AGM Statement

At an Annual General Meeting of Albion Technology & General VCT PLC, duly convened and held at the City of London Club, 19 Old Broad Street, London on 22 June 2012 the following resolutions were passed: 

Ordinary resolutions number 1 to 8 were passed.

The following items of Special business were passed (noted below by resolution number). Resolutions 9, 10 and 12 were as Ordinary resolutions, resolutions 11 and 13 to 15 as special resolutions.

Special Business

9.	To continue as a venture capital trust until the Annual General Meeting of the Company in 2017 at which time a further resolution regarding the continuation of the Company shall be proposed.
10.	That the Company be authorised to send all documents, notices and information to shareholders by electronic means (as such term is defined in the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules) including by means of a website and in all electronic forms. Shareholders will be required to "opt in" to receive electronic communications.
11.	That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by deleting the present Article 4.1 setting out the authorised share capital of the Company in its entirety.
12.	That the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to allot Ordinary shares of nominal value 50 pence per share in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £2,186,188 (or £43,724 following the reduction in nominal value proposed by resolution 16) provided that this authority shall expire 18 months from the date that this resolution is passed, or, if earlier, the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company but so that the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after such expiry and the Directors may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares pursuant to such an offer or agreement as if this authority had not expired.
13.	That subject to, pursuant to the authority and conditional on the passing of resolution number 12, the Directors be empowered, pursuant to section 570 of the Act, to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution number 12 as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities:
	a)	connection with an offer of such securities by way of rights issue;
	b)	pursuant to any Dividend Reinvestment Scheme introduced or operated by the Company; and
	c)	otherwise than pursuant to paragraphs (a) to (b) above, up to an aggregate nominal amount of £2,186,188 (or £43,724 following the reduction in nominal value proposed by resolution 16). This authority shall expire 18 months from the date that this resolution is passed or, if earlier, the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if this power had not expired. This power applies in relation to a sale of treasury shares as if all references in this resolution to an allotment included any such sale and in the first paragraph of the resolution the words "pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution number 12 were omitted in relation to such a sale.  "Rights issue" means an offer of equity securities to holders of shares in the capital of the Company on the register on a record date fixed by the Directors in proportion as nearly as may be to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held by them, but subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with any treasury shares, fractional entitlements or legal or practical issues arising under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory or any other matter.
14.	That, the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases (within the meaning of Section 693(4) of the Act) of Ordinary shares of 50 pence (or 1 penny following the reduction in nominal value as proposed in resolution 16) each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary shares"), on such terms as the Directors think fit, and where such shares are held as treasury shares, the Company may use them for the purposes set out in section 727 of the Act, provided that: the maximum aggregate number of shares hereby authorised to be purchased is 14.99 per cent. of the issued Ordinary share capital of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution; the minimum price which may be paid for a share shall be 50 pence (exclusive of expenses) (or 1 penny following the reduction in nominal value as proposed in resolution 16);  the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for a share shall be an amount being not more than the higher of (i) 105 per cent. of the average of the middle market quotations (as derived from the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange) for the shares for the five business days immediately preceding the date of purchase and (ii) the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid relating to a share on the trading venue where the purchase is carried out; and  unless previously varied, revoked or renewed, the authority hereby conferred shall expire 18 months from the date that this resolution is passed or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held after the passing of this resolution, save that the Company may, at any time prior to such expiry, enter into a contract or contracts to purchase shares under such authority which would or might be completed or executed wholly or partly after the expiration of such authority and may make a purchase of shares pursuant to any such contract or contracts as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
	Under the Companies (Acquisition of Own Shares) (Treasury Shares) Regulations 2003 (the "Regulations"), Ordinary shares purchased by the Company out of distributable profits can be held as treasury shares, which may then be cancelled or sold for cash. The authority sought by this special resolution number 14 is intended to apply equally to shares to be held by the Company as treasury shares in accordance with the Regulations.
15.	That the Directors be empowered to sell treasury shares at the higher of the prevailing current share price and the price bought in at.

23 June 2012

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