Board Minutes – First Meeting Of The Board Of Directors
These updated Board Minutes - First Meeting of the Board of Directors are for use when an "off the shelf" company has been purchased and it needs to be tailored to requirements.
Clauses 1 to 4 can be deleted if the initial director appointed on Form IN01 is not due to resign. Clause 3 should be used if the officers of the company are due to be changed. Clause 3(a) is used to confirm the appointment of the Director(s) who consented to act on Form IN01. If the company was purchased “off the shelf”, the first Director(s) are usually incorporation agents who will not wish to be involved in the business of the company and will want to resign. However, they must first be confirmed in their appointment and appoint additional directors (Clause 3 (c)) before resigning (Clause 3(e)) otherwise the company will be without any Directors.
Companies are no longer required to have a Company Secretary but if a person was appointed as Company Secretary in Form IN01, then their appointment is confirmed by using Clause 3(b). Clause 3(d) allows the initial Company Secretary to resign either to be replaced by another person or the Company can choose not to have a Company Secretary.
Clause 5 deals with the main business of tailoring the Company. The Directors are able to decide the location of the Registered Office, the Accounting Reference Date, and the identity of the Auditors. The Directors then propose a general meeting of the shareholders where the shareholders can vote on resolutions to adopt new Articles of Association, disapply pre-emption rights, and change the company’s name. Under section 561 of the Companies Act 2006, existing shareholders have automatic pre-emption rights on a new share issue. Section 569 allows companies with one class of shares to amend their articles or pass a special resolution to disapply these pre-emption rights. The optional special resolution is listed at Clause 5(f) 3.
Clause 6 deals with the resolutions of the meeting and specifically whether the company will appoint auditors, and if so, their identity.
At Clause 7, the board meeting is adjourned so that a general meeting of the shareholders can be convened at short notice or written resolutions can be sent out to the shareholders (please delete as appropriate).
The board meeting is then reconvened where it is resolved that the subscribers are entered into the register of members or the transfer of their shares is approved (Clause 8), other share transfers are approved (Clause 9), and applications for new shares are approved (Clause 10).
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