NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
BECKET INVEST PLC
(Incorporated in England and Wales with Registered number
13628478)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
annual general meeting ("AGM") of the members of Becket Invest Plc
(the "Company") will be held at the offices of Shakespeare
Martineau LLP, 60 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0HR at 10:00 a.m.
on 26 March 2024 to consider and, if thought fit, pass the
following resolutions. Resolutions numbered 1 to 3 are being
proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolution number 4 is being
proposed as a special resolution.
Shareholders are encouraged to vote by proxy. Instructions for
voting by proxy are set out in the notes at the end of this notice
of AGM and on the proxy card sent to
shareholders.
The formalities of the meeting shall
continue, as required by the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") and the
Company's Articles of Association, but all shareholders are
encouraged to vote by proxy.
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
1) To
receive the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, the report
of the directors of the Company and the audited financial
statements of the Company for the year ended 30 September
2023.
2) To re-appoint Pointon Young as auditors of the Company to act
until the conclusion of the next AGM and to authorise the Directors
to determine their remuneration.
3) THAT the Directors be and are hereby generally and
unconditionally authorised for the purpose of section 551 of the
Act to exercise all or any of the powers of the Company to allot
equity securities (within the meaning of Section 560 of the Act) up
to a maximum nominal amount of £246,000.30 provided that this
authority shall, unless previously revoked or varied by the
Company, expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next AGM of
the Company or 15 months after the passing of this resolution,
except that the Directors may before the expiry of such period make
an offer or agreement which would or might require relevant
securities to be allotted after the expiry of such period and the
Directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of such offer
or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not
expired.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
4) THAT, subject to and conditional upon the passing of
resolution 3 above, the Directors of the Company be empowered under
section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) to allot equity
securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash
and/or to sell or transfer shares held by the Company in treasury
(as the directors shall deem appropriate) under the authority
conferred on them under section 551 of the Act by resolution 6
above as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such
allotment provided that this power shall be limited to:
a) the allotment of
equity securities in connection with any rights issue or other
pro-rata offer in favour of the holders of Ordinary Shares in the
Company where the equity securities respectively attributable to
the interests of all such holders of shares are proportionate (as
nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of shares held by them,
provided that the Directors of the Company may make such
arrangements in respect of overseas holders of shares and/or to
deal with fractional entitlements as they consider necessary or
convenient; and
b) the allotment
(otherwise than under sub-paragraph (a) above) of equity securities
and/or the sale or transfer of shares held by the Company in
treasury (as the Directors shall deem appropriate) up to an
aggregate nominal amount of £246,000.30 (representing approximately
30% of the ordinary share capital of the Company at the latest
practicable date before publication of this Notice).
and this authority shall expire on
the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting in 2025, or
15 months after the passing of the resolution, provided that the
Company may before such expiry make offers or agreements which
would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such
expiry and the Directors of the Company may allot equity securities
under such offers or agreements as if the power conferred by this
resolution had not expired and provided further that this authority
shall be in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, any existing
authority conferred on the Directors.
By Order of the Board
Graeme Muir
Executive Director
Date:
29 February 2024
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6th Floor, 60 Gracechurch Street,
London, United Kingdom, EC3V 0HR
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Notes:
1. Shareholders entitled
to attend and to speak and vote are entitled to appoint a proxy to
exercise all or any of their rights to attend and to speak and vote
on their behalf at the meeting. A shareholder may appoint the
Chairman as their proxy in relation to the Annual General Meeting.
A proxy form which may be used to make such appointment and give
proxy instructions accompanies this notice.
2. In the case of joint
holders, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in
person or by proxy, will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes
of any other joint holders. For these purposes, seniority shall be
determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of
members in respect of the joint holding.
3. You can register your
vote(s) for the Annual General Meeting either:
· by
visiting www.shareregistrars.uk.com, clicking on the "Proxy Vote"
button and then following the on-screen instructions (you can
locate your log-in details on the top of the proxy
form);
· by post
or (during normal business hours only) by hand to Share Registrars
Limited, 3 The Millennium Centre, Crosby Way, Farnham, Surrey GU9
7XX using the proxy form accompanying this notice;
· in the
case of CREST members, by utilising the CREST electronic proxy
appointment service in accordance with the procedures set out in
notes 8 to 11 below.
In order for a proxy appointment to
be valid the proxy must be received by Share Registrars Limited by
10:00 a.m. (GMT) on 22 March 2024.
4. To change your proxy
instructions simply submit a new proxy appointment using the
methods set out above. Note that the cut-off time for receipt of
proxy appointments (see note 3 above) also applies in relation to
amended instructions; any amended proxy appointment received after
the relevant cut-off time will be disregarded.
5. If you submit more
than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment received last
before the latest time for the receipt of proxies will take
precedence.
6. In order to revoke a
proxy instruction, you will need to inform the Company by sending a
signed hard copy notice clearly stating your intention to revoke
your proxy appointment to the Company's registrars, Share
Registrars Limited, 3 The Millennium Centre, Crosby Way, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7XX. In the case of a member which is a company, the
revocation notice must be executed under its common seal or signed
on its behalf by an officer of the company or an attorney for the
company. Any power of attorney or any other authority under which
the revocation notice is signed (or a duly certified copy of such
power or authority) must be included with the revocation
notice.
7. The revocation notice
must be received by the Company's registrars, Share Registrars
Limited, no later than 48 hours (ignoring any part of a day that is
not a working day) before the time appointed for holding the
meeting.
8. CREST members who
wish to appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic
proxy appointment service may do so by using the procedures
described in the CREST Manual. CREST Personal Members or other
CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed
a service provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or
voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the
appropriate action on their behalf.
9. In order for a proxy
appointment or instruction made using the CREST service to be
valid, the appropriate CREST message (a "CREST Proxy Instruction")
must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK
& International Limited's specifications, and must contain the
information required for such instruction, as described in the
CREST Manual (available via www.euroclear.com/CREST). The message,
regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or
is an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed
proxy must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be
received by the issuer's agent, Share Registrars Limited (ID:
7RA36) by 10:00 a.m. (GMT) on 22 March 2024. For this purpose, the
time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the
time stamp applied to the message by the CREST Application Host)
from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by
enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time
any change of instructions to proxies appointed through CREST
should be communicated to the appointee through other
means.
10. CREST members and, where
applicable, their CREST sponsors, or voting service providers
should note that Euroclear UK & International Limited does not
make available special procedures in CREST for any particular
message. Normal system timings and limitations will, therefore,
apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is
the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if
the CREST member is a CREST personal member, or sponsored member,
or has appointed a voting service provider, to procure that his
CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as
shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means
of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection,
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting
system providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of
the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST
system and timings.
11. The Company may treat as
invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in
Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations
2001.
12. Appointment of a proxy
does not preclude you from attending the meeting and voting in
person. If you have appointed a proxy and attend the meeting in
person, your proxy appointment will automatically be
terminated.
13. To be entitled to vote at
the Annual General Meeting (and for the purpose of the
determination by the Company of the votes they may cast),
shareholders must be registered in the register of members of the
Company at 10:00 a.m. (GMT) on 22 March 2024 or, in the event of
any adjournment, 48 hours (ignoring any part of a day that is not a
working day) before the time of the adjourned meeting. Changes to
the Register of Members after the relevant deadline shall be
disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and
vote at the meeting.
14. Any corporation which is a
member can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may
exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a member provided that
they do not do so in relation to the same shares.
15. As at the close of
business on 28 February 2024, the Company's issued share capital
comprised 82,000,100 ordinary shares of £0.01 each. Each Ordinary
Share carries the right to one vote at a general meeting of the
Company, and therefore the total number of voting rights in the
Company as at the time and date given above is
82,000,100.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - EXPLANATION OF
BUSINESS
This year's AGM will be held at the
offices of Shakespeare Martineau LLP, 6th Floor, 60 Gracechurch
Street, London, United Kingdom, EC3V 0HR, at 10:00 a.m. on 26 March
2024.
Annual report and accounts (resolution 1)
Resolution 1, which will be proposed
as an ordinary resolution, seeks to receive the report of the
directors of the Company and the audited financial statements of
the Company for the year ended 30 September 2023.
Reappointment of the auditor (resolution 2)
Company law requires shareholders to
reappoint the auditor each year. Resolution 2, which will be
proposed as an ordinary resolution, seeks to reappoint Pointon
Young and is therefore being put to shareholders at the AGM. The
resolution also authorises the directors to determine the
remuneration of the auditor in accordance with usual
practice.
Renewal of authority to allot shares (resolution
3)
The purpose of this resolution is to
renew the Directors' authority to allot shares. Section 551 of the
Act provides that the Directors may not allot new shares (other
than for employee share schemes) without shareholder approval.
Resolution 3 which will be proposed as an ordinary resolution,
proposes that a new authority be granted in substitution of all
other existing authorities, to allot securities up to 30% of the
Company's total issued ordinary share capital as at the date of
this notice. The Company is in the process of trying to secure
material producing assets. Whilst the likelihood remained
uncertain, a successful outcome may warrant the Company to make a
bid deposit within a short time frame and therefore it would be
impractical for the Company to apply for additional headroom at a
later stage.
Disapplication of pre-emption rights (resolution
4)
Resolution 4 is proposed as a
special resolution. This resolution will, if passed, give the
directors power, pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 3,
to allot equity securities up to 30% of the Company's total issued
ordinary share capital as at the date of this notice (as defined by
section 560 of the Act) or sell ordinary shares held by the Company
as treasury shares for cash, without first offering them to
existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings in
relation to pre-emptive offers and offers to holders of other
equity securities if required by the rights of those
securities.
The authorities sought under
resolutions 3 and 4 will, if granted, continue in force until the
AGM to be held in 2025 or 15 months after the passing of the
resolutions, whichever is earlier.