Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6153I

SSE PLC

26 July 2012

 



SSE PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of SSE plc took place in Bournemouth today.  All 18 Resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting, were passed by shareholders on a poll.

The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution:

	Resolution	For	% of votes cast	Against	% of votes cast	Total votes cast	Withheld
1.	Receive the Report and Accounts	577,119,390	99.88	706,453	0.12	577,825,843	1,378,909
2.	Approve the Remuneration Report	556,243,654	98.90	6,166,812	1.10	562,410,466	16,778,392
3.	Declare a final dividend	577,154,478	99.87	752,661	0.13	577,907,139	1,299,145
4.	Re-appoint Katie Bickerstaffe	567,616,951	99.40	3,440,787	0.60	571,057,738	8,146,231
5.	Re-appoint Jeremy Beeton	575,683,912	99.69	1,800,268	0.31	577,484,180	1,722,750
6.	Re-appoint Lord Smith of Kelvin	567,743,040	99.15	4,870,692	0.85	572,613,732	6,592,378
7.	Re-appoint Ian Marchant	560,160,181	96.98	17,418,130	3.02	577,578,311	1,647,710
8.	Re-appoint Gregor Alexander	575,486,482	99.64	2,066,846	0.36	577,553,328	1,653,152
9.	Re-appoint Alistair Phillips-Davies	574,414,197	99.59	2,388,069	0.41	576,802,266	2,404,752
10.	Re-appoint Lady Rice	570,420,932	98.77	7,089,729	1.23	577,510,661	1,693,533
11.	Re-appoint Richard Gillingwater	575,533,023	99.66	1,959,984	0.34	577,493,007	1,711,762
12.	Re-appoint Thomas Thune Andersen	575,583,417	99.67	1,919,885	0.33	577,503,302	1,713,253
13.	Re-appoint KPMG Audit Plc as Auditors	576,095,436	99.72	1,603,710	0.28	577,699,146	1,505,747
14.	Authorise the Directors to determine the Auditors' remuneration	576,710,202	99.84	908,987	0.16	577,619,189	1,583,329
15.	Authorise allotment of shares	442,963,757	78.27	123,005,345	21.73	565,969,102	13,234,225
16.	Special resolution to disapply pre-emption rights	570,544,145	99.28	4,134,000	0.72	574,678,145	4,516,922
17.	Special resolution to empower the Company to purchase its own Ordinary Shares	575,114,841	99.58	2,442,665	0.42	577,557,506	1,646,501
18.	Special resolution to approve 14 days' notice of general meetings	521,073,828	90.82	52,688,696	9.18	573,762,524	5,461,754

A copy of the resolutions put to shareholders at the AGM (concerning items other than ordinary business) has been submitted to the Financial Services Authority and will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) by accessing  the following link: - www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Notes

1.   A vote 'Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

2.   There were 944,721,374 ordinary shares of 50 pence each in issue as at 26 July 2012.

 

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