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MEMORANDUM
AND
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
Drawn by:
THE DIRECTORS
THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP 110)
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
ABUKA CARE SERVICES LIMITED
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merchandise, store Merchants, Exporter, Importers, General
Storekeepers, Wholesale and Retailers, Shipping Agents and
Shippers.
k) To carry on the business of reclaiming, clearing, draining, farming,
planting and any other business connected there.
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v) To carry on the business of constructing low rise and multi-storeyed
buildings, foundation engineering, property management and
general construction equipment supplies.
aa) To invest any monies of the Company not immediately required for
the purpose of the business of the Company in such investments
(other than shares in the Company or its holding Company, if any)
and in such manner as may or otherwise deal with such instruments.
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or proposing to own any business or activity within the objects of the
company.
hh)To enter into any guarantee, contract of indemnity or surety ship and
particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) to
guarantee the payment of any principal monies, premiums, interest
and other payment of dividends and premiums on and the
repayment of the capital of stock and shares of all kinds and
descriptions.
jj) To borrow and raise money and secure or discharge any debt or
obligation of or binding on the Company in such manner as may be
thought fit and in particular by mortgage of or charges upon the
undertaking and all or any of the real and personal property (present
and future) and the uncalled capital of the Company or by the
creation and issue of debentures, debenture stock or other
obligations or securities of any description.
kk)To obtain all necessary permits or licenses required for the purpose
of enabling the company to carry on its business upon such terms
and conditions as may be acceptable to it.
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ll) To acquire by purchase, exchange, lease or otherwise any land or
building in, on or from which or in relation to which any production
or occurrence in connection with the making or a television, video or
sound broadcasting programme may take place, or which is
otherwise suitable for the business of the company.
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corporation, company or persons any charters, contracts, decrees,
rights, privileges and concessions which the company may think
desirable and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such
charter, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges and concessions and to
represent and advocate the view and all policies of the Company to
governments and other authorities.
rr) To act as agents or brokers and as trustees for any person, firm or
company and to undertake and perform subcontracts and also to act
in any of the businesses of the company through or by means of
agents, brokers, receivers, stewards and others.
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xx) To lend money to such persons or companies and on such terms as
may seem expedient and in particular to customers and others
having dealings with the company.
yy)To give guarantee and/or become sureties for any person or persons,
firm or firms, corporation or corporations whether incorporated for
moneys raised and/or borrowed by him or them from any persons or
firm or corporation or for any purpose whatsoever and to charge or
mortgage the property of the company (movable or immovable) for
the performance, discharge and fulfilment of such obligations and
guarantees.
zz) To give bond or bonds and become bails for or in respect of any
person, firm, corporation for whatever purpose as the Company may
deem fit.
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We, the several persons whose name, addresses and descriptions are
hereunto subscribed are desirous of being formed into a company
known as ABUKA CARE SERVICES LIMITED in pursuance of this
Memorandum of Association and we respectively agree to take the
number of shares in the capital of the company set opposite out
respective names.
Signature: ……………………………………………….
Occupation: ……………………………………………..
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THE COMPANIES ACT
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF
c) The Company shall not have power to issue a share warrant to bearer
PRELIMINARY:
WORDS MEANING
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force in Uganda affecting the
Company;
PLACE OF BUSINESS
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3. 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.
7. 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 the refusal.
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9. The Company shall be entitled to charge a fee on the registration of a
transfer or any probate, letters of Administration, Certificate of death
or marriage, power of Attorney, or other instrument affecting the
title to any share.
12. The holders of stock may transfer the same or any part thereof, in the
same manner, and subject to the same regulations, as and subject to
which the shares from which the stock arose, might previously to
conversion have been transferred, or as near thereto as circumstances
admit; and the Directors may from time to time fix the minimum
amount of stock transferable but so that such minimum shall not
exceed the nominal amount of the shares from which the stock arose.
13. 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 meetings of the Company and other matters as if
they held the shares from which the stock arose, but no such
privilege or advantage (except participation in the dividends and
profits of the Company and the assets on winding up) shall be
conferred by an amount of stock which would not, if existing in
shares, have conferred that privilege or advantage.
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INCREASE OF CAPITAL
15. The Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution increase
the share capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such
amount, as the resolution shall prescribe.
16. The Company may by ordinary resolution before the issue of any
new shares determining 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 provisions as to the issue of the new shares; 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
a) Consolidate and divide all or any of its shares capital into shares of
larger amount than its existing shares;
c) Of the Act; and so that the resolution whereby any shares are sub-
divided, may determine that as between the resulting shares one or
other of such shares may be given any preference of advantage as
regards dividend capital, voting or otherwise over the others or any
other of such 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 the share capital by the amount of the shares so
cancelled.
19. The Company may by special resolution reduce its share capital, any
capital redemption reserve fund or any share premium account in any
manner and with, and subject to, any incident authorised, and consent
required, by law.
GENERAL MEETINGS
20. 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 notices calling it; and not more than
fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general
meeting of the Company and the next. Provided that so long as the
Company holds its first annual general meeting within eighteen months
of its incorporation, it need not hold another in the year of its
incorporation or in the following year. The annual General Meeting
shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint
21. All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called
extra ordinary general meetings.
22. The Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene an extraordinary
general meeting, and extraordinary general meetings shall also be
convened on such requisition, or, in default may be convened by such
requisitions, as provided by section 132 of the Act. If at any time there
are not within Uganda sufficient Directors capable of acting to form a
quorum any Director or any two members of the Company may
convene an extra ordinary general meeting in the same manner or as
nearly possible as that in which meetings may be convened by the
Directors.
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(a) In the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting by all the
members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and
(b) In the case of any other meeting by a majority in number of the members
having a right to attend and vote the meeting being a majority together
holding not less than 95 percent in nominal value of the shares giving
that right.
27. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum
is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members
shall be dissolved; in any case it shall stand adjourned to the same day
in the next week at the same time and place or to such other day and at
the same time and place as the Directors may determine, and if at the
adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the
time appointed for the meeting, the members present shall be a quorum.
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29. If at any meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or no Director
is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed from holding
the meeting the members present shall choose one of the members to be
the Chairman of the meeting
30. The Chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum
is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting
from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be
transacted at any adjourned meeting other than business left, unfinished
at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
31. At a general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be
decided on by show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the
declaration of the show of hands) demanded.
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32. Except as provided in articles 34 if a poll is duly demanded it shall be
taken in such manner as the Chairman directs and the result of the poll
shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll
was demanded.
VOTES OF MEMBERS
36. Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any
class or classes of shares, on a show of hands every member present in
person shall have one vote and on a poll, every member shall have one
vote for each share of which he is a holder.
37. In the case of joint holders the vote of the senior who tenders a vote,
whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the
votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be
determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of
members.
DIRECTORS
38. The number of Directors shall not be less than two and not more than
seven and the share qualification of a Director shall be at least one share.
The names of first Directors shall be determined in writing by the
subscribers to the Memorandum of Association or a majority of them
and until such determination the signatories to the Memorandum of
Association shall be the first Directors.
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39. 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 may also be
paid all travelling hotel and other expenses properly incurred by the
attending and returning from meetings of the company or in connection
with the business of the Company.
40. Any Director who serves on any committee or devotes special attention
to the business of the Company or who otherwise performs services
which in the opinion of Directors are outside the scope of the ordinary
duties of a Director, may be paid such extra remuneration by salary or
percentage of profits or otherwise as the Directors may determine.
BORROWING POWERS
41. 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 thereof, and to issue debentures, debenture
stock, and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt,
liability or obligation of the Company of any third party;
Provided that the amount for the time being remaining un-discharged of
moneys borrowed or secured by the directors as aforesaid (apart from
temporary loans obtained from the company’s bankers in the ordinary
course of business) shall not any time, without the previous sanction of
the company in general meeting, exceed the nominal amount of the
share capital of the company for the time being issued, but nevertheless
no lender or other person dealing with the company shall be concerned
to see or inquire whether this limit is observed. No debt incurred or
security given in excess of such limit shall be invalid or ineffectual
except in the case of express notice to the lender or the recipient of the
security at the time when the debt was incurred or security given that
the limit hereby imposed had been or was thereby exceeded.
42. 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 of the Company as are not
by the Act or by these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company
in general meeting, subject, nevertheless, to any of these articles, to the
provisions of the Act, and to such regulations, being not inconsistent
with the aforesaid articles or provisions, as may be prescribed by the
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company in general meeting; but no regulations made by the company
in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which
would have been valid if that regulation had not been made.
43. The Directors may from time to time and at any time by powers of
attorney appoint any company, firm or persons, or body of persons
whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the
attorney or attorneys of the Company for such discretions (not
exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these
Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they
think fit, and any such powers of attorney may contain such provisions
for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with and such
attorney, and may also authorize any such attorney to delegate all
discretions vested in him.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
44. The Directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body
to the office of managing director for such period and on such terms as
they think fit, and, subject to terms of any agreement entered into in any
particular case, may revoke such appointment. A director so appointed
shall not, whilst holding that office, be subject to retirement by rotation
or be taken into account in determining the rotation of retirement of
directors, but his appointment shall be automatically determined if he
cease from any cause to be a director.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
45. The Directors may delegate any of, or all the powers conferred upon
them by these articles to a Board of Governors to be appointed by the
Directors or to any other person, as they shall deem necessary.
SECRETARY
46. The Secretary shall be appointed by the Directors for such term at such
remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit; and any
Secretary so appointed may be removed by them.
THE SEAL
47. The Director shall provide for the safe custody of the seal, which shall
only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the
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Directors authorized by the Directors in that behalf, and every
instrument to which the Seal shall be affixed shall be signed by a
Director and shall be countersigned by the Secretary or by a second
Director or by some other person appointed by the Directors for that
purpose.
48. 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 countersigned by
the Secretary or by a second Director.
NOTICES
49. A notice may be given by the Company to any member either personally
or by sending it by post to him or to his registered address, or (if he has
no registered address within Uganda) to the address, if any, within
Uganda supplied by him to the company for the giving of notice to him.
Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to
be effected by properly addressing, prepaying, and posting a letter
containing the notice, and to have been effected in the case of a notice of
a meeting at the expiration of seventy – two hours after the letter
containing the same is posted, and in any other case at the time at which
the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
50. Notice of every general meeting shall be given in a manner herein before
authorised to:
(a) Every member except those members who (having no registered address
within Uganda) have not supplied to the Company an address within
East Africa for the giving of notice to them.
(b) Every person upon the ownership of a share devolves by reason of his
being a legal personal representative or a trustee in bankruptcy of a
member where the member but for his death or bankruptcy would be
entitled to receive notice of the meeting; and
(c) The auditor for the time being of the Company.
INDEMNITY
51. Every Director, Managing Director, agent, auditor, Secretary and other
officer for the time being of the Company shall be indemnified out of the
assets of the Company against any liability incurred by him in
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defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal in which
judgement is given in his favour or in which is acquainted or in
connection with any application under Section 405 in which relief is
granted to him by the Court.
We, the several persons whose names, addresses and descriptions are
hereunto subscribed are desirous of being formed into a Company in
pursuance of this Articles of Association and we respectively agree to
take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite out
respective names.
Postal Address…...............................................................................
Occupation: ……………………………………………………….
Signature: ………………………………………………………….
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