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RNS Number : 6978T

Assura PLC

21 July 2015

21 July 2015

Assura plc ("Company")

Result of AGM

Assura plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today at Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of the Meeting dated 12 June 2015) were passed by the requisite majorities on a poll.

 
                                                                          Total 
                                                                           Votes 
                                                                           Cast 
                                                                           (% of 
                                                                           issued 
                                        %                                  share        Votes 
 Resolution               For            For     Against      % Against    capital)      Withheld 
 1. To receive 
  the report                                                              756,232,517 
  and accounts            752,642,959    99.53    3,589,558        0.47      (75.11%)           - 
 2. To approve 
  the remuneration                                                        750,823,165 
  report                  746,691,664    99.45    4,131,501        0.55      (74.57%)   5,409,352 
 3. To re-appoint 
  the                                                                     756,232,517 
  Auditors                752,216,459    99.47    4,016,058        0.53      (75.11%)           - 
 4. To set Auditors'                                                      756,232,517 
  remuneration            747,785,612    98.88    8,446,905        1.12      (75.11%)           - 
 
   5. To re-appoint                                                       756,231,267 
   S Laffin               756,231,267   100.00            -           -      (75.10%)       1,250 
 6. To re-appoint                                                         756,231,267 
  G Roberts               745,639,604    98.60   10,591,663        1.40      (75.10%)       1,250 
 7. To re-appoint                                                         756,232,517 
  J Murphy                754,357,431    99.75    1,875,086        0.25      (75.11%)           - 
 8. To re-appoint                                                         756,232,517 
  J Greenwood             756,231,094    99.99        1,423        0.01      (75.11%)           - 
 9. To re-appoint                                                         752,796,707 
  D Richardson            752,641,709    99.98      154,998        0.02      (74.76%)   3,435,810 
 10. To authorise 
  Directors to 
  introduce scrip                                                         756,232,517 
  dividend scheme         756,190,020    99.99       42,497        0.01      (75.11%)           - 
 11. To authorise 
  the Directors                                                           756,222,517 
  to allot shares         752,400,781    99.49    3,821,736        0.51      (75.10%)      10,000 
 12. To empower 
  the Directors 
  to disapply 
  pre-emption                                                             756,231,107 
  rights                  750,373,396    99.23    5,857,711        0.77      (75.10%)       1,410 
 13. To empower 
  the Directors 
  to disapply 
  pre-emption 
  rights in connection 
  with an acquisition 
  or capital                                                              756,231,107 
  investment              748,175,760    98.93    8,055,347        1.07      (75.10%)       1,410 
 14. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to make market 
  purchases of                                                            756,232,517 
  own shares              756,197,017    99.99       35,500        0.01      (75.11%)           - 
 15. To approve 
  the calling 
  of any GM other 
  than AGM by 
  not less than 
  14 clear days'                                                          752,768,490 
  notice                  744,449,272    98.89    8,319,218        1.11      (74.76%)   3,464,027 
 

Resolutions 1-11 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 12-15 were passed as special resolutions. Votes 'For' include votes at the discretion of the Chairman.

Notes:

1. The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

2. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

3. The number of ordinary shares in issue on the share register at 6.00pm on 17 July 2015 was 1,006,900,141, of which the Total Voting Rights figure was 1,006,900,141.

Copies of resolutions 10-15, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

-Ends-

Enquiries:

 
 Assura plc        Tel: 01925 420660 
  Carolyn Jones 
  Orla Ball 
 
 Finsbury          Tel: 0207 251 3801 
  Gordon Simpson 
 

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