Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9922R

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

15 December 2016

 

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, Thursday 15 December 2016, 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
1.Receive Report & Accounts	11,576,545	100.00	0	0.00	10,946	11,576,545
2. Approve Remuneration Policy	11,499,369	99.41	68,252	0.59	19,870	11,567,621
3. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	11,497,771	99.41	68,252	0.59	21,468	11,566,023
4. Approve Fourth Quarterly  Dividend	11,577,595	100.00	0	0.00	9,896	11,577,595
5. Re-elect R.R.J. Burns	11,546,808	99.86	15,770	0.14	24,913	11,562,578
6. Re-elect J. Dixon	11,555,854	99.93	7,784	0.07	23,853	11,563,638
7. Re-elect J. J. Tigue	11,548,318	99.85	16,970	0.15	22,203	11,565,288
8. Re- Elect M.B.E White	11,556,254	99.94	6,784	0.06	24,453	11,563,038
9. Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors	11,560,393	99.86	15,865	0.14	11,233	11,576,258
10. Allotment of new equity	11,541,314	99.69	36,281	0.31	9,896	11,577,595
11. Disapply  pre-emption rights	11,510,918	99.45	63,847	0.55	12,726	11,574,765
12. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	11,537,542	99.62	43,695	0.38	6,254	11,581,237
13. Authorise market purchases of subscription shares	11,550,461	99.74	30,195	0.26	6,254	11,580,656
14. Approve continuation vote	11,575,380	100.00	0	0.00	4,424	11,575,380

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*

*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

Company Secretary

15 December 2016

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