Aberdeen Smaller Co's Inc Tst PLC Result of AGM (7456D)

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RNS Number : 7456D

Aberdeen Smaller Co's Inc Tst PLC

28 April 2017

Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 28 April 2017

At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.

The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:

 
                                   For (including  Against  Withheld 
                                   discretionary) 
 
1 Approve the annual report             5,851,470        0     8,285 
2 Approval of Directors' 
 remuneration report                    5,698,340  115,696    45,718 
3 Approval of Directors' 
 remuneration policy                    5,793,240   51,622    14,893 
4 Re-election of R Lister               5,813,999    8,064    37,692 
5 Re-election of B Rose                 5,802,764   19,022    37,968 
6 Election of D Fletcher                5,802,832   19,230    37,692 
7 Appointment of Ernst 
 & Young LLP and authority 
 for Directors to determine 
 their remuneration                     5,827,987    4,322    27,446 
8 Section 551 allotment                 5,796,886   49,469    13,400 
9 Disapplication of pre-emption 
 rights                                 5,785,141   57,723    16,891 
10 Share buyback authority              5,799,939   44,595    15,221 
 

The total vote was 5.86 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above.

Resolutions 1 - 8 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 9 and 10 were special resolutions.

A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*. The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk

As previously announced Carolan Dobson retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM.

For Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary

28 April 2017

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

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