2.
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(1) Notice of a meeting convened under paragraph I shall be sent by the secretary of the management committee by post to each owner at least seven days before the date of the meeting.
(2) Every notice referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall specify- (a) the place, date and time of the meeting:
(6) every resolution to be proposed or other matter to be discussed
at the meeting.
3. (1) The chairman of the management committee appointed under paragraph 2 of the Second Schedule shall preside at a meeting of the corporation.
(2) If the chairman of the management committee is absent the owners at a meeting shall appoint an owner as chairman for that meeting.
(3) Subject to subsection (1) of section 10, all matters arising at a meeting of the corporation at which a quorum is present shall be decided by a majority of votes of the owners voting either personally or by proxy.
Provided that if the deed of mutual covenant provides for any resolu- tion requiring the affirmative voto of more than a simple majority of the owners present either personally or by proxy, the provisions of such deed of mutual covenant shall apply to any such resolution.
(4) If there is an equality of votes the chairman shall have, in addi- tion to a deliberative vote, a casting vote.
(5) (a) At any meeting of the corporation each owner shall, subject to the provisions of any instrument registered in the Land Office and subject to sub-paragraph (6), have one vote in respect of sach share which he owns,
(b) If any share is jobally owned by two or more persons the vote
in respect of that share may be cast-
(i) by a proxy jointly appointed by the co-owners; or
(i) by one co-owner appointed by the others; or
(i) if no appointment has been made under (0) or (ii), eltber personally or by proxy by the co-owner whose name stands first la relation to that share in the register kept by the secretary of the management committer under section 39.
(6) If a registered mortgagee is in possession of an owner's fat, such mortgagee shall, to the exclusion of the owner, be entitled to exercise the voling rights of such owner,
(7) No resolution passed at any meeting of the corporation shall have effect unless the same was set forth in the notice sent to the owners in accordance with paragraph 2 or is ancillary or incidental to a resolution or other maller so set forth.
(8) Nothing in sub-paragraph (7) shall preclude the passing of ■ resolution as amended at a meeting of a corporation.
4. (1) At a meeting of the corporation the votes of owners may be given either personally or by proxy.
(2) The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing signed by the owner, or if the owner is a body corporate, under the seal of that body.
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(3) The appointment of a proxy shall have no effect unless the instru- ment appointing the proxy is lodged with the secretary of the management committee not less than forty-eight hours before the time for the holding of the meeting at which the proxy proposes to vote, or within such lesser time as the chairman shall allow.
5.
The quorum at a meeting of the corporation shall ba—
(a) twenty per cent of the owners, in the case of a meeting at which a resolution for the dissolution of the management committes under section 30 is proposed; or
(6) ten per cent of the owners in any other case.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 17th day of June, 1970.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
This printed impression has been carefully compared
by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
J.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.