COMPANY INFORMATION SHEET

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange") take no responsibility for the contents of this information sheet, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this information sheet.

Company Name (stock code): Centurion Corporation Limited (6090)

Stock Short Name: CENTURION CORP

This information sheet is provided for the purpose of giving information to the public about Centurion Corporation Limited (the "Company") as at the date hereof. The information does not purport to be a complete summary of information about the Company and/or its securities.

RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT

The directors of the Company (the "Directors") as at the date hereof collectively and individually accept full responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this information sheet and confirm, having made all reasonable enquiries, that to the best of their knowledge and belief, the information is accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading or deceptive and that there are no other matters the omission of which make any information inaccurate or misleading herein.

The Directors also collectively and individually undertake to publish on a yearly basis, when the Company publishes its annual report, this information sheet reflecting, if applicable, the changes to the information since the last publication.

SUMMARY CONTENT

Document Type Date

  • A. Summary of waivers

    Latest version ............................................................................................. 11 December 2017

  • B. Summary of Foreign Laws and Regulations

    Latest version ............................................................................................. 25 March 2021

  • C. Constitution

Latest version ............................................................................................. 11 December 2017

Date of this information sheet: 25 March 2021

Unless the context requires otherwise, capitalised terms used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Company's prospectus (the "Prospectus") dated 29 November 2017 and references to sections of the Prospectus shall be construed accordingly.

A.

SUMMARY OF WAIVERS

In the preparation for the dual primary listing of the Company on the Stock Exchange, the Group has sought certain waivers from strict compliance with certain provisions of the Listing Rules.

Set out below is a summary of the waivers sought and granted by the Stock Exchange:

Relevant Listing

Rules provision

Subject matter

Rule 8.12

Sufficient management presence in Hong Kong

Rule 3.28 and 8.17

Qualification of joint company secretaries

Rule 9.09

Dealings in securities by core connected persons during a

listing application process

Rule 10.04 and

Allocation of Placing Shares to existing Shareholders and

paragraph 5(2) of

their close associates

Appendix 6

Rule 19.10(6)

Inspection of legislation and regulations

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1.

Sufficient management presence in Hong Kong (Rule 8.12)

Rule 8.12 of the Listing Rules requires that a new applicant applying for a primary listing on the Stock Exchange must have a sufficient management presence in Hong Kong, which normally means that at least two of its executive directors must be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong. As the principal business operations, properties, offices and facilities of the Group are predominantly located, conducted and managed in Singapore, the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia and elsewhere other than Hong Kong, the Directors and senior management are and will continue to be based predominantly in those countries. Further, the Board currently comprises six members, all of whom are non-executive Directors and independent non-executive Directors, and none of whom are executive Directors. For further background and reasons of having no executive Directors, please refer to the paragraph headed "Directors and Senior Management - Compliance with the Corporate Governance Code and Listing Rules - Requirements under paragraph A3 of the CG Code" in the Prospectus. As such, the Board composition falls short of the requirement of having two executive directors under Rule 8.12 of the Listing Rules.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, save for the Hong Kong company secretary, Ms. Wong Tak Yee ("Ms. Wong"), none of the Directors or senior management is a Hong Kong resident or based in Hong Kong. If two Directors who are ordinarily residents in Hong Kong need to be appointed for the purpose of complying with the requirements of Rule 8.12 of the Listing Rules, such personnel may not be able to fully understand or familiarise themselves with the business and operations of the Group immediately. This may have an adverse impact on their ability to exercise their discretion on a fully informed basis, or make appropriate decisions beneficial to the business operations and development of the Group. Further, as the Company is also listed on SGX-ST, there are other compliance issues with SGX-ST that the Company needs to satisfy. Hence, the Directors consider it may not be practicable or in the best interest of the Company nor the Shareholders as a whole to appoint two executive Directors who are ordinarily residents in Hong Kong for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of Rule 8.12 of the Listing Rules.

The Company has applied for and the Stock Exchange has granted a waiver from strict compliance with the requirements of Rule 8.12 of the Listing Rules on the following conditions:

a)

the Company has appointed and will continue to maintain two authorised representatives pursuant to Rule 3.05 of the Listing Rules, who will act as the principal channel of communication between the Company and the Stock Exchange. The Company will ensure that the authorised representatives will comply with the Listing Rules at all times. The Group has appointed Ms. Wong, the Hong Kong company secretary, who is ordinarily resident in Hong Kong, and Mr. Wong Kok Hoe, the non-executive Director and chairman of the Board as the two authorised representatives;

  • b) each of the authorised representatives will be available to meet with the Stock Exchange in Hong Kong within a reasonable period of time upon request and will be readily contactable by telephone, facsimile or email. Each of the two authorised representatives has been duly authorised to communicate on behalf of the Company with the Stock Exchange;

  • c) each of the authorised representatives has means to contact all members of the Board (including the independent non-executive Directors) and the senior management team of the Group promptly at all times as and when the Stock Exchange wishes to contact any of them for any matter;

  • d) the Company will implement a policy that (i) every Director will provide his or her mobile phone number, residential phone number, office phone number, fax number and email address to the authorised representatives, (ii) every Director will provide his or her phone number, place and phone number of the place of accommodation and other means of communication to the authorised representatives if such Director is expecting to travel or be out of office; and (iii) every Director (including independent non-executive Directors) will provide his or her mobile phone number, residential phone number, office phone number, fax number and email address to the Stock Exchange;

  • e) each Director who is not ordinarily resident in Hong Kong has confirmed that he possesses valid travel documents which allow him to visit Hong Kong and will be able to meet with the Stock Exchange within a reasonable time upon request;

  • f) the Company has pursuant to Rule 3A.19 of the Listing Rules appointed VBG Capital Limited as the compliance adviser; and

  • g) any meeting between the Company and the Stock Exchange can be arranged through the authorised representatives or the compliance adviser, or directly with the Directors. The Group will inform the Stock Exchange of any change in authorised representative or compliance adviser in accordance with the Listing Rules.

2.

Qualification of joint company secretaries (Rules 3.28 And 8.17)

Rule 8.17 of the Listing Rules provides that the issuer must appoint a company secretary who satisfies the requirements under Rule 3.28 of the Listing Rules.

According to Rule 3.28 of the Listing Rules, the secretary of the issuer must be a person who, by virtue of his or her academic or professional qualifications or relevant experience, is, in the opinion of the Stock Exchange, capable of discharging the functions of company secretary.

Note 1 to Rule 3.28 of the Listing Rules provides that the Stock Exchange considers that the following academic or professional qualifications to be acceptable: (i) a member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries; (ii) a solicitor or barrister (as defined in the Legal Practitioners Ordinance); and (iii) a certified public accountant (as defined in the Professional Accountants Ordinance).

Note 2 to Rule 3.28 of the Listing Rules provides that in assessing "relevant experience", the Stock Exchange will consider the individual's (i) length of employment with the issuer and other listed companies and the roles he or she played; (ii) familiarity with the Listing Rules and other relevant laws and regulations including the SFO, the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance and the Takeovers Code; (iii) relevant training taken and/or to be taken in addition to the minimum requirement of taking not less than 15 hours of relevant professional training in each financial year under Rule 3.29 of the Listing Rules; and (iv) professional qualifications in other jurisdictions.

Having considered the rationale of Rules 3.28 and 8.17 of the Listing Rules, the Directors acknowledge the important role of the company secretary in the corporate governance of a listed issuer, particularly in assisting the listed issuer as well as its directors in complying with the Listing Rules and other relevant laws and regulations.

Ms. Hazel Chia Luang Chew€ᑽᝪ߇ ("Ms. Chia"), aged 56, was appointed as company secretary of the Company since 30 January 2015. She is a practising chartered secretary in Singapore certified by the Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Ms. Chia has over 30 years of experience in corporate secretarial practice including handling members' voluntary liquidation and advising board of directors of listed companies in Singapore. She has also been appointed as company secretary of several companies listed on the SGX-ST. She also acts as company secretary of many private limited companies incorporated in Singapore.

Ms. Juliana Tan Beng Hwee€௓׼ᅆ ("Ms. Tan"), aged 46, was appointed as company secretary of the Company on 1 January 2017. She obtained an external degree of Bachelor of Science (Economics) in the specialism of management studies from the University of London and is a practising chartered secretary in Singapore certified by the Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Ms. Tan has over two decades of experience in corporate secretarial practice. She has also served as company secretary for several companies listed on the SGX-ST and private limited companies incorporated in Singapore.

The Board acknowledged that Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan do not possess the academic or professional qualifications as set out in Note 1 to Rule 3.28 of the Listing Rules. Nevertheless, the Directors believe that Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan, by virtue of the length of acting as company secretaries of the Company and their experience in corporate secretarial practice, coupled with the implementation of the following arrangements by the Company, should be able to discharge their function as company secretaries of the Company and would satisfy the requirements of Rules 3.28 and 8.17 of the Listing Rules in relation to company secretaries:

  • 1. the Company has appointed Ms. Wong, who is a member of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries and meets the requirements under Note 1 to Rule 3.28 of the Listing Rules, as the Hong Kong company secretary to work closely with Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan in discharge of their duties as company secretaries for an initial period of three years commencing from the Listing Date. As part of the proposed arrangement, Ms. Wong will familiarise herself with the affairs of the Company and will communicate regularly with Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan on matters relating to corporate governance, the Listing Rules as well as the applicable laws and regulations and other affairs of the Company;

  • 2. Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan will endeavour to attend relevant training courses to keep themselves abreast with the applicable Hong Kong laws and regulations (including the Listing Rules) organised by accredited organisations and seminars organised by the Stock Exchange for listed issuers from time to time, in addition to the minimum requirement under Rule 3.29 of the Listing Rules; and

  • 3. a further evaluation of the qualifications and experience of Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan and the need for on-going assistance would be made prior to the expiry of the three year period from the date of the proposed Listing.

Accordingly, the Company has applied to the Stock Exchange for, and the Stock Exchange has granted, a waiver from the strict compliance with the requirements under Rules 3.28 and 8.17 of the Listing Rules. This waiver is valid for a period of three years from the Listing Date and will be revoked immediately if Ms. Wong ceases to provide assistance to Ms. Chia and Ms. Tan as a joint company secretary of the Company during the three years after the Listing Date.

3.

Dealings in securities by core connected persons during a listing application process (Rule 9.09)

Rule 9.09 of the Listing Rules provides that there must be no dealing in the securities for which listing is sought by any core connected person of the issuer from four clear business days before the expected hearing date until listing is granted (the "Relevant Period"). The Company, being a company the Shares of which are widely held, publicly traded and listed on the SGX-ST, is not in a position to control the investment decisions of the Shareholders (other than the Controlling Shareholders) or the investing public in Singapore. To the best knowledge of the Directors after making reasonable enquiry, other than the Controlling Shareholders, there is no other Shareholder who held more than 10% of the total issued share capital of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date. Further, other than Mr. Loh, Mr. Han and Mr. Gn Hiang Meng, none of the Directors was directly or indirectly interested in any Shares as at the Latest Practicable Date.

The Company has applied for and the Stock Exchange has granted a waiver from the strict compliance with the requirements of Rule 9.09 of the Listing Rules subject to the following:

  • a) the core connected person(s), other than those who are Directors:

    • i. shall have no influence over the listing process; and

    • ii. are not in possession of any non-public inside information;

  • b) the Group shall promptly release any inside information to the public in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations in Singapore and Hong Kong;

  • c) the Group procure that none of the Controlling Shareholders and the Directors and any of their respective associates deals in the Shares during the Relevant Period;

  • d) the Group will notify the Stock Exchange if there is any dealing or suspected dealing in the Shares by any of the core connected persons during the Relevant Period;

  • e) for any person (other than the Controlling Shareholders) who, as a result of dealing in the securities of the Company during the Relevant Period, becomes a substantial shareholder of the Company (the "Potential New Substantial Shareholder"), the Group confirms that:

i.

such Potential New Substantial Shareholder is currently not a Director or a member of the senior management of the Company or any of the subsidiaries and would not become a Director or a member of the senior management of the Company after Listing; and

ii.

the Company and its management have not had control over the investment decisions of such Potential New Substantial Shareholder or its associates; and

f)

no dealing by any core connected person of the Company in the Shares where the Company is a party will be conducted during the Relevant Period.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Group was not aware of any core connected person which may not be able to comply with Rule 9.09 of the Listing Rules.

4.

Allocation of Placing Shares to existing Shareholders and their close associates

Rules 10.03(1), 10.03(2) and 10.04 of the Listing Rules provide that a person who is an existing shareholder of the issuer may only subscribe for or purchase securities for which listing is sought which are being marketed by or on behalf of a new applicant either in his or its own name or through nominees if the following conditions are fulfilled: (i) no securities are to be offered to the existing shareholders on a preferential basis and no preferential treatment is given to them in the allocation of the securities; and (ii) the minimum prescribed percentage of public shareholders required by Rule 8.08(1) of the Listing Rules is achieved.

Paragraph 5(2) of Appendix 6 to the Listing Rules provides, among other matters, that unless with the prior written consent of the Stock Exchange, no allocations will be permitted to directors or existing shareholders of the applicant or their close associates, whether in their own names or through nominees unless the conditions set out in Rules 10.03 and 10.04 of the Listing Rules are fulfilled.

The Placing Underwriters will solicit from prospective professional, institutional and private investors indications of interest in acquiring the Placing Shares in the Placing. Prospective professional, institutional and private investors will be required to specify the number of Placing Shares under the Placing they would prepare to acquire either at different prices or at a particular price. It may be necessary for the Placing Underwriters to include existing Shareholders in such "book-building" process described above.

The Company has applied to the Stock Exchange for, and the Stock Exchange has granted, a waiver from the strict compliance with the requirements under Rule 10.04 of the Listing Rules, and its consent under paragraph 5(2) of Appendix 6 to the Listing Rules to permit the Company to allocate the Placing Shares in the Placing to existing Shareholders and their close associates, subject to the following conditions:

a)

each existing Shareholder to whom Placing Shares may be allocated in the Placing must hold less than 5% of the issued Shares in the Company prior to Listing;

  • b) such existing Shareholders and their close associates are not, and will not be, core connected persons (as defined under the Listing Rules) of the Company or any close associate (as defined under the Listing Rules) of any such core connected person immediately prior to or following the Share Offer;

  • c) such existing Shareholders have no right to appoint directors of the Company and do not have other special rights in the Company;

  • d) allocation to such existing Shareholders and their close associates will not affect the Company's ability to satisfy the public float requirement under Rule 8.08 of the Listing Rules;

  • e) each of the Company, the Joint Global Coordinator and the Sole Sponsor confirms to the Stock Exchange in writing that no preferential treatment has been, nor will be, given to the existing Shareholders and their close associates by virtue of their relationship with the Company in any allocation in the Placing; and

  • f) the relevant information in respect of the allocation to the existing Shareholders and/or their close associates will be disclosed in the allotment results announcement.

5.

Inspection of legislation and regulations (Rule 19.10(6))

Rule 19.10(6) of the Listing Rules provides that an overseas issuer must offer for inspection a copy of any statutes or regulations which are relevant to the summary of the regulatory provisions of the jurisdiction in which the overseas issuer is incorporated. In the case of the Company, these include the Companies Act, the SFA, the Singapore Code and the Singapore Listing Manual. These copies of legislation are lengthy and it would be difficult to deliver copies to Hong Kong in physical format. In addition, these copies of legislations can be readily accessed via the Internet. For further details about how to access these copies of legislations via the Internet, please refer to the section headed "Documents delivered to the registrar of companies in Hong Kong and available for inspection - Documents available for inspection" as set out in Appendix VII to the Prospectus.

The Company has sought, and the Stock Exchange has granted, a waiver from the strict compliance with the requirements of Rule 19.10(6) of the Listing Rules.

B.

SUMMARY OF FOREIGN LAWS AND REGULATIONS

1.

Salient Provisions of the Laws of Singapore

The following summarises the salient provisions of the laws of Singapore as at the date hereof. The summaries below are for general guidance only and do not constitute legal advice, nor must they be used as a substitute for, or specific legal advice, on the corporate law of Singapore. The summaries below are not meant to be a comprehensive or exhaustive description of all the obligations, rights and privileges of Shareholders imposed or conferred by the corporate laws of Singapore. In addition, prospective investors and/or Shareholders should also note that the laws applicable to Shareholders may change, whether as a result of proposed legislative reforms to the Singapore laws or otherwise. Prospective investors and/or Shareholders should consult their own legal advisors for specific legal advice concerning their legal obligations under the relevant laws.

Reporting Obligations of Shareholders

1.1

Obligation to notify Company of substantial shareholding and change in substantial shareholding

Section 81 of the Companies Act (Chapter 50) of Singapore (the "Singapore Companies Act")

A person has a substantial shareholding in a company if he has an interest or interests in one (1) or more voting shares in the company, and the total votes attached to that share, or those shares, is not less than 5.0% of the total votes attached to all the voting shares in the company.

Section 82 of the Singapore Companies Act

A substantial shareholder of a company is required to notify the company of his interests in the voting shares in the company within two (2) business days after becoming a substantial shareholder.

Sections 83 and 84 of the Singapore Companies Act

A substantial shareholder is required to notify the company of any change in the percentage level of his shareholding or his ceasing to be a substantial shareholder, within two (2) business days after he is aware of such change.

If the change results in a fraction of a percent, it should be rounded down to a whole number to determine if the percentage level has been crossed, warranting a disclosure. For example, if the interest increases from 6% to 6.75%, rounding 6.75% down to the nearest whole number yields 6%. Hence there is no change in percentage level of interest and no notification is required.

Consequence of non-compliance

Section 89 of the Singapore Companies Act provides for the consequences of non-compliance with sections 82, 83 and 84. Under section 89, a person who fails to comply shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$5,000 and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine of S$500 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction.

Section 90 provides for a defence to a prosecution for failing to comply with sections 82, 83 or 84. It is a defence if the defendant proves that his failure was due to his not being aware of a fact or occurrence the existence of which was necessary to constitute the offence and that he:

  • (a) was not so aware on the date of the summons; or

  • (b) became so aware less than seven (7) days before the date of the summons.

However, a person will conclusively be presumed to have been aware of a fact or occurrence at a particular time:

  • (i) of which he would, if he had acted with reasonable diligence in the conduct of his affairs, have been aware at that time; or

  • (ii) of which an employee or agent of the person, being an employee or agent having duties or acting in relation to his master's or principal's interest or interests in a share or shares in the company concerned, was aware or would, if he had acted with reasonable diligence in the conduct of his master's or principal's affairs, have been aware at that time.

1.2

Powers of the court with respect to defaulting substantial shareholders

Section 91 of the Singapore Companies Act

Under section 91 of the Singapore Companies Act, where a substantial shareholder fails to comply with sections 82, 83 or 84, the Court may, on the application of the Minister, whether or not the failure still continues, make one (1) of the following orders:

  • (a) an order restraining the substantial shareholder from disposing of any interest in shares in the company in which he is or has been a substantial shareholder;

  • (b) an order restraining a person who is, or is entitled to be registered as, the holder of shares referred to in paragraph (a) from disposing of any interest in those shares;

  • (c) an order restraining the exercise of any voting or other rights attached to any share in the company in which the substantial shareholder has or has had an interest;

  • (d) an order directing the company not to make payment, or to defer making payment, of any sum due from the company in respect of any share in which the substantial shareholder has or has had an interest;

  • (e) an order directing the sale of all or any of the shares in the company in which the substantial shareholder has or has had an interest;

  • (f) an order directing the company not to register the transfer or transmission of specified shares;

  • (g) an order that any exercise of the voting or other rights attached to specified shares in the company in which the substantial shareholder has or has had an interest be disregarded;

  • (h) for the purposes of securing compliance with any other order made under this section, an order directing the company or any other person to do or refrain from doing a specified act.

Any order made under this section may include such ancillary or consequential provisions as the Court thinks just.

The Court shall not make an order other than an order restraining the exercise of voting rights, if it is satisfied that:

  • (a) the failure of the substantial shareholder to comply was due to his inadvertence or mistake or to his not being aware of a relevant fact or occurrence; and

  • (b) in all the circumstances, the failure ought to be excused.

Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with an order made under section 91 that is applicable to him shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$5,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of S$500 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction.

  • 1.3 Obligation to notify the SGX-ST of substantial shareholding and change in substantial shareholding

    Sections 135, 136 and 137 of the Securities and Futures Act (the "SFA")

    A substantial shareholder is also required under sections 135, 136 and 137 of the SFA to notify the company in writing, when the shareholder becomes a substantial shareholder, of changes to the percentage level of his substantial shareholding, or of his ceasing to be a substantial shareholder, within two (2) business days after (a) the person becomes aware that he is or (if he has ceased to be one) had been a substantial shareholder, (b) he becomes aware of the change or (c) he becomes aware that he has ceased to be a substantial shareholder. Any person who intentionally or recklessly fails to comply with these sections is guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction , in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding S$25,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction, or in the case of a corporation, to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding S$25,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

  • 1.4 Duty of director or chief executive officer to notify corporation of his interests

    Sections 133 and 134 of the SFA

    Section 133 of the SFA stipulates that every director and chief executive officer of a corporation shall give notice in writing to the corporation of particulars of, inter alia, shares in the corporation or a related corporation of the corporation, which he holds, or in which he has an interest and the nature and extent of that interest, within two (2) business days after:

    • (a) the date on which the director or chief executive officer becomes such a director or chief executive officer; or

    • (b) the date on which the director or chief executive officer becomes a holder of, or acquires an interest in, the shares,

    whichever last occurs.

    Under section 134, any director or chief executive officer of a corporation who intentionally or recklessly contravenes section 133, or in purported compliance with Section 133 furnishes any information which he knows is false or misleading in a material particular or is reckless as to whether it is, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding S$25,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

1.5

Power of corporation to require disclosure of beneficial interest in its voting shares

Any corporation may, under Section 137F(1) of the SFA, require any member of the corporation within such reasonable time as is specified in the notice:

  • (a) to inform it whether he holds any voting shares in the corporation as beneficial owner or as trustee; and

  • (b) if he holds them as trustee, to indicate so far as he can the persons for whom he holds them (either by name or by other particulars sufficient to enable those persons to be identified) and the nature of their interest.

Under section 137F(2), whenever a corporation is informed pursuant to a notice given to any person under section 137F(1) or under this section 137F(2) that any other person has an interest in any of the voting shares in the corporation, the corporation may by notice in writing require that other person within such reasonable time as is specified in the notice:

  • (a) to inform it whether he holds that interest as beneficial owner or as trustee; and

  • (b) if he holds it as trustee, to indicate so far as he can the persons for whom he holds it (either by name or by other particulars sufficient to enable them to be identified) and the nature of their interest.

Any person who intentionally or recklessly contravenes the requirement to comply with the notice, or in purported compliance with the requirement, furnishes any information which he knows is false or misleading in a material particular or is reckless as to whether it is, shall, in the case of an individual, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding S$25,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction, or in the case of a corporation, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding S$25,000 per every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

Under section 137C(1), a corporation shall keep a register in which it shall immediately enter (a) the names of persons from whom it has received a notice under section 135 (duty of substantial shareholder to notify corporation of his interests); and (b) against each name so entered, the information given in the notice and, where it receives a notice under section 136 (duty of substantial shareholder to notify corporation of change in interests) or section 137 (duty of person who ceases to be substantial shareholder to notify corporation), the information given in that notice.

  • 1.6 Duty of corporation to make disclosure

    Section 137G of the SFA

    Where a corporation has been notified in writing by a director or chief executive officer of the corporation or a substantial shareholder in respect of a requirement imposed on him under section 133, 135, 136 or 137 of the SFA, the corporation shall announce or otherwise disseminate the information stated in the notice to the organised market operated by the approved exchange on whose official list any or all of the shares of the corporation are listed, as soon as practicable and in any case, no later than the end of the business day following the day on which the corporation received the notice.

    Any corporation that intentionally or recklessly contravenes this duty of disclosure, or in purported compliance, announces or disseminates any information knowing that it is false or misleading in a material particular or reckless as to whether it is, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding S$25,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

  • 1.7 Duty not to furnish false statements to securities exchange, futures exchange, designated clearing house and the Securities Industry Council

    Section 330 of the SFA

    Under section 330 of the SFA, any person who, with intent to deceive, makes or furnishes, or knowingly and wilfully authorises or permits the making or furnishing of, any false or misleading statement or report to any approved exchange, licensed trade repository, approved clearing house, recognised clearing house, authorised benchmark administrator or exempt benchmark administrator or any officers thereof relating to, inter alia, while carrying on the activity of dealing in capital markets products shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years or to both.

    Section 330 further provides that any person who, with intent to deceive, makes or furnishes or knowingly and wilfully authorises or permits the making or furnishing of, any false or misleading statement or report to the Securities Industry Council or any of its officers, relating to any matter or thing required by the Securities Industry Council in the exercise of its functions under the SFA shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years or to both.

    Note: Under section 4(10)(a) of the SFA, a person who holds securities as a bare trustee will not be regarded as having an interest in those securities. Accordingly, if HKSCC Nominees and other CCASS Participants hold shares as bare trustees, such holdings will not give rise to any disclosure obligation as detailed above by HKSCC Nominees and other CCASS Participants. The ultimate beneficial owner will be obliged to comply with the above disclosure and reporting requirements in connection with their respective shareholdings.

Prohibited Conduct in Relation to Trading in the Securities of the Company

2.1

Prohibitions against false trading and market manipulation

Section 197 of the SFA

Section 197 of the SFA prohibits a person from:

(a) any activities for the purpose of creating a false or misleading appearance:

  • (i) of active trading in any capital markets products on an organised market; or

  • (ii) with respect to the market for, or price of, any capital markets products on an organised market;

  • (b) any activities that create, or is likely to create, a false or misleading appearance of active trading in any capital markets products on an organised market, or with respect to the market for, or the price of, such capital markets products, if:

    • (i) he knows that doing that thing, causing that thing to be done or engaging in that course of conduct, as the case may be, will create, or will be likely to create, that false or misleading appearance; or

    • (ii) he is reckless as to whether doing that thing, causing that thing to be done or engaging in that course of conduct, as the case may be, will create, or will be likely to create, that false or misleading appearance; or

  • (c) the purchase or sale of any capital markets products that do not involve a change in the beneficial ownership of those capital markets products, or by any fictitious transaction or device, maintain, inflate, depress, or cause fluctuations in, the market price of any capital markets products.

Under sections 197(3) and 197(4), the purpose of a person's conduct is deemed to be the creation of a false or misleading appearance of active trading in capital markets products on an organised market if he:

(a)

effects, takes part in, is concerned in or carries out, directly or indirectly, any transaction of purchase or sale of the capital markets products, being a transaction that does not involve any change in the beneficial ownership of the capital markets products;

  • (b) makes or causes to be made an offer to sell the capital markets products at a specified price where he has made or caused to be made or proposes to make or to cause to be made, or knows that a person associated with him has made or caused to be made or proposes to make or to cause to be made, an offer to purchase the same number, or substantially the same number, of capital markets products at a price that is substantially the same as the first-mentioned price; or

  • (c) makes or causes to be made an offer to purchase the capital markets products at a specified price where he has made or caused to be made or proposes to make or to cause to be made, or knows that a person associated with him has made or caused to be made or proposes to make or to cause to be made, an offer to sell the same number, or substantially the same number, of the capital market products at a price that is substantially the same as the first-mentioned price,

unless he establishes that the purpose or purposes for which he did the act was not, or did not include, the purpose of creating a false or misleading appearance of active trading in capital markets products on an organised market.

Section 197(5) provides that a purchase or sale of capital markets products does not involve a change in the beneficial ownership if a person who had an interest in the capital markets products before the purchase or sale, or a person associated with the first-mentioned person in relation to those capital markets products, has an interest in the capital markets products after the purchase or sale.

Section 197(6) provides a defence to proceedings against a person in relation to a purchase or sale of capital markets products that did not involve a change in the beneficial ownership of those capital markets products. It is a defence if the person establishes that the purpose or purposes for which he purchased or sold the capital markets products was not, or did not include, the purpose of creating a false or misleading appearance with respect to the market for, or the price of, capital markets products.

2.2

Prohibition against securities market manipulation

Section 198 of the SFA

Under Section 198(1) of the SFA, no person shall, inter alia, carry out directly or indirectly, two (2) or more transactions in securities, or securities-based derivatives contracts, of a corporation, being transactions that have, or are likely to have, the effect of raising, lowering, maintaining or stabilising the price of securities, or securities-based derivatives contracts, of the corporation on an organised market with intent to induce other persons to subscribe for, purchase or sell them.

Section 198(3) provides that transactions in securities, or securities-based derivatives contracts, of a corporation includes the making of:

  • (a) an offer to purchase or sell such securities or securities-based derivatives contracts of the corporation; and

  • (b) an invitation, however expressed, that directly or indirectly invites a person to offer to purchase or sell such securities or securities-based derivatives contracts, of the corporation.

2.3

Prohibition against the manipulation of the market price of securities by the dissemination of misleading information and the dissemination of information about illegal transactions

Sections 199 and 202 of the SFA

Section 199 of the SFA prohibits the making of false or misleading statements. Under this provision, a person shall not make a statement, or disseminate information, that is false or misleading in a material particular and is likely to:

  • (a) induce other persons to subscribe for securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or units in a collective investment scheme;

  • (b) induce the sale or purchase of securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or units in a collective investment scheme by other persons; or

  • (c) have the effect (whether significant or otherwise) of raising, lowering, maintaining or stabilising the market price of securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or units in a collective investment scheme,

if, when he makes the statement or disseminates the information, he either does not care whether the statement or information is true or false, or knows or ought reasonably to have known that the statement or information is false or misleading in a material particular.

Section 202 of the SFA prohibits the dissemination of information about illegal transactions. This provision prohibits the circulation or dissemination of any statement or information to the effect that the price of any securities or securities-based derivatives contracts of a corporation will or is likely to rise, fall or be maintained by reason of transactions entered into or to be entered into or other act or thing done or to be done in relation to the securities or securities-based derivatives contracts, of that corporation (or of a related corporation) which to the person's knowledge was entered into or done in contravention of, inter alia, sections 197 to 201 of the SFA. This prohibition applies where the person who is circulating or disseminating the information or statements:

(i)

is the person, or a person associated with the person, who has entered into or purports to enter into any such transaction or has done or purports to doany such act or thing; or

(ii)

is the person, or a person associated with the person, who has received, or expects to receive, directly or indirectly, any consideration or benefit for circulating or disseminating, or authorising or being concerned in the circulation or dissemination of, the statement or information.

  • 2.4 Prohibition against fraudulently inducing persons to deal in capital markets products

    Section 200 of the SFA

    Section 200 of the SFA prohibits a person from inducing or attempting to induce another person to deal in capital markets products, by:

    • (a) making or publishing any statement, promise or forecast that he knows or ought reasonably to have known to be misleading, false or deceptive;

    • (b) any dishonest concealment of material facts;

    • (c) the reckless making or publishing of any statement, promise or forecast that is misleading, false or deceptive; or

    • (d) recording or storing in, or by means of, any mechanical, electronic or other device information that he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, unless it is established that, at the time when the person so recorded or stored the information, he had no reasonable grounds for expecting that the information would be available to any other person.

  • 2.5 Prohibition against employment of manipulative and deceptive devices

    Section 201 of the SFA

    Section 201 of the SFA prohibits a person from, directly or indirectly, in connection with the subscription, purchase or sale of any capital markets products:

    • (a) employing any device, scheme or artifice to defraud;

    • (b) engaging in any act, practice or course of business which operates as a fraud or deception, or is likely to operate as a fraud or deception, upon any person;

    • (c) making any statement he knows to be false in a material particular; or

    • (d) omitting to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

2.6

Prohibited conduct by connected persons or other persons in possession of inside information

Sections 218 and 219 of the SFA

Section 218 of the SFA prohibit connected persons from dealing in securities of a corporation if the person knows or reasonably ought to know that he is in possession of information that is not generally available, and if it were generally available, might have a material effect on the price or value of securities or securities-based derivatives contracts of that corporation. Such connected persons include officers and substantial shareholders of a corporation or a related corporation, and persons who occupy a position reasonably expected to give him access to inside information by virtue of professional or business relationship with the corporation or a related corporation, or by being an officer of a substantial shareholder in that corporation or in a related corporation.

Section 219 of the SFA prohibit persons (who is not a connected person referred to in section 218 of the SFA) from dealing in securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or Collective Investment Scheme unit ("CIS units") of a corporation if any such person knows or reasonably ought to know that he is in possession of information that is not generally available, and if it was generally available it might have a material effect on the price or value of securities or securities-based derivatives contracts or CIS units of that corporation.

For an alleged contravention of sections 218 or 219, section 220 makes it clear that it is not necessary for the prosecution or the plaintiff to prove that the accused person or defendant intended to use the information referred to in sections 218(1)(a) or (1A)(a) or 219(1)(a) in contravention of sections 218 or 219, as the case may be.

Section 216 of the SFA

Section 216 sets out when a reasonable person would be taken to expect information to have a material effect on the price or value of securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or CIS units. Section 216 provides that a reasonable person would be taken to expect information to have a material effect on the price or value of securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or CIS units if the information would, or would be likely to, influence persons who commonly invest in securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or CIS units or any one or more classes of persons who constitute such persons in deciding whether or not to subscribe for, buy or sell the first-mentioned securities, securities-based derivatives contracts or CIS units.

2.7

Penalties

Section 232 of the SFA

Section 232 of the SFA provides that the Monetary Authority of Singapore may, with the consent of the Public Prosecutor, bring an action in a court against an offender to seek an order for a civil penalty in respect of any contravention of the provision under Part XII of the SFA. If the court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the person has contravened a provision in Part XII, the court may make an order against him for the payment of a civil penalty of a sum:

(a)

not exceeding three (3) times the amount of the profit that the person gained or the amount of the loss that he avoided, as a result of the contravention; or

(b) S$2 million,

whichever is the greater.

Section 204 of the SFA

Any person who contravenes sections 197 to 203 of the SFA is guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7) years or to both under Section 204 of the SFA.

Section 204 further provides that no proceedings shall be instituted against a person for the offence after a court has made an order against him for the payment of a civil penalty under section 232 of the SFA, or if the person has entered into an agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to pay, with or without admission of liability, a civil penalty under section 232(5) in respect of that contravention.

Section 221 of the SFA

Any person who contravenes section 218 or 219 of the SFA, is guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7) years or to both under section 221 of the SFA.

Section 221 further provides that no proceedings shall be instituted against a person for an offence in respect of a contravention of section 218 or 219 after a court has made an order against him for the payment of a civil penalty under section 232 of the SFA, or if the person has entered into an agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to pay, with or without admission of liability, a civil penalty under section 232(5) in respect of that contravention.

Takeover Obligations

  • 3.1 Offences and obligations relating to takeovers

    Section 140 of the SFA

    Section 140 of the SFA provides that a person shall not give notice or publicly announce that he intends to make a take-over offer if he has:

    • (a) no intention to make an offer in the nature of a take-over offer; or

    • (b) no reasonable or probable grounds for believing that he will be able to perform his obligations if the take-over offer is accepted or approved, as the case may be.

    Where a person contravenes section 140, the person and, where the person is a corporation, every officer of the corporation who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding S$250,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7) years or to both.

  • 3.2 Obligations under the Singapore Code on Take-overs and Mergers (the "Singapore Takeover Code") and the consequences of non-compliance

    Obligations under the Singapore Takeover Code

    The Singapore Takeover Code regulates the acquisition of ordinary shares of public companies and contains certain provisions that may delay, deter or prevent a future takeover or change in control of the Company. Any person acquiring an interest, either on his own or together with parties acting in concert with him, in 30.0% or more of the company's voting shares, or, if such person holds, either on his own or together with parties acting in concert with him, between 30.0% and 50.0% (both inclusive) of the company's voting shares, and if he (or parties acting in concert with him) acquires additional voting Shares representing more than 1.0% of the company's voting shares in any six month period, must, except with the consent of the Securities Industry Council in Singapore, extend a takeover offer for the remaining voting Shares in accordance with the provisions of the Singapore Takeover Code.

"Persons acting in concert" comprise individuals or companies who, pursuant to an agreement or understanding (whether formal or informal), co-operate, through the acquisition by any of them of shares in a company, to obtain or consolidate effective control of that company. Without prejudice to the general application of this definition, the following individuals and companies are presumed to be acting in concert with each other (unless the contrary is established). They are as follows:

  • (a) (i) a company and its parent company, subsidiaries or fellow subsidiaries ("Related Companies"), (ii) the associated companies of any of the company and its Related Companies, (iii) companies whose associated companies include any of these foregoing companies and (iv) any person who has provided financial assistance (other than a bank in the ordinary course of business) to any of the foregoing for the purchase of voting rights;

  • (b) a company and its directors (together with their close relatives, related trusts and companies controlled by any of the directors, their close relatives and related trusts);

  • (c) a company and its pension funds and employee share schemes;

  • (d) a person with any investment company, unit trust or other fund whose investment such person manages on a discretionary basis, but only in respect of the investment account which such person manages;

  • (e) a financial or other professional adviser, including a stockbroker, with its clients in respect of the shareholdings of: the adviser and persons controlling, controlled by or under the same control as the adviser;

  • (f) directors of a company (together with their close relatives, related trusts and companies controlled by any of such directors, their close relatives and related trusts) which is subject to an offer or where the directors have reason to believe a bona fide offer for the company may be imminent;

  • (g) partners; and

  • (h) (i) an individual and his close relatives and related trusts, (ii) any person who is accustomed to act in accordance with his instructions, (iii) companies controlled by the individual and his close relatives and related trusts or any person who is accustomed to act in accordance with his instructions and (iv) any person who has provided financial assistance (other than a bank in the ordinary course of business) to any of the foregoing for the purchase of voting rights.

In the event that one of the abovementioned trigger-points is reached, the person acquiring an interest (the "Offeror") must make a public announcement stating, inter alia, the terms of the offer and its identity. The Offeror must post an offer document not earlier than 14 days and not later than 21 days from the date of the offer announcement. An offer must initially be kept open for at least 28 days after the date on which the offer document was posted.

If a revised offer is proposed, the Offeror is required to give a written notice to the offeree company and its shareholders, stating the modifications made to the matters set out in the offer document. The revised offer must be kept open for at least 14 days from the date of posting of the written notification of the revision to shareholders. Where the consideration is varied, shareholders who agree to sell before the variation are also entitled to receive the increased consideration.

A mandatory offer must be in cash or be accompanied by a cash alternative at not less than the highest price paid by the offeror or parties acting in concert with the offeror for Shares during the offer and within the six months preceding the acquisition of Shares that triggered the mandatory offer obligation.

Under the Singapore Takeover Code, where effective control of a company is acquired or consolidated by a person, or persons acting in concert, a general offer to all other shareholders is normally required. An offeror must treat all shareholders of the same class in an offeree company equally. A fundamental requirement is that shareholders in the company subject to the takeover offer must be given sufficient information, advice and time to enable them to reach an informed decision on. No relevant information should be withheld from them.

3.3

Consequences of non-compliance with the requirements under the Singapore Takeover Code

The Singapore Takeover Code is non-statutory in that it does not have the force of law. Therefore, as provided in Section 139(8) of the SFA, a failure of any party concerned in a take-over offer or a matter connected therewith to observe any of the provisions of the Singapore Takeover Code shall not of itself render that party liable to criminal proceedings.

However, the failure of any party to observe any of the provisions of the Singapore Takeover Code may, in any civil or criminal proceedings, be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or to negate any liability which is in question in the proceedings.

Section 139 further provides that the Securities Industry Council has the power, in the exercise of its functions, to enquire into the suspected breach of the provisions of the Singapore Takeover Code or misconduct in relation to such take-over offer or matter and may, for these purposes, summon any person to give evidence on oath or affirmation or produce any document or material necessary for the purpose of the enquiry.

3.4

Compulsory Acquisition under the Singapore Companies Act

Following the conclusion of an offer, pursuant to section 215 of the Singapore Companies Act, if an offeror acquires not less than 90.0% of the shares of the offeree company, it may, by notice to the dissenting shareholders, require the dissenting shareholders to sell its shares to the offeror. In calculating the 90% threshold, shares held or acquired by the offeror as at the date of the offer are excluded. The notice must be sent within two (2) months after the offer has been so approved. The shareholder whose shares are thus to be acquired may, subject to certain timelines, apply to Court for an order that the offeror is not entitled to acquire the shares. Where an offeror could acquire the holdings of minority shareholders but does not, a minority shareholder may serve a notice requiring the offeror to do so within three (3) months from the date of receipt of notice from offeror of the fact that the offeror has acquired 90% of the shares of the offeree company. The offeror is then obliged to, inter alia, acquire the shareholder's shares on the same terms as the other shares were acquired during the offer.

Minority Rights

The rights of minority shareholders of Singapore incorporated companies are protected under section 216 of the Singapore Companies Act, which gives the Singapore courts a general power to make any order, upon application by any shareholder of the Company, as they think fit to remedy any of the following situations:

  • (a) the affairs of the Company are being conducted or the powers of the Board are being exercised in a manner oppressive to, or in disregard of the interests of, one or more of the shareholders, including the applicant; or

  • (b) the Company has taken an action, or threatens to take an action, or the shareholders pass a resolution, or propose to pass a resolution, which unfairly discriminates against, or is otherwise prejudicial to, one or more of the shareholders, including the applicant.

The court may, with a view to bringing to an end or remedying the matters complained of, make such order as it thinks fit and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the order may:

  • (i) direct or prohibit any act or cancel or vary any transaction or resolution;

  • (ii) regulate the conduct of the affairs of the company in the future;

  • (iii) authorise civil proceedings to be brought in the name of, or on behalf of, the company by a person or persons and on such terms as the court may direct;

  • (iv) provide for the purchase of the shares or debentures of the company by other members or holders of debentures of the company or by the company itself;

  • (v) in the case of a purchase of shares by the company provide for a reduction accordingly of the company's capital;

  • (vi) order the amendment of the company's constitution; or

  • (vii) provide that the company be wound up.

Exchange Controls

There are no Singapore governmental laws, decrees, regulations or other legislation that may affect the following:

  • (a) the import or export of capital, including the availability of cash and cash equivalents for use by our Group; and

  • (b) the remittance of dividends, interest or other payments to non-resident holders of a company's securities.

Members' Requisition to Convene Extraordinary General Meetings

Section 176 of the Singapore Companies Act

Section 176 of the Singapore Companies Act provides that the directors shall, on the requisition of members holding at the date of the deposit of the requisition not less than 10.0% of the total number of paid-up shares as at the date of the deposit carries the right of voting at general meetings or, in the case of a company not having a share capital, of members representing not less than 10.0% of the total voting rights of all members having at that date a right to vote at general meetings, immediately proceed duly to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the company to be held as soon as practicable but in any case not later than two (2) months after the receipt by the company of the requisition.

For the purpose of section 176 of the Singapore Companies Act, any of the Company's paid-up shares as treasury shares shall be disregarded.

Section 183 of the Singapore Companies Act

Section 183 of the Singapore Companies Act provides that a company is under a duty, on the requisition in writing of such number of members specified below, to:

  • (a) give to members of such company entitled to receive notice of the next annual general meeting notice of any resolution which may properly be moved and is intended to be moved at that meeting or (if the resolution is proposed to be passed by written means under section 184A) for which agreement is sought; and

  • (b) circulate to members entitled to have notice of any general meeting sent to them any statement of not more than 1,000 words with respect to the matter referred to in any proposed resolution or the business to be dealt with at that meeting.

The number of members as required for such a requisition shall be (a) any number of members representing not less than 5.0% of the total voting rights of all members having at the date of the requisition a right to vote at the meeting to which the requisition relates, or (b) not less than 100 members holding shares in the company on which there has been paid up an average sum, per member, of not less than S$500.

2.

Singapore Taxation

The discussion below is not intended to be and does not constitute legal or tax advice. It is based on the applicable tax laws and practice in Singapore as of the Latest Practicable Date and is subject to legislative changes in such laws, or in the interpretation thereof. Changes may have retrospective effect. No assurance can be given that courts or authorities responsible for the administration of such laws will agree with our interpretation or that changes in such laws and practice will not have retrospective effect.

The discussion below does not purport to be a comprehensive nor exhaustive description of all of the tax consequences relating to the acquisition, ownership and disposal of the Shares by any person. You, as a prospective subscriber of our Shares, should consult your tax advisors concerning the tax consequences, including specifically, the consequences under applicable law and tax authority practice of any investment in our Shares, including those arising under the laws of any other tax jurisdiction, which may be applicable to your own particular circumstances. Neither our Group, our Directors nor any other persons involved in this Listing accepts responsibility for any tax effects or liabilities resulting from the subscription, purchase, holding or disposal of our Shares.

Corporate and individual tax

A company is a tax resident in Singapore when the control and management of the company is exercised in Singapore. Corporate taxpayers (whether Singapore tax resident or non-Singapore tax resident) are generally subject to Singapore income tax on income accruing in or derived from Singapore, and on foreign source income received or deemed received in Singapore (unless specified conditions for exemption are satisfied). Foreign sourced income in the form of dividends, branch profits and service fee income received or deemed received in Singapore by a Singapore tax resident corporate taxpayer may however be exempt from Singapore tax if specified conditions are met.

The prevailing corporate income tax rate is 17.0% with partial tax exemption for normal chargeable income of up to S$300,000 as follows:

  • (a) 75.0% exemption of up to the first S$10,000; and

  • (b) 50.0% exemption of up to the next S$290,000.

Non-Singapore tax resident individuals are generally subject to tax at 20.0% (22.0% from Year of Assessment 2017), at concessionary tax rates or the income may be exempt if specified conditions are satisfied. For example, Singapore employment income derived by non-Singapore resident individuals is taxed at a flat rate of 15.0% or at the progressive resident tax rates, whichever yields a higher amount of tax.

Dividend distributions

One tier corporate taxation system and withholding tax

Singapore adopts the One-Tier Corporate Taxation System ("One-Tier System"). Under the One-Tier System, the tax collected from corporate profits is a final tax and the after-tax profits of the company resident in Singapore can be distributed to the shareholders as tax-exempt (one-tier) dividends. As our Company is a Singapore tax resident company, the dividends distributed by our Company will be tax exempt (one-tier) dividends. Such dividends are tax-exempt in the hands of the shareholders, regardless of whether the shareholder is a company or an individual and whether or not the shareholder is a Singapore tax resident.

Singapore does not currently impose withholding tax on dividends paid to resident or non-resident shareholders.

Gains on disposals of ordinary shares

Singapore does not impose tax on capital gains. There are no specific laws or regulations which deal with the characterisation of whether a gain is revenue or capital in nature. The characterisation would usually depend on the facts and circumstances surrounding the purchase and sale of a particular asset and by reference to established case law principles. In general, gains or profits derived from the disposal of our Shares acquired for long-term investment purposes should be considered as capital gains and not subject to Singapore tax.

On the other hand, gains may be construed to be of an income nature and subject to Singapore income tax if they arise from or are otherwise connected with activities which the Comptroller regards as the carrying on of a trade or business of dealing in shares in Singapore.

For any disposal of our ordinary Shares from 1 June 2012 to 31 May 2022 (both dates inclusive) by a company, upfront "non-taxation" certainty may however be granted on any gains derived by the divesting company if immediately prior to the date of share disposal, the divesting company has held at least 20% of our Shares for a continuous period of at least 24 months.

For share disposals that do not satisfy the above conditions, the tax treatment on any gains/losses that may arise from the disposal of shares (i.e. whether the gains/losses are capital or revenue in nature) would continue to be determined based on a consideration of the specific facts and circumstances of the case and by reference to established case law principles. As the precise tax status of a Shareholder varies from another, Shareholders are advised to consult their own professional advisers on the Singapore tax consequences that may be applicable to their individual circumstances.

In addition, corporate shareholders who apply, or who are required to apply, the Singapore Financial Reporting Standard 39 Financial Instruments - Recognition and Measurement ("SFRS 39") for the purposes of Singapore income tax may be required to recognise revenue gains or losses (i.e. excluding capital gains or losses) in accordance with the provisions of SFRS 39 (as modified by the applicable provisions of Singapore income tax law) even though no sale or disposal of our Shares have been made.

Goods and services tax ("GST")

The sale of our Shares by a GST-registered investor belonging in Singapore through a SGX-ST member or to another person belonging in Singapore is an exempt supply not subject to GST.

Any GST (for example, GST on brokerage) incurred by the GST-registered investor in connection with the making of this exempt supply will generally become an additional cost to the investor unless the investor satisfies certain conditions prescribed under the GST legislation or by the Comptroller of GST.

Where our Shares are sold by a GST-registered investor to a person belonging outside Singapore (and who is outside Singapore at the time of supply), the sale is a taxable supply subject to GST at zero rate. Consequently, any GST (for example, GST on brokerage) incurred by him in the making of this zero-rated supply for the purpose of his business will, subject to the provisions of the GST legislation, be recoverable as an input tax credit in his GST returns.

Investors should seek their own tax advice on the recoverability of GST incurred on expenses in connection with the purchase and sale of our Shares.

Services such as brokerage and handling services rendered by a GST-registered person to an investor belonging in Singapore in connection with the investor's purchase or sale of our Shares will be subject to GST at the prevailing rate at 7.0%. Similar services rendered contractually to an investor belonging outside Singapore are subject to GST at zero-rate provided that the investor is not physically present in Singapore at the time the services are performed and the services do not directly benefit a person who belongs in Singapore.

Stamp duty

No stamp duty is payable on the subscription and issuance of our Shares. Stamp duty is also not applicable to electronic transfers of our Shares through the CDP.

There could be stamp duty implications if any sale and purchase agreement for or instrument of transfer for our Shares is executed. Potential investors should seek professional advice based on the specific circumstances of their situation. Where existing Shares evidenced in certificated form are acquired in Singapore, stamp duty is payable on the instrument of transfer of the Shares at the rate of 0.2% of the amount of the consideration or the market value of the Shares, whichever is the higher. The purchaser is liable for the stamp duty charge, unless otherwise agreed by the parties to the transaction.

No stamp duty is payable if no instrument of transfer is executed (such as in the case of scripless shares, the transfer of which does not require an instrument of transfer to be executed) or if the instrument of transfer is executed outside of Singapore. However, stamp duty may be payable if the instrument of transfer which is executed outside Singapore is subsequently brought into Singapore.

Land tax and property tax

There is no land tax in Singapore.

In Singapore, property tax is assessed on an annual basis by applying the applicable property tax rates on the annual value of the property. The annual value of buildings is determined based on the estimated gross annual rent of the property if it were to be rented out, excluding furniture, furnishings and maintenance fees. Depending on the type of property, different property tax rates will be adopted. Owner-occupied and non-owner occupied residential properties are generally subject to property tax on a progressive scale. The present top marginal rate of tax for owner-occupied and non-owner occupied is 16.0% and 20.0% respectively. All other properties will be taxed at 10% of the annual value.

Estate duty

Singapore estate duty was abolished with effect from 15 February 2008.

C.

CONSTITUTION OF THE COMPANY

THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50

PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

CONSTITUTION

OF

CENTURION CORPORATION LIMITED

(adopted by Special Resolution passed on 6 September 2017)

  • A. The name of the Company is CENTURION CORPORATION LIMITED.

  • B. The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in the Republic of Singapore.

  • C. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act (Chapter 50) of Singapore and any other written law and this Constitution, the Company has:

    (i)

    full capacity to carry on or undertake any business or activity, do any act or enter into any transaction; and

    (ii) for these purposes, full rights, powers and privileges.

  • D. The liability of the members is limited.

  • E. The Company shall have power to increase or reduce its capital, to consolidate or sub-divide the shares forming its original share capital and to divide such shares into several classes and there may be attached thereto respectively any preferential, deferred, qualified, special or other rights, privileges, conditions or restrictions as to dividends, capital, voting or otherwise attached to them as may be determined by, or in accordance with, the regulations for the time being of the Company.

    PRELIMINARY

  • 1. No part of the model constitution prescribed under the Act shall apply to the Company except so far as the same are repeated or contained in this Constitution.

  • 2. In this Constitution (if not inconsistent with the subject or context) the words and expressions set out in the first column below shall bear the meanings set opposite to them respectively.

"address" or "registered address"

In respect of any member, his physical address for service or delivery of notices or documents personally or by post, unless otherwise expressly provided in this Constitution.

"Act"

The Companies Act (Chapter 50) of Singapore, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

"Annual General

Meeting"

"book-entry securities"

"business day"

An annual general meeting of the Company.

Listed securities:

  • (a) documents of title to which are deposited by a Depositor with the Depository or a clearing house and are registered in the name of the Depository or a clearing house (or its nominees); and

  • (b) which are transferable by way of book-entry in the Depository Register and not by way of an instrument of transfer.

Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Statutes and the provisions of the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

"Chairman" or "chairman"

The chairman of the Directors or the chairman of the Annual General Meeting or General Meeting as the case may be.

"clearing house"

A clearing house recognized by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted on the stock exchange in such jurisdiction.

"close associate"

Shall have the meaning attributed to it in the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

"Company"

The abovenamed company by whatever name from time to time called.

"Constitution" or

"Regulations"

This Constitution or other regulations of the Company for the time being in force.

"Depositor"

A Direct Account Holder or a Depository Agent but does not include a sub-account holder.

"Depository"

The Central Depository (Pte) Limited or any other corporation approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a depository company or corporation for the purposes of the SFA, which operates the Central Depository System for the holding and transfer of book-entry securities.

"Depository Agent"

"Depository Register"

A member of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, a trust company (licensed under the Trust Companies Act, Chapter 336), a bank (licensed under the Banking Act, Chapter 19), any merchant bank approved as a financial institution under the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act, Chapter 186, or any other person or body approved by the Depository who or which:

  • (a) performs services as a depository agent for sub-account holders in accordance with the terms of a depository agent agreement entered into between the Depository and the Depository Agent;

  • (b) deposits book-entry securities with the Depository on behalf of the sub-account holders; and

  • (c) establishes an account in its name with the Depository.

A register maintained by the Depository or a clearing house in respect of book-entry securities.

"Designated

Stock Exchange"

The Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited for so long as the shares of the Company are listed and quoted on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited for so long as the shares of the Company are listed and traded on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and/or such other stock exchange in respect of which the shares of the Company are listed or quoted.

"Direct Account Holder"

A person who has a securities account directly with the Depository or a clearing house and not through a Depository Agent.

"Directors" or the

"Board of Directors"

"electronic communication"

The directors of the Company for the time being, or such number of them as have authority to act for the Company, and includes any person duly appointed and acting for the time being as an alternate Director.

Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act.

"General Meeting"

A general meeting of the Company.

"Hong Kong dollars"

The lawful currency for the time being of Hong Kong.

"Hong Kong"

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of The People's

Republic of China.

"in writing" and

Written or produced by any substitute for writing or partly one

"written"

and partly the other, and includes (except where otherwise

expressly specified in this Constitution or the context otherwise

requires, and subject to any limitations, conditions or

restrictions contained in the Act) printing, lithography,

typewriting and any other mode of representation or

reproducing words, symbols or other information which may be

displayed in a visible form, whether in a physical document or in

an electronic communication or form or otherwise.

"market day"

A day on which the Designated Stock Exchange is open for trading

of securities.

"Managing Director"

Any person appointed by the Directors to be managing director

or executive chairman of the Company and the expression

"Managing Director" shall include any equivalent appointment(s)

howsoever described.

"member"

A registered member of the Company.

"month"

Calendar month.

"Office"

The registered office of the Company for the time being. "Ordinary

Resolution"

Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act.

"ordinary shares"

Ordinary shares of the Company.

"paid"

Paid or credited as paid.

"Register of Members"

The Company's principal register of members and where

applicable, any branch register of members to be maintained at

such place within or outside Singapore as the Directors shall

determine from time to time.

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"Registration Office"

In respect of any class of share capital, such place as the Directors may from time to time determine to keep a branch register of members in respect of that class of share capital and where (except in cases where the Directors otherwise directs) the transfers or other documents or titles for such class of share capital are to be lodged for registration and are to be registered.

"relevant intermediary" Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act.

"Seal"

The common seal of the Company.

"Secretary"

Any person appointed by the Directors to perform the duties of the secretary or where two (2) or more persons are appointed to act as secretaries any one (1) of those persons.

"Securities Account"

The securities account maintained by a Depositor with the Depository or a clearing house.

"SFA"

Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

"S$"

The lawful currency of Singapore.

"Special Resolution"

Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act.

"Statutes"

The Act, the SFA and every other written law or regulations for the time being in force concerning companies and affecting the Company (including but not limited to the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622) of the Laws of Hong Kong and the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Chapter 32) of the Laws of Hong Kong) and any reference to any provision as so amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

"year"

Calendar year.

References in this Constitution to "holder(s)" of shares or any class of shares shall:

  • (a) exclude the Depository or a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), except where otherwise expressly provided for in this Constitution or where the term "registered holder(s)" is in use in this Constitution;

  • (b) where the context so requires, be deemed to include references to Depositors whose names are entered in the Depository Register in respect of those shares; and

(c)

except where expressly provided in this Constitution, exclude the Company in relation to shares held by it as treasury shares,

and "holding" and "held" shall be construed accordingly.

Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa. Words denoting the masculine shall include the feminine. Words denoting persons shall include corporations.

The expression "clear days' notice" shall, for the purposes of calculating the number of days necessary before a notice is served or deemed to be served, be exclusive of the day on which the notice is served or deemed to be served and of the day for which the notice is given.

Subject as aforesaid, any words or expression defined in the Act or the Interpretation Act, Chapter 1, of Singapore shall (if not inconsistent with the subject or context) bear the same meanings in this Constitution.

A Special Resolution shall be effective for any purpose for which an Ordinary Resolution is expressed to be required under any provision of this Constitution.

AUTHORIZED SHARE CAPITAL

3.

(A) The Company does not have an authorised share capital and the shares do not have par value.

(B) No shares shall be issued to bearer.

REPURCHASE OF COMPANY'S SHARES

3A. (A) The Company may purchase or otherwise acquire its issued shares or purchase for redemption a redeemable share either out of or otherwise than out of its distributable profits or the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes (including the Act) and any applicable listing rules of the

Designated Stock Exchange (hereafter, the "Relevant Laws"), on such terms and in such manner as it may from time to time think fit, and subject to such conditions as the Company may in General Meeting prescribe in accordance with the Relevant Laws. Subject to any Relevant Laws, any shares purchased or acquired by the Company as aforesaid shall be deemed to be cancelled immediately on purchase or acquisition by the Company.

  • (B) On the cancellation of any share as aforesaid, the rights and privileges attached to that share shall expire. In any other instance, the Company may hold or deal with any such share which is so purchased or acquired by it in such manner as may be permitted by, and in accordance with the Relevant Laws. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, upon cancellation of any share purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company pursuant to these Regulations and the Statutes, the number of issued shares of the Company shall be diminished by the number of shares so cancelled, and, where any such cancelled share was purchased or acquired out of the capital of the Company, the amount of share capital of the Company shall be reduced accordingly.

  • (C) Where the Company purchases for redemption a redeemable share, purchase not made through the market or by tender shall be limited to a maximum price as may from time to time be determined by the members in General Meeting, either generally or with regard to specific purchases. If purchases are by tender, tenders shall be available to all members alike.

    ISSUE OF SHARES

    4.

  • (A) Subject to and in accordance with the Statutes and this Constitution, no shares may be issued by the Directors without the prior approval of the Company in General Meeting pursuant to Section 161 of the Act, but subject thereto and the terms of such approval, and to Regulation 5, and to any special rights attached to any shares for the time being issued, the Directors may allot (with or without conferring a right of renunciation) or grant options over or otherwise dispose of the same to such persons on such terms and conditions and for such consideration and at such time and whether or not subject to the payment of any part of the amount thereof in cash or otherwise as the Directors may think fit, and any shares may, subject to compliance with Sections 70 and 75 of the Act, be issued with such preferential, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges, conditions or restrictions, whether as regards dividend, return of capital, participation in surplus assets and profits, voting, conversion or otherwise, as the Directors may think fit, and preference shares may be issued which are or at the option of the Company are liable to be redeemed, the terms and manner of redemption being determined by the Directors in accordance with the Act, Provided Always that no options shall be granted over unissued shares except in accordance with the Act and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  • (B) The Directors may, at any time after the allotment of any share but before any person has been entered in the Register of Members as the holder, recognize a renunciation thereof by the allottee in favour of some other person and may accord to any allottee of a share a right to effect such renunciation upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Directors may think fit to impose.

  • (C) Except so far as otherwise provided by the conditions of issue or by this Constitution, all new shares shall be issued subject to the provisions of the Statutes and this Constitution with reference to allotment, payment of calls, lien, transfer, transmission, forfeiture or otherwise.

  • (D) Notwithstanding Regulation 4(A), the Company may by Ordinary Resolution in General Meeting give to the Directors a general authority, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as may be specified in the Ordinary Resolution, to:

    • (a) (i) issue shares whether by way of rights, bonus or otherwise; and/or

      (iii) make or grant offers, agreements or options (collectively,

      "Instruments") that might or would require shares to be issued, including but not limited to the creation and issue of (as well as adjustments to) warrants, debentures or other instruments convertible into shares; and

    • (b) (notwithstanding that the authority conferred by the Ordinary Resolution may have ceased to be in force) issue shares in pursuance of any Instrument made or granted by the Directors while the Ordinary Resolution was in force,

    Provided That:

    • (1) the aggregate number of shares to be issued pursuant to the Ordinary Resolution (including shares to be issued in pursuance of Instruments made or granted pursuant to the Ordinary Resolution) shall be subject to such limits and manner of calculation as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange;

    • (2) in exercising the authority conferred by the Ordinary Resolution, the Company shall comply with the provisions of the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange for the time being in force (unless such compliance is waived by the Designated Stock Exchange) and this Constitution; and

    • (3) (unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in General Meeting), the authority conferred by the Ordinary Resolution shall not continue in force beyond the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company next following the passing of the Ordinary Resolution, or the date by which such Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law to be held, or the expiration of such other period as may be prescribed by the Statutes (whichever is the earliest).

  • (E) Except as herein provided, no person shall exercise any rights or privileges of a member until he is registered in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register, as a member or (as the case may be) a Depositor, and shall have paid all calls and other moneys due for the time being on every share held by him.

4A. The Company shall not have any treasury share.

  • (A) Subject to any direction to the contrary that may be given by the Company in General Meeting or except as permitted under the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, all new shares shall before issue be offered to such persons who as at the date (as determined by the Directors) of the offer are entitled to receive notices from the Company of General Meetings in proportion, as nearly as the circumstances admit, to the amount of the existing shares to which they are entitled. The offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares offered, and limiting a time within which the offer, if not accepted, will be deemed to be declined, and, after the expiration of that time, or on the receipt of an intimation from the person to whom the offer is made that he declines to accept the shares offered, the Directors may dispose of those shares in such manner as they think most beneficial to the Company. The Directors may likewise so dispose of any new shares which (by reason of the ratio which the new shares bear to shares held by persons entitled to an offer of new shares) cannot, in the opinion of the Directors, be conveniently offered under this Regulation.

  • (B) Subject to the Statutes and the provisions of the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company may, notwithstanding Regulation 5(A) above, authorise the

    Directors not to offer new shares to members to whom by reason of foreign securities laws, such offers may not be made without registration of the shares or a prospectus or other document, but to sell the entitlements to the new shares on behalf of such members on such terms and conditions as the Company may direct.

  • 6. The Company may exercise the power of paying commissions in respect of subscription for shares which is conferred by the Act to the full extent thereby permitted, Provided Always that the amount or rate of the commissions paid or agreed to be paid and the number of shares to be subscribed for absolutely shall be disclosed in the manner required by the Act, in the relevant prospectus, statement, circular or notice as the case may be. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the allotment of fully or partly paid shares or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also on any issue of shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful subject to disclosure of the amount or rate thereof in the manner required by the Act in the relevant prospectus, statement, circular or notice as the case may be.

  • 7. Where any shares are issued for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses of the construction of any works or buildings or the provision of any plant which cannot be made profitable for a lengthened period, the Company may pay interest on so much of that share capital as is for the time being paid up for the period and charge the same to capital as part of the cost of the construction of the works or buildings or the provision of the plant subject to the conditions and restrictions mentioned in the Act.

  • (A) Subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange, the rights attached to shares issued upon special conditions shall be clearly defined in the Constitution and the rights attaching to shares of a class other than ordinary shares shall be expressed. Preference shares may be issued subject to such limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange. In the event of preference shares being issued, the total number of issued preference shares shall not at any time exceed the total number of issued ordinary shares and preference shareholders shall have the same rights as ordinary shareholders as regards receiving of notices, reports and balance-sheets and attending General Meetings of the Company, and preference shareholders shall also have the right to vote at any General Meeting convened for the purpose of reducing capital or winding-up or sanctioning a sale of the undertaking of the Company or where the proposal to be submitted to the General Meeting directly affects their rights and privileges or when the dividend on the preference shares is more than six (6) months in arrear.

  • (B) The Company has power to issue further preference capital ranking equally with, or in priority to, preference shares already issued.

  • (C) The Company may issue shares for which no consideration is payable to the Company.

  • (D) There is no power to freeze or otherwise impair any of the rights attaching to any share by reason only that the person or persons who are interested directly or indirectly therein have failed to disclose their interests to the Company.

    VARIATION OF RIGHTS

    9.

  • (A) Whenever the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares, the variation or abrogation of the special rights attached to any class may, subject to the provisions of the Act and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, be made either with the consent in writing of the holders of three-quarters of the total number of the issued shares of the class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate General Meeting of the holders of the shares of the class (but not otherwise) and may be so made either whilst the Company is a going concern or during or in contemplation of a winding-up. To every such separate General Meeting all the provisions of this Constitution relating to General Meetings of the Company and to the proceedings thereat shall mutatis mutandis apply, except that the necessary quorum (other than an adjourned meeting) shall be two (2) or more persons holding at least one-third of the total number of the issued shares of the class present in person or by proxy or attorney and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy or attorney may demand a poll, Provided Always that where the necessary majority for such a Special Resolution is not obtained at such General Meeting, the consent in writing, if obtained from the holders of three-quarters of the total number of the issued shares of the class concerned within two (2) months of such General Meeting, shall be as valid and effectual as a Special Resolution carried at such General Meeting.

  • (B) The provisions in Regulation 9(A) shall mutatis mutandis apply to any repayment of preference capital (other than redeemable preference capital) and any variation or abrogation of the rights attached to preference shares or any class thereof.

  • (C) The rights attached to any class of shares having preferential rights or other rights shall not unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue thereof be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking as regards participation in the profits or assets of the Company in some or all respects pari passu therewith but in no respect in priority thereto.

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL

  • 10. The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution increase its capital by such sum to be divided into shares of such amounts as the resolution shall prescribe.

11.

  • (A) The Company may by Ordinary Resolution:

    • (a) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital;

    • (b) cancel any shares which, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken, or agreed to be taken, by any person or which have been forfeited, and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled;

    • (c) subject to the provisions of the Statutes and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, sub-divide its shares, or any of them, so however that the proportion of the amount paid to the amount unpaid (if any) on each sub-divided share is the same as on the original share from which it was derived; and the resolution whereby any share is sub-divided may determine that, as between the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, one (1) or more of the shares may, as compared with the others, have any such preferred, deferred, qualified or other special rights, or be subject to any such restrictions, as the Company has the authority to attach to new shares; and/or

    • (d) subject to the provisions of this Constitution and the Act, convert its share capital or any class of shares from one currency to another,

    Provided Always that where the Company issues shares which do not carry voting rights, the words "non-voting" shall appear in the designation of such shares and where the equity capital includes shares with different voting rights, the designation of each class of shares, other than those with the most favourable voting rights, must include the words "restricted voting" or "limited voting".

  • (B) The Company may, subject to the provisions of the Statutes, convert one class of shares into another class of shares.

  • 12. The Company may reduce its share capital or any other undistributable reserve in any manner permitted, and with, and subject to, any incident authorised, and consent or confirmation required, by law.

    SHARE CERTIFICATES

    13.

    • (A) Every share certificate shall be issued under the Seal (or by the signatures of authorised persons in the manner set out under the Act as an alternative to sealing) and shall bear the facsimile signatures or the autographic signatures at least of one (1) of the Directors and the Secretary or such other person as may be authorised by the Directors, and shall specify the number and class of the shares to which it relates, whether the shares are fully paid or partly paid up, and the amount (if any) unpaid thereon. The facsimile signatures may be reproduced by mechanical or other means provided the method of reproducing signatures has first been approved by the Directors of the Company. No certificate shall be issued representing shares of more than one (1) class.

    • (B) The provisions in this Regulation and in Regulations 14 to 17 (so far as they are applicable) shall not apply to transfer of book-entry securities.

      14.

    • (A) The Company shall not be bound to register more than four (4) persons as registered joint holders of a share except in the case of executors, trustees or administrators of the estate of a deceased member.

    • (B) In the case of a share registered jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one (1) certificate therefor and delivery of a certificate to any one (1) of the registered joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all.

    • (C) Only one (1) share certificate shall be issued in respect of any share.

  • 15. Every person whose name is entered as a member in the Register of Members shall be entitled, within ten (10) market days (or such period as the Directors may determine having regard to any limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time) after the closing date of any application of shares or the date of lodgement of a registrable transfer or on a transmission of shares (as the case may be), to one (1) certificate for all his shares of any one (1) class or to several certificates in reasonable denominations each for a part of the shares so allotted or transferred. Where a charge is made for certificates, such charge shall not exceed S$2.00 for each new certificate or such other fee as the Directors may from time to time determine having regard to any limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange.

16.

  • (A) Where a member transfers part only of the shares comprised in a certificate or where a member requires the Company to cancel any certificate or certificates and issue new certificates for the purpose of subdividing his holding in a different manner, the old certificate or certificates shall be cancelled and a new certificate or certificates for the balance of such shares (in the case of transfer) and the whole of such shares (in the case of sub-division) shall be issued in lieu thereof and the member shall pay (in the case of sub-division) a maximum fee of S$2.00 for each new certificate or such other fee as the Directors may from time to time determine having regard to any limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange. Where some only of the shares comprised in a share certificate are transferred, the new certificate for the balance of such shares shall be issued in lieu thereof without charge.

  • (B) Any two (2) or more certificates representing shares of any one (1) class held by any member may at his request be cancelled and a single new certificate for such shares issued in lieu thereof without charge.

  • (A) Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, if any share certificate shall be defaced, worn out, destroyed, lost or stolen, it may be renewed on such evidence being produced and a written indemnity (if required) being given by the member, transferee, person entitled, purchaser, member firm or member company of the Designated Stock Exchange or on behalf of its or their client or clients as the Directors shall require, and (in case of defacement or wearing out) on delivery up of the old certificate, and in any case on payment of such sum not exceeding S$2.00 (or such other fee as the Directors may determine having regard to any limitation as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange) as the Directors may from time to time require. In the case of destruction, loss or theft, a member or person entitled to, and to whom such renewed certificate is given shall also bear the loss and pay to the Company all expenses incidental to the investigations by the Company of the evidence of such destruction or loss.

  • (B) Where shares are registered jointly in the names of several persons, any such request may be made by any one (1) of the registered joint holders.

CALL ON SHARES

  • 18. The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares but subject always to the terms of issue of such shares. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorizing the call was passed and may be made payable by instalments.

  • 19. Each member shall (subject to receiving at least 14 days' notice specifying the time or times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times and place so specified the amount called on his shares. The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof. A call may be revoked or postponed as the Directors may determine.

  • 20. If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate (not exceeding eight per cent. (8%) per annum) as the Directors may determine but the Directors shall be at liberty in any case or cases to waive payment of such interest in whole or in part.

  • 21. Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable upon allotment or at any fixed date shall for all the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date on which by the terms of issue the same becomes payable. In the case of non-payment, all the relevant provisions of this Constitution as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

  • 22. The Directors may on the issue of shares differentiate between the holders as to the amount of calls to be paid and the times of payment.

    • (A) The Directors may if they think fit receive from any member willing to advance the same all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid upon the shares held by him and such payment in advance of calls shall extinguish, so far as the same shall extend, the liability upon the shares in respect of which it is made and upon the moneys so received (until and to the extent that the same would but for such advance become payable) the Company may pay interest at such rate (not exceeding eight per cent. (8%) per annum unless the Company in General Meeting otherwise directs) as the member paying such sum and the Directors may agree. Capital paid on shares in advance of calls shall not, whilst bearing interest, confer a right to participate in profits subsequently declared and until appropriated towards satisfaction of any call shall be treated as a loan to the Company and not as part of its capital and shall be repayable at any time if the Directors so direct.

    • (B) The Directors may apply all dividends which may be declared in respect of any shares in payment of any calls made or instalments payable and which may remain unpaid in respect of the same shares.

    FORFEITURE AND LIEN

  • 24. If a member fails to pay in full any call or instalment of a call on the due date for payment thereof, the Directors may at any time thereafter serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid together with any interest which may have accrued thereon and any expenses incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment.

  • 25. The notice shall name a further day (not being less than 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 shall state that in the event of non-payment in accordance therewith the shares on which the call has been made will be liable to be made forfeit.

26.

  • (A) If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which such notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before payment of all calls and interest and expenses due in respect thereof has been made, be made forfeit by a resolution of the Directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends declared in respect of the forfeit share and not actually paid before forfeiture. The Directors may accept a surrender of any share liable to be made forfeit hereunder.

  • (B) Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid, the Directors may, at any time before the forfeited share has been otherwise disposed of, annul the forfeiture, upon the terms of payment of all calls and interest due thereon and all expenses incurred in respect of the share and upon such further terms (if any) as they shall see fit.

  • 27. A share so made forfeit or surrendered shall become the property of the Company and may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of either to the person who was before such forfeiture or surrender the holder thereof or entitled thereto or to any other person upon such terms and in such manner as the Directors shall think fit, and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposal, the forfeiture or surrender may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors shall think fit. The Directors may, if necessary, authorize some person to transfer a share so made forfeit or surrendered to any such other person as aforesaid.

  • 28. A member whose shares have been made forfeit or surrendered shall cease to be a member in respect of such shares but shall notwithstanding the forfeiture or surrender remain liable to pay to the Company all moneys which at the date of forfeiture or surrender were presently payable by him to the Company in respect of such shares with interest thereon at eight per cent. (8%) per annum (or such lower rate as the Directors may determine) from the date of forfeiture or surrender until payment and the Directors may at their absolute discretion enforce payment without any allowance for the value of such shares at that time of forfeiture or surrender or waive payment in whole or in part.

  • 29. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (not being a fully paid share) and dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares. Such lien shall be restricted to unpaid calls and instalments upon the specific shares in respect of which such moneys are due and unpaid, and to such amounts as the Company may be called upon by law to pay in respect of the shares of the member or deceased member. The Directors may waive any lien which has arisen and may resolve that any share shall for some limited period be exempt wholly or partially from the provisions of this Regulation.

30.

  • (A) The Company may sell in such manner as the Directors think fit any share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable nor until the expiration of 14 days after a notice in writing stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable and giving notice of intention to sell in default shall have been given to the holder for the time being of the share(s) or the person entitled (if any) to effect a transmission of the share(s) and who shall have produced to the Company satisfactory evidence of such capacity and default in payment shall have been made by him or them 14 days after such notice, Provided Always that if a member shall have died or become mentally disordered and incapable of managing himself or his affairs or bankrupt, and no person shall have given to the Company satisfactory proof of his right to effect a transmission of the shares held by such member the Directors may exercise such power of sale without serving any such notice.

  • (B) In the event of a forfeiture of shares or a sale of shares to satisfy the Company's lien thereon the member or other person who prior to such forfeiture or sale was entitled thereto shall be bound to deliver and shall forthwith deliver to the Company the certificate or certificates held by him for the shares so forfeited or sold.

  • 31. The net proceeds of such sale after payment of the costs of such sale shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debts or liabilities (including any unpaid calls and accrued interest and expenses) and any residue shall be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the time of the sale or to his executors, administrators or assigns or as he may direct. For the purpose of giving effect to any such sale, the Directors may authorize some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser.

  • 32. A statutory declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director or the Secretary of the Company and that a share has been duly made forfeit or surrendered or sold to satisfy a lien of the Company on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. Such declaration and the receipt by the Company of the consideration (if any) given for the share on the sale, re-allotment, or disposal thereof together with the share certificate delivered to a purchaser (or where the purchaser is a Depositor, the Depository Register) or allottee thereof shall (subject to the execution of a transfer if the same be required) constitute a good title to the share and the person to whom the share is sold, re-allotted or disposed of shall be registered as the holder of the share, or where such person is a Depositor, the Company shall procure that his name be entered in the Depository Register in respect of the share so sold, re-allotted or disposed of. Such person shall not be bound to see the application of the purchase money (if any) nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the forfeiture, surrender, sale, re-allotment or disposal of the share.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

  • 33. (A) All transfers of shares shall be effected by written instruments of transfer in the form for the time being approved by the Directors and the Designated Stock Exchange.

    • (B) All transfers of the legal title in shares may be effected by the registered holders thereof by transfer in writing in the form for the time being approved by the Designated Stock Exchange upon which the Company may be listed or where such approved form is not available, any other form acceptable to the Directors. The instrument of transfer of any share shall be signed by or on behalf of both the transferor and the transferee and be witnessed, Provided That an instrument of transfer in respect of which the transferor or transferee is the Depository or clearing house (or its nominee(s)) shall be effective although not sighted or witnessed by or on behalf of the Depository or clearing house (or its nominee(s)). The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the shares concerned until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members or Depository Register (as the case may be) in respect thereof.

    • (C) No shares shall in any circumstances be transferred to any infant, bankrupt or person who is mentally disordered and incapable of managing himself or his affairs.

  • 34. The Registers of Members and of Transfers may be closed at such times and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine, Provided Always that such Registers shall not be closed for more than 30 days in any year, and that the Company shall give prior notice of each such closure, as may be required, to the Designated Stock Exchange, stating the period and purpose or purposes for which such closure is made.

  • 35. (A) There shall be no restriction on the transfer of fully paid up shares (except where required by law or by the rules, bye-laws or listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange) but the Directors may in their discretion decline to register any transfer of shares upon which the Company has a lien, and in the case of shares not fully paid up, may refuse to register a transfer to a transferee of whom they do not approve (to the extent permitted by the Designated Stock Exchange), Provided Always that in the event of the Directors refusing to register a transfer of shares, the Company shall within ten (10) market days (or such period as the Directors may determine having regard to any limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time) after the date on which the application for a transfer of shares was made, serve a notice in writing to the applicant stating the facts which are considered to justify the refusal as required by the Statutes.

(B)

The Directors may decline to register any instrument of transfer unless:

  • (a) such fee not exceeding S$2.00 (or such other fee as the Directors may determine having regard to any limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time) as the Directors may from time to time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof;

  • (b) the instrument of transfer, duly stamped in accordance with any law for the time being in force relating to stamp duty, is deposited at the Office or at such other place (if any) as the Directors may appoint accompanied by a certificate of payment of stamp duty (if stamp duty is payable on such instrument of transfer in accordance with any law for the time being in force relating to stamp duty), the certificates of the shares to which it relates, and such other evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer and, if the instrument of transfer is executed by some other person on his behalf, the authority of the person so to do; and

  • (c) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one (1) class of shares.

  • 36. All instruments of transfer which are registered may be retained by the Company, but any instrument of transfer which the Directors may decline to register shall be returned to the person depositing the same except in the case of fraud.

  • 37. (A) The Company shall be entitled to destroy all instruments of transfer which have been registered at any time after the expiration of six (6) years from the date of registration thereof and all dividend mandates and notifications of change of address at any time after the expiration of six (6) years from the date of recording thereof and all share certificates which have been cancelled at any time after the expiration of six (6) years from the date of the cancellation thereof and it shall conclusively be presumed in favour of the Company that every entry in the Register of Members purporting to have been made on the basis of an instrument of transfer or other document so destroyed was duly and properly made and every instrument of transfer so destroyed was a valid and effective instrument duly and properly registered and every share certificate so destroyed was a valid and effective certificate duly and properly cancelled and every other document hereinbefore mentioned so destroyed was a valid and effective document in accordance with the recorded particulars thereof in the books or records of the Company, Provided Always that:

(a)

the provisions aforesaid shall apply only to the destruction of a document in good faith and without notice of any claim (regardless of the parties thereto) to which the document might be relevant;

  • (b) nothing herein contained shall 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 attach to the Company in the absence of this Regulation; and

  • (c) references herein to the destruction of any document include references to the disposal thereof in any manner.

  • (B) Subject to, and in accordance with, the Statutes and any applicable listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange and unless the Directors otherwise agree (which agreement may be on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors in its absolute discretion may from time to time determine, and which agreement the Directors shall, without giving any reason therefor, be entitled in its absolute discretion to give or withhold), no shares upon the Register of Members shall be transferred to any branch register nor shall shares on any branch register be transferred to the Register of Members or any other branch register and all transfers and other documents of title shall be lodged for registration, and registered, in the case of any shares on a branch register, at the relevant Registration Office, and, in the case of any shares on the Register of Members, at the Office or such other place at which the Register of Members is kept in accordance with the Statutes.

    TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

    38.

  • (A) In the case of the death of a member whose name is registered in the Register of Members, the survivors or survivor, where the deceased is a joint holder, and the executors or administrators of the deceased, where he was a sole or only surviving holder, shall be the only person(s) recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares.

  • (B) In the case of the death of a member who is a Depositor, the survivors or survivor, where the deceased is a joint holder, and the executors or administrators of the deceased, where he was a sole or only surviving holder and where such executors or administrators are entered into the Depository Register in respect of any shares to the deceased member, shall be the only person(s) recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares.

  • (C) Nothing herein contained shall release the estate of a deceased holder (whether sole or joint) from any liability in respect of any share held by him.

39.

  • (A) Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member and any guardian of an infant becoming entitled to the legal title in a share and whose name is entered in the Register of Members or the Depository Register (as the case may be), and any person who properly has the management of the estate of a member whose name is entered in the Register of Members or the Depository Register (as the case may be) and who is mentally disordered and incapable of managing himself or his affairs may (subject as hereinafter provided) upon supplying to the Company such evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show his title to the share, elect either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to have another person nominated by him registered as the transferee thereof. The Directors shall, in any case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by a member.

  • (B) If the person so becoming entitled elects to be registered himself, he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects. If he elects to have another person registered he shall testify his election by executing to that person a transfer of the share. All the limitations, restrictions and provisions of this Constitution relating to the right to transfer and the registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable to any such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the event upon which transmission took place had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a transfer executed by such member.

    40.

  • (A) Save as otherwise provided by or in accordance with this Constitution, a person becoming entitled to a share by transmission (upon supplying to the Company such evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show his title to the share) shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages as those to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share except that he shall not be entitled in respect thereof (except with the authority of the Directors) to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company until he shall have been registered as a member in respect of the share.

  • (B) The Directors may at any time give notice requiring any person entitled to a share by transmission to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share, and if the notice is not complied with within 90 days the Directors may thereafter withhold payment of all dividends, or other moneys payable in respect of the share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.

  • 41. There shall be paid to the Company in respect of the registration of any probate or letters of administration or certificate of death or stop notice or power of attorney or other document relating to or affecting the title to any shares or otherwise for making any entry in the Register of Members or the Depository Register (as the case may be) affecting the title to any shares such fee not exceeding S$2.00 (or such other fee as the Directors may determine having regard to any limitation thereof as may be prescribed by the Designated Stock

    Exchange) as the Directors may from time to time require.

CENTRAL DEPOSITORY SYSTEM

42.

A reference to a member shall be a reference to a registered holder of shares in the Company, or where such registered holder is the Depository or a clearing house, the Depositors on behalf of whom the Depository or a clearing house holds the shares, Provided That:

  • (a) except as required by the Statutes or law, a Depositor shall only be entitled to attend any General Meeting and to speak and vote thereat if his name appears on the Depository Register maintained by the Depository or a clearing house 72 hours before the General Meeting as a Depositor on whose behalf the Depository or a clearing house holds shares in the Company, the Company being entitled to deem each such Depositor, or each proxy or proxies of a Depositor who is to represent the entire balance standing to the Securities Account of the Depositor, to represent such number of shares as is actually credited to the Securities Account of the Depositor as at such time, according to the records of the Depository or a clearing house as supplied by the Depository or a clearing house to the Company, and where a Depositor has apportioned the balance standing to his Securities Account between such number of proxies, to apportion the said number of shares between the proxies in the same proportion as previously specified by the Depositor in appointing the proxies; and accordingly no instrument appointing a proxy of a Depositor shall be rendered invalid merely by reason of any discrepancy between the proportion of Depositor's shareholding specified in the instrument of proxy, or where the balance standing to a Depositor's Securities Account has been apportioned between such number of proxies the aggregate of the proportions of the Depositor's shareholding they are specified to represent, and the true balance standing to the Securities Account of a Depositor as at the time of the General Meeting, if the instrument is dealt with in such manner as is provided above;

  • (b) the payment by the Company to the Depository or a clearing house of any dividend payable to a Depositor shall to the extent of the payment discharge the Company from any further liability in respect of the payment;

  • (c) the delivery by the Company to the Depository or a clearing house of provisional allotments or share certificates in respect of the aggregate entitlements of Depositors to new shares offered by way of rights issue or other preferential offering or bonus issue shall to the extent of the delivery discharge the Company from any further liability to each such Depositor in respect of his individual entitlement; and

  • (d) the provisions in this Constitution relating to the transfers, transmissions or certification of shares shall not apply to the transfer of book-entry securities (as defined in the Statutes).

EXCLUSION OF EQUITIES

  • 43. Except as required by the Statutes or law, no person shall be recognized by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or compelled in any way to recognize (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share, or any interest in any fractional part of a share, or (except only as by this Constitution or by the Statutes or law otherwise provided) any other right in respect of any share, except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder (other than the Depository or its nominee (as the case may be)) and nothing in this Constitution contained relating to the Depository or a clearing house or to Depositors or in any depository agreement made by the Company with any common depository for shares shall in any circumstances be deemed to limit, restrict or qualify the above.

    STOCK

  • 44. The Company may from time to time by Ordinary Resolution convert any paid-up shares into stock and may from time to time by like resolution reconvert any stock into paid-up shares of any denomination.

  • 45. The holders of stock may transfer the same or any part thereof in the same manner and subject to the same Regulations as and subject to which the shares from which the stock arose might previous to conversion have been transferred (or as near thereto as circumstances admit) but no stock shall be transferable except in such units as the Directors may from time to time determine.

  • 46. The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges and advantages as regards dividend, return of capital, voting and other matters, as if they held the shares from which the stock arose; but no such privilege or advantage (except as regards participation in the profits or assets of the Company) shall be conferred by an amount of stock which would not, if existing in shares, have conferred such privilege or advantage, and no such conversion shall affect or prejudice any preference or other special privileges attached to the shares so converted.

GENERAL MEETINGS

  • 47. Save as otherwise permitted under the Act, an Annual General Meeting shall be held once in every year, at such time (within a period of not more than 15 months after the holding of the last preceding Annual General Meeting) and place as may be determined by the Directors (subject to the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange). If required by the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, all General Meetings shall be held in Singapore, unless prohibited by relevant laws and regulations of the jurisdiction of the Company's incorporation, or unless such requirement is waived by the Designated Stock Exchange. All other General Meetings shall be called Extraordinary General Meetings. The interval between the close of a financial year of the Company and the date of the Company's Annual General Meeting shall not exceed four (4) months or such other period as may be prescribed by the Act and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or other legislation applicable to the Company from time to time.

  • 48. The Directors may whenever they think fit, and shall on requisition in accordance with the Statutes, proceed with proper expedition to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting, or in default, the Extraordinary General Meeting may be convened by such requisitionists, including members holding a minority stake in the Company which have shareholdings not less than 10 per cent. (10%) of the total number of paid-up shares as at the date of the requisition carries the right of voting at General Meetings.

    NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

  • 49. Subject to such other minimum period as may be specified in the Statutes from time to time, an Annual General Meeting shall be called by notice of not less than 21 clear days or 20 clear business days (whichever is longer) and any Extraordinary General Meeting at which it is proposed to pass a Special Resolution shall be called by notice of not less than 21 clear days or 20 clear business days (whichever is longer). All other Extraordinary General Meetings may be called by notice of not less than 14 clear days or ten (10) clear business days (whichever is longer). The period of notice shall in each case be exclusive of the day on which it is served or deemed to be served and of the day on which the meeting is to be held and shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned to all members other than such as are not under the provisions of this Constitution entitled to receive such notices from the Company, Provided That a General Meeting notwithstanding that it has been called by a shorter notice than that specified above shall be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed:

    • (a) in the case of an Annual General Meeting by all the members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and

    • (b) in the case of an Extraordinary General Meeting by a majority in number of the members having a right to attend and vote thereat, being a majority together holding not less than 95 per cent. (95%) of the total voting rights of all the members having a right to vote thereat,

Provided Also that the accidental omission to give notice to or the non-receipt of notice by any person entitled thereto shall not invalidate the proceedings at any General Meeting. At least 14 clear days' or 10 clear business days' (whichever is longer) notice (excluding the date of notice and the date of meeting) of any General Meeting shall be given by advertisement in the daily press and in writing to the Designated Stock Exchange, Provided Always that in the case of any Extraordinary General Meeting at which it is proposed to pass a Special Resolution and in the case of an Annual General Meeting, at least 21 clear days' or 20 clear business days' (whichever is longer) notice in writing (excluding the date of notice and the date of meeting) of such General Meeting shall be given by advertisement in the daily press and in writing to the Designated Stock Exchange.

50.

  • (A) Every notice calling a General Meeting shall specify the place and the day and hour of the meeting, and there shall appear with reasonable prominence in every such notice a statement that a member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy or proxies to attend and vote instead of him and that a proxy need not be a member of the Company.

  • (B) In the case of an Annual General Meeting, the notice shall also specify the meeting as such.

  • (C) In the case of any General Meeting at which business other than routine business

    ("special business") is to be transacted, the notice shall specify the general nature of such business, and if any resolution is to be proposed as a Special Resolution, the notice shall contain a statement to that effect.

  • 51. Routine business shall mean and include only business transacted at an Annual General Meeting of the following classes, that is to say:

    • (a) declaring dividends;

    • (b) receiving and adopting the financial statements, the Directors' statement, the Auditors' report and other documents required to be attached or annexed to the financial statements;

    • (c) electing or re-electing Directors to fill vacancies arising at the meeting on retirement whether by rotation or otherwise;

    • (d) appointing Auditors or re-appointing the retiring Auditors (unless they were last appointed otherwise than by the Company in General Meeting);

    • (e) fixing the remuneration of the Auditors or determining the manner in which such remuneration is to be fixed; and

    • (f) fixing the Directors fees.

  • 52. Any notice of a General Meeting to consider special business shall be accompanied by a statement regarding the effect of any proposed resolution on the Company in respect of such special business.

    PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

  • 53. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, failing whom the Deputy Chairman, shall preside as chairman at a General Meeting. If there be no such Chairman or Deputy Chairman, or if at any meeting neither be present within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting and willing to act, the Directors present shall choose one (1) of their number (or, if no Director be present or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair, the members present shall choose one (1) of their number) to be chairman.

  • 54. No business other than the appointment of a chairman shall be transacted at any General Meeting unless a quorum is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. Save as herein otherwise provided, the quorum at any General Meeting shall be two (2) members present in person or by proxy, Provided That (i) a proxy representing more than one (1) member shall only count as one (1) member for purpose of determining if the quorum aforesaid is present and (ii) where a member is represented by more than one (1) proxy, such proxies of such member shall only count as one (1) member for purpose of determining if the quorum aforesaid is present. In addition, for the purpose of determining a quorum, joint holders of any share shall be treated as one (1) member. A corporation or limited liability partnership being a member shall be deemed to be personally present if represented in

  • accordance with the provisions of Regulation 74.

  • 55. If within 30 minutes from the time appointed for a General Meeting (or such longer interval as the chairman may think fit to allow) a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week (or if that day is a public holiday then to the next business day following that public holiday) at the same time and place or such other day, time or place as the Directors may by not less than ten (10) days' notice appoint.

  • 56. The chairman of any General Meeting at which a quorum is present may with the consent of the meeting (and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from time to time (or sine die) and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting except business which might lawfully have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. Where a meeting is adjourned sine die, the time and place for the adjourned meeting shall be fixed by the Directors. When a meeting is adjourned for 30 days or more or sine die, not less than seven (7) days' notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given in like manner as in the case of the original meeting.

  • 57. Save as hereinbefore expressly provided, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.

  • 58. If an amendment shall be proposed to any resolution under consideration but shall in good faith be ruled out of order by the chairman, the proceedings on the substantive resolution shall not be invalidated by any error in such ruling. In the case of a resolution duly proposed as a Special Resolution, no amendment thereto (other than a mere clerical amendment to correct a patent error) may in any event be considered or voted upon.

59.

  • (A) If required by the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, all resolutions put to the vote at any General Meeting shall be decided by way of poll (unless such requirement is waived by the Designated Stock Exchange). If any votes be counted which ought not to have been counted or might have been rejected, the error shall not vitiate the result of the voting unless it be pointed out at the same General Meeting or at any adjournment thereof and not in any case unless it shall in the opinion of the chairman be of sufficient magnitude.

  • (B) Subject as otherwise provided in this Constitution, at any General Meeting a resolution put to the vote at any General Meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by:

    • (a) the chairman; or

    • (b) not less than five (5) members present in person or by proxy or by authority or in the case of a corporation by a representative and entitled to vote; or

    • (c) any member or members present in person or by proxy or by authority or in the case of a corporation by a representative, holding or representing as the case may be not less than five per cent. (5%) of the total voting rights of all the members having the right to vote at the General Meeting; or

    • (d) any member or members present in person or by proxy or by authority or in the case of a corporation by a representative, holding or representing as the case may be shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the General Meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than five per cent. (5%) of the total sum paid on all the shares conferring that right,

    Provided Always that no poll shall be demanded on the election of the chairman or on a question of adjournment. A poll on any other question shall be taken either immediately or at such subsequent time (not being more than 30 days from the date of the meeting) and place as the chairman may direct. No notice need be given of a poll not taken immediately. A demand for a poll may be withdrawn only with the approval of the General Meeting.

  • 60. Unless a poll is required, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the minute book, shall be conclusive evidence of that fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded for or against such resolution. If a poll is required, it shall be taken in such manner (including the use of ballot or voting papers or tickets or electronic means) as the chairman may direct, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. The chairman may (and if required by the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange or if so directed by the meeting shall) appoint scrutineers and may adjourn the meeting to some place and time fixed by him for the purpose of declaring the result of the poll.

  • 61. In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded shall be entitled to a casting vote.

  • 62. After the chairman shall have declared the General Meeting to be over and shall have left the chair no business or question shall under any pretext whatsoever be brought forward or discussed.

VOTES OF MEMBERS

63.

  • (A) Subject to any special rights, privileges or restrictions as to voting attached by or in accordance with this Constitution to any class of shares, each member entitled to vote may vote in person or by proxy.

  • (B) On a show of hands every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one (1) vote Provided That:

    • (a) in the case of a member who is not a relevant intermediary or a clearing house (or its nominee(s)) and who is represented by two (2) proxies, only one (1) of the two

      (2) proxies as determined by that member or, failing such determination, by the chairman (or by a person authorised by him) in his sole discretion shall be entitled to vote on a show of hands; and

    • (b) in the case of a member who is a relevant intermediary or a clearing house (or its nominee(s)) and who is represented by two (2) or more proxies, each proxy shall be entitled to vote on a show of hands.

  • (C) On a poll every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one (1) vote for every share of which he holds or represents.

  • (D) For the purposes of determining the number of votes which a member, being a Depositor, or his proxy or proxies may cast at any General Meeting on a poll, the references to shares held or represented shall, in relation to shares of that Depositor, be the number of shares entered against his name in the Depository Register as at 72 hours before the time of the relevant General Meeting as certified by the Depository or a clearing house to the Company. A member who is bankrupt shall not, while his bankruptcy continues, be entitled to exercise his rights as a member, or attend, vote or act at any meeting of the Company.

  • (E) Where the Company has knowledge that any member is, under the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, required to abstain from voting on any particular resolution of the Company or restricted to voting only for or only against any particular resolution of the Company, any votes cast by or on behalf of such member in contravention of such requirement or restriction shall not be counted.

  • 64. In the case of joint holders of a share, any one (1) of such persons may vote and be reckoned in a quorum at any General Meeting either personally or by proxy as if he was solely entitled thereto, but if more than one (1) of such persons is present at a meeting, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register of Members or, as the case may be, the order in which the names appear in the Depository Register in respect of the joint holding. Several executors or administrators of a deceased member in whose name any share stands shall for the purpose of this Regulation be deemed joint holders thereof.

  • 65. Where in Singapore or elsewhere a receiver or other person (by whatever name called) has been appointed by any court claiming jurisdiction in that behalf to exercise powers with respect to the property or affairs of any member on the ground (however formulated) of mental disorder, the Directors may in their absolute discretion, upon or subject to production of such evidence of the appointment as the Directors may require, permit such receiver or other person on behalf of such member, to vote in person or by proxy at any General Meeting, or to exercise any other right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company.

  • 66. No member shall be entitled in respect of shares held by him to vote at a General Meeting either personally or by proxy or to exercise any other right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company if any call or other sum payable by him to the Company in respect of such shares remains unpaid.

  • 67. No objection shall be raised as to the admissibility of any vote except at the General Meeting or adjourned General Meeting at which the vote objected to is or may be given or tendered and every vote not disallowed at such General Meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection shall be referred to the chairman whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

  • 68. On a poll, votes may be given either personally or by proxy and a person entitled to more than one (1) vote need not use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.

69.

  • (A) Save as otherwise provided in the Statutes:

  • (a) a member who is not a relevant intermediary or a clearing house (or its nominee(s)) may appoint not more than two (2) proxies to attend, speak and vote at the same General Meeting. Where such member's form of proxy appoints more than one (1) proxy, the proportion of the shareholding concerned to be represented by each proxy shall be specified in the form of proxy. If no proportion is specified, the Company shall be entitled to treat the first named proxy as representing the entire number of shares entered against his name in the Depository Register and any second named proxy as an alternate to the first named or at the Company's option to treat the instrument of proxy as invalid; and

  • (b) a member who is a relevant intermediary or a clearing house (or its nominee(s)) may appoint more than two (2) proxies to attend, speak and vote at the same General Meeting, but each proxy must be appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by such member. Where such member's form of proxy appoints more than two (2) proxies, the number and class of shares in relation to which each proxy has been appointed shall be specified in the instrument of proxy.

    (B)

  • (a) In any case where a member is a Depositor, the Company shall be entitled and bound:

    • (i) to reject any instrument of proxy lodged by that Depositor if he is not shown to have any shares entered against his name in the Depository Register as at 72 hours before the time of the General Meeting as certified by the Depository or a clearing house to the Company; and

    • (ii) to accept as the maximum number of votes which in aggregate the proxy or proxies appointed by the Depositor is or are able to cast on a poll a number which is the number of shares entered into against the name of that Depositor in the Depository Register as at 72 hours before the time of the General Meeting as certified by the Depository or a clearing house to the Company, whether that number is greater or smaller than the number specified in any instrument of proxy executed by or on behalf of that Depositor.

  • (b) The Company shall be entitled and bound, in determining rights to vote and other matters in respect of a completed instrument of proxy submitted to it, to have regard to the instructions (if any) given by and the notes (if any) set out in the instrument of proxy.

  • (C) A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

    70.

  • (A) An instrument appointing a proxy for any member shall be in writing in any usual or common form or in any other form which the Directors may approve (Provided That this shall not preclude the use of the two-way form) and:

    • (a) in the case of an individual member shall be:

      • (i) signed by the member or his attorney duly authorised in writing if the instrument of proxy is delivered personally or sent by post; or

      • (ii) authorised by the member through such method and in such manner as may be approved by the Directors, if the instrument is submitted by electronic communication; and

    • (b) in the case of a member which is a corporation shall be:

      • (i) either given under its common seal (or by the signatures of authorised persons in the manner set out under the Act as an alternative to sealing) or signed on its behalf by an attorney duly authorised in writing or a duly authorized officer of the corporation if the instrument of proxy is delivered personally or sent by post; or

      • (ii) authorised by the corporation through such method and in such manner as may be approved by the Directors, if the instrument is submitted by electronic communication.

      The Directors may, for the purposes of these Regulations 70(A)(a)(ii) and 70(A)(b)(ii), designate procedures for authenticating any such instrument, and any such instrument not so authenticated by use of such procedures shall be deemed not to have been received by the Company.

  • (B) The signatures on, or authorisation of, such instrument need not be witnessed. Where an instrument appointing a proxy is signed or authorised on behalf of a member (which shall, for purposes of this paragraph include a Depositor) by an attorney, the letter or power of attorney or a duly certified copy thereof shall (failing previous registration with the Company) be lodged with the instrument of proxy pursuant to Regulation 71, failing which the instrument of proxy may be treated as invalid.

  • (C) The Directors may, in their absolute discretion:

    • (a) approve the method and manner for an instrument appointing a proxy to be authorised; and

    • (b) designate the procedure for authenticating an instrument appointing a proxy,

    as contemplated in Regulations 70(A)(a)(ii) and 70(A)(b)(ii) for application to such members or class of members as they may determine. Where the Directors do not so approve and designate in relation to a member (whether of a class or otherwise), Regulation 70(A)(a)(i) and/or Regulation 70(A)(b)(i) (as the case may be) shall apply.

    71.

  • (A) An instrument appointing a proxy or the power of attorney or other authority, if any:

    • (a) if sent personally or by post, must be left at the Office or Registration Office or such other place (if any) as is specified for the purpose in or by way of note to or in any document accompanying the notice convening the General Meeting; or

    • (b) if submitted by electronic communication, must be received through such means as may be specified for that purpose in or by way of note to or in any document accompanying the notice convening the General Meeting,

    and in either case not less than 72 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the General Meeting or adjourned General Meeting (or in the case of a poll before the time appointed for the taking of the poll), and in default shall not be treated as valid. The deposit of an instrument appointing a proxy does not preclude the member concerned from attending and voting in person at the General Meeting, as well as for any adjournment of the General Meeting to which it relates. In such an event, the appointment of the proxy or proxies is deemed to be revoked by the member concerned at the point when the member attends the General Meeting.

  • (B) The Directors may, in their absolute discretion, and in relation to such members or class of members as they may determine, specify the means through which instruments appointing a proxy may be submitted by electronic communications, as contemplated in Regulation 71(A)(b). Where the Directors do not so specify in relation to a member (whether of a class or otherwise), Regulation 71(A)(a) shall apply.

  • (C) The instrument shall, unless the contrary is stated thereon, be valid as well for any adjournment of the General Meeting as for the meeting to which it relates, Provided That an instrument of proxy relating to more than one (1) meeting (including any adjournment thereof) having once been so delivered for the purposes of any meeting shall not require again to be delivered for the purposes of any subsequent meeting to which it relates.

  • 72. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to include the right to demand or join in demanding a poll, to move any resolution or amendment thereto and to speak at the meeting.

73.

  • (A) A vote cast by proxy in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy (which for the purposes of this Constitution shall also include a power of attorney) shall not be invalidated by the previous death or insanity of the principal or by the revocation of the appointment of the proxy or of the authority under which the appointment was made or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given, Provided That no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer shall have been received by the Company at the Office or Registration Office (or such other place as may be specified for the deposit of instruments appointing proxies) at least one (1) hour before the commencement of the General Meeting or adjourned General Meeting or (in the case of a poll taken otherwise than at or on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting) the time appointed for the taking of the poll at which the vote is cast.

  • (B) Subject to this Constitution and the Statutes, the Directors may, at their sole discretion, approve and implement, subject to such security measures as may be deemed necessary or expedient, such voting methods to allow members who are unable to vote in person at any General Meeting the option to vote in absentia, including but not limited to voting by mail, electronic mail or facsimile.

  • (C) If a clearing house (or its nominee(s)), being a corporation, is a member, it may authorise such persons as it thinks fit to act as its representatives or proxies at any General Meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of members Provided Always that, if more than one (1) person is so authorised, the authorisation or proxy form shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which each such representative is so authorised. Each person so authorised under the provisions of this Regulation shall be deemed to have been duly authorised without the need to produce any further documents of title, notarised authorisation and/or other evidence of fact to substantiate that such person is duly authorised, and shall be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the clearing house (or its nominee(s)) as if such person was the registered holder of the shares of the Company held by the clearing house (or its nominee(s)).

  • (D) (a) The Company shall keep in one (1) or more books a Register of Members and shall enter therein the following particulars, that is to say:

    • (i) the name and address of each member, the number and class of shares held by him and the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on such shares;

    • (ii) the date on which each person was entered in the Register of Members; and

    • (iii) the date on which any person ceased to be a member.

(b) The Company may keep an overseas or local or other branch register of members resident in any place, and the Directors may make and vary such regulations as they determine necessary, desirable or expedient in respect of the keeping of any such register and maintaining a Registration Office in connection therewith.

  • (E) The Register of Members and branch register of members, as the case may be, shall be open to inspection for at least two (2) hours on every business day by members without charge or by any other person, upon a maximum payment of S$1.00 (or its Hong Kong dollar equivalent based on the prevailing exchange rate as determined by the Directors) or such lesser sum specified by the Directors, at the Office or such other place at which the Register is kept in accordance with the Statutes or, if appropriate, upon a maximum payment of S$1.00 (or its Hong Kong dollar equivalent based on the prevailing exchange rate as determined by the Directors) or such lesser sum specified by the Directors at the Registration Office. The Register of Members including any overseas or local or other branch register of members may, after notice has been given by advertisement in an appointed newspaper or any other newspapers in accordance with the requirements of any Designated Stock Exchange or by any electronic means in such manner as may be accepted by the Designated Stock Exchange to that effect, be closed at such times or for such periods not exceeding in the whole 30 days in each year as the Directors may determine and either generally or in respect of any class of shares.

  • (F) Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Regulations, but subject to the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company or the Directors may fix any date as the record date for:

    • (a) determining the members entitled to receive any dividend, distribution, allotment or issue; and/or

    • (b) determining the members entitled to receive notice of and to vote at any General Meeting of the Company.

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES

74.

Any corporation or limited liability partnership which is a member of the Company may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorize such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any General Meeting of the Company or of any class of members of the Company. The person so authorized shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of such corporation or limited liability partnership as the corporation or limited liability partnership could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company and such corporation or limited liability partnership shall for the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be present (but subject to the Act) in person at any such meeting if a person so authorized is present thereat.

DIRECTORS

  • 75. Subject as hereinafter provided, the Directors, all of whom shall be natural persons, shall not be less than two (2) nor more than 12 in number. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution from time to time vary the maximum number of Directors.

  • 76. A Director shall not be required to hold any shares of the Company by way of qualification. A Director who is not a member of the Company shall nevertheless be entitled to receive notice of and to attend and speak at General Meetings.

  • 77. The ordinary remuneration of the Directors, which shall from time to time be determined by an Ordinary Resolution of the Company, shall not be increased except pursuant to an Ordinary Resolution passed at a General Meeting where notice of the proposed increase shall have been given in the notice convening the General Meeting and shall (unless such resolution otherwise provides) be divisible among the Directors as they may agree, or failing agreement, equally, except that any Director who shall hold office for part only of the period in respect of which such remuneration is payable shall be entitled only to rank in such division for a proportion of remuneration related to the period during which he has held office. The ordinary remuneration of the Directors shall be payable by a fixed sum and not by a commission on or percentage of profits or turnover.

  • 78. Any Director who holds any executive office, or who serves on any committee of the Directors, or who otherwise performs services which in the opinion of the Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a Director, may be paid such extra remuneration in addition to or in substitution for his ordinary remuneration as a Director, and may be made payable by way of salary or otherwise as the Directors may determine, Provided That such extra remuneration (in the case of executive Directors) may not include a commission on or a percentage of turnover and (in the case of non-executive Directors) shall be by a fixed sum, and not by a commission on or a percentage of profits or turnover.

  • 79. The Directors may repay to any Director all such reasonable expenses as he may incur in attending and returning from meetings of the Directors or of any committee of the Directors or General Meetings or otherwise in or about the business of the Company.

  • 80. The Directors shall have power to pay and agree to pay pensions or other retirement, superannuation, death or disability benefits to (or to any person in respect of) any Director for the time being holding any executive office and for the purpose of providing any such pensions or other benefits to contribute to any scheme or fund or to pay premiums.

81.

  • (A) Subject to the Statutes and the provisions of the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, other than the office of Auditor, a Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company and he or any firm of which he is a member may act in a professional capacity for the Company in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine. No Director or intending Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting or entering into any arrangement or transaction with the Company either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise nor shall such contract, arrangement or transaction or any contract, arrangement or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director shall be in any way interested be avoided nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such contract, arrangement or transaction by reason only of such Director holding that office or of the fiduciary relation thereby established but every Director and Chief Executive Officer (or person(s) holding an equivalent position) shall observe the provisions of the Statutes or listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange relating to the disclosure of the interests of the Directors and Chief Executive Officers (or person(s) holding an equivalent position) in transactions or proposed transactions with the Company or of any office or property held by a Director or a Chief Executive Officer (or person(s) holding an equivalent position) which might create duties or interests in conflict with his duties or interests as a Director or a Chief Executive Officer (or an equivalent position), as the case may be.

  • (B) For the avoidance of doubt, as long as the shares of the Company are listed on The

    Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, an independent non-executive Director or any firm of which he is a member shall not be allowed to act in any professional capacity for the Company during the tenure of his office as an independent non-executive

    Director and at any time during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding his appointment.

81A. (A) A Director who to his knowledge is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, interested in a contract or arrangement or proposed contract or arrangement with the

Company shall declare the nature of his interest at the meeting of the Directors at which the question of entering into the contract or arrangement is first considered, if he knows his interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Directors after he knows that he is or has become so interested. For the purposes of this Regulation a general notice to the Directors to the effect that:

  • (b) he is a member or officer of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement which may after the date of the notice be made with that company or firm, or

  • (c) he is to be regarded as interested in any contract or arrangement, which may after the date of the notice be made with a specified person who is connected with him, shall be deemed to be a sufficient declaration of interest under this Regulation in relation to any such contract or arrangement,

Provided Always that no such notice shall be effective unless either it is (i) given at a meeting of the Directors or the Director takes reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read at the next Directors meeting after it is given or (ii) given in accordance with the Statutes.

  • (B) Except as would, if the Company was a company incorporated in Hong Kong, be permitted by Section 505 of the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong) as in force at the date of adoption of these Regulations, and except as permitted under the Statutes, the Company shall not directly or indirectly:

    • (a) make a loan to a Director or a director of any holding company of the Company or to any of their respective associates (as defined by the listing rules, where applicable, of the Designated Stock Exchange);

    • (b) enter into any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to a Director or such a director; or

    • (c) if any one (1) or more of the Directors hold (jointly or severally or directly or indirectly) a controlling interest in another company, make a loan to that other company or enter into any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any person to that other company.

    This Regulation 81A(B) shall only have effect for so long as the shares of the Company are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

  • (C) A Director shall not vote (nor be counted in the quorum) on any resolution of the

    Directors approving any transaction, contract or arrangement or any other proposal in which he or any of his close associates directly or indirectly has a personal material interest. If any question shall arise at any meeting of the Directors as to the materiality of the interest of a Director or the significance of a contract, arrangement or transaction or proposed contract, arrangement 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 agreeing to abstain from voting or not to be counted in the quorum, such question shall be referred to the chairman (or, where the question relates to the interest of the chairman, to the other Directors at the meeting) and his ruling (or, as appropriate, the ruling of the other Directors) in relation to such other Director (or, as appropriate, the chairman) shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Director concerned (or, as appropriate, the chairman) as known to such Director (or, as appropriate, the chairman) has not been fairly disclosed to the Directors. Upon approval by a majority of the independent non-executive Directors, professional advisors at the cost of the Company can be engaged without the need to obtain prior approval from other Directors.

  • (D) The provisions of this Regulation may at any time be suspended or relaxed to any extent and either generally or in respect of any particular contract, arrangement or transaction by the Company in General Meeting, and any particular contract, arrangement or transaction carried out in contravention of this Regulation may be ratified by Ordinary Resolution of the Company, subject to the Statutes and any applicable laws, Provided That a Director (who is also a member) whose action is being ratified by that Ordinary Resolution shall refrain from voting on that Ordinary Resolution as a member at that General Meeting.

    82.

  • (A) The Directors may from time to time appoint one (1) or more of their body to be the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Company (whether such appointment is executive or non-executive in nature) or be the holder of any executive office under the Company or under any other company in which the Company is in any way interested (including, where considered appropriate, the office of Chairman or Deputy Chairman) on such terms and for such period as they may (subject to the provisions of the Statutes) determine and, without prejudice to the terms of any contract entered into in any particular case, may at any time revoke any such appointment.

  • (B) The appointment of any Director to the office of Chairman or Deputy Chairman or Managing or Joint Managing or Deputy or Assistant Managing Director shall automatically determine if he ceases to be a Director but without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any contract of service between him and the Company.

  • (C) The appointment of any Director to any other executive office shall not automatically determine if he ceases from any cause to be a Director, unless the contract or resolution under which he holds office shall expressly state otherwise, in which event such determination shall be without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any contract of service between him and the Company.

  • 83. The Directors may entrust to and confer upon any Directors holding any executive office under the Company or any other company as aforesaid any of the powers exercisable by them as Directors upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they think fit, and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers, and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.

    MANAGING DIRECTORS

  • 84. The Directors may from time to time appoint one (1) or more of their body to be Managing Director or Managing Directors (or such equivalent positions) of the Company and may from time to time (subject to the provisions of any contract between him or them and the Company) remove or dismiss him or them from office and appoint another or others in his or their places. Where an appointment is for a fixed term such term shall not exceed five (5) years.

  • 85. A Managing Director (or person holding an equivalent position) shall, subject to the provisions of any contract between him and the Company, be subject to the same provisions as to resignation and removal as the other Directors of the Company and if he ceases to hold the office of Director from any cause, he shall ipso facto and immediately cease to be a Managing Director (or such equivalent position).

  • 86. The remuneration of a Managing Director (or such equivalent position) shall from time to time be fixed by the Directors and may subject to this Constitution be by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or by any or all these modes but he shall not under any circumstances be remunerated by a commission on or a percentage of turnover.

  • 87. A Managing Director (or person holding an equivalent position) shall at all times be subject to the control of the Directors but subject thereto the Directors may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director (or person holding an equivalent position) for the time being such of the powers exercisable under this Constitution by the Directors as they may think fit and may confer such powers for such time and to be exercised on such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they think expedient and they may confer such powers either collaterally with or to the exclusion of and in substitution for all or any of the powers of the Directors in that behalf and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.

    APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT OF DIRECTORS

  • 88. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution appoint any person to be a Director either as an additional Director or to fill a casual vacancy. Without prejudice thereto the Directors shall also have power at any time so to do, but so that the total number of Directors shall not thereby exceed the maximum number fixed by or in accordance with this Constitution. Any person so appointed by the Directors shall hold office only until the next Annual General Meeting and shall then be eligible for re-election, but shall not be taken into account in determining the number of Directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.

  • 89. At each Annual General Meeting, one-third of the Directors for the time being (or, if their number is not a multiple of three (3), as nearly as possible to one-third) shall retire from office by rotation, Provided That each Director shall be subject to retirement and rotation at least once in every three (3) years.

  • 90. The Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to obtain the number required) any Director who is due to retire at the meeting by reason of age or who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those of the other Directors subject to retirement by rotation who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that as between persons who became or were last re-elected Directors on the same day, those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by ballot. A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election.

  • 91. The Company at the General Meeting at which a Director retires under any provision of this Constitution may by Ordinary Resolution fill the office being vacated by electing thereto the retiring Director or some other person eligible for appointment. In default, the retiring Director shall be deemed to have been re-elected except in any of the following cases:

    • (a) where at such meeting it is expressly resolved not to fill such office or a resolution for the re-election of such Director is put to the meeting and lost; or

    • (b) where such Director has given notice in writing to the Company that he is unwilling to be re-elected or where such Director is disqualified under the Statues from holding office as Director; or

    • (c) where such Director is disqualified from acting as a director in any jurisdiction for reasons other than on technical grounds; or

    • (d) where the default is due to the moving of a resolution in contravention of Regulation 92; or

    • (e) where such Director has attained any retiring age applicable to him as Director.

    The retirement shall not have effect until the conclusion of the General Meeting except where a resolution is passed to elect some other person in the place of the retiring Director or a resolution for his re-election is put to the meeting and lost and accordingly a retiring Director who is re-elected or deemed to have been re-elected will continue in office without a break.

  • 92. A resolution for the appointment of two (2) or more persons as Directors by a single resolution shall not be moved at any General Meeting unless a resolution that it shall be so moved has first been agreed to by the meeting without any vote being given against it, and any resolution moved in contravention of this provision shall be void.

  • 93. No person other than a Director retiring at the meeting shall, unless recommended by the Directors for election, be eligible for appointment as a Director at any General Meeting unless not less than 11 clear days and not more than 42 days before the date appointed for the meeting there shall have been lodged at the Office notice in writing signed by some member (other than the person to be proposed) duly qualified to attend and vote at the meeting 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 willingness to be elected, Provided That in the case of a person recommended by the Directors for election, not less than nine (9) clear days' notice shall be necessary and notice of each and every such person shall be served on the members at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting at which the election is to take place.

  • 94. The office of a Director shall be vacated in any of the following events, namely:

    • (a) if he shall cease to be Director by virtue of the Act or become prohibited or disqualified by the Statutes or any other law from acting as a Director; or

    • (b) if (not being a Director holding any executive office for a fixed term) he shall resign by writing under his hand left at the Office or if he shall in writing offer to resign and the Directors shall resolve to accept such offer; or

    • (c) if he shall become bankrupt or have a receiving order made against him or shall make arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or

    • (d) if he becomes of unsound mind or mentally disordered and incapable of managing himself or his affairs, or if in Singapore or elsewhere an order shall be made by any court claiming jurisdiction in that behalf on the ground (however formulated) of mental disorder for his detention or for the appointment of a guardian or for the appointment of a receiver or other person (by whatever name called) to exercise powers with respect to his property or affairs; or

    • (e) is absent, for a continuous period of more than six (6) months and without leave of the Directors, from meetings of the Directors held during that period;

    • (f) if he is disqualified from acting as a director in any jurisdiction for reasons other than on technical grounds; or

    • (g) if he is removed by the Company in General Meeting pursuant to this Constitution.

  • 95. The Company may in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Statutes, by Ordinary Resolution of which special notice has been given, remove any Director (including a managing or other executive director) from office before the expiration of his period of office (notwithstanding any provision of this Constitution or of any agreement between the Company and such Director, but without prejudice to any claim he may have for damages for breach of any such agreement) and appoint another person in place of a Director so removed from office, and any person so appointed shall be treated for the purpose of determining the time at which he or any other Director is to retire by rotation as if he had become a Director on the day on which the Director in whose place he is appointed was last appointed a Director. In default of such appointment the vacancy so arising may be filled by the Directors as casual vacancy.

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

96.

  • (A) Any Director may at any time by writing under his hand and deposited at the Office, or delivered at a meeting of the Directors, appoint any person approved by a majority of his co-directors (other than another Director or a person who has already been appointed alternate for another Director) to be his alternate Director and may in like manner at any time terminate such appointment. Such appointment, unless previously approved by a majority of the Directors, shall have effect only upon and subject to being so approved.

  • (B) The appointment of an alternate Director shall determine on the happening of any event which if he were a Director would cause him to vacate such office or if the Director concerned (below called "his principal") ceases to be a Director.

  • (C) An alternate Director shall be entitled to receive notices of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which his principal is not personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his principal as a Director, and for the purposes of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of this Constitution shall apply as if he (instead of his principal) were a Director. If his principal is for the time being absent from Singapore or temporarily unable to act through ill health or disability, his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his principal. To such extent as the Directors may from time to time determine in relation to any committees of the Directors, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall also apply mutatis mutandis to any meeting of any such committee of which his principal is a member. An alternate Director shall not (save as aforesaid) have any power to act as a Director nor shall he be deemed to be a Director for any other purposes of this Constitution.

  • (D) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements 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 shall not be entitled to receive from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director any remuneration except only such part (if any) of the remuneration otherwise payable to his principal as such principal may by notice in writing to the Company from time to time direct Provided That any fees payable to him shall be deducted from his principal's remuneration.

  • (E) Any appointment or removal of an alternate Director shall be effected by notice in writing to the Company under the hand of the Director making the appointment or removal.

  • (F) A person shall not act as alternate Director to more than one (1) Director at the same time.

MEETINGS AND PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

  • 97. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Directors may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit. At any time, any Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a Director shall, summon a meeting of Directors. Notice of any such meeting may be given by means of electronic communication to all the Directors whether such Directors are within Singapore or otherwise. Any Director may waive notice of any meeting and any such waiver may be retroactive. Directors may participate in a meeting of the Directors by means of a conference telephone, video conferencing, audio visual, or other similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, without a Director being in the physical presence of another Director or Directors, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this Regulation shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. A Director participating in a meeting in the manner aforesaid may also be taken into account in ascertaining the presence of a quorum at the meeting. Such a meeting shall be deemed to take place where the largest group of Directors present for the purpose of the meeting is assembled or, if there is no such group, where the Chairman of the meeting is present.

  • 98. The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed from time to time by the Directors and unless so fixed at any other number, shall be two (2). A meeting of the Directors at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all powers and discretions for the time being exercisable by the Directors.

  • 99. Questions arising at any meeting of the Directors shall be determined by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes (except where only two (2) Directors are present and form the quorum or when only two (2) Directors are competent to vote on the question in issue), the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

  • 100. A Director shall not vote in respect of any contract or arrangement or any other proposal whatsoever in which he has any interest, directly or indirectly. A Director shall not be counted in the quorum at a meeting in relation to any resolution on which he is debarred from voting.

  • 101. The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancies, but if and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below the minimum number fixed by or in accordance with this Constitution, the continuing Directors or Director may, except in an emergency, act for the purpose of filling up such vacancies or of summoning General Meetings, but not for any other purpose. If there be no Directors or Director able or willing to act, then any two (2) members may summon a General Meeting for the purpose of appointing Directors.

102. (A) The Directors may elect from their number a Chairman and a Deputy Chairman (or two (2) or more Deputy Chairmen) and determine the period for which each is to hold office. The Deputy Chairman will perform the duties of the Chairman during the Chairman's absence for any reason. If no Chairman or Deputy Chairman shall have been appointed or if at any meeting of the Directors no Chairman or Deputy Chairman shall be present within five (5) minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Directors present may choose one (1) of their number to be chairman.

(B) If at any time there is more than one (1) Deputy Chairman, the right in the absence of the Chairman to preside at a meeting of the Directors or of the Company shall be determined as between the Deputy Chairmen present (if more than one (1)) by seniority in length of appointment or otherwise as resolved by the Directors.

103. A resolution in writing signed by a majority of the Directors for the time being (who are not prohibited by the law or this Constitution from voting on such resolutions) and constituting a quorum shall be as effective as a resolution duly passed at a meeting of the Directors and may consist of several documents in the like form, each signed by one (1) or more Directors.

The expressions "in writing" and "signed" include approval by any such Director by telefax, telex, cable or telegram or any form of electronic communication approved by the Directors for such purpose from time to time incorporating, if the Directors deem necessary, the use of security and/or identification procedures and devices approved by the Directors.

  • 104. The Directors may delegate any of their powers or discretion to committees consisting of one (1) or more members of their body and (if thought fit) one (1) or more other persons co-opted as hereinafter provided. Any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations which may from time to time be imposed by the Directors. Any such regulations may provide for or authorize the co-option to the committee of persons other than Directors and for such co-opted members to have voting rights as members of the committee.

  • 105. The meetings and proceedings of any such committee consisting of two (2) or more members shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of this Constitution regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Directors, so far as the same are not superseded by any

  • regulations made by the Directors under Regulation 104.

  • 106. All acts done by any meeting of Directors, or of any such committee, or by any person acting as a Director or as a member of any such committee, shall as regards all persons dealing in good faith with the Company, notwithstanding that there was defect in the appointment of any of the persons acting as aforesaid, or that any such persons was at the time of his appointment not qualified for appointment or subsequently became disqualified or had vacated office, or was not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified and had continued to be a Director or member of the committee and had been entitled to vote.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

  • 107. An audit committee shall be appointed by the Directors, in accordance with Section 201B of the Act and subject to the requirements under the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

    BORROWING POWERS

  • 108. Subject as hereinafter provided and to the provisions of the Statutes, the Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money, to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital and to issue debentures and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

    GENERAL POWERS OF DIRECTORS

  • 109. The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction or supervision of the Directors, who may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Statutes or by this Constitution required to be exercised by the Company in General Meeting, subject nevertheless to any regulations of this Constitution, to the provisions of the Statutes and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by Special Resolution of the Company, but no regulation so made by the Company shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made. The general powers given by this Regulation shall not be limited or restricted by any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Regulation.

  • 110. The Directors shall not carry into effect any proposals for selling or disposing of the whole or substantially the whole of the Company's undertaking save in accordance with the Act.

  • 111. The Directors may establish any local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company, either in Singapore or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local boards, or any managers or agents, and may fix their remuneration, and may delegate to any local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Directors, with power to sub-delegate, and may authorize the members of any local boards, or any of them, to fill any vacancies therein, and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and any such appointment or delegation may be made upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and the Directors may remove any person so appointed, and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.

  • 112. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney or otherwise appoint any company, firm or person or any fluctuating body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under this Constitution) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such power of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit, and may also authorize any such attorney to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.

  • 113. The Company or the Directors on behalf of the Company may in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred by the Statutes cause to be kept a branch register or Registers of Members and the Directors may (subject to the provisions of the Statutes) make and vary such regulations as they may think fit in respect of the keeping of any such register(s).

  • 114. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other negotiable or transferable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.

  • 115. The Directors shall cause minutes to be duly made and entered in books provided for such purpose:

    • (a) of all appointments of officers to be engaged in the management of the Company's affairs;

    • (b) of the names of the Directors present at all meetings of the Company, of the Directors and of any committee of Directors; and

    • (c) of all proceedings at all meetings of the Company, of the Directors and of any committee of Directors.

    Such minutes shall be signed by the chairman at which the proceedings were held or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting. Such minutes shall be receivable as prima facie evidence of the matters stated in such minutes.

SECRETARY

116. The Secretary shall be appointed by the Directors on such terms and for such period as they may think fit. Any Secretary so appointed may at any time be removed from office by the Directors, but without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any contract of service between him and the Company. If thought fit, two (2) or more persons may be appointed as Secretaries. The Directors may also appoint from time to time on such terms as they may think fit one (1) or more assistant Secretaries. The appointment and duties of the Secretary or Secretaries shall not conflict with the provisions of the Statutes (in particular Section 171 of the Act) and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

THE SEAL

117.

  • (A) The Directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal which shall not be used without the authority of the Directors or of a committee authorized by the Directors in that behalf.

  • (B) The general powers given by this Regulation shall not be limited or restricted by any special authority or power given to the Directors by any other Regulation.

  • 118. Every instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed autographically or by facsimile by one (1) Director and the Secretary or by two (2) Directors or some other person appointed by the Directors, save that as regards any certificates for shares or debentures or other securities of the Company, the Directors may by resolution determine that such signatures or either of them shall be dispensed with or affixed by some method of mechanical electronic signature or other method approved by the Directors.

119.

  • (A) The Company may exercise the powers conferred by the Statutes with regard to having an official seal for use abroad and such powers shall be vested in the Directors.

  • (B) The Company may exercise the powers conferred by the Statutes with regard to having a duplicate Seal as referred to in Section 124 of the Act which shall be a facsimile of the Seal with the addition on its face of the words "Share Seal".

    KEEPING OF STATUTORY RECORDS

    120.

  • (A) The Directors shall duly comply with the provisions of the Act and in particular the provisions with regard to the registration of charges created by or affecting property of the Company, in regard to keeping a Register of Members, a Register of Mortgages and Charges and a Register of Directors' and Chief Executive Officer's Share and Debenture Holdings, and in regard to the production and furnishing of copies of such Registers and of any Register of Holders of Debentures of the Company.

(B) Any register, index, minute book, accounting record or other book required to be kept by the Company under the Statutes may, subject to and in accordance with the Act, be kept either in hard copy or in electronic form, and arranged in the manner that the Directors think fit. If such records are kept in electronic form, the Directors shall ensure that they are capable of being reproduced in hard copy form, and shall provide for the manner in which the records are to be authenticated and verified. In any case where such records are kept otherwise than in hard copy form, the Directors shall take reasonable precautions for ensuring the proper maintenance and authenticity of such records, guarding against falsification and facilitating the discovery of any falsifications. The Company shall cause true English translations of all accounts, minute books or other records required to be kept by the Company under the Statutes which are not kept in English to be made from time to time at intervals of not more than seven (7) days, and shall keep the translations with the originals for so long as the originals are required under the Statutes to be kept. The Company shall also keep at the Office certified English translations of all instruments, certificates, contracts or documents not written in English which the Company is required under the Statutes to make available for public inspection.

AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

121. Any Director or the Secretary or any person appointed by the Directors for the purpose shall have power to authenticate any document affecting the constitution of the Company and any resolutions passed by the Company or the Directors or any committee and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of the Company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies or extracts, and where any books, records, documents or accounts are elsewhere than at the Office, the local manager or other officer of the Company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be a person appointed by the Directors as aforesaid. A document purporting to be a copy of a resolution, or an extract from the minutes of a meeting, of the Company or of the Directors or any committee which is certified as aforesaid, shall be conclusive evidence in favour of all persons dealing with the Company upon the faith thereof that such resolution has been duly passed, or as the case may be, that any minute so extracted is a true and accurate record of proceedings at a duly constituted meeting. Any authentication or certification made pursuant to this Regulation may be made by any electronic means approved by the Directors from time to time for such purpose incorporating, if the Directors deem necessary, the use of security procedures or devices approved by the Directors.

RESERVES

  • 122. The Directors may from time to time set aside out of the profits of the Company and carry to reserve such sums as they think proper which, at the discretion of the Directors, shall be applicable for any purpose to which the profits of the Company may properly be applied and pending such application may either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested. The Directors may divide the reserve into such special funds as they think fit and may consolidate into one fund any special funds or any parts of any special funds into which the reserve may have been divided. The Directors may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profits. In carrying sums to reserve and in applying the same, the Directors shall comply with the provisions of the Statutes.

    DIVIDENDS

  • 123. The Company may by Ordinary Resolution declare dividends but no such dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the Directors.

  • 124. If and so far as in the opinion of the Directors, the profits of the Company justify such payments, the Directors may declare and pay the fixed dividends on any class of shares carrying a fixed dividend expressed to be payable on fixed dates on the half-yearly or other dates prescribed for the payment thereof and may also from time to time declare and pay interim dividends on shares of any class of such amounts and on such dates and in respect of such periods as they think fit.

  • 125. Unless and to the extent that the rights attached to any shares or the terms of issue thereof otherwise provide and except as otherwise permitted under the Statutes:

    • (a) all dividends in respect of shares must be paid in proportion to the number of shares held by a member but where shares are partly paid all dividends must be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the partly paid shares; and

    • (b) all dividends must (as regards any shares not fully paid throughout the period in respect of which the dividend is paid) be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amounts so paid on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid.

    For the purposes of this Regulation, no amount paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated as paid on the share.

126.

  • (A) No dividend shall be paid otherwise than out of profits available for distribution under the provisions of the Statutes. The payment by the Directors of any unclaimed dividends or other monies payable on or in respect of a share into a separate account shall not constitute the Company a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends remaining unclaimed after one (1) year from having been first payable may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company, and any dividend or any such monies unclaimed after six (6) years from having been first payable shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company Provided Always that the Directors may at any time thereafter at their absolute discretion annul any such forfeiture and pay the dividend so forfeited to the person entitled thereto prior to the forfeiture. If the Depository or a clearing house returns any such dividend or monies to the Company, the relevant Depositor shall not have any right or claim in respect of such dividend or monies against the Company if a period of six (6) years has elapsed from the date of the declaration of such dividend or the date on which such other monies are first payable.

  • (B) A payment by the Company to the Depository or a clearing house of any dividend or other monies payable to a Depositor shall, to the extent of the payment made, discharge the Company from any liability to the Depositor in respect of that payment.

127. No dividend or other monies payable on or in respect of a share shall bear interest as against the Company.

128.

  • (A) The Directors may retain any dividend or other monies payable on or in respect of a share on which the Company has a lien and may apply the same in or towards satisfaction of the debts, liabilities or engagements in respect of which the lien exists.

  • (B) The Directors may retain the dividends payable upon shares in respect of which any person is under the provisions as to the transmission of shares hereinbefore contained entitled to become a member, or which any person is under those provisions entitled to transfer, until such person shall become a member in respect of such shares or shall transfer the same.

  • (C) A transfer of shares shall not pass the right to any dividend declared thereon before the registration of the transfer.

  • 129. The waiver in whole or in part of any dividend on any share by any document (whether or not under seal) shall be effective only if such document is signed by the member (or the person entitled to the share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder) and delivered to the Company and if or to the extent that the same is accepted as such or acted upon by the Company.

130. The Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors by Ordinary Resolution direct payment of a dividend in whole or in part by the distribution of specific assets (and in particular of paid-up shares or debentures of any other company or in any one (1) or more of such ways) and the Directors shall give effect to such resolution. Where any difficulty arises with regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and in particular, may issue fractional certificates, may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof, may determine that cash payments shall be made to any member upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties and may vest any such specific assets in trustees as may seem expedient to the Directors.

130A. (1) Whenever the Directors or the Company in General Meeting have resolved or proposed that a dividend (including an interim, final, special or other dividend) be paid or declared on the shares of a particular class of the Company, the Directors may further resolve that members entitled to such dividend be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares of that class credited as fully paid in lieu of cash in respect of the whole or such part of the dividend as the Directors may think fit. In such case, the following provisions shall apply:

  • (a) the basis of any such allotment shall be determined by the Directors;

  • (b) the Directors shall determine the manner in which members shall be entitled to elect to receive an allotment of shares of the relevant class credited as fully paid in lieu of cash in respect of the whole or such part of any dividend in respect of which the Directors shall have passed such a resolution as aforesaid, and the Directors may make such arrangements as to the giving of notice to members, providing for forms of election for completion by members (whether in respect of a particular dividend or dividends or generally), determining the procedure for making such elections or revoking the same and the place at which and the latest date and time by which any forms of election or other documents by which elections are made or revoked must be lodged, and otherwise make all such arrangements and do all such things, as the Directors consider necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions of this Regulation;

  • (c) the right of election may be exercised in respect of the whole of that portion of the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been accorded Provided That the Directors may determine, either generally or in any specific case, that such right shall be exercisable in respect of the whole or any part of that portion; and

  • (d) the dividend (or that part of the dividend in respect of which a right of election has been accorded) shall not be payable in cash on the shares of the relevant class in respect whereof the share election has been duly exercised (the "elected shares") and, in lieu and in satisfaction thereof, shares of the relevant class shall be allotted and credited as fully paid to the holders of the elected shares on the basis of allotment determined as aforesaid and for such purpose and (notwithstanding any provision of the Regulations to the contrary), the Directors shall be empowered to do all things necessary and convenient for the purpose of implementing the aforesaid including, without limitation, the making of each necessary allotment of shares of the relevant class and of each necessary appropriation, capitalisation, application, payment and distribution of funds which may be lawfully appropriated, capitalised, applied, paid or distributed for the purpose of the allotment and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Directors may:

    • (i) capitalise and apply the amount standing to the credit of any of the Company's reserve accounts or any sum standing to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise for distribution as the Directors may determine, such sum as may be required to pay up in full the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and among the holders of the elected shares on such basis, or

    • (ii) apply the sum which would otherwise have been payable in cash to the holders of the elected shares towards payment of the appropriate number of shares of the relevant class for allotment and distribution to and among the holders of the elected shares on such basis.

    (2)

  • (a) The shares of the relevant class allotted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Regulation shall rank pari passu in all respects with the shares of such class then in issue save only as regards participation in the dividend which is the subject of the election referred to above (including the right to make the election referred to above) or any other distributions, bonuses or rights paid, made, declared or announced prior to or contemporaneous with the payment or declaration of the dividend which is the subject of the election referred to above, unless the Directors shall otherwise specify.

The Directors may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any appropriation, capitalisation, application, payment and distribution of funds pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Regulation, with full power to make such provisions as they think fit in the case of fractional entitlements to shares (including, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in these Regulations, provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are disregarded or rounded up or down, or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than the members) and to authorize any person to enter on behalf of all the members interested into an agreement with the Company providing for any such appropriation, capitalisation, application, payment and distribution of funds and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

  • (3) The Directors may, on any occasion when they resolve as provided in paragraph (1) of this Regulation, determine that the rights of election under that paragraph shall not be made available to the persons who are registered as holders of shares in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) in the Depository Register, or in respect of shares the transfer of which is registered, after such date as the Directors may fix subject to such exceptions as the Directors think fit, and in such event the provisions of this Regulation shall be read and construed subject to such determination.

  • (4) The Directors may, on any occasion when they resolve as provided in paragraph (1) of this Regulation, further determine that no allotment of shares or rights of election for shares under that paragraph shall be made available or made to members whose registered addresses entered in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register is outside Singapore or to such other members or class of members as the Directors may in their sole discretion decide and in such event the only entitlements of the members aforesaid shall be to receive in cash the relevant dividend resolved or proposed to be paid or declared.

  • (5) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Regulation, if at any time after the Directors' resolution to apply the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Regulation in relation to any dividend but prior to the allotment of shares pursuant thereto, the Directors shall consider that by reason of any event or circumstance (whether arising before or after such resolution) or by reason of any matter whatsoever it is no longer expedient or appropriate to implement that proposal, the Directors may at their absolute discretion and as they deem fit in the interest of the Company, cancel the proposed application of paragraph (1) of this Regulation.

  • 131. Any dividend or other moneys payable in cash on or in respect of a share may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post to the registered address appearing in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register of the member or person entitled thereto (or, if two (2) or more persons are registered in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) entered in the Depository Register as joint holders of the share or are entitled thereto in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder, to any one (1) of such persons) or to such person and such address as such member or person or persons may by writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent or to such person as the holder or joint holders or person or persons entitled to the share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder may direct and payment of the cheque or warrant by the banker upon whom it is drawn shall be a good discharge to the Company. Every such cheque or warrant shall be sent at the risk of the person entitled to the money represented thereby.

  • 132. If two (2) or more persons are registered in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register as joint holders of any share, or are entitled jointly to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder, any one (1) of them may give effectual receipts for any dividend, return of capital or other moneys payable or property distributable on or in respect of the share.

  • 133. Any resolution declaring a dividend on shares of any class, whether a resolution of the Company in General Meeting or a resolution of the Directors, may specify that the same shall be payable to the persons registered as the holders of such shares in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register at the close of business on a particular date and thereupon the dividend shall be payable to them in accordance with their respective holdings so registered, but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of such dividend of transferors and transferees of any such shares.

    BONUS ISSUE AND CAPITALIZATION OF PROFITS AND RESERVES

  • 134. (A) The Directors may, with the sanction of an Ordinary Resolution of the Company (including any Ordinary Resolution passed pursuant to Regulation 4(D)):

(a)

issue bonus shares for which no consideration is payable to the Company to the persons registered as holders of shares in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register at the close of business on:

  • (i) the date of the Ordinary Resolution (or such other date as may be specified therein or determined as therein provided); or

  • (ii) (in the case of an Ordinary Resolution passed pursuant to Regulation 4(D)) such other date as may be determined by the Directors,

in proportion to their then holdings of shares; and/or

capitalize any sum standing to the credit of any of the Company's reserve accounts or other undistributable reserve or any sum standing to the credit of profit and loss account by appropriating such sum to the persons registered as holders of shares in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register at the close of business:

  • (i) on the date of the Ordinary Resolution (or such other date as may be specified therein or determined as therein provided); or

  • (ii) (in the case of an Ordinary Resolution passed pursuant to Regulation 4(D)) such other date as may be determined by the Directors,

in proportion to their then holdings of shares and applying such sum on their behalf in paying up in full new shares or (subject to any special rights previously conferred on any shares or class of shares for the time being issued) new shares of any other class not being redeemable shares, for allotment and distribution credited as fully paid up to and amongst them as bonus shares in the proportion aforesaid.

  • (B) The Directors may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any such bonus issue and/or capitalization under this Regulation, with full power to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit for any fractional entitlements which would arise on the basis aforesaid (including provisions whereby fractional entitlements are disregarded or the benefit thereof accrues to the Company rather than to the members concerned). The Directors may authorize any person to enter on behalf of all the members interested into an agreement with the Company providing for any such bonus issue or capitalization and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all concerned.

  • (C) In addition and without prejudice to the powers provided for by this Regulation, the Directors shall have the power to issue shares for which no consideration is payable and/or to capitalise any undivided profits or other moneys of the Company not required for the payment or provision of any dividend on any shares entitled to cumulative or non-cumulative preferential dividends (including profits or other moneys carried and standing to any reserve or reserves) and to apply such profits or other monies in paying up in full new shares, in each case on terms that such shares shall, upon issue:

    • (i) be held by or for the benefit of participants of any share incentive or option scheme or plan implemented by the Company and approved by members in General Meeting and on such terms as the Directors shall think fit; or

    • (ii) be held by or for the benefit of non-executive Directors as part of their remuneration approved by members in General Meeting in such manner and on such terms as the Directors shall think fit.

(D)

The Directors may do all such acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any of the foregoing.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

  • 135. Accounting records sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and otherwise complying with the Statutes, shall be kept at the Office or at such other place as the Directors think fit. No member of the Company or other person shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by the Statutes or ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or authorized by the Directors.

  • 136. In accordance with the provisions of the Statutes, the Directors shall cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in General Meeting such financial statements, group financial statements (if any), reports, statements and other documents as may be prescribed by the Act. The interval between the close of a financial year of the Company and the issue of financial statements relating thereto shall not exceed four (4) months, but in any event not exceeding any time period as may be stipulated by the Designated Stock Exchange from time to time.

  • 137. A copy of the financial statements and Directors' statement accompanied by the balance sheet and profit and loss account or income and expenditure account (including every document required by law to be attached or thereto), which is duly audited and which is laid before a General Meeting of the Company accompanied by a copy of the Auditor's report or the summary financial report shall not less than 21 clear days or 20 clear business days (whichever is longer) before the date of the meeting be sent to every member of the Company and to every other person who is entitled to receive notices of General Meetings from the Company under the provisions of the Statutes or of this Constitution, Provided That this Regulation shall not require a copy of these documents to be sent to more than one

    (1) of any joint holders or to any person of whose address the Company is not aware, but any member to whom a copy of these documents has not been sent shall be entitled to receive a copy free of charge on application at the Office.

    AUDITORS

  • 138. (A) An Auditor shall be appointed and his duties regulated in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the accounting and other records of the Company and shall make his report as required by the Act.

    (B) Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, all acts done by any person acting as an

Auditor shall, as regards all persons dealing in good faith with the Company, be valid, notwithstanding that there was some defect in his appointment or that he was at the time of his appointment not qualified for appointment or subsequently became disqualified.

139. An Auditor shall be entitled to attend any General Meeting and to receive all notices of and other communications relating to any General Meeting which any member is entitled to receive and to be heard at any General Meeting on any part of the business of the meeting which concerns him as Auditor.

NOTICES

140. (A) Any notice or document (including a share certificate and any "corporate communication" within the meaning ascribed thereto under the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange) may be served on or delivered to any member by the Company either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid cover addressed to such member at his Singapore or Hong Kong registered address appearing in the Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register, or any other address supplied by him to the Company, or (as the case may be) Depository or a clearing house as his address for the service of notices, or by delivering it to such address as aforesaid.

  • (B) Without prejudice to the provisions of Regulation 140(A), but subject otherwise to any applicable laws relating to electronic communications and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, any notice or document (including, without limitation, any accounts, balance sheet, financial statements or report) which is required or permitted to be given, sent or served under applicable laws or under this Constitution by the Company, or by the Directors, to a member may be given, sent or served using electronic communications:

    • (a) to the current address of that person (which may be an email address); or

    • (b) by making it available on a website prescribed by the Company from time to time; or

    (c)

    in such manner as such member expressly consents to by giving notice in writing to the Company,

    in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and any applicable laws and the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  • (C) For the purposes of Regulation 140(B) above, a member shall be implied to have agreed to receive such notice or document by way of such electronic communications and shall not have a right to elect to receive a physical copy of such notice or document, unless otherwise provided under applicable laws and/or the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  • (D) Notwithstanding Regulation 140(C) above, the Directors may, at their discretion, at any time give a member an opportunity to elect within a specified period of time whether to receive such notice or document by way of electronic communications or as a physical copy, and such member shall be deemed to have consented to receive such notice or document by way of electronic communications if he was given such an opportunity and he failed to make an election within the specified time, and he shall not in such an event have a right to receive a physical copy of such notice or document, unless otherwise provided under applicable laws and/or the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  • (E) The provisions in this Regulation providing for electronic communications above shall not apply to such notices or documents which are excluded from being given, sent or served by electronic communications or means pursuant to the Act and any regulations made under the Act relating to electronic communications and any listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

  • (F) Where a notice or document is given, sent or served by electronic communications:

    • (a) to the current address of a person pursuant to Regulation 140(B)(a), the Company shall inform the member as soon as practicable how to request a physical copy of that document from the Company; or

    • (b) by making it available on a website pursuant to Regulation 140(B)(b), the Company shall give separate notice to the member of the publication of the notice or document on that website and the manner in which the notice or document may be assessed by any one (1) or more of the following means:

      • (i) by sending such separate notice to the member personally or through post pursuant to Regulation 140(A);

      • (ii) by sending such separate notice to the member using electronic communications to his current address pursuant to Regulation 140(B) (a);

      • (iii) by way of advertisement in the daily press; or

      • (iv) by way of announcement on the Designated Stock Exchange.

  • (G) Where a notice or other document is served or sent by post, service or delivery shall be deemed to be effected at the time when the cover containing the same is posted, and in proving such service or delivery, it shall be sufficient to prove that such cover was properly addressed, stamped and posted.

  • (H) Where a notice or document is given, sent or served by electronic communications:

    • (a) to the current address of a person pursuant to Regulation 140(B)(a), it shall be deemed to have been duly given, sent or served at the time of transmission of the electronic communication by the email server or facility operated by the Company or its service provider to the current address of such person

      (notwithstanding any delayed receipt, non-delivery or "returned mail" reply message or any other error message indicating that the electronic communication was delayed or not successfully sent), unless otherwise provided under the Statutes and/or any other applicable laws; or

    • (b) by making it available on a website pursuant to Regulation 140(B)(b), it shall be deemed to have been duly given, sent or served on the date on which the notice or document is first made available on the website, unless otherwise provided under the Statutes and/or any other applicable laws.

  • (I) Nothing in this Regulation shall be construed as prohibiting the Company from sending, or entitling the Company not to send, notices or other documents of the Company to any member whose registered address is outside Hong Kong.

140A. A member shall be entitled to have notice served on him at any address within Hong Kong.

Any member who has not given an express positive confirmation in writing to the Company in the manner specified in the listing rules of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited to receive or otherwise have made available to him notices and documents to be given or issued to him by the Company by electronic means and whose registered address is outside Hong Kong may notify the Company in writing of an address in Hong Kong which for the purpose of service of notice shall be deemed to be his registered address. A member who has no registered address in Hong Kong shall be deemed to have received any notice which shall have been displayed at the transfer office and shall have remained there for a period of 24 hours and such notice shall be deemed to have been received by such member on the day following that on which it shall have been first so displayed, Provided That, without prejudice to the other provisions of these Regulations, nothing in this Regulation shall be construed as prohibiting the Company from sending, or entitling the Company not to send, notices or other documents of the Company to any member whose registered address is outside Hong Kong. This Regulation shall be effective as long as the shares of the Company are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

141. Any notice given to that one of the joint holders of a share whose name stands first in the

Register of Members or (as the case may be) the Depository Register in respect of the share shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders in their capacity as such.

  • 142. A person entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member upon supplying to the Company such evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show his title to the share, and upon supplying also to the Company or (as the case may be) the Depository or a clearing house an address within Singapore or Hong Kong for the service of notices, shall be entitled to have served upon or delivered to him at such address any notice or document to which the member but for his death or bankruptcy would have been entitled, and such service or delivery shall for all purposes be deemed a sufficient service or delivery of such notice or document on all persons interested (whether jointly with or as claiming through or under him) in the share. Save as aforesaid, any notice or document delivered or sent by post to or left at the registered address or given, sent or served by electronic communication to the current address (as the case may be) of any member in pursuance of this Constitution shall, notwithstanding that such member be then dead or bankrupt or in liquidation, and whether or not the Company or (as the case may be) the Depository or a clearing house have notice of his death or bankruptcy or liquidation, be deemed to have been duly served or delivered in respect of any share registered in the name of such member in the Register of Members or, where such member is a Depositor, entered against his name in the Depository Register as sole or first-named joint holder.

  • 143. A member who (having no registered address within Singapore) has not supplied to the Company or (as the case may be) the Depository an address within Singapore for the service of notices shall not be entitled to receive notices or other documents from the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, notices or documents which may be sent to him in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution shall be deemed to be duly served on him. Nothing in this Regulation shall be construed as prohibiting the Company from sending, or entitling the Company not to send, notices or other documents of the Company to any member whose registered address is outside Hong Kong.

    MEMBERS WHOSE WHEREABOUTS ARE UNKNOWN

  • 144. (A) Without prejudice to the rights of the Company under paragraph (B) of this Regulation, the Company may cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants by post if such cheques or warrants have been left uncashed on two

(2) consecutive occasions. However, the Company may exercise the power to cease sending cheques for dividend entitlements or dividend warrants after the first occasion on which such a cheque or warrant is returned undelivered.

(B)

Subject always to the Statutes, the Company shall have the power to sell, in such manner as the Directors thinks fit, any shares of a member who is untraceable, but no such sale shall be made unless:

(a)

all cheques or warrants in respect of dividends of the shares in question, being not less than three (3) in total number, for any sum payable in cash to the holder of such shares in respect of them sent during the relevant period in the manner authorised by the Regulations have remained uncashed;

  • (b) so far as it is aware at the end of the relevant period, the Company has not at any time during the relevant period received any indication of the existence of the member who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law; and

  • (c) the Company, if so required by the rules governing the listing of shares on the Designated Stock Exchange, on the expiry of the relevant period, has given notice to, and caused advertisement in newspapers in accordance with the requirements of, the Designated Stock Exchange to be made of its intention to sell such shares in the manner required by the Designated Stock Exchange, and a period of three (3) months or such shorter period as may be allowed by the Designated Stock Exchange has elapsed since the date of such advertisement.

For the purpose of the foregoing, the "relevant period" means the period commencing 12 years before the date of publication of the advertisement referred to in paragraph (c) of this Regulation and ending at the expiry of the period referred to in that paragraph.

(C)

To give effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the said shares and an instrument of transfer signed or otherwise executed by or on behalf of such person shall be as effective as if it had been executed by the registered holder or the person entitled by transmission to such shares, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating to the sale. The net proceeds of the sale will belong to the Company and upon receipt by the Company of such net proceeds it shall become indebted to the former member for an amount equal to such net proceeds. No trust shall be created in respect of such debt and no interest shall be payable in respect of it and the Company shall not be required to account for any money earned from the net proceeds which may be employed in the business of the Company as it thinks fit. Any sale under this Regulation shall be valid and effective notwithstanding that the member holding the shares sold is dead, bankrupt or otherwise under any legal disability or incapacity.

WINDING UP

145. The Directors shall have power in the name and on behalf of the Company to present a petition to the court for the Company to be wound up.

  • 146. If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision, or by the court) the liquidator may, with the authority of a Special Resolution, divide among the members in specie or in kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and whether or not the assets shall consist of property of one kind or shall consist of properties of different kinds, and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any one (1) or more class or classes of property and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the members of different classes of members. The liquidator may, with the like authority, vest any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of members as the liquidator with the like authority shall think fit, and the liquidation of the Company may be closed and the Company dissolved, but so that no contributory shall be compelled to accept any shares or other property in respect of which there is a liability.

  • 147. [deleted]

    INDEMNITY

  • 148. Subject to the provisions of and so far as may be permitted by the Statutes, every Director, Auditor, Secretary or other officer of the Company shall be entitled to be indemnified by the Company against all costs, charges, losses, expenses and liabilities (incurred or to be incurred by him) in the execution and discharge of his duties or in relation thereto including any liability by him in defending any proceedings, civil or criminal, which relate to anything done or omitted or alleged to have been done or omitted by him as an officer or employee of the Company and in which judgment is given in his favour (or the proceedings otherwise disposed of without any finding or admission of any material breach of duty on his part) or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application under any statute for relief from liability in respect of any such act or omission in which relief is granted to him by the court.

    Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, no Director, Auditor, Secretary or other officer of the Company shall be liable for the acts, receipts, neglect or defaults of any other Director or officer or for joining in any receipt or other act for conformity or for any loss or expense happening to the Company through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any property acquired by order of the Directors for or on behalf of the Company or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security in or upon which any of the moneys of the Company shall be invested or for any loss or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or tortious act of any person with whom any moneys, securities or effects shall be deposited or left or for any other loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which shall happen in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto unless the same shall happen through his own negligence, wilful default, breach of duty or breach of trust.

ALTERATION OF REGULATIONS

149. (A) No Regulation shall be rescinded, altered or amended and no new Regulation shall be made until the same has been approved by a Special Resolution of the members. A Special Resolution shall be required to alter any provision of these Regulations, or to change the name of the Company and as permitted in the circumstances provided under the Statutes.

(B) There should not be any alteration in the Regulation to increase an existing member's liability to the Company unless such increase is agreed by such member in writing.

PERSONAL DATA OF MEMBERS

150. (A) A member who is a natural person is deemed to have consented to the collection, use and disclosure of his personal data (whether such personal data is provided by that member or is collected through a third party) by the Company (or its agents or service providers) from time to time for any of the following purposes:

  • (a) implementation and administration of any corporate action by the Company (or its agents or service providers);

  • (b) internal analysis and/or market research by the Company (or its agents or service providers);

  • (c) investor relations communications by the Company (or its agents or service providers);

  • (d) administration by the Company (or its agents or service providers) of that member's holding of shares in the capital of the Company;

  • (e) implementation and administration of any service provided by the Company (or its agents or service providers) to its members to receive notices of meetings, annual reports and other shareholder communications and/or for proxy appointment, whether by electronic means or otherwise;

  • (f) processing, administration and analysis by the Company (or its agents or service providers) of proxies and representatives appointed for any General Meeting (including any adjournment thereof) and the preparation and compilation of the attendance lists, minutes and other documents relating to any General Meeting (including any adjournment thereof);

  • (g) implementation and administration of, and compliance with, any provision of these Regulations;

  • (h) compliance with any applicable laws, listing rules, take-over rules, regulations and/or guidelines; and

  • (i) purposes which are reasonably related to any of the above purpose.

(B) Any member who appoints a proxy and/or representative for any General Meeting and/or any adjournment thereof is deemed to have warranted that where such member discloses the personal data of such proxy and/or representative to the Company (or its agents or service providers), that member has obtained the prior consent of such proxy and/or representative for the collection, use and disclosure by the Company (or its agents or service providers) of the personal data of such proxy and/or representative for all purposes specified in Regulation 150(A), and is deemed to have agreed to indemnify the Company in respect of any penalties, liabilities, claims, demands, losses and damages as a result of such member's breach of warranty.

SECRECY

151. No member shall be entitled to require the Company to disclose any information relating to any trade, business, product or process which is secret in nature which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Company and which the Directors determine to be inexpedient and inadvisable to communicate in the best interest of the members save as may be authorised by law and as required by the listing rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.

CONFLICT OF LAWS

152.

Being a company incorporated in Singapore and listed on the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company is required to comply with the Statutes, including but not limited to the Statutes of Singapore and Hong Kong. In the event of any conflict among the Statutes, the Company shall comply with the most onerous Statute(s), subject to approvals from the relevant stock exchanges and/or government authorities.

We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Constitution, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite our respective names.

Names, Addresses, and Occupations of Subscribers

Number of Shares taken by each

Subscriber

LEE KIM JOO Address

  • : 92 Bencoolen

    Street Singapore 0718

    Occupation

  • : Merchant

(1)

LEE KERK CHONG

Address :

92 Bencoolen

Street Singapore 0718

Occupation

:

Merchant

(1)

Total number of Shares taken:

(2)

Dated this 18th day of February 1984

Witness to the above signatures:

LAI MUN ONN

ADVOCATE & SOLICITOR 50 CHIN SWEE ROAD THONG CHAI BUILDING

5TH FLOOR SINGAPORE 0316

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