Clarification on holding of annual general meeting (AGM) through video conferencing (VC) or other audio visual means (OAVM)

AGM through video conferencing permitted subject to email delivery of financials, e voting and specified public notice requirements.

Companies may hold Annual General Meetings through video conferencing or other audio visual means subject to conditions: companies required to provide e voting must follow the EGM circular frameworks, restrict special business to unavoidable items, send financial statements by email, publish a vernacular and English public notice detailing meeting and e voting arrangements, enable electronic dividend mandates with postal dispatch where bank details are absent, and count virtual and physical attendees for quorum. Companies not required to provide e voting may hold virtual AGMs only if they already hold email addresses of at least half their members and satisfy prescribed voting power thresholds, must register remaining emails, and comply with similar notice and electronic facilitation requirements.