Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8855V

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

18 December 2013

 

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, Wednesday 18 December 2013, 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.

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	8,926,725	100.00	0	0.00	0	8,926,725
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	8,905,550	99.85	13,112	0.15	8,063	8,918,662
3. Approve Remuneration Policy Report	8,900,872	99.82	16,407	0.18	9,446	8,917,279
4. Approve Fourth Quarterly  Dividend	8,926,725	100.00	0	0.00	0	8,926,725
5. Re-elect C.A. Wood	8,903,929	99.80	17,712	0.20	5,084	8,921,641
6. Re-elect K.E. Percy	8,898,213	99.73	24,312	0.27	4,200	8,922,525
7. Elect M.B.E. White	8,902,067	99.98	2,059	0.02	22,599	8,904,126
8. Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors	8,923,090	99.98	2,076	0.02	1,559	8,925,166
9. Allotment of new equity	8,889,709	99.72	24,880	0.28	12,136	8,914,589
Special Resolutions 10. Disapply  pre-emption rights	8,881,693	99.64	31,893	0.36	13,139	8,913,586
11. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	8,871,668	99.45	48,658	0.55	6,399	8,920,326
12. Authorise market purchases of subscription shares	8,871,853	99.56	39,248	0.44	15,624	8,911,101

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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