Full text: Secretarial practice

COMPANIES ACT, 1920 
76,1 
In default of a general meeting being so held, a general meeting shall 
be held in the month next following, and may be convened by any 
two members in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in 
which meetings are to be convened bv the directors. 
6. The above-mentioned general meetings shall be called ordinary 
general meetings; all other general meetings shall be called extra: 
ordinary general meetings. 
7. The directors may, whenever they think fit, convene an 
extraordinary general meeting, and extraordinary general meetings 
shall also be convened on such requisition, or, in default, may be 
convened by such requistionists, as provided by section 114 of the 
Act. If at any time there are not within the United Kingdom 
sufficient directs capable of acting to form a quorum, any director 
or any two members of the company may convene an extraordinary 
general meeting in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in 
which meetings mav be convened bv the directors 
Notice of General Meetings. 
8. Subject to the provisions of section 117 (2) of the Act relating 
to special resolutions, seven days’ notice at the least (exclusive of the 
day on which the notice is served or deemed to be served, but 
inclusive of the day for which notice is given) specifying the place, 
the day, and the hour of meeting and, in case of special business, the 
general nature of that business shall be given in manner hereinafter 
mentioned, or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by 
the company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under the 
regulations of the company, entitled to receive such notices from the 
company; but with the consent of all the members entitled to receive 
notice of some particular meeting, that meeting may be convened by 
such shorter notice and in such manner as those members may 
think At 
9. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the 
non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, anv member shall not invalidate 
the proceedings at anv meetinoe 
Proceedings at General Meetings. 
ro. All buisness shall be deemed special that is transacted at an 
extraordinary meeting, and all that is transacted at an ordinary 
meeting, with the exception of the consideration of the accounts, 
balance sheets, and the ordinary report of the directors and auditors, 
the election of directors and other officers in the place of those 
retiring by rotation, and the fixing of the remuneration of the 
anditors. 
11. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless 
a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds 
to business; save as herein otherwise provided. three members 
personally present shall be a quorum
	        
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