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NOTES TO THE FORM OF PROXY
CONTINUED
7. If the instrument appointing a proxy or proxies has been delivered to the relevant company, as long as
that appointment remains in effect, any notice that is required by the Act or the relevant company’s
Memorandum of Incorporation to be delivered by such company to the shareholder, must be delivered by
such company to the shareholder, or to the proxy or proxies, if the shareholder has directed the relevant
company to do so in writing and paid any reasonable fee charged by the Company for doing so.
8. A proxy is entitled to exercise, or abstain from exercising, any voting right of the relevant shareholder
without direction, except to the extent that the Memorandum of Incorporation, or the instrument
appointing the proxy provide otherwise.
9. If a company issues an invitation to shareholders to appoint one or more persons named by such company
as a proxy, or supplies a form of instrument for appointing a proxy:
9.1 such invitation must be sent to every shareholder who is entitled to notice of the meeting at which
the proxy is intended to be exercised;
9.2 the invitation, or form of instrument supplied by the relevant company, must: (a) bear a reasonably
prominent summary of the rights established in section 58 of the Act; (b) contain adequate blank
space, immediately preceding the name or names of any person or persons named in it, to enable a
shareholder to write in the name and, if so desired, an alternative name of a proxy chosen by such
shareholder; and (c) provide adequate space for the shareholder to indicate whether the appointed
proxy is to vote in favour or against the applicable resolution/s to be put at the relevant meeting, or
is to abstain from voting;
9.3 the Company must not require that the proxy appointment be made irrevocable; and
9.4 the proxy appointment remains valid only until the end of the relevant meeting at which it was
intended to be used, unless revoked as contemplated in section 58(5) of the Act.