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Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
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70 Extraordinary meetings may be required by shareholders.E+W+N.I.
It shall be lawful for the prescribed number of shareholders, holding in the aggregate shares to the prescribed amount, or, where the number of shareholders or amount of shares shall not be prescribed, it shall be lawful for twenty or more shareholders holding in the aggregate not less than one tenth of the capital of the company, by writing under their hands, at any time to require the directors to call an extraordinary meeting of the company; and such requisition shall fully express the object of the meeting required to be called, and shall be left at the office of the company, or given to at least three directors, or left at their last or usual places of abode; and forthwith upon the receipt of such requisition the directors shall convene a meeting of the shareholders; and if for twenty-one days after such notice the directors fail to call such meeting, the prescribed number, or such other number as aforesaid, of shareholders, qualified as aforesaid, may call such meeting, by giving fourteen days public notice thereof.
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C1S. 70 applied (with modifications) (25.3.2022) by The Caernarfon and Dinas Welsh Highland Railway (Transfer and Governance) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/375), arts. 1, 7
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