| 26. |
(A) |
Every Member present at a General
Meeting in person shall have one vote on a show of hands. |
| |
(B) |
On a poll every Member which is
present at a General Meeting in person or by proxy shall have
the number of votes to which it is entitled as provided by paragraph
4 of the Appendix to these Articles. |
| 27. |
No objection shall be raised to the qualification
of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which
the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not
disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any
such objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman
of the meeting, whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
A declaration by the chairman of the meeting that a resolution
has been carried, or carried unanimously or by a particular majority,
or lost, or not carried by a particular majority, and an entry
to that effect in the book containing the minutes of proceedings
of the Association shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without
proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour
of or against such resolution. |
| 28. |
The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in
writing under the hand of the appointor or of its attorney duly
authorised either under its common seal or under the hand of
an officer or attorney so authorised. |
| 29. |
No person shall be appointed to be a proxy unless
he is a Member of the Association, or is a person who has been
appointed pursuant to Article 25 to act at the relevant meeting
of the Association as the representative of a corporation which
is a Member. |
| 30. |
The instrument appointing a proxy and the power
of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed
or a notarially certified or office copy of such power or authority
shall be deposited at the Office or at such other place in the
United Kingdom as is specified for the purpose in the notice
convening the meeting or in the instrument of proxy issued by
the Association not less than forty-eight hours before the time
appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which
the person named in the instrument proposes to vote and in default
the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid. |
| 31. |
An instrument of proxy may be in any usual or
common form or in any other form which the Directors may approve.
Instruments of proxy need not be witnessed. |
| 32. |
The Directors may at the expense of the Association
send by post or otherwise to the Members instruments of proxy
with or without stamped envelopes for their return for use at
any General Meeting, either in blank or nominating in the alternative
any one or more of the Directors or any other persons. If for
the purpose of any meeting invitations to appoint as proxy a
person or one of a number of persons specified in the invitations
are issued at the expense of the Association, such invitations
shall be issued to all (and not to some only) of the Members
entitled to be sent a notice of the meeting and to vote thereat
by proxy. |
| 33. |
A vote given in accordance with the terms of
an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the revocation
of the instrument of proxy or of the authority under which the
instrument of proxy was executed, provided that no intimation
of such revocation shall have been received by the Association
at the Office three hours at least before the commencement of
the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the instrument of proxy
is used. |
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