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Proxies permitted.
Deposit of proxy and its duration.
Execution of instrument of proxy. Proxy must be share- helders.
Form of
proxy.
Register of Proxies to he kept.
Appointment and powers of Attorney.
Restrictions on voting
When rote
by proxy or attorney
valid
though authority
revoked or share transferred.
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76. Votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
77. The instrument appointing a proxy, and the power of attorney (if any) under which it is signed, and any power of attorney under which any shareholder claims to vote for an absent shareholder or acts as attorney for an absent shareholder shall be deposited at the Head Office not less than forty-eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or poll, as the case may be, at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote: otherwise the person so named shall not be entitled to vote in respect thereof. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its execution.
78. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney. No person shall be appointed a proxy who is not a shareholder of the Bank and qualified and entitled to
vote.
79. Every instrument of proxy shall, as nearly as circumstances will admit, be in the form specified in Appendix 3 to these regulations or in such other form as the Board shall, from time to time, approve.
80. A book to be called the "Register of Proxies" shall be kept at the Head Office under the superintendence of the Board, and an entry shall be made therein of every appointment of a proxy, but such entry shall not be a condition precedent to the use by a shareholder of a proxy in conformity with these regulations.
81. Any shareholder, whose address on the shareholders' registers shall not be in the Colony, shall be entitled to appoint by power of attorney some person, who is a shareholder having an address within the Colony, to act as his attorney for the purpose of attending meetings, and voting thereat, but no vote can be given at any meeting under a power of attorney unless such power has been deposited with the Bank, together with a written notice from the attorney giving his address in the Colony, not less than forty eight hours before the time of the holding of the meeting at which it is proposed to act under such power of attorney. Any such Attorney shall be entitled to attend any meeting of the Bank held during the continuance of his appointment and (subject to the restrictions specified in Regulation 82) to vote thereat in respect of the said shares, such vote to be exercised either personally or by proxy appointed by the Attorney in accordance with these regulations.
82. No shareholder shall be entitled to be present, or to vote on any question, either personally, or by proxy, or as proxy for or attorney for another shareholder, at any general meeting or upon a poll, or be reckoned in a quorum, whilst any call or other sum shall be due and payable to the Bank in respect of any of the shares of such shareholder or in respect of which such person may be entitled to vote, and no person shall be entitled to be present or vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of any shares that he has acquired by transfer, unless he has been registered in respect of such shares for at least three months previously to the meeting at which he proposes to be present or vote.
83. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy or of a power of attorney shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death of the principal, or the revocation of the proxy or power of attorney or the transfer of the share in respect of which the vote is given, provided that no express notice in writing of the death, revocation,
has or transfer been received by the Bank at the Head Office before the meeting at which such vote is given.
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