(Constituted in the Republic of Singapore pursuant to a trust deed dated 19 October 2006 (as amended))
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 27 APRIL 2021
First REIT Management Limited, as manager of First Real Estate Investment Trust ("First REIT", and the manager of First REIT, the "Manager"), wishes to inform unitholders that in accordance with the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Alternative Arrangements for Meetings for Companies, Variable Capital Companies, Business Trusts, Unit Trusts and Debenture Holders) Order 2020, the minutes of the annual general meeting ("AGM") of First REIT which was convened and held by way of electronic means on Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 2:00 p.m. has been recorded and is attached hereto as Appendix
A.
The Manager had on 26 April 2021 released on SGXNET its responses to substantial and relevant questions received from unitholders relating to the agenda of the AGM.
By Order of the Board
Tan Kok Mian Victor
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer First REIT Management Limited
(Company registration no. 200607070D)
As Manager of First Real Estate Investment Trust
25 May 2021
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The value of the units in First REIT ("Units") and the income derived from them may fall or rise. The Units are not obligations, or deposits in, or guaranteed by the Manager, or Perpetual (Asia) Limited (as trustee of First REIT). An investment in the Units is subject to investment risks, including the possible loss of the principal amount invested. Unitholders have no right to request that the Manager redeems or purchases their Units while the Units are listed. It is intended that Unitholders may only deal in their Units through trading on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST"). Listing of the Units on the SGX-ST does not guarantee a liquid market for the Units.
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual future performance, outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements as a result of a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Representative examples of these factors include (without limitation) general industry and economic conditions, interest rate trends, cost of capital and capital availability, competition from similar developments, shifts in expected levels of property rental income, changes in operating expenses (including employee wages, benefits and training costs), property expenses and governmental and public policy changes. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are based on the Manager's current view of future events.
APPENDIX A
MINUTES OF AGM
FIRST REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST
(Constituted in the Republic of Singapore pursuant to a Trust Deed dated 19 October 2006)
MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
HELD AT
Held via electronic means pursuant to the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Alternative Arrangements for Meeting for Companies, Variable Capital Companies, Business Trusts, Unit Trusts and Debenture Holders) Order 2020
ON | TIME |
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 | 2:00 p.m. |
PRESENT | Chan Pengee Adrian | Lead Independent Director and Chairman |
of the Nominating and Remuneration | ||
Committee |
IN ATTENDANCE VIA ELECTRONIC MEANS
CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING
WELCOME
ADDRESS
Victor Tan Kok Mian | Executive Director and Chief Executive |
Officer | |
As per attendance record | Unitholder and Invitee attending via |
maintained by the Manager | electronic means |
Christopher James Williams | Chairman of the Board, Non-Independent |
Non-Executive Director | |
Ferris Charles Bye | Independent Director and Chairman of the |
Audit and Risk Committee | |
Tan Chuan Lye | Independent Director |
Martin Lechner | Independent Director |
Minny Riady | Non-IndependentNon-Executive Director |
Sin Li Choo | Representative from the Trustee, |
Perpetual (Asia) Limited | |
Chan Pengee Adrian | Chairman of the Meeting/Proxy for |
Unitholders | |
(As per record maintained by the | |
Manager) |
1.1 On behalf of First REIT Management Limited, the manager of First Real Estate Investment Trust ("First REIT", and the manager of First REIT, the "Manager"), Mr Chan Pengee Adrian, the Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee, welcomed the unitholders of First REIT (the
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"Unitholders") present at the Annual General Meeting of | |||
First REIT (the "Meeting") via electronic means. Mr Chan | |||
Pengee Adrian informed Unitholders that he would chair | |||
the Meeting on behalf of the Board Chairman. | |||
1.2 | The Chairman introduced the panel to the Unitholders | ||
and informed the Unitholders that he had been nominated | |||
by Perpetual (Asia) Limited, the trustee of First REIT, in | |||
accordance with the trust deed constituting First REIT to | |||
preside as the Chairman of the Meeting (the "Chairman"). | |||
1.3 | Thereafter, Mr Tan Kok Mian Victor ("Mr Tan"), the | ||
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the | |||
Manager, gave a short presentation. After | the | ||
presentation, Mr Tan handed the proceedings of the | |||
Meeting to the Chairman. | |||
1.4 | A copy of the presentation, which was posted via SGXNet | ||
and First REIT's website on 27 April 2021, is annexed to | |||
this Minutes as "Annex A". | |||
QUORUM | 2.1 | As there were sufficient Unitholders to form a quorum, the | |
Chairman called the Meeting to order and went through | |||
the items on the Agenda. | |||
NOTICE OF MEETING | 3.1 | The notice of the Meeting dated 5 April 2021 | (the |
"Notice") was taken as read. | |||
3.2 | The Chairman informed the Unitholders that responses to | ||
substantial and relevant questions submitted by | |||
Unitholders prior to the Meeting had been published via |
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RESOLUTION 1: STATEMENT OF THE TRUSTEE, THE STATEMENT BY THE MANAGER, THE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF FIRST REIT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR
SGXNET and also posted on First REIT's website on 26 April 2021. The responses to substantial and relevant questions received from the Unitholders are annexed to this Minutes as "Annex B".
- The Chairman informed the Unitholders that in accordance with COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 and the related order on the conduct of general meetings, all votes on the resolutions tabled at the Meeting will be by proxy and only the Chairman of the Meeting may be appointed as a proxy. He informed the Unitholders that he had been appointed as proxy by a number of Unitholders on all the resolutions set out in the Notice, and would vote according to their respective instructions.
- The Chairman informed the Unitholders that all resolutions tabled at the Meeting were voted by poll based on the proxy forms that were submitted to the Manager at least 72 hours before the Meeting.
- The Chairman informed the Unitholders that RHT Governance, Risk & Compliance (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. had been appointed as Scrutineers to conduct the poll.
4.1 The motion in respect of Resolution No. 1 was duly proposed.
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