HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. 196100003D)
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE 63RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF
HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED HELD ON 27 APRIL 2023
The Board of Directors of Hong Leong Finance Limited (the "Company") wishes to announce that at the Company's 63rd Annual General Meeting held today, 27 April 2023 ("AGM"), all resolutions referred to in the Notice of the AGM dated 29 March 2023 were duly passed by way of poll which was conducted electronically.
- The results of the votes cast on each of the AGM ordinary resolutions are set out below:
Ordinary Business - Ordinary Resolutions
Resolution number and | Total | For | Against | |||
details | number of | |||||
shares | Number of | As a | Number of | As a | ||
represented | percentage | |||||
shares | shares | percentage | ||||
by votes for | of total | |||||
of total | ||||||
and against | number of | |||||
number of | ||||||
the relevant | votes for | |||||
votes for | ||||||
resolution | and against | |||||
and against | ||||||
the | ||||||
the | ||||||
resolution | ||||||
resolution | ||||||
(%) | ||||||
(%) | ||||||
Resolution 1 | ||||||
Receipt of the Directors' | ||||||
Statement and Audited | 233,247,035 | 233,225,635 | 99.99 | 21,400 | 0.01 | |
Financial Statements together | ||||||
with the Auditors' Report | ||||||
thereon | ||||||
Resolution 2 | 233,035,703 | 233,014,303 | 99.99 | 21,400 | 0.01 | |
Declaration of a Final Dividend | ||||||
Resolution 3 | 232,928,539 | 232,864,569 | 99.97 | 63,970 | 0.03 | |
Approval of Directors' Fees | ||||||
Resolution 4(a) | ||||||
Re-election of Mr Kwek Leng | 227,409,600 | 226,019,267 | 99.39 | 1,390,333 | 0.61 | |
Beng as Director | ||||||
Resolution 4(b) | ||||||
Re-election of Mr Kwek Leng | 232,350,008 | 232,228,054 | 99.95 | 121,954 | 0.05 | |
Peck as Director | ||||||
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HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. 196100003D)
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE 63RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF
HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED HELD ON 27 APRIL 2023
Ordinary Business - Ordinary Resolutions (cont'd)
Resolution number and | Total | For | Against | ||||||||
details | number of | ||||||||||
shares | Number of | As a | Number of | As a | |||||||
represented | shares | percentage | shares | percentage | |||||||
by votes for | of total | of total | |||||||||
and against | number of | number of | |||||||||
the relevant | votes for | votes for | |||||||||
resolution | and against | and against | |||||||||
the | the | ||||||||||
resolution | resolution | ||||||||||
(%) | (%) | ||||||||||
Resolution 4(c) | |||||||||||
Re-election of Ms Tan Siew San | 232,849,467 | 232,779,609 | 99.97 | 69,858 | 0.03 | ||||||
as Director | |||||||||||
Resolution 5 | |||||||||||
Appointment of Ms Jeann Low | 232,826,467 | 232,733,929 | 99.96 | 92,538 | 0.04 | ||||||
Ngiap Jong as Director | |||||||||||
Resolution 6 | |||||||||||
Re-appointment of KPMG LLP | 231,532,367 | 230,746,349 | 99.66 | 786,018 | 0.34 | ||||||
as Auditors | |||||||||||
Special Business - Ordinary Resolutions | |||||||||||
Resolution 7 | |||||||||||
Authority for Directors to issue | |||||||||||
shares and/or make or grant | |||||||||||
offers, | agreements | or | options | ||||||||
pursuant to Section 161 of the | 232,985,667 | 232,165,690 | 99.65 | 819,977 | 0.35 | ||||||
Companies Act 1967 and the | |||||||||||
Listing | Manual | of | Singapore | ||||||||
Exchange Securities | Trading | ||||||||||
Limited | |||||||||||
Resolution 8 | |||||||||||
Authority for Directors to offer | |||||||||||
and grant options to eligible | |||||||||||
participants | under | the Hong | |||||||||
Leong | Finance | Share | Option | ||||||||
Scheme 2001 (the "SOS") | 226,719,441 | 221,334,704 | 97.62 | 5,384,737 | 2.38 | ||||||
other | than | Parent | Group | ||||||||
Employees and Parent Group | |||||||||||
Non-Executive Directors and to | |||||||||||
issue | shares | in | accordance | ||||||||
with the provisions of the SOS | |||||||||||
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HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. 196100003D)
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE 63RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF
HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED HELD ON 27 APRIL 2023
- Details of parties who are required to abstain from voting on the following resolutions:
Details of Party(ies) | Number of shares held | Resolution number |
(in own name and/or | ||
name of nominee) | ||
Mr Kwek Leng Beng | 6,667,567 | 4(a) and 8 |
Mr Kwek Leng Peck | 517,359 | 4(b) and 8 |
Mr Kwek Leng Kee | 1,595,079 | 8 |
Mr Kevin Hangchi | 648,016 | 8 |
Appointment of Scrutineer
T S Tay Public Accounting Corporation was appointed the Scrutineer for the AGM.
Changes to the Composition of Board Committees
Pursuant to Rule 704(8) of the Listing Manual of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, we wish to inform that Ms Jeann Low Ngiap Jong was appointed as a Director of the Company at the AGM. Following her appointment as a Director, Ms Low has also been appointed as an additional member of the Audit Committee ("AC") and as a member of the Board Sustainability Committee ("BSC") in place of Ms Tan Siew San, following the conclusion of the AGM today. The Nominating Committee and the Board consider Ms Low to be independent.
With the above changes, the current composition of the AC and BSC are as follows:
AC
Mr Peter Chay (Chairman) - Lead Independent Director
Mr Tan Tee How - Independent Non-Executive Director ("INED")
Mr Clarence Yeo - INED
Ms Jeann Low - INED
BSC
Mr Kevin Hangchi (Chairman) - Non-Executive Director
Mr Clarence Yeo - INED
Ms Jeann Low - INED
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
Yeo Swee Gim, Joanne
Ng Siew Ping, Jaslin
Company Secretaries
27 April 2023
Singapore
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