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Job No: 51241 Proof Event: 13 Black Line Level: 2 Park Communications Ltd Alpine Way London E6 6LA
Customer: ABRDN Project Title: ANNUAL REPORT 2023 T: 0207 055 6500 F: 020 7055 6600
Notes
1. A member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint
a proxy or proxies to attend and, on a poll, to vote instead of
him/her. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A
form of proxy is enclosed.
2. Instruments of proxy and the power of attorney or other
authority, if any, under which they are signed or a notarially
certified copy of that power of attorney or authority should
be sent to The Registrar, abrdn Asian Income Fund Limited,
Link Group, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1
4DL so as to arrive not less than forty eight hours before the
time fixed for the meeting.
3. In accordance with Article 40 of the Companies
(Uncertificated Securities) (Jersey) Order 1999, to have the
right to attend and vote at the meeting referred to above
a member must first have his or her name entered in the
Company’s register of members by not later than forty
eight hours before the time fixed for the meeting (or, in
the event that the meeting be adjourned, on the register
of members 48 hours before the time of the adjourned
meeting). Changes to entries on that register after that
time (or, in the event that the meeting is adjourned, on the
register of members less than forty eight hours before the
time of any adjourned meeting) shall be disregarded in
determining the rights of any member to attend and vote at
the meeting referred to above.
You may submit your proxy electronically using The Share
Portal service at www.signalshares.com. Shareholders can
use this service to vote or appoint a proxy online. The same
voting deadline of 48 hours (excluding non-working days)
before the time of the meeting applies as if you were using
your Personalised Voting Form to vote or appoint a proxy by
post to vote for you. Shareholders will need to use the unique
personal identification Investor Code printed overleaf.
Shareholders should not show this information to anyone
unless they wish to give proxy instructions on their behalf.
4. Notes on CREST Voting.
CREST Members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies by
utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service
may do so by utilising the procedures described in the
CREST Manual, which is available to download from the
Euroclear website (www.euroclear.com). CREST personal
members or other CREST sponsored members, and those
CREST members who have appointed voting service
provider(s) should contact their CREST sponsor or voting
service provider(s) who will be able to take the appropriate
action on their behalf.
5. In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made
using the CREST system to be valid, the appropriate
CREST message (a “CREST proxy instruction”) must be
properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear’s
specifications and must contain the information required
for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual.
To appoint a proxy or to give or amend an instruction to
a previously appointed proxy via the CREST system, the
CREST message must be received by the issuer’s agent
RA10 by 10.30 a.m. on 5 May 2024. For this purpose, the
time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined
by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST
applications Host) from which the issuer’s agent is able to
retrieve the message.
6. CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST
sponsors or voting service providers should note that
Euroclear does not make available special procedures
in CREST for any particular messages. Normal systems
timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to
the input of CREST proxy instructions. It is the responsibility
of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST
member is a CREST personal member or CREST sponsored
member or has appointed a voting service provider(s), to
procure that his or her CREST sponsor or voting service
provider(s) takes(s)) such action as shall be necessary
to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the
CREST system by a particular time. For further information
on CREST procedures, limitations and system timings
please refer to the CREST Manual.
7. The Company may treat as invalid a proxy appointment
sent by CREST in the circumstances set out in Regulation
35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001. In
any case, a proxy form must be received by the Company’s
Registrar no later than 10.30 a.m. on 3 May 2024.
Unless otherwise indicated on the Form of Proxy, CREST,
Proxymity or any other electronic voting instruction, the
proxy will vote as they think fit or, at their discretion, withhold
from voting.
8. If you are an institutional investor you may also be able to
appoint a proxy electronically via the Proxymity platform,
a process which has been agreed by the Company and
approved by the Registrar. For further information regarding
Proxymity, please go to www.proxymity.io. Your proxy
must be lodged by 10.30 a.m. on 3 May 2024 in order to be
considered valid or, if the meeting is adjourned, by the time
which is 48 hours before the time of the adjourned meeting.
Before you can appoint a proxy via this process you will
need to have agreed to Proxymity’s associated terms and
conditions. It is important that you read these carefully
as you will be bound by them and they will govern the
electronic appointment of your proxy. An electronic proxy
appointment via the Proxymity platform may be revoked
completely by sending an authenticated message via the
platform instructing the removal of your proxy vote.
9. Shareholders are advised that, unless otherwise provided,
the telephone numbers and website addresses which
may be set out in this Notice or the Form of Proxy/Letter
of Direction are not to be used for the purpose of serving
information or documents on the Company including
the service of information or documents relating to
proceedings at the Company’s Annual General Meeting.
If the Chairman, as a result of any proxy appointments,
is given discretion as to how the votes the subject of
those proxies are cast and the voting rights in respect of
those discretionary proxies, when added to the interests
in the Company’s Ordinary shares already held by the
Chairman, result in the Chairman holding such number