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In what cases poll taken without adjournment.
Other business may proceed notwithstanding demand for poll.
Number of votes of shareholders.
Joint holders.
Proxies permitted.
Deposit of proxy and its duration.
Execution of instrument of proxy; proxy must be shareholder.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
71. Any poll duly demanded on the election of a chairman of a meeting or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting and without adjournment.
72. The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll has been demanded.
Votes of shareholders.
73. On a show of hands every shareholder personally present, holding five shares or more, shall have one vote. In case of a poll every shareholder holding five shares shall have one vote for the first five shares and one vote for every twenty shares over and above the first five shares.
74. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, that one of the said persons so present in person or by proxy, whose name stands first on the shareholders' registers in respect of such share, shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof either in person or by proxy. Several executors or administrators of a deceased shareholder in whose name any share stands shall for the purposes of this regulation be deemed joint holders thereof.
75. Votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
76. 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.
77. 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.
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CAP. 70]
In what
cases poll taken without adjournment.
Other
business may proceed not- withstanding demand for poll.
Number of votes of shareholders.
Joint holders.
Proxies permitted.
Deposit of proxy and its duration.
Execution of instrument of proxy; proxy must be shareholder.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
71. Any poll duly demanded on the election of a chair- man of a meeting or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting and without adjournment.
72. The demand for a poll shall not prevent the con- tinuance of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll has been demanded.
Votes of shareholders.
73. On a show of hands every shareholder personally present, holding five shares or more, shall have one vote. In case of a poll every shareholder holding five shares shall have one vote for the first five shares and one vote for every twenty shares over and above the first five shares.
74. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, that one of the said persons so present in person or by proxy, whose name stands first on the shareholders registers in respect of such share, shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof either in person or by proxy. Several executors or administrators of a deceased shareholder in whose name any share stands shall for the purposes of this regulation be deemed joint holders thereof.
75. Votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
76. 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.
77. 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 share- holder of the bank and qualified and entitled to vote.
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