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RNS Number : 6488E

Assura PLC

19 July 2016

19 July 2016

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 14 June 2016) 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                                                                1,332,671,847 
  and accounts            1,328,668,914    99.70    4,002,933        0.30        (81.26%)     165,164 
 2. To approve 
  the Remuneration                                                          1,332,828,652 
  Policy                  1,322,798,958    99.25   10,029,694        0.75        (81.27%)       8,359 
 3. To approve 
  the Remuneration                                                          1,332,830,377 
  Report                  1,320,733,144    99.09   12,097,233        0.91        (81.27%)       6,634 
 4. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to approve 
  the PSP and 
  further plans                                                             1,332,833,063 
  under it                1,328,692,870    99.69    4,140,193        0.31        (81.27%)       3,948 
 5. To re-appoint 
  the                                                                       1,332,818,683 
  Auditors                1,330,315,750    99.81    2,502,933        0.19        (81.27%)      18,328 
 6. To set Auditors'                                                        1,332,833,683 
  remuneration            1,332,817,800   100.00       15,883           -        (81.27%)       3,328 
 
   7. To appoint                                                            1,332,832,183 
   S Laffin               1,249,374,006    93.74   83,458,177        6.26        (81.27%)       4,828 
 8. To appoint                                                              1,332,832,183 
  J Murphy                1,324,883,444    99.40    7,948,739        0.60        (81.27%)       4,828 
 9. To appoint                                                              1,332,832,183 
  J Greenwood             1,332,270,200    99.96      561,983        0.04        (81.27%)       4,828 
 10. To appoint                                                             1,332,832,183 
  D Richardson            1,331,570,200    99.91    1,261,983        0.09        (81.27%)       4,828 
 11. To approve 
  the dividend                                                              1,329,245,719 
  rectification           1,329,244,836   100.00          883           -        (81.05%)   3,591,292 
 12. To authorise 
  the Directors                                                             1,332,788,912 
  to allot shares         1,314,415,234    98.62   18,373,678        1.38        (81.27%)      48,099 
 13. To empower 
  the Directors 
  to disapply 
  pre-emption                                                               1,272,816,958 
  rights                  1,265,985,286    99.46    6,831,672        0.54        (77.61%)      20,053 
 14. To empower 
  the Directors 
  to disapply 
  pre-emption 
  rights in connection 
  with an acquisition 
  or capital                                                                1,332,816,958 
  investment              1,321,914,624    99.18   10,902,334        0.82        (81.27%)      20,053 
 15. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to make market 
  purchases of                                                              1,332,837,011 
  own shares              1,329,413,443    99.74    3,423,568        0.26        (81.27%)           - 
 16. To approve 
  the calling 
  of any GM other 
  than AGM by 
  not less than 
  14 clear days'                                                            1.332.799,683 
  notice                  1,295,296,985    97.19   37,502,698        2.81        (81.27%)      37,328 
 

Resolutions 1-12 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 13-16 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 18 July 2016 was 1,639,998,279 of which the Total Voting Rights figure was 1,639,998,279.

Copies of resolutions 11-16, 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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