Good evening to everybody in Australia, and good morning to everyone in the U.K. It is now 5:00 P.M. in Sydney and 8:00 A.M. in the U.K. Since we have a quorum, I can now declare the general meeting open. The notice of the general meeting was dispatched to all shareholders on the 4th of August, and if there is no objection, I propose that the notice of the meeting be taken as read. First of all, attendees from CAP-XX. We have a full contingent of board members from CAP-XX. Joining me today I have Lars Stegmann, who is the Chief Executive Officer, Pat Elliott, Peter Fraser, and Anthony Sive, who are all non-exec directors of the company, and also Joanna Morbey, who is the company secretary. Okay, the format of the meeting then.
The business of the meeting today is that we deal with the resolution as set out in the notice of general meeting. As chairman, in relation to the proxy votes given, I intend to vote in favor of the resolution. I can advise that there were 2,114,100,115 proxies received, representing 31.71% of the issued share capital of the company. For the Australian shareholders that are registered to vote in the GM today, I declare the poll open. Okay, the special resolution then. We now move to consider the resolution. This is a special resolution which requires 75% of votes in favor for it to be passed. The resolution is to approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with the issue of second placing subscription director fee and retail offer shares.
I can advise that I am holding proxy votes in favor of the resolution for 1,745,459,917 votes against 368,640,198 votes, with 100,000 abstentions. The vote in favor of the resolution is 82.56%. For Australian shareholders that are registered to vote, please could you complete your vote now? Okay, I declare the poll closed. The final poll results from Australia will now be counted together with the U.K. proxy votes, which I described earlier, and the results of the voting on the resolution will be released via RNS by the end of the day, London time. Ladies and gentlemen, there being no further business, I now declare the general meeting closed, and thank you for your attendance today.