On 18/05/2013,
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64.
—(1) Notwithstanding any provision in this Act or in the memorandum or articles of a company to which this section applies, but subject to sections 76J and 180(1), each equity share issued by such a company after 29th December 1967 shall confer the right at a poll at any general meeting of the company to one vote, and to one vote only, in respect of each equity share unless it is a management share issued by a newspaper company under section 10 of the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act (Cap. 206).
[15/84; 22/93; 21/2005]
(2) Where any company to which this section applies has, prior to 29th December 1967, or, while it was a company to which this section did not apply, issued any equity share which does not comply with subsection (1), the company shall not issue any invitation to subscribe for or to purchase any shares or debentures of such company until the voting rights attached to each share of that company have been duly varied so as to comply with subsection (1).
[S 258/67]
(3) For the purposes of this section, any alteration of the rights of issued preference shares so that they become equity shares shall be deemed to be an issue of equity shares.
(4) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that subsection (1) shall apply to all or any equity shares or any class of equity shares which have been issued before 29th December 1967 by a company to which this section applies and which is specified in the declaration and thereupon that subsection shall apply to such equity shares so issued by such company from such date as is specified in the declaration being a date not less than one year after the making of the declaration.
(5) This section shall apply to a public company having a share capital.
[8/2003]
(6) Any person who makes any invitation to the public in breach of subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
[15/84]