Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act updated as at 8th May 2015
appointed by the chairperson of the meeting and at such adjourned meeting the unit holders
present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum.
49.3 Notice of any adjourned meeting shall be given in the same manner as for the original
meeting and the notice shall state that the unit holders present at the adjourned meeting,
whatever their number and the number of units held by them, will be a quorum.
49.4 The managers shall not be counted in the quorum of any meeting.
Procedure at meetings
50.1 The Board shall nominate in writing a person, who need not be a unit holder, to
preside at any meeting, and if no person is nominated or if at any meeting the nominated
chairperson is not present within 15 minutes after the appointed time, the unit holders present
shall choose one of their number to be the chairperson.
50.2 The chairperson may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present,
and shall if so directed by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and place to place
but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting except business which might
lawfully have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
50.3 At any meeting all resolutions put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a
show of hands unless a poll is, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands,
demanded by the chairperson, or by one or more unit holders present in person or by proxy and
holding or representing on-hundredth of the number of issued units.
50.4 Unless a poll is demanded, a declaration by the chairperson that a resolution has been
carried or lost shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion
of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.
50.5 If a poll is demanded, it shall be taken in the manner directed by the chairperson and
the result of a poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was
demanded.
50.6 A poll demanded on the election of a chairperson or on a question of adjournment
shall be taken forthwith and a poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at the time
and place directed by the chairperson.
50.7 The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuation of a meeting for the
transaction of any business other than the question on which the poll was demanded.
50.8 On a poll votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
50.9 On a show of hands every unit holder, who, being an individual, is present in person
or by proxy shall have one vote and on a poll every unit holder who is present in person or by
proxy shall have one vote for every unit held by him or her
50.10 In the case of joint unit holders the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in
person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and,
for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the
register of unit holders.
50.11 The managers shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting.
50.12 The managers shall ensure that proper minutes of all resolutions and proceedings at
every meeting are properly made and kept. Such minutes and records shall be kept at the office
of the managers and shall be open to inspection by unit holders during normal business hours.
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