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25 Jun 2021 10:12
New Century AIM VCT 2 plc
Result of 2021 Annual General Meeting
New Century AIM VCT 2 plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held yesterday at 12.00pm, all resolutions as set out in the Notice of the AGM dated 30 April 2021 were passed. The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions, and the number of votes withheld, were as follows:
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| FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD | ||
Resolution
| Votes cast | % | Votes cast | % | Votes cast | |
Ordinary Business | ||||||
1 | To receive, consider and adopt the financial statements for the period ended 31 December 2020 | 3,394,039 | 97.09 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 0 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 3,394,039 | 97.09 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 0 |
3 | To re-elect Mike Barnard as a director | 3,394,039 | 97.09 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 0 |
4 | To re-appoint UHY Hacker Young LLP as auditors of the company and to authorise the directors to agree their remuneration | 3,394,039 | 97.09 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 0 |
Special Business | ||||||
5 | To continue in being as a venture capital trust | 2,004,677 | 57.34 | 1,491,212 | 42.66 | 0 |
6 | To authorise the directors to allot relevant securities | 3,389,039 | 97.08 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 5,000 |
7 | To disapply Section 561 of the Companies Act 2006** | 3,389,039 | 97.08 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 5,000 |
8 | To authorise the directors to make market purchases of its own shares by utilising distributable reserves of the company** | 3,394,039 | 97.09 | 101,850 | 2.91 | 0 |
** denotes a special resolution
The number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the 2021 Annual General Meeting is 4,606,953.
The Board also reported to the AGM that at the board meeting held prior to the AGM the directors had declared an interim dividend of 7p per share in respect of the financial year ending 31 December 2021, payable on 13 August 2021 to shareholders on the register on 2 July 2021. The ex-dividend date will be 1 July 2021.
25 June 2021
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