Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3082D

Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC

05 July 2016

 

ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 10.30 am today, Tuesday 5 July 2016, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 10 and the Special Resolutions numbered 11 and 12, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2016 Annual Report, were passed.

In relation to Resolution 12 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 2.37 million Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes cast in relation to each Resolution was as follows:

	In Favour & Discretion		Against		Withheld
Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
1	5,582,109	99.9%	4,985	0.1%	0	0.0%
2	5,528,030	98.9%	46,393	0.8%	12,671	0.2%
3	5,587,094	100.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
4	4,423,294	79.2%	1,157,089	20.7%	6,711	0.1%
5	5,571,449	99.7%	10,525	0.2%	5,119	0.1%
6	5,575,791	99.8%	8,207	0.1%	3,096	0.1%
7	5,563,392	99.6%	17,507	0.3%	6,195	0.1%
8	4,420,640	79.1%	1,156,474	20.7%	9,979	0.2%
9	4,282,977	76.7%	1,274,692	22.8%	29,424	0.5%
10	5,576,279	99.8%	8,366	0.1%	2,449	0.0%
11	5,558,471	99.5%	16,676	0.3%	11,946	0.2%
12	5,585,111	100.0%	1,569	0.0%	414	0.0%

Passing of Resolutions under Special Business

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeenjapan.co.uk*.

Copies of the special resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *.

Enquiries:

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

Tel. [phone]

*Neither the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on that website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

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