Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4594Z

Legal & General Group Plc

26 May 2016

 

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 26 MAY 2016

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

Resolution	For 1		Against		Votes Withheld 2
	No. of shares1	%	No. of shares	%
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015	4,359,842,672	99.96	1,671,886	0.04	4,552,624
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 9.95p per ordinary share	4,354,654,312	100	159,830	0	11,253,058
Resolution 3 Re-election of Richard Meddings as a Director	4,359,576,369	99.94	2,610,544	0.06	3,873,828
Resolution 4 Re-election of Carolyn Bradley as a Director	4,359,271,235	99.93	2,876,007	0.07	3,922,499
Resolution 5 Re-election of Lizabeth Zlatkus as a Director	4,359,486,861	99.94	2,684,791	0.06	3,890,773
Resolution 6 Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director	4,353,417,249	99.80	8,851,111	0.20	3,794,065
Resolution 7 Re-election of Stuart Popham as a Director	4,315,098,722	98.92	47,156,213	1.08	3,805,806
Resolution 8 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director	4,354,487,089	99.82	7,736,991	0.18	3,838,345
Resolution 9 Re-election of Mark Gregory as a Director	4,338,927,156	99.46	23,357,820	0.54	3,765,765
Resolution 10 Re-election of Rudy Markham as a Director	4,328,315,043	99.29	30,877,647	0.71	6,859,735
Resolution 11 Re-election of John Stewart as a Director	4,356,560,000	99.87	5,858,088	0.13	3,633,837
Resolution 12 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director	4,357,590,344	99.89	4,887,883	0.11	3,574,198
Resolution 13 Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	4,243,758,216	99.62	16,005,336	0.38	106,209,361
Resolution 14 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration	4,307,385,142	99.76	10,366,465	0.24	48,216,531
Resolution 15* To adopt new Articles of Association	4,361,053,016	99.98	1,011,358	0.02	3,898,560
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Report	4,188,900,286	97.28	117,198,364	2.72	59,869,488
Resolution 17 Authority to allot equity securities	4,345,713,171	99.62	16,607,061	0.38	3,646,194
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations	4,267,755,863	97.87	93,091,140	2.13	5,125,910
Resolution 19 Scrip dividend programme	4,353,282,318	99.98	973,267	0.02	11,707,253
Resolution 20* Disapplication of pre-emption rights	3,608,377,406	87.57	512,044,554	12.43	245,543,657
Resolution  21* Authority to purchase own shares	4,287,400,470	98.27	75,274,167	1.73	3,303,501
Resolution  22* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice	4,119,631,483	94.43	243,003,779	5.57	3,331,014

Notes:

1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.

2          A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.

3          Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.

4          Voting was conducted by poll.

5          The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,366,067,200 representing 73.39% of voting capital as at 24 May 2016.  At the close of business on 24 May 2016, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,949,112,452 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).  

*           Denotes a Special Resolution.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm   

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do 

Name of person making notification:	Jenny McCarthy
Contact number:	020 3124 2142
Date of notification:	26 May 2016

 

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