PART 1INTRODUCTORY

1Citation and commencement

PART 2AMENDMENTS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

2Voting on show of hands

3Voting by proxy

4Members’ power to require directors to call general meetings

5Advance voting on a poll

6Representation of corporations at meetings

7Obligations of proxies

8Electronic meetings and voting

PART 3AMENDMENTS RELATING TO TRADED COMPANIES

9Traded companies: notice of general meetings

10Traded companies: contents of notice of meeting

11Traded companies: publication of information in advance of general meeting

12Traded companies: questions at meetings

13Traded companies: appointment of proxy and termination of proxy’s authority

14Traded companies: class meetings

15Traded companies: duty to hold AGM

16Traded companies: notice of AGM

17Traded companies: members’ power to include other matters in business dealt with at AGM

18Traded companies: company’s duty to circulate members’ matters for AGM

19Traded companies: website publication of poll results

20Traded companies: share dealings before general meetings

21Meaning of “traded company”

22Traded companies: disapplication of saving for casting votes

23Transitional provisions

2009 No. 1632

Companies

The Companies (Shareholders’ Rights) Regulations 2009

Made2nd July 2009

Laid before Parliament3rd July 2009

Coming into force3rd August 2009

The Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721 in relation to the creation, operation, regulation or dissolution of companies and other forms of business organisation2.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations.