Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2785J

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

16 December 2015

 

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 16 December 2015, 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	7,919,608	99.99	1,050	0.01	0	7,920,658
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	7,863,694	99.52	38,026	0.48	18,938	7,901,720
3. Approve Fourth Quarterly  Dividend	7,917,408	99.96	3,250	0.04	0	7,920,658
4. Re-elect R.R.J. Burns	7,901,679	99.93	5,789	0.07	13,190	7,907,468
5. Re-elect J. Dixon	7,891,096	99.80	15,771	0.20	13,790	7,906,867
6. Re-elect K.E. Percy	7,881,397	99.70	23,910	0.30	15,350	7,905,307
7. Re- Elect J.J. Tigue	7,890,010	99.82	14,550	0.18	16,098	7,904,560
8. Re-elect Mr M.B.E White	7,897,466	99.88	9,401	0.12	13,790	7,906,867
9. Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors	7,903,081	99.78	17,576	0.22	0	7,920,657
10. Allotment of new equity	7,897,884	99.95	4,220	0.05	18,554	7,920,104
Special Resolutions 11. Disapply  pre-emption rights	7,642,815	96.80	252,501	3.20	25,342	7,895,316
12. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	7,867,799	99.33	52,859	0.67	0	7,920,658
13. Authorise market purchases of subscription shares	7,899,866	99.77	17,884	0.23	2,908	7,917,750

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

16 December 2015

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