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BUSINESS MODEL
AND STRATEGIC
OBJECTIVES
LEADERSHIP
GOVERNANCE
OPERATING
PERFORMANCE
SHAREHOLDERS’
INFORMATION AND
ADMINISTRATION
FINANCIAL
PERFORMANCE
BLUE LABEL INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2014
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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.