S.L. 234.42 Art. 44Convening of extraordinary general meeting on requisition.

(1) The directors of a company shall, on the requisition of a member or members of the company holding at the date of the deposit of the requisition not less than one-tenth of such of the paid up share capital of the company as at the date of the deposit carried the right of voting at general meetings of the company, forthwith proceed duly to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the company.

(2) The requisition shall state the objects of the meeting and shall be signed by the requisitionist or requisitionists and deposited at the registered office of the company and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by the requisitionist, or if there is more than one requisitionist in any one document by all of them.

(3) If the directors do not within twenty-one days from the date of the deposit of the requisition proceed duly to convene a meeting, the requisitionist or requisitionists may convene a meeting in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which meetings are to be convened by the directors, but a meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of three months from the date of the deposit of the requisition.

(4) Any reasonable expense incurred by the requisitionist or requisitionists by reason of the failure of the directors duly to convene a meeting shall be repaid to the requisitionist or requisitionists by the company, and any sum so paid shall be due personally by the directors who were in default and may be retained by the company out of any sums due or to become due from the company by way of fees or other remuneration in respect of their services to such of the directors as were in default.