AGM Statement

RNS Number : 2170Y

Henderson Far East Income Limited

17 December 2010

 



17 December 2010

HENDERSON FAR EAST INCOME LIMITED

Annual General Meeting Held on 17 December 2010

Henderson Far East Income Limited announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed, four of these were special resolutions as follows:

Resolution 5 - that the Company be generally authorised to make market purchases of its own shares up to a maximum of 14.99% (equivalent to 14,818,449 ordinary shares as at today's date) at a maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and

Resolution 6 - that the Company be generally authorised to hold up to 10% of the Company's own shares (equivalent to 9,885,556 ordinary shares as at today's date) (whether purchased pursuant to Resolution 6 or otherwise) as treasury shares.

Resolution 7 - that the Articles of Association contained in the printed document tabled at the Meeting be approved and adopted as the Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of the existing Articles of Association of the Company.

Resolution 8 - that the Company may issue securities up to a maximum of 10% of the total number of shares in issue as at the date of this resolution, provided that such dispplication shall expire at the earlier of the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2011 or eighteen months from the date of this resolution.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

For further information please contact:

Jeremy Hamon

Company Secretary

BNP Paribas Securities Services Fund Administration Limited

Tel: [phone]

James de Sausmarez

Director of Investment Trusts

Henderson Global Investors

Tel: [phone]

Neither the contents of the Company's website not the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

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