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Paragraph 17 Methods of appointing directorsI1

United Kingdom

(1)

Any person who is willing to act as a director, and is permitted by law to do so, may be appointed to be a director—

(a)

by ordinary resolution, or

(b)

by a decision of the directors.

(2)

In any case where, as a result of death, the company has no members and no directors, the personal representatives of the last member to have died have the right, by notice in writing, to appoint a person to be a director.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (2), where 2 or more members die in circumstances rendering it uncertain who was the last to die, a younger member is deemed to have survived an older member.

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Commencement

I1

Sch. 2 art. 17 in force at 1.10.2009, see reg. 1