Weir Group Regulatory News (WEIR)

10 May 2006 17:10

Weir Group PLC10 May 2006 THE WEIR GROUP PLC Voting Results 10 May 2006 The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 10 May2006 at 12 noon. All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting.Resolutions 1-10 being passed as ordinary resolutions with resolutions 11-13being passed as special resolutions. No. Resolution No of votes Percentage No of Percentage No of votes for the of votes votes of votes withheld resolution received against received the resolution 1 To receive 143,313,107 99.90 138,847 0.10 52,489 and adopt the financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 30 December 2005, and the reports of the directors and auditors thereon 2 To declare a 143,465,086 100.00 0 0.00 51,827 dividend 3 To approve 142,868,299 99.69 448,075 0.31 200,539 the Remuneration Committee Report as set out in the annual report for the 52 weeks ended 30 December 2005 4 To re-elect 143,318,530 99.92 119,681 0.08 70,233 Christopher Clarke as a director 5 To re-elect 143,325,159 99.91 123,415 0.09 68,339 Michael Dearden as a director 6 To re-elect 143,233,062 99.87 180,915 0.13 82,236 Lord Robertson as a director 7 To re-elect 143,146,505 99.80 293,358 0.20 77,030 Prof. Ian Percy as a director 8 To re-appoint 141,902,504 99.60 562,861 0.40 1,051,548 Ernst & Young LLP as auditors 9 To authorise 143,101,176 99.77 332,479 0.23 82,238 the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors 10 To renew the 140,529,101 99.96 61,581 0.04 2,926,211 directors' general authority to allot relevant securities 11 To disapply, 140,452,706 99.93 95,949 0.07 2,968,238 within certain limits, the statutory pre-emption rights arising on the allotment of shares 12 To renew the 140,493,957 99.93 92,206 0.07 2,930,730 Company's power to purchase its own shares 13 To amend the 140,463,130 99.93 94,457 0.07 2,959,306 Articles of Association a) Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total. b) At close of business on 9 May 2006 there were 206,825,637 relevant shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange