25 Oct 2018 13:59
STANDARD LIFE UK SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, 25 October 2018, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the 2018 Annual Report which was sent to shareholders on 5 September 2018, were duly passed.
At the record date for the Annual General Meeting, being 23 October 2018, the total number of voting rights in the Company stood at 101,176,317 and the total shares in issue were 101,176,317. In accordance with the provisions of E.2.2 of the UK Corporate Governance Code, the Company advises that for the Annual General Meeting, valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 25,305,817 shares and that the number of proxy votes lodged for each Resolution were as follows:
For and Discretionary | Against | Votes | Total Votes | |||
Resolution | No. of | % of | No. of | % of | Withheld | (excluding Votes Withheld) |
Number | Votes | Votes Cast | Votes | Votes Cast | ||
1 | 25,304,217 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 1,600 | 25,304,217 |
2 | 25,236,428 | 99.91 | 21,836 | 0.09 | 47,552 | 25,258,264 |
3 | 25,304,626 | 100.00 | 600 | 0.00 | 591 | 25,305,226 |
4 | 25,283,991 | 99.96 | 10,284 | 0.04 | 11,541 | 25,294,275 |
5 | 25,254,729 | 99.94 | 14,228 | 0.06 | 36,859 | 25,268,957 |
6 | 25,256,039 | 99.95 | 12,919 | 0.05 | 36,859 | 25,268,958 |
7 | 25,282,955 | 99.96 | 11,026 | 0.04 | 11,835 | 25,293,981 |
8 | 25,275,007 | 99.95 | 13,264 | 0.05 | 16,545 | 25,288,271 |
9 | 25,280,214 | 99.94 | 15,699 | 0.06 | 9,903 | 25,295,913 |
10 | 25,297,354 | 99.99 | 3,231 | 0.01 | 5,231 | 25,300,585 |
11 | 25,293,520 | 99.96 | 10,152 | 0.04 | 2,145 | 25,303,672 |
12 | 25,277,418 | 99.96 | 10,993 | 0.04 | 17,405 | 25,288,411 |
13 | 25,291,801 | 99.95 | 13,416 | 0.05 | 600 | 25,305,217 |
14 | 21,119,357 | 83.52 | 4,165,791 | 16.48 | 20,667 | 25,285,148 |
15 | 25,286,221 | 99.94 | 14,416 | 0.06 | 5,179 | 25,300,637 |
16 | 24,944,672 | 98.58 | 360,554 | 1.42 | 591 | 25,305,226 |
The Annual Report can be download at www.standardlifeuksmallercompaniestrust.co.uk/annualreport *
A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*
*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
For Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust plc
Maven Capital Partners UK LLP
Company Secretary
SLS.L (SLS)