RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Thursday 15 December 2011, all the resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.standardlifeinvestments.com/its* were duly passed.
The total number of proxy votes were as follows:
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FOR |
AGAINST |
DISCRETION |
WITHHELD |
TOTAL |
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Votes |
% Votes Cast |
Votes |
% Votes Cast |
Votes |
% Votes Cast |
Votes |
(excluding Votes Withheld) |
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Ordinary resolutions - |
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1 |
Adopt report & accounts |
5,328,228 |
99.03 |
600 |
0.01 |
51,504 |
0.96 |
50,232 |
5,380,332 |
2 |
Approve Directors Remuneration Report |
5,145,819 |
95.83 |
172,260 |
3.21 |
51,504 |
0.96 |
60,981 |
5,369,583 |
3 |
Approve Final Dividend |
5,378,460 |
99.04 |
600 |
0.01 |
51,504 |
0.95 |
0 |
5,430,564 |
4 |
Re-elect R R J Burns |
5,270,055 |
98.43 |
24,428 |
0.46 |
59,366 |
1.11 |
64,912 |
5,353,849 |
5 |
Re-elect K Percy |
5,282,698 |
98.45 |
22,247 |
0.41 |
60,764 |
1.14 |
64,855 |
5,365,709 |
6 |
Elect J Dixon |
5,240,348 |
98.31 |
30,272 |
0.57 |
59,916 |
1.12 |
100,028 |
5,330,536 |
7 |
Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors |
5,329,590 |
98.58 |
23,759 |
0.44 |
52,888 |
0.98 |
24,327 |
5,406,237 |
8 |
Allotment of new equity |
5,324,621 |
98.16 |
47,313 |
0.87 |
52,284 |
0.97 |
6,346 |
5,424,218 |
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Special resolutions - |
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9 |
Disapply pre-emption rights |
5,273,154 |
97.26 |
95,131 |
1.75 |
53,484 |
0.99 |
8,795 |
5,421,769 |
10 |
Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares |
5,347,615 |
98.52 |
27,921 |
0.51 |
52,284 |
0.97 |
2,744 |
5,427,820 |
11 |
Authorise market purchases of sub shares |
5,321,071 |
98.24 |
41,436 |
0.77 |
53,682 |
0.99 |
14,375 |
5,416,189 |
A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
* Neither the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
For Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
Secretary