121 Demand for poll

(1) A provision contained in a company‘s memorandum or articles is void in
so far as it would have the effect either —

(a) of excluding the right to demand a poll at a meeting of
members, or at a meeting of any class of members, on a
question other than the election of the chairman of the meeting
or the adjournment of the meeting; or

(b) of making ineffective a demand for a poll on any such question
which is made either —


(i) by not less than 5 members having the right to vote on
the question; or

(ii) by a member or members representing not less than one-
tenth of the total voting rights of all the members having
the right to vote on the question.

(2) A written instrument appointing a proxy to vote at such a meeting is
deemed also to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll;
and for the purposes of subsection (1) a demand by a person as proxy for
a member is the same as a demand by the member.

(3) On a poll taken at such a meeting, a member entitled to more than one
vote need not, if the member votes, in person or by proxy, use all his
votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.