16.—(1) Section 337 of the Companies Act 2006 (public companies: notice of AGM) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1) (notice to state that meeting is AGM), after “public company” insert “or a private company that is a traded company”.
(3) In subsection (2), after “annual general meeting” insert “of a public company that is not a traded company”.
(4) After that subsection insert—
“(3) Where a notice calling an annual general meeting of a traded company is given more than 6 weeks before the meeting, the notice must include—
(a)if the company is a public company, a statement of the right under section 338 to require the company to give notice of a resolution to be moved at the meeting, and
(b)whether or not the company is a public company, a statement of the right under section 338A to require the company to include a matter in the business to be dealt with at the meeting.”.
(5) In the section heading, after “Public companies” insert “and traded companies”.
(6) In section 360 of the Companies Act 2006 (computation of periods of notice etc: clear day rule), after the entry relating to section 316(2)(b), insert—
“section 337(3) (contents of notice of AGM of traded company),”.