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Exhibit 3.2

 

THE COMPANIES LAW (2013 Revision)

 

EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

 

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

YULONG ECO-MATERIALS LIMITED

(adopted by way of special resolution dated 3 March 2015)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE COMPANIES LAW (2013 Revision)

 

EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

YULONG ECO-MATERIALS LIMITED

(the “Company”)

(adopted by way of special resolution dated 3 March 2015)

 

1. The name of the Company is Yulong Eco-Materials Limited.

 

2. The registered office of the Company is situated at the offices of Forbes Hare Trust Company Limited, Cassia Court, Suite 716, 10 Market Street, Camana Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-9006, Cayman Islands, or at such other place as the Directors may determine.

 

3. The objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by any law as provided by Section 7(4) of the Companies Law (2013 Revision).

 

4. The Company shall have and be capable of exercising all the functions of a natural person of full capacity irrespective of any question of corporate benefit as provided by Section 27(2) of the Companies Law (2013 Revision). PROVIDED THAT the Company shall only carry on the businesses for which a license is required under the laws of the Cayman Islands when so licensed under the terms of such laws.

 

5. The liability of the members is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on such member's shares.

 

6. THE AUTHORISED SHARE CAPITAL of the Company is one hundred thousand United States dollars (US$100,000.00) divided into eighty million (80,000,000) shares each with a nominal or par value of one hundred and twenty five thousandths of one dollar each (US$0.00125) with the power for the Company, insofar as is permitted by law, to redeem or purchase any of its shares and to increase or reduce such capital and to issue all or any part of its capital (whether original, redeemed, increased or reduced) with or without any preference, priority or special privilege, or subject to any postponement of rights, or to any conditions or restrictions whatsoever and so that, unless the conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly provide, every issue of shares, whether stated to be preference or otherwise, shall be subject to the powers on the part of the Company hereinbefore contained.

 

7. If the Company is registered as an exempted company in accordance with the Companies Law (2013 Revision), the Company will comply with the provisions of such law relating to exempted companies and, subject to the provisions of the Companies Law and the Articles of Association, it shall have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.
   
8. The Company shall not have the power to issue shares to bearer.

 

 

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Contents 

PRELIMINARY   1 
INTERPRETATION   1 
SHARES   2 
DIRECTORS AUTHORITY TO ISSUE SHARES   2 
SHARE CERTIFICATES   3 
REGISTER OF MEMBERS   3 
TRANSFER OF SHARES   3 
REDEEMABLE SHARES   4 
VARIATION OF SHARE RIGHTS   4 
COMMISSION ON SALE OF SHARES   5 
NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS   5 
LIEN   5 
CALLS ON SHARES   6 
FORFEITURE OF SHARES   7 
REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS   8 
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES   8 
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL   9 
CLOSING REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE   10 
STATUTORY MEETINGS   10 
GENERAL MEETINGS   10 
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS   11 
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS   11 
VOTES OF MEMBERS   13 
RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING   13 
PROXIES   13 
CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS   14 
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS   15 
ALTERNATE DIRECTORS   16 
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS   16 
MANAGEMENT   17 
MANAGING DIRECTOR   18 

 

 

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PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS   18 
VACATION OF OFFICE OF DIRECTOR   19 
APPOINTMENT AAAND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS   20 
PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT   20 
SEAL   20 
OFFICERS   21 
DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES   21 
CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS   22 
BOOKS OF ACCOUNT   23 
AUDIT   23 
NOTICES   24 
LIQUIDATION OF THE COMPANY   25 
INDEMNITY   25 
FINANCIAL YEAR   25 
AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES   25 
TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION   25 

 

 

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THE COMPANIES LAW (2013 Revision)

 

EXEMPTED COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

 
AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

OF

 

YULONG ECO-MATERIALS LIMITED

(the “Company”)

(adopted by way of special resolution dated 3 March 2015)

 

PRELIMINARY

 

1. The regulations in Table “A” in the First Schedule to the Law (as defined below) shall not apply to the Company except insofar as they are repeated or contained in these Articles.

 

INTERPRETATION

 

2. In these Articles, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:

 

2.1“Articles” means the present articles of association and all supplementary, amended or substituted articles for the time being in force.

 

“Company” means the above named company.

 

“Directors” means the directors for the time being of the Company.

 

“Law” means the Companies Law (2013 Revision) of the Cayman Islands and every statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.

 

“member” has the meaning assigned to it in the Law.

 

“Memorandum of Association” means the present memorandum of association and all supplementary amended or substituted memoranda of the Company for the time being in force.

 

“Ordinary Resolution” means a resolution passed by a simple majority of the votes cast of such members of the Company as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy or, in the case of corporations, by their duly authorised representatives, at a general meeting held in accordance with these Articles and includes a written resolution passed pursuant to these Articles.

 

 

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“Secretary” means any person appointed to perform the duties of secretary of the Company and shall include an assistant secretary.

 

“share” includes a fraction of a share.

 

“Special Resolution” has the meaning assigned to it in the Law.

  2.2 Expressions defined in the Law, or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof in force at the date on which these Articles become binding on the Company, shall have the meanings so defined.
     
  2.3 Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa.
     
  2.4 Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders.
     
  2.5 Persons shall include corporations.
     
  2.6 The headings are intended for convenience and shall not affect the construction of these Articles.

 

SHARES 

 

3. Subject to the provisions, if any, in the Memorandum of Association and to any direction that may be given by the Company in general meeting and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares, any share may be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, return of share capital or otherwise, as the Directors may from time to time determine and, subject to the provisions of the Law, any share may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution, be issued on the terms that it is, or at the option of the Company is liable, to be redeemed.

 

4. No shares shall be issued to bearer.

 

DIRECTORS AUTHORITY TO ISSUE SHARES

 

5. Subject to the provisions of these Articles relating to shares, the shares shall be at the disposal of the Directors and they may (subject to the provisions of the Law) allot, grant options over, or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, on such terms and conditions and at such times as they think fit but so that no share shall be issued at a discount, except in accordance with the provisions of the Law, and so that in the case of shares offered to the public for subscription the amount payable on application on each share shall not be less than such percentage of the nominal amount of the share as shall be determined by the Directors.

 

 

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SHARE CERTIFICATES

 

6.Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register of members shall, without payment, be entitled to a certificate under the seal of the Company specifying the share or shares held by him and the amount paid-up thereon provided that, in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all.

 

7.If a share certificate is worn out, defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of such fee, if any, not exceeding one United States dollar and on such terms, if any, as to evidence and indemnity as the Directors may prescribe.

 

REGISTER OF MEMBERS

 

8.The Directors shall keep or cause to be kept at the Registered Office or such other place determined by the Directors the register of members containing such particulars relating to each member as they may deem appropriate provided that the following particulars are recorded:

 

  (a) the name and address of each member, a statement of the shares of each class held by him and of the amount paid, or agreed to be considered as paid, on such shares;
     
  (b) the date on which the name of each person was entered in the register of members as a member; and
     
  (c) the date on which any person ceased to be a member.

 

The Company shall not be bound to register more than four persons as joint holders of any share. If any share shall stand in the names of two or more persons, the person first named in the register shall be deemed the sole holder thereof as regards service of notices and, subject to the provisions of these Articles, all or any other matters connected with the Company, except the transfer of the share.

 

TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

9. The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and transferee and the transferor shall be deemed to remain a holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register of members in respect thereof provided that the Directors may waive execution by the transferee of the instrument of transfer but shall, as soon as possible thereafter, inform the transferee of such waiver of execution.

 

10. Transfers of shares may be effected by an instrument of transfer in the usual common form or in such other form as the Directors may approve. All instruments of transfer must be left at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as the Directors may appoint and all such instruments of transfer shall be retained by the Company.

 

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11. The Directors may, in their absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, decline to register any transfer of any share, whether or not it is a fully paid share. The Directors may also decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless the instrument of transfer is accompanied by any share certificate to which it relates and such other evidence as the Directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer. If the Directors refuse to register a transfer of any shares they shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to the transferee notice of the refusal.

 

12. The registration of transfers may be suspended at such time and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine.

 

REDEEMABLE SHARES

 

 13. (a) Subject to the provisions of the Law and the Memorandum of Association of the Company, and to any special rights conferred on the holders of any shares or attaching to any class of shares, shares may be issued on the terms that they may be, or at the option of the Company or the holders are, liable to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner, including out of capital, as the Company, before the issue of the shares, may by special resolution determine.
     
  (b) Subject to the Law and subject to any rights conferred on the holders of any class of shares, the Company shall have the power to purchase or otherwise acquire all or any of its own shares (which expression as used in this Article includes redeemable shares and fractional shares) provided that the manner of purchase has first been authorised by a resolution of the shareholders, and may make payment in any manner authorised or not prohibited by law, including out of capital.

 

VARIATION OF SHARE RIGHTS

 

14. If at any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of three fourths of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a Special Resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of the shares of the class. To every such separate general meeting the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be one person holding or representing by proxy at least one third of the issued shares of the class (but so that if, at any adjourned meeting of such holders, a quorum as defined above is not present, those members who are present shall be a quorum) and that any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll and, on a poll, shall have one vote for each share of the class of which he is the holder.

 

 

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15. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed not to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pani passu therewith.

 

COMMISSION ON SALE OF SHARES

 

16. The Company may at any time pay a commission to any person for subscribing or agreeing to subscribe (whether absolutely or conditionally) for any shares in the Company or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or conditional) for any shares in the Company, but so that the conditions and requirements of the Law shall be observed and complied with. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgement of fully or partly paid-up shares or partly in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also on any issue of shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful.

 

NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS

 

17. Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share (except only as is otherwise provided by these Articles, by law or under an order of a court of competent jurisdiction) or any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

 

LIEN

 

18. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share (whether fully paid or not) registered in the name of a member (whether solely or jointly with others) for all debts, liabilities or engagements to or with the Company (whether presently payable or not) by such member or his estate, either alone or jointly with any other person, whether a member or not, but the Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article.. The registration of a transfer of any such share shall operate as a waiver of the Company’s lien (if any) thereon. The Company's lien, if any, on a share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon.

 

19. The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be fulfilled or discharged, and until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving notice of the intention to sell in default has been given to the registered holder for the time being of the share, or the persons entitled thereto by reason of his death, incapacity or bankruptcy.

 

 

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20. The net proceeds of such sale by the Company after the payment of the costs of such sale shall be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the debt or liability or engagement, in respect of which the lien exists, of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists so far as the same is presently payable and the residue shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale and upon surrender, if required by the Company, for cancellation of the certificate for the share sold) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the date of the sale.

 

21. For giving effect to any such sale, the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relation to the sale.

 

CALLS ON SHARES

 

22. The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed times. Each member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen days' notice specifying the time or times and place of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times and place so specified the amount called on his shares. A person upon whom a call is made shall remain liable on such call notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the shares in respect of which the call was made. A call may be revoked or postponed at the determination of the Directors.

 

23. The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls and instalments due in respect of such share or other moneys due in respect thereof.

 

24. A copy of the notice referred to in the preceding Article shall be sent in the manner in which notices may be sent to members by the Company as provided herein.

 

25. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising the call was passed and may be required to be paid by instalments.

 

26. If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from such day appointed for payment to the time of actual payment at such rate not exceeding fifteen per cent. per annum as the Directors may determine but the Directors shall be at liberty to waive payment of such interest either wholly or partly.

 

27. No member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or bonus or to be present and vote (save as proxy for another member) at any general meeting, either personally or by proxy, or be reckoned in a quorum, or to exercise any other privilege as a member until all sums or instalments due from him to the Company in respect of any call, whether alone or jointly with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) shall have been paid.

 

 

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28. Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or on any fixed date (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified and payable on the date on which, by the terms of issue, the same becomes payable and, in case of nonpayment, all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

29. The Directors may make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference between the holders in the amount of calls to be paid and in the times of payment.

 

30. The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same, and either in money or money's worth, all or any part of the money uncalled and unpaid or instalments payable upon any shares held by him, and upon all or any of the moneys so advanced the Company may pay interest at such rate (if any) as the Directors may decide. The Directors may at any time repay the amount so advanced upon giving to such member not less than one month's notice in writing of their intention in that regard, unless before the expiration of such notice the amount so advanced shall have been called up on the shares in respect of which it was advanced. No such sum paid in advance of calls shall entitle the member paying such sum to any portion of a dividend declared in respect of any period prior to the date upon which such sum would, but for such payment, become presently payable.

 

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

 

31. If a member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call or to make any payment required by the terms of the issue on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of such call, instalment or payment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call, instalment or payment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued and all expenses incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment.

 

32. The notice shall name a day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall state that, in the event of non-payment at or before the time appointed, the shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

 

33. If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may, at any time thereafter before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends and bonuses declared in respect of the forfeited share, and not actually paid before forfeiture.

 

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34. A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and, at any time before a sale or disposition, the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit.

 

35. A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited shares but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay the Company all moneys which, at the date of forfeiture, were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares together with interest thereon, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company receives payment in full of all moneys whenever payable in respect of the shares.

 

36. A certificate in writing under the hand of a Director or the Secretary of the Company that a share in the Company has been duly sold, forfeited or otherwise disposed of on a date stated in the declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or otherwise disposed and he shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in relation to the sale, forfeiture or disposal of the share.

 

37. The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or otherwise) as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS

 

38. The Company shall be entitled to charge a fee not exceeding one dollar (US$l.00) on the registration of every probate, letter of administration, certificate of death or marriage, power of attorney, notice in lieu of distringas, or other instrument.

 

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

 

39. In the case of the death of a member, the legal personal representative of a deceased sole shareholder shall be the only person recognised by the Company as having any title to the share. In the case of a share registered in the names of two or more holders, the survivors or survivor, or the legal personal representatives of the deceased shareholder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to the share. Provided however, that nothing herein contained shall release the estate of any such deceased holder from any liability in respect of any shares which had been held him solely or jointly with other persons.

 

40. Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a member (or in any other way than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the Directors and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered as a member in respect of the share or to make such transfer of the share to such person as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made and to have such person registered as the transferee thereof, but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by that member before his death or bankruptcy (as the case may be). If the person so being entitled shall elect to be registered himself as holder he shall deliver or send to the Company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects.

 

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41. A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of the holder (or in any other case than by transfer) shall be entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being registered as a member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company. The Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share and, if the notice is not complied with within ninety days, the Directors may, if such shares are redeemable at the option of the Company, redeem such shares but, in the meantime, the Directors may elect to withhold payment of all dividends, bonuses or other moneys payable in respect of the share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.

 

ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL

 

42. Subject to and in so far as permitted by the provisions of the Law, the Company may from time to time by Special Resolution alter or amend its Memorandum of Association with respect to any objects, powers or other matters specified therein provided always that the Company may by ordinary resolution:.

 

  (a) increase the share capital by such amount as the Company in general meeting may determine, provided that if the Company has no shares of a fixed amount it may increase its share capital by such number of shares without nominal or par value or may increase the aggregate consideration for which such shares may be issued;

 

  (b) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;

 

  (c) convert all or any part of its paid-up shares into stock and reconvert that stock into paid-up shares of any denomination;

 

  (d) by subdivision of its existing shares or any of them divide the whole or any part of its share capital into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association provided that the proportion of any amounts unpaid on the shares shall remain unchanged; or

 

  (e) cancel any shares that at the date of the passing of the resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person and diminish its share capital by the amount such cancelled shares, provided that if the Company has no shares of a fixed amount it may diminish the number of shares into which its capital is divided.

 

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43. All new shares created under the preceding Article shall be considered as though part of the original capital and shall be subject to the same provisions herein contained with reference to the payment of calls and instalments, transfer and transmission, forfeiture, lien, surrender and otherwise.

 

44. The Company may by Special Resolution, and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Law, reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund in any manner whatsoever.

 

45. Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may by resolution of the Directors change the location of its registered office.

 

CLOSING REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE

 

46. Unless the Directors determine otherwise, the members entitled to receive notice of or to vote at a meeting of members or members entitled to receive payment of a dividend shall be the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, which shall be the record date for such determination of members. When a determination of members entitled to vote at any meeting of members has been made as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.

 

STATUTORY MEETINGS

 

47. (a) Subject to paragraph (c) hereof, the Company shall within one (1) year of its incorporation and in each year of its existence thereafter hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it. The annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint and if no other time and place is prescribed by them, it shall be held at the registered office on the second Wednesday in December of each year at ten o’clock in the morning.

 

  (b) At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented.

 

  (c) If the Company is exempted as defined in the Law it may, but shall not be obliged to, hold an annual general meeting.

 

GENERAL MEETINGS

 

48. The Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene a general meeting. If, at any time, there are not sufficient Directors capable of acting to form a quorum, any Director or any one member of the Company may convene an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings may be convened by the Directors.

 

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49. The Directors shall, upon the requisition in writing of one or more members holding in the aggregate not less than one tenth of such paid-up capital of the Company which, as at the date of the requisition, carries the right of voting at general meetings, convene a general meeting. Any such requisition shall express the object of the meeting proposed to be called, shall be signed by the requisitionists and shall be left at the registered office of the Company. If the Directors do not proceed to convene a general meeting within twenty one days from the date of such requisition being left as aforesaid, the requisitionists or any of them or any other member or members holding in the aggregate not less than one tenth of such paid-up capital of the Company which, as at the date of the requisition, carries the right of voting at general meetings, may convene an extraordinary general meeting to be held at such place and time as they shall appoint, subject to the Company's Articles as to notice. Any such meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of three months after the expiration of the said twenty one days.

 

50. A general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which general meetings are to be convened by Directors.

 

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

 

51. Subject to the provisions of the Law relating to Special Resolutions, seven days’ notice at the least (exclusive of the day on which the notice is served or deemed to be served but inclusive of the day for which the notice is given) specifying the place, the day and the hour of the general meeting and the general nature of the business shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided, or in such other manner (if any) as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under the Articles, entitled to receive such notices from the Company. The notice convening a meeting to pass a special resolution shall specify the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution.

 

52. Notwithstanding that a meeting of the Company is called by shorter notice than that referred to these Articles, it shall be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed by all the members of the Company entitled to attend and vote thereat or their proxies.

 

53. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of a notice of a meeting by, any member entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at any meeting.

 

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

 

54. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. At least one third of members present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote shall be a quorum provided always that, if there is only one member of record entitled to attend and vote at general meetings, that one member present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum.

 

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55. If, within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any other case, it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place and if, at the adjourned meeting, a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the members present shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.

 

56. The Chairman, if any, of the board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company. If there is no such Chairman, or if at any meeting he is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or is unwilling to act as Chairman, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.

 

57. If at any general meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.

 

58. The Chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.

 

59. At any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by the Chairman of the meeting or any member present in person or by proxy entitled to vote. Unless a poll is so demanded, a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has, on a show of hands, been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book of the proceedings of the Company shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against, that resolution.

 

60. If a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman of the meeting directs and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. A poll demanded on the election of the Chairman of the meeting or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the Chairman of the meeting directs and any business other than that upon which a poll has been demanded may be proceeded with pending the taking of the poll. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.

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61. In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.

 

VOTES OF MEMBERS

 

62. Except as otherwise required by law or as set forth herein, the holder of each share issued and outstanding shall have one vote for each share held by such holder, at the record date for determination of the members entitled to vote on such matters, or, if no such record date is established, at the date such vote is taken or any written consent of members is solicited.

 

63. In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and, for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of members.

 

64. A member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver or curator bonis appointed by that court and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person may, on a poll, vote by proxy.

 

65. No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a member of the Company on the record date for such meeting and all calls or other such sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.

 

66. No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman of the meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

 

67. On a poll or a show of hands votes may be given personally or by proxy.

 

RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING

 

68. A resolution in writing (whether ordinary or special and whether in one or more counterparts) signed by all the members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings (or, being corporations, by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.

 

PROXIES

 

69. Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company shall be entitled to appoint another person (who must be an individual) as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him and a proxy so appointed shall have the same right as the member to speak at the meeting. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll. On a poll votes may be given either personally or by proxy. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A member may appoint any number of proxies to attend in his stead at any one general meeting (or at any one class meeting).

 

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70. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointer or his attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointer is a corporation, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised.

 

71. The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed, or a notarially certified copy of that power of attorney or other authority, shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting no later than the time as the notice may specify before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposed to vote and, in default, the instrument of proxy may, at the option of the Company, not be treated as valid. The Chairman of the meeting may at his discretion direct that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited upon receipt of an electronic confirmation from the appointer that the instrument of proxy duly signed is in the course of transmission to the Company.

 

72. Every instrument of proxy, whether for a specified meeting or otherwise, shall be in common form or such other form as the Directors may from time to time approve, provided that it shall enable a member, according to his intention, to instruct his proxy to vote in favour of or against (or in default of instructions or in the event of conflicting instructions, to exercise his discretion in respect of) each resolution to be proposed at the meeting to which the form of proxy relates.

 

73. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at its registered office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which it is sought to use the proxy.

 

CORPORATIONS ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS

 

74. Any corporation which is a member of the Company may, in accordance with its articles of association or, in the absence of such provision, by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of members of the Company and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company.


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DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 

75. Until otherwise determined by the Company in general meeting, the number of Directors shall not be less than one or be more than six and the names of the first Directors shall be determined in writing by a majority of the subscribers to the Memorandum of Association.

 

76. Thereafter, and subject as otherwise provided in these Articles, Directors shall be appointed by a resolution of the Company. At a general meeting, a motion for the appointment of two or more persons as Directors may be made by a single resolution.

 

77. The remuneration to be paid to the Directors shall be such remuneration as the Directors shall determine. Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. The Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in going to, attending and returning from meetings of the Directors, or any committee of the Directors, or general meetings of the Company, or otherwise in connection with the business of the Company, or to receive a fixed allowance in respect thereof as may be determined by the Directors from time to time, or a combination partly of one such method and partly the other.

 

78. The Directors may by resolution award special remuneration to any Director of the Company undertaking any special work or services for, or undertaking any special mission on behalf of, the Company other than his ordinary routine work as a Director. Any fees paid to a Director who is also counsel or solicitor to the Company, or otherwise serves it in a professional capacity shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director.

 

79. A Director or officer of the Company may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director or officer of the Company for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration and otherwise) as the Directors may determine.

 

80. Any Director or officer of the Company may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director or officer provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise a Director or officer or his firm to act as auditor of the Company.

 

81. The share qualification for a Director may be fixed by the Company in general meeting and, unless and until so fixed, no qualification shall be required.

 

82. A Director or officer of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of, or otherwise interested in, any company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as shareholder or otherwise and no such Director or officer shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such other company.

 

83. No Director or officer of the Company shall be disqualified by his office from holding any office or place of profit under the Company or under any company in which the Company shall be a  member or otherwise interested, or from contracting or dealing with the Company either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract, or any contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director or officer shall be in any way interested, be avoided, nor shall any Director or officer be liable to account to the Company for any profit arising from any such office or place of profit or realised by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director or officer holding that office or of the fiduciary relations thereby established, but it is declared that the nature of his interest must be disclosed by him at the meeting of the Directors at which the contract or arrangement is taken into consideration if his interest then exists, or in any other case at the first meeting of the Directors after the acquisition of his interest. A general notice of disclosure or otherwise contained in the minutes of the meeting that a Director or officer is a member of any specified firm or company, and is to be regarded as interested in all transactions with that firm or company, shall be a sufficient disclosure under this Article as regards such Director or officer and the said transactions, and after such general notice it shall not be necessary for such Director or officer to give a special notice relating to any particular transaction with that firm or company.

 

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84. A Director or officer of the Company may, notwithstanding his interest, be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which he or any other Director or officer is appointed to hold any such office or place of profit under the Company or at which the terms of any such appointment are arranged and he may vote on any such appointment or arrangement other than his own appointment or the arrangement of the terms thereof.

 

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

 

85. Any Director may in writing appoint any person to be his alternate to act in his place at any meeting of the Directors at which he is unable to attend. Every such alternate shall be entitled to notice of meetings of the Directors and to attend and vote at such meetings as a Director when the person appointing him is not personally present and, where he is a Director, to have a separate vote on behalf of the Director he is representing in addition to his own vote. An alternate shall vacate office if and when his appointer ceases to be a Director or removes the appointee from office. Every such alternate shall be deemed for all purposes to be a Director and shall alone be responsible for his own acts and defaults and shall not be deemed to be the agent of the Director appointing him. An alternate need not hold any share qualification.

 

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

 

86. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors, who may pay all expenses incurred in setting-up and registering the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, by the Law or these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting subject, nevertheless, to any regulations of these Articles, to the provisions of the Law, and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting but no regulations made by the Company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made.

 

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87. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by power of attorney appoint any company, firm or person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit and any such powers of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorney as the Directors may think fit and may also authorise any such attorney to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.

 

88. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.

 

89. The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose:

 

  (a) of all appointments of officers of the Company made by the Directors;
     
  (b) of the names of the Directors present at each meeting of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors; and

 

of all resolutions and proceedings at each meeting of the Company and of the Directors and of any committee of the Directors.

 

90. The Directors may, on behalf of the Company, pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit with the Company or to his widow or dependents and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.

 

91. The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and uncalled capital, or any part thereof, and to issue debentures, debenture stock, bonds and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

 

MANAGEMENT

 

92. (a) The Directors may from time to time provide for the management of the affairs of the Company in such manner as they shall think fit and the provisions contained in the three next following paragraphs shall be without prejudice to the general powers conferred by this paragraph.

 

(b)  The Directors from time to time and at any time may establish any committees, local boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the Company and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees or local boards or any managers or agents and may fix their remuneration.

 

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  (c) The Directors from time to time and at any time may delegate to any such committee, local board, manager or agent any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in the Directors and may authorise the members for the time being of any such local board, or any of them to fill up any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies and any such appointment or delegation may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit and the Directors may at any time remove any person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.

 

  (d) Any such delegates as aforesaid may be authorised by the Directors to sub-delegate all or any of the powers, authorities, and discretions for the time being vested in them.

 

MANAGING DIRECTOR

 

93. The Directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body (but not an alternate Director) to the office of Managing Director on such terms and at such remuneration (whether by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly in one way and partly in another) as they may think fit but his appointment shall be subject to determination ipso facto if he ceases from any cause to be Director and no alternate Director appointed by him can act in his stead as Director or Managing Director.

 

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

 

94. The Directors shall meet together for the conduct of business, convening, adjourning and otherwise regulating their meetings as they think fit. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes of the Directors and alternate Directors present at a meeting at which there is a quorum, the vote of an alternate Director not being counted if his appointer is present at such meeting. In case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

 

95. The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors and, unless so fixed, shall be two provided always that, if there is only a sole Director, that Director shall be a quorum and such Director may transact business by written resolution as if a meeting were being held under the provisions of these Articles.

 

96. The continuing Directors or sole continuing Director may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.

 

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97. The Directors may elect a Chairman of their meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.

 

98. The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of the board of Directors (including alternate Directors in the absence of their appointers) as they think fit. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Directors.

 

99. A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and in the case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

 

100. All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors (including any person acting as an alternate Director) or by any person acting as a Director shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such Director or alternate Director, or that they or any of them were disqualified or had vacated office, or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a Director or alternate Director as the case may be.

 

101. members of the board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the board or of such committee by means of conference telephone or other electronic means by which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. A resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts), signed by all the Directors for the time being or all the members of a committee of Directors (an alternate Director being entitled to sign such resolution on behalf of his appointer) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors or committee as the case may be duly convened and held.

 

VACATION OF OFFICE OF DIRECTOR

 

102. The office of Director shall, ipso facto, be vacated if the Director:

 

  (a) dies; or

 

  (b) becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or

 

  (c) is found to be a lunatic or becomes of unsound mind; or

 

  (d) resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company; or

 

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  (e) he shall for more than three consecutive meetings have been absent from Directors’ meetings (without being represented by an alternate Director) without permission of the Directors and the remaining Directors resolve that his office be vacated.

 

APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

 

103. The Directors shall hold and continue in office until they are removed from office under the terms of these Articles or until they resign.

 

104. The Company may, by Ordinary Resolution, appoint any person to be a Director, remove any Director and/or appoint another person in his stead.

 

105. The Directors shall have the power at any time, and from time to time, to appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors, but so that the total number of Directors (exclusive of alternate Directors) shall not at any time exceed the number fixed in accordance with these Articles.

 

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

 

106. A Director who is present at a meeting of the board of Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such action with the person acting as the Secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right of dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action.

 

SEAL

 

107. (a) The Company may, if the Directors so determine, have a Seal which shall, subject to paragraph (c) hereof, only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf and every instrument to which the Seal has been affixed shall be signed by one person who shall be either a Director or the Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer or some person appointed by the Directors for the purpose.

 

  (b) The Company may have a duplicate Seal or Seals each of which shall be a facsimile of the Common Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, with the addition on its face of the name of every place where it is to be used.

 

  (c) A Director, Secretary or other officer or representative or attorney may without further authority of the Directors affix the Seal of the Company over his signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by him under Seal or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever.

 

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OFFICERS

 

108. The Company may have a President, a Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer appointed by the Directors who may also from time to time appoint such other officers as they consider necessary, all for such terms, at such remuneration and to perform such duties, and subject to such provisions as to disqualification and removal as the Directors from time to time prescribe.

 

DIVIDENDS AND RESERVES

 

109. Subject to the Law, the Directors may from time to time declare dividends (including interim dividends) and distributions on shares of the Company outstanding and authorise payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefor.

 

110. The Directors may, before declaring any dividends or distributions, set aside such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for any purpose of the Company and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the Company) as the Directors may from time to time think fit. The Directors may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profits which they may think prudent not to dividend.

 

111. No dividend or distribution shall be payable except out of the profits of the Company, realised or unrealised, or out of the share premium account or as otherwise permitted by the Law.

 

112. Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends or distributions, all dividends or distributions shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares in respect whereof the dividend is paid but no amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of this Article as paid on the share.

 

113. The Directors may deduct from any dividend or distribution payable to any Member all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.

 

114. The Directors may declare that any dividend or distribution may be paid either wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and, in particular, of paid-up shares or debentures of any other company or in any one or more of such ways. Where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and, in particular, may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any members upon the footing of the value so fixed, in order to adjust the rights of all members, and may vest any such specific assets in trustees upon trust for the members entitled to the dividend as may seem expedient to the Directors.

 

115. Any dividend, interest or other moneys payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the member or person entitled thereto or, in the case of joint holders, to any one of such joint holders at his registered address or to such person and such address as the member or person entitled or such joint holders, as the case may be, may direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent or to the order of such other person as the member or person entitled or such joint holders, as the case may be, may direct.

 

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116. If several persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any of them may give effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses or other moneys payable on or in respect of the share.

 

117. No dividend shall bear interest against the Company.

 

118. All dividends unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise made use of by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed and the Company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof. All dividends unclaimed for a period of twelve years after having been declared shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company.

 

CAPITALISATION OF PROFITS

 

119. The Company in general meeting may, upon the recommendation of the Directors, resolve that it is desirable to capitalise any part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of any of the Company's reserve accounts or to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution and not required for the payment or provision of the fixed dividend on any shares entitled to fixed preferential dividends and accordingly that such sums be set free for distribution amongst the members who would have been entitled thereto if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions on condition that the same be not paid in cash but be applied either in or towards paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively or paying up in full unissued shares or debentures of the Company to be allotted and distributed credited as fully paid-up to and amongst such members in the proportion aforesaid, or partly in the one way and partly in the other, and the Directors shall give effect to such resolution provided that a share premium account and a capital redemption reserve fund may, for the purposes of this Article, only be applied in the paying-up of unissued shares to be issued to members as fully paid bonus shares.

 

120. Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid has been passed, the Directors shall make all appropriations and applications of the undivided profits or balances standing to the credit of the relevant reserve account resolved to be capitalised thereby and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares or debentures, if any, and generally shall do all acts and things required to give effect thereto, with full power to the Directors to make such provision by the issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as they think fit for the case of shares or debentures becoming distributable in fractions, and also to authorise any person to enter on behalf of all members entitled thereto into an agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid-up, of any further shares or debentures to which they may be entitled upon such capitalisation, or as the case may require, for the payment up by the Company on their behalf, by the application thereto of their respective proportions of the profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares, and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such members.

 

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BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

 

121. The Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to:

 

  (a) all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place;

 

  (b) all sales and purchases of goods by the Company; and

 

  (c) the assets and liabilities of the Company.

 

Proper books of account shall not be deemed to be kept with respect to the matters aforesaid if there are not kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company's affairs and to explain its transactions.

 

122. The Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of members not being Directors and no member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting.

 

123. The Directors may from time to time cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in general meeting profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law.

 

AUDIT

 

124. The Company may at any annual general meeting appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the next annual general meeting and may fix his or their remuneration.

 

125. The Directors may before the first annual general meeting appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the first annual general meeting unless previously removed by an ordinary resolution of the members in general meeting in which case the members at that meeting may appoint the Auditors. The Directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of Auditor but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing Auditor or Auditors, if any, may act. The remuneration of any Auditor appointed by the Directors under this Article may be fixed by the Directors.

 

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126. Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and Officers of the Company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors.

 

127. Auditors shall at the next annual general meeting following their appointment and at any other time during their term of office, upon request of the Directors or any general meeting of the members, make a report on the accounts of the Company in general meeting during their tenure of office.

 

NOTICES

 

128. Notices shall be in writing and may be given by the Company to any Member either personally or by sending it by post, cable, telex or telecopy to him or to his address as shown in the register of members, such notice, if mailed, to be forwarded airmail if the address be outside the Cayman Islands.

 

129.  (a) Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the notice, and to have been effected at the expiration of sixty (60) hours after the letter containing the same is posted as aforesaid.

 

  (b) Where a notice is sent by cable, telex, or telecopy, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, and sending such notice through a transmitting organization and to have been effected on the day the same is sent as aforesaid

 

130. A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder named first in the register of members in respect of the share.

 

131. A notice may be given by the Company to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankruptcy, or by any like description at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled or (until such an address has been so supplied) by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.

 

132. Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorised to:

 

  (a) every member holding shares entitling the holder thereof to attend meetings of the Company except those members who have not supplied to the Company an address for the giving of notices to them; and

 

  (b) every person entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member who, but for his death or bankruptcy, would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting.

 

No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.

 

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LIQUIDATION OF THE COMPANY

 

133. If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution and any other sanction required by the Law, divide amongst the members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between members or different classes of members. The liquidator may with the like sanction vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of contributories as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall think fit but so that no member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.

 

INDEMNITY

 

134. Every Director or other officer of the Company and their heirs and personal representatives shall be entitled to be indemnified and held harmless out of the assets of the Company against all actions, proceedings, costs, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal and/or accountancy fees), claims, losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto, including any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted, and no Director or person as aforementioned shall be liable for any loss, damage or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto provided that he acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed by him to be in the best interests of the Company and provided further that his actions did not involve negligence, wilful default, fraud or dishonesty.

 

FINANCIAL YEAR

 

135. Unless the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31 December in each year and shall begin on 1 January in each year.

 

AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES

 

136. Subject to the provisions of the Law, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name, amend its objects or alter or amend these Articles either in whole or in part.

 

TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION

 

137. If the Company is exempted as defined in the Law, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Law, and with the sanction of a Special Resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.

 

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