All sections · Part VI: Membership · Sub-Part III: Members Meetings and Resolutions
114 Convening of members meetings
(1) Subject to a company‘s memorandum and articles, a meeting of the
members of the company may be held at such time and in such place,
within or outside Seychelles, as the convener of the meeting considers
appropriate.
(2) Subject to any limitations in a company‘s memorandum and articles, any
of the following persons may convene a meeting of the members of the
company at any time —
(a) the directors of the company; or
(b) such person or persons as may be authorised by the
memorandum or articles to call the meeting.
(3) Subject to a provision in the memorandum or articles for a lesser
percentage, the directors of a company shall call a meeting of the
members of the company if requested in writing to do so by members
entitled to exercise at least twenty per cent of the voting rights in respect
of the matter for which the meeting is requested.
(4) A written request under subsection (3) shall state the objects of the
meeting, and shall be signed by or on behalf of the requesting members
and given to the directors at the company‘s registered office or principal
place of business, and may consist of several documents in similar form
each signed by or on behalf of one or more requesting members.
(5) Subject to a provision in the memorandum or articles changing any time
period referred to in this subsection, if the directors do not, within 21 days
from the date of the service of the written request under subsections (3)
and (4), call a meeting to be held within 2 months of that date, the
requesting members, or any of them representing more than one half of
the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves call a meeting, but
a meeting so called shall not be held after 3 months from that date.
(6) A meeting called under this section by requesting members shall be
called in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which meetings
are to be called by directors.
(7) Reasonable expenses incurred by the requesting members by reason of
the failure of the directors to call a meeting shall be repaid to the
requesting members by the company, and sums so repaid shall be retained
by the company out of sums due or to become due from the company by
way of fees or other remunerations in respect of their services to the
directors who were in default.
members of the company may be held at such time and in such place,
within or outside Seychelles, as the convener of the meeting considers
appropriate.
(2) Subject to any limitations in a company‘s memorandum and articles, any
of the following persons may convene a meeting of the members of the
company at any time —
(a) the directors of the company; or
(b) such person or persons as may be authorised by the
memorandum or articles to call the meeting.
(3) Subject to a provision in the memorandum or articles for a lesser
percentage, the directors of a company shall call a meeting of the
members of the company if requested in writing to do so by members
entitled to exercise at least twenty per cent of the voting rights in respect
of the matter for which the meeting is requested.
(4) A written request under subsection (3) shall state the objects of the
meeting, and shall be signed by or on behalf of the requesting members
and given to the directors at the company‘s registered office or principal
place of business, and may consist of several documents in similar form
each signed by or on behalf of one or more requesting members.
(5) Subject to a provision in the memorandum or articles changing any time
period referred to in this subsection, if the directors do not, within 21 days
from the date of the service of the written request under subsections (3)
and (4), call a meeting to be held within 2 months of that date, the
requesting members, or any of them representing more than one half of
the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves call a meeting, but
a meeting so called shall not be held after 3 months from that date.
(6) A meeting called under this section by requesting members shall be
called in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which meetings
are to be called by directors.
(7) Reasonable expenses incurred by the requesting members by reason of
the failure of the directors to call a meeting shall be repaid to the
requesting members by the company, and sums so repaid shall be retained
by the company out of sums due or to become due from the company by
way of fees or other remunerations in respect of their services to the
directors who were in default.
