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DRAWN BY:
M/S AMPURIRE ASSOCIATED ADVOCATES,
BALYA PLAZA 1ST FLOOR, SUITES 38, 39 & 40,
PLOT 1/3 MAKHAN-SINGH STREET, MBARARA.
THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
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commencement and expansion programme and to act as technical and
software development consultants in Uganda and abroad.
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g) To provide services such as equity finance for buy-outs, recapitalization,
leasing, credit line facilities, term loans such as short and medium term
opportunities, equity placing of securities as well as equity funds
management.
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licenses in respect of or otherwise turn to account the property rights or
information so acquired.
s) To promote any other Company for the purpose of acquiring all or any
of the property and undertaking of the liabilities of this Company and to
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place or guarantee the placing of, underwrite, subscribe or otherwise
acquire all or any part of the shares or securities of any such Company
as aforesaid interests of the members of the Company.
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4) The liability of the member(s) is limited and this liability is limited to the
amount unpaid, if any, on the shares held by them.
We, the two persons whose names, addresses and descriptions are hereunto
described are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this
Memorandum of Association and respectively agree to take the number of
shares in the capital set opposite our respective names.
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THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
b) The Company shall not have power to issue share warrant to bearers.
c) Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural
number, and vice versa.
PRELIMINARY
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Words Meanings
4. The Office shall be at such places in Uganda as the Directors shall from
time to time appoint.
5. Any party to this agreement proposing to transfer any shares shall give
notice in writing to the other parties. The transfer notice shall specify
the number of shares the transferor proposes to transfer. The initial
parties to this agreement shall have priority over any other party to
purchase such shares.
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6. The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on
behalf of the transferor and transferee and the transferor shall
accordingly be deemed to remain a holder of the share until the name of
the transferee is entered in the Register of members in respect thereof.
10. The Directors may also decline to authorize any instrument to transfer
unless:-
a) A fee such as the Directors may from time to time require is paid
to the Company in respect thereof.
11. If the Directors refuse to register the transfer, they shall within two
months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the
Company, send to the transferee notice of refusal.
12. The registration of transfers may be suspended and the Register closed
at such times and for such periods as the Directors may from time to
time determine.
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14. In case of death of a member, the survivor or survivors where the
deceased was joint holder and the legal personal representative of the
deceased where he was a sole holder, shall be the only person
recognized by the Company as having any title to his or her interest in
the shares but nothing herein contained, shall release the estate of a
deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any share which
has been jointly held by him or her with other persons.
16. The Company may by ordinary resolution convert any paid up shares
into stock and reconvert any stock into paid up shares of any
denomination.
17. The holders of stock may transfer the same or any part of it in the same
manner and subject to the same regulations, and subject to which the
shares from which the stock arose, might previous to conversion have
been transferred or as near to as circumstances admit and the
Directors may from time to time fix the minimum amount of stock
transferable except that such minimum shall not exceed the nominal
amount of the shares from which the stock arose.
18. The holders of stock shall according to the amount of stock held by
them have the same rights, privileges and advantages as regards
dividends, voting at meeting of the Company and other matters as if
they held the shares from which the stock arose but no such privileges
or advantage (except participation in the dividends and profits of the
Company and the assets on a winding up) shall be conferred by an
amount of stock which would not if existing in shares have conferred
that privilege or advantage.
19. The Articles of the Company as are applicable to paid-up shares shall
apply to stock and the words ‘shares’ and ‘shareholders’ therein shall
include ‘stock’ and ‘stockholder’.
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INCREASE OF CAPITAL
b) Before the issue of any new shares determine that the same or
any of them shall be offered in the first instance and either at par
or at premium to all the existing holders of any class of shares in
proportion as nearly as may be to the amount of the capital held
by them respectively or make any other provisions as to the issue
of the new share; but in default of any such determination or so
far as the same shall not extend the new shares may be dealt
with as if they formed part of the shares in the original capital.
ALTERATION OF CAPITAL
b) Consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of
large amount than its existing shares.
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d) Cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the
resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any
person and diminish the amount of share capital by the amount
of the shares so cancelled.
GENERAL MEETINGS
22. The Company shall in each year hold a General Meeting as its Annual
General Meeting in addition to any other meeting in that year and shall
specify the meeting as such in the notice calling it and not more than
fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one Annual General
Meeting and another; but as long as it is held within eighteen months of
its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation but
in the following year. The Annual General Meeting shall be held at such
time and place as the Directors shall appoint.
23. At General Meetings other than Annual General Meeting shall be called
Extraordinary General Meetings.
24. The Directors may whenever they think fit convene an Extraordinary
General Meeting. Meetings shall also be convened on such requisitions
as provided by section 132 of the Act. If at any time there are not within
Uganda sufficient Directors capable may convene an Extraordinary
General Meeting in the same manner or as nearly as possible as that in
which meetings may be convened by the Directors.
25. The Company shall promptly comply with the provisions of Section 140
of the Act as to giving notice of resolutions and circulating statement of
the requisition of members.
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b) In the case of any other meetings by a majority in number of the
members having a right to attend and vote at the meetings being
majority together holding not less than 95 percent in nominal
value of shares giving that right.
30. The Chairperson of the Board of Directors shall preside at every General
Meeting of the Company and or if the Chairperson is not present 15
minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting or is
unwilling to act, the Directors present shall elect one of their members
to be the Chairperson of the meeting.
32. When a meeting is adjourned for 14 days or more, 7 clear days’ notice
shall be given but it shall not be necessary to specify in giving notice of
the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
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33. At a General Meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be
decided on by show of hands unless a poll (before or on the declaration
of the show of hands) is demanded:-
a) By any members present in person or by proxy and representing
not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all the
members having the right to vote at the meeting.
VOTING OF MEMBERS
35. Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any
class or class of shares on a show of hands, every member present in
person shall have one vote and one poll; every member shall vote
according to the numbers of shares he or she has.
36. On a poll, a member entitled to more than one vote need not if he or she
votes, cast all his or her votes or cast all votes he or she uses in the
same day.
DIRECTORS
37. Unless and until determined by the Company in a General Meeting, the
number of Directors shall be not less than two.
38. The remuneration of the Directors shall from time to time be
determined by the Company in General Meeting. Such remuneration
shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. The Directors’ expenses
properly incurred by attending and returning from Company meetings
or in connection with the business of the Company shall be borne by
the Company.
39. Any Director who serves on any committee or devotes special attention
to the business of the Company or who otherwise performs service
which in the opinion of Directors is outside the scope of the ordinary
duties of a Director, may be paid such extra remuneration by way of
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salary, percentage of profits or otherwise as the Directors may
determine.
BORROWING POWERS
40. The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow
money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and
uncalled capital or any part of it and to issue debenture stock whether
outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the
Company to any third party.
41. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who
may pay all expenses incurred in promoting and registering the
Company and may exercise all such powers required to be exercised by
the Company in General Meetings subject nevertheless to any
regulations not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions
as may be prescribed by the Act or actions of the Directors which would
have been valid if those regulations have not been made.
42. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by Powers of
Attorney appoint any Company, firm or person or body of persons
whether nominated directly or indirectly to be the Attorney of the
Company for such discretion not exceeding those vested in or
exercisable by the Directors under these conditions as they think fit and
any such Powers of Attorney may contain such provisions for the
protection and convenience of persons dealing with such Attorney and
may also authorize any such authorities and discretion vested in him or
her.
DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRETCORS
d) Dies.
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and/or Cause of substantial financial loss, Bringing the Company
into Disrepute, Insubordination among others.
f) Shall for more than six months have been absent from Company
Business without permission of the Directors held during that
period.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
44. The Managing Director and Directors shall be responsible for the
Finance and Management of the Company. The Company shall operate
Bank Accounts in any banks decided upon by the Board of Directors
and the Board shall also decide upon from time to time. The Directors
shall have the powers of co-signatory of such Bank Accounts. The
Bankers shall be agreed upon by resolution of the Directors of the
Company, on such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as
deemed fit. The exclusions of their own powers may from time to time
be revoked, withdrawn, altered or varied. The Directors shall from time
to time appoint one of them to the office of Managing Director of the
Company and whilst he holds such office, the Management and Control
of the Company shall be vested in him.
SECRETARY
45. The Secretary shall be appointed by the Directors for such term at such
remuneration and upon such conditions as they think fit and the
Secretary so appointed may be removed by them.
THE SEAL
46. The Directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal which shall
only be used by the authority of the Directors or a committee of the
Directors authorized by the Directors and every instrument to which the
Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by a Director and shall be counter-
signed by the Directors for that purpose.
47. All deeds executed on behalf of the Company may be in such form and
contain in such powers, provisions, conditions, covenants, clauses and
agreements as the Directors shall think fit and in addition to being
sealed with the Seal, shall be signed by a Director and counter-signed
by the Secretary or by a second Director.
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ACCOUNTS
49. The Directors shall from time to time determine whether in any
particular case or cases or generally and to what extent and at what
time and place and under what conditions or regulations the Account
and Books of the Company or any of them shall open to the inspection
of the members and no member (not being a Director) shall have any
right of inspecting any book or documents of the Company expect as
conferred by the statute or authorized by the Directors.
AUDIT
50. Once at least in every year, the Accounts of the Company shall be
examined and the corrections of the balance sheet ascertained by an
auditor.
51. The Directors shall appoint the first Auditor who will hold office until
the first Annual General Meeting.
52. The Directors may fill up any causal vacancy in the office of the Auditor.
53. The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Company in the
General Meeting except that the remuneration of any Auditor appointed
by the Directors may be fixed by the Directors.
CAPITALIZATION OF PROFITS
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NOTICES
58. Every Director, Manager, Secretary and other officer or servant of the
Company shall be indemnified by the Company against all the costs,
losses and expenses which he or she may incur by reason or any
contract entered in, or act done by him or her as such officer or servant
or in any way in the discharge of his or her duties.
WINDING UP
59. If the Company shall be winding up whether voluntarily or otherwise
the liquidator may within the sanction of an extraordinary resolution,
divide among the contributors in specific or in kind the whole or any
part of the Assets of the Company and such division may if so decided
by special resolution, be otherwise than in accordance with the right of
the members subject to the provision of Section 285 of the Companies
Act.
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ARBITRATION
60. If whenever any difference arises between the Company and any of the
members, their respective representatives, touching the construction of
these Articles herein contained or any Act of anything made or done or
arising out of the relation existing between the parties by reason of their
presence or of the act such differences shall be referred to 2 Arbitrators
or to be appointed by each party in difference, or an Umpire to be
chosen by the Arbitrators before entering in the consideration of the
matters referred to them and every such difference shall be conducted
with the provision of the Laws or Arbitrators for the time being in force
in Uganda.
We, the two persons whose names, addresses and descriptions are hereunto
described are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this
Articles of Association and respectively agree to take the number of shares
in the capital set opposite our respective names.
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