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Article 29 Consequential amendments: electronic appointment of proxies

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

The 1986 Act is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 60 (directors: election and retirement), in paragraph (c) of the definition of “voting date” in subsection (17) for “instruments appointing” substitute “appointments of”.

(3)

In Schedule 2, in–

(a)

sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 21 (length of notice for calling meetings);

(b)

sub-paragraph (2A) of paragraph 22 (persons entitled to notice of meetings)f1;

(c)

sub-paragraph (6)(c) of paragraph 23 (members' entitlement to vote on resolutions); and

(d)

sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 24 (proxies),

for “instruments appointing” substitute “appointments of”.

(4)

In that Schedule, in sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph 24, for “the instrument appointing a proxy, or any other” substitute “the appointment of a proxy, or any”.

(5)

In that Schedule, in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 25 (right to demand a poll) for “The instrument appointing” substitute “Any appointment of”.

(6)

In that Schedule, in paragraph 34 (declarations to be made in proxy and ballot forms)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1), omit “instrument of”; and

(b)

in sub-paragraph (3), for “or as an instrument for the” substitute “and every”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

Sub-paragraph (2A) was substituted, together with sub-paragraph (2), for sub-paragraph 2 as originally enacted by the Building Societies Act 1997, section 43, Schedule 7, paragraph 57(2).