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Shares and variation of rights

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Nature of Company

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Issue of shares

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Number of shareholders

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Price on issue

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Issue of classes of shares

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Non-variation of rights

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Variation of rights

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Redeemable preference shares

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Holder's right to participate in profits and property

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Holder's other rights

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Redemption of redeemable preference shares

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Brokerage and commission

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Shares held on trust or jointly

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Registered holders treated as absolute owners

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Non-recognition of other interests

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Joint holders

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Certificates

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Entitlement to certificates

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Delivery to joint holders

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Lien

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Lien on unpaid capital

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Lien on other money owing

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Lien to apply to dividends

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Enforcement of lien

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Uncertificated Shares

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Company's right of sale

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Restrictions on sale

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Effect of sale of shares over which company has lien

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Proceeds of sale

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Calls on shares

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Payments due on fixed dates

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Calls

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Notification of call

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Revocation of call

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Deemed time of call

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Liability of joint holders

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Interest on outstanding sums

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Differentiation between holders

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Pre-payment of calls

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Suspension of privileges

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Recovery of amounts due

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Alteration of capital

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Power

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Reduction of capital

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Transfer of shares

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Form of transfer

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Execution of instruments of transfer

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Refusal to register

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No transfer to an infant

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Notice of Refusal

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Certificate to be given up on transfer

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When transfer books and register may be closed

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Transmission of shares

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Recognised interests

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Transmission

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Personal representatives and joint holders

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Forfeiture of shares

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Procedure for forfeiture

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Application to dividends

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Rights of sale

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Cessation as a member

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Evidence of forfeiture

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Manner of forfeiture

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Residue on sale

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Certificates

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Application to further calls

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11 General meetings

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Annual General Meetings

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Power to convene

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Power to postpone

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Notice

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Notice period and content

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Circular resolution

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Omissions

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12 Proceedings at general meetings

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Use of technology at general meetings

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Quorum

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Effect of no quorum

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Chairperson of directors

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Vacancy in chairperson

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Adjournment

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Notice where a meeting is adjourned for 30 days

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Form of notice for adjourned meeting

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Right to discuss the management of the Company

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Voting on show of hands

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Poll

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Chairperson's vote

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Proxy holders and representatives voting rights

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Votes of joint holders

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Incapacity

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Disentitlement to vote

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Objection to voter

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Appointment of proxy

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Lodgement of proxy

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Effect of proxy vote

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Decisions

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Admission to general meetings

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Auditor's right to be heard

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Direct Voting

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General conduct of meeting

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13 Appointment, removal and remuneration of directors

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Minimum and maximum number of directors

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Change to numbers of directors

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Period of office

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Retirement by rotation

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Retiring directors to remain in office until successors appointed

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Casual vacancy

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Removal by members

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Appointment by Members

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Directors' fees and remuneration

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Directors' expenses

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Special remuneration

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Increase in fees

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No share qualification

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Vacation of office

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14 Powers and duties of directors

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General power of management

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Borrowing Powers

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Options

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Negotiable Instruments

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15 Proceedings of directors

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Directors to regulate as quorum

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Convening of meetings

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Written resolution

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Deemed date of passing resolution

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Telephone and other meetings

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Decisions of the directors

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Minutes of meeting of directors

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Chair must sign minutes

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Appointment of alternate director

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Ending of appointment of alternate director

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Authority to act where vacancy

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Chairperson

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Substitute chairperson

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Committee of directors

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Regulation of committee of directors

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Determination by majority vote

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No casting vote

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Defects in appointments

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Disqualification

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Director's personal interests

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Declaration of interests

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Interests obtained post contract

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Interested directors not included in quorum

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Failure to disclose

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Directors of related corporations

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Interested director may attest seal

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Director's guarantee

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Partnership/other interests

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Directors aware of interest

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Executive directors

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Appointment

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Cessation of appointment

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Remuneration

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Powers of managing director

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Secretary

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Seal

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Directors may elect to adopt a Seal

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Safe custody of Seal

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Authority to use Seal

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Where no seal is adopted

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Minutes

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Minutes of meetings

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Records

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Records

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Keeping records

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Powers of attorney

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Powers of attorney

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Limits on power

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Auditor

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Dividends and reserves

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Declaration or determination

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Interim dividends

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Source of dividends

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Reserved profits

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Entitlement to dividends

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Ranking of dividends

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Amounts advanced on shares

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Deduction from dividends of money owing

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Payment of dividends by distribution of property

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Directors to settle differences

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Payment of dividends by cash

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Transfers

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Authority to capitalise profits

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Notices

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Method

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Deemed receipt

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Notice to joint holders

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Notice in case of death or bankruptcy

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Persons entitled to notice

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Winding up

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Division of property among members

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Vesting property on trustees

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Non-marketable parcels

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Notice

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Divestiture

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Proceeds of sale

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Other provisions

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Proportional takeover bid

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Indemnity

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Former officers

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Insurance premiums

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Miscellaneous

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Replaceable rules do not apply

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Limited liability

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Compliance with Listing Rules

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Compliance with ASX Settlement Operating Rules

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Definitions and interpretation

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Definitions

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Issue of shares 1

Number of shareholders 1

Price on issue 1

Issue of classes of shares 1

Non-variation of rights 1

Variation of rights 1

Redeemable preference shares 2

Holder's right to participate in profits and property 2 Holder's other rights 2

Redemption of redeemable preference shares 2

  1. Brokerage and commission 3
  2. Shares held on trust or jointly 3 Registered holders treated as absolute owners 3 Non-recognitionof other interests 3
    Joint holders 3
  3. Certificates 3

Entitlement to certificates

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Delivery to joint holders

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5 Lien 4

Lien on unpaid capital 4

Lien on other money owing

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Lien to apply to dividends

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Enforcement of lien 4

Uncertificated Shares 5

Company's right of sale

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Restrictions on sale 5

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1 Shares and variation of rights

Nature of Company

1.1 The Company is a public company. It is limited by shares.

Issue of shares

1.2 Subject to the Listing Rules, the directors have sole power to issue shares or options to buy or subscribe for shares in the Company. Subject to the Corporations Act 2001 and the Listing Rules, shares and options in the Company may be issued on any conditions as determined by the directors.

Number of shareholders

1.3 There is no limit on the number of shareholders the Company may have.

Price on issue

1.4 The directors may issue and allot shares in the Company at any price they consider appropriate.

Issue of classes of shares

1.5 The directors may issue classes of shares in the Company as they think fit with preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, and with such rights to dividend, voting, return of capital or otherwise and at such price as the directors think fit. An issue of shares under this clause is without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of any existing shares or class of shares but is subject to the Corporations Act 2001 and the Listing Rules.

Non-variation of rights

1.6 The rights conferred on the holders of the shares of any class are deemed not to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking equally with them unless otherwise expressly provided by the conditions of issue of the shares of that class.

Variation of rights

1.7 The Company can only vary the rights attaching to a class of shares if one of the following applies:

  1. the holders of 75% of the shares issued in that class consent to the variation in writing; or
  2. a special resolution is passed at a general meeting of the holders of that class of shares allowing the variation to be made.

However, this clause does not apply if the terms on which shares in that class were issued state otherwise.

Redeemable preference shares

1.8 The directors may issue preference shares subject to the Corporations Act 2001 and the Listing Rules on the condition that they are to be redeemed or at the option of the

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Company are liable to be redeemed in accordance with conditions set by the directors. These conditions cannot be altered by the directors.

Holder's right to participate in profits and property

1.9 The holder of a redeemable preference share has each of the following rights:

  1. the right to a preferential dividend in priority to the payment of any dividend on any other class of shares; and
  2. the right in a winding up, reduction of capital and on redemption, to payment in cash equally among holders of the same class of preference shares, and in priority to any other class of shares in return of capital and in priority in respect of the amount of any dividend declared but unpaid on the share at that time.

The holder has no other right to participate in the profits or property of the Company.

Holder's other rights

  1. The holder of a redeemable preference share has the same right as the holder of an ordinary share to receive notice of a meeting, to receive a copy of any documents sent to members or to be laid before that meeting, and to attend that meeting.
  2. The holder may only vote in the following circumstances:
    1. during a period during which a dividend (or part of a dividend) in respect of the share is in arrears;
    2. on a proposal to reduce the Company's share capital;
    3. on a resolution to approve the terms of a buy-back agreement;
    4. on a proposal that affects rights attached to the share;
    5. on a proposal to wind up the Company;
    6. on a proposal for the disposal of the whole of the Company's property, business and undertaking; and
    7. during the winding up of the Company.

Redemption of redeemable preference shares

1.12 A redeemable preference share may only be redeemed if it has been fully paid. It may be redeemed on a date set by the directors. If the directors do not set a date, it is redeemable 5 years after the date it was issued.

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2 Brokerage and commission

2.1 Subject to the Corporations Act 2001, the Company may pay brokerage or commissions to a person who agrees to buy shares or arrange for others to buy them. It may be paid in cash, in securities of the Company, or both.

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Shares held on trust or jointly

Registered holders treated as absolute owners

3.1 Except as required by law, the Company may treat the registered holder of a share as the absolute owner of the share.

Non-recognition of other interests

3.2 Except where this constitution or the Corporations Act 2001 states otherwise, the only interest in shares that the Company must recognise is the registered shareholder's absolute right to the whole of the share. The Company will not recognise that a person holds a share on trust for someone else. Nor will it recognise a contingent, future or partial interest in any share or part of a share.

Joint holders

  1. If 2 or more persons are registered as the holders of a share they are taken to hold the share as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and on the basis that:
    1. they or their respective legal personal representatives are liable jointly and severally for all payments due in respect of the share;
    2. subject to the preceding paragraph, on the death of any one of them, the survivor or survivors are the only person or persons whom the Company may recognise as having any interest in the share. The directors may require any evidence of death of any registered holder as they think fit; and
    3. any registered holder may give an effective receipt for any dividend or other distribution.
  2. No more than 3 persons are entitled to be registered as the holders of a share.

4 Certificates

Entitlement to certificates

  1. The Company must give a registered shareholder (whose shares are not held as an uncertificated holding), free of charge, a share certificate marked with the company seal in respect of his or her shares. However, if the Company does not maintain a company seal the certificate must be signed by either:
    1. two directors; or
    2. a director and the secretary.
  2. The directors may permit a shareholder's holding to be held as an uncertificated holding under the ASX Settlement Operating Rulesand they must do so if the Listing Rules or the ASX Settlement Operating Rulesrequire that shares are to be held as uncertificated holdings.
  3. If all the shares in a class are to be held only as uncertificated holdings under the ASX Settlement Operating Rules, the Company need not provide a share certificate

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to the shareholder but must provide the shareholder with a statement of the shareholder's holding in accordance with the ASX Settlement Operating Rulesand the Listing Rules. If the Company operates an Issuer Sponsored Sub-register, it must allocate a unique SRN for each holding of shares. A member may have more than one holding each of which will have a unique SRN. Each new holding of shares on the Issuer Sponsored Sub-register must be allocated a unique SRN for that holding.

Delivery to joint holders

4.4 If shares are jointly owned, it is sufficient to give a share certificate to one of the joint shareholders.

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5 Lien

Lien on unpaid capital

5.1 The Company has a first and paramount lien on every partly paid security for all money due which has been called or is payable by instalment in respect of that security, but which is unpaid, together with reasonable interest and expenses incurred because the amount is not paid.

Lien on other money owing

5.2 The Company also has a first and paramount lien on securities for all money (including reasonable interest and expenses incurred because the amount is not paid):

  1. owing to the Company on securities acquired under an employee incentive scheme in relation to their acquisition; or
  2. which the Company is required by law to pay and which has been paid in respect of securities of a member or of the estate of a deceased member.

Lien to apply to dividends

5.3 The Company's lien (if any) on a security extends to all dividends payable in respect of the security and reasonable interest and expenses incurred because the amount is not paid.

Enforcement of lien

  1. The Company may do all things which the Directors think necessary or appropriate to do under the ASX Settlement Operating Rulesof the Listing Rules to enforce or protect the Company's lien.
  2. While the Company has a lien on any shares held on a CHESS sub-register, the Company must, if required, give notice that a holding lock is to be applied in the form and manner set out in the ASX Settlement Operating Rules.

Uncertificated Shares

5.6 While the Company has a lien on any shares held on a CHESS sub-register, the Company must, if required, give notice that a holding lock is to be applied in the form and manner set out in the ASX Settlement Operating Rules.

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