1. The Company Law Review Steering Group,Modern Company Law for a Competitive Economy, Terms of Reference, March 1998, 1 (UK).
2. The term “electronic proxy voting” is used here to describe the electronic transmission of voting instructions from the member to the company.
3. See, eg the Articles of Association of BP Amoco plc, reg 67.
4. The purposes for which the modification may be made are listed in subs 8(2). These purposes identify features of the paper world which have no direct electronic analogue (such as postal delivery, written evidence and authentication by signature).