Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3524S

Standard Life plc

15 May 2009

 



Standard Life plc

Results of Annual General Meeting 

The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today were duly passed. The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	Against	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2008	657,046,798	2,259,099	1,494,892
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	634,500,850	21,307,327	4,961,806
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2008	657,824,348	2,324,872	649,244
Resolution 4: To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	646,926,097	4,698,055	9,181,332
Resolution 5: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	655,206,264	3,486,068	2,071,146
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director	651,489,580	5,376,323	3,929,460
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Gerry Grimstone as a Director	651,149,419	5,832,666	3,829,503
Resolution 7: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	648,546,809	10,017,211	2,164,570
Resolution 8 (Special Resolution): To disapply share pre-emption rights	646,956,887	8,607,626	5,230,905
Resolution 9 (Special Resolution): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	645,386,049	13,237,206	2,114,539
Resolution 10: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	622,466,867	33,287,952	4,852,636
Resolution 11 (Special Resolution): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	643,384,720	15,245,704	2,160,491
Resolution 12: To authorise the offer of a Scrip dividend scheme	652,652,063	5,785,102	2,322,918
Resolution 13 (Special Resolution): To make changes to the Company's articles of association in connection with the proposed Scrip dividend scheme	651,306,771	5,753,826	2,715,862

The total number of shares in issue is 2,180,852,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution.

The Board confirms that, as previously announced, Jocelyn Proteau retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the AGM Guide previously submitted to the Financial Services Authority at their Document Viewing Facility at:

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS  

The AGM Guide and the Voting Results are also available on the Standard Life plc website at www.standardlife.com 

15 May 2009

Enquiries:

Julie Durie, Group Secretariat 0131 245 6772

Gordon Aitken, Investor Relations 0131 245 6799

Barry Cameron, Media Relations 0131 245 6165

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