TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
DUOYUAN GLOBAL WATER INC.
多元環球水務有限公司
A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
SHARES
1 Every Shareholder, shall without payment, be entitled to a certificate signed by a director of the Company or under the Seal with or without the signature of any director or officer of the Company specifying the Share or Shares held and the par value thereof, provided that in respect of Shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a Share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all.
2 If a certificate is worn out or lost it may be renewed on production of the worn-out certificate, or on satisfactory proof of its loss together with such indemnity as the directors may reasonably require. Any Shareholder receiving a share certificate shall indemnify and hold the Company and its directors and officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any person by virtue of the possession of such a certificate.
SHARES AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS
3 Subject to the provisions of these Articles, the unis sued shares of the Company (whether forming part of the original or any increased authorised Shares) shall be at the disposal of the directors who may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such Eligible Persons at such times and for such consideration, being not less than the par value of the Shares being disposed of, and upon such terms and conditions as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine. Such consideration may take any form acceptable to the directors, including money, a promissory note, or other written obligation to contribute money or property, real property, personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services. Before issuing Shares for a consideration other than money, the directors shall pass a Resolution of Directors stating:
(a) the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares;
(b) their determination of the reasonable present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue; and
(c) that, in their opinion, the present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the Shares.
4 Subject to the provisions of the Act and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of any existing Shares or class of Shares, any Share may be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights or such restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting or otherwise as the directors may from time to time determine.
5 Subject to the provisions of the Act in this regard, Shares may be issued on the terms that they are redeemable, or at the option of the Company be liable to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the directors before or at the time of the issue of such Shares may determine.
6 The directors may redeem any Share issued by the Company at a premium.
7 Except as required by the Act, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any Share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any Share or any interest in any fractional part of a Share or (except as provided by these Articles or by the Act) any other rights in respect of any Share except any absolute right to the entirety thereof by the registered holder.
TRANSFER OF SHARES
8 Shares shall be transferred by a written instrument of transfer signed by the transferor and containing the name and address of the transferee. The instrument of transfer shall also be signed by the transferee if registration as a holder of the shares imposes a liability to the Company on the transferee. The instrument of transfer shall be sent to the Company for registration.
9 If the directors refuse to register a transfer of any Shares, they shall within two months after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged with the Company send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of the refusal.
10 The registration of transfers may, on 14 days' notice being given by advertisement in such one or more newspapers or by electronic means, be suspended and the register of members closed at such times and for such periods as the directors may, in their absolute discretion, from time to time determine, provided always that such registration shall not be suspended nor the register of members closed for more than 30 days in any year.
11 The Company shall not be required to treat a transferee of a registered Share as a Shareholder until the transferee's name has been entered in the register of members.
12 Subject to the Memorandum, these Articles and to Section 54 (5) of the Act, the Company shall, on receipt of an instrument of transfer, enter the name of the transferee of the Share in the register of members unless the directors resolve to refuse or delay the registration of the transfer for reasons that shall be specified in the Resolution of Directors.
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
13 Subject to Sections 52 (2) and 53 of the Act, the executor or administrator of a deceased Shareholder, the guardian of an incompetent Shareholder or the trustee of a bankrupt Shareholder shall be the only person recognised by the Company as having any title to his Share, save that and only in the event of death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any Shareholder or Shareholders as a consequence of which the Company no longer has any directors or Shareholders, then upon the production of any documentation which is reasonable evidence of the applicant being entitled to:
(a) a grant of probate of the deceased's will, or grant of letters of administration of the deceased's estate, or confirmation of the appointment as executor or administrator (as the case may be), of a deceased Shareholder's estate; or
(b) the appointment of a guardian of an incompetent Shareholder; or
(c) the appointment as trustee of a bankrupt Shareholder; or
(d) upon production of any other reasonable evidence of the applicant's beneficial ownership of, or entitlement to the Shares, to the Company's registered agent in the British Virgin Islands together with (if so requested by the registered agent) a notarised copy of the share certificate (s) of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt Shareholder, an indemnity in favour of the registered agent and appropriate legal advice in respect of any document issued by a foreign court, then the administrator, executor, guardian or trustee in bankruptcy (as the case may be) notwithstanding that their name has not been entered in the register of members of the Company, may by written resolution of the applicant, endorsed with written approval by the registered agent, be appointed a director of the Company or entered in the register of members as the legal and or beneficial owner of the Shares.
14 The production to the Company of any document which is reasonable evidence of:
(a) a grant of probate of the will, or grant of letters of administration of the estate, or confirmation of the appointment as executor, of a deceased Shareholder; or
(b) the appointment of a guardian of an incompetent Shareholder; or
(c) the trustee of a bankrupt Shareholder; or
(d) the applicant's legal and or beneficial ownership of the Shares, shall be accepted by the Company even if the deceased, incompetent Shareholder or bankrupt Shareholder is domiciled outside the British Virgin Islands if the document is issued by a foreign court which had competent jurisdiction in the matter. For the purposes of establishing whether or not a foreign court had competent jurisdiction in such a matter the directors may obtain appropriate legal advice. The directors may also require an indemnity to be given by the executor, administrator, guardian or trustee in bankruptcy.
15 Any person becoming entitled by operation of law or otherwise to a Share or Shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any Shareholder may be registered as a Shareholder upon such evidence being produced as may reasonably be required by the directors. An application by any such person to be registered as a Shareholder shall for all purposes be deemed to be a transfer of shares of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt Shareholder and the directors shall treat it as such.
16 Any person who has become entitled to a Share or Shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any member may, instead of being registered himself, request in writing that some person to be named by him be registered as the transferee of such Share or Shares and such request shall likewise be treated as if it were a transfer.
17 What amounts to incompetence on the part of a person is a matter to be determined by the court having regard to all the relevant evidence and the circumstances of the case.
ACQUISITION OF OWN SHARES
18 The directors may, on behalf of the Company, subject to a Resolution of Shareholders (including the written consent of all the Shareholders whose shares are to be purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired), purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the Company's own Shares for such consideration as they consider fit, and either cancel or hold such shares as Treasury Shares. The directors may dispose of any Shares held as Treasury Shares on such terms and conditions as they may from time to time determine. Shares may be purchased or otherwise acquired in exchange for newly issued Shares.
19 Sections 60 and 61 of the Act shall not apply to the Company.
MORTGAGES AND CHARGES OF SHARES
20 Shareholders may mortgage or charge their Shares.
21 There shall be entered in the register of members at the written request of the Shareholder:
(a) a statement that the Shares held by him are mortgaged or charged;
(b) the name of the mortgagee or charge e; and
(c) the date on which the particulars specified in subparagraph s (a) and (b) are entered in the register of members.
22 Where particulars of a mortgage or charge are entered in the register of members, such particulars may be cancelled:
(a) with the written consent of the named mortgagee or charge e or anyone authorised to act on his behalf; or
(b) upon evidence satisfactory to the directors of the discharge of the liability secured by the mortgage or charge and the issue of such indemnities as the directors shall consider necessary or desirable.
23 Whilst particulars of a mortgage or charge over Shares are entered in the register of members pursuant to Regulation 21:
(a) no transfer of any Share the subject of those particulars shall be effected;
(b) the Company may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any such Share; and
(c) no replacement certificate shall be issued in respect of such Shares, without the written consent of the named mortgagee or charge e.
FORFEITURE
24 Shares that are not fully paid on issue are subject to the forfeiture provisions set forth in this Regulation 24 and for this purpose Shares issued for a promissory note, other written obligation to contribute money or property or a contract for future services are deemed to be not fully paid.
25 A written notice of call specifying the date for payment to be made shall be served on the Shareholder who defaults in making payment in respect of the Shares.
26 The written notice of call referred to in Regulation 25 shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the notice on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the notice the Shares, or any of them, in respect of which payment is not made will be liable to be forfeited.
27 Where a written notice of call has been issued pursuant to Regulation 26 and the requirements of the notice have not been complied with, the directors may, at any time before tender of payment, forfeit and cancel the Shares to which the notice relates.
28 The Company is under no obligation to refund any moneys to the Shareholder whose Shares have been cancelled pursuant to Regulation 27 and that Shareholder shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company.
LIEN
29 The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every Share issued for a promissory note or for any other binding obligation to contribute money or property or any combination thereof to the Company, and the Company shall also have a first and paramount lien on every Share standing registered in the name of a Shareholder, whether singly or jointly with any other person or persons, for all the debts and liabilities of such Shareholder or his estate to the Company, whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any interest of any person other than such Shareholder, and whether the time for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such Shareholder or his estate and any other person, whether a Shareholder or not. The Company's lien on a Share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon. The directors may at any time either generally, or in any particular case, waive any lien that has arisen or declare any Share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Regulation 29.
30 In the absence of express provisions regarding sale in the promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute money or property, the Company may sell, in such manner as the directors may by Resolution of Directors determine, any Share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable nor until the expiration of twenty-one days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable and giving notice of the intention to sell in default of such payment, has been served on the holder for the time being of the Share.
31 The net proceeds of the sale by the Company of any Shares on which it has a lien shall be applied in or towards payment of discharge of the promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute money or property or any combination thereof in respect of which the lien exists so far as the same is presently payable and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the Share prior to the sale) be paid to the holder of the Share immediately before such sale. For giving effect to any such Sale the directors may authorise some person to transfer the Share sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the Share and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the Share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.
MEETINGS AND CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS
32 The directors of the Company may convene meetings of Shareholders at such times and in such manner and places as the directors consider necessary or desirable, and they shall convene such a meeting upon the written request of Shareholders entitled to exercise at least 30 percent of the voting rights in respect of the matter for which the meeting is requested.
33 The Company may hold an annual general meeting, but shall not (unless required by applicable rules of the New York Stock Exchange, for so long as the Company's securities are listed or traded on the New York Stock Exchange) be obliged to hold an annual general meeting.
34 Written notice of all meetings of Shareholders, stating the time, place and purposes thereof, shall be given not fewer than 7 days before the date of the proposed meeting to those persons whose names appear as Shareholders in the register of members of the Company on the date of the notice and are entitled to vote at the meeting.
35 The directors may fix as the record date for determining those Shareholders that are entitled to vote at the meeting the date notice is given of a meeting, or such other date as may be specified in the notice, being a date not earlier than the date of the notice.
36 Notwithstanding Regulation 34, a meeting of Shareholders held in contravention of the requirement to give notice is valid if the Shareholders holding at least 90 percent of:
(a) the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting; or
(b) the votes of each class or series of Shares where Shareholders are entitled to vote thereon as a class or series together with an absolute majority of the remaining votes, have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a Shareholder at the meeting shall be deemed to constitute waiver on his part.
37 The inadvertent failure of the directors to give notice of a meeting to a Shareholder, or the fact that a Shareholder has not received notice, shall not invalidate the meeting.
38 Votes may be given either personally or by proxy.
39 The instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place appointed for the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote.
40 The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in substantially the following form or such other form as the Chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the Shareholder appointing the proxy:
[Name of Company]
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