Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8327T

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

18 December 2012

 

STANDARD LIFE EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Tuesday 18 December 2012, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.standardlifeinvestments.com/its*  were duly passed.

Whilst resolution 11(Adoption of new Articles of Association) was passed, this resolution is subject to and conditional upon the passing of a special resolution by the holders of the subscription shares of 0.01p in the Company.  The separate general meeting of the holders of the subscription shares convened for 11.15am today, Tuesday 18 December, was adjourned.  The adjourned meeting will be held on 11 January 2013 at 11am at 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8EP, when one person holding subscription shares (whatever the number of shares held) who is present in person or by proxy will constitute a quorum.

The total number of proxy votes at the Annual General Meeting was as follows:

	For and Discretionary		Against		Votes	Total Votes
Resolution	No. of	% of	No. of	% of	Withheld	(excluding Votes Withheld)
Number	Votes	Votes Cast	Votes	Votes Cast
Ordinary Resolutions 1.Receive Report & Accounts	7,441,435	100	0	0	0	7,441,435
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	7,319,322	98.62	102,233	1.38	19,880	7,421,555
3. Approve Final Dividend	7,441,435	100	0	0	0	7,441,435
4.Re-elect C.A. Wood	7,382,259	99.96	2,668	0.04	56,508	7,384,927
5. Re-elect K.E. Percy	7.376,287	99.43	42,433	0.57	22,715	7,418,720
6. Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors	7,439,059	99.97	2,076	0.03	300	7,441,135
7. Allotment of new equity	7,396,543	99.57	31,821	0.43	13,071	7,428,364
Special Resolutions 8. Disapply  pre-emption rights	7,343,016	99.07	69,001	0.93	29,418	7,412,017
9. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	7,383,572	99.32	50,456	0.68	7,407	7,434,028
10. Authorise market purchases of subscription shares	7,379,882	99.27	54,146	0.73	7,407	7,434,028
11. Adoption of new Articles of Association	7,385,383	99.88	8,646	0.12	47,406	7,394,029

The Company's website is www.standardlifeinvestments.co.uk/its* from where the Annual Report and Notice of AGM may be downloaded.

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ('NSM') and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do*

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC

Maven Capital Partners UK LLP

Secretaries

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