Ireland · The traded public limited company
The traded PLC: equal treatment, notice of meetings, agenda items, questions and voting results
the Companies Act 2014 · sections 1100 to 1110
A traded PLC must post meeting material on its website from 21 days before the meeting
A traded PLC runs its general meetings on a website timetable as well as a postal one. The company must make available to its members on its website, for a continuous period beginning not later than 21 days before the meeting, the material section 1103(3) requires. In its application to a traded PLC, section 178 applies as if the subsection set out in section 1101 were substituted, and section 181 applies with the substitutions section 1102(1) makes, so the general notice rules are not the ones that apply.
Requests to change the agenda are governed by a receipt deadline, not a posting deadline. A request by a member to put an item on the agenda or to table a draft resolution under section 1104(1)(a) must be received by the company as section 1104(2) requires. To allow a member to use that right, the traded PLC must ensure that the date of the next annual general meeting is dealt with as section 1104(4) requires.
Sections 1100 to 1110 give the member the agenda, question and voting rights the company must make usable
Sections 1100 to 1103 govern equal treatment of shareholders and the notice of general meetings of a traded PLC. Sections 1104 to 1107 govern the right to put items on the agenda, to table draft resolutions, to participate by electronic means and to ask questions. Each of those rights belongs to the member, so the company's role is to make the right usable rather than to grant it.
Sections 1108 to 1110 govern proxies, voting by correspondence and the establishment and publication of voting results. A traded PLC must ensure that a voting result established in accordance with section 1110 is published on its website not later than the expiry of 15 days after the date of the meeting at which the result was obtained (section 1110(3)).
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Working files 138, 139 and 140 of the IE-COMPANY agent toolkit cover this situation. Working file 138 works through equal treatment and the notice of general meetings. Working file 139 works through agenda items, draft resolutions, electronic participation and the right to ask questions. Working file 140 works through proxies, voting by correspondence and the publication of voting results, with the date of each website posting recorded as evidence.
- Working file 138 · The traded PLC: equal treatment of shareholders and notice of general meetings
- Working file 139 · The traded PLC: agenda items, participation by electronic means and the right to ask questions
- Working file 140 · The traded PLC: proxies, voting by correspondence and voting results
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