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THE NORTH AMERICAN INCOME TRUST PLC
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 5493007GCUW7G2BKY360
21 June 2024
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Board of The North American Income Trust plc (the "Company") announces that all resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today, as set out in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 January 2024, were passed on a poll, as follows:
Resolution | All Ordinary resolutions unless marked otherwise | For and Discretionary | Against | Votes | Total Votes | |||
Number | No. of | % of | No. of | % of | Withheld | (excluding Votes Withheld) | ||
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| Votes | Votes Cast | Votes | Votes Cast |
| ||
1 | Receive and adopt the Directors' Report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2024 | 46,591,309 | 99.9 | 27,223 | 0.1 | 313,595 | 46,618,532 | |
2 | Receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 31 January 2024 | 46,403,342 | 99.7 | 156,761 | 0.3 | 372,024 | 46,560,103 | |
3 | Adopt a new aggregate limit on Directors' fees | 46,358,012 | 99.5 | 235,243 | 0.5 | 338,872 | 46,593,255 | |
4 | Re-elect Patrick Edwardson as a Director | 39,100,221 | 98.0 | 802,351 | 2.0 | 7,029,555 | 39,902,572 | |
5 | Re-elect Karyn Lamont as a Director | 39,039,045 | 97.9 | 840,129 | 2.1 | 7,052,953 | 39,879,174 | |
6 | Re-elect Susannah Nicklin as a Director | 39,056,955 | 97.9 | 845,617 | 2.1 | 7,029,555 | 39,902,572 | |
7 | Re-elect Charles Park as a Director | 38,845,130 | 97.4 | 1,034,044 | 2.6 | 7,052,953 | 39,879,174 | |
8 | Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company | 46,465,215 | 99.8 | 92,272 | 0.2 | 374,640 | 46,557,487 | |
9 | Authorise the Directors to fix the auditor's remuneration | 46,541,681 | 99.9 | 42,363 | 0.1 | 348,083 | 46,584,044 | |
10 | Approve the continuation of the Company as an investment trust | 41,849,983 | 89.2 | 5,045,125 | 10.8 | 37,019 | 46,895,108 | |
11 | Authority to allot shares | 46,523,806 | 99.8 | 92,729 | 0.2 | 315,592 | 46,616,535 | |
12 | Authority to allot shares without pre-emption (Special resolution) | 46,436,477 | 99.7 | 141,263 | 0.3 | 354,387 | 46,577,740 | |
13 | Approve share buybacks (Special resolution) | 46,482,846 | 99.7 | 125,177 | 0.3 | 324,104 | 46,608,023 | |
As described in the Chair's Statement in the Annual Report for the year ended 31 January 2024, Dame Susan Rice retired as a Director of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM and was succeeded as Chair by Charles Park. Patrick Edwardson has been appointed as the Company's Senior Independent Director, replacing Charles Park.
PASSING OF SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
A copy of the above document will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
for The North American Income Trust plc
abrdn Holdings Limited, Secretary