Amendment of Rule 8.1
134.—(1) In paragraph (2) of Rule 8.1 after the word “meetings” there shall be inserted the words “summoned or called”.
(2) For paragraph (5) of Rule 8.1 there shall be substituted the following:—
“(5) A person given a proxy under paragraph (4) cannot decline to be the proxy-holder in relation to that proxy.
(6) A proxy requires the holder to give the principal’s vote on matters arising for determination at the meeting, or to abstain, or to propose, in the principal’s name, a resolution to be voted on by the meeting, either as directed or in accordance with the holder’s own discretion.”.