Result of General Meeting

RNS Number : 1907Y

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

17 December 2010

 



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Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC (the "Company")

17 December 2010

Results of General Meeting

At the General Meeting held on 17 December 2010, the Resolution set out in Notice of the General Meeting contained in the Prospectus dated 19 November 2010 (the "Prospectus") in relation to the Bonus Issue of Subscription Shares, the adoption of New Articles of Association and the approval of all necessary authorisations in connection with such issue was duly passed without amendment.

The Resolution was passed on a show of hands.  The results of the proxy votes on the Resolution were as follows:

Vote	Number of Ordinary Shares	%
For	7,870,808	96.28
Against	304,279	3.72
Withheld*	21,637

* A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against the Resolution.

A copy of the Resolution and the New Articles of Association have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Subscription Price

In accordance with the rights attaching to the Subscription Shares, the Subscription Price payable on exercise of each Subscription Share has been calculated to be 320.00 pence (being equal to the published NAV per Ordinary Share as at 5.00pm on 15 December 2010, plus a one per cent. premium to such NAV per Ordinary Share, rounded up to the nearest whole penny).

Your attention is drawn to the "Definitions" section of the Prospectus in respect of the terms used in this announcement.

Enquiries

Gordon Humphries Standard Life Investments	0131 225 2345
William Simmonds J.P. Morgan Cazenove	020 7588 2828

 

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