Notice is hereby given that the One Hundred and Eleventh Annual General Meeting of the Union will be held at Mackintosh House, 120 Blythswood Street, Glasgow, on Friday 19th September 2014, at 12:30 pm for the following purposes.
Ordinary Business
1.To receive and consider the Annual Report of the Board and the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2013.
2. To re-elect Members of the Board:
a. To re-elect Ian W R Anderson, Peter McDonald, Gillian Needham and Brendan Sweeney who retire at this time under Article 24 (1) of the Articles of Association and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
b.To re-elect Amarjit Gill who, having been co-opted by the Board since the last AGM, retires under Article 24(5) and offers himself for re-election.
3. To re-appoint BDO LLP, Chartered Accountants, as auditors of the Union.
4. To authorise the Board to fix the remuneration of the auditors.
5. To transact any other business appropriate to an Annual General Meeting.
Special Business
6. To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as a special resolution:-
That the draft new Articles of Association of the Union produced to the meeting and signed for the purposes of identification by the Chairman of the meeting be adopted as the Articles of Association of the Union in substitution for, and to the entire exclusion of, the existing Articles of Association of the Union.
Dated this day 19th August 2014
By Order of the Board
Professor Gordon C A Dickson
Chief Executive Officer and Secretary
NOTE:
A Member entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting convened by the foregoing notice is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote in the Member’s place. A proxy need not be a Member of the Union. An instrument of proxy must (together with any authority under which it is executed or a copy of such authority certified notarially or in some other way approved by the Board) be deposited at Mackintosh House, 120 Blythswood Street, Glasgow G2 4EA by no later than 12:30 pm on Wednesday 17th September 2014.
Notice of Annual General Meeting
MDDUS Articles of Association - review document and new draft
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