At the Annual General Meeting of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEx”) held on 23 April 2012 (“AGM”), a poll was demanded by the Chairman for voting on all proposed resolutions as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 15 March 2012.
As at the date of the AGM, a total of 1,079,910,640 shares of HKEx were in issue and entitled the holders of which to attend and vote at the AGM. There were no restrictions on any shareholders to cast votes on any of the proposed resolutions at the AGM. However, to demonstrate a good corporate governance practice, all non-executive Directors who are shareholders had abstained from voting at the AGM on Resolutions 7(a) and 7(b) concerning remuneration of non-executive Directors and members of certain committees of HKEx’s Board of Directors (“Board”).
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