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RNS Number : 4594Z
Legal & General Group Plc
26 May 2016
Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 26 MAY 2016
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual
General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company,
Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions
proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders
by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution For (1) Against Votes Withheld
(2)
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No. of shares(1) % No. of %
shares
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Resolution 1
Receipt of financial
statements for
the year ended
31 December
2015 4,359,842,672 99.96 1,671,886 0.04 4,552,624
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Resolution 2
Declaration
of a final dividend
of 9.95p per
ordinary share 4,354,654,312 100 159,830 0 11,253,058
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Resolution 3
Re-election
of Richard Meddings
as a Director 4,359,576,369 99.94 2,610,544 0.06 3,873,828
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Resolution 4
Re-election
of Carolyn Bradley
as a Director 4,359,271,235 99.93 2,876,007 0.07 3,922,499
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Resolution 5
Re-election
of Lizabeth
Zlatkus as a
Director 4,359,486,861 99.94 2,684,791 0.06 3,890,773
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Resolution 6
Re-election
of Mark Zinkula
as a Director 4,353,417,249 99.80 8,851,111 0.20 3,794,065
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Resolution 7
Re-election
of Stuart Popham
as a Director 4,315,098,722 98.92 47,156,213 1.08 3,805,806
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Resolution 8
Re-election
of Julia Wilson
as a Director 4,354,487,089 99.82 7,736,991 0.18 3,838,345
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Resolution 9
Re-election
of Mark Gregory
as a Director 4,338,927,156 99.46 23,357,820 0.54 3,765,765
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Resolution 10
Re-election
of Rudy Markham
as a Director 4,328,315,043 99.29 30,877,647 0.71 6,859,735
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Resolution 11
Re-election
of John Stewart
as a Director 4,356,560,000 99.87 5,858,088 0.13 3,633,837
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Resolution 12
Re-election
of Nigel Wilson
as a Director 4,357,590,344 99.89 4,887,883 0.11 3,574,198
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Resolution 13
Re-appointment
of PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as auditors 4,243,758,216 99.62 16,005,336 0.38 106,209,361
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Resolution 14
To authorise
the Director's
to fix the Auditors'
remuneration 4,307,385,142 99.76 10,366,465 0.24 48,216,531
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Resolution 15*
To adopt new
Articles of
Association 4,361,053,016 99.98 1,011,358 0.02 3,898,560
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Resolution 16
Approval of
Remuneration
Report 4,188,900,286 97.28 117,198,364 2.72 59,869,488
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Resolution 17
Authority to
allot equity
securities 4,345,713,171 99.62 16,607,061 0.38 3,646,194
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Resolution 18
Authority to
make political
donations 4,267,755,863 97.87 93,091,140 2.13 5,125,910
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Resolution 19
Scrip dividend
programme 4,353,282,318 99.98 973,267 0.02 11,707,253
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Resolution 20*
Disapplication
of pre-emption
rights 3,608,377,406 87.57 512,044,554 12.43 245,543,657
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Resolution 21*
Authority to
purchase own
shares 4,287,400,470 98.27 75,274,167 1.73 3,303,501
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Resolution 22*
Authority to
call general
meetings (other
than an AGM)
on not less
than 14 clear
days' notice 4,119,631,483 94.43 243,003,779 5.57 3,331,014
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Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each
resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,366,067,200
representing 73.39% of voting capital as at 24 May 2016. At the
close of business on 24 May 2016, the issued share capital of the
Company was 5,949,112,452 ordinary shares (no shares are held in
Treasury).
* Denotes a Special Resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of
Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the
National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and
also on the Company's website at
http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of
the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary
business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at
http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Name of person making Jenny McCarthy
notification:
Contact number: 020 3124 2142
Date of notification: 26 May 2016
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