Article 133 Definition of proxy

For the purposes of these Rules, a proxy is an authority given by a person (“the principal”) to another person (“the proxy-holder”) to attend a meeting and speak and vote as the person's representative.

Proxies are for use at creditors' meetings or energy supply company meetings summoned or called under Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act or these Rules.

Only one proxy may be given by a person for any one meeting at which the person desires to be represented; and it may only be given to one person, being an individual aged 18 years or over. But the principal may specify one or more other such individuals to be proxy-holder in the alternative, in the order in which they are named in the proxy.

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (3), a proxy for a particular meeting may be given to whoever is to be the chair of the meeting; and the chair cannot decline to be the proxy-holder in relation to that proxy.

A proxy requires the holder to give the principal's vote on matters arising for determination at the meeting, or to abstain, or to propose, in the principal's name, a resolution to be voted on by the meeting, either as directed or in accordance with the holder's own discretion.