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[EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB COMPANY
LIMITED]
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the above named Company will be held at The Chamber of Commerce,
1 Old Hall Street in the City of Liverpool on Tuesday the 17th day of April,
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Two at 7.00 p.m. for the purpose of
considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Resolution which will
be proposed as a Special Resolution.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner
following
(1) Clauses 52 and 53 of Table A (1862) shall cease to apply to this
Company and the existing Article 12 of this Company’s Articles is
repealed and shall be deleted.
(2) In clause 57 of Table A aforesaid there shall be added (so as to
constitute an additional ground of disqualification) after the words
"any Contract with the Company" the words—
"If he resigns his office by notice in writing to the Company".
(3) There shall be inserted a new Article (to be numbered 12) as follows :—
"12. (1) The number of Directors of the Company shall be not less
than five. {SEVEN}
(2) Unless otherwise fixed by the Directors under the power
conferred upon them by clause 66 of Table A, the quorum
necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors
shall be three.
(3) If and so long as the number of Directors is reduced below
the number fixed by or pursuant to the regulations of the
Company as the necessary quorum of Directors, the con-
tinuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of
increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of
summoning a General Meeting of the Company, but for
no other purpose, and clause 56 of Table A shall operate
subject to this present provision.
(4) The number of Directors of the Company shall be not more
than eight until such time as the number of Directors in office
shall be reduced to seven by reason of the death, voluntary
resignation, disqualification, or removal of any one Director
(but so that retirement by rotation shall not be treated as
voluntary resignation, disqualification or removal). After the
number of Directors in office shall have been so reduced to
seven, the number of the Directors of the Company shall be
not more than seven.
(5) While the Board of Directors consists of eight members
under the provisions of the last preceding sub-clause they
shall retire in the following rotation: Three of their number
shall retire at the Annual General Meeting to be held in
