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(b) all business transacted at an annual general meeting except the declaration of a dividend, the consideration of the accounts and the reports of the directors and auditors, the election of directors in place of those retiring and the appointment of, and the fixing of the remuneration of, the auditors.
(8) This section shall apply to meetings of any class of members of a company as it applies to general meetings of the company. (Added, 6 of 1984, s. 77)
114D. (1) Any provision contained in a company's articles shall be void in so far as it would have the effect either-
(a) of excluding the right to demand a poll at a general meeting on any question other than the election of the chairman of the meeting or the adjournment of the meeting; or
(b) of making ineffective a demand for a poll on any such question which is made either---
(i) by not less than 5 members having the right to vote at the meeting; or
(ii) 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
(iii) by a member or members holding shares in the company 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.
(2) The instrument appointing a proxy to vote at a meeting of a company shall be deemed also to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll, and for the purposes of subsection (1) a demand by a person as proxy for a member shall be the same as a demand by the member.
(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 77)
Right to demand a poll. 1948 c. 38, s. 137.
1948 c. 38, s. 138.
114E. On a poll taken at a meeting of a company or a meeting Voting on a poll. of any class of members of a company, a member entitled to more than 1 vote need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.
(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 77)
115. (1) A corporation may by resolution of its directors or other governing body—
(a) if it is a member of a company, authorize such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the company or at any meeting of any class of members of the company;
Representation of companies at meetings of other companies and of creditors. 1929 c. 23, s. 116.