Part 6 — Management and Administration Division 1 Membership
149 Division 8 General Meetings Annual general meeting
every company shall be held within 16 months from the date on
which the company is entitled to commence business, and
thereafter a general meeting of the company shall be held once at
least in every calendar year and not more than 16 months after the
holding of the last preceding general meeting.
(2) Repealed 2020 c25 s2(67).
(3) On an application by the company to the Court made either ex
parte or on such notice to such persons as the Court may direct, the
Court, if satisfied that in the circumstances it is in the best interests
of the company to do so, may by order direct that the next annual
meeting of the company be held on such date, within 6 months
after the expiration of 16 months from the date the last annual
meeting of the company was held, as the Court may determine.
(4) Subject to subsections (1) and (4.1)(b), every annual general
meeting of a company shall be held at the time and place the
articles provide, either directly or by empowering the directors or
the shareholders in general meeting to fix the time and place, and in
RSA 2000
default of any such provision, or if no meeting is held in
accordance with that provision, every annual general meeting shall
be held at the place where the registered office of the company is
situated, in the month following that in which the anniversary of
the company's becoming entitled to commence business occurs.
(4.1) Unless a company's bylaws, articles or other governing
documents expressly provide otherwise,
(a) a person entitled to attend an annual general meeting of t he
company may attend the meeting by electronic means,
(b) an annual general meeting of the company may be held
entirely by electronic 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.
(5) Every company that defaults in complying with the
requirements of this section and that has not been relieved by the
Registrar is guilty of an offence.
(6) When default has been made in holding a meeting of the
company in accordance with this section, the Court may, on the
application of any member of the company, call or direct the
calling of a general meeting of the company.
RSA 2000 cC-21 s149;2004 c29 s3;2018 c20 s3;
2020 c25 s2(67);2021 c3 s2