{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-329",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-329.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/329",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "329",
  "heading": "Right of proxy to demand a poll",
  "text": "(1) The appointment of a proxy to vote on a matter at a meeting of a company authorises the proxy to demand, or join in demanding, a poll on that matter.\n(2) In applying the provisions of section 321(2) (requirements for effective demand), a demand by a proxy counts—\n(a) for the purposes of paragraph (a), as a demand by the member;\n(b) for the purposes of paragraph (b), as a demand by a member representing the voting rights that the proxy is authorised to exercise;\n(c) for the purposes of paragraph (c), as a demand by a member holding the shares to which those rights are attached.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 329 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 329 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 329 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(f) (with saving in art. 12 and subject to transitional adaptations specified in Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/329",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}