EX-3.1 2 tm2226987d1_ex3-1.htm EXHIBIT 3.1

 

TERRITORY OF THE British Virgin Islands

BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT 2004

 

Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited

 

A Company Limited By Shares

 

  MEMORANDUM and articles OF ASSOCIATION  
 

Incorporated on 31 July 2009

 

Amended and Restated on 3 September 2020

 

Amended and Restated on 5 October 2020

 

Amended and Restated on 26 September 2022

 

 

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TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 

THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004

 

AMENDED & RESTATED

 

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited

A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

1.DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

 

1.1In this Memorandum of Association and the attached Articles of Association, if not inconsistent with the subject or context:

 

Act” means the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (No. 16 of 2004) and includes the regulations made under the Act;

 

Articles” means the attached Articles of Association of the Company;

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company;

 

business day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be a federal legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close;

 

by electronic means” means by any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process, including but not limited to transmission by telex, facsimile telecommunication, electronic mail, telegram and cablegram;

 

Chairman of the Board” has the meaning specified in Regulation 12;

 

Direct Registration System” means a system which provides for electronic direct registration of eligible securities in a Shareholder’s name on the books of the transfer agent and allows shares to be transferred between a transfer agent and broker electronically, thereby eliminating the need for share certificates;

 

Distribution” in relation to a distribution by the Company to a Shareholder means the direct or indirect transfer of an asset, other than Shares, to or for the benefit of the Shareholder, or the incurring of a debt to or for the benefit of a Shareholder, in relation to Shares held by a Shareholder, and whether by means of the purchase of an asset, the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Shares, a transfer of indebtedness or otherwise, and includes a dividend;

 

Eligible Person” or “Person” means individuals, corporations, trusts, the estates of deceased individuals, partnerships and unincorporated associations of persons;

 

fair market value” means, as of the date of determination, in the case of the Shares, the average of the last sales prices on the Stock Exchange in each trading day during the five trading-day period ending on such date.

 

 

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immediate family member” means any child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, spouse, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law.

 

Memorandum” means this Memorandum of Association of the Company;

 

Registrar” means the Registrar of Corporate Affairs appointed under section 229 of the Act;

 

Resolution of Directors” means either:

 

(a)a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of directors of the Company or of a committee of directors of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at the meeting who voted except that where a director is given more than one vote, he shall be counted by the number of votes he casts for the purpose of establishing a majority; or

 

(b)a resolution consented to in writing by all directors or by all members of a committee of directors of the Company, as the case may be;

 

Resolution of Shareholders” means either (a) a resolution approved at a duly convened and constituted meeting of the Shareholders of the Company by the affirmative vote of a majority of in excess of 50% of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote thereon which were present at the meeting and were voted; or (b) a resolution consented to in writing by a majority of in excess of in excess of 50% of the votes of Shares entitled to vote thereon.

 

Seal” means any seal which has been duly adopted as the common seal of the Company;

 

Securities” means Shares and debt obligations of every kind of the Company, and including without limitation options, warrants and rights to acquire Shares or debt obligations;

 

Share” means a share issued or to be issued by the Company;

 

Shareholder” means an Eligible Person whose name is entered in the register of members of the Company as the holder of one or more Shares or fractional Shares;

 

Stock Exchange” means the applicable trading exchange or quotation system, including the New York Stock Exchange or any successor body carrying on its functions;

 

Treasury Share” means a Share that was previously issued but was repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled; and

 

written” or any term of like import includes information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric or photonic means, including electronic data interchange, electronic mail, telegram, telex or telecopy, and “in writing” shall be construed accordingly.

 

1.2In the Memorandum and the Articles, unless the context otherwise requires a reference to:

 

(a)a “Regulation” is a reference to a regulation of the Articles;

 

(b)a “Clause” is a reference to a clause of the Memorandum;

 

 

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(c)voting by Shareholders is a reference to the casting of the votes attached to the Shares held by the Shareholder voting;

 

(d)the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles is a reference to the Act or those documents as amended or, in the case of the Act any re-enactment thereof; and

 

(e)the singular includes the plural and vice versa.

 

1.3Any words or expressions defined in the Act unless the context otherwise requires bear the same meaning in the Memorandum and the Articles unless otherwise defined herein.

 

1.4Headings are inserted for convenience only and shall be disregarded in interpreting the Memorandum and the Articles.

 

2.NAME

 

The name of the Company is Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited.

 

3.STATUS

 

The Company is a company limited by shares.

 

4.REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT

 

4.1The first registered office of the Company is at Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, the office of the first registered agent.

 

4.2The first registered agent of the Company is Harneys Corporate Services Limited of Craigmuir Chambers, P.O. Box 71, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

 

4.3The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors change the location of its registered office or change its registered agent.

 

4.4Any change of registered office or registered agent will take effect on the registration by the Registrar of a notice of the change filed by the existing registered agent or a legal practitioner in the British Virgin Islands acting on behalf of the Company.

 

5.CAPACITY AND POWERS

 

5.1Subject to the Act and any other British Virgin Islands legislation, the Company has, irrespective of corporate benefit:

 

(a)full capacity to carry on or undertake any business or activity, do any act or enter into any transaction; and

 

(b)for the purposes of paragraph (a), full rights, powers and privileges.

 

5.2For the purposes of section 9(4) of the Act, there are no limitations on the business that the Company may carry on.

 

6.NUMBER AND CLASSES OF SHARES

 

6.1Shares in the Company shall be issued in United States Dollars.

 

 

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6.2The Company is authorised to issue a maximum of 200,000,000 Shares of US$0.024 par value each of a single class.

 

6.3The Company may issue fractional Shares and a fractional Share shall have the corresponding fractional rights, obligations and liabilities of a whole share of the same class or series of shares.

 

6.4Shares may be issued in one or more series of Shares as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine from time to time.

 

7.RIGHTS OF SHARES

 

7.1Each Share in the Company confers upon the Shareholder:

 

(a)the right to one vote at a meeting of the Shareholders or on any Resolution of Shareholders;

 

(b)the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company; and

 

(c)the right to an equal share in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company on its liquidation.

 

7.2The Company may by Resolution of Directors redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire all or any of the Shares in the Company subject to Regulation 3 of the Articles.

 

8.VARIATION OF RIGHTS

 

If at any time the Shares are divided into different classes, the rights attached to any class may only be varied, whether or not the Company is in liquidation, with the consent in writing of or by a resolution passed at a meeting by the holders of not less than 50% of the issued Shares in that class.

 

9.RIGHTS NOT VARIED BY THE ISSUE OF SHARES PARI PASSU

 

The rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any class shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the Shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu therewith.

 

10.REGISTERED SHARES

 

10.1The Company shall issue registered Shares only.

 

10.2The Company is not authorised to issue bearer Shares, convert registered Shares to bearer Shares or exchange registered Shares for bearer Shares.

 

11.TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

11.1Subject to Sub-Regulations 6.3and 6.4 of the Articles, the Company shall, on receipt of an instrument of transfer complying with Sub-Regulation 6.1 of the Articles, enter the name of the transferee of a Share in the register of members unless the directors resolve to refuse or delay the registration of the transfer for reasons that shall be specified in a Resolution of Directors.

 

11.2The directors may not resolve to refuse or delay the transfer of a Share unless the Shareholder has failed to pay an amount due in respect of the Share.

 

 

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12.AMENDMENT OF THE MEMORANDUM AND THE ARTICLES

 

12.1Subject to Clause 8, the Company may amend the Memorandum or the Articles by Resolution of Shareholders.

 

12.2Any amendment of the Memorandum or the Articles will take effect on the registration by the Registrar of a notice of amendment, or restated Memorandum and Articles, filed by the registered agent.

 

Signed for HARNEYS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED of Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands on 31 July 2009:

 

Incorporator

 

Sgd. Andrew Swapp

__________________________

Andrew Swapp

Authorised Signatory

HARNEYS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED

 

 

 

 

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TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 

THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004

 

AMENDED & RESTATED

 

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited

A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

1.REGISTERED SHARES

 

1.1Every Shareholder is entitled to a certificate signed by a director or officer of the Company, or any other Eligible Person authorised by Resolution of Directors, or under the Seal specifying the number of Shares held by him and the signature of the director, officer or authorised Eligible Person and the Seal may be facsimiles.

 

2.SHARES

 

2.1Shares and other Securities may be issued at such times, to such Eligible Persons, for such consideration and on such terms as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine.

 

2.2Section 46 of the Act (Pre-emptive rights) does not apply to the Company.

 

2.3A Share may be issued for consideration in any form or a combination of forms, including money, a promissory note, or other written obligation to contribute money or property, real property, personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services.

 

2.4The consideration for a Share with par value shall not be less than the par value of the Share. If a Share with par value is issued for consideration less than the par value, the Eligible Person to whom the Share is issued is liable to pay to the Company an amount equal to the difference between the issue price and the par value.

 

2.5Before issuing Shares for a consideration, which is, in whole or in part, other than money a Resolution of Directors shall be passed stating:

 

(a)the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares; and

 

(b)that, in the opinion of the directors, the present cash value of the non-money consideration or money consideration, if any, is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares.

 

2.6The consideration paid for any Share, whether a par value Share or a no par value Share shall not be treated as a liability or debt of the Company for the purposes of

 

(a)the solvency test in Regulations 3 and 18; and

 

(b)sections 197 and 209 of the Act.

 

 

 

 

2.7The Company shall keep a register (the “register of members”) containing:

 

(a)the names and addresses of the Eligible Persons who hold Shares;

 

(b)the number of each class and series of Shares held by each Shareholder;

 

(c)the date on which the name of each Shareholder was entered in the register of members; and

 

(d)the date on which any Eligible Person ceased to be a Shareholder.

 

2.8The register of members may be in any such form as the directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until the directors otherwise determine, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage form shall be the original register of members.

 

2.9A Share is deemed to be issued when the name of the Shareholder is entered in the register of members.

 

2.10Nothing in these Articles shall require title to any Shares or other securities of the Company to be evidenced by a certificate if the Act and the rules of the Stock Exchange permit otherwise.

 

2.11Subject to the Act and the rules of the Stock Exchange, the Board without further consultation with the holders of any Shares or securities of the Company may resolve that any class or series of Shares or other securities of the Company from time to time in issue or to be issued (including sharesShares in issue at the date of the adoption of these Articles) may be issued, held, registered, converted to, transferred or otherwise dealt with in uncertificated form in accordance with the regulations and practices instituted by the operator of the Direct Registration System and no provision of these Articles will apply to any uncertificated Share or other securities of the Company to the extent that they are inconsistent with the holding of such Shares or other securities in uncertificated form or the transfer of title to any such Shares or other securities by means of a Direct Registration System or any provision of such Direct Registration System’s regulations.

 

2.12Conversion of Shares held in certificated form into shares held in uncertificated form, and vice versa, may be made in such manner as the Board of Directors may, in its absolute discretion, think fit (subject always to the regulations and the requirements of the Direct Registration System concerned). The Company shall enter on the register of members how many Shares are held by each Shareholder in uncertificated form and in certificated form and shall maintain the register of members in each case as is required by the regulations of the Direct Registration System concerned. Notwithstanding any provision of these Articles, a class or series of Shares shall not be treated as two classes by virtue only of that class or series comprising both certificated Shares and uncertificated Shares or as a result of any provision of these Articles or the Regulations which apply only in respect of certificated or uncertificated Shares.

 

2.13Any Shareholder receiving a share certificate for certificated Shares shall indemnify and hold the Company and its directors and officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of any wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any Eligible Person by virtue of the possession thereof.

 

2.14Subject to the provisions of Sub-Regulation 6.2, if a share certificate for certificated Shares is defaced, worn out, lost or destroyed it may be replaced without fee but on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and to payment of any exceptional out-of-pocket expenses of the Company in investigating such evidence and preparing such indemnity as the Board of Directors may think fit and, in case of defacement or wearing out, on delivery up of the old certificate to the Company.

 

 

 

 

2.15All forms of certificates for Shares or loan capital or other securities of the Company (other than letters of allotment, scrip certificates and other like documents) shall be issued under the Seal or in such other manner as the Board of Directors may authorise. The Board of Directors may by Resolution of Directors determine, either generally or in any particular case or cases, that any signatures on any such certificate need not be autographic but may be affixed to such certificate by some mechanical or electronic means or may be printed thereon or that such certificate need not be signed by any Eligible Person.

 

2.16If several Eligible Persons are registered as joint holders of any Shares, any one of such Eligible Persons may give an effectual receipt for any dividend or other Distribution payable in respect of such Shares.

 

3.REDEMPTION OF SHARES AND TREASURY SHARES

 

3.1The Company may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire and hold its own Shares save that the Company may not, except pursuant to Sub-Regulation 3.7, purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire its own Shares without the consent of Shareholders whose Shares are to be purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired unless the Company is permitted by the Act or any other provision in the Memorandum or Articles to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire the Shares without their consent.

 

3.2The Company may acquire its own fully paid Shares for no consideration by way of surrender of the Shares to the Company by the person holding the Shares. Any such surrender shall be in writing and signed by the person holding the Shares.

 

3.3The Company may only offer to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Shares if the Resolution of Directors authorising the purchase, redemption or other acquisition contains a statement that the directors are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that immediately after the purchase, redemption or other acquisition the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.

 

3.4Sections 60 (Process for acquisition of own shares), 61 (Offer to one or more shareholders) and 62 (Shares redeemed otherwise than at the option of company) of the Act shall not apply to the Company.

 

3.5Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires pursuant to this Regulation may be cancelled or held as Treasury Shares except to the extent that such Shares are in excess of 50% of the issued Shares in which case they shall be cancelled but they shall be available for reissue.

 

3.6All rights and obligations attaching to a Treasury Share are suspended and shall not be exercised by the Company while it holds the Share as a Treasury Share.

 

3.7Treasury Shares may be transferred by the Company on such terms and conditions (not otherwise inconsistent with the Memorandum and the Articles) as the Company may by Resolution of Directors determine.

 

3.8Where:

 

(a)the Company undertakes any division of the issued Shares pursuant to section 40A of the Act, and

 

(b)pursuant such division a Shareholder holds a total number of Shares which includes a fractional Share,

 

 

 

 

the Company may compulsorily redeem such fractional Share so that (subsequent to such redemption) the Shareholder holds a whole number of Shares. Where the Company compulsorily redeems a fractional Share under this Regulation, the price at which such fractional Share is redeemed shall be calculated on the basis of the fair market value per Share (rounded up to the nearest tenth).

 

4.MORTGAGES AND CHARGES OF SHARES

 

4.1Shareholders may mortgage or charge their Shares.

 

4.2There shall be entered in the register of members at the written request of the Shareholder:

 

(a)a statement that the Shares held by him are mortgaged or charged;

 

(b)the name of the mortgagee or chargee; and

 

(c)the date on which the particulars specified in subparagraphs (a) and (b) are entered in the register of members.

 

4.3Where particulars of a mortgage or charge are entered in the register of members, such particulars may be cancelled:

 

(a)with the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee or anyone authorised to act on his behalf; or

 

(b)upon evidence satisfactory to the directors of the discharge of the liability secured by the mortgage or charge and the issue of such indemnities as the directors shall consider necessary or desirable.

 

4.4Whilst particulars of a mortgage or charge over Shares are entered in the register of members pursuant to this Regulation:

 

(a)no transfer of any Share the subject of those particulars shall be effected;

 

(b)the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any such Share; and

 

(c)no replacement certificate shall be issued in respect of such Shares,

 

without the written consent of the named mortgagee or chargee.

 

5.FORFEITURE

 

5.1Shares that are not fully paid on issue are subject to the forfeiture provisions set forth in this Regulation and for this purpose Shares issued for a promissory note, other written obligation to contribute money or property or a contract for future services are deemed to be not fully paid.

 

5.2A written notice of call specifying the date for payment to be made shall be served on the Shareholder who defaults in making payment in respect of the Shares.

 

5.3The written notice of call referred to in Sub-Regulation 5.2 shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the notice on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the notice the Shares, or any of them, in respect of which payment is not made will be liable to be forfeited.

 

 

 

 

5.4Where a written notice of call has been issued pursuant to Sub-Regulation 5.3 and the requirements of the notice have not been complied with, the directors may, at any time before tender of payment, forfeit and cancel the Shares to which the notice relates.

 

5.5The Company is under no obligation to refund any moneys to the Shareholder whose Shares have been cancelled pursuant to Sub-Regulation 5.4 and that Shareholder shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company.

 

6.TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

6.1Shares of the Company shall be transferable in the manner prescribed by law, the Memorandum and these Articles. Transfers of Shares shall be made on the books of the Company only by the Person named in the certificate or by his attorney lawfully constituted in writing and upon the surrender of the certificate therefor, which shall be cancelled before a new certificate shall be issued. Upon surrender to the Company or the transfer agent of the Company of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the Company to issue a new certificate (or uncertificated shares) to the Person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transactions upon its books, unless the Company has a duty to inquire as to adverse claims with respect to such transfer which has not been discharged. The Company shall have no duty to inquire into adverse claims with respect to such transfer unless (a) the Company has received a written notification of an adverse claim at a time and in a manner which affords the Company a reasonable opportunity to act on it prior to the issuance of a new, reissued or re-registered share certificate and the notification identifies the claimant, the registered owner and the issue of which the Share or Shares is a part and rovides an address for communications directed to the claimant; or (b) the Company has required and obtained, with respect to a fiduciary, a copy of a will, trust, indenture, articles of co-partnership, bylaws or other controlling instruments, for a purpose other than to obtain appropriate evidence of the appointment or incumbency of the fiduciary, and such documents indicate, upon reasonable inspection, the existence of an adverse claim. The Company may discharge any duty of inquiry by any reasonable means, including notifying an adverse claimant by registered or certified mail at the address furnished by him or, if there be no such address, at his residence or regular place of business that the security has been presented for registration of transfer by a named Person, and that the transfer will be registered unless within thirty days from the date of mailing the notification, either (a) an appropriate restraining order, injunction or other process issues from a court of competent jurisdiction; or (b) an indemnity bond, sufficient in the Company’s judgment to protect the Company and any transfer agent, registrar or other agent of the Company involved from any loss which it or they may suffer by complying with the adverse claim, is filed with the Company.

 

Upon the receipt of proper transfer instructions from the registered owner of uncertificated shares, such uncertificated shares shall be cancelled, issuance of new equivalent uncertificated shares or certificated shares shall be made to the Shareholder entitled thereto and the transaction shall be recorded upon the books of the Company. If the Company has a transfer agent or registrar acting on its behalf, the signature of any officer or representative thereof may be in facsimile.

 

The Board of Directors may appoint a transfer agent and one or more co-transfer agents and registrar and one or more co-registrars and may make or authorize such agent to make all such rules and regulations deemed expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of shares of stock.

 

6.2The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or uncertificated Shares be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Company alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as the Board of Directors shall require and/or to give the Company a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Company with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.

 

 

 

 

6.3In the case of uncertificated Shares, and subject to the Act, a Shareholder shall be entitled to transfer its Shares and other securities by means of a Direct Registration System and the operator of the Direct Registration System shall act as agent of the Shareholders for the purposes of the transfer of Shares or other securities.

 

6.4Any provision in these Articles in relation to the Shares shall not apply to any uncertified Shares to the extent that they are inconsistent with the holding of any Shares in uncertificated form, the transfer of title to any Shares by means of a Direct Registration System and any provision of such Direct Registration System’s regulations.

 

6.5The transfer of a Share is effective when the name of the transferee is entered on the register of members.

 

7.MEETINGS AND CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

7.1Place of Meetings. All meetings of the Shareholders shall be held at such time and place as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, and stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.

 

7.2Annual Meetings.

 

(a)A meeting of the Shareholders may be designated as an “annual meeting”. Such annual meeting of Shareholders shall be held on such date and at such time as may be fixed by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting, for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of only such other business as is properly brought before the meeting in accordance with these Articles.

 

(b)Written notice of an annual meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting, shall be given to each Shareholder entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the annual meeting.

 

(c)To be properly brought before the annual meeting, business must be either (i) specified in the notice of annual meeting (or any supplement or amendment thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, (ii) otherwise brought before the annual meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, or (iii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by a Shareholder. In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a Shareholder, the Shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the secretary of the Company. To be timely, a Shareholder’s notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 60th day nor earlier than the opening of business on the 90th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of Shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the Shareholder to be timely must be so received not earlier than the opening of business on the 90th day before the meeting and not later than the later of (i) the close of business on the 60th day before the meeting or (ii) the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting of Shareholders is first made by the Company. A Shareholder’s notice to the secretary shall set forth (a) as to each matter the Shareholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting, and (ii) any material interest of the Shareholder in such business, and (b) as to the Shareholder giving the notice (i) the name and record address of the Shareholder and (ii) the class, series and number of Shares of the Company which are beneficially owned by the Shareholder. Notwithstanding anything in these Articles to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at the annual meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Sub-Regulation 7.2(c). The officer of the Company presiding at an annual meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the annual meeting that business was not properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the provisions of this Sub-Regulation 7.2(c), and if such officer should so determine, such officer shall so declare to the annual meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted.

 

 

 

 

7.3Special Meetings.

 

(a)A meeting of the Shareholders may be designated as a “special meeting”. Such special meetings of the Shareholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by the Act, Memorandum or by the Articles, may only be called by a majority of the entire Board of Directors, or the Chief Executive Officer, and shall be called by the secretary at the request in writing of Shareholders owning a majority in amount of the entire capital stock of the Company issued and outstanding and entitled to vote. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting.

 

(b)Unless otherwise provided by law, written notice of a special meeting of Shareholders, stating the time, place and purpose or purposes thereof, shall be given to each Shareholder entitled to vote at such meeting, not less than ten (10) or more than sixty (60) days before the date fixed for the meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of Shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.

 

7.4Fixing Record Date. In order that the Company may determine the Shareholders entitled to notice or to vote at any meeting of Shareholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other Distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of Shares or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the Resolution of Directors fixing the record is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than ten (10) days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date of action with a meeting is adopted by the Board of Directors, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action. If no record date is fixed:

 

(a)The record date for determining Shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Shareholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived in accordance with Sub-Regulation 7.5, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.

 

(b)The record date for determining Shareholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is necessary, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent is delivered to the Company.

 

(c)The record date for determining Shareholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

A determination of Shareholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Shareholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

 

 

 

7.5A meeting of Shareholders held in contravention of the requirement to give notice is valid if Shareholders holding at least 90% of the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a Shareholder at the meeting shall constitute waiver in relation to all the Shares which that Shareholder holds.

 

7.6Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the inadvertent failure of a director who convenes a meeting to give notice of a meeting to a Shareholder or another director, or the fact that a Shareholder or another director has not received notice, does not invalidate the meeting.

 

7.7A Shareholder may be represented at a meeting of Shareholders by a proxy who may speak and vote on behalf of the Shareholder.

 

7.8The instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place designated for the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which the Person named in such instrument proposes to vote. The notice of the meeting may specify an alternative or additional place or time at which the proxy shall be presented.

 

7.9The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in such form as the chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the Shareholder appointing the proxy.

 

7.10The following applies where Shares are jointly owned:

 

(a)if two or more Eligible Persons hold Shares jointly each of them may be present in person or by proxy at a meeting of Shareholders and may speak as a Shareholder;

 

(b)if only one of the joint owners is present in person or by proxy he may vote on behalf of all joint owners; and

 

(c)if two or more of the joint owners are present in person or by proxy they must vote as one.

 

7.11A Shareholder shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of Shareholders if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all Shareholders participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.

 

7.12A meeting of Shareholders is duly constituted if, at the commencement of the meeting, there are present in person or by proxy not less than 50% of the votes of the Shares entitled to vote on Resolutions of Shareholders to be considered at the meeting. A quorum may comprise a single Shareholder or proxy and then such Person may pass a Resolution of Shareholders and a certificate signed by such Person accompanied where such Person be a proxy by a copy of the proxy instrument shall constitute a valid Resolution of Shareholders.

 

7.13If a quorum is not present within two hours after the time appointed for the meeting, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Shareholders, shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the next business day in the jurisdiction in which the meeting was to have been held at the same time and place or to such other time and place as the directors may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting there are present within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting in person or by proxy not less than one third of the votes of the Shares or each class or series of Shares entitled to vote on the matters to be considered by the meeting, those present shall constitute a quorum but otherwise the meeting shall be dissolved.

 

7.14Organization. At every meeting of Shareholders, the Chairman of the Board shall preside as chairman of the meeting. The Board of Directors may designate any other officer or director of the Company to act as chairman of any meeting in the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors may further provide for determining who shall act as chairman of any Shareholders meeting in the absence of the Chairman of the Board and such designee.

 

 

 

 

The secretary of the Company shall act as secretary of all meetings of the Shareholders, but in the absence of the secretary the presiding officer may appoint any other person to act as secretary of any meeting.

 

7.15The chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

 

7.16At any meeting of the Shareholders the chairman is responsible for deciding in such manner as he considers appropriate whether any resolution proposed has been carried or not and the result of his decision shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting. If the chairman has any doubt as to the outcome of the vote on a proposed resolution, he shall cause a poll to be taken of all votes cast upon such resolution. If the chairman fails to take a poll then any Shareholder present in person or by proxy who disputes the announcement by the chairman of the result of any vote may immediately following such announcement demand that a poll be taken and the chairman shall cause a poll to be taken. If a poll is taken at any meeting, the result shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

 

7.17Subject to the specific provisions contained in this Regulation for the appointment of representatives of Eligible Persons other than individuals the right of any individual to speak for or represent a Shareholder shall be determined by the law of the jurisdiction where, and by the documents by which, the Eligible Person is constituted or derives its existence. In case of doubt, the directors may in good faith seek legal advice from any qualified person and unless and until a court of competent jurisdiction shall otherwise rule, the directors may rely and act upon such advice without incurring any liability to any Shareholder or the Company.

 

7.18Any Eligible Person other than an individual which is a Shareholder may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such individual as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of Shareholders or of any class of Shareholders, and the individual so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same rights on behalf of the Shareholder which he represents as that Shareholder could exercise if it were an individual.

 

7.19The chairman of any meeting at which a vote is cast by proxy or on behalf of any Eligible Person other than an individual may call for a notarially certified copy of such proxy or authority which shall be produced within 7 days of being so requested or the votes cast by such proxy or on behalf of such Eligible Person shall be disregarded.

 

7.20Directors of the Company may attend and speak at any meeting of Shareholders and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class or series of Shares.

 

7.21An action that may be taken by the Shareholders at a meeting may also be taken by a resolution consented to in writing, without the need for any notice, but if any Resolution of Shareholders is adopted otherwise than by the unanimous written consent of all Shareholders, a copy of such resolution shall forthwith be sent to all Shareholders not consenting to such resolution. The consent may be in the form of counterparts, each counterpart being signed by one or more Shareholders. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the earliest date upon which Shareholders holding a sufficient number of votes of Shares to constitute a Resolution of Shareholders have consented to the resolution by signed counterparts.

 

 

 

 

8.DIRECTORS

 

8.1The first directors of the Company shall be appointed by the first registered agent within 6 months of the date of incorporation of the Company; and thereafter, the directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast by the Shareholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon or subject to Sub-Regulation 8.7, by Resolution of Directors.

 

8.2No person shall be appointed as a director, or nominated as a director, of the Company unless he has consented in writing to be a director or to be nominated as a director.

 

8.3Subject to Sub-Regulation 8.1, the minimum number of directors shall not be less than one(1) and the maximum number of directors shall not exceed nine (9). Subject to the foregoing, the number of directors which shall constitute the Board of Directors may increase to such number of members as the Board of Directors may determine from time to time.

 

8.4Each director holds office for the term, if any, fixed by the Resolution of Shareholders appointing him, or until his earlier death, resignation, removal from office or incapacity. If no term is fixed on the appointment of a director, the director serves indefinitely until his earlier death, resignation, removal from office or incapacity.

 

8.5A director may be removed from office,

 

(a)with or without cause, by Resolution of Shareholders passed at a meeting of Shareholders called for the purposes of removing the director or for purposes including the removal of the director or by a written resolution passed by at least 75% of the Shareholders of the Company entitled to vote; or

 

(b)with cause, by Resolution of Directors passed at a meeting of directors called for the purpose of removing the director or for purposes including the removal of the director.

 

8.6A director may resign his office by giving written notice of his resignation to the Company and the resignation has effect from the date the notice is received by the Company or from such later date as may be specified in the notice. A director shall resign forthwith as a director if he is, or becomes, disqualified from acting as a director under the Act.

 

8.7The directors may at any time appoint any person to be a director either to fill a vacancy or as an addition to the existing directors. Where the directors appoint a person as a director to fill a vacancy, or as an additional director the term shall not exceed the term that remained when the person who has ceased to be a director ceased to hold office or until the next annual meeting of Shareholders (where such appointment shall be approved by the Shareholders) whenever is earlier.

 

8.8A vacancy in relation to directors occurs if a director dies or otherwise ceases to hold office prior to the expiration of his term of office.

 

8.9Nominations. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Company at a meeting of Shareholders of the Company may be made at such meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, by any committee or persons appointed by the Board of Directors or by any Shareholder entitled to vote for the election of directors at the meeting who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Sub-Regulation 8.9. Such nominations by any Shareholder shall be made pursuant to timely notice in writing to the secretary of the Company. To be timely, a Shareholder’s notice shall be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Company (i) in the case of an annual meeting, not later than the close of business on the 60th day nor earlier than the opening of business on the 90th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of Shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the Shareholder to be timely must be so received not earlier than the opening of business on the 90th day before the meeting and not later than the later of (x) the close of business on the 60th day before the meeting or (y) the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was first made by the Company; and (ii) in the case of a special meeting of Shareholders called for the purpose of electing directors, not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the special meeting is first made by the Company.

 

 

 

 

8.10Such Shareholder’s notice to the secretary shall set forth (i) as to each person whom the Shareholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, (a) the name, age, business address and residence address of the person, (b) the principal occupation or employment of the person, (c) the class and number of shares of capital stock of the Company which are beneficially owned by the person, and (d) any other information relating to the person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations for proxies for election of directors pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and (ii) as to the Shareholder giving the notice (a) the name and record address of the Shareholder and (b) the class and number of shares of capital stock of the Company which are beneficially owned by the Shareholder. The Company may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Company to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Company. No person shall be eligible for election as a director of the Company unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth herein. The officer of the Company presiding at an annual meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the foregoing procedure, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination shall be disregarded.

 

8.11The Company shall keep a register of directors containing:

 

(a)the names and addresses of the persons who are directors of the Company or who have been nominated as directors of the Company;

 

(b)the date on which each person whose name is entered in the register was appointed as a director, or nominated as a director, of the Company;

 

(c)the date on which each person named as a director ceased to be a director of the Company;

 

(d)the date on which the nomination of any person nominated as a director ceased to have effect; and

 

(e)such other information as may be prescribed by the Act.

 

8.12The register of directors may be kept in any such form as the directors may approve, but if it is in magnetic, electronic or other data storage form, the Company must be able to produce legible evidence of its contents. Until a Resolution of Directors determining otherwise is passed, the magnetic, electronic or other data storage shall be the original register of directors.

 

8.13The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, fix the emoluments of directors with respect to services to be rendered in any capacity to the Company.

 

8.14A director is not required to hold a Share as a qualification to office.

 

 

 

 

9.POWERS OF DIRECTORS

 

9.1The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by, or under the direction or supervision of, the directors of the Company. The directors of the Company have all the powers necessary for managing, and for directing and supervising, the business and affairs of the Company. The directors may pay all expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the incorporation of the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Act or by the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Shareholders.

 

9.2Each director shall exercise his powers for a proper purpose and shall not act or agree to the Company acting in a manner that contravenes the Memorandum, the Articles or the Act. Each director, in exercising his powers or performing his duties, shall act honestly and in good faith in what the director believes to be the best interests of the Company.

 

9.3If the Company is the wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company, a director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of the holding company even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company.

 

9.4The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body.

 

9.5The directors may by Resolution of Directors exercise all the powers of the Company to incur indebtedness, liabilities or obligations and to secure indebtedness, liabilities or obligations whether of the Company or of any third party.

 

9.6All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by Resolution of Directors.

 

9.7For the purposes of Section 175 (Disposition of assets) of the Act, the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine that any sale, transfer, lease, exchange or other disposition is in the usual or regular course of the business carried on by the Company and such determination is, in the absence of fraud, conclusive.

 

9.8The directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid a fixed amount (in cash or other form of consideration) for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary (in cash or other form of consideration) as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Company in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.

 

9.9Members of the Board of Directors or any committee designated by the Board of Directors may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or of a committee of the Board of Directors by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this Sub-Regulation shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

10.PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

 

10.1Any one director of the Company may call a meeting of the directors by sending a written notice to each other director.

 

 

 

 

10.2The directors of the Company or any committee thereof may meet at such times and in such manner and places within or outside the British Virgin Islands as the directors may determine to be necessary or desirable.

 

10.3A director is deemed to be present at a meeting of directors if he participates by telephone or other electronic means and all directors participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.

 

10.4A director shall be given not less than three (3) days notice of meetings of directors, but a meeting of directors held without three (3) days notice having been given to all directors shall be valid if all the directors entitled to vote at the meeting who do not attend waive notice of the meeting, and for this purpose the presence of a director at a meeting shall constitute waiver by that director. The inadvertent failure to give notice of a meeting to a director, or the fact that a director has not received the notice, does not invalidate the meeting.

 

10.5A meeting of directors is duly constituted for all purposes if at the commencement of the meeting there are present in person not less than one-half of the total number of directors, unless there are only two (2) directors in which case the quorum is two (2).

 

10.6If the Company has only one director the provisions herein contained for meetings of directors do not apply and such sole director has full power to represent and act for the Company in all matters as are not by the Act, the Memorandum or the Articles required to be exercised by the Shareholders. In lieu of minutes of a meeting the sole director shall record in writing and sign a note or memorandum of all matters requiring a Resolution of Directors. Such a note or memorandum constitutes sufficient evidence of such resolution for all purposes.

 

10.7At meetings of directors at which the Chairman of the Board is present, he shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if the Chairman of the Board is not present, the directors present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

10.8An action that may be taken by the directors or a committee of directors at a meeting may also be taken by a Resolution of Directors or a resolution of a committee of directors consented to in writing by all directors or by all members of the committee, as the case may be, without the need for any notice. The consent may be in the form of counterparts each counterpart being signed by one or more directors. If the consent is in one or more counterparts, and the counterparts bear different dates, then the resolution shall take effect on the date upon which the last director has consented to the resolution by signed counterparts.

 

11.COMMITTEES

 

11.1The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, designate one or more committees, each consisting of one or more directors, and delegate one or more of their powers, including the power to affix the Seal, to the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

 

11.2The directors have no power to delegate to a committee of directors any of the following powers:

 

(a)to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;

 

(b)to designate committees of directors;

 

(c)to delegate powers to a committee of directors;

 

 

 

 

(d)to appoint or remove directors;

 

(e)to appoint or remove an agent;

 

(f)to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;

 

(g)to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan; or

 

(h)to make a determination that immediately after a proposed Distribution the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.

 

11.3Sub-Regulation 11.2(b) and (c) do not prevent a committee of directors, where authorised by the Resolution of Directors appointing such committee or by a subsequent Resolution of Directors, from appointing a sub-committee and delegating powers exercisable by the committee to the sub-committee.

 

11.4The meetings and proceedings of each committee of directors consisting of two (2) or more directors shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of the Articles regulating the proceedings of directors so far as the same are not superseded by any provisions in the Resolution of Directors establishing the committee. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board of Directors when required.

 

11.5Where the directors delegate their powers to a committee of directors they remain responsible for the exercise of that power by the committee, unless they believed on reasonable grounds at all times before the exercise of the power that the committee would exercise the power in conformity with the duties imposed on directors of the Company under the Act.

 

12.OFFICERS AND AGENTS

 

12.1The Company may by Resolution of Directors appoint officers of the Company at such times as may be considered necessary or expedient. Such officers may consist of a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a chief executive officer, and one or more vice-presidents, secretaries and treasurers and such other officers as may from time to time be considered necessary or expedient. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

12.2The officers shall perform such duties as are prescribed at the time of their appointment subject to any modification in such duties as may be prescribed thereafter by Resolution of Directors. In the absence of any specific prescription of duties it shall be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board to preside at meetings of directors and Shareholders, the chief executive officer to manage the day to day affairs of the Company, the vice-presidents to act in order of seniority in the absence of the chief executive officer but otherwise to perform such duties as may be delegated to them by the chief executive officer, the secretaries to maintain the register of members, minute books and records (other than financial records) of the Company and to ensure compliance with all procedural requirements imposed on the Company by applicable law, and the treasurer to be responsible for the financial affairs of the Company.

 

12.3The emoluments of all officers shall be fixed by Resolution of Directors.

 

12.4The officers of the Company shall hold office until their successors are duly appointed, but any officer elected or appointed by the directors may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by Resolution of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company may be filled by Resolution of Directors.

 

 

 

 

12.5An officer may resign his office by giving written notice of his resignation to the Company and the resignation has effect from the date the notice is received by the Company or from such later date as may be specified in the notice.

 

12.6The directors may, by Resolution of Directors, appoint any person, including a person who is a director or officer, to be an agent of the Company.

 

12.7An agent of the Company shall have such powers and authority of the directors, including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are set forth in the Articles or in the Resolution of Directors appointing the agent, except that no agent has any power or authority with respect to the following:

 

(a)to amend the Memorandum or the Articles;

 

(b)to change the registered office or agent;

 

(c)to designate committees of directors;

 

(d)to delegate powers to a committee of directors;

 

(e)to appoint or remove directors;

 

(f)to appoint or remove an agent;

 

(g)to fix emoluments of directors;

 

(h)to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;

 

(i)to make a declaration of solvency or to approve a liquidation plan;

 

(j)to make a determination that immediately after a proposed Distribution the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due; or

 

(k)to authorise the Company to continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands.

 

12.8The Resolution of Directors appointing an agent may authorise the agent to appoint one or more substitutes or delegates to exercise some or all of the powers conferred on the agent by the Company.

 

12.9The directors may remove an agent appointed by the Company and may revoke or vary a power conferred on him.

 

13.RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

13.1The Company shall not enter into any Related Party Transaction (as defined in Sub-Regulation 13.6) unless (a) a majority of disinterested directors of the Board of Directors, or (b) the audit committee of the Company, which shall consist solely of independent directors, approves such transaction in accordance with the guidelines set forth in this Regulation 13.

 

13.2No member of the Board of Directors or of the audit committee, as applicable, shall participate in the review or approval of any Related Party Transaction with respect to which such member is a Related Party (as defined in Sub-Regulation 13.5). In reviewing and approving any Related Party Transaction, the audit committee or majority of disinterested directors, as applicable, shall:

 

 

 

 

(a)satisfy itself that it has been fully informed as to the material facts of the Related Party’s relationship and interest and as to the material facts of the proposed Related Party Transaction, and

 

(b)determine that the Related Party Transaction is fair to the Company.

 

13.3If management becomes aware of a proposed Related Party Transaction or an existing Related Party Transaction that has not been pre-approved by the audit committee, management shall promptly notify the chairman of the audit committee and such transactions shall be submitted to the audit committee for their review, consideration and determination of whether to approve or ratify, as applicable, such transaction if the audit committee determines it is fair to the Company.

 

13.4A director or executive officer of the Company shall, forthwith after becoming aware of the fact that he is a Related Party with respect to a Related Party Transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company, disclose the interest to all other directors of the Company.

 

For these purposes, a “Related Party” is:

 

(a)any person who is, or at any time since the beginning of the Company’s current fiscal year was, an “executive officer” of the Company (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 3b-7 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended);

 

(b)any person who is, or at any time since the beginning of the Company’s current fiscal year was, a director of the Company or a nominee for director of the Company;

 

(c)a person (including an entity or group) known to the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of any class of the Company’s voting securities (a “5% shareholder”);

 

(d)an individual who is an “immediate family member” of a person listed in (a), (b), or (c) above;

 

(e)an entity that is, directly or indirectly, owned or controlled by a person listed in (a), (b), (c), or (d) above;

 

(f)an entity in which a person listed in (a), (b), (c), or (d) above serves as director or executive officer or principal or in a similar position, or in the case of a partnership, serves as a general partner or holds any position other than that of a limited partner; or

 

(g)an entity in which a person listed in (a), (b), (c), or (d) above, together with all other persons specified in (a), (b), (c), or (d) above, owns 10% or more of the equity interest, or in the case of a partnership, 10% or more of the interest.

 

13.5For these purposes, a “Related Party Transaction” is a transaction (including any financial transaction, arrangement or relationship (including any indebtedness or guarantee of indebtedness)), or series of related transactions, or any material amendment to any such transaction, involving a Related Party and in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a participant. The Board has determined that the following do not create a material direct or indirect interest on behalf of the Related Person and are therefore not “Related Party Transactions” for purposes of this Regulation 13:

 

(a)a transaction involving compensation of directors;

 

(b)a transaction involving compensation of an executive officer or involving an employment agreement, severance arrangement, change in control provision or agreement or special supplemental benefit of an executive officer;

 

 

 

 

(c)a transaction with a Related Party involving less than $120,000; or

 

(d)a transaction in which the interest of the Related Party arises solely from the ownership of a class of the Company’s equity securities and all holders of that class receive the same benefit on a pro rata basis.

 

13.6No contract or transaction between the Company and a Related Party, shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, if (i) the material facts as to the Related Party’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors or the audit committee, and the Board of Directors or audit committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum, or the audit committee; or (ii) the material facts as to his or their relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Shareholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by a Resolution of Shareholders; or (iii) the contract or transaction is fair as to the Company as of the time it is authorized, approved or ratified, by the Board of Directors, the audit committee thereof or the Shareholders. A director that is a Related Party with respect to the Related Party Transaction in question may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or of the audit committee which authorizes such Related Party Transaction. Subject to compliance with the Act, no director or officer shall by reason of his office be accountable to the Company for any benefit which he derives from such transaction.

 

13.7All of the Company’s rights under the Deed of Undertaking, including, without limitation, the right to seek indemnification from the other parties thereto, shall be exercised solely by (a) a majority of disinterested directors of the Board of Directors, or (b) the audit committee of the Company.

 

14.INDEMNIFICATION

 

14.1Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided the Company shall indemnify against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings any person who:

 

(a)is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director of the Company; or

 

(b)is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another body corporate or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

 

14.2The indemnity in Sub-Regulation 14.1 only applies if the person acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that their conduct was unlawful.

 

14.3For the purposes of Sub-Regulation 14.2, a director acts in the best interests of the Company if he acts in the best interests of

 

(a)the Company’s holding company; or

 

(b)a Shareholder or Shareholders of the Company;

 

in either case, in the circumstances specified in Sub-Regulation 9.3 or the Act, as the case may be.

 

14.4The decision of the directors as to whether the person acted honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company and as to whether the person had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful is, in the absence of fraud, sufficient for the purposes of the Articles, unless a question of law is involved.

 

 

 

 

14.5The termination of any proceedings by any judgment, order, settlement, conviction or the entering of a nolle prosequi does not, by itself, create a presumption that the person did not act honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company or that the person had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

 

14.6Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with Sub-Regulation 14.1.

 

14.7Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a former director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the former director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the former director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with Sub-Regulation 14.1 and upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate.

 

14.8The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Sub-Regulation is not exclusive of any other rights to which the person seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, Resolution of Shareholders, resolution of disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to acting in the person’s official capacity and as to acting in another capacity while serving as a director of the Company.

 

14.9If a person referred to in Sub-Regulation 14.1 has been successful in defence of any proceedings referred to in Sub-Regulation 14.1, the person is entitled to be indemnified against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the proceedings.

 

14.10The Company may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any person who is or was a director, officer or liquidator of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a director, officer or liquidator of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another body corporate or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the Company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability as provided in the Articles.

 

15.CORPORATE RECORDS

 

15.1The Company shall keep the following documents at the office of its registered agent:

 

(a)the Memorandum and the Articles;

 

(b)the register of members, or a copy of the register of members;

 

(c)the register of directors, or a copy of the register of directors; and

 

(d)copies of all notices and other documents filed by the Company with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs in the previous 10 years.

 

15.2Until the directors determine otherwise by Resolution of Directors the Company shall keep the original register of members and original register of directors at the office of its registered agent.

 

 

 

 

15.3If the Company maintains only a copy of the register of members or a copy of the register of directors at the office of its registered agent, it shall:

 

(a)within 15 days of any change in either register, notify the registered agent in writing of the change; and

 

(b)provide the registered agent with a written record of the physical address of the place or places at which the original register of members or the original register of directors is kept.

 

15.4The Company shall keep the following records at the office of its registered agent or at such other place or places, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, as the directors may determine:

 

(a)minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Shareholders and classes of Shareholders; and

 

(b)minutes of meetings and Resolutions of Directors and committees of directors.

 

15.5Where any original records referred to in this Regulation are maintained other than at the office of the registered agent of the Company, and the place at which the original records is changed, the Company shall provide the registered agent with the physical address of the new location of the records of the Company within 14 days of the change of location.

 

15.6The records kept by the Company under this Regulation shall be in written form or either wholly or partly as electronic records complying with the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2001 (No. 5 of 2001) as from time to time amended or re-enacted.

 

16.REGISTER OF CHARGES

 

The Company shall maintain at the office of its registered agent a register of charges in which there shall be entered the following particulars regarding each mortgage, charge and other encumbrance created by the Company:

 

(a)the date of creation of the charge;

 

(b)a short description of the liability secured by the charge;

 

(c)a short description of the property charged;

 

(d)the name and address of the trustee for the security or, if there is no such trustee, the name and address of the chargee;

 

(e)unless the charge is a security to bearer, the name and address of the holder of the charge; and

 

(f)details of any prohibition or restriction contained in the instrument creating the charge on the power of the Company to create any future charge ranking in priority to or equally with the charge.

 

17.SEAL

 

The Company shall have a Seal an impression of which shall be kept at the office of the registered agent of the Company. The Company may have more than one Seal and references herein to the Seal shall be references to every Seal which shall have been duly adopted by Resolution of Directors. The directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal and for an imprint thereof to be kept at the registered office. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein the Seal when affixed to any written instrument shall be witnessed and attested to by the signature of any one director or other person so authorised from time to time by Resolution of Directors. Such authorisation may be before or after the Seal is affixed, may be general or specific and may refer to any number of sealings. The directors may provide for a facsimile of the Seal and of the signature of any director or authorised person which may be reproduced by printing or other means on any instrument and it shall have the same force and validity as if the Seal had been affixed to such instrument and the same had been attested to as hereinbefore described.

 

 

 

 

18.DISTRIBUTIONS BY WAY OF DIVIDEND

 

18.1The directors of the Company may, by Resolution of Directors, authorise a Distribution by way of dividend at a time and of an amount they think fit if they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that, immediately after the Distribution, the value of the Company’s assets will exceed its liabilities and the Company will be able to pay its debts as they fall due.

 

18.2Dividends may be paid in money, shares, or other property.

 

18.3Notice of any dividend that may have been declared shall be given to each Shareholder as specified in Sub-Regulation 20.1 and all dividends unclaimed for 3 years after having been declared may be forfeited by Resolution of Directors for the benefit of the Company.

 

18.4No dividend shall bear interest as against the Company and no dividend shall be paid on Treasury Shares.

 

19.ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT

 

19.1The Company shall keep records and underlying documentation that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions and that will, at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to be determined with reasonable accuracy.

 

19.2The records and underlying documentation of the Company shall be kept at the office of its registered agent or at such other place or places, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, as the directors may determine and if the records and underlying documentation are kept in a location other than the office of the registered agent, the Company shall provide the registered agent with a written record of:

 

(a)the physical address of the place at which the records and underlying documentation are kept; and

 

(b)the name of the person who maintains and controls the Company’s records and underlying documentation.

 

19.3If the location at which the records and underlying documentation are kept or the name of the person who maintains and controls the records and underlying documentation changes, the Company shall, within 14 days of the change provide its registered agent with:

 

(a)the physical address of the new location at which the records and underlyingdocumentation are kept; and

 

(b)the name of the new person who maintains and controls the Company’s records andunderlying documentation.

 

19.4The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders call for the directors to prepare periodically and make available a profit and loss account and a balance sheet. The profit and loss account and balance sheet shall be drawn up so as to give respectively a true and fair view of the profit and loss of the Company for a financial period and a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities of the Company as at the end of a financial period.

 

 

 

 

19.5The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders call for the accounts to be examined by auditors.

 

19.6The first auditors shall be appointed by Resolution of Directors; subsequent auditors shall be appointed by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors.

 

19.7The auditors may be Shareholders, but no director or other officer shall be eligible to be an auditor of the Company during their continuance in office.

 

19.8The remuneration of the auditors of the Company may be fixed by Resolution of Directors.

 

19.9The auditors shall examine each profit and loss account and balance sheet required to be laid before a meeting of the Shareholders or otherwise given to Shareholders and shall state in a written report whether or not:

 

(a)in their opinion the profit and loss account and balance sheet give a true and fair view respectively of the profit and loss for the period covered by the accounts, and of the assets and liabilities of the Company at the end of that period; and

 

(b)all the information and explanations required by the auditors have been obtained.

 

19.10The report of the auditors shall be annexed to the accounts and shall be read at the meeting of Shareholders at which the accounts are laid before the Company or shall be otherwise given to the Shareholders.

 

19.11Every auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books of account and vouchers of the Company, and shall be entitled to require from the directors and officers of the Company such information and explanations as he thinks necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors.

 

19.12The auditors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notice of, and to attend any meetings of Shareholders at which the Company’s profit and loss account and balance sheet are to be presented.

 

20.NOTICES

 

20.1Any notice, information or written statement to be given by the Company to Shareholders may be given by personal service or by mail addressed to each Shareholder at the address shown in the register of members.

 

20.2Any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be served by leaving it, or by sending it by registered mail addressed to the Company, at its registered office, or by leaving it with, or by sending it by registered mail to, the registered agent of the Company.

 

20.3Service of any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on the Company may be proved by showing that the summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement was delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company or that it was mailed in such time as to admit to its being delivered to the registered office or the registered agent of the Company in the normal course of delivery within the period prescribed for service and was correctly addressed and the postage was prepaid.

 

20.4Whenever any notice is required to be given under the provisions of the Act, the Memorandum or these Articles, a written waiver, signed by the Person or Persons entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, attendance of a Person at a meeting shall not constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting when the Person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular, or special meeting of the Shareholders, directors, or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice.

 

 

 

 

21.GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

21.1Reliance on Books and Records. Each director, each member of any committee designated by the Board of Directors, and each officer of the Company, shall, in the performance of his duties, be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the books of account or other records of the Company, including reports made to the Company by any of its officers, by an independent certified public accountant, or by an appraiser selected with reasonable care.

 

21.2Annual Statement. The Board of Directors shall present at each annual meeting, and at any special meeting of the Shareholders when called for by vote of the Shareholders, a full and clear statement of the business and condition of the Company.

 

21.3Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Company shall be as determined by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors shall fail to do so, the chief executive officer shall fix the fiscal year.

 

21.4Interpretation of Articles. All words, terms and provisions of these Articles shall be interpreted and defined by and in accordance with the Act, and as amended from time to time hereafter.

 

22.VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

 

The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by Resolution of Directors appoint a voluntary liquidator.

 

23.CONTINUATION

 

The Company may by Resolution of Shareholders or by a resolution passed unanimously by all directors of the Company continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands in the manner provided under those laws.

 

Signed for HARNEYS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED of Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands for the purpose of incorporating a BVI Business Company under the laws of the British Virgin Islands on 31 July 2009:

 

Incorporator

 

Sgd. Andrew Swapp

________________________

Andrew Swapp

Authorised Signatory

HARNEYS CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED