Singapore Airlines 2008 Annual Report Download - page 175

Singapore Airlines Annual Report 2007-08
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Singapore Airlines Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore)
Company Registration No. 197200078R
Notice is hereby given that the Thirty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of Singapore Airlines Limited (“the Company”) will be held
at the Stamford Ballroom, 4th Floor, Raffles City Convention Centre, 2 Stamford Road, Singapore 178882 on Tuesday, 29 July 2008
at 10.00 a.m. to transact the following business:
Ordinary Business
1. To receive and adopt the Directors’ Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2008 and the
Auditors’ Report thereon.
2. To declare a final dividend of 80 cents per ordinary share for the year ended 31 March 2008.
3. To re-appoint Sir Brian Pitman, a Director who will retire under Section 153(6) of the Companies Act, Cap 50, to hold office
from the date of this Annual General Meeting until the next Annual General Meeting of the Company.
4. To re-elect the following Directors who are retiring by rotation in accordance with Article 82 of the Company’s Articles of
Association and who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election:
(a) Mr Chia Pei-Yuan
(b) Mr David Michael Gonski
5. To re-elect the following Directors, who are retiring in accordance with Article 89 of the Company’s Articles of Association
and who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election:
(a) Mrs Christina Ong
(b) Mr Lucien Wong Yuen Kuai
6. To approve Directors’ fees of $1,497,220 for the financial year ended 31 March 2008 (FY2006/2007: $1,319,304).
7. To approve Directors’ fees of up to $1,650,000 for the financial year ending 31 March 2009.
8. To re-appoint Messrs Ernst & Young as Auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration.
Special Business
9. To consider and if thought fit, approve, with or without modification, the following resolutions as Ordinary Resolutions:
9.1 That pursuant to Section 161 of the Companies Act, Cap 50, authority be and is hereby given to the Directors of the
Company to:
(a) (i) issue shares in the capital of the Company (“shares”) whether by way of rights, bonus or otherwise; and/or
(ii) make or grant offers, agreements or options (collectively, “Instruments”) that might or would require shares to be
issued, including but not limited to the creation and issue of (as well as adjustments to) warrants, debentures or
other instruments convertible into shares,
at any time and upon such terms and conditions and for such purposes and to such persons as the Directors may in
their absolute discretion deem fit; and
(b) (notwithstanding the authority conferred by this Resolution may have ceased to be in force) issue shares in pursuance
of any Instrument made or granted by the Directors while this Resolution was in force,
provided that:
(1) the aggregate number of shares to be issued pursuant to this Resolution (including shares to be issued in pursuance of
Instruments made or granted pursuant to this Resolution) does not exceed 50 per cent of the total number of issued
shares (excluding treasury shares) in the capital of the Company (as calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)
below), of which the aggregate number of shares to be issued other than on a pro rata basis to shareholders of the
Company (including shares to be issued in pursuance of Instruments made or granted pursuant to this Resolution) does
not exceed 10 per cent of the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares) in the capital of the Company
(as calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) below);
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