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COMPANIES CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 70

Extraordinary meetings may be required by shareholders.

70. 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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