Notice is hereby given that the One Hundred and Fourteenth Annual General Meeting of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (known as MDDUS) will be held at Mackintosh House, 120 Blythswood Street, Glasgow, on Friday 8 September 2017 at 12 noon for the following purposes:
Ordinary Resolutions
Annual Report and Accounts
1. To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016.
Board appointments
2. To re-appoint:
a) the Rt Hon. Dame Elish Angiolini
b) Dr Robert Donald
c) Dr Linsey Semple
who retire at this time under Regulation 15(10) and offer themselves for re-appointment for terms of office of four years as Members of the Board.
3. To re-appoint Dr Jonathan Berry who retires at this time under Regulation 15(10) and offers himself for re-appointment for a term of office of two years as a Member of the Board.
4. To re-appoint:
a) Dr Joanna Bayley
b) Professor Iain Cameron
who, having been appointed by the Board since the last Annual General Meeting, cease to hold office under Regulation 15(20) and offer themselves for re-appointment for terms of office of four years as Members of the Board.
5. To re-appoint Dr Brendan Sweeney who retires at this time under Regulation 15(10) and, as the Board intends to re-appoint him as Chairman under Regulation 15(12), offers himself for re-appointment for a term of office of one year as a Member of the Board.
Auditors
6. To re-appoint BDO LLP, Chartered Accountants, as auditors.
7. To authorise the Board to fix the remuneration of the auditors.
Dated this day 23 August 2017
By order of the Board
Mr Chris Kenny
Chief Executive Officer and Secretary
NOTES
1. 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 MDDUS. 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 MDDUS, c/o The Secretary, Mackintosh House, 120 Blythswood Street, Glasgow G2 4EA by Wednesday 6 September 2017 at 12 noon.
2. Information about the candidates for re-/appointment (as held in the Register of Directors):
The Rt Hon. Dame Elish Angiolini. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: England. Nationality: British. Occupation: Lawyer. Date of birth: June 1960.
Dr Robert Donald. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: UK. Nationality: British. Occupation: Dental Practitioner. Date of birth: December 1959.
Dr Linsey Semple. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: Scotland. Nationality: British. Occupation: General Medical Practitioner. Date of birth: August 1961.
Dr Jonathan Berry. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: England. Nationality: British. Occupation: Doctor. Date of birth: June 1956.
Dr Joanna Bayley. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: England. Nationality: British. Occupation: General Practitioner. Date of birth: June 1969.
Professor Iain Cameron. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: England. Nationality: British and Australian. Occupation: Dean of Medicine. Date of birth: February 1956.
Dr Brendan Sweeney. Service address: c/o MDDUS. Resident: Scotland. Nationality: British. Occupation: Retired Medical Practitioner. Date of birth: July 1946
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