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(B) If any member shall surrender for cancellation a share certificate representing shares heldby him and request the Company to issue in lieu two or more share certificates representing such shares in such proportions as he may specify, the Board may, if it thinks fit, comply with such request subject to the payment of such sum (not exceeding, in the case of any share capital listed on a stock exchange in Hong Kong, the maximum amount prescribed or permitted from time to time by such stock exchange, and, in the case of any other share capital, such sum in such currency as the Board may from time to time determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the relevant register is situate, or otherwise in each case such other sum as the Board may from time to time determine) for every certificate after the first, as the Board shall from time to time determine.

(ii) Ifand wheneverthe Company [...][...]

However, in the case of a tie between a greater number of unsuccessful candidates a special ballot shall be held for the purpose of reducing the number of candidates to the required number; if a tie again results among more than the required number of candidates, the President shall reduce their number to that required by drawing lots.

[...] [...] the case ofshares denominated in Hong Kong dollars, in Hong Kong dollars, and, in the case of shares denominated in any other currency, in that currency, provided that, in the case of shares denominated [...][...]

[...] opinionof the Board, any [...][...]

(l) If the chairmen of two Panels cannot agree on how an issue straddling the work of the Panels should be handled, the chairman or, in his absence, the deputy chairman of the House Committee should be consulted on whether one of the Panels should take up the issue, or whether the Panels should hold a joint meeting.

(b) so far as it is aware at the end of the relevant period, the Company has not at any time during the relevant period received any indication of the existence of the Member who is the holder of such shares or of a person entitled to such shares by death, bankruptcy or operation of law; and (c) the Company, if so required by the rules governing the listingof shares on the Designated Stock Exchange, has given notice to, and caused advertisement in newspapers in accordance with the requirements of, the Designated Stock Exchange to be made of its intention to sell such shares in the manner required by the Designated Stock Exchange, and a period of three (3) months or such shorter period as may be allowed by the Designated Stock Exchange has elapsed since the date of such advertisement.

(J) Where a company (other [...][...]

(3) Where there arejoint registered holders of any Share, any one of such persons may vote at any meting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such Shares as if he is solely entitled thereto, but [...][...]

136 If any questionshall arise atany meeting [...][...]

As some of the new prohibitions involve a consideration of whether a commercial practice causes or is likely to cause an average consumer to make a transactional decision that the consumer would not have made otherwise, the proposed section 13D provides that in determining the effect of a commercial practice on the average consumer, account must be taken of the material characteristics of such an average consumer, including that the consumer is reasonably well informed, reasonably observant and circumspect.

Pursuant to the terms and conditionsof the Support Agreement, if, within the earlier of the Expiry Time or 120 days after the date of the Offer (or such longer time as a court having jurisdiction may permit), the Offer has been accepted by holders of not less than 90% of the outstanding Common Shares as at the Expiry Time, excluding Common Shares held by or on behalf of the Offeror, or an “affiliate” or an “associate” (as those terms are defined in the NWTBCA) of the Offeror, the Offeror shall, to the extent practicable, acquire (a “Compulsory Acquisition”) the remainder of the Common Shares from those Anvil Shareholders who have not accepted the Offer, pursuant to section 197(2) of the NWTBCA.

(C) A certificate by a Director (including for the purpose of this paragraph (C) an alternateDirector) [...][...]

(2) Where ashare stands in [...][...]

In the interpretation of this Memorandum of Association in general and of this Clause 3 in particular no object, business or power specified or mentioned shall be limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object, business or power, or the name of the Company, or by the juxtaposition of two or more objects, businesses or powers and that, in the event of any ambiguity in this Clause or elsewhere in this Memorandum of Association, the same shall be resolved by such interpretation and construction as will widen and enlarge and not restrict the objects, businesses and powers of and exercisable by the Company.

In response to a question on the flexible use of the model three-year phase-out plan, the representative of the Secretariat explained that the model was flexible because the amounts calculated did not have to be accepted if the maximum residual amounts of ODS calculated by the model were higher than the actual eligible ODS consumption.

[...] [...] of the shares held by them respectively [...][...]

169.3 to authorise any person to enter on behalf of all members entitled thereto into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid up, of any further shares, debentures or other securities to which they may be entitled upon such capitalisation, or, as thecase may require, for the payment up by the Company on their behalf, by the application thereto of their respective proportions of the profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares, and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such members.

[...] [...] the Company, but ifmore than one [...][...]

If the Directors shall at [...][...]

The Conversion Shares shall, save as provided for in these provisions, rank pari passu in all respects with the Ordinary Shares in issue at the time the Conversion Shares are issued, and shall, subject to the proviso of paragraph 5(C) in this Bye-law 6(C) and this paragraph 7, entitle the holders thereof to all distributions paid or made on the Ordinary Shares by reference to a Record Date falling after the Conversion Date, provided that if a Record Date after the Conversion Date is in respect of any distribution in respect of any financial period of the Company ended prior to such Conversion Date, the holders of the Conversion Shares will not be entitled to such distribution.

(B) The appointment of an alternate Director shall determine onthe happening of any event which, were he a Director, would cause him to vacate such office or if his appointor ceases to be a Director provided that if any Director retires at a general meeting but is re-elected by the meeting or is, pursuant to the provisions of these Bye-laws, deemed to be re-elected at the meeting at which such retirement took place, any appointment made by him pursuant to this Bye-law which was in force immediately prior to his retirement shall continue to operate after such re-election as if he had not so retired.

(e) Where arrangements are under consideration concerning the appointment (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) of two or more Directors to offices or places of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested, a separate resolution may be put in relation to each Director and in such case each of the Directors concerned shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment (or the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) and except (in the case of an office or place of profit with any such other company as aforesaid)where the other company [...][...]

(E) The Directors may on any occasion determine that rights of election and the allotment of shares under paragraph (A) of this Article shall not be made available or made to any shareholders with registered addresses in any territory where in the absence of a registration statement or other special formalities the circulation of an offer of such rights of election or the allotment of shares would or might be unlawful or impracticable or the legality or practicability of which may be time consuming or expensive to ascertain whether in absolute terms or in relation to the value of the holding of shares of the shareholder concerned, and in such event the provisions aforesaid shall be read and construed subject to such determination and no shareholder who may be affected by any such determination shall be, and they shall be deemed not to be, a separate class of shareholders for any purposes whatsoever.

[...] [...] all applicable laws, rules and regulations and to obtaining all necessary consents, if any, required thereunder, the requirements in paragraph (B) of this Articleshall be deemed satisfied in relation to any person by sending to the person in any manner not prohibited by the Ordinance and instead of a copy of the Relevant Financial [...][...]

One delegation suggested that inclusiveness and global applicability of the standard could be achieved even if it was elaborated as a regional standard by the CCNEA provided that comments of observer countries outside the region were actively sought and duly considered by the CCNEA.

[...] [...] address supplied by a shareholder may or might infringe the law of any relevant jurisdiction,or if theCompany cannot verify the location of the server at which the electronic address of the member [...][...]

(d) Where proposals are under [...][...]

113.2 If at any general meeting at which a Director retires, the office(s) of the retiring Director(s) are not filled up the retiring Director(s) may continue in office until the annual general meeting in the next year, and so on from year to year unless the number shall be reduced as aforesaid or unless the Company at the annual general meeting shall resolve that a retiring Director shall not remain in office.