COMPANIES ACT, 1929

623

(@) a meeting of a company, other than a meeting for the passing
of a special resolution, may be called by seven days’ notice
in writing;
notice of the meeting of a company shall be served on
every member of the company in the manner in which
notices are required to be served by Table A, and for the
purpose of this paragraph the expression ‘Table A’ means
that Table as for the time being in force;
two or more members holding not less than one-tenth of
the issued share capital or, if the company has not a share
capital, not less than five per cent. in number of the
members of the company may call a meeting;
in the case of a private company two members, and in the
case of any other company three members, personally
present shall be a quorum;
any member elected by the members present at a meeting
may be chairman thereof;
in the case of a company originally having a share capital,
every member shall have one vote in respect of each share
or each ten pounds of stock held by him, and in any other
case every member shall have one vote.

'd)

e)
f)

2) If for any reason it is impracticable to call a meeting of a
company in any manner in which meetings of that company may be
called, or to conduct the meeting of the company in manner prescribed
by the articles or this Act, the court may, either of its own motion or
on the application of any director of the company or of any member
of the company who would be entitled to vote at the meeting, order
a meeting of the company to be called, held and conducted in such
manner as the court thinks fit, and where any such order is made
may give such ancillary or consequential directions as it thinks
expedient, and any meeting called, held and conducted in accord-
ance with any such order shall for all purposes be deemed to be a
meeting of the company duly called, held and conducted.

116.—(1) A corporation, whether a company within the meaning Representation
of this Act or not, may— ans ot
(a) if it is a member of another corporation, being a company OLper Sompmies
within the meaning of this Act, by resolution of its directors
or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks
fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the company
or at any meeting of any class of members of the company;
if it is a creditor (including a holder of debentures) of
another corporation, being a company within the meaning
of this Act, by resolution of its directors or other governing
body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its
representative at any meeting of any creditors of the
company held in pursuance of this Act or of any rules made
thereunder, or in pursuance of the provisions contained in
any debenture or trust deed, as the case may be.