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RNS Number : 2812G
Legal & General Group Plc
25 May 2017
Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 25 MAY 2017
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)
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No. of shares(1) % No. of %
shares
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Resolution 1
Receipt of financial
statements for
the year ended
31 December
2016 4,228,180,492 99.99 250,416 0.01 7,728,063
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Resolution 2
Declaration
of a final dividend
of 10.35p per
ordinary share 4,226,267,373 99.99 512,339 0.01 9,799,978
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Resolution 3
Election of
Sir John Kingman
as a Director 4,204,160,556 99.34 28,039,784 0.66 44,387,308
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Resolution 4
Election of
Philip Broadley
as a Director 4,228,829,588 99.92 3,202,831 0.08 4,524,977
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Resolution 5
Election of
Jeff Davies
as a Director 4,190,680,447 99.02 41,361,361 0.98 4,515,588
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Resolution 6
Election of
Lesley Knox
as a Director 4,228,530,386 99.92 3,389,504 0.08 4,639,070
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Resolution 7
Election of
Kerrigan Procter
as a Director 4,203,141,913 99.32 28,928,019 0.68 4,473,409
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Resolution 8
Election of
Toby Strauss
as a Director 4,228,884,577 99.93 2,975,044 0.07 4,696,975
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Resolution 9
Re-election
of Carolyn Bradley
as a Director 4,221,424,160 99.74 10,794,870 0.26 4,367,818
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Resolution 10
Re-election
of Julia Wilson
as a Director 4,218,755,987 99.68 13,469,408 0.32 4,307,207
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Resolution 11
Re-election
of Nigel Wilson
as a Director 4,207,661,793 99.42 24,754,247 0.58 4,170,808
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Resolution 12
Re-election
of Mark Zinkula
as a Director 4,203,474,214 99.32 28,957,320 0.68 4,153,166
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Resolution 13
Re-appointment
of PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as auditors 4,194,700,017 99.47 22,223,391 0.53 19,657,709
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Resolution 14
To authorise
the Director's
to fix the Auditors'
remuneration 4,209,139,026 99.74 10,806,1453 0.26 16,635,946
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Resolution 15
To adopt the
Remuneration
Policy 3,851,461,140 91.23 370,032,785 8.77 15,093,723
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Resolution 16
Approval of
Remuneration
Report 3,938,843,201 93.17 288,951,561 6.83 8,784,882
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Resolution 17
Authority to
allot equity
securities 4,223,066,278 99.78 9,405,552 0.22 4,104,472
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Resolution 18
Authority to
make political
donations 4,095,941,472 97.23 116,545,046 2.77 24,100,805
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Resolution 19*
Disapplication
of pre-emption
rights 4,222,631,830 99.78 9,341,072 0.22 4,596,128
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Resolution 20*
Additional authority
to disapply
pre-emption
rights 3,766,027,540 88.99 466,030,065 11.01 4,496,177
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Resolution 21*
Authority to
purchase own
shares 4,171,516,125 98.57 60,597,507 1.43 4,471,496
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Resolution 22*
Authority to
call general
meetings (other
than an AGM)
on not less
than 14 clear
days' notice 4,011,525,781 95.22 201,402,316 4.78 23,657,031
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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 4,236,587,648
representing 71.1% of voting capital as at 23 May 2017. At the
close of business on 23 May 2017, the issued share capital of the
Company was 5,955,346,117 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 Helen Baker
notification:
Contact number: 020 3124 2139
Date of notification: 25 May 2017
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