29 Dec 2016 13:34
NMC Health plc - Results of voting at General Meetings
London, 29 December 2016: NMC Health plc (the "Company") announces the results of voting on the resolutions at its two General Meetings held on 29 December 2016, as set out in the respective Notice of Meeting for each meeting.
A poll was held on each of the resolutions and the Company is pleased to announce that all resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.
The result of the poll on each resolution was as follows:
General Meeting for Proposed Acquisition of Al Zahra Hospital | For | % For | Against | % Against | Total Votes Validly Cast | Votes Withheld | % of Issued Share Capital for which votes lodged |
Resolution To approve the proposed acquisition of Al Zahra Hospital | 185,885,384 | 98.94 | 1,988,786 | 1.06 | 187,874,170 | 342,292 | 91.97 |
General Meeting for Proposed New Directors' Remuneration Policy and consequential amendment to LTIP rules | For | % For | Against | % Against | Total Votes Validly Cast | Votes Withheld | % of Issued Share Capital for which votes lodged |
Resolution 1: To approve the New Directors' Remuneration Policy | 132,338,828 | 70.24 | 56,074,815 | 29.76 | 188,413,643 | 618 | 92.23 |
Resolution 2: To approve an amendment to the Company's LTIP rules | 140,473,322 | 74.56 | 47,940,321 | 25.44 | 188,413,643 | 618 | 92.23 |
The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Friday 23 December 2016 was 204,285,714 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.
Any proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included as a vote for each resolution.
Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution or the total votes validly cast.
General
Copies of each resolutions are available for inspection in the respective Notice of Meetings previously submitted to the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, via the National Storage Mechanism www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The respective Notice of Meetings and the voting results are also available on the NMC Health plc website at www.nmchealth.com