The 2019 Annual General Meeting of The Chartered Governance Institute (The Institute) was held at 18.00hrs (local time) on Tuesday, 1 October 2019 at the Regatta Room D of the Pullman Hotel, Corner of Waterloo Quadrant and Princes Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

The business of the agenda were:

1. To receive and consider the report of the Council on the business of the Institute for the year ended 30 June 2019 as set out in Appendix A to this notice.
2. To receive comprehensive financial statements of the Institute for the year ended 30 June 2019 as set out in Appendix B to this notice.
3. That, subject to such amendments as Her Majesty in Council may require, the Institute’s byelaws 44.1(b and c), 46.1 and 46.5 be amended to give effect to minor changes to the composition of the Council, as set out in Part 1 of Appendix C to this notice.
4. That, subject to such amendments as Her Majesty in Council may require, the Institute’s byelaws 47.1(d), 48.2, 48.4 and 48.5 be amended; byelaw 48.3 be deleted and new byelaws 46.6, 48.5 and 48.6 be added to give effect to changes to the period of office for members of the Council as well as byelaw 49.3 be amended to address appointment of alternate members to Council, as set out in Part 2 of Appendix C to this notice.
5. That, subject to such amendments as Her Majesty in Council may require, the Institute’s byelaw 60.8 be amended to give effect to removal of a redundant reference to a company that was associated with the Institute, as set out in Part 3 of Appendix C to this notice.
6. That, subject to such amendments as Her Majesty in Council may require, the Institute’s byelaws 61.4, 61.5, and 61.10 be amended and new byelaw 61.8A be added to give effect to divisional committees’ governance operating more consistently with the Council, as set out in Part 4 of Appendix C to this notice.
7. That, subject to such amendments as Her Majesty in Council may require, the Secretary shall be authorised to consecutively re-number the Institute’s byelaws (as amended after voting on Resolutions 4 and 6) and update the internal cross-references correspondingly, as set out in Appendix D to this notice.

That the Secretary be authorised to incorporate any amendments to the byelaws as may be required by Her Majesty in Council which do not materially affect the intent and meaning of the proposed amendments to the byelaws as set out in Resolutions 3 to 6.

Results

The vast majority of voting members approved all of the resolutions put forward at the annual general meeting.

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Edith Shih FCG FCS (PE)
International President

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