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Companies Act 2006

Chapter 4 Public companies and traded companies: additional requirements for AGMs

  • Section 336 Public companies and traded companies: annual general meeting
  • Section 337 Public companies and traded companies: notice of AGM
  • Section 338 Public companies: members' power to require circulation of resolutions for AGMs
  • Section 338A Traded companies: members' power to include other matters in business dealt with at AGM
  • Section 339 Public companies: company's duty to circulate members' resolutions for AGMs
  • Section 340 Public companies: expenses of circulating members' resolutions for AGM
  • Section 340A Traded companies: duty to circulate members' matters for AGM
  • Section 340B Traded companies: expenses of circulating members' matters to be dealt with at AGM
  1. Chapter 4 · Public companies and traded companies: additional requirements for AGMs
  2. Public companies and traded companies: notice of AGM

Section 337 | Public companies and traded companies: notice of AGM

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A notice calling an annual general meeting of a public company or a private company that is a traded company must state that the meeting is an annual general meeting.F1

(2)An annual general meeting of a public company that is not a traded company may be called by shorter notice than that required by section 307(2) or by the company's articles (as the case may be), if all the members entitled to attend and vote at the meeting agree to the shorter notice.F2

(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—F3

(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, andF3

(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.F3

Notes

  1. F1

    Words in s. 337(1) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(2) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))

  2. F2

    Words in s. 337(2) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(3) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))

  3. F3

    S. 337(3) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(4) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))

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