Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC Result of AGM (3029C)

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RNS Number : 3029C

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

18 January 2018

STANDARD LIFE EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Standard Life Equity Income Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Thursday 18 January 2018, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.standardlifeequityinvestmenttrust.co.uk* were duly passed.

The total number of proxy votes at the Annual General Meeting was as follows:

 
                              For and Discretionary       Against        Votes       Total 
                                                                                      Votes 
                            ------------------------  --------------- 
        Resolution              No. of        % of      No.     % of    Withheld   (excluding 
                                                         of                           Votes 
                                                                                    Withheld) 
                                                                                  =========== 
          Number                 Votes        Votes    Votes    Votes 
                                               Cast              Cast 
==========================  ==============  ========  =======  ======  =========  =========== 
 1. Receive Report 
  & Accounts                     8,762,648     99.99    1,260    0.01          0    8,763,908 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 2. Approve Directors' 
  Remuneration Report            8,676,748     99.11   77,952    0.89      9,208    8,754,700 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 3. Approve Final 
  Dividend                       8,762,648     99.99    1,260    0.01          0    8,763,908 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 4. Re-elect R.R.J. 
  Burns                          8,735,007     99.81   17,040    0.19     11,861    8,752,047 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 5. Re-elect J. 
  Dixon                          8,738,966     99.86   12,020    0.14     12,921    8,750,986 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 6. Re-elect J. 
  J. Tigue                       8,733,734     99.81   16,753    0.19     13,421    8,750,487 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 7. Re- elect M.B.E 
  White                          8,742,939     99.89    9,218    0.11     11,750    8,752,157 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 8. Elect C.M. Hitch             8,746,897     99.94    5,150    0.06     11,861    8,752,047 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 9. Re-appoint Grant 
  Thornton UK LLP 
  as Auditors                    8,723,559     99.72   24,150    0.28     16,197    8,747,709 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 10. Remuneration 
  of Auditors                    8,758,324     99.94    5,583    0.06          0    8,763,907 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 11. Allotment of 
  new equity                     8,732,552     99.79   18,330    0.21     13,026    8,750,882 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 12. Disapply pre-emption 
  rights                         8,709,827     99.56   38,311    0.44     15,770    8,748,138 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 13. Authorise market 
  purchases of ordinary 
  shares                         8,717,190     99.55   39,514    0.45      7,204    8,756,704 
--------------------------  --------------  --------  -------  ------  ---------  ----------- 
 

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*

*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.

For Standard Life Equity Income Trust plc

Maven Capital Partners UK LLP

Company Secretary

18 January 2018

Tel: [phone]

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