, as a demand by a member holding the shares to which those rights are attached. |
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41. Unless a poll is duly demanded (and the demand is not withdrawn before the poll is taken) a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carried or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, or not carried by a particular majority shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution. |
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42. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn before the poll is taken, but only with the consent of the chairman. A demand so withdrawn shall not be taken to have invalidated the result of a show of hands declared before the demand was made. If the demand for a poll is withdrawn, the chairman or any other member entitled may demand a poll. |
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43. Subject to Article 44, a poll shall be taken as the chairman directs and he may, and shall if required by the meeting, appoint scrutineers (who need not be members) and fix a time, place and means for declaring the result of the poll. The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. |
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44. A poll demanded on the election of a chairman or on a question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting at which it is demanded. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken either at the meeting or at such time, place and by such means of attendance and participation (including at such place and/or by means of such electronic facility) as the chairman directs not being more than 30 days after the poll is demanded. The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which the poll was demanded. If a poll is demanded before the declaration of the result of a show of hands and the demand is duly withdrawn, the meeting shall continue as if the demand had not been made. |
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45. No notice need be sent of a poll not taken at the meeting at which it is demanded if the time and place at and means by which it is to be taken are announced at the meeting. In any other case notice shall be sent at least seven clear days before the taking of the poll specifying the time and place at and means by which the poll is to be taken. |
46. Where for any purpose an ordinary resolution of the Company is required, a special resolution shall also be effective. |
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any other stock exchange outside the United Kingdom on which the Companys shares are normally traded. |
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53.2 Nothing contained in Articles 52.1 to 52.7 or Article 53.1 limits the power of the Company under section 794 of the Act. |
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54. If any votes are counted which ought not to have been counted, or might have been rejected, the error shall not vitiate the result of the voting unless it is pointed out at the same meeting, or at any adjournment of the meeting, and, in the opinion of the chairman, it is of sufficient magnitude to vitiate the result of the voting. |
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55. No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting or poll at which the vote objected to is tendered. Every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid and every vote not counted which ought to have been counted shall be disregarded. Any objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman whose decision shall be final and conclusive. |
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56. On a poll, a member entitled to more than one vote need not, if that member votes, use all of that members votes or cast all the votes that member uses in the same way. |
PROXIES AND CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES
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57. The appointment of a proxy shall be made in writing and shall be in any usual form or in any other form which the board may approve. Subject thereto, the appointment of a proxy may be:
(a) in hard copy form; or
(b) in electronic form, to the electronic address provided by the Company for this purpose. |
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58. The appointment of a proxy, whether made in hard copy form or in electronic form, shall be executed in such manner as may be approved by, or on behalf of, the Company from time to time. Subject thereto, the appointment of a proxy shall be executed by the appointer or any person duly authorised by the appointer or, if the appointer is a corporation, executed by a duly authorised person or under its common seal or in any other manner authorised by its constitution. |
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59. The board may, if it thinks fit, but subject to the provisions of the Companies Acts, at the Companys expense send hard copy forms of proxy for use at the meeting and issue invitations in electronic form to appoint a proxy in relation to the meeting in such form as may be approved by the board. The appointment of a proxy shall not preclude a member from attending and voting in person at the meeting or poll concerned. A member may appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion, provided that each such proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that member. |
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(a) on a vote on a resolution on a show of hands at a meeting of the Company, each authorised person has the same voting rights as the grantor would be entitled to; and
(b) where paragraph (a) does not apply and more than one authorised person purport to exercise a power in respect of the same shares:
(i) if they purport to exercise the power in the same way as each other, the power is treated as exercised in that way; and
(ii) if they do not purport to exercise the power in the same way as each other, the power is treated as not exercised. |
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64. The termination of the authority of a person to act as a proxy or duly authorised representative of a corporation does not affect:
(a) whether that person counts in deciding whether there is a quorum at a meeting;
(b) the validity of a poll demanded by that person at a meeting; or
(c) the validity of a vote given by that person,
unless notice of the termination was either delivered or received as mentioned in the following sentence at least 24 hours before the start of the relevant meeting or adjourned meeting or (in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting) the time appointed for taking the poll. Such notice of termination shall be either by means of a document in hard copy form delivered to the office or to such other place within the United Kingdom as may be specified by, or on behalf of, the Company in accordance with Article 60.1(a) or in electronic form received at the address specified by, or on behalf of, the Company in accordance with Article 60.1(b), regardless of whether any relevant proxy appointment was effected in hard copy form or in electronic form. |
65. Unless otherwise determined by ordinary resolution, the number of directors (other than alternate directors) shall be not less than 5 nor more than 14.
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APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS
66. At the annual general meeting of the Company in every year, all of the directors shall retire. A retiring director shall be eligible for re-election. |
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67. The Company at the meeting at which a director retires in manner aforesaid may, subject to Article 69, fill the vacated office by electing a person thereto. In default the retiring director shall, if offering himself/herself for re-election, be deemed to have been re-elected, unless: |
72. Any director (other than an alternate director) may appoint any other director, or any other person approved by resolution of the board and willing to act, to be an alternate director and may remove from office an alternate director so appointed by such director. |
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such alternate directors own acts and defaults and the alternate director shall not be deemed to be the agent of the director appointing the alternate director. |
79. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Acts and these Articles and to any directions given by special resolution, the business of the Company shall be managed by the board which may exercise all the powers of the Company including, without limitation, the power to dispose of all or any part of the undertaking of the Company. No alteration of the Articles and no such direction shall invalidate any prior act of the board which would have been valid if that alteration had not been made or that direction had not been given. The powers given by this Article shall not be limited by any special power given to the board by these Articles. A meeting of the board at which a quorum is present may exercise all powers exercisable by the board. |
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Subject to any conditions imposed by the board, the proceedings of a committee with two or more members shall be governed by these Articles regulating the proceedings of directors so far as they are capable of applying, subject to the following:
(a) notwithstanding the first sentence of Article 98, the quorum of any meeting or adjourned meeting may be fixed by the board and unless so fixed at any other number shall be two, of whom a majority are directors;
(b) notwithstanding the third sentence of Article 97, questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes of those attending, provided that:
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85. The board may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money, to guarantee, to indemnify, to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property, assets (present and future) and uncalled capital, and to issue debentures and other securities whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party. |
DISQUALIFICATION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
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(d) a registered medical practitioner who is treating that person gives a written opinion to the Company stating that that person has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as a director and may remain so for more than three months;
(e) notification is received by the Company from the director that the director is resigning or retiring from office, and such resignation or retirement has taken effect in accordance with its terms;
(f) that person has been absent for more than six consecutive months without permission of the board from meetings of the board held during that period and that persons alternate director (if any) has not attended in that persons place during that period and the board resolves that that persons office be vacated; or
(g) that person receives notice signed by not less than three-quarters of the other directors stating that that person should cease to be a director. In calculating the number of directors who are required to give such notice to the director: (i) an alternate director appointed by a director acting in that directors capacity as such shall be excluded; and (ii) a director and any alternate director appointed by that director and acting in that directors capacity as such shall constitute a single director for this purpose, so that notice by either shall be sufficient. |
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88. The ordinary remuneration of the directors who do not hold executive office for their services (excluding amounts payable under any other provision of these Articles) shall not exceed in aggregate £2,250,000 per annum or such higher amount as the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution determine. Subject thereto, each such director shall be paid a fee for their services (which shall be deemed to accrue from day to day) at such rate as may from time to time be determined by the board. |
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90. The directors may be paid all travelling, hotel, and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with their attendance at meetings of the board or committees of the board, general meetings or separate meetings of the holders of any class of shares or of debentures of the Company or otherwise in connection with the discharge of their duties. |
91. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Acts, the board may appoint one or more of its body to be the holder of any executive office (except that of auditor) in the Company and may enter into an agreement or arrangement with any such director for that directors employment by the Company or for the provision by the director of any services outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a director. Any such appointment, agreement or arrangement may be made on such terms including, without limitation, terms as to remuneration, as the board determines. The board may revoke or vary any such appointment but without prejudice to any rights or claims which the person whose appointment is revoked or varied may have against the Company because of the revocation or variation. |
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94.1 For the purposes of section 175 of the Act, the board may authorise any matter proposed to it in accordance with these Articles which would, if not so authorised, involve a breach of duty by a director under that section including, without limitation, any matter which relates to a situation in which a director has, or can have, an interest which conflicts, or possibly may conflict, with the interests of the Company. Any such authorisation will be effective only if: |
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GRATUITIES, PENSIONS AND INSURANCE
95.1 The board may (by establishment of, or maintenance of, schemes or otherwise) provide benefits, whether by the payment of gratuities or pensions or by insurance or otherwise, for any past or present director or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiary undertakings or any body corporate associated with, or any business acquired by, any of them, and for any member of that persons family (including a spouse, a civil partner, a former spouse and a former civil partner) or any person who is or was dependent on that person, and may (as well before as after that person ceases to hold such office or employment) contribute to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such benefit. |
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(a) a director, officer, or employee of the Company, or any body which is or was the holding company or subsidiary undertaking of the Company, or in which the Company or such holding company or subsidiary undertaking has or had any interest (whether direct or indirect) or with which the Company or such holding company or subsidiary undertaking is or was in any way allied or associated; or
(b) a trustee of any pension fund in which employees of the Company or any other body referred to in Article 95.2(a) are or have been interested,
including, without limitation, insurance against any liability incurred by such person in respect of any act or omission in the actual or purported execution or discharge of that persons duties or in the exercise or purported exercise of that persons powers or otherwise in relation to that persons duties, powers or offices in relation to the relevant body or fund. |
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(a) The Resolution may specify a particular dividend, or may specify all or any dividends declared within a specified period.
(b) Each holder of shares shall be entitled to that number of new shares as are together as nearly as possible equal in value to (but not greater than) the cash amount (disregarding any tax credit) of the dividend that such holder elects to forgo (each a new share ). For this purpose, the value of each new share shall be:
(i) equal to the average quotation for the Companys ordinary shares, that is, the average of the middle market quotations for those shares on the London Stock Exchange plc, as derived from the Daily Official List, on the day on which such shares are first quoted ex the relevant dividend and the four subsequent dealing days; or
(ii) calculated in any other manner specified by the Resolution,
but shall never be less than the par value of the new share.
A certificate or report by the auditors as to the value of a new share in respect of any dividend shall be conclusive evidence of that value.
(c) On or as soon as practicable after announcing that any dividend is to be declared or recommended, the board, if it intends to offer an election in respect of that dividend, shall also announce that intention. If, after determining the basis of allotment, the board decides to proceed with the offer, it shall notify the holders of shares of the terms and conditions of the right of election offered to them, specifying the procedure to be followed and place at which, and the latest time by which, elections or notices amending or terminating existing elections must be delivered in order to be effective.
(d) The board shall not proceed with any election unless the board has sufficient authority to allot shares and sufficient reserves or funds that may be appropriated to give effect to it after the basis of allotment is determined.
(e) The board may exclude from any offer any holders of shares where the board believes the making of the offer to them would or might involve the contravention of the laws of any territory or that for any other reason the offer should not be made to them.
(f) The dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been offered) shall not be payable in cash on shares in respect of which an election has been made (the elected shares ) and instead such number of new shares shall be allotted to each holder of elected shares as is arrived at on the basis stated in Article 117.2(b). For that purpose the board shall appropriate out of any amount for the time being standing to the credit of any reserve or fund (including, without limitation, the profit and loss account), whether or not it is available for distribution, a sum equal to the aggregate nominal amount of the new shares to be allotted and apply it in |
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS AND RESERVES
123. The board may with the authority of an ordinary resolution of the Company:
(a) subject to the provisions of this Article, resolve to capitalise any undistributed profits of the Company not required for paying any preferential dividend (whether or not they are available for distribution) or any sum standing to the credit of any reserve or other fund including, without limitation, the Companys share premium account and capital redemption reserve, if any;
(b) appropriate the sum resolved to be capitalised to the members or any class of members on the record date specified in the relevant resolution who would have been entitled to it if it were distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions;
(c) apply that sum on their behalf either in or towards paying up the amounts, if any, for the time being unpaid on any shares held by them respectively, or in paying up in full shares, debentures or other obligations of the Company of a nominal amount equal to that sum but the share premium account, the capital redemption reserve, and any profits which are not available for distribution may, for the purposes of this Article, only be applied in paying up shares to be allotted to members credited as fully paid;
(d) allot the shares, debentures or other obligations credited as fully paid to those members, or as they may direct, in those proportions, or partly in one way and partly in the other;
(e) where shares or debentures become, or would otherwise become, distributable under this Article in fractions, make such provision as they think fit for any fractional entitlements including, without limitation, authorising their sale and transfer to any person, resolving that the distribution be made as nearly as practicable in the correct proportion but not exactly so, ignoring fractions altogether or resolving that cash payments be made to any members in order to adjust the rights of all parties;
(f) authorise any person to enter into an agreement with the Company on behalf of all the members concerned providing for either:
(i) the allotment to the members respectively, credited as fully paid, of any shares, debentures or other obligations to which they are entitled on the capitalisation; or
(ii) the payment up by the Company on behalf of the members of the amounts, or any part of the amounts, remaining unpaid on their existing shares by the application of their respective proportions of the sum resolved to be capitalised,
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(h) for the purposes of this Article, unless the relevant resolution provides otherwise, if the Company holds treasury shares of the relevant class at the record date specified in the relevant resolution, it shall be treated as if it were entitled to receive the dividends in respect of those treasury shares which would have been payable if those treasury shares had been held by a person other than the Company. |
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135.1 The Company shall be entitled to destroy:
(a) all instruments of transfer of shares which have been registered, and all other documents on the basis of which any entry is made in the register, at any time after the expiration of six years from the date of registration;
(b) all dividend mandates, variations or cancellations of dividend mandates, and notifications of change of address at any time after the expiration of two years from the date of recording;
(c) all share certificates which have been cancelled at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of the cancellation;
(d) all paid dividend warrants, cheques and similar financial instruments at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of actual payment;
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136.1 The Company shall be entitled to sell the shares of a member or the shares to which a person is entitled by transmission if:
(a) during the period of 12 years prior to the sending of the notice referred to in Article 136.1(b) below (the relevant period ), at least three dividends in respect of the shares in question have been declared and all dividend warrants and cheques and similar financial instruments which have been sent in the manner authorised by these Articles in respect of the shares in question have remained uncashed;
(b) the Company has, after the expiry of the relevant period, sent a notice to the registered address or last known address of the member or other person entitled, stating that it intends to sell the shares and, prior to sending such |
137. If the Company is wound up, the liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution of the Company and any other sanction required by the Insolvency Act 1986:
(a) divide among the members in specie the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and may, for that purpose, value any assets and determine how the division shall be carried out as between the members or different classes of members;
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139. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Acts, but without prejudice to any indemnity to which the person concerned may otherwise be entitled, every director or other officer of the Company (other than any person (whether an officer or not) engaged by the Company as auditor) shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against any liability incurred by such director or other officer for negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to the affairs of the Company, provided that this Article shall be deemed not to provide for, or entitle any such person to, indemnification to the extent that it would cause this Article, or any element of it, to be treated as void under the Act or otherwise under the Companies Acts. |
140. An Approved Depositary may appoint as its proxy or proxies such person or persons as it thinks fit and may determine the method by which, and the terms on which, such appointments are made, save that each such appointment shall specify the number of shares in respect of which the appointment is made and the aggregate number of shares in respect of which appointments subsist at any one time shall not exceed the aggregate number of shares (such aggregate number of shares, the Depositary Shares ) which for the time being shall be registered in the name of the Approved Depositary or its nominee. |
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