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Companies Bill [Lords]

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 14—Computation of periods of notice etc: clear day rule. Government amendment No. 643 Amendment No. 682, in clause 291, page 137, line 1, at end insert— ‘(3A) Directors of the company shall be ineligible to cast any proxy votes.’. Government amendment No. 301 Amendment No. 355, in clause 307, page 142, line 23 , at end insert— ‘( ) Nothing in this Chapter affects a provision of a company’s articles which provides for a resolution in writing executed by or on behalf of each member who would have been entitled to vote upon it if it had been proposed at a general meeting, or at a meeting of any class of members of the company, at which he was present (whether such resolution consists of one instrument executed by or on behalf of each such member or of several instruments in the like form each executed by or on behalf of one or more such members) to be as effectual as if it had been passed at a general meeting, or at a meeting of any class of members of the company, duly convened and held. A resolution in writing passed in accordance with such a provision of the company’s articles shall be treated as if it were a ““written resolution”” for the purposes of this Chapter.’. Government amendments Nos. 443, 302, 348and 349. Amendment No. 418, in clause 316, page 146, line 2, at end insert ‘and (d) be communicated directly to the member either in electronic form or in hard copy form’. Government amendment No. 444 Amendment No. 419, in clause 327, page 149, line 30 , at end insert— ‘(1A) The chairman must demand a poll when he is aware that the outcome would be different from that reached on a show of hands.’. Amendment No. 420, in page 149, line 30, at end insert— ‘(1A) The chairman must announce the number of proxy votes in favour and against each resolution, before such a resolution is put to a vote of members in general meeting.’. Government amendment No. 445 Amendment No. 421, in page 158, line 13, leave out Clauses 349 to 352. Government amendments Nos. 446 and 350.