110 abrdn Asian Income Fund Limited l Annual Report – 31 December 2022
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Notes
1. A member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint
a proxy or proxies to attend and, on a poll, to vote instead of
him/her. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A
form of proxy is enclosed.
2. Instruments of proxy and the power of attorney or other
authority, if any, under which they are signed or a notarially
certified copy of that power of attorney or authority should
be sent to The Registrar, abrdn Asian Income Fund Limited,
Link Group, 10th Floor Central Square, 29 Wellington Street,
Leeds LS1 4DL so as to arrive not less than forty eight hours
before the time fixed for the meeting.
3. In accordance with Article 40 of the Companies
(Uncertificated Securities) (Jersey) Order 1999, to have the
right to attend and vote at the meeting referred to above
a member must first have his or her name entered in the
Company’s register of members by not later than forty
eight hours before the time fixed for the meeting (or, in the
event that the meeting be adjourned, on the register of
members forty eight hours before the time of the adjourned
meeting). Changes to entries on that register after that
time (or, in the event that the meeting is adjourned, on the
register of members less than forty eight hours before the
time of any adjourned meeting) shall be disregarded in
determining the rights of any member to attend and vote at
the meeting referred to above.
4. Notes on CREST Voting.
CREST Members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies by
utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service
may do so by utilising the procedures described in the
CREST Manual, which is available to download from the
Euroclear website (www.euroclear.com). CREST personal
members or other CREST sponsored members, and those
CREST members who have appointed voting service
provider(s) should contact their CREST sponsor or voting
service provider(s) who will be able to take the appropriate
action on their behalf.
5. In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made
using the CREST system to be valid, the appropriate
CREST message (a “CREST proxy instruction”) must be
properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear’s
specifications and must contain the information required
for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual.
To appoint a proxy or to give or amend an instruction to
a previously appointed proxy via the CREST system, the
CREST message must be received by the issuer’s agent
RA10 by 10.30 a.m. on 5 May 2023. For this purpose, the
time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined
by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST
applications Host) from which the issuer’s agent is able to
retrieve the message.
6. CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST
sponsors or voting service providers should note that
Euroclear does not make available special procedures
in CREST for any particular messages. Normal systems
timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to
the input of CREST proxy instructions. It is the responsibility
of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST
member is a CREST personal member or CREST sponsored
member or has appointed a voting service provider(s), to
procure that his or her CREST sponsor or voting service
provider(s) takes(s)) such action as shall be necessary
to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the
CREST system by a particular time. For further information
on CREST procedures, limitations and system timings
please refer to the CREST Manual.
7. The Company may treat as invalid a proxy appointment
sent by CREST in the circumstances set out in Regulation
35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001. In
any case, a proxy form must be received by the Company’s
Registrar no later than 10.30 a.m. on 5 May 2023.
8. Shareholders are advised that, unless otherwise provided,
the telephone numbers and website addresses which
may be set out in this Notice or the Form of Proxy/Letter
of Direction are not to be used for the purpose of serving
information or documents on the Company including
the service of information or documents relating to
proceedings at the Company’s Annual General Meeting.
If the Chairman, as a result of any proxy appointments,
is given discretion as to how the votes the subject of
those proxies are cast and the voting rights in respect of
those discretionary proxies, when added to the interests
in the Company’s Ordinary shares already held by the
Chairman, result in the Chairman holding such number
of voting rights that he or she has a notifiable obligation
under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules,
the Chairman will make the necessary notifications to
the Company and the Financial Conduct Authority. As a
result any person holding 3% or more of the voting rights in
the Company who grants the Chairman a discretionary
proxy in respect of some or all of those voting rights and
so would otherwise have a notification obligation under
the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, need
not make a separate notification to the Company and the
Financial Conduct Authority.
9. No Director has a service contract with the Company.
10. The Register of Directors’ interests is kept by the Company
and is available for inspection.
11. As at 4 April 2023 (being the last business day prior to the
publication of this notice) the Company’s issued Ordinary
share capital comprised 169,332,732 Ordinary shares of no
par value and 25,600,657 treasury shares. Each Ordinary
share carries the right to one vote at a general meeting of
the Company and, therefore, the total number of voting
rights in the Company as at 4 April 2023 was 169,332,732.
12. There are special arrangements for holders of Ordinary
shares through the abrdn Share Plan and ISA. These are
explained in the ‘Letter of Direction’ which such holders will
have received with this report.
Notice of Annual General Meeting continued