Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3583M

Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC

15 July 2014

 



ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 10.30 am today, Tuesday 15 July 2014, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 10 and the Special Resolutions numbered 11 and 12, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2014 Annual Report, were passed.

In relation to Resolution 12 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 2,187,276 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes cast in relation to each Resolution was as follows:

Combined Chairman and Third Party
	In Favour		Discretion		Against		Withheld
Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
1	3,831,562	98.3	66,354	1.7	428	0.0	1,952
2	3,799,363	97.6	66,354	1.7	25,246	0.7	9,333
3	3,797,375	97.6	68,410	1.8	24,961	0.6	9,550
4	3,840,635	98.5	58,644	1.5	675	0.0	342
5	3,818,886	98.0	66,354	1.7	10,944	0.3	4,112
6	3,821,585	98.1	66,354	1.7	7,712	0.2	4,645
7	3,813,731	97.9	69,591	1.8	12,910	0.3	4,064
8	3,815,322	97.9	69,591	1.8	11,488	0.3	3,895
9	3,831,189	98.3	59,825	1.5	6,572	0.2	2,710
10	3,823,526	98.2	68,506	1.8	3,380	0.1	4,884
11	3,815,901	98.0	70,562	1.8	8,154	0.2	5,679
12	3,829,355	98.3	67,535	1.7	310	0.0	3,096

Passing of Resolutions under Special Business

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeenjapan.co.uk*.

Copies of the special resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *.

Enquiries:

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

Tel. [phone]

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

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