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situation which cannot reasonably be regarded as likely to give rise to a conflict of interest). Any such authorisation
will be effective only if:
• any requirement as to quorum at the meeting at which the matter is considered is met without counting the
Director in question or any other interested Director; and
• the matter was agreed to without their voting or would have been agreed to if their votes had not been counted.
The Board may (whether at the time of the giving of the authorisation or subsequently) make any such authorisation
subject to any limits or conditions it expressly imposes but such authorisation is otherwise given to the fullest extent
permitted. The Board may vary or terminate any such authorisation at any time.
A Director shall be under no duty to HSBC Holdings with respect to any information which he obtains or has
obtained otherwise than as a Director of HSBC Holdings and in respect of which he has a duty of confidentiality to
another person.
Retirement
There is no mandatory retirement age for Directors of HSBC Holdings.
Annual General Meeting
The 2010 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London EC2 on Friday,
28 May 2010 at 11 am.
An informal meeting of shareholders will be held at 1 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong on Monday, 24 May
2010 at 4.30 pm.
All resolutions considered at the 2009 Annual General Meeting were passed on a poll as follows:
Total votes
Resolution For1 Against Vote withheld2
1 To receive the Report and Accounts for 2008 ........................................... 7,901,287,647 40,358,760 35,340,460
2 To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for 2008 ....................... 7,060,582,014 681,527,638 233,742,167
3 To re-elect the following as Directors:
(a) S A Catz ............................................................................................. 7,929,542,903 22,920,267 31,655,980
(b) V H C Cheng ..................................................................................... 7,941,676,475 11,270,381 31,134,247
(c) M K T Cheung ................................................................................... 7,939,025,380 11,377,699 33,777,308
(d) J D Coombe ....................................................................................... 7,935,388,445 13,017,095 35,791,573
(e) J L Durán ............................................................................................ 7,940,220,049 12,282,606 31,706,996
(f) R A Fairhead ..................................................................................... 7,937,758,292 14,728,893 31,726,248
(g) D J Flint ............................................................................................. 7,912,074,791 37,587,208 34,389,735
(h) A A Flockhart .................................................................................... 7,929,977,258 17,696,949 36,519,295
(i) W K L Fung ....................................................................................... 7,827,043,012 66,722,011 90,363,781
(j) M F Geoghegan ................................................................................. 7,908,649,043 38,351,123 37,448,198
(k) S K Green .......................................................................................... 7,791,903,013 56,527,889 135,700,002
(l) S T Gulliver ....................................................................................... 7,907,643,866 35,501,686 39,631,531
(m) J W J Hughes-Hallett ........................................................................ 7,935,557,101 16,848,745 31,718,789
(n) W S H Laidlaw .................................................................................. 7,936,661,889 13,720,447 33,737,012
(o) J R Lomax ......................................................................................... 7,925,965,357 26,348,115 31,806,338
(p) Sir Mark Moody-Stuart ..................................................................... 7,936,652,035 15,533,759 31,931,899
(q) G Morgan .......................................................................................... 7,937,695,742 12,657,251 33,729,241
(r) N R N Murthy ................................................................................... 7,939,721,249 12,600,587 31,798,598
(s) S M Robertson ................................................................................... 7,939,561,457 12,763,612 31,776,474
(t) J L Thornton ...................................................................................... 7,939,757,360 12,291,883 31,909,754
(u) Sir Brian Williamson ......................................................................... 7,939,497,300 12,796,977 31,784,282
4 To reappoint the Auditor at remuneration to be determined by the
Group Audit Committee ........................................................................ 7,885,940,600 38,605,986 52,015,387
5 To authorise the Directors to allot shares .................................................. 7,865,611,572 80,639,173 32,860,563
6 To disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) ............................... 7,898,555,932 52,061,875 29,723,057
7 To authorise the Company to purchase its own Ordinary Shares ............. 7,866,095,619 20,259,041 92,366,735
8 To alter the Articles of Association with effect from 1 October 2009
(Special Resolution) .............................................................................. 7,950,959,375 5,013,812 24,681,152
9 To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings)
being called on 14 clear days’ notice (Special Resolution) .................. 7,769,003,251 178,874,096 32,468,298
1 Includes discretionary votes.
2 A ‘Vote withheld’ is not a ‘vote’ in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes ‘For’ and ‘Against’ the resolution.