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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-tables-a-to-f-regulations-1985/schedule/part-1/paragraph-46",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/805",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985",
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  "path": "schedule/part/1/paragraph/46",
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  "number": "46",
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  "text": "A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless before, or on the declaration of the result of, the show of hands a poll is duly demanded. Subject to the provisions of the Act, a poll may be demanded—\n(a) by the chairman; or\n(b) by at least two members having the right to vote at the meeting; or\n(c) by a member or members representing not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all the members having the right to vote at the meeting; or\n(d) by a member or members holding shares conferring a right to vote at the meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than one-tenth of the total sum paid up on all the shares conferring that right;\nand a demand by a person as proxy for a member shall be the same as a demand by the member.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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