ACT 125

COMPANIES ACT 1965 (REVISED - 1973)

PART V - MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

DIVISION 3 - MEETINGS AND PROCEEDINGS

Section 151. Circulation of members' resolutions, etc.

(1) Subject to this section a company shall on the requisition in writing of such number of members of the company as is specified in subsection (2) and (unless the company otherwise resolves) at the expense of the requisitionists— (a) give to the members of the company entitled to receive notice of the next annual general meeting notice of any resolution which may properly be moved and is intended to be moved at that meeting; and (b) circulate to members entitled to have notice of any general meeting sent to them any statement of not more than one thousand words with respect to the matter referred to in any proposed resolution or the business to be dealt with at that meeting. (2) The number of members necessary for a requisition under subsection (1) shall be— (a) any number of members representing not less than onetwentieth of the total voting rights of all the members having at the date of the requisition a right to vote at the meeting to which the requisition relates; or (b) not less than one hundred members holding shares in the company on which there has been paid up an average sum, per member, of not less than five hundred ringgit. (3) Notice of a resolution referred to in subsection (1) shall be given, and any statement so referred to shall be circulated, to members of the company entitled to have notice of the meeting sent to them by serving a copy of the resolution or statement on each member in any manner permitted for service of notice of the meeting, and notice of the resolution shall be given to any other member of the company by giving notice of the general effect of the resolution in any manner permitted for giving him notice of meetings of the company, and the copy shall be served, or notice of the effect of the resolution shall be given, as the case may be, in the same manner and, so far as practicable, at the same time as notice of the meeting and, where it is not practicable for it to be served or given at that time, it shall be served or given as soon as practicable thereafter. (4) A company shall not be bound under this section to give notice of any resolution or to circulate any statement unless— (a) a copy of the requisition signed by the requisitionists (or two or more copies which between them contain the signatures of all the requisitionists) is deposited at the registered office of the company— (i) in the case of a requisition requiring notice of a resolution, not less than six weeks before the meeting; and (ii) in the case of any other requisition, not less than one week before the meeting; and (b) there is deposited or tendered with the requisition a sum reasonably sufficient to meet the company's expenses in giving effect thereto, but if, after a copy of a requisition requiring notice of a resolution has been deposited at the registered office of the company, an annual general meeting is called for a date six weeks or less after the copy has been deposited, the copy though not deposited within the time required by this subsection shall be deemed to have been properly deposited for the purposes thereof. (5) The company shall not be bound under this section to circulate any statement if, on the application either of the company or of any other person who claims to be aggrieved, the Court is satisfied that the rights conferred by this section are being abused to secure needless publicity for defamatory matter and the Court may order the company's costs on an application under this section to be paid in whole or in part by the requisitionists, notwithstanding that they are not parties to the application. (6) Notwithstanding anything in the company's articles, the business which may be dealt with at an annual general meeting shall include any resolution of which notice is given in accordance with this section, and for the purposes of this subsection notice shall be deemed to have been so given notwithstanding the accidental omission, in giving it, of one or more members. (7) In the event of any default in complying with this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence against this Act. Penalty: Ten thousand ringgit.