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Results of Annual General Meeting
11/07/2008
The Board of British Land announces the results of the poll taken at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today. Votes (including votes withheld) were cast for a total of 303,023,017 ordinary shares of the Company, representing 59.28 percent of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the meeting.
Full details of the results of the poll are set out in the Appendix to this announcement.
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Appendix
RESOLUTION VOTES VOTES
For As % of Against As % of WITHHELD1
Shares votes Shares votes Shares cast1 cast1
1 To receive the Report of the Directors and audited Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2008 302,161,379 99.88 357,879 0.12 503,759
2 To declare a Final Dividend for the year ended 31 March 2008 302,999,913 99.99 22,622 0.01 482
3 To re-elect S Hester as a Director 300,884,045 99.30 2,116,465 0.70 22,507
4 To re-elect G Roberts as a Director 302,084,672 99.70 918,583 0.30 19,762
5 To re-appoint Deloitte & Touche LLP as Auditors 298,340,796 99.58 1,254,513 0.42 3,427,708
6 To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors 301,815,666 99.61 1,189,552 0.39 17,799
7 To approve the Remuneration Report and policy set out therein 290,783,838 96.91 9,267,224 3.09 2,971,955
8 To renew by Ordinary Resolution the directors' authority to allot unissued share capital or convertible securities (Section 80 Companies Act 1985)2 295,991,172 97.72 6,914,963 2.28 116,882
9 To renew by Special Resolution the limited waiver of pre-emption rights attaching to future issues of equity securities for cash. (Section 89 Companies Act 1985)2 302,576,879 99.89 324,939 0.11 121,199
10 To grant by Special Resolution authority to the Company to exercise its power to purchase its own shares2 302,969,164 99.99 37,491 0.01 16,362
11 To approve by Special Resolution amendments to the Company's Articles of Association2 301,283,172 99.57 1,307,225 0.43 432,620
12 To approve by Special Resolution amendments to the Company's Articles of Association Adopted pursuant to Resolution 112 301,927,920 99.78 652,663 0.22 442,434
13 To approve by Ordinary Resolution an amendment to The British Land Fund Managers’ Performance Plan2 295,034,829 99.76 699,744 0.24 7,288,444
14 To approve by Ordinary Resolution an amendment to The British Land Fund Managers’ Performance Plan, to Commence from 1 April 20072 290,210,317 98.13 5,522,928 1.87 7,289,772 Note1:
A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each resolution.
Note2:
These resolutions were proposed as Special Business.