6-K 1 form6k_050108.htm REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

 


UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 6-K

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

Pursuant to Section 13a-16 15d-16 of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Dated: May 1, 2008

 

Commission File Number: 001-13184

 

TECK COMINCO LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Suite 600 – 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3L9

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

Form 20-F               Form 40-F    X   

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1).   

 

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted solely to provide an attached annual report to security holders.

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):             

 

Note: Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7) only permits the submission in paper of a Form 6-K if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the registrant’s “home country”), or under the rules of the home country exchange on which the registrant’s securities are traded, as long as the report or other document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been distributed to the registrant’s security holders, and, if discussing a material event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission filing on EDGAR.

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

Yes                No      X   

 

If “Yes” is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-_____

 

 


 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

Teck Cominco Limited

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

 

Date:

May 1, 2008

By:

/s/ Karen L. Dunfee                            

 

Karen L. Dunfee

 

 

Corporate Secretary

 

 

 

 

 



 



BY-LAW NO. 2

 

TECK COMINCO LIMITED

(the "Corporation")

 

BE IT ENACTED as a by-law of the Corporation as follows:

 

1.

Section 8.03 of By-law No. 1 of the Corporation is hereby repealed in its entirety and replaced with the following provision:

 

�Registration of Transfer � In the case of shares represented by a certificate, no transfer of shares shall be registered in a securities register except upon presentation of the certificate representing such shares with a transfer endorsed thereon, or delivered therewith, duly executed by the registered holder or by such person�s attorney or successor duly appointed, together with such reasonable assurance or evidence of signature, identification and authority to transfer, if any, as the board may from time to time prescribe, upon payment of all applicable taxes and any fees prescribed by the board, upon compliance with such restrictions on transfer as are authorized by the articles.�

 

ENACTED as a by-law of the Corporation this 20th day of November, 2007.

 

AS WITNESS the corporate seal of the Corporation.

 

 

 

 

               "D. R. Lindsay"              
President

             "K. L. Dunfee"               
Secretary

 

 

CONFIRMED BY THE SHAREHOLDERS ON APRIL 23, 2008

 

 

"K. L. Dunfee"                         

Secretary