Part 6 — Management and Administration Division 1 Membership
150 General meeting
company shall, on the requisition of members of the company
holding at the date of the deposit of the requisition not less than
10% of such of the issued capital of the company as at the date of
the deposit carries the right of voting at general meetings of the
company, or, in the case of a company not having a share capital,
of members of the company representing not less than 10% of the
total voting rights of all the members having at that date the right to
vote at general meetings of the company, forthwith proceed to
convene an extraordinary general meeting of the company.
(2) The requisition must state the objects of the meeting, and be
signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered office
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of the company, and may consist of several documents in like form,
or to the like effect, each signed by one or more requisitionists.
(3) If the directors do not proceed to cause a meeting to be held
within 21 days from the date of the requisition being so deposited,
the requisitionists, or any of them, representing more than 50% of
the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves convene the
meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held after 3
months from the date of the deposit.
(4) For the purposes of this section, the directors shall, in the case
of a meeting at which a resolution is to be proposed as a special
resolution, be deemed not to have duly convened the meeting if
they do not give such notice thereof as is required in the case of a
special resolution.
(5) Any meeting convened under subsection (3) shall be convened
in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which
meetings are to be convened by directors.
(6) Any reasonable expenses incurred by the requisitionists by
reason of the failure of the directors duly to convene a meeting
shall be repaid to the requisitionists by the company, and any sum
so repaid shall 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.
(7) Unless a company's bylaws, articles or other governing
documents expressly provide otherwise,
(a) a person entitled to attend a meeting of the company may
attend the meeting by electronic means,
(b) a meeting of the company may be held entirely by electroni c
means,
(c) a person attending a meeti ng by electronic means under
clause (a) or (b) who is entitled to vote at the meeting may
vote by any electronic, telephonic or other method that the
company has made available for that purpose, and
(d) a person attending a meeti ng by electronic means under
clause (a) or (b) is deemed for all purposes under this Act to
be present in person at the meeting.
RSA 2000 cC-21 s150;2021 c3 s2
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