Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015

Convening of extraordinary general meetings by members

91. (1) The rights conferred by subsection (2) on a member or members of an ICAV have effect, except where the instrument of incorporation of the ICAV provides otherwise, and the rights conferred by subsections (3) to (7) on a member or members of an ICAV (and the corresponding duties on the part of its directors) have effect despite anything in the instrument of incorporation of the ICAV.

(2) One or more members of an ICAV holding, or together holding, at any time not less than 50 per cent (or such other percentage as may be specified in the instrument of incorporation) of the voting rights in the ICAV may convene an extraordinary general meeting of the ICAV.

(3) The directors of an ICAV shall, at the request of one or more members holding, or together holding, at the date of the making of the request, not less than 10 per cent of the voting rights in the ICAV, proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the ICAV.

(4) The request shall state the objects of the meeting and shall be signed by those making the request and deposited at the registered office of the ICAV and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more of those making the request.

(5) If the directors do not within 21 days after the date of the deposit of the request proceed to convene a meeting to be held within 2 months after that date, those making the request, or any of them representing more than 50 per cent of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves convene a meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held more than 3 months after the date the request was first made.

(6) Any reasonable expenses incurred by those making the request by reason of the failure of the directors duly to convene a meeting shall be repaid to those making the request by the ICAV and any sum so repaid shall be retained by the ICAV out of any sums due or to become due from the ICAV by way of fees or other remuneration in respect of their services to such of the directors as were in default.

(7) For the purposes of subsections (3) to (6), the directors shall, in the case of a meeting at which a resolution is to be proposed as a special resolution, be deemed not to have duly convened the meeting if they do not give such due notice of it.

(8) A meeting convened under subsection (2) or (5) shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by directors.