Egm Notice !!!

[Alan Craig]

EGM request by 29 members of Scottish Snooker Ltd.

The Board of Scottish Snooker Ltd have defaulted in their obligation to give proper notice of the meeting in accordance with sections 304 and 311 of the Companies Act.

The deadline for giving notice lapsed on Tuesday, the 9th June.

Consequently, as asserted by them in their EGM request, the EGM has been called by the signatories, in accordance with section 305 of the Companies Act.

Sport Scotland has been informed of the position and has been approached to provide advice and assistance with the EGM process

The directors of Scottish Snooker Ltd are now relieved of any responsibility to call this EGM.



SCOTTISH SNOOKER LTD
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

In accordance with section 305 of the Companies Act 2006, an extraordinary general meeting of the company will be held:-

@

The Corn Exchange Village
11 Newmarket Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1RJ

Tel. 0131 477 3500

on

5th July 2009 @ 1pm.

The purpose of the meeting is to consider the following motion:-

Be it resolved that the following directors of Scottish Snooker Ltd be removed from office with immediate effect, namely:-

Stephen Baillie, Alec Cameron, William Craig, Hugh Brown, Annemarie Reilly, Patrick Higgins and Helen Burton;

and be replaced with new directors listed here-under:-

1. Mark Boyle
2. Paul Marinello
3. Bobby Cruikshanks

Any VOTING member of Scottish Snooker Ltd is entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to exercise all or any of his rights to attend and to speak and vote at a meeting of the company.

All proxies should be returned in a sealed envelope at least 48 hours before the meeting to:-

Scottish Snooker Proxies
C/o Maureen Clark Secretary
The Corn Exchange Village
11 Newmarket Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1RJ

This notice has been issued by the 29 signatories, who asserted their rights in the original EGM request, and confirmed they would do so in the event of default by the directors of Scottish Snooker Ltd:-

Kenny Baird, John Bennett, Billy Boyce, Mark Boyle, Robert Carlisle, Michael Collumb, Bobby Cruikshanks, Scott Dunbar, Paul Jamieson, Ben Kibble, Gary Landa (Singh), Craig MacGillivray, Paul Marinello, Lee Marshall, Bob McCabe, Alan McCabe, Richy McDonald, Iain McDonald, Anthony McGill, Mark Owens, David Patterson, Fraser Patrick, Michael Polley, Dawud Qadir, James Stewart, Garry Turner, Ross Vallance, Craig Williams, Barry Wraith.

Signed
Paul Marinello
Shandon Snooker
Slateford Road
Edinburgh
EH11 1QY

Tel: 07799 418 147


Extracts from the Companies Act are appended below to facilitate reference:-

304 Directors' duty to call meetings required by members

(1) Directors required under section 303 to call a general meeting of the company must call a meeting—

(a) within 21 days from the date on which they become subject to the requirement, and
(b) to be held on a date not more than 28 days after the date of the notice convening the meeting.

(2) If the requests received by the company identify a resolution intended to be moved at the meeting, the notice of the meeting must include notice of the resolution.

(3) The business that may be dealt with at the meeting includes a resolution of which notice is given in accordance with this section.

(4) If the resolution is to be proposed as a special resolution, the directors are treated as not having duly called the meeting if they do not give the required notice of the resolution in accordance with section 283.

305 Power of members to call meeting at company's expense

(1) If the directors—

(a) are required under section 303 to call a meeting, and
(b) do not do so in accordance with section 304, the members who requested the meeting, or any of them representing more than one half of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves call a general meeting.

(2) Where the requests received by the company included the text of a resolution intended to be moved at the meeting, the notice of the meeting must include notice of the resolution.

(3) The meeting must be called for a date not more than three months after the date on which the directors become subject to the requirement to call a meeting.

(4) The meeting must be called in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which meetings are required to be called by directors of the company.

(5) The business which may be dealt with at the meeting includes a resolution of which notice is given in accordance with this section.

(6) Any reasonable expenses incurred by the members requesting the meeting by reason of the failure of the directors duly to call a meeting must be reimbursed by the company.

(7) Any sum so reimbursed 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 the services of such of the directors as were in default.

311 Contents of notices of meetings

(1) Notice of a general meeting of a company must state—

(a) the time and date of the meeting, and
(b) the place of the meeting.

(2) Notice of a general meeting of a company must state the general nature of the business to be dealt with at the meeting.

This subsection has effect subject to any provision of the company's articles.

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