Companies Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845

LXXVIChairman at General Meetings.

At every Meeting of the Company one or other of the following Persons shall preside as Chairman ; that is to say, the Chairman of the Directors, or in his Absence the Deputy Chairman (if any), or in the Absence of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman some one of the Directors of the Company to be chosen for that Purpose by the Meeting, or in the Absence of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman and of all the Directors any Shareholder to be chosen for that Purpose by a Majority of the Shareholders present at such Meeting.