Listed Companies' Announcement
NH CERAMICS LTD
Notice Of Annual General Meeting
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 1 & 3 Tuas Avenue 8 Jurong Industrial Estate Singapore 639217 on 24 November 2003 at 10.00 a.m. to transact the following business:-
ORDINARY BUSINESS
1. To receive and consider the audited accounts for the year ended 30 June 2003 and the reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon.
2. To approve Directors' Fees of S$49,333.34 for the year ended 30 June 2003. [Year 2002: S$70,054.35].
3. To re-elect Mr Stephen Tay Chye Heng retiring by rotation in accordance with Article 94 of the Company's Articles of Association.
4. To re-elect Mr Robbie Ooi Seng Soon retiring by rotation in accordance with Article 94 of the Company's Articles of Association. 5. To re-appoint Ernst & Young as Auditors and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration.
SPECIAL BUSINESS
6. To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolution with or without amendments as an ordinary resolution:-
6.1 Authority to Issue Shares
"That pursuant to Section 161 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 and the listing rules of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, authority be and is hereby given to the Directors of the Company to allot and issue shares in the Company at any time to such persons and upon such terms and conditions and for such purposes as the Directors may in their absolute discretion deem fit, provided that the aggregate number of shares to be issued pursuant to this resolution does not exceed 50 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company, of which the aggregate number of shares to be issued other than on a pro-rata basis to existing shareholders of the Company does not exceed 20 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company, and for the purpose of this resolution, the issued share capital shall be the Company's issued share capital at the time this resolution is passed (after adjusting for any subsequent consolidation or subdivision of the Company's shares), and unless revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting, such authority shall continue in force until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or the date by which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law to be held, whichever is the earlier." [See Explanatory Notes]
7. To transact any other business which may properly be transacted at an Annual General Meeting.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
LOUIS PANG NGHEE THIAM
SECRETARY
Singapore,
7 November 2003
Proxies:
A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote in his stead. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
An instrument appointing a proxy must be deposited at the Company's registered office at 1 & 3 Tuas Avenue 8 Jurong Industrial Estate Singapore 639217 not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the Meeting.
Notes:
The ordinary resolution set out in item 6.1 above, if passed, will empower the Directors from the date of the above Meeting until the date of the next Annual General Meeting, to issue shares in the Company. The number of shares which the Directors may issue under this Resolution would not exceed 50 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company. For issues of shares other than on a pro rata basis to all shareholders, the aggregate number of shares to be issued shall not exceed 20 per cent of the total issued share capital of the Company.
Submitted by Louis Pang Nghee Thiam, Company Secretary on 07/11/2003 to the SGX