02255 海昌海洋公园 展示文件:(001) 公司经修订及重述的组织章程大纲细则(英文版)
THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASOCIATION
OF
HAICHANG OCEAN PARK HOLDINGS LTD.
海昌海洋公园控股有限公司
(adopted by special resolution pased on 28 June 2024)
THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASOCIATION
OF
HAICHANG OCEAN PARK HOLDINGS LTD.
海昌海洋公园控股有限公司
(adopted by special resolution pased on 28 June 2024)
THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
MEMORANDUM OF ASOCIATION
OF
HAICHANG OCEAN PARK HOLDINGS LTD.
海昌海洋公园控股有限公司
(adopted by special resolution pased on 28 June 2024)
1 The name of the Company is Haichang Ocean Park Holdings Ltd. 海昌海洋公园控股有限公
司.
2 The Registered Ofice of the Company shal be at the ofices of Maples Corporate Services
Limited, PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman Islands or at such
other place in the Cayman Islands as the Board may from time to time decide.
3 The objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and shal include, but
without limitation, the folowing:
(a) to cary on busines as an investment company and as an investment holding company
and to acquire and hold shares, stocks, debenture stock, bonds, mortgages, obligations
and securities of any kind isued or guaranted by any company, corporation or
undertaking of whatever nature and wherever constituted or carying on busines,
and shares, stock, debenture stock, bonds, obligations and other securities isued or
guaranted by any government, sovereign ruler, comisioners, trust, local authority or
other public body, and to vary, transpose, dispose of or otherwise deal with from time
to time as may be considered expedient any of the Company’s investments for the time
being;
(b) to subscribe for, conditionaly or unconditionaly, to underwrite, isue on comision
or otherwise, take, hold, deal in and convert stocks, shares and securities of al kinds
and to enter into partnership or into any arangement for sharing profits, reciprocal
concesions or coperation with any person or company and to promote and aid in
promoting, to constitute, form or organise any company, joint venture, syndicate or
partnership of any kind, for the purpose of acquiring and undertaking any property and
liabilities of the Company or of advancing, directly or indirectly, the objects of the
Company or for any other purpose which the Company may think expedient;
(c) to exercise and enforce al rights and powers confered by or incidental to the ownership
of any shares, stock, obligations or other securities including without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing al such powers of veto or control as may be confered
by virtue of the holding by the Company of some special proportion of the isued or
nominal amount thereof, to provide managerial and other executive, supervisory and
consultant services for or in relation to any company in which the Company is interested
upon such terms as may be thought fit;
(d) to stand surety for or to guarante, indemnify, suport or secure the performance of
al or any of the obligations of any person, firm or company whether or not related
or afiliated to the Company in any maner and whether by personal covenant or by
mortgage, charge or lien upon the whole or any part of the undertaking, property and
asets of the Company, both present and future, including its uncaled capital or by
any such method and whether or not the Company shal receive valuable consideration
therefor;
(e) to cary on the busines of promoters and entrepreneurs and to cary on busines as
financiers, capitalists, concesionaires, merchants, brokers, traders, dealers, agents,
importers and exporters and to undertake and cary on and execute al kinds of
investment, financial, comercial, mercantile, trading and other operations;
(f) to cary on whether as principals, agents or otherwise howsoever the busines of
realtors, developers, consultants, estate agents or managers, builders, contractors,
enginers, manufacturers, dealers in or vendors of al types of property including the
provision of any services;
(g) to purchase or otherwise acquire, to sel, exchange, surender, lease, mortgage, charge,
convert, turn to acount, dispose of and deal with real and personal property and rights
of al kinds and, in particular, mortgages, debentures, produce, concesions, options,
contracts, patents, anuities, licences, stocks, shares, bonds, policies, bok debts,
busines concerns, undertakings, claims, privileges and choses in action of al kinds;
and
(h) to engage in or cary on any other lawful trade, busines or enterprise which may at any
time apear to the Directors capable of being conveniently caried on in conjunction
with any of the aforementioned busineses or activities or which may apear to the
Directors likely to be profitable to the Company.
In the interpretation of this Memorandum of Asociation in general and of this Clause 3 in
particular no object, busines or power specified or mentioned shal be limited or restricted
by reference to or inference from any other object, busines or power, or the name of the
Company, or by the juxtaposition of two or more objects, busineses or powers and that, in
the event of any ambiguity in this Clause or elsewhere in this Memorandum of Asociation,
the same shal be resolved by such interpretation and construction as wil widen and enlarge
and not restrict the objects, busineses and powers of and exercisable by the Company.
4 Except as prohibited or limited by the Companies Act (As Revised), the Company shal
have ful power and authority to cary out any object not prohibited by any law as provided
by Section 7(4) of the Companies Act (As Revised) and shal have and be capable of from
time to time and at al times exercising any and al of the powers at any time or from time
to time exercisable by a natural person or body corporate, irespective of any question of
corporate benefit, in doing in any part of the world whether as principal, agent, contractor or
otherwise whatever may be considered by it necesary for the atainment of its objects and
whatever else may be considered by it as incidental or conducive thereto or consequential
thereon, including, but without in any way restricting the generality of the foregoing, the
power to make any alterations or amendments to this Memorandum of Asociation and the
Articles of Asociation of the Company considered necesary or convenient in the maner set
out in the Articles of Asociation of the Company, and the power to do any of the folowing
acts or things, viz: to pay al expenses of and incidental to the promotion, formation
and incorporation of the Company; to register the Company to do busines in any other
jurisdiction; to sel, lease or dispose of any property of the Company; to draw, make, acept,
endorse, discount, execute and isue promisory notes, debentures, debenture stock, loans,
loan stock, loan notes, bonds, convertible bonds, bils of exchange, bils of lading, warants
and other negotiable or transferable instruments; to lend money or other asets and to act as
guarantors; to borow or raise money on the security of the undertaking or on al or any of
the asets of the Company including uncaled capital or without security; to invest monies of
the Company in such maner as the Directors determine; to promote other companies; to sel
the undertaking of the Company for cash or any other consideration; to distribute asets in
specie to members of the Company; to contract with persons for the provision of advice, the
management and custody of the Company’s asets, the listing of the Company’s shares and
its administration; to make charitable or benevolent donations; to pay pensions or gratuities
or provide other benefits in cash or kind to Directors, oficers, employes, past or present
and their families; to purchase Directors and oficers liability insurance; to cary on any trade
or busines and generaly to do al acts and things which, in the opinion of the Company or
the Directors, may be conveniently or profitably or usefuly acquired and dealt with, caried
on, executed or done by the Company in conection with the busines aforesaid PROVIDED
THAT the Company shal only cary on the busineses for which a licence is required under
the laws of the Cayman Islands when so licensed under the terms of such laws.
5 The liability of each member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such
member’s shares.
6 The share capital of the Company is US$500,000 divided into 10,000,000,000 shares of a
nominal or par value of US$0.00005 each with power for the Company insofar as is permited
by law, to redem or purchase any of its shares and to increase or reduce the said capital
subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (As Revised) and the Articles of Asociation
and to isue any part of its capital, whether original, redemed or increased with or without
any preference, priority or special privilege or subject to any postponement of rights or to any
conditions or restrictions and so that unles the conditions of isue shal otherwise expresly
declare every isue of shares whether declared to be preference or otherwise shal be subject
to the powers hereinbefore contained.
7 If the Company is registered as exempted, its operations wil be caried on subject to the
provisions of Section 174 of the Companies Act (As Revised) and, subject to the provisions
of the Companies Act (As Revised) and the Articles of Asociation, it shal have the power to
register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any
jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.
THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASOCIATION
OF
HAICHANG OCEAN PARK HOLDINGS LTD.
海昌海洋公园控股有限公司
(adopted by special resolution pased on 28 June 2024)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Heading Page Number
1EXCLUSION OF TABLE A1
2INTERPRETATION1
3SHARE CAPITAL AND MODIFICATION OF RIGHTS5
4REGISTER OF MEMBERS AND SHARE CERTIFICATES7
5LIEN9
6CALS ON SHARES10
7TRANSFER OF SHARES12
8TRANSMISION OF SHARES13
9FORFEITURE OF SHARES14
10ALTERATION OF CAPITAL16
11BOROWING POWERS16
12GENERAL METINGS17
13PROCEDINGS AT GENERAL METINGS18
14VOTES OF MEMBERS20
15REGISTERED OFICE23
16BOARD OF DIRECTORS23
17MANAGING DIRECTORS29
18MANAGEMENT30
19MANAGERS30
20PROCEDINGS OF DIRECTORS31
21SECRETARY33
22GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE SEAL33
23CAPITALISATION OF RESERVES35
24DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES36
25UNTRACEABLE MEMBERS41
26DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION42
27ANUAL RETURNS AND FILINGS43
28ACOUNTS43
29AUDIT44
30NOTICES44
31INFORMATION46
32WINDING UP47
33INDEMNITIES48
34FINANCIAL YEAR48
35AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES48
36TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION48
37MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS48
THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)
OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF ASOCIATION
OF
HAICHANG OCEAN PARK HOLDINGS LTD.
海昌海洋公园控股有限公司
(adopted by special resolution pased on 28 June 2024)
1 Exclusion of Table A
The regulations contained in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Act shal not
aply to the Company.
2 Interpretation
2.1 The marginal notes to these Articles shal not afect the interpretation hereof.
2.2 In these Articles, unles there be something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:
“Articles”shal mean these Articles of Asociation and al suplementary,
amended or substituted Articles for the time being in force.
“Asociate”shal have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules.
“Auditors”shal mean the persons apointed by the Company from time to
time to perform the duties of auditors of the Company.
“Board”shal mean the majority of the Directors present and voting at a
meting of Directors at which a quorum is present.
“busines day”shal mean a day on which the Exchange generaly is open for the
busines of dealing in securities in Hong Kong. For the avoidance
of doubt, where the Exchange is closed for busines of dealing
in securities in Hong Kong on a day by reason of a Number 8 or
higher typhon signal, black rainstorm warning or other similar
event, such day shal for the purpose of these Articles be counted
as a busines day.
“capital”shal mean the share capital from time to time of the Company.
“Chairman”shal mean the Chairman presiding at any meting of members or
of the Board.
“Close Asociate”shal have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules.
“Companies Act” or
“Act”
shal mean the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman
Islands and any amendments thereto or re-enactments thereof for
the time being in force and includes every other law incorporated
therewith or substituted therefor.
“Companies Ordinance”shal mean the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622 of the Laws of
Hong Kong) as in force from time to time.
“Company”shal mean Haichang Ocean Park Holdings Ltd. 海昌海洋公园控
股有限公司.
“Company’s Website”shal mean the website of the Company, the adres or domain
name of which has ben notified to members.
“Corporate
Comunication”
shal have the meaning given to it in the Listing Rules.
“Director”shal mean any director from time to time of the Company.
“dividend”shal include bonus dividends and distributions permited by the
Act to be categorised as dividends.
“dolars” and “HK$”shal mean dolars legaly curent in Hong Kong.
“electronic”shal have the meaning given to it in the Electronic Transactions
Act.
“electronic means”includes sending or otherwise making available to the intended
recipients of the comunication in electronic format.
“Electronic Signature”shal mean an electronic symbol or proces atached to or
logicaly asociated with an electronic comunication and
executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the
electronic comunication.
“Electronic
Transactions Act”
shal mean the Electronic Transactions Act (As Revised) of the
Cayman Islands and any amendment thereto or re-enactments
thereof for the time being in force and includes every other law
incorporated therewith or substituted therefor.
“Exchange”shal mean The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
“Haichang Group”means Qu Naijie and his Asociates, other than the Company and
any of its subsidiaries.
“HK Code on
Takeovers and
Mergers”
shal mean the Code on Takeovers and Mergers isued by the
Securities and Futures Comision of Hong Kong as amended
from time to time.
“holding company”shal have the meaning atributed to such term in the Companies
Ordinance.
“Independent
Non-Executive
Director”
shal mean a person recognised as such by the relevant code,
rules and regulations aplicable to the listing of the shares on the
Exchange.
“Listing Rules”shal mean the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the
Exchange as amended from time to time.
“members”shal mean the persons who are duly registered as the holders
from time to time of shares in the register including persons who
are jointly so registered.
“Memorandum”shal mean the memorandum of asociation of the Company.
“month”shal mean a calendar month.
“ordinary resolution”shal mean a resolution pased by a simple majority of the votes
of such members of the Company as, being entitled to do so,
vote in person or, where proxies are alowed, by proxy or, in the
case of corporations, by their duly authorised representatives,
at a general meting held in acordance with these Articles and
includes an ordinary resolution pased pursuant to Article 13.11.
“principal register”shal mean the register of members of the Company maintained
at such place within or outside the Cayman Islands as the Board
shal determine from time to time.
“published in the
newspapers”
shal mean published as a paid advertisement in English in at
least one English language newspaper and in Chinese in at least
one Chinese language newspaper, being in each case a newspaper
published daily and circulating generaly in Hong Kong in
acordance with the Listing Rules.
“published on the
Exchange’s website”
shal mean published in English and Chinese on the Exchange’s
website in acordance with the Listing Rules.
“recognised clearing
house”
shal have the meaning ascribed thereto in Part I of Schedule 1
of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571 of the Laws
of Hong Kong) and any amendments thereto or re-enactments
thereof for the time being in force and includes every other law
incorporated therewith or substituted therefor.
“register”shal mean the principal register and any branch registers.
“rights isue”shal mean an ofer by way of rights to existing holders of
securities of the Company which enables those holders to
subscribe for securities in proportion to their existing holdings.
“seal”shal include the comon seal of the Company, the securities seal
or any duplicate seal adopted by the Company pursuant to Article
22.2.
“Secretary”shal mean the person apointed as company secretary by the
Board from time to time.
“share”shal mean a share in the capital of the Company.
“special resolution”shal have the same meaning as ascribed thereto in the Act and
shal include a unanimous writen resolution of al members: for
this purpose, the requisite majority shal be not les than thre-
fourths of the votes of such members of the Company as, being
entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are alowed,
by proxy or, in the case of corporations, by their duly authorised
representatives, at a general meting of which notice specifying
the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has
ben duly given.
“subsidiary”shal have the meaning atributed to such term in the Companies
Ordinance, but interpreting the term “subsidiary” in acordance
with the definition of “subsidiary” under the Listing Rules.
“transfer ofice”shal mean the place where the principal register is situate for the
time being.
2.3 Subject as aforesaid, any words defined in the Act shal, if not inconsistent with the subject
and/or context, bear the same meanings in these Articles.
2.4 Words importing either gender shal include the other gender and the neuter; words importing
persons and the neuter shal include companies and corporations and vice versa; and words
denoting the singular shal include the plural and words denoting the plural shal include the
singular.
2.5 “Writing” or “printing” shal include writing, printing, lithograph, photograph, type-writing
and every other mode of representing words or figures in a legible and non-transitory form
and, only where used in conection with a notice served by the Company on members or
other persons entitled to receive notices hereunder, shal also include a record maintained in
an electronic medium which is acesible in visible form so as to be useable for subsequent
reference.
2.6 Sections 8 and 19(3) of the Electronic Transactions Act shal not aply.
3 Share Capital and Modification of Rights
3.1 The authorised share capital of the Company at the date of the adoption of these Articles is
US$500,000 divided into 10,000,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.00005
each.
3.2 Subject to the provisions of these Articles and to any direction that may be given by the
Company in general meting and without prejudice to any special rights confered on the
holders of any existing shares or ataching to any clas of shares, any share may be isued
with or have atached thereto such prefered, defered, qualified or other special rights or
restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise, and to such
persons at such times and for such consideration as the Board may determine. Subject to the
Act and to any special rights confered on any members or ataching to any clas of shares,
any share may, with the sanction of a special resolution, be isued on terms that it is, or at
the option of the Company or the holder thereof is, liable to be redemed. No shares shal be
isued to bearer.
3.3 Subject to the Listing Rules, the Board may isue warants to subscribe for any clas
of shares or other securities of the Company on such terms as it may from time to time
determine. No warants shal be isued to bearer for so long as a recognised clearing house
(in its capacity as such) is a member of the Company. Where warants are isued to bearer,
no new warant shal be isued to replace one that has ben lost unles the Board is satisfied
beyond reasonable doubt that the original has ben destroyed and the Company has received
an indemnity in such form as the Board shal think fit with regard to the isue of any such
new warant.
3.4 If at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into diferent clases of shares, al
or any of the rights atached to any clas of shares for the time being isued (unles otherwise
provided for in the terms of isue of the shares of that clas) may, subject to the provisions
of the Act, be varied or abrogated with the consent in writing of the holders of not les than
thre-fourths in nominal value of the isued shares of that clas or with the sanction of a
special resolution pased at a separate meting of the holders of shares of that clas. To every
such separate meting al the provisions of these Articles relating to general metings shal
mutatis mutandis aply, but so that the quorum for the purposes of any such separate meting
and of any adjournment thereof shal be a person or persons together holding (or representing
by proxy or duly authorised representative) at the date of the relevant meting not les than
one-third in nominal value of the isued shares of that clas.
3.5 The special rights confered upon the holders of shares of any clas shal not, unles
otherwise expresly provided in the rights ataching to or the terms of isue of such shares, be
demed to be varied by the creation or isue of further shares ranking pari pasu therewith.
3.6 Subject to the Act, or any other law or so far as not prohibited by any law or the Listing
Rules and subject to any rights confered on the holders of any clas of shares, the Company
shal have the power to purchase or otherwise acquire any of its own shares (which
expresion as used in this Article includes redemable shares) provided that the maner
of purchase has first ben authorised by a resolution of the members, and to purchase or
otherwise acquire warants for the subscription or purchase of its own shares, and shares and
warants for the subscription or purchase of any shares in any company which is its holding
company and may make payment therefor in any maner authorised or not prohibited by law,
including out of capital, or to give, directly or indirectly, by means of a loan, a guarante,
a gift, an indemnity, the provision of security or otherwise howsoever, financial asistance
for the purpose of or in conection with a purchase or other acquisition made or to be made
by any person of any shares or warants in the Company or any company which is a holding
company of the Company and should the Company purchase or otherwise acquire its own
shares or warants neither the Company nor the Board shal be required to select the shares
or warants to be purchased or otherwise acquired rateably or in any other maner as betwen
the holders of shares or warants of the same clas or as betwen them and the holders of
shares or warants of any other clas or in acordance with the rights as to dividends or
capital confered by any clas of shares provided always that any such purchase or other
acquisition or financial asistance shal only be made in acordance with any relevant code,
rules or regulations isued by the Exchange or the Securities and Futures Comision of
Hong Kong from time to time in force.
3.7 The Board may acept the surender for no consideration of any fuly paid share.
3.8 The Company in general meting may, from time to time, whether or not al the shares for
the time being authorised shal have ben isued and whether or not al the shares for the time
being isued shal have ben fuly paid up, by ordinary resolution, increase its share capital
by the creation of new shares, such new capital to be of such amount and to be divided into
shares of such respective amounts as the resolution shal prescribe.
3.9 Subject to the provisions of the Act and the Memorandum of Asociation of the Company,
and to any special rights confered on the holders of any shares or ataching to any clas of
shares, shares may be isued on the terms that they may be, or at the option of the Company
or the holders are, liable to be redemed on such terms and in such maner, including out of
capital, as determined by a special resolution.
3.10 Where the Company purchases or redems any of its shares, purchases or redemption not
made through the market or by tender shal be limited to a maximum price, and if purchases
are by tender, tenders shal be available to al members alike.
3.11 The purchase or redemption of any share shal not be demed to give rise to the purchase or
redemption of any other share.
3.12 The holder of the shares being purchased, surendered or redemed shal be bound to deliver
up to the Company at its principal place of busines in Hong Kong or such other place as
the Board shal specify the certificate(s) thereof, if any, for cancelation and thereupon the
Company shal pay to him the purchase or redemption monies in respect thereof.
3.13 Subject to the provisions of the Act, of the Memorandum of Asociation of the Company,
and of these Articles relating to new shares, the unisued shares in the Company (whether
forming part of its original or any increased capital) shal be at the disposal of the Board,
which may ofer, alot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, at
such times and for such consideration, and upon such terms, as the Board shal determine.
3.14 The Company may, unles prohibited by law, at any time pay a comision to any person
for subscribing or agreing to subscribe (whether absolutely or conditionaly) for any shares
in the Company or procuring or agreing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or
conditional) for any shares in the Company, but so that the conditions and requirements of
the Act shal be observed and complied with, and in each case the comision shal not
exced 10% of the price at which the shares are isued.
3.15 Except as otherwise expresly provided by these Articles or as required by law or as ordered
by a court of competent jurisdiction, no person shal be recognised by the Company as
holding any share upon any trust and the Company shal not be bound by or be compeled
in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future
or partial interest in any shares or any interest in any fractional part of a share or any other
rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered
holder.
4 Register of Members and Share Certificates
4.1 The Board shal cause to be kept at such place within or outside the Cayman Islands as it
dems fit a principal register of the members and there shal be entered therein the particulars
of the members and the shares isued to each of them and other particulars required under the
Act.
4.2 If the Board considers it necesary or apropriate, the Company may establish and maintain
a branch register or registers of members at such location or locations within or outside the
Cayman Islands as the Board thinks fit. The principal register and the branch register(s) shal
together be treated as the register for the purposes of these Articles.
4.3 The Board may, in its absolute discretion, at any time transfer any share upon the principal
register to any branch register or any share on any branch register to the principal register or
any other branch register.
4.4 Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article, the Company shal as son as practicable
and on a regular basis record in the principal register al transfers of shares efected on any
branch register and shal at al times maintain the principal register in such maner as to
show at al times the members for the time being and the shares respectively held by them, in
al respects in acordance with the Companies Act.
4.5 For so long as any shares are listed on the Exchange, title to such listed shares may be
evidenced and transfered in acordance with the Listing Rules that are or shal be aplicable
to such listed shares. The register of members maintained by the Company in respect of such
listed shares (whether the principal register or a branch register) may be kept by recording
the particulars required by Section 40 of the Act in a form otherwise than legible (provided it
is capable of being reproduced in a legible form) if such recording otherwise complies with
the Listing Rules that are or shal be aplicable to such listed shares.
4.6 Except when a register is closed and, if aplicable, subject to the aditional provisions of
Article 4.8, the principal register and any branch register shal during busines hours be kept
open to the inspection of any member without charge.
4.7 The reference to busines hours in Article 4.6 is subject to such reasonable restrictions as the
Company in general meting may impose, but so that not les than two hours in each busines
day is to be alowed for inspections.
4.8 The register may, on 10 busines days’ notice (or on 6 busines days’ notice in the case of a
rights isue) being given by advertisement published on the Exchange’s website, or, subject to
the Listing Rules, by electronic comunication in the maner in which notices may be served
by the Company by electronic means as herein provided or by advertisement published in
the newspapers, be closed at such times and for such periods as the Board may from time to
time determine, either generaly or in respect of any clas of shares, provided that the register
shal not be closed for more than 30 days in any year (or such longer period as the members
may by ordinary resolution determine provided that such period shal not be extended beyond
60 days in any year). The Company shal, on demand, furnish any person seking to inspect
the register or part thereof which is closed by virtue of these Articles with a certificate under
the hand of the Secretary stating the period for which, and by whose authority, it is closed. In
the event that there is an alteration of bok closure dates, the Company shal give at least 5
busines days’ notice in acordance with the procedures set out in this Article.
4.9 Any register held in Hong Kong shal during normal busines hours (subject to such
reasonable restrictions as the Board may impose) be open to inspection by a member without
charge and any other person on payment of such fe not exceding HK$2.50 (or such higher
amount as may from time to time be permited under the Listing Rules) as the Board may
determine for each inspection. Any member may require a copy of the register, or any part
thereof, on payment of HK$0.25, or such leser sum as the Company may prescribe, for every
100 words or fractional part thereof required to be copied. The Company shal cause any copy
so required by any person to be sent to that person within a period of 10 days comencing
on the date next after the day on which the request is received by the Company.
4.10 In lieu of, or apart from, closing the register pursuant to other provisions in these Articles,
the Board may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of
members entitled to receive notice of, or to vote at any general meting of the members or
any adjournment thereof, or for the purpose of determining the members entitled to receive
payment of any dividend or distribution, or in order to make a determination of members for
any other purpose.
4.11 Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register shal be entitled to receive,
within any relevant time limit as prescribed in the Act or as the Exchange may from time
to time determine, whichever is shorter, and subject to payment of any fes which may be
payable pursuant to Article 7.8, after alotment or lodgment of transfer, or within such other
period as the conditions of isue shal provide, one certificate for al his shares of each clas
or, if he shal so request, in a case where the alotment or transfer is of a number of shares
in exces of the number for the time being forming an Exchange board lot, such numbers
of certificates for shares in Exchange board lots or multiples thereof as he shal request and
one for the balance (if any) of the shares in question, provided that, in respect of a share or
shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shal not be bound to isue a certificate
or certificates to each such person, and the isue and delivery of a certificate or certificates to
one of several joint holders shal be suficient delivery to al such holders. Al certificates for
shares shal be delivered personaly or sent through the post adresed to the member entitled
thereto at his registered adres as apearing in the register.
4.12 Every certificate for shares or debentures or representing any other form of security of the
Company shal be isued under the seal of the Company, which shal only be afixed with the
authority of the Board.
4.13 Every share certificate shal specify the number and clas of shares in respect of which it is
isued and the amount paid thereon or the fact that they are fuly paid, as the case may be,
and may otherwise be in such form as the Board may from time to time prescribe.
4.14 The Company shal not be bound to register more than four persons as joint holders of any
share. If any share shal stand in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in
the register shal be demed the sole holder thereof as regards service of notices and, subject
to the provisions of these Articles, al or any other maters conected with the Company,
except the transfer of the share.
4.15 If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be replaced on payment of such fe,
if any, not exceding such amount as may from time to time be permited under the Listing
Rules (or such leser sum as the Board may from time to time require) and on such terms and
conditions, if any, as to publication of notices, evidence and indemnity, as the Board thinks
fit and where it is defaced or worn out, after delivery up of the old certificate to the Company
for cancelation.
5 Lien
5.1 The Company shal have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fuly paid up
share) for al moneys, whether presently payable or not, caled or payable at a fixed time in
respect of such share; and the Company shal also have a first and paramount lien and charge
on al shares (other than fuly paid up shares) standing registered in the name of a member
(whether solely or jointly with others) for al the debts and liabilities of such member or his
estate to the Company and whether the same shal have ben incured before or after notice
to the Company of any equitable or other interest of any person other than such member,
and whether the period for the payment or discharge of the same shal have actualy arived
or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such member or his
estate and any other person, whether such person is a member of the Company or not.
5.2 The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shal extend to al dividends and bonuses declared
in respect thereof. The Board may resolve that any share shal for some specified period be
exempt wholy or partialy from the provisions of this Article.
5.3 The Company may sel in such maner as the Board thinks fit any shares on which the
Company has a lien, but no sale shal be made unles some sum in respect of which the lien
exists is presently payable or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists
is liable to be presently fulfiled or discharged, nor until the expiration of 14 days after a
notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable or specifying
the liability or engagement and demanding fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving notice
of intention to sel in default, shal have ben given to the registered holder for the time being
of the shares or the person, of which the Company has notice, entitled to the shares by reason
of such holder’s death, mental disorder or bankruptcy.
5.4 The net proceds of such sale by the Company after the payment of the costs of such sale
shal be aplied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debt or liability or engagement
in respect whereof the lien exists, so far as the same is presently payable, and any residue
shal (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the
shares prior to the sale and upon surender, if required by the Company, for cancelation of
the certificate for the share sold) be paid to the holder imediately before such sale of the
share. For giving efect to any such sale, the Board may authorise any person to transfer
the shares sold to the purchaser thereof and may enter the purchaser’s name in the register
as holder of the shares, and the purchaser shal not be bound to se to the aplication of the
purchase money, nor shal his title to the shares be afected by any iregularity or invalidity
in the procedings in reference to the sale.
6 Cals on Shares
6.1 The Board may from time to time make such cals as it may think fit upon the members in
respect of any monies unpaid on the shares held by them respectively (whether on acount
of the nominal amount of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the
conditions of alotment thereof made payable at fixed times. A cal may be made payable
either in one sum or by instalments. A cal may be revoked or postponed as the Board may
determine.
6.2 At least 14 days’ notice of any cal shal be given to each member specifying the time and
place of payment and to whom such payment shal be made.
6.3 A copy of the notice refered to in Article 6.2 shal be sent in the maner in which notices
may be sent to members by the Company as provided in Article 30.1.
6.4 Every member upon whom a cal is made shal pay the amount of every cal so made on him
to the person and at the time or times and place or places as the Board shal specify. A person
upon whom a cal is made shal remain liable on such cal notwithstanding the subsequent
transfer of the shares in respect of which the cal was made.
6.5 Intentionaly deleted.
6.6 A cal shal be demed to have ben made at the time when the resolution of the Board
authorising such cal was pased.
6.7 The joint holders of a share shal be severaly as wel as jointly liable for the payment of al
cals and instalments due in respect of such share or other moneys due in respect thereof.
6.8 The Board may from time to time at its discretion extend the time fixed for any cal, and
may extend such time as to al or any of the members, whom by reason of residence outside
Hong Kong or other cause the Board considers it reasonable to grant an extension to, but no
member shal be entitled to any such extension as a mater of grace and favour.
6.9 If the sum or any instalment payable in respect of any cal is unpaid on or before the day
apointed for payment thereof, the person or persons from whom the sum is due shal pay
interest on the same at such rate not exceding 15% per anum as the Board shal determine
from the day apointed for the payment thereof to the time of actual payment, but the Board
may waive payment of such interest wholy or in part.
6.10 No member shal be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or to be present and vote
(save as proxy for another member) at any general meting, either personaly or by proxy,
or be reckoned in a quorum, or to exercise any other privilege as a member until al sums
or instalments due from him to the Company in respect of any cal, whether alone or jointly
with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) shal have ben paid.
6.11 At the trial or hearing of any action or other procedings for the recovery of any money due
for any cal, it shal be suficient to prove that the name of the member sued is entered in
the register as the holder, or one of the holders, of the shares in respect of which such debt
acrued; that the resolution making the cal is duly recorded in the minute bok; and that
notice of such cal was duly given to the member sued, in pursuance of these Articles; and it
shal not be necesary to prove the apointment of the Directors who made such cal, nor any
other maters whatsoever, and the prof of the maters aforesaid shal be conclusive evidence
of the debt.
6.12 Any sum which by the terms of alotment of a share is made payable upon alotment or at any
fixed date, whether on acount of the nominal value of the share and/or by way of premium
or otherwise, shal for al purposes of these Articles be demed to be a cal duly made and
payable on the date fixed for payment, and in case of non-payment, al the relevant provisions
of these Articles as to payment of interest and expenses, liabilities of joint holders, forfeiture
and the like, shal aply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a cal duly made and
notified.
6.13 The Board may, if it thinks fit, receive from any member wiling to advance the same,
and either in money or money’s worth, al or any part of the money uncaled and unpaid
or instalments payable upon any shares held by him, and upon al or any of the moneys so
advanced the Company may pay interest at such rate (if any) as the Board may decide. The
Board may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such member not les
than one month’s notice in writing of its intention in that behalf, unles before the expiration
of such notice the amount so advanced shal have ben caled up on the shares in respect of
which it was advanced. No such sum paid in advance of cals shal entitle the member paying
such sum to any portion of a dividend declared in respect of any period prior to the date upon
which such sum would, but for such payment, become presently payable.
7 Transfer of Shares
7.1 Transfers of shares may be efected by an instrument of transfer in the usual comon form or
in such other form as the Board may aprove, which is consistent with the standard form of
transfer as prescribed by the Exchange and aproved by the Board. Al instruments of transfer
must be left at the registered ofice of the Company or at such other place as the Board may
apoint and al such instruments of transfer shal be retained by the Company.
7.2 The instrument of transfer shal be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and by or on
behalf of the transfere PROVIDED that the Board may dispense with the execution of the
instrument of transfer by the transfere in any case which it thinks fit in its discretion to do
so. The instrument of transfer of any share shal be in writing and shal be executed with
a manual signature or facsimile signature (which may be machine imprinted or otherwise)
by or on behalf of the transferor and transfere PROVIDED that in the case of execution
by facsimile signature by or on behalf of a transferor or transfere, the Board shal have
previously ben provided with a list of specimen signatures of the authorised signatories of
such transferor or transfere and the Board shal be reasonably satisfied that such facsimile
signature coresponds to one of those specimen signatures. The transferor shal be demed
to remain the holder of a share until the name of the transfere is entered in the register in
respect thereof.
7.3 Notwithstanding Articles 7.1 and 7.2, transfers of shares which are listed on the Exchange
may be efected by any method of transfering or dealing in securities permited by the
Listing Rules and which has ben aproved by the Board for such purpose.
7.4 The Board may, in its absolute discretion, and without asigning any reason, refuse to register
a transfer of any share which is not fuly paid up or on which the Company has a lien.
7.5 If the Board shal refuse to register a transfer of any share, it shal, within two months after
the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to each of the transferor
and the transfere notice of such refusal.
7.6 The Board may also decline to register any transfer of any shares unles:
(a) the instrument of transfer is lodged with the Company acompanied by the certificate
for the shares to which it relates (which shal upon registration of the transfer be
canceled) and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the
right of the transferor to make the transfer;
(b) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one clas of shares;
(c) the instrument of transfer is properly stamped (in circumstances where stamping is
required);
(d) in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to which the share
is to be transfered does not exced four;
(e) the shares concerned are fre of any lien in favour of the Company; and
(f) a fe of such maximum as the Exchange may from time to time determine to be payable
(or such leser sum as the Board may from time to time require) is paid to the Company
in respect thereof.
7.7 No transfer shal be made to an infant or to a person in respect of whom an order has ben
made by any competent court or oficial on the grounds that he is or may be sufering
from mental disorder or is otherwise incapable of managing his afairs or under other legal
disability.
7.8 Upon every transfer of shares, the certificate held by the transferor shal be given up to
be canceled and shal forthwith be canceled acordingly and a new certificate shal be
isued, on payment by the transfere of such fe not exceding the maximum amount as
the Exchange may from time to time determine to be payable or such leser sum as the
Board may from time to time require, to the transfere in respect of the shares transfered
to him and, if any of the shares included in the certificate so given up shal be retained by
the transferor, a new certificate in respect thereof shal be isued to him, on payment by the
transferor of such fe not exceding the maximum amount as the Exchange may from time to
time determine to be payable or such leser sum as the Board may from time to time require.
The Company shal also retain the instrument(s) of transfer.
7.9 The registration of transfers may, on 10 busines days’ notice (or on 6 busines days’ notice
in the case of a rights isue) being given by advertisement published on the Exchange’s
website, or, subject to the Listing Rules, by electronic comunication in the maner in
which notices may be served by the Company by electronic means as herein provided or
by advertisement published in the newspapers, be suspended and the register closed at such
times for such periods as the Board may from time to time determine, provided always that
such registration shal not be suspended or the register closed for more than 30 days in any
year (or such longer period as the members may by ordinary resolution determine provided
that such period shal not be extended beyond 60 days in any year). In the event that there is
an alteration of bok closure dates, the Company shal give at least 5 busines days’ notice
before the anounced closure, or the new closure, whichever is earlier. If, however, there
are exceptional circumstances (e.g. during a Number 8 or higher typhon signal and black
rainstorm warning) that render the giving of such publication of advertisement imposible,
the Company shal comply with these requirements as son as practicable.
8 Transmision of Shares
8.1 In the case of the death of a member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint
holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was a sole holder,
shal be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the
shares; but nothing herein contained shal release the estate of a deceased holder (whether
sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share solely or jointly held by him.
8.2 Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or
winding-up of a member may, upon such evidence as to his title being produced as may from
time to time be required by the Board and subject as hereinafter provided, either be registered
himself as holder of the share or elect to have some other person nominated by him registered
as the transfere thereof.
8.3 If the person so becoming entitled shal elect to be registered himself, he shal deliver or send
to the Company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects. If he shal elect to
have his nomine registered he shal testify his election by executing in favour of his nomine
a transfer of such share. Al the limitations, restrictions and provisions of these Articles
relating to the right to transfer and the registration of transfers of shares shal be aplicable
to any such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of the
member had not ocured and the notice or transfer were a transfer executed by such member.
8.4 A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or winding-up of
the holder shal be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be
entitled if he were the registered holder of the share. However, the Board may, if it thinks fit,
withold the payment of any dividend payable or other advantages in respect of such share
until such person shal become the registered holder of the share or shal have efectualy
transfered such share, but, subject to the requirements of Article 14.3 being met, such a
person may vote at metings.
9 Forfeiture of Shares
9.1 If a member fails to pay any cal or instalment of a cal on the day apointed for payment
thereof, the Board may, at any time during such time as any part thereof remains unpaid,
without prejudice to the provisions of Article 6.10, serve a notice on him requiring payment
of so much of the cal or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have
acrued and which may stil acrue up to the date of actual payment.
9.2 The notice shal name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date
of service of the notice) on or before which, and the place where, the payment required by
the notice is to be made, and shal state that in the event of non-payment at or before the time
and at the place apointed, the shares in respect of which the cal was made or instalment is
unpaid wil be liable to be forfeited. The Board may acept a surender of any share liable to
be forfeited hereunder and in such case, references in these Articles to forfeiture shal include
surender.
9.3 If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in
respect of which the notice has ben given may at any time thereafter, before the payment
required by the notice has ben made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that efect.
Such forfeiture shal include al dividends and bonuses declared in respect of the forfeited
share, and not actualy paid before the forfeiture.
9.4 Any share so forfeited shal be demed to be the property of the Company, and may be re-
aloted sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such maner as the Board thinks
fit and at any time before a re-alotment, sale or disposition the forfeiture may be canceled
by the Board on such terms as it thinks fit.
9.5 A person whose shares have ben forfeited shal cease to be a member in respect of the
forfeited shares but shal, notwithstanding this, remain liable to pay to the Company al
moneys which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the Company in respect of
the shares, together with (if the Board shal in its discretion so require) interest thereon from
the date of forfeiture until payment at such rate not exceding 15% per anum as the Board
may prescribe, and the Board may enforce the payment thereof if it thinks fit, and without
any deduction or alowance for the value of the shares forfeited, at the date of forfeiture.
For the purposes of this Article any sum which, by the terms of isue of a share, is payable
thereon at a fixed time which is subsequent to the date of forfeiture, whether on acount of
the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, shal notwithstanding that time has not
yet arived, be demed to be payable at the date of forfeiture, and the same shal become due
and payable imediately upon the forfeiture, but interest thereon shal only be payable in
respect of any period betwen the said fixed time and the date of actual payment.
9.6 A statutory declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or Secretary, and that a
share in the Company has ben duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration, shal be
conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against al persons claiming to be entitled
to the share. The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any
re-alotment, sale or disposition thereof and the Board may authorise any person to execute
a leter of re-alotment or transfer the share in favour of the person to whom the share is re-
aloted, sold or disposed of and he shal thereupon be registered as the holder of the share,
and shal not be bound to se to the aplication of the subscription or purchase money, if any,
nor shal his title to the share be afected by any iregularity or invalidity in the procedings
in reference to the forfeiture, re-alotment, sale or other disposal of the share.
9.7 When any share shal have ben forfeited, notice of the forfeiture shal be given to the
member in whose name it stod imediately prior to the forfeiture, and an entry of the
forfeiture, with the date thereof, shal forthwith be made in the register. Notwithstanding the
above, no forfeiture shal be in any maner invalidated by any omision or neglect to give
such notice as aforesaid.
9.8 Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid, the Board may at any time, before any
share so forfeited shal have ben re-aloted, sold, or otherwise disposed of, permit the share
forfeited to be redemed upon the terms of payment of al cals and interest due upon and
expenses incured in respect of the share, and upon such further terms (if any) as it thinks fit.
9.9 The forfeiture of a share shal not prejudice the right of the Company to any cal already
made or instalment payable thereon.
9.10 The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shal aply in the case of non-payment of
any sum which, by the terms of isue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether
on acount of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, as if the same had ben
payable by virtue of a cal duly made and notified.
10 Alteration of Capital
10.1 The Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution:
(a) consolidate and divide al or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than
its existing shares. On any consolidation of fuly paid shares and division into shares
of larger amount, the Board may setle any dificulty which may arise as it thinks
expedient and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing)
may as betwen the holders of shares to be consolidated determine which particular
shares are to be consolidated into each consolidated share, and if it shal hapen that
any person shal become entitled to fractions of a consolidated share or shares, such
fractions may be sold by some person apointed by the Board for that purpose and the
person so apointed may transfer the shares so sold to the purchaser thereof and the
validity of such transfer shal not be questioned, and so that the net proceds of such
sale (after deduction of the expenses of such sale) may either be distributed among the
persons who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction or fractions of a consolidated
share or shares rateably in acordance with their rights and interests or may be paid to
the Company for the Company’s benefit;
(b) cancel any shares which at the date of the pasing of the resolution have not ben taken
or agred to be taken by any person, and diminish the amount of its share capital by the
amount of the shares so canceled subject to the provisions of the Act; and
(c) sub-divide its shares or any of them into shares of smaler amount than is fixed by the
Memorandum of Asociation of the Company, subject nevertheles to the provisions of
the Act, and so that the resolution whereby any share is sub-divided may determine that,
as betwen the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, one or more of
the shares may have any such prefered or other special rights, over, or may have such
defered rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the others as the
Company has power to atach to unisued or new shares.
10.2 The Company may by special resolution reduce its share capital or any capital redemption
reserve in any maner authorised and subject to any conditions prescribed by the Act.
11 Borowing Powers
11.1 The Board may from time to time at its discretion exercise al the powers of the Company
to raise or borow or to secure the payment of any sum or sums of money for the purposes
of the Company and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and asets (present and
future) and uncaled capital or any part thereof.
11.2 The Board may raise or secure the payment or repayment of such sum or sums in such
maner and upon such terms and conditions in al respects as it thinks fit and, in particular,
by the isue of debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities of the Company,
whether outright or as colateral security for any debts, liability or obligations of the
Company or of any third party.
11.3 Debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities may be made asignable fre from
any equities betwen the Company and the person to whom the same may be isued.
11.4 Any debentures, debenture stock, bonds or other securities may be isued at a discount,
premium or otherwise and with any special privileges as to redemption, surender, drawings,
alotment of shares, atending and voting at general metings of the Company, apointment
of Directors and otherwise.
11.5 The Board shal cause a proper register to be kept, in acordance with the provisions of the
Act, of al mortgages and charges specificaly afecting the property of the Company and
shal duly comply with the requirements of the Act in regard to the registration of mortgages
and charges therein specified and otherwise.
11.6 If the Company isues debentures or debenture stock (whether as part of a series or as
individual instruments) not transferable by delivery, the Board shal cause a proper register to
be kept of the holders of such debentures.
11.7 Where any uncaled capital of the Company is charged, al persons taking any subsequent
charge thereon shal take the same subject to such prior charge, and shal not be entitled, by
notice to the members or otherwise, to obtain priority over such prior charge.
12 General Metings
12.1 The Company shal hold a general meting as its anual general meting for each financial
year, to be held within six months after the end of such financial year. The anual general
meting shal be specified as such in the notices caling it and shal be held at such time and
place as the Board shal apoint.
12.2 Al general metings other than anual general metings shal be caled extraordinary general
metings.
12.3 The Board may, whenever it thinks fit, convene an extraordinary general meting. General
metings shal also be convened on the writen requisition of any one or more members of the
Company holding together, as at the date of deposit of the requisition, shares representing not
les than one-tenth of the voting rights, on a one vote per share basis, of the Company which
cary the right of voting at general metings of the Company. The writen requisition shal be
deposited at the principal ofice of the Company in Hong Kong or, in the event the Company
ceases to have such a principal ofice, the registered ofice of the Company specifying the
objects of the meting and the resolutions to be aded to the meting agenda, and signed
by the requisitionist(s). If the Board does not within 21 days from the date of deposit of
the requisition proced duly to convene the meting to be held within a further 21 days, the
requisitionist(s) themselves or any of them representing more than one-half of the total voting
rights of al of them, may convene the general meting in the same maner, as nearly as
posible, as that in which metings may be convened by the Board provided that any meting
so convened shal not be held after the expiration of thre months from the date of deposit of
the requisition, and al reasonable expenses incured by the requisitionist(s) as a result of the
failure of the Board shal be reimbursed to them by the Company.
12.4 An anual general meting shal be caled by not les than 21 days’ notice in writing and
any extraordinary general meting shal be caled by not les than 14 days’ notice in writing.
Subject to the requirement under the Listing Rules, the notice shal be inclusive of the
day on which it is served or demed to be served and of the day for which it is given, and
shal specify the time, place, and agenda of the meting, particulars of the resolutions to be
considered at the meting and in the case of special busines (as defined in Article 13.1)
the general nature of that busines. The notice convening an anual general meting shal
specify the meting as such, and the notice convening a meting to pas a special resolution
shal specify the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution. Notice of every
general meting shal be given to the Auditors and to al members other than such as, under
the provisions hereof or the terms of isue of the shares they hold, are not entitled to receive
such notice from the Company.
12.5 Notwithstanding that a meting of the Company is caled by shorter notice than that refered
to in Article 12.4, it shal be demed to have ben duly caled if it is so agred:
(a) in the case of a meting caled as an anual general meting, by al the members of the
Company entitled to atend and vote thereat or their proxies; and
(b) in the case of any other meting, by a majority in number of the members having a right
to atend and vote at the meting, being a majority together holding not les than 95%
in nominal value of the shares giving that right.
12.6 There shal apear with reasonable prominence in every notice of general metings of the
Company a statement that a member entitled to atend and vote is entitled to apoint a proxy
to atend and vote instead of him and that a proxy ned not be a member of the Company.
12.7 The acidental omision to give any such notice to, or the non-receipt of any such notice
by, any person entitled to receive notice shal not invalidate any resolution pased or any
proceding at any such meting.
12.8 In cases where instruments of proxy are sent out with notices, the acidental omision to send
such instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of such instrument of proxy by, any person
entitled to receive notice shal not invalidate any resolution pased or any proceding at any
such meting.
13 Procedings at General Metings
13.1 Al busines shal be demed special that is transacted at an extraordinary general meting
and also al busines shal be demed special that is transacted at an anual general meting
with the exception of the folowing, which shal be demed ordinary busines:
(a) the declaration and sanctioning of dividends;
(b) the consideration and adoption of the acounts and balance shets and the reports of
the Directors and Auditors and other documents required to be anexed to the balance
shet;
(c) the election of Directors in place of those retiring;
(d) the apointment of Auditors;
(e) the fixing of, or the determining of the method of fixing of, the remuneration of the
Directors and of the Auditors;
(f) the granting of any mandate or authority to the Directors to ofer, alot, grant options
over, or otherwise dispose of the unisued shares of the Company representing not more
than 20% (or such other percentage as may from time to time be specified in the Listing
Rules) in nominal value of its then existing isued share capital and the number of any
securities repurchased pursuant to Article 13.1(g); and
(g) the granting of any mandate or authority to the Directors to repurchase securities of the
Company.
13.2 For al purposes the quorum for a general meting shal be two members present in person
(or in the case of a corporation, by its duly authorised representative) or by proxy provided
always that if the Company has only one member of record the quorum shal be that one
member present in person or by proxy. No busines (except the apointment of a Chairman)
shal be transacted at any general meting unles the requisite quorum shal be present at the
comencement of the busines.
13.3 If within 15 minutes from the time apointed for the meting a quorum is not present, the
meting, if convened upon the requisition of member(s), shal be disolved, but in any other
case it shal stand adjourned to the same day in the next wek and at such time and place
as shal be decided by the Board, and if at such adjourned meting a quorum is not present
within 15 minutes from the time apointed for holding the meting, the member or members
present in person (or in the case of a corporation, by its duly authorised representative) or by
proxy shal be a quorum and may transact the busines for which the meting was caled.
13.4 The Chairman shal take the chair at every general meting, or, if there be no such Chairman
or, if at any general meting such Chairman shal not be present within 15 minutes after the
time apointed for holding such meting or is unwiling to act, the Directors present shal
chose another Director as Chairman, and if no Director be present, or if al the Directors
present decline to take the chair, or if the Chairman chosen shal retire from the chair,
then the members present (whether in person or represented by proxy or duly authorised
representative) shal chose one of their own number to be Chairman.
13.5 The Chairman may, with the consent of any general meting at which a quorum is present,
and shal, if so directed by the meting, adjourn any meting from time to time and from
place to place as the meting shal determine. Whenever a meting is adjourned for 14 days
or more, at least seven clear days’ notice, specifying the place, the day and the hour of the
adjourned meting shal be given in the same maner as in the case of an original meting but
it shal not be necesary to specify in such notice the nature of the busines to be transacted
at the adjourned meting. Save as aforesaid, no member shal be entitled to any notice of
an adjournment or of the busines to be transacted at any adjourned meting. No busines
shal be transacted at any adjourned meting other than the busines which might have ben
transacted at the meting from which the adjournment tok place.
13.6 At any general meting a resolution put to the vote of the meting shal be decided on a
pol save that the Chairman may, in god faith, alow a resolution which relates purely to a
procedural or administrative mater as prescribed under the Listing Rules to be voted on by a
show of hands.
13.7 A pol shal (subject as provided in Article 13.8) be taken in such maner (including the
use of balot or voting papers or tickets) and at such time and place, not being more than 30
days from the date of the meting or adjourned meting at which the pol was taken as the
Chairman directs. No notice ned be given of a pol not taken imediately. The result of the
pol shal be demed to be the resolution of the meting at which the pol was taken.
13.8 Any pol on the election of a Chairman of a meting or any question of adjournment shal be
taken at the meting and without adjournment.
13.9 Where a resolution is voted on by a show of hands as permited under the Listing Rules, a
declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has ben caried, or caried unanimously, or by
a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that efect in the minute bok of the Company
shal be conclusive evidence of that fact without prof of the number or proportion of the
votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.
13.10 In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a pol or on a show of hands, the Chairman
of the meting at which the pol or show of hands is taken shal be entitled to a second or
casting vote.
13.11 A resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts), including a special resolution, signed
by al members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to atend and vote at
general metings (or being corporations by their duly apointed representatives) shal be as
valid and efective as if the same had ben pased at a general meting of the Company duly
convened and held. Any such resolution shal be demed to have ben pased at a meting
held on the date on which it was signed by the last member to sign.
14 Votes of Members
14.1 Subject to any special rights, privileges or restrictions as to voting for the time being atached
to any clas or clases of shares, at any general meting (a) every member present in person
(or, in the case of a member being a corporation, by its duly authorised representative) or
by proxy shal have the right to speak, (b) on a show of hands, every member present in
such maner shal have one vote, and (c) on a pol every member present in such maner
shal have one vote for each share registered in his name in the register. On a pol a member
entitled to more than one vote is under no obligation to cast al his votes in the same way.
For the avoidance of doubt, where more than one proxy is apointed by a recognised clearing
house (or its nomine(s), each such proxy shal have one vote on a show of hands and is
under no obligation to cast al his votes in the same way on a pol.
14.2 Where any member is, under the Listing Rules, required to abstain from voting on any
particular resolution or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution,
any votes cast by or on behalf of such member in contravention of such requirement or
restriction shal not be counted.
14.3 Any person entitled under Article 8.2 to be registered as a member may vote at any general
meting in respect thereof in the same maner as if he were the registered holder of such
shares, provided that at least 48 hours before the time of the holding of the meting or
adjourned meting (as the case may be) at which he proposed to vote, he shal satisfy the
Board of his right to be registered as the holder of such shares or the Board shal have
previously admited his right to vote at such meting in respect thereof.
14.4 Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote
at any meting, either personaly or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely
entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meting
personaly or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present being the most or, as the
case may be, the more senior shal alone be entitled to vote in respect of the relevant joint
holding and, for this purpose, seniority shal be determined by reference to the order in which
the names of the joint holders stand on the register in respect of the relevant joint holding.
Several executors or administrators of a deceased member in whose name any share stands
shal for the purposes of this Article be demed joint holders thereof.
14.5 A member in respect of whom an order has ben made by any competent court or oficial on
the grounds that he is or may be sufering from mental disorder or is otherwise incapable of
managing his afairs may vote by any person authorised in such circumstances to do so, and
such person may vote by proxy.
14.6 Save as expresly provided in these Articles or as otherwise determined by the Board, no
person other than a member duly registered and who shal have paid al sums for the time
being due from him payable to the Company in respect of his shares shal be entitled to be
present or to vote (save as proxy for another member), or to be reckoned in a quorum, either
personaly or by proxy at any general meting.
14.7 No objection shal be raised as to the qualification of any person exercising or purporting
to exercise any vote or to the admisibility of any vote except at the meting or adjourned
meting at which the person exercising or purporting to exercise his vote or the vote objected
to is given or tendered, and every vote not disalowed at such meting shal be valid for
al purposes. In the case of any dispute as to the admision or rejection of any vote, the
Chairman of the meting shal determine the same and such determination shal be final and
conclusive.
14.8 Any member of the Company entitled to atend and vote at a meting of the Company shal
be entitled to apoint another person (who must be an individual) as his proxy to atend and
vote instead of him and a proxy so apointed shal have the same right as the member to
speak at the meting. Votes may be given either personaly or by proxy. A proxy ned not
be a member of the Company. A member may apoint any number of proxies to atend in his
stead at any one general meting (or at any one clas meting).
14.9 The instrument apointing a proxy shal be in writing under the hand of the apointor or of
his atorney authorised in writing, or if the apointor is a corporation, either under its seal or
under the hand of an oficer, atorney or other person duly authorised to sign the same.
14.10 The instrument apointing a proxy and (if required by the Board) the power of atorney or
other authority, (if any) under which it is signed, or a notarialy certified copy of such power
or authority, shal be delivered at the registered ofice of the Company (or at such other place
as may be specified in the notice convening the meting or in any notice of any adjournment
or, in either case, in any document sent therewith) not les than 48 hours before the time
apointed for holding the meting or adjourned meting at which the person named in the
instrument proposes to vote, or, in the case of a pol taken subsequently to the date of a
meting or adjourned meting, not les than 48 hours before the time apointed for the taking
of the pol, and in default the instrument of proxy shal not be treated as valid provided
always that the Chairman of the meting may at his discretion direct that an instrument of
proxy shal be demed to have ben duly deposited upon receipt of telex or cable or facsimile
confirmation from the apointor that the instrument of proxy duly signed is in the course
of transmision to the Company. No instrument apointing a proxy shal be valid after the
expiration of 12 months from the date named in it as the date of its execution. Delivery of
any instrument apointing a proxy shal not preclude a member from atending and voting in
person at the meting or pol concerned and, in such event, the instrument apointing a proxy
shal be demed to be revoked.
14.11 Every instrument of proxy, whether for a specified meting or otherwise, shal be in comon
form or such other form that complies with the Listing Rules as the Board may from time
to time aprove, provided that it shal enable a member, acording to his intention, to
instruct his proxy to vote in favour of or against (or in default of instructions or in the event
of conflicting instructions, to exercise his discretion in respect of) each resolution to be
proposed at the meting to which the form of proxy relates.
14.12 The instrument apointing a proxy to vote at a general meting shal: (a) be demed to confer
authority to vote on any amendment of a resolution put to the meting for which it is given
as the proxy thinks fit; and (b) unles the contrary is stated therein, be valid as wel for any
adjournment of the meting as for the meting to which it relates, provided that the meting
was originaly held within 12 months from such date.
14.13 A vote given in acordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy or resolution of a
member shal be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or
revocation of the proxy or power of atorney or other authority under which the proxy or
resolution of a member was executed or revocation of the relevant resolution or the transfer
of the share in respect of which the proxy was given, provided that no intimation in writing
of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shal have ben received by the
Company at its registered ofice, or at such other place as is refered to in Article 14.10, at
least two hours before the comencement of the meting or adjourned meting at which the
proxy is used.
14.14 Any corporation which is a member of the Company may, by resolution of its directors or
other governing body or by power of atorney, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act
as its representative at any meting of the Company or of members of any clas of shares of
the Company and the person so authorised shal be entitled to exercise the same powers on
behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were
an individual member of the Company and where a corporation is so represented, it shal be
treated as being present at any meting in person.
14.15 If a recognised clearing house (or its nomine(s) is a member of the Company it may
authorise such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative(s) at any general
meting of the Company or at any general meting of any clas of members of the Company
or creditors metings provided that, if more than one person is so authorised, the authorisation
shal specify the number and clas of shares in respect of which each such person is so
authorised. The person so authorised wil be demed to have ben duly authorised without
the ned of producing any documents of title, notarised authorisation and/or further evidence
to substantiate that it is so authorised. A person so authorised pursuant to this provision shal
be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the recognised clearing house
(or its nomine(s) which he represents as that recognised clearing house (or its nomine(s)
could exercise as if such person were an individual member of the Company holding the
number and clas of shares specified in such authorisation, including, where a show of hands
is alowed, the right to vote individualy on a show of hands, notwithstanding any contrary
provision contained in these Articles.
15 Registered Ofice
The registered ofice of the Company shal be at such place in the Cayman Islands as the
Board shal from time to time apoint.
16 Board of Directors
16.1 So long as shares in the Company are listed on the Exchange, the Board shal include such
number of Independent Non-Executive Directors as the relevant code, rules or regulations
aplicable to the listing of any shares on the Exchange require. The number of Directors shal
not be les than thre. The first Directors shal be determined in writing by, or apointed by a
resolution of, the subscriber(s) to the Memorandum.
16.2 The Board shal have power from time to time and at any time to apoint any person as
a Director either to fil a casual vacancy or as an adition to the Board. Any Director so
apointed shal hold ofice only until the first anual general meting of the Company after
his apointment and shal then be eligible for re-election at that meting.
16.3 The Company may from time to time in general meting by ordinary resolution increase or
reduce the number of Directors but so that the number of Directors shal not be les than
thre. Subject to the provisions of these Articles and the Act, the Company may by ordinary
resolution elect any person to be a Director either to fil a casual vacancy or as an adition
to the existing Directors. The re-election of an Independent Non-Executive Director who
has held such ofice for more than nine years shal require separate aproval of an ordinary
resolution of the members in general meting and the Board shal provide reasons to the
members prior to the general meting as to why it believes such Independent Non-Executive
Director is stil independent and should be re-elected.
16.4 No person shal, unles recomended by the Board, be eligible for election to the ofice of
Director at any general meting unles during the period, which shal be at least seven days,
comencing no earlier than the day after the despatch of the notice of the meting apointed
for such election and ending no later than seven days prior to the date of such meting, there
has ben given to the Secretary notice in writing by a member of the Company (not being the
person to be proposed), entitled to atend and vote at the meting for which such notice is
given, of his intention to propose such person for election and also notice in writing signed
by the person to be proposed of his wilingnes to be elected.
16.5 The Company shal kep at its registered ofice a register of directors and oficers containing
their names and adreses and any other particulars required by the Act and shal send to the
Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands a copy of such register and shal from time to
time notify to the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands any change that takes place
in relation to such Directors as required by the Act.
16.6 The Company may by ordinary resolution at any time remove any Director (including a
managing Director or other executive Director) before the expiration of his term of ofice
notwithstanding anything in these Articles or in any agrement betwen the Company and
such Director and may by ordinary resolution elect another person in his stead. Any person
so elected shal hold ofice during such time only as the Director in whose place he is elected
would have held the same if he had not ben removed. Nothing in this Article should be taken
as depriving a Director removed under any provisions of this Article of compensation or
damages payable to him in respect of the termination of his apointment as Director or of any
other apointment or ofice as a result of the termination of his apointment as Director or as
derogatory from any power to remove a Director which may exist apart from the provision of
this Article.
16.7 A Director may at any time by notice in writing delivered to the registered ofice of the
Company, the principal ofice of the Company in Hong Kong or at a meting of the Board,
apoint any person (including another Director) to be his alternate Director in his place
during his absence and may in like maner at any time determine such apointment. Such
apointment, unles previously aproved by the Board, shal have efect only upon and
subject to being so aproved, provided that the Board may not withold aproval of any such
apointment where the proposed apointe is a Director.
16.8 The apointment of an alternate Director shal determine on the hapening of any event
which, were he a Director, would cause him to vacate such ofice or if his apointor ceases to
be a Director.
16.9 An alternate Director shal (except when absent from Hong Kong), be entitled to receive and
waive (in lieu of his apointor) notices of metings of the Directors and shal be entitled to
atend and vote as a Director and be counted in the quorum at any such meting at which the
Director apointing him is not personaly present and generaly at such meting to perform
al the functions of his apointor as a Director and for the purposes of the procedings at such
meting the provisions of these Articles shal aply as if he (instead of his apointor) were
a Director. If he shal be himself a Director or shal atend any such meting as an alternate
for more than one Director his voting rights shal be cumulative and he ned not use al his
votes or cast al the votes he uses in the same way. If his apointor is for the time being
absent from Hong Kong or otherwise not available or unable to act (as to which a certificate
by the alternate shal in the absence of actual notice to the contrary to other Directors be
conclusive), his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shal be as efective as
the signature of his apointor. To such extent as the Board may from time to time determine
in relation to any comite of the Board, the provisions of this Article shal also aply
mutatis mutandis to any meting of any such comite of which his apointor is a member.
An alternate Director shal not, save as aforesaid, have power to act as a Director nor shal he
be demed to be a Director for the purposes of these Articles.
16.10 An alternate Director shal be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from
contracts or arangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified
to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director, but he shal not be entitled
to receive from the Company in respect of his apointment as alternate Director any
remuneration except only such part (if any) of the remuneration otherwise payable to his
apointor as such apointor may by notice in writing to the Company from time to time
direct.
16.11 In adition to the provisions of Articles 16.7 to 16.10, a Director may be represented at any
meting of the Board (or of any comite of the Board) by a proxy apointed by him, in
which event the presence or vote of the proxy shal for al purposes be demed to be that of
the Director. A proxy ned not himself be a Director and the provisions of Articles 14.8 to
14.13 shal aply mutatis mutandis to the apointment of proxies by Directors save that an
instrument apointing a proxy shal not become invalid after the expiration of twelve months
from its date of execution but shal remain valid for such period as the instrument shal
provide or, if no such provision is made in the instrument, until revoked in writing and save
also that a Director may apoint any number of proxies although only one such proxy may
atend in his stead at metings of the Board (or of any comite of the Board).
16.12 A Director ned not hold any qualification shares. No Director shal be required to vacate
ofice or be ineligible for re-election or re-apointment as a Director and no person shal be
ineligible for apointment as a Director by reason only of his having atained any particular
age.
16.13 The Directors shal be entitled to receive by way of remuneration for their services such
sum as shal from time to time be determined by the Company in general meting or by the
Board, as the case may be, such sum (unles otherwise directed by the resolution by which it
is determined) to be divided amongst the Directors in such proportions and in such maner as
they may agre, or failing agrement, equaly, except that in such event any Director holding
ofice for les than the whole of the relevant period in respect of which the remuneration is
paid shal only rank in such division in proportion to the time during such period for which
he has held ofice. Such remuneration shal be in adition to any other remuneration to which
a Director who holds any salaried employment or ofice in the Company may be entitled by
reason of such employment or ofice.
16.14 Payment to any Director or past Director of any sum by way of compensation for los of
ofice or as consideration for or in conection with his retirement from ofice (not being
a payment to which the Director is contractualy entitled) must first be aproved by the
Company in general meting.
16.15 The Directors shal be entitled to be paid al expenses, including travel expenses, reasonably
incured by them in or in conection with the performance of their duties as Directors
including their expenses of traveling to and from Board metings, comite metings or
general metings or otherwise incured whilst engaged on the busines of the Company or in
the discharge of their duties as Directors.
16.16 The Board may grant special remuneration to any Director, who shal perform any special
or extra services at the request of the Company. Such special remuneration may be made
payable to such Director in adition to or in substitution for his ordinary remuneration as a
Director, and may be made payable by way of salary, comision or participation in profits
or otherwise as may be agred.
16.17 The remuneration of an Executive Director (as apointed acording to Article 17.1) or a
Director apointed to any other ofice in the management of the Company shal from time
to time be fixed by the Board and may be by way of salary, comision, or participation
in profits or otherwise or by al or any of those modes and with such other benefits
(including share option and/or pension and/or gratuity and/or other benefits on retirement)
and alowances as the Board may from time to time decide. Such remuneration shal be in
adition to such remuneration as the recipient may be entitled to receive as a Director.
16.18 The ofice of a Director shal be vacated:
(a) if he resigns his ofice by notice in writing to the Company at its registered ofice or its
principal ofice in Hong Kong;
(b) if an order is made by any competent court or oficial on the grounds that he is or may
be sufering from mental disorder or is otherwise incapable of managing his afairs and
the Board resolves that his ofice be vacated;
(c) if, without leave, he is absent from metings of the Board (unles an alternate Director
apointed by him atends in his place) for a continuous period of 12 months, and the
Board resolves that his ofice be vacated;
(d) if he becomes bankrupt or has a receiving order made against him or suspends payment
or compounds with his creditors generaly;
(e) if he ceases to be or is prohibited from being a Director by law or by virtue of any
provisions in these Articles;
(f) if he shal be removed from ofice by notice in writing served upon him signed by not
les than thre-fourths in number (or, if that is not a round number, the nearest lower
round number) of the Directors (including himself) then in ofice; or
(g) if he shal be removed from ofice by an ordinary resolution under Article 16.6.
At every anual general meting of the Company one-third of the Directors for the time being
(or, if their number is not thre or a multiple of thre, then the number nearest to, but not les
than, one-third) shal retire from ofice by rotation provided that every Director (including
those apointed for a specific term) shal be subject to retirement by rotation at least once
every thre years. Any Director required to stand for re-election pursuant to Article 16.2
shal not be taken into acount in determining the number of Directors and which Directors
are to retire by rotation. A retiring Director shal retain ofice until the close of the meting
at which he retires and shal be eligible for re-election thereat. The Company at any anual
general meting at which any Directors retire may fil the vacated ofice by electing a like
number of persons to be Directors.
16.19 No Director or proposed Director shal be disqualified by his ofice from contracting with the
Company either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise nor shal any such contract or any contract
or arangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company with any person, company or
partnership of or in which any Director shal be a member or otherwise interested be capable
on that acount of being avoided, nor shal any Director so contracting or being any member
or so interested be liable to acount to the Company for any profit so realised by any such
contract or arangement by reason only of such Director holding that ofice or the fiduciary
relationship thereby established, provided that such Director shal, if his interest in such
contract or arangement is material, declare the nature of his interest at the earliest meting
of the Board at which it is practicable for him to do so, either specificaly or by way of a
general notice stating that, by reason of the facts specified in the notice, he is to be regarded
as interested in any contracts of a specified description which may subsequently be made by
the Company.
16.20 Any Director may continue to be or become a director, managing director, joint managing
director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other oficer or member
of any other company in which the Company may be interested and (unles otherwise
agred betwen the Company and the Director) no such Director shal be liable to acount
to the Company or the members for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as
a director, managing director, joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive
director, manager or other oficer or member of any such other company. The Directors may
exercise the voting powers confered by the shares in any other company held or owned by
the Company, or exercisable by them as directors of such other company in such maner
in al respects as they think fit (including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolution
apointing themselves or any of them directors, managing directors, joint managing directors,
deputy managing directors, executive directors, managers or other oficers of such company)
and any Director may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in maner aforesaid
notwithstanding that he may be, or is about to be, apointed a director, managing director,
joint managing director, deputy managing director, executive director, manager or other
oficer of such a company, and that as such he is or may become interested in the exercise of
such voting rights in the maner aforesaid.
16.21 A Director may hold any other ofice or place of profit with the Company (except that of
Auditor) in conjunction with his ofice of Director for such period and upon such terms as
the Board may determine, and may be paid such extra remuneration therefor (whether by way
of salary, comision, participation in profit or otherwise) as the Board may determine, and
such extra remuneration shal be in adition to any remuneration provided for by or pursuant
to any other Article.
16.22 A Director shal not be entitled to vote on (nor shal be counted in the quorum in relation to)
any resolution of the Board in respect of any contract or arangement or any other proposal
whatsoever in which he or any of his Close Asociates (or, if required by the Listing Rules,
his other Asociates) has any material interest, and if he shal do so his vote shal not be
counted (nor is he to be counted in the quorum for the resolution), but this prohibition shal
not aply to any of the folowing maters, namely:
(a) the giving of any security or indemnity either:
(i) to the Director or any of his Close Asociates in respect of money lent or
obligations incured or undertaken by him or any of them at the request of or for
the benefit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or
(i) to a third party in respect of a debt or obligation of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries for which the Director or any of his Close Asociates has himself/
themselves asumed responsibility in whole or in part and whether alone or jointly
under a guarante or indemnity or by the giving of security;
(b) any proposal concerning an ofer of shares or debentures or other securities of or by
the Company or any other company which the Company may promote or be interested
in for subscription or purchase where the Director or any of his Close Asociates is/are
or is/are to be interested as a participant in the underwriting or sub-underwriting of the
ofer;
(c) any proposal or arangement concerning the benefit of employes of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries including:
(i) the adoption, modification or operation of any employes’ share scheme or any
share incentive scheme or share option scheme under which the Director or any of
his Close Asociates may benefit; or
(i) the adoption, modification or operation of a pension or provident fund or
retirement, death or disability benefits scheme which relates both to Directors,
their Close Asociates and employes of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
and does not provide in respect of any Director or any of his Close Asociates as
such any privilege or advantage not generaly acorded to the clas of persons to
which such scheme or fund relates; and
(d) any contract or arangement in which the Director or any of his Close Asociates is/
are interested in the same maner as other holders of shares or debentures or other
securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or
other securities of the Company.
16.23 Where a Director is also a director or member of the senior management of Haichang Group,
such Director shal not be entitled to vote on (nor shal be counted in the quorum in relation
to) any resolution relating to any potential transaction betwen the Company and Haichang
Group, and such Director wil absent himself from board meting when such maters are
discused, unles expresly requested to atend by a majority of the Independent Non-
Executive Directors or except in the opinion of the Independent Non-Executive Directors
such Director’s or any of his Asociates’ interest in such maters discused would not cause
any conflict of interests betwen the Company and Haichang Group.
16.24 Where proposals are under consideration concerning the apointment (including fixing or
varying the terms of or terminating the apointment) of two or more Directors to ofices or
employments with the Company or any company in which the Company is interested, such
proposals shal be divided and considered in relation to each Director separately and in such
case each of the Directors concerned (if not prohibited from voting under Article 16.22) shal
be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that
concerning his own apointment.
16.25 If any question shal arise at any meting of the Board as to the materiality of a Director’s
interest or the significance of a contract, arangement or transaction or proposed contract,
arangement or transaction or as to the entitlement of any Director to vote or form part of a
quorum and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreing to abstain from voting
or not to be counted in the quorum, such question shal be refered to the Chairman of the
meting (or, where question relates to the interest of the Chairman, to the other Directors at
the meting) and his ruling (or, as apropriate, the ruling of the other Directors) in relation to
any other Director (or, as apropriate, the Chairman) shal be final and conclusive except in a
case where the nature or extent of the interests of the Director concerned (or, as apropriate,
the Chairman) as known to such Director (or, as apropriate, the Chairman) has not ben
fairly disclosed to the Board.
17 Managing Directors
17.1 The Board may from time to time apoint any one or more of its body to the ofice of
managing Director, joint managing Director, deputy managing Director, or other executive
Director and/or such other employment or executive ofice in the management of the busines
of the Company as it may decide for such period and upon such terms as it thinks fit and
upon such terms as to remuneration as it may decide in acordance with Article 16.17.
17.2 Every Director apointed to an ofice under Article 17.1 hereof shal, without prejudice to
any claim for damages that such Director may have against the Company or the Company
may have against such Director for any breach of any contract of service betwen him and
the Company, be liable to be dismised or removed therefrom by the Board.
17.3 A Director apointed to an ofice under Article 17.1 shal be subject to the same provisions
as to removal as the other Directors, and he shal, without prejudice to any claim for damages
that such Director may have against the Company or the Company may have against such
Director for any breach of any contract of service betwen him and the Company, ipso facto
and imediately cease to hold such ofice if he shal cease to hold the ofice of Director for
any cause.
17.4 The Board may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a managing Director, joint
managing Director, deputy managing Director or executive Director al or any of the powers
of the Board that it may think fit. But the exercise of al powers by such Director shal be
subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Board may from time to time make and
impose, and the said powers may at any time be withdrawn, revoked or varied but no person
dealing in god faith and without notice of such withdrawal, revocation or variation shal be
afected thereby.
18 Management
18.1 Subject to any exercise by the Board of the powers confered by Articles 19.1 to 19.3, the
management of the busines of the Company shal be vested in the Board which, in adition
to the powers and authorities by these Articles expresly confered upon it, may exercise al
such powers and do al such acts and things as may be exercised or done or aproved by the
Company and are not hereby or by the Act expresly directed or required to be exercised or
done by the Company in general meting, but subject nevertheles to the provisions of the
Act and of these Articles and to any regulation from time to time made by the Company in
general meting not being inconsistent with such provisions or these Articles, provided that
no regulation so made shal invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have ben
valid if such regulation had not ben made.
18.2 Without prejudice to the general powers confered by these Articles, it is hereby expresly
declared that the Board shal have the folowing powers:
(a) to give to any person the right or option of requiring at a future date that an alotment
shal be made to him of any share at par or at such premium as may be agred; and
(b) to give to any Directors, oficers or employes of the Company an interest in any
particular busines or transaction or participation in the profits thereof or in the general
profits of the Company either in adition to or in substitution for a salary or other
remuneration.
18.3 Except as would be permited by the Companies Ordinance if the Company were a company
incorporated in Hong Kong, and except as permited under the Companies Act, the Company
shal not directly or indirectly:
(a) make a loan to a Director or his Close Asociates or a director of any holding company
of the Company or a body corporate controled by a Director or such a director;
(b) enter into any guarante or provide any security in conection with a loan made by any
person to a Director or such a director or a body corporate controled by a Director or
such a director; or
(c) if any one or more of the Directors hold (jointly or severaly or directly or indirectly) a
controling interest in another company, make a loan to that other company or enter into
any guarante or provide any security in conection with a loan made by any person to
that other company.
19 Managers
19.1 The Board may from time to time apoint a general manager, manager or managers of the
Company and may fix his or their remuneration either by way of salary or comision or
by confering the right to participation in the profits of the Company or by a combination of
two or more of these modes and pay the working expenses of any of the staf of the general
manager, manager or managers who may be employed by him or them in conection with the
conduct of the busines of the Company.
19.2 The apointment of such general manager, manager or managers may be for such period as
the Board may decide and the Board may confer upon him or them al or any of the powers
of the Board as it may think fit.
19.3 The Board may enter into such agrement or agrements with any such general manager,
manager or managers upon such terms and conditions in al respects as the Board may in
its absolute discretion think fit, including a power for such general manager, manager or
managers to apoint an asistant manager or managers or other employes whatsoever under
them for the purpose of carying on the busines of the Company.
20 Procedings of Directors
20.1 The Board may met together for the despatch of busines, adjourn and otherwise regulate
its metings and procedings as it thinks fit in any part of the world and may determine the
quorum necesary for the transaction of busines. Unles otherwise determined two Directors
shal be a quorum. For the purposes of this Article an alternate Director shal be counted
in a quorum in place of the Director who apointed him and an alternate Director who is
an alternate for more than one Director shal for quorum purposes be counted separately in
respect of himself (if he is a Director) and in respect of each Director for whom he is an
alternate (but so that nothing in this provision shal be construed as authorising a meting
to be constituted when only one person is physicaly present). A meting of the Board or
any comite of the Board may be held by means of a telephone or tele-conferencing
or any other telecomunications facility provided that al participants are thereby able to
comunicate contemporaneously by voice with al other participants and participation in a
meting pursuant to this provision shal constitute presence in person at such meting.
20.2 A Director may, and on request of a Director the Secretary shal, at any time sumon a
meting of the Board. Failing any determination by the Board, not les than 48 hours notice
thereof shal be given to each Director either in writing or by telephone or by facsimile, telex
or telegram at the adres or telephone, facsimile or telex number from time to time notified
to the Company by such Director or in such other maner as the Board may from time to time
determine.
20.3 Subject to Articles 16.19 to 16.25, questions arising at any meting of the Board shal be
decided by a majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the Chairman shal have a
second or casting vote.
20.4 The Board may elect a Chairman of its metings and determine the period for which he is
to hold ofice; but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meting the Chairman is not
present within 15 minutes after the time apointed for holding the same, the Directors present
may chose one of their number to be Chairman of the meting.
20.5 A meting of the Board for the time being at which a quorum is present shal be competent
to exercise al or any of the authorities, powers and discretions by or under these Articles for
the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board generaly.
20.6 The Board may delegate any of its powers to comites consisting of such member or
members of the Board (including alternate Directors in the absence of their apointers) as
the Board thinks fit, and it may from time to time revoke such delegation or revoke the
apointment of and discharge any comites either wholy or in part, and either as to
persons or purposes, but every comite so formed shal in the exercise of the powers so
delegated conform to any regulations that may from time to time be imposed upon it by the
Board.
20.7 Al acts done by any such comite in conformity with such regulations and in fulfilment of
the purposes for which it is apointed, but not otherwise, shal have the like force and efect
as if done by the Board, and the Board shal have power, with the consent of the Company
in general meting, to remunerate the members of any such comite, and charge such
remuneration to the curent expenses of the Company.
20.8 The metings and procedings of any such comite consisting of two or more members of
the Board shal be governed by the provisions herein contained for regulating the metings
and procedings of the Board so far as the same are aplicable thereto and are not replaced
by any regulations imposed by the Board pursuant to Article 20.6.
20.9 The Board shal cause minutes to be made of:
(a) al apointments of oficers made by the Board;
(b) the names of the Directors present at each meting of the Board and of comites
apointed pursuant to Article 20.6;
(c) al declarations made or notices given by any Director of his interest in any contract or
proposed contract or of his holding of any ofice or property whereby any conflict of
duty or interest may arise; and
(d) al resolutions and procedings at al metings of the Company and of the Board and of
such comites.
20.10 Any such minutes shal be conclusive evidence of any such procedings if they purport to be
signed by the chairman of the meting or by the chairman of the suceding meting.
20.11 Al acts bona fide done by any meting of the Board or by a comite of Directors or by
any person acting as Director shal, notwithstanding that it shal be afterwards discovered that
there was some defect in the apointment of such Director or persons acting as aforesaid or
that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had ben duly
apointed and was qualified to be a Director or member of such comite as the case may
be.
20.12 The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and
so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles
as the necesary quorum of Directors, the continuing Director or Directors may act for the
purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number or of sumoning a general
meting of the Company but for no other purpose.
20.13 Unles required otherwise by the Listing Rules, a resolution in writing signed by each and
every one of the Directors (or their respective alternates pursuant to Article 16.9) shal
be as valid and efectual as if it had ben pased at a meting of the Board duly convened
and held and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more of
the Directors or alternate Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a resolution in writing
shal not be valid and efective if the resolution relates to any mater or busines in which a
substantial shareholder of the Company (as defined in the Listing Rules from time to time), or
a Director, has an interest conflicting with that of the Company which the Board determines,
prior to the pasing of such resolution, to be material.
21 Secretary
21.1 The Secretary shal be apointed by the Board for such term, at such remuneration and
upon such conditions as it may think fit, and any Secretary so apointed may be removed
by the Board. Anything by the Act or these Articles required or authorised to be done by or
to the Secretary, if the ofice is vacant or there is for any other reason no Secretary capable
of acting, may be done by or to any asistant or deputy Secretary apointed by the Board,
or if there is no asistant or deputy Secretary capable of acting, by or to any oficer of the
Company authorised generaly or specificaly in that behalf by the Board.
21.2 A provision of the Act or of these Articles requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to
a Director and the Secretary shal not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person
acting both as Director and as or in place of the Secretary.
22 General Management and Use of the Seal
22.1 The Board shal provide for the safe custody of the seal which shal only be used by the
authority of the Board or of a comite of the Board authorised by the Board in that behalf,
and every instrument to which such seal shal be afixed shal be signed by a Director and
shal be countersigned by the Secretary or by a second Director or by some other person
apointed by the Board for the purpose. The securities seal which shal be a facsimile of
the comon seal with the word “Securities” engraved thereon shal be used exclusively for
sealing securities isued by the Company and for sealing documents creating or evidencing
securities so isued. The Board may either generaly or in any particular case resolve that
the securities seal or any signatures or any of them may be afixed to certificates for shares,
warants, debentures or any other form of security by facsimile or other mechanical means
specified in such authority or that any such certificates sealed with the securities seal ned
not be signed by any person. Every instrument to which the seal is afixed as aforesaid shal,
as regards al persons dealing in god faith with the Company, be demed to have ben
afixed to that instrument with the authority of the Directors previously given.
22.2 The Company may have a duplicate seal for use outside of the Cayman Islands as and where
the Board shal determine, and the Company may by writing under the seal apoint any
agents or agent, comites or comite abroad to be the agents of the Company for the
purpose of afixing and using such duplicate seal and they may impose such restrictions on
the use thereof as may be thought fit. Wherever in these Articles reference is made to the
seal, the reference shal, when and so far as may be aplicable, be demed to include any
such duplicate seal as aforesaid.
22.3 Al cheques, promisory notes, drafts, bils of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and
al receipts for moneys paid to the Company shal be signed, drawn, acepted, indorsed or
otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such maner as the Board shal from time to time
by resolution determine. The Company’s banking acounts shal be kept with such banker or
bankers as the Board shal from time to time determine.
22.4 The Board may from time to time and at any time, by power of atorney under the seal,
apoint any company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated
directly or indirectly by the Board, to be the atorney or atorneys of the Company for such
purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceding those vested in
or exercisable by the Board under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such
conditions as it may think fit, and any such power of atorney may contain such provisions
for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such atorney as the Board
may think fit, and may also authorise any such atorney to sub-delegate al or any of the
powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
22.5 The Company may, by writing under its seal, empower any person, either generaly or in
respect of any specified mater, as its atorney to execute deds and instruments on its behalf
in any part of the world and to enter into contracts and sign the same on its behalf and every
ded signed by such atorney on behalf of the Company and under his seal shal bind the
Company and have the same efect as if it were under the seal of the Company.
22.6 The Board may establish any comites, regional or local boards or agencies for managing
any of the afairs of the Company, either in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, the People’s
Republic of China or elsewhere, and may apoint any persons to be members of such
comites, regional or local boards or agencies and may fix their remuneration, and may
delegate to any comite, regional or local board or agent any of the powers, authorities and
discretions vested in the Board (other than its powers to make cals and forfeit shares), with
power to sub-delegate, and may authorise the members of any local board or any of them to
fil any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such apointment or
delegation may be upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board may think
fit, and the Board may remove any person so apointed and may anul or vary any such
delegation, but no person dealing in god faith and without notice of any such anulment or
variation shal be afected thereby.
22.7 The Board may establish and maintain or procure the establishment and maintenance of
any contributory or non-contributory pension or provident or superanuation funds or (with
the sanction of an ordinary resolution) employe or executive share option schemes for the
benefit of, or give or procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions, alowances or
emoluments to any persons who are or were at any time in the employment or service of the
Company, or of any company which is a subsidiary of the Company, or is alied or asociated
with the Company or with any such subsidiary company, or who are or were at any time
directors or oficers of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid, and holding
or who have held any salaried employment or ofice in the Company or such other company,
and the wives, widows, families and dependents of any such persons. The Board may also
establish and subsidise or subscribe to any institutions, asociations, clubs or funds calculated
to be for the benefit of or to advance the interests and wel-being of the Company or of any
such other company as aforesaid, and may make payments for or towards the insurance of
any such persons as aforesaid, and subscribe or guarante money for charitable or benevolent
objects or for any exhibition or for any public, general or useful object. The Board may do
any of the maters aforesaid, either alone or in conjunction with any such other company
as aforesaid. Any Director holding any such employment or ofice shal be entitled to
participate in and retain for his own benefit any such donation, gratuity, pension, alowance
or emolument.
23 Capitalisation of Reserves
23.1 The Company in general meting may upon the recomendation of the Board by ordinary
resolution resolve that it is desirable to capitalise al or any part of the amount for the time
being standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve acounts or funds or to the
credit of the profit and los acount or otherwise available for distribution (and not required
for the payment or provision of dividend on any shares with a preferential right to dividend)
and acordingly that such sums be set fre for distribution amongst the members who would
have ben entitled thereto if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportion on
condition that the same be not paid in cash but be aplied either in or towards paying up
any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively
or paying up in ful unisued shares, debentures or other securities of the Company to be
aloted and distributed credited as fuly paid up to and amongst such members in proportion
aforesaid or partly in one way and partly in the other, and the Board shal give efect to such
resolution, provided that a share premium acount and a capital redemption reserve and any
reserve or fund representing unrealised profits may, for the purposes of this Article, only be
aplied in paying up unisued shares to be isued to members of the Company as fuly paid
up shares or paying up cals or instalments due or payable on partly paid securities of the
Company subject always to the provisions of the Act.
23.2 Wherever such a resolution as refered to in Article 23.1 shal have ben pased the Board
shal make al apropriations and aplications of the undivided profits resolved to be
capitalised thereby, and al alotments and isues of fuly paid up shares, debentures or other
securities, if any, and generaly shal do al acts and things required to give efect thereto,
with ful power to the Board:
(a) to make such provision by the isue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or
otherwise (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are
agregated and sold and the net proceds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded
or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements acrues to the
Company rather than to the members concerned) as they think fit in cases where shares,
debentures or other securities become distributable in fractions;
(b) to exclude the right of participation or entitlement of any member with a registered
adres outside any teritory where in the absence of a registration statement or other
special or onerous formalities the circulation of an ofer of such right or entitlement
would or might be unlawful or where the Board consider the costs, expense or posible
delays in ascertaining the existence or extent of the legal and other requirements
aplicable to such ofer or the aceptance of such ofer out of proportion to the benefits
of the Company; and
(c) to authorise any person to enter on behalf of al members entitled thereto into an
agrement with the Company providing for the alotment to them respectively, credited
as fuly paid up, of any further shares, debentures or other securities to which they may
be entitled upon such capitalisation, or, as the case may require, for the payment up by
the Company on their behalf, by the aplication thereto of their respective proportions
of the profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the amounts
remaining unpaid on their existing shares, and any agrement made under such authority
shal be efective and binding on al such members.
23.3 The Board may, in relation to any capitalisation sanctioned under Article 23.2 in its absolute
discretion specify that, and in such circumstances and if directed so to do by a member or
members entitled to an alotment and distribution credited as fuly paid up of unisued shares
or debentures in the Company pursuant to such capitalisation, the unisued shares, debentures
or other securities to which that member is entitled shal be aloted and distributed credited
as fuly paid up to such person or persons as that member may nominate by notice in writing
to the Company, such notice to be received not later than the day for which the general
meting of the Company to sanction the capitalisation is convened.
24 Dividends and Reserves
24.1 Subject to the Act and these Articles, the Company in general meting may declare dividends
in any curency but no dividends shal exced the amount recomended by the Board.
24.2 The dividends, interest and bonuses and any other benefits and advantages in the nature
of income receivable in respect of the Company’s investments, and any comisions,
trusteship, agency, transfer and other fes and curent receipts of the Company shal, subject
to the payment thereout of the expenses of management, interest upon borowed money and
other expenses which in the opinion of the Board are of a revenue nature, constitute the
profits of the Company available for distribution.
24.3 The Board may from time to time pay to the members such interim dividends as apear to the
Board to be justified by the profits of the Company and, in particular (but without prejudice
to the generality of the foregoing), if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided
into diferent clases, the Board may pay such interim dividends in respect of those shares in
the capital of the Company which confer on the holders thereof defered or non-preferential
rights as wel as in respect of those shares which confer on the holders thereof preferential
rights with regard to dividend and provided that the Board acts bona fide, the Board shal not
incur any responsibility to the holders of shares confering any preferential rights.
24.4 The Board may also pay half-yearly or at other intervals to be selected by it any dividend
which may be payable at a fixed rate if the Board is of the opinion that the profits available
for distribution justify the payment.
24.5 The Board may in adition from time to time declare and pay special dividends on shares
of any clas of such amounts and on such dates as they think fit, and the provisions of
Article 24.3 as regards the powers and the exemption from liability of the Board as relate to
declaration and payment of interim dividends shal aply, mutatis mutandis, to the declaration
and payment of any such special dividends.
24.6 No dividend shal be declared or payable except out of the profits and reserves of the
Company lawfuly available for distribution including share premium. No dividend shal
cary interest against the Company.
24.7 Whenever the Board or the Company in general meting has resolved that a dividend be paid
or declared on the share capital of the Company, the Board may further resolve:
EITHER
(a) that such dividend be satisfied wholy or in part in the form of an alotment of shares
credited as fuly paid up, provided that the members entitled thereto wil be entitled to
elect to receive such dividend (or part thereof) in cash in lieu of such alotment. In such
case, the folowing provisions shal aply:
(i) the basis of any such alotment shal be determined by the Board;
(i) the Board, after determining the basis of alotment, shal give not les than two
weks’ notice in writing to the members of the right of election acorded to them
and shal send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to
be folowed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly
completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be efective;
(i) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that
portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has ben acorded;
(iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend to be satisfied by the alotment of shares
as aforesaid) shal not be payable in cash on shares in respect whereof the cash
election has not ben duly exercised (the “non-elected shares”) and in satisfaction
thereof shares shal be aloted credited as fuly paid to the holders of the non-
elected shares on the basis of alotment determined as aforesaid and for such
purpose the Board shal capitalise and aply out of any part of the undivided
profits of the Company or any part of any of the Company’s reserve acounts
(including any special acount, share premium acount and capital redemption
reserve (if there be any such reserve) or profit or los acount or amounts
otherwise available for distribution as the Board may determine, a sum equal to
the agregate nominal amount of the shares to be aloted on such basis and aply
the same in paying up in ful the apropriate number of shares for alotment and
distribution to and amongst the holders of the non-elected shares on such basis;
OR
(b) that members entitled to such dividend shal be entitled to elect to receive an alotment
of shares credited as fuly paid up in lieu of the whole or such part of the dividend as
the Board may think fit. In such case, the folowing provisions shal aply:
(i) the basis of any such alotment shal be determined by the Board;
(i) the Board, after determining the basis of alotment, shal give not les than two
weks’ notice in writing to members of the right of election acorded to them
and shal send with such notice forms of election and specify the procedure to
be folowed and the place at which and the latest date and time by which duly
completed forms of election must be lodged in order to be efective;
(i) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole or part of that
portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has ben acorded;
(iv) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has
ben acorded) shal not be payable on shares in respect whereof the share election
has ben duly exercised (the “elected shares”) and in lieu thereof shares shal be
aloted credited as fuly paid to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of
alotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose the Board shal capitalise
and aply out of any part of the undivided profits of the Company’s reserve
acounts (including any special acount, share premium acount and capital
redemption reserve (if there be any such reserve) or profit and los acount or
amounts otherwise available for distribution as the Board may determine, a sum
equal to the agregate nominal amount of the shares to be aloted on such basis
and aply the same in paying up in ful the apropriate number of shares for
alotment and distribution to and amongst the holders of the elected shares on such
basis.
24.8 The shares aloted pursuant to the provisions of Article 24.7 shal be of the same clas as the
clas of, and shal rank pari pasu in al respects with the shares then held by the respective
alotes save only as regards participation:
(a) in the relevant dividend (or share or cash election in lieu thereof as aforesaid); or
(b) in any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or anounced prior
to or contemporaneously with the payment or declaration of the relevant dividend,
unles contemporaneously with the anouncement by the Board of its proposal to
aply the provisions of Article 24.7(a) or 24.7(b) in relation to the relevant dividend
or contemporaneously with its anouncement of the distribution, bonus or rights in
question, the Board shal specify that the shares to be aloted pursuant to the provisions
of Article 24.7 shal rank for participation in such distributions, bonuses or rights.
24.9 The Board may do al acts and things considered necesary or expedient to give efect to
any capitalisation pursuant to the provisions of Article 24.8 with ful power to the Board to
make such provisions as it thinks fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions
(including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are agregated and
sold and the net proceds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or
down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements acrues to the Company rather than
to the members concerned). The Board may authorise any person to enter into on behalf of
al members interested, an agrement with the Company providing for such capitalisation
and maters incidental thereto and any agrement made pursuant to such authority shal be
efective and binding on al concerned.
24.10 The Company may upon the recomendation of the Board by ordinary resolution resolve in
respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of
Article 24.7 a dividend may be satisfied wholy in the form of an alotment of shares credited
as fuly paid without ofering any right to members to elect to receive such dividend in cash
in lieu of such alotment.
24.11 The Board may on any ocasion determine that rights of election and the alotment of shares
under Article 24.7 shal not be made available or made to any members with registered
adreses in any teritory where in the absence of a registration statement or other special
formalities the circulation of an ofer of such rights of election or the alotment of shares
would or might be unlawful, or where the Board considers the costs, expenses or posible
delays in ascertaining the existence or extent of the legal and other requirements aplicable
to such ofer or the aceptance of such ofer out of proportion to the benefit of the Company,
and in any such case the provisions aforesaid shal be read and construed subject to such
determination.
24.12 The Board shal establish an acount to be caled the share premium acount and shal cary
to the credit of such acount from time to time a sum equal to the amount or value of the
premium paid on the isue of any share in the Company. The Company may aply the share
premium acount in any maner permited by the Companies Act. The Company shal at al
times comply with the provisions of the Companies Act in relation to the share premium
acount.
24.13 The Board may, before recomending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the
Company such sums as it thinks fit as a reserve or reserves which shal, at the discretion of
the Board, be aplicable for meting claims on or liabilities of the Company or contingencies
or for paying of any loan capital or for equalising dividends or for any other purpose to
which the profits of the Company may be properly aplied, and pending such aplication
may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the busines of the Company or be invested
in such investments (including shares, warants and other securities of the Company) as
the Board may from time to time think fit, and so that it shal not be necesary to kep any
reserves separate or distinct from any other investments of the Company. The Board may also
without placing the same to reserve cary forward any profits which it may think prudent not
to distribute by way of dividend.
24.14 Unles and to the extent that the rights atached to any shares or the terms of isue thereof
otherwise provide, al dividends shal (as regards any shares not fuly paid throughout the
period in respect of which the dividend is paid) be aportioned and paid pro rata acording to
the amounts paid up on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of
which the dividend is paid. For the purpose of this Article no amount paid up on a share in
advance of cals shal be treated as paid up on the share.
24.15 The Board may retain any dividends or other moneys payable on or in respect of a share
upon which the Company has a lien, and may aply the same in or towards satisfaction of the
debts, liabilities or engagements in respect of which the lien exists.
24.16 The Board may retain any dividends or other monies payable upon shares in respect of which
any person is, under the provisions as to the transmision of shares hereinbefore contained,
entitled to become a member, or in respect of which any person is under those provisions
entitled to transfer, until such person shal become a member in respect of such shares or
shal transfer the same.
24.17 The Board may deduct from any dividend or other monies payable to any member al sums of
money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on acount of cals, instalments or
otherwise.
24.18 Any general meting sanctioning a dividend may make a cal on the members of such amount
as the meting resolves, but so that the cal on each member shal not exced the dividend
payable to him, and so that the cal be made payable at the same time as the dividend, and the
dividend may, if so aranged betwen the Company and the member, be set of against the
cal.
24.19 The Board, with the sanction of the members in general meting, may direct that any
dividend be satisfied wholy or in part by the distribution of specific asets of any kind and
in particular of paid up shares, debentures or warants to subscribe securities of any other
company, or in any one or more of such ways, and where any dificulty arises in regard to
the distribution the Board may setle the same as it thinks expedient, and in particular may
disregard fractional entitlements, round the same up or down or provide that the same shal
acrue to the benefit of the Company, and may fix the value for distribution of such specific
asets, or any part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shal be made to any
members upon the foting of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of al parties,
and may vest any such specific asets in trustes as may sem expedient to the Board and
may apoint any person to sign any requisite instruments of transfer and other documents on
behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend and such apointment shal be efective. Where
required, a contract shal be filed in acordance with the provisions of the Act and the Board
may apoint any person to sign such contract on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend
and such apointment shal be efective.
24.20 A transfer of shares shal not pas therewith the right to any dividend or bonus declared
thereon before the registration of the transfer.
24.21 Any resolution declaring or resolving upon the payment of a dividend or other distribution on
shares of any clas, whether a resolution of the Company in general meting or a resolution
of the Board, may specify that the same shal be payable or made to the persons registered as
the holders of such shares at the close of busines on a particular date, notwithstanding that
it may be a date prior to that on which the resolution is pased, and thereupon the dividend
or other distribution shal be payable or made to them in acordance with their respective
holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend
of transferors and transferes of any such shares.
24.22 If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any shares, any one of such persons
may give efectual receipts for any dividends, interim and special dividends or bonuses and
other moneys payable or rights or property distributable in respect of such shares.
24.23 Unles otherwise directed by the Board, any dividend, interest or other sum payable in cash
to a holder of shares may be paid by cheque or warant sent through the post to the registered
adres of the member entitled, or, in case of joint holders, to the registered adres of
the person whose name stands first in the register in respect of the joint holding or to such
person and to such adres as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every cheque
or warant so sent shal be made payable to the order of the holder or, in the case of joint
holders, to the order of the holder whose name stands first on the register in respect of such
shares and shal be sent at his or their risk, and the payment of any such cheque or warant
by the bank on which it is drawn shal operate as a god discharge to the Company in respect
of the dividend and/or bonus represented thereby, notwithstanding that it may subsequently
apear that the same has ben stolen or that any endorsement thereon has ben forged.
24.24 The Company may cease sending such cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend
warants by post if such cheques or warants have ben left uncashed on two consecutive
ocasions. However, the Company may exercise its power to cease sending cheques for
dividend entitlements or dividend warants after the first ocasion on which such a cheque or
warant is returned undelivered.
24.25 Al dividends or bonuses unclaimed for one year after having ben declared may be invested
or otherwise made use of by the Board for the exclusive benefit of the Company until
claimed and the Company shal not be constituted a truste in respect thereof or be required
to acount for any money earned thereon. Al dividends or bonuses unclaimed for six years
after having ben declared may be forfeited by the Board and shal revert to the Company and
after such forfeiture no member or other person shal have any right to or claim in respect of
such dividends or bonuses.
25 Untraceable Members
25.1 The Company shal be entitled to sel any shares of a member or the shares to which a
person is entitled by virtue of transmision on death or bankruptcy or operation of law if and
provided that:
(a) al cheques or warants, not being les than thre in number, for any sums payable in
cash to the holder of such shares have remained uncashed for a period of 12 years;
(b) the Company has not during that time or before the expiry of the thre month period
refered to in Article 25.1(d) below received any indication of the whereabouts or
existence of the member or person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or
operation of law;
(c) during the 12-year period, at least thre dividends in respect of the shares in question
have become payable and no dividend during that period has ben claimed by the
member; and
(d) upon expiry of the 12-year period, the Company has caused an advertisement to
be published in the newspapers, or, subject to the Listing Rules, by electronic
comunication in the maner in which notices may be served by the Company by
electronic means as herein provided, giving notice of its intention to sel such shares,
and a period of thre months has elapsed since such advertisement and the Exchange
has ben notified of such intention.
The net proceds of any such sale shal belong to the Company and upon receipt by the
Company of such net proceds it shal become indebted to the former member for an amount
equal to such net proceds.
25.2 To give efect to any sale contemplated by Article 25.1 the Company may apoint any
person to execute as transferor an instrument of transfer of the said shares and such other
documents as are necesary to efect the transfer, and such documents shal be as efective as
if it had ben executed by the registered holder of or person entitled by transmision to such
shares and the title of the transfere shal not be afected by any iregularity or invalidity
in the procedings relating thereto. The net proceds of sale shal belong to the Company
which shal be obliged to acount to the former member or other person previously entitled
as aforesaid for an amount equal to such proceds and shal enter the name of such former
member or other person in the boks of the Company as a creditor for such amount. No trust
shal be created in respect of the debt, no interest shal be payable in respect of the same and
the Company shal not be required to acount for any money earned on the net proceds,
which may be employed in the busines of the Company or invested in such investments
(other than shares or other securities in or of the Company or its holding company if any) or
as the Board may from time to time think fit.
26 Document Destruction
The Company shal be entitled to destroy al instruments of transfer, probate, leters of
administration, stop notices, powers of atorney, certificates of mariage or death and other
documents relating to or afecting title to securities in or of the Company (“Registrable
Documents”) which have ben registered at any time after the expiration of six years from
the date of registration thereof and al dividend mandates and notifications of change of
adres at any time after the expiration of two years from the date of recording thereof and al
share certificates which have ben canceled at any time after the expiration of one year from
the date of the cancelation thereof and it shal conclusively be presumed in favour of the
Company that every entry in the register if purporting to have ben made on the basis of an
instrument of transfer or Registrable Document so destroyed was duly and properly made and
every instrument of transfer or Registrable Document so destroyed was a valid and efective
instrument or document duly and properly registered and every share certificate so destroyed
was a valid and efective certificate duly and properly canceled and every other document
hereinbefore mentioned so destroyed was a valid and efective document in acordance with
the recorded particulars thereof in the boks or records of the Company, provided always
that:
(a) the provisions aforesaid shal aply only to the destruction of a document in god faith
and without expres notice of the Company of any claim (regardles of the parties
thereto) to which the document might be relevant;
(b) nothing herein contained shal be construed as imposing upon the Company any liability
in respect of the destruction of any such document earlier than as aforesaid or in any
other circumstances which would not atach to the Company in the absence of this
Article; and
(c) references herein to the destruction of any document include references to the disposal
thereof in any maner.
Notwithstanding any provision contained in these Articles, the Directors may, if permited
by aplicable law, authorise the destruction of any documents refered to in this Article
or any other documents in relation to share registration which have ben microfilmed or
electronicaly stored by the Company or by the share registrar on its behalf provided always
that this Article shal aply only to the destruction of a document in god faith and without
expres notice to the Company that the preservation of such document might be relevant to a
claim.
27 Anual Returns and Filings
The Board shal make the requisite anual returns and any other requisite filings in
acordance with the Act.
28 Acounts
28.1 The Board shal cause to be kept such boks of acount as are necesary to give a true and
fair view of the state of the Company’s afairs and to show and explain its transactions and
otherwise in acordance with the Act.
28.2 The boks of acount shal be kept at the Company’s principal place of busines in Hong
Kong or, subject to the provisions of the Act, at such other place or places as the Board
thinks fit and shal always be open to the inspection of the Directors.
28.3 The Board shal from time to time determine whether, to what extent, at what times and
places and under what conditions or regulations, the acounts and boks of the Company,
or any of them, shal be open to the inspection of the members (other than oficers of the
Company) and no member shal have any right of inspecting any acounts or boks or
documents of the Company except as confered by the Act or any other relevant law or
regulation or as authorised by the Board or by the Company in general meting.
28.4 The Board shal, comencing with the first anual general meting cause to be prepared
and to be laid before the members of the Company at every anual general meting a profit
and los acount for the period, in the case of the first acount, since the incorporation of
the Company and, in any other case, since the preceding acount, together with a balance
shet as at the date to which the profit and los acount is made up and a Directors’ report
with respect to the profit or los of the Company for the period covered by the profit and
los acount and the state of the Company’s afairs as at the end of such period, an Auditors’
report on such acounts prepared pursuant to Article 29.1 and such other reports and acounts
as may be required by law.
28.5 Copies of those documents to be laid before the members of the Company at an anual
general meting shal not les than 21 days before the date of the meting be sent in the
maner in which notices may be served by the Company as provided herein to every member
of the Company and every holder of debentures of the Company, provided that the Company
shal not be required to send copies of those documents to any person of whose adres the
Company is not aware or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.
28.6 To the extent permited by and subject to due compliance with these Articles, the Act and
al aplicable rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of the Exchange,
the requirements of Article 28.5 shal be demed satisfied in relation to any member or any
holder of debentures of the Company by sending to such person instead of such copies,
not les than 21 days before the date of the anual general meting, in any maner not
prohibited by these Articles and the Act, a sumary financial statement derived from the
Company’s anual acounts, together with the Directors’ report and the Auditors’ report on
such acounts, which shal be in the form and containing the information required by these
Articles, the Act and al aplicable laws and regulations, provided that any person who is
otherwise entitled to the anual acounts of the Company, together with the Director’s report
and the Auditor’s report thereon may, if he so requires, by notice in writing served on the
Company, demand that the Company sends to him, in adition to the sumary financial
statement, a complete printed copy of the Company’s anual acounts, together with the
Directors’ report and the Auditor’s report thereon.
29 Audit
29.1 The Auditors shal audit the profit and los acount and balance shet of the Company in
each year and shal prepare a report thereon to be anexed thereto. Such report shal be
laid before the Company at its anual general meting in each year and shal be open to
inspection by any member. The Auditors shal at the next anual general meting folowing
their apointment and at any other time during their term of ofice, upon request of the Board
or any general meting of the members, make a report on the acounts of the Company in
general meting during their tenure of ofice.
29.2 The Company shal at every anual general meting by ordinary resolution apoint an auditor
or auditors of the Company who shal hold ofice until the next anual general meting.
The removal of an Auditor before the expiration of his period of ofice shal require the
aproval of an ordinary resolution of the members in general meting. The remuneration of
the Auditors shal be fixed by the Company at the anual general meting at which they are
apointed by ordinary resolution. No person may be apointed as the, or an, Auditor, unles
he is independent of the Company.
29.3 Every statement of acounts audited by the Auditors and presented by the Board at an anual
general meting shal after aproval at such meting be conclusive except as regards any
eror discovered therein within thre months of the aproval thereof. Whenever any such
eror is discovered within that period, it shal forthwith be corected, and the statement of
acount amended in respect of the eror shal be conclusive.
30 Notices
30.1 Except as otherwise provided in these Articles, any notice or document, including any
Corporate Comunication, may be served by the Company and any notices may be served by
the Board on any member in any of the folowing maner to the extent permited by, and in
compliance with the requirements of, the Listing Rules:
(a) personaly by leaving it at the registered adres of such member as apearing in the
register;
(b) by sending it through the post in a prepaid leter adresed to such member at his
registered adres as apearing in the register (which shal be sent by airmail where the
notice or document is posted from one country to another);
(c) by electronic means by transmiting it to any electronic number or adres or website
suplied by the member to the Company;
(d) by placing it on the Company’s Website and the Exchange’s website; or
(e) (in the case of notice) by advertisement published in the maner prescribed under the
Listing Rules.
In the case of joint holders of a share, al notices shal be given to that holder for the time
being whose name stands first in the register and notice so given shal be suficient notice to
al the joint holders.
30.2 Notice of every general meting shal be given in any maner hereinbefore authorised to:
(a) every person shown as a member in the register of members as of the record date for
such meting except that in the case of joint holders the notice shal be suficient if
given to the joint holder first named in the register of members;
(b) every person upon whom the ownership of a share devolves by reason of his being a
legal personal representative or a truste in bankruptcy of a member of record where the
member of record but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of
the meting;
(c) the Auditors;
(d) each Director and alternate Director;
(e) the Exchange; and
(f) such other person to whom such notice is required to be given in acordance with the
Listing Rules.
30.3 No other person shal be entitled to receive notices of general metings.
30.4 Any notice or document, including any Corporate Comunication:
(a) delivered or left at a registered adres otherwise than by post shal be demed to have
ben served or delivered on the day it was so delivered or left;
(b) sent by post shal be demed to have ben served on the day folowing that on which it
is put into a post ofice situated within Hong Kong and in proving such service it shal
be suficient to prove that the envelope or wraper containing the notice or document
was properly prepaid, adresed and put into such post ofice and a certificate in writing
signed by the Secretary or other person apointed by the Board that the envelope or
wraper containing the notice or document was so adresed and put into such post
ofice shal be conclusive evidence thereof;
(c) given by electronic means as provided herein shal be demed to have ben served
and delivered on the day folowing that on which it is sucesfuly transmited or at
such later time as may be prescribed by the Listing Rules or any aplicable laws or
regulations, and it shal not be necesary for the receipt of the electronic transmision to
be acknowledged by the recipient;
(d) served by being placed on the Company’s Website and the Exchange’s website shal be
demed to be served at the time the notice or document first apears on the Company’s
Website and the Exchange’s website, or at such later time as may be prescribed by the
Listing Rules; and
(e) served by advertisement shal be demed to have ben served on the day of isue of the
oficial publication and/or newspaper(s) in which the advertisement is published (or on
the last day of isue if the publication and/or newspaper(s) are published on diferent
dates).
30.5 A notice may be given by the Company to the person or persons entitled to a share in
consequence of the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy of a member by sending it through
the post in a prepaid leter adresed to him or them by name, or by the title of representative
of the deceased, or truste of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the adres, if any,
within Hong Kong suplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so entitled, or (until
such an adres has ben so suplied) by giving the notice in any maner in which the same
might have ben given if the death, mental disorder or bankruptcy had not ocured.
30.6 Any person who by operation of law, transfer or other means whatsoever shal become
entitled to any share shal be bound by every notice in respect of such share which prior to
his name and adres being entered on the register shal have ben duly given to the person
from whom he derives his title to such share.
30.7 Any notice or document delivered or sent to any member in pursuance of these Articles, shal
notwithstanding that such member be then deceased and whether or not the Company has
notice of his death be demed to have ben duly served in respect of any registered shares
whether held solely or jointly with other persons by such member until some other person
be registered in his stead as the holder or joint holder thereof, and such service shal for
al purposes of these Articles be demed a suficient service of such notice or document on
his personal representatives and al persons (if any) jointly interested with him in any such
shares.
30.8 The signature to any notice to be given by the Company may be writen or printed by means
of facsimile or, where relevant, by Electronic Signature.
31 Information
31.1 No member shal be entitled to require discovery of or any information in respect of any
detail of the Company’s trading or any mater which is or may be in the nature of a trade
secret or secret proces which may relate to the conduct of the busines of the Company
and which in the opinion of the Board would not be in the interests of the members or the
Company to comunicate to the public.
31.2 The Board shal be entitled to release or disclose any information in its posesion, custody
or control regarding the Company or its afairs to any of its members including, without
limitation, information contained in the register of members and transfer boks of the
Company.
32 Winding Up
32.1 Subject to the Companies Act, the Company may by special resolution resolve that the
Company be wound up voluntarily.
32.2 If the Company shal be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision
or by the court) the liquidator may, with the authority of a special resolution of the Company
and any other sanction required by the Act divide among the members in specie or kind the
whole or any part of the asets of the Company (whether the asets shal consist of property of
one kind or shal consist of properties of diferent kinds) and may for such purpose set such
value as he dems fair upon any property to be divided and may determine how such division
shal be caried out as betwen the members or diferent clases of members. The liquidator
may, with the like authority or sanction vest the whole or any part of such asets in trustes
upon such trusts for the benefit of the members as the liquidator, with the like authority or
sanction and subject to the Act, shal think fit, and the liquidation of the Company may be
closed and the Company disolved, but so that no member shal be compeled to acept any
asets, shares or other securities in respect of which there is a liability.
32.3 If the Company shal be wound up, and the asets available for distribution amongst the
members as such shal be insuficient to repay the whole of the paid-up capital, such asets
shal be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the loses shal be borne by the members in
proportion to the capital paid up, or which ought to have ben paid up, at the comencement
of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively. And if in a winding up the asets
available for distribution amongst the members shal be more than suficient to repay the
whole of the capital paid up at the comencement of the winding up, the exces shal be
distributed amongst the members in proportion to the capital paid up at the comencement
of the winding up on the shares held by them respectively. This Article is to be without
prejudice to the rights of the holders of shares isued upon special terms and conditions.
32.4 In the event of a winding-up of the Company in Hong Kong, every member of the Company
who is not for the time being in Hong Kong shal be bound, within 14 days after the pasing
of an efective resolution to wind up the Company voluntarily, or the making of an order for
the winding-up of the Company, to serve notice in writing on the Company apointing some
person resident in Hong Kong and stating that person’s ful name, adres and ocupation
upon whom al sumonses, notices, proces, orders and judgments in relation to or under the
winding-up of the Company may be served, and in default of such nomination the liquidator
of the Company shal be at liberty on behalf of such member to apoint some such person,
and service upon any such apointe, whether apointed by the member or the liquidator,
shal be demed to be god personal service on such member for al purposes, and, where
the liquidator makes any such apointment, he shal with al convenient sped give notice
thereof to such member by advertisement as he shal dem apropriate or by a registered
leter sent through the post and adresed to such member at his adres as apearing in the
register, and such notice shal be demed to be service on the day folowing that on which the
advertisement first apears or the leter is posted.
33 Indemnities
33.1 Every Director, Auditor or other oficer of the Company shal be entitled to be indemnified
out of the asets of the Company against al loses or liabilities incured or sustained by him
as a Director, Auditor or other oficer of the Company in defending any procedings, whether
civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour, or in which he is acquited.
33.2 Subject to the Companies Act, if any Director or other person shal become personaly liable
for the payment of any sum primarily due from the Company, the Board may execute or
cause to be executed any mortgage, charge, or security over or afecting the whole or any
part of the asets of the Company by way of indemnity to secure the Director or person so
becoming liable as aforesaid from any los in respect of such liability.
34 Financial Year
Unles the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shal end on 31
December in each year and, folowing the year of incorporation, shal begin on 1 January in
each year.
35 Amendment of Memorandum and Articles
Subject to the Act, the Company may at any time and from time to time by special resolution
alter or amend its Memorandum of Asociation and Articles of Asociation in whole or in
part.
36 Transfer by Way of Continuation
The Company shal, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act and with the aproval of
a special resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate
under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the
Cayman Islands.
37 Mergers and Consolidations
The Company shal, with the aproval of a special resolution, have the power to merge or
consolidate with one or more constituent companies (as defined in the Companies Act), upon
such terms as the Directors may determine.