Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977

Appointment and tenure of office

1(1)Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below, a stockholders' representative shall be appointed for each company by the holders of securities, at a meeting of those holders called by the company, and shall be appointed not later than the end of the period of one month from the passing of this Act.

(2)In the case of a company the securities of which vest in a Corporation by virtue of section 26 of this Act, the stockholders' representative shall be appointed not later than the end of the period of one month from the service on the company of the notice of acquisition under that section.

(3)If the holders of securities fail to appoint a stockholders' representative within the required time, the Secretary of State shall appoint such a representative.

2Where the office of a stockholders' representative is about to became vacant or has become vacant, otherwise than in consequence of the completion of his duties under this Act, a stockholders' representative to fill the vacancy shall be appointed at a meeting of the holders of securities called—

(a)if the office is not yet vacant, by the stockholders' representative,

(b)if the office is vacant and the meeting is called before the relevant vesting date, by the company, or

(c)in any other case, by the Secretary of State,

but if the appointment has not been made within the period of 2 months beginning on the date on which the vacancy occurred, the appointment may be made by the Secretary of State.

3Every stockholders' representative shall, as soon as practicable after his appointment, give notice in writing thereof to the Secretary of State (unless he was appointed by the Secretary of State) and to the registrar of companies and shall, except in the case of a private company, insert an advertisement of his appointment in such one or more newspapers as in his opinion is or are best calculated to bring the appointment to the notice of the holders of securities ; and the advertisement shall state the name of the company, the full name and description of the stockholders' representative, the address to which communications for him are to be sent and any other matters which the stockholders' representative thinks fit to include.

4(1)Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph—

(a)a stockholders' representative may resign his office by giving not less than one month's notice in writing to the Secretary of State and, if he was appointed by the holders of securities, to every such holder, and his office shall become vacant on the date specified in the notice ;

(b)a stockholders' representative may be removed from his office by a resolution passed at a meeting of the holders of securities, and his office shall become vacant on the passing of the resolution ; and

(c)in the case of a stockholders' representative appointed by the Secretary of State, who becomes, in the Secretary of State's opinion, unfit to continue in his office or incapable of performing his duties, the Secretary of State may, by notice in writing to the holders of securities and to the stockholders' representative, declare his office to be vacant; and his office shall become vacant on the date specified in the notice.

(2)A resolution for the removal of a stockholders' representative shall not be moved unless 14 days' notice of the intention to do so has been given to every holder of securities, and any such notice may be included in the notice calling the meeting and, if not so included, may be given in like manner as the notice calling the meeting.

(3)Where a stockholders' representative resigns his office—

(a)he shall, before his resignation takes effect, call a meeting of the holders of securities for the appointment of his successor;

(b)if a new stockholders' representative is appointed before the day preceding the taking effect of his resignation, he shall, before it takes effect, deliver all books kept by him in the performance of his duties to his successor, and in any other case he shall deliver them to the Secretary of State on the day before his resignation takes effect; and

(c)he shall furnish such information with respect to any matters which have arisen in connection with the performance of his duties as his successor may reasonably require.

(4)When a stockhoders' representative is removed from his office, he shall deliver to the Secretary of State, or as the Secretary of State may direct, all books kept by him in the performance of his duties and shall furnish to the Secretary of State such information relating to any matters which have arisen in connectoin with the performance of those duties as the Secretary of State may reasonably require.

5(1)Where a stockholders' representative dies not less than 14 days before the date of transfer of a company, the company shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Secretary of State and to every holder of securities, and the books referred to in paragraph 4(4) above shall as soon as practicable be delivered by his legal personal representative or, so far as any of them are in the possession or control of any other person, by that other person, to the Secretary of State, or as the Secretary of State may direct.

(2)Where a stockholders' representative dies less than 14 days before, or on or after the date of transfer of a company, the appropriate person specified in sub-paragraph (1) above shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Secretary of State, and shall as soon as practicable deliver any such books as aforesaid to the Secretary of State or as the Secretary of State may direct.