8th Jun 2007 07:00
MTR Corporation Ltd08 June 2007 MTR Corporation Limited (the "Company") (Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability) (Stock code: 66) ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 7TH JUNE, 2007 POLL RESULTS At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 7th June, 2007, a poll wasdemanded by the Chairman for voting on all proposed resolutions. The Company ispleased to announce the results of the poll, which are as follows: +-----+----------------------------------------+-------------------------------+| | Ordinary Resolutions | Number of Votes (%) || | +---------------+---------------+| | | For | Against |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|1. |To receive and consider the audited | 4,494,015,399 | 168,693 || |Statement of Accounts and the Reports of| | || |the Directors and the Auditors of the | (99.9962%) | (0.0038%) || |Company for the year ended 31st | | || |December, 2006. | | || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|2. |To declare a final dividend for the year| 4,532,927,899 | 137,872 || |ended 31st December, 2006. | | || | | (99.9970%) | (0.0030%) || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|3.(a)|To re-elect Chow Chung-kong as a member | 4,532,917,172 | 121,336 || |of the Board of Directors of the | | || |Company. | (99.9973%) | (0.0027%) || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|3.(b)|To re-elect David Gordon Eldon as a | 4,532,895,059 | 133,181 || |member of the Board of Directors of the | | || |Company. | (99.9971%) | (0.0029%) || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|3.(c)|To re-elect Christine Fang Meng-sang as | 4,532,822,895 | 191,501 || |a member of the Board of Directors of | | || |the Company. | (99.9958%) | (0.0042%) || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|4. |To re-appoint KPMG as Auditors of the | 4,532,542,276 | 477,697 || |Company and authorise the Board of | | || |Directors to determine their | (99.9895%) | (0.0105%) || |remuneration. | | || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|5. |To grant a general mandate to the Board | 4,329,555,277 | 203,934,208 || |of Directors to allot, issue, grant, | | || |distribute and otherwise deal with | (95.5016%) | (4.4984%) || |additional shares in the Company, not | | || |exceeding ten per cent. of the issued | | || |share capital of the Company at the date| | || |of this Resolution (as adjusted). * | | || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|6. |To grant a general mandate to the Board | 4,533,335,003 | 230,122 || |of Directors to purchase shares in the | | || |Company, not exceeding ten per cent. of | (99.9949%) | (0.0051%) || |the issued share capital of the Company | | || |at the date of this Resolution. * | | || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|7. |Conditional on the passing of | 4,332,421,039 | 200,814,871 || |Resolutions 5 and 6, to authorise the | | || |Board of Directors to exercise the | (95.5702%) | (4.4298%) || |powers to allot, issue, grant, | | || |distribute and otherwise deal with | | || |additional shares in the Company under | | || |Resolution 5 in respect of the aggregate| | || |nominal amount of share capital in the | | || |Company purchased by the Company. * | | || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+|8. |To adopt the 2007 Share Option Scheme of| 4,333,288,514 | 199,945,889 || |the Company and to authorise the Company| | || |to grant options thereunder, and to | (95.5893%) | (4.4107%) || |allot, issue or otherwise deal with | | || |shares in the share capital of the | | || |Company pursuant to the exercise of | | || |options granted thereunder. * | | || +----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+| |As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the resolution, the|| |resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. |+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * The full text of the Resolution is set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting. Notes: (1) Total number of shares entitling the holder to attend and vote for or against all the resolutions at the Annual General Meeting: 5,549,221,451 shares. (2) Total number of shares entitling the holder to attend and vote only against any of the resolutions at the Annual General Meeting: Nil. (3) Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Company's share registrar, acted as the scrutineer. By Order of the Board Leonard Bryan Turk Secretary Hong Kong, 7th June, 2007 Members of the Board: Dr. Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung (Chairman)**, Chow Chung-kong(Chief Executive Officer), Professor Cheung Yau-kai*, David Gordon Eldon*,Christine Fang Meng-sang*, Edward Ho Sing-tin*, Lo Chung-hing*, T. BrianStevenson*, Frederick Ma Si-hang (Secretary for Financial Services and theTreasury)**, Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works (Dr. Sarah LiaoSau-tung)** and Commissioner for Transport (Alan Wong Chi-kong)** Members of the Executive Directorate: Chow Chung-kong, Russell John Black,William Chan Fu-keung, Thomas Ho Hang-kwong, Lincoln Leong Kwok-kuen, FrancoisLung Ka-kui, Andrew McCusker and Leonard Bryan Turk * independent non-executive Directors ** non-executive Directors This announcement is made in English and Chinese. In the case of anyinconsistency, the English version shall prevail. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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