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The Companies (Shareholders’ Rights to Voting Confirmations) Regulations 2020
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Traded companies: right to confirmation of vote after a general meeting
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5.—(1) In the Companies Act 2006, after section 360B (traded companies: requirements for participating in and voting at general meetings), insert—
“360BA Traded companies: right to confirmation of vote after a general meeting
(1) Where the conditions in subsection (2) are met, a traded company must provide information to a member which enables the member to confirm that their vote on a resolution at a general meeting where a poll has been taken has been validly recorded and counted.
(2) The conditions are that—
(a)the member makes a request for the information, which request is received by the company no later than 30 days from the date of that general meeting, and
(b)the member does not have any other reasonable means by which to determine that their vote has been validly recorded and counted by the company.
(3) The information under subsection (1) must be provided to the member as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event by the end of the period of 15 days beginning with whichever is the later of the first working day after the day on which—
(a)the result of the poll is declared for that resolution; or
(b)the request for information under subsection (2)(a) is received by the company.”.
(2) In section 145(3), after paragraph (gb) insert—
“(gc)360BA (traded companies: right to confirmation of vote after a general meeting); ”.
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