NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Hopson Development Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Tang Room 1-2, 4/F., Furama Hotel Hong Kong, One Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong on 21st May, 2001 (Monday) at 10:00 a.m. for the following purposes:
1. To receive and consider the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries and the reports of the directors and auditors for the year ended 31st December, 2000.
2. To re-elect retiring directors and to authorise the board of directors to fix the directors' remuneration.
3. To declare a final dividend for the year ended 31st December, 2000.
4. To re-appoint auditors and to authorise the board of directors to fix their remuneration.
5. As special business to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modifications, the following resolutions as Ordinary Resolutions:
A. "THAT:
(a) subject to paragraph (c), the exercise by the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company or securities convertible into such shares or warrants or similar rights to subscribe for any shares in the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such power be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
(b) the approval in paragraph (a) shall authorise the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period to make or grant offers, agreements and options which would or might require the exercise of such power after the end of the Relevant Period;
(c) the aggregate nominal amount of share capital allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the directors of the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a), otherwise than pursuant to the shares of the Company issued as a result of a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined) or pursuant to the exercise of options under the Share Option Scheme or similar arrangement, or any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares of the Company in lieu of the whole or part of the dividend on the shares of the Company in accordance with the Company's Bye-laws, shall not exceed 20 per cent of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing of this Resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and
(d) for the purposes of this Resolution:
"Relevant Period" means the period from the date of passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Bye-laws of the Company or any applicable laws of Bermuda to be held; or
(iii) revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.
"Rights Issue" means an offer of shares open for a period fixed by the directors of the Company to holders of shares of the Company on the register on a fixed record date in proportion to their holdings of such shares (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of, any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in any territory outside Hong Kong)."
B. "THAT:
(a) subject to paragraph (b), the exercise by the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period of all the powers of the Company to repurchase its own shares on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited ("the Stock Exchange") or on any other stock exchange on which the securities of the Company may be listed and recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange or of any other stock exchange on which the securities of the Company may be listed as amended from time to time, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
(b) the aggregate nominal amount of shares of the Company to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the approval mentioned in paragraph (a) during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10 per cent of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue on the date of passing of this Resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and
(c) the expression "Relevant Period" shall for the purposes of this Resolution have the same meaning as assigned to it under Ordinary Resolution 5.A. (d) of this notice."
C. "THAT conditional upon Resolutions 5.A. and 5.B. above being passed, the aggregate nominal amount of shares in the capital of the Company which are repurchased by the Company under the authority granted to the directors as mentioned in Resolution 5.B. above shall be added to the aggregate nominal amount of share capital that may be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted by the directors of the Company pursuant to Resolution 5.A. provided that the amount of share capital repurchased by the Company shall not exceed 10 per cent of the total nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue on the date of this Resolution."
By Order of the Board
Mok Wai Kun, Barbara
Secretary
18th April, 2001, Hong Kong
Principal office:
19th Floor, Wyndham Place
40-44 Wyndham Street
Central
Hong Kong
Notes:
1. A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting convened by the above notice is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote in his stead. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
2. To be valid, this form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power of attorney or other authority, must be deposited at the principal office of the Company at 19th Floor, Wyndham Place, 40-44 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the said meeting.
3. A form of proxy for the meeting will be enclosed with the annual report.
4. The register of members of the Company will be closed from Monday, 14th May, 2001 to Monday, 21st May, 2001, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares will be effected. In order to qualify for the final dividend to be approved at the meeting and the right to attend and vote at the meeting, all transfers accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company's Share Registrars in Hong Kong, Central Registration Hong Kong Limited, Shops 1712-1716, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong not later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, 11th May, 2001.
5. With reference to the Ordinary Resolutions sought in items 5.A. and 5.B. of this notice, the directors wish to state that they have no immediate plans to issue any new shares or to repurchase any existing shares of the Company. The explanatory statement required by the Listing Rules of the Stock Exchange in connection with the repurchase mandate will be despatched to shareholders together with the annual report.
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