UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 or 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of March 2025
Commission File No. 001-32500
TRX GOLD Corporation
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
277 Lakeshore Road East, Suite 403
Oakville, Ontario Canada L6J 6J3
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under the cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F ☐ Form 40-F ☒
Approval of Continuance.
On March 27, 2025, the Registrar of Companies, British Columbia approved
TRX Gold Corporation’s (the “Corporation’s”) continuance from the Business Corporations Act (Alberta) to
the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia).
Attached and as filed as Exhibit 3.1 is the Corporation’s Articles
as filed with the Registrar of Companies, Province of British Columbia Canada.
Incorporation by Reference
The information set forth under “Approval
of Continuance” in this report on Form 6-K, including Exhibit 3.1, is hereby incorporated by reference into the Corporation’s
Registration Statement on Form F-10 as filed on December 18, 2024, and amended on January 14, 2025, and declared effective on January
21, 2025 (No. 333-283907), on Form F-3 (Nos. 333- 252876 and 333-255526), and on Form S-8 (No. 333-234078).
Regulation FD Disclosure.
On March 31, 2025, the Corporation
issued a press release, the full text of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report on Form 6-K.
The information reported under the
description of Regulation FD Disclosure, including Exhibit 99.1, is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed filed for purposes
of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities
of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange
Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.
Exhibits
The following exhibits are filed as part of this Form 6-K:
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this Form 6-K report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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TRX Gold Corporation |
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(Registrant) |
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By: |
/s/ Michael Leonard |
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Michael Leonard, Chief Financial Officer |
Date: March 31, 2025
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Exhibit 3.1
TRX GOLD CORPORATION
(the “Company”)
The Company has as its articles the following articles.
Full name and signature of a Director |
Date of signing |
signed “Shubo Rakhit”
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Shubo Rakhit |
March 24, 2025 |
Continuation Number: C1533236
TRX GOLD CORPORATION
(the “Company”)
ARTICLES
1. INTERPRETATION |
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1.1 Definitions |
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1.2 Business Corporations Act and Interpretation Act Definitions Applicable |
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1.3 Conflicts Between Articles and the Business Corporations Act |
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2. SHARES AND SHARE CERTIFICATES |
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2.1 Authorized Share Structure |
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2.2 Form of Share Certificate |
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2.3 Shareholder Entitled to Share Certificate or Acknowledgement |
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2.4 Delivery by Mail |
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2.5 Replacement of Worn Out or Defaced Share Certificate or Acknowledgement |
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2.6 Replacement of Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Share Certificate or Acknowledgement |
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2.7 Splitting Share Certificates |
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2.8 Share Certificate Fee |
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2.9 Recognition of Trusts |
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3. ISSUE OF SHARES |
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3.1 Directors Authorized |
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3.2 Commissions and Discounts |
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3.3 Brokerage |
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3.4 Conditions of Issue |
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3.5 Share Purchase Warrants and Rights |
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4. SECURITIES REGISTERS |
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4.1 Central Securities Register |
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4.2 Closing Register |
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5. SHARE TRANSFERS |
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5.1 Registering Transfers |
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5.2 Transferor Remains Shareholder |
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5.3 Signing of Instrument of Transfer |
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5.4 Enquiry as to Title Not Required |
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5.5 Transfer Fee |
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6. TRANSMISSION OF SHARES |
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6.1 Legal Personal Representative Recognized on Death |
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6.2 Rights of Legal Personal Representative |
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7. PURCHASE OR REDEMPTION OF SHARES |
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7.1 Company Authorized to Purchase or Redeem Shares |
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7.2 Purchase or Redemption When Insolvent |
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7.3 Sale and Voting of Purchased Shares |
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8. BORROWING POWERS |
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9. ALTERATIONS |
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9.1 Alteration of Authorized Share Structure |
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9.2 Change of Name |
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9.3 Other Alterations |
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10. MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS |
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10.1 Annual General Meetings |
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10.2 Resolution Instead of Annual General Meeting |
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10.3 Calling of Meetings of Shareholders |
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10.4 Location of Meeting |
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10.5 Notice for Meetings of Shareholders |
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10.6 Record Date for Notice |
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10.7 Record Date for Voting |
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10.8 Class Meetings and Series Meetings of Shareholders |
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10.9 Notice of Special Business at Meetings of Shareholders |
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10.10 Failure to Give Notice and Waiver of Notice |
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11. PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS |
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11.1 Special Business |
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11.2 Special Majority |
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11.3 Quorum |
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11.4 One Shareholder May Constitute Quorum |
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11.5 Other Persons May Attend |
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11.6 Requirement of Quorum |
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11.7 Lack of Quorum |
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11.8 Lack of Quorum at Succeeding Meeting |
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11.9 Chair |
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11.10 Selection of Alternate Chair |
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11.11 Adjournments |
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11.12 Notice of Adjourned Meeting |
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11.13 Decisions by Show of Hands or Poll |
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11.14 Declaration of Result |
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11.15 Motion Need Not be Seconded |
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11.16 Casting Vote |
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11.17 Manner of Taking Poll |
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11.18 Demand for Poll on Adjournment |
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11.19 Chair Must Resolve Dispute |
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11.20 Casting of Votes |
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11.21 Demand for Poll |
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11.22 Demand for Poll Not to Prevent Continuance of Meeting |
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11.23 Retention of Ballots and Proxies |
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12. VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS |
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12.1 Number of Votes by Shareholder or by Shares |
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12.2 Votes of Persons in Representative Capacity |
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12.3 Votes by Joint Holders |
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12.4 Legal Personal Representatives as Joint Shareholders |
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12.5 Representative of a Corporate Shareholder |
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12.6 Proxy Provisions Do Not Apply to All Companies |
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12.7 Appointment of Proxy Holders |
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12.8 Alternate Proxy Holders |
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12.9 Validity of Proxy Vote |
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12.10 Form of Proxy |
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12.11 Deposit of Proxy |
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12.12 Revocation of Proxy |
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12.13 Revocation of Proxy Must Be Signed |
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12.14 Production of Evidence of Authority to Vote |
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13. DIRECTORS |
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13.1 First Directors; Number of Directors |
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13.2 Change in Number of Directors |
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13.3 Directors’ Acts Valid Despite Vacancy |
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13.4 Qualifications of Directors |
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13.5 Remuneration of Directors |
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13.6 Reimbursement of Expenses of Directors |
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13.7 Special Remuneration for Directors |
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13.8 Gratuity, Pension or Allowance on Retirement of Director |
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14. ELECTION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS |
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14.1 Election at Annual General Meeting |
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14.2 Consent to be a Director |
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14.3 Failure to Elect or Appoint Directors |
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14.4 Places of Retiring Directors Not Filled |
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14.5 Directors May Fill Casual Vacancies, |
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14.6 Remaining Directors Power to Act |
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14.7 Shareholders May Fill Vacancies |
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14.8 Additional Directors |
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14.9 Ceasing to be a Director |
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14.10 Removal of Director by Shareholders |
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14.11 Removal of Director by Directors |
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15. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS |
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15.1 Powers of Management |
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15.2 Appointment of Attorney of Company |
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16. DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST OF DIRECTORS |
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16.1 Obligation to Account for Profits |
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16.2 Restrictions on Voting by Reason of Interest |
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16.3 Interested Director Counted in Quorum |
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16.4 Disclosure of Conflict of Interest or Property |
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16.5 Director Holding Other Office in the Company |
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16.6 No Disqualification |
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16.7 Professional Services by Director or Officer |
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16.8 Director or Officer in Other Corporations |
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17. PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS |
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17.1 Meetings of Directors |
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17.2 Voting at Meetings |
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17.3 Chair of Meetings |
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17.4 Meetings by Telephone or Other Communications Medium |
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17.5 Calling of Meetings |
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17.6 Notice of Meetings, |
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17.7 When Notice Not Required |
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17.8 Meeting Valid Despite Failure to Give Notice |
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17.9 Waiver of Notice of Meetings |
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17.10 Quorum |
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17.11 Validity of Acts Where Appointment Defective |
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17.12 Consent Resolutions in Writing |
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18. EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMITTEES |
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18.1 Appointment and Powers of Executive Committee |
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18.2 Appointment and Powers of Other Committees |
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18.3 Obligations of Committees |
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18.4 Powers of Board |
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18.5 Committee Meetings |
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19. OFFICERS |
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19.1 Directors May Appoint Officers |
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19.2 Functions, Duties and Powers of Officers |
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19.3 Qualifications |
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19.4 Remuneration and Terms of Appointment |
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20. INDEMNIFICATION |
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20.1 Definitions |
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20.2 Mandatory Indemnification of Directors and Former Directors |
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20.3 Indemnification of Other Persons |
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20.4 Non-Compliance with Business Corporations Act |
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20.5 Company May Purchase Insurance |
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20.6 Heirs and Beneficiaries |
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20.7 Effect of Amendment |
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21. DIVIDENDS |
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21.1 Payment of Dividends Subject to Special Rights |
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21.2 Declaration of Dividends |
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21.3 No Notice Required |
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21.4 Record Date |
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21.5 Manner of Paying Dividend |
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21.6 Settlement of Difficulties |
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21.7 When Dividend Payable |
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21.8 Dividends to be Paid in Accordance with Number of Shares |
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21.9 Receipt by Joint Shareholders |
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21.10 Dividend Bears No Interest |
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21.11 Fractional Dividends |
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21.12 Payment of Dividends |
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21.13 Capitalization of Surplus |
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22. DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND REPORTS |
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22.1 Recording of Financial Affairs |
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22.2 Inspection of Accounting Records |
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23. NOTICES |
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23.1 Method of Giving Notice |
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23.2 Deemed Receipt of Mailing |
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23.3 Certificate of Sending |
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23.4 Notice to Joint Shareholders |
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23.5 Notice to Trustees |
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24. SEAL |
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24.1 Who May Attest Seal |
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24.2 Sealing Copies |
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24.3 Mechanical Reproduction of Seal |
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25. PROHIBITIONS |
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25.1 Definitions |
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25.2 Application |
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25.3 Consent Required for Transfer of Shares or Designated Securities |
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26. ADVANCE NOTICE PROVISIONS |
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26.1 Nomination of Directors |
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26.2 Application |
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TRX GOLD CORPORATION
(the “Company”)
In these Articles, unless the context otherwise requires:
| (1) | “board of directors”, “directors” and “board” mean the directors or
sole director of the Company, as the case may be; |
| (2) | “Business Corporations Act” means the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia)
from time to time in force and all amendments thereto and includes all regulations and amendments thereto made pursuant to that Act; |
| (3) | “Interpretation Act” means the Interpretation Act (British Columbia) from time
to time in force and all amendments thereto and includes all regulations and amendments thereto made pursuant to that Act; |
| (4) | “legal personal representative” means the personal or other legal representative of a shareholder,
and includes a trustee in bankruptcy of the shareholder; |
| (5) | “registered address” of a shareholder means that shareholder’s address as recorded in
the central securities register; and |
| (6) | “seal” means the seal of the Company, if any. |
| 1.2 | Business Corporations Act and Interpretation Act Definitions Applicable |
The definitions in the Business Corporations Act and the definitions
and rules of construction in the Interpretation Act, with the necessary changes, so far as applicable, and unless the context requires
otherwise, apply to these Articles as if these Articles were an enactment. If there is a conflict between a definition in the Business
Corporations Act and a definition or rule in the Interpretation Act relating to a term used in these Articles, the definition
in the Business Corporations Act will prevail in relation to the use of the term in these Articles.
| 1.3 | Conflicts Between Articles and the Business Corporations Act |
If there is a conflict or inconsistency between these Articles and the
Business Corporations Act, the Business Corporations Act will prevail.
| 2. | SHARES AND SHARE CERTIFICATES |
| 2.1 | Authorized Share Structure |
The authorized share structure of the Company consists of shares of the
class or classes and series, if any, described in the Notice of Articles of the Company.
| 2.2 | Form of Share Certificate |
Each share certificate issued by the Company must comply with, and be signed
as required by, the Business Corporations Act.
| 2.3 | Shareholder Entitled to Share Certificate or Acknowledgement |
Each shareholder is entitled, without charge, to (a) one share certificate
representing the shares of each class or series of shares registered in the shareholder’s name or (b) a non-transferable written
acknowledgement of the shareholder’s right to obtain such a share certificate, provided that in respect of a share held jointly
by several persons, the Company is not bound to issue more than one share certificate or acknowledgement, and delivery of a share certificate
or acknowledgement, for a share to one of several joint shareholders or to one of the shareholders’ duly authorized agents will
be sufficient delivery to all.
Any share certificate or non-transferable written acknowledgement of a
shareholder’s right to obtain a share certificate may be sent to the shareholder by mail at the shareholder’s registered address
and neither the Company nor any director, officer or agent of the Company is liable for any loss to the shareholder because the share
certificate or acknowledgement is lost in the mail or stolen.
| 2.5 | Replacement of Worn Out or Defaced Share Certificate or Acknowledgement |
If the directors are satisfied that a share certificate or a non-transferable
written acknowledgement of a shareholder’s right to obtain a share certificate is worn out or defaced, the directors must, on production
to them of the share certificate or acknowledgement, as the case may be, and on such other terms, if any, the directors think fit:
| (1) | order the share certificate or acknowledgement, as the case may be, to be cancelled; and |
| (2) | issue a replacement share certificate or acknowledgement, as the case may be. |
| 2.6 | Replacement of Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Share Certificate or Acknowledgement |
If a share certificate or a non-transferable written acknowledgement of
a shareholder’s right to obtain a share certificate is lost, stolen or destroyed, a replacement share certificate or acknowledgement,
as the case may be, must be issued to the person entitled to that share certificate or acknowledgement, as the case may be, if the directors
receive:
| (1) | proof satisfactory to the directors that the share certificate or acknowledgement is lost, stolen or destroyed;
and |
| (2) | any indemnity the directors consider adequate. |
| 2.7 | Splitting Share Certificates |
If a shareholder surrenders a share certificate to the Company with a written
request that the Company issue in the shareholder’s name two or more share certificates, each representing a specified number of
shares and in the aggregate representing the same number of shares as the share certificate so surrendered, the Company must cancel the
surrendered share certificate and issue replacement share certificates in accordance with that request.
There must be paid to the Company, in relation to the issue of any share
certificate under Articles 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7, the amount, if any and which must not exceed the amount prescribed under the Business Corporations
Act, determined by the directors.
Except as required by law or statute or these Articles, no person will
be recognized by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company is not bound by or compelled in any way to recognize
(even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or fraction of a share or (except
as by law or statute or these Articles provided or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction) any other rights in respect of any
share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the shareholder.
Subject to the Business Corporations Act and rights of the holders
of issued shares of the Company, the Company may issue, allot, sell or otherwise dispose of the unissued shares, and issued shares held
by the Company, at the times, to the persons, including directors, in the manner, on the terms and conditions and for the issue prices
(including any premium at which shares with par value may be issued) that the directors may determine. The issue price for a share with
par value must be equal to or greater than the par value of the share.
| 3.2 | Commissions and Discounts |
The Company may at any time, pay a reasonable commission or allow a reasonable
discount to any person in consideration of that person purchasing or agreeing to purchase shares of the Company from the Company or any
other person or procuring or agreeing to procure purchasers for shares of the Company.
The Company may pay such brokerage fee or other consideration as may be
lawful for or in connection with the sale or placement of its securities.
Except as provided for by the Business Corporations Act, no share
may be issued until it is fully paid. A share is fully paid when:
| (1) | consideration is provided to the Company for the issue of the share by one or more of the following: |
| (a) | past services performed for the Company; |
| (2) | the value of the consideration received by the Company equals or exceeds the issue price set for the share
under Article 3.1. |
| 3.5 | Share Purchase Warrants and Rights |
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, the Company may issue
share purchase warrants, options and rights upon such terms and conditions as the directors determine, which share purchase warrants,
options and rights may be issued alone or in conjunction with debentures, debenture stock, bonds, shares or any other securities issued
or created by the Company from time to time.
| 4.1 | Central Securities Register |
As required by and subject to the Business Corporations Act, the
Company must maintain in British Columbia a central securities register. The directors may, subject to the Business Corporations Act,
appoint an agent to maintain the central securities register. The directors may also appoint one or more agents, including the agent
which keeps the central securities register, as transfer agent for its shares or any class or series of its shares, as the case may be,
and the same or another agent as registrar for its shares or such class or series of its shares, as the case may be. The directors may
terminate such appointment of any agent at any time and may appoint another agent in its place.
The Company must not at any time close its central securities register.
A transfer of a share of the Company must not be registered unless:
| (1) | a duly signed instrument of transfer in respect of the share has been received by the Company; |
| (2) | if a share certificate has been issued by the Company in respect of the share to be transferred, that
share certificate has been surrendered to the Company; and |
| (3) | if a non-transferable written acknowledgement of the shareholder’s right to obtain a share certificate
has been issued by the Company in respect of the share to be transferred, that acknowledgement has been surrendered to the Company. |
| 5.2 | Transferor Remains Shareholder |
Except to the extent that the Business Corporations Act otherwise
provides, a transferor of shares is deemed to remain the holder of the shares until the name of the transferee is entered in a securities
register of the Company in respect of the transfer.
| 5.3 | Signing of Instrument of Transfer |
If a shareholder, or his or her duly authorized attorney, signs an instrument
of transfer in respect of shares registered in the name of the shareholder, the signed instrument of transfer constitutes a complete and
sufficient authority to the Company and its directors, officers and agents to register the number of shares specified in the instrument
of transfer or specified in any other manner, or, if no number is specified, all the shares represented by the share certificates or set
out in the written acknowledgements deposited with the instrument of transfer:
| (1) | in the name of the person named as transferee in that instrument of transfer; or |
| (2) | if no person is named as transferee in that instrument of transfer, in the name of the person on whose
behalf the instrument is deposited for the purpose of having the transfer registered. |
| 5.4 | Enquiry as to Title Not Required |
Neither the Company nor any director, officer or agent of the Company is
bound to inquire into the title of the person named in the instrument of transfer as transferee or, if no person is named as transferee
in the instrument of transfer, of the person on whose behalf the instrument is deposited for the purpose of having the transfer registered
or is liable for any claim related to registering the transfer by the shareholder or by any intermediate owner or holder of the shares,
of any interest in the shares, of any share certificate representing such shares or of any written acknowledgement of a right to obtain
a share certificate for such shares.
There must be paid to the Company, in relation to the registration of any
transfer, the amount, if any, determined by the directors.
| 6.1 | Legal Personal Representative Recognized on Death |
In case of the death of a shareholder, the legal personal representative,
or if the shareholder was a joint holder, the surviving joint holder, will be the only person recognized by the Company as having any
title to the shareholder’s interest in the shares. Before recognizing a person as a legal personal representative, the directors
may require proof of appointment by a court of competent jurisdiction, a grant of letters probate, letters of administration or such other
evidence or documents as the directors consider appropriate.
| 6.2 | Rights of Legal Personal Representative |
The legal personal representative of a shareholder has the same rights,
privileges and obligations that attach to the shares held by the shareholder, including the right to transfer the shares in accordance
with these Articles, provided the documents required by the Business Corporations Act and the directors have been deposited with
the Company.
| 7. | PURCHASE OR REDEMPTION OF SHARES |
| 7.1 | Company Authorized to Purchase or Redeem Shares |
Subject to Article 7.2, the special rights and restrictions attached to
the shares of any class or series and the Business Corporations Act, the Company may, if authorized by the directors, purchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire any of its shares at the price and upon the terms specified in such resolution.
| 7.2 | Purchase or Redemption When Insolvent |
The Company must not make a payment or provide any other consideration
to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of its shares if there are reasonable grounds for believing that:
| (1) | the Company is insolvent; or |
| (2) | making the payment or providing the consideration would render the Company insolvent. |
| 7.3 | Sale and Voting of Purchased Shares |
If the Company retains a share redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired
by it, the Company may sell, gift or otherwise dispose of the share, but, while such share is held by the Company, it:
| (1) | is not entitled to vote the share at a meeting of its shareholders; |
| (2) | must not pay a dividend in respect of the share; and |
| (3) | must not make any other distribution in respect of the share. |
The Company, if authorized by the directors, may:
| (1) | borrow money in the manner and amount, on the security, from the sources and on the terms and conditions
that the directors consider appropriate; |
| (2) | issue bonds, debentures and other debt obligations either outright or as security for any liability or
obligation of the Company or any other person and at such discounts or premiums and on such other terms as the directors consider appropriate; |
| (3) | guarantee the repayment of money by any other person or the performance of any obligation of any other
person; and |
| (4) | mortgage, charge, whether by way of specific or floating charge, grant a security interest in, or give
other security on, the whole or any part of the present and future assets and undertaking of the Company. |
| 9.1 | Alteration of Authorized Share Structure |
| (1) | Subject to the Business Corporations Act, the Company may by resolution of the board of directors: |
| (a) | create one or more classes or series of shares or, if none of the shares of a class or series of shares
are allotted or issued, eliminate that class or series of shares; |
| (b) | increase, reduce or eliminate the maximum number of shares that the Company is authorized to issue out
of any class or series of shares or establish a maximum number of shares that the Company is authorized to issue out of any class or series
of shares for which no maximum is established; |
| (c) | subject to Article 2.1, alter the identifying name of any of its shares; |
| (d) | subdivide or consolidate all or any of its unissued, or fully paid issued, shares; |
| (e) | if the Company is authorized to issue shares of a class of shares with par value: |
| (A) | decrease the par value of those shares; or |
| (B) | if none of the shares of that class of shares are allotted or issued, increase the par value of those
shares; |
| (f) | change all or any of its unissued, or fully paid issued, shares with par value into shares without par
value or any of its unissued shares without par value into shares with par value; or |
| (g) | subject to Article 2.1, otherwise alter its shares or authorized share structure when required or permitted
to do so by the Business Corporations Act. |
The Company may by resolution of the board of directors authorize an alteration
of its Notice of Articles in order to change its name or adopt or change any translation of that name.
If the Business Corporations Act does not specify the type of resolution
and these Articles do not specify another type of resolution, the Company may by ordinary resolution alter these Articles.
| 10. | MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS |
| 10.1 | Annual General Meetings |
Unless an annual general meeting is deferred or waived in accordance with
the Business Corporations Act, the Company must hold its first annual general meeting within 18 months after the date on which
it was incorporated or otherwise recognized, and after that must hold an annual general meeting at least once in each calendar year and
not more than 15 months after the last annual reference date at such time and place as may be determined by the directors.
| 10.2 | Resolution Instead of Annual General Meeting |
If all the shareholders who are entitled to vote at an annual general meeting
consent by a unanimous resolution under the Business Corporations Act to all of the business that is required to be transacted
at that annual general meeting, the annual general meeting is deemed to have been held on the date of the unanimous resolution. The shareholders
must, in any unanimous resolution passed under this Article 10.2, select as the Company’s annual reference date a date that would
be appropriate for the holding of the applicable annual general meeting.
| 10.3 | Calling of Meetings of Shareholders |
The directors may, whenever they think fit, call a meeting of shareholders.
A general meeting of the Company may be held anywhere in the world (including
a virtual location) as determined by the directors.
| 10.5 | Notice for Meetings of Shareholders |
The Company must send notice of the date, time and location (including
a virtual location) of any meeting of shareholders, in the manner provided in these Articles, or in such other manner, if any, as may
be prescribed by ordinary resolution (whether previous notice of the resolution has been given or not), to each shareholder entitled to
attend the meeting, to each director and to the auditor of the Company, unless these Articles otherwise provide, at least the following
number of days before the meeting:
| (1) | if and for so long as the Company is a public company, 21 days; |
| 10.6 | Record Date for Notice |
The directors may set a date as the record date for the purpose of determining
shareholders entitled to notice of any meeting of shareholders. The record date must not precede the date on which the meeting is to be
held by more than two months or, in the case of a general meeting requisitioned by shareholders under the Business Corporations Act,
by more than four months. The record date must not precede the date on which the meeting is held by fewer than:
| (1) | if and for so long as the Company is a public company, 21 days; |
If no record date is set, the record date is 5:00 p.m. on the day immediately
preceding the first date on which the notice is sent or, if no notice is sent, the beginning of the meeting.
| 10.7 | Record Date for Voting |
The directors may set a date as the record date for the purpose of determining
shareholders entitled to vote at any meeting of shareholders. The record date must not precede the date on which the meeting is to be
held by more than two months or, in the case of a general meeting requisitioned by shareholders under the Business Corporations Act,
by more than four months. If no record date is set, the record date is 5:00 p.m. on the day immediately preceding the first date on which
the notice is sent or, if no notice is sent, the beginning of the meeting.
| 10.8 | Class Meetings and Series Meetings of Shareholders |
Subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act, unless
specified otherwise in these Articles or in the special rights and restrictions attached to any class or series of shares, the provisions
of these Articles relating to general meetings will apply, with the necessary changes and so far as they are applicable, to a class meeting
or series meeting of shareholders holding a particular class or series of shares.
| 10.9 | Notice of Special Business at Meetings of Shareholders |
If a meeting of shareholders is to consider special business within the
meaning of Article 11.1, the notice of meeting must:
| (1) | state the general nature of the special business; and |
| (2) | if the special business includes considering, approving, ratifying, adopting or authorizing any document
or the signing of or giving of effect to any document, have attached to it a copy of the document or state that a copy of the document
will be available for inspection by shareholders: |
| (a) | at the Company’s records office, or at such other reasonably accessible location in British Columbia
as is specified in the notice; and |
| (b) | during statutory business hours on any one or more specified days before the day set for the holding of
the meeting. |
| 10.10 | Failure to Give Notice and Waiver of Notice |
The accidental omission to send notice of any meeting of shareholders to,
or the non-receipt of any notice by, any of the persons entitled to notice does not invalidate any proceedings at that meeting. Any person
entitled to notice of a meeting of shareholders may, in writing or otherwise, waive or reduce the period of notice of such meeting.
| 11. | PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS |
At a meeting of shareholders, the following business is special business:
| (1) | at a meeting of shareholders that is not an annual general meeting, all business is special business except
business relating to the conduct of, or voting at, the meeting; |
| (2) | at an annual general meeting, all business is special business except for the following: |
| (a) | business relating to the conduct of, or voting at, the meeting; |
| (b) | consideration of any financial statements of the Company presented to the meeting; |
| (c) | consideration of any reports of the directors or auditor; |
| (d) | the setting or changing of the number of directors; |
| (e) | the election or appointment of directors; |
| (f) | the appointment of an auditor; |
| (g) | the setting of the remuneration of an auditor; |
| (h) | business arising out of a report of the directors not requiring the passing of a special resolution or
an exceptional resolution; |
| (i) | any other business which, under these Articles or the Business Corporations Act, may be transacted
at a meeting of shareholders without prior notice of the business being given to the shareholders. |
The majority of votes required for the Company to pass a special resolution
at a meeting of shareholders is two-thirds of the votes cast on the resolution.
Subject to the special rights and restrictions attached to the shares of
any class or series of shares, the quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of shareholders is two (2) shareholders entitled
to vote at the meeting, present in person or represented by proxy.
| 11.4 | One Shareholder May Constitute Quorum |
If there is only one shareholder entitled to vote at a meeting of shareholders:
| (1) | the quorum is one person who is, or who represents by proxy, that shareholder, and |
| (2) | that shareholder, present in person or by proxy, may constitute the meeting. |
| 11.5 | Other Persons May Attend |
The directors, the president (if any), the chief executive officer (if
any), the chief financial officer (if any), the chief operating officer (if any), the secretary (if any), the assistant secretary (if
any), the auditor of the Company, the lawyers for the Company and any other persons invited by the directors are entitled to attend any
meeting of shareholders, but if any of those persons does attend a meeting of shareholders, that person is not to be counted in the quorum
and is not entitled to vote at the meeting unless that person is a shareholder or proxy holder entitled to vote at the meeting.
| 11.6 | Requirement of Quorum |
No business, other than the election of a chair of the meeting and the
adjournment of the meeting, may be transacted at any meeting of shareholders unless a quorum of shareholders entitled to vote is present
at the commencement of the meeting, but such quorum need not be present throughout the meeting.
If, within one-half hour from the time set for the holding of a meeting
of shareholders, a quorum is not present:
| (1) | in the case of a general meeting requisitioned by shareholders, the meeting is dissolved; and |
| (2) | in the case of any other meeting of shareholders, the meeting stands adjourned to the same day in the
next week at the same time and place. |
| 11.8 | Lack of Quorum at Succeeding Meeting |
If, at the meeting to which the meeting referred to in Article 11.7(2)
was adjourned, a quorum is not present within one-half hour from the time set for the holding of the meeting, the person or persons present
and being, or representing by proxy, one or more shareholders entitled to attend and vote at the meeting constitute a quorum.
The following individual is entitled to preside as chair at a meeting of
shareholders:
| (1) | the chair of the board, if any; |
| (2) | if the chair of the board is absent or unwilling to act as chair of the meeting, the president, if any;
or |
| (3) | such other person designated by the directors. |
| 11.10 | Selection of Alternate Chair |
If, at any meeting of shareholders, the person appointed under section
11.9 above is not present within 15 minutes after the time set for holding the meeting, or if such person is unwilling to act as chair
of the meeting, or if such person has advised the secretary, if any, or any director present at the meeting, that such person will not
be present at the meeting, the directors present must choose: one of their number, a senior officer or counsel to the Company to chair
the meeting or if the director, senior officer or counsel present declines to take the chair or if the directors fail to so choose or
if no director, senior officer or counsel is present, the shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting who are present in person or by
proxy may choose any person present at the meeting to chair the meeting.
The chair of a meeting of shareholders may, and if so directed by the meeting
must, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business may be transacted at any adjourned meeting other
than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
| 11.12 | Notice of Adjourned Meeting |
It is not necessary to give any notice of an adjourned meeting or of the
business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting of shareholders except that, when a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice
of the adjourned meeting must be given as in the case of the original meeting.
| 11.13 | Decisions by Show of Hands or Poll |
Every motion put to a vote at a meeting of shareholders will be decided
on a show of hands unless a poll, before or on the declaration of the result of the vote by show of hands, is directed by the chair or
demanded by at least one shareholder entitled to vote who is present in person or by proxy.
| 11.14 | Declaration of Result |
The chair of a meeting of shareholders must declare to the meeting the
decision on every question in accordance with the result of the show of hands or the poll, as the case may be, and that decision must
be entered in the minutes of the meeting. A declaration of the chair that a resolution is carried by the necessary majority or is defeated
is, unless a poll is directed by the chair or demanded under Article 11.13, conclusive evidence without proof of the number or proportion
of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution.
| 11.15 | Motion Need Not be Seconded |
No motion proposed at a meeting of shareholders need be seconded unless
the chair of the meeting rules otherwise, and the chair of any meeting of shareholders is entitled to propose or second a motion.
In case of an equality of votes, the chair of a meeting of shareholders
does not, either on a show of hands or on a poll, have a second or casting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which the chair may
be entitled as a shareholder.
| 11.17 | Manner of Taking Poll |
Subject to Article 11.18, if a poll is duly demanded at a meeting of shareholders:
| (1) | the poll must be taken: |
| (a) | at the meeting, or within seven days after the date of the meeting, as the chair of the meeting directs;
and |
| (b) | in the manner, at the time and at the place that the chair of the meeting directs; |
| (2) | the result of the poll is deemed to be the decision of the meeting at which the poll is demanded; and |
| (3) | the demand for the poll may be withdrawn by the person who demanded it. |
| 11.18 | Demand for Poll on Adjournment |
A poll demanded at a meeting of shareholders on a question of adjournment
must be taken immediately at the meeting.
| 11.19 | Chair Must Resolve Dispute |
In the case of any dispute as to the admission or rejection of a vote given
on a poll, the chair of a meeting of the shareholders must determine the dispute, and his or her determination made in good faith is final
and conclusive.
On a poll, a shareholder entitled to more than one vote need not cast all
the votes in the same way.
No poll may be demanded in respect of the vote by which a chair of a meeting
of shareholders is elected.
| 11.22 | Demand for Poll Not to Prevent Continuance of Meeting |
The demand for a poll at a meeting of shareholders does not, unless the
chair of the meeting so rules, prevent the continuation of a meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which
a poll has been demanded.
| 11.23 | Retention of Ballots and Proxies |
The Company must, for at least three months after a meeting of shareholders,
keep each ballot cast on a poll and each proxy voted at the meeting, and during that period, make such ballots and proxies available for
inspection during normal business hours by any shareholder or proxyholder entitled to vote at the meeting. At the end of such three month
period, the Company may destroy such ballots and proxies.
| 12.1 | Number of Votes by Shareholder or by Shares |
Subject to any special rights or restrictions attached to any shares and
to the restrictions imposed on joint shareholders under Article 12.3:
| (1) | on a vote by show of hands, every person present who is a shareholder or proxy holder and entitled to
vote on the matter has one vote; and |
| (2) | on a poll, every shareholder entitled to vote on the matter has one vote in respect of each share entitled
to be voted on the matter and held by that shareholder and may exercise that vote either in person or by proxy. |
| 12.2 | Votes of Persons in Representative Capacity |
A person who is not a shareholder may vote at a meeting of shareholders,
whether on a show of hands or on a poll, and may appoint a proxy holder to act at the meeting, if, before doing so, the person satisfies
the chair of the meeting, or the directors, that the person is a legal personal representative for a shareholder who is entitled to vote
at the meeting.
| 12.3 | Votes by Joint Holders |
If there are joint shareholders registered in respect of any share:
| (1) | any one of the joint shareholders may vote at any meeting of the shareholders, either personally or by
proxy, in respect of the share as if that joint shareholder were solely entitled to it; or |
| (2) | if more than one of the joint shareholders is present at any meeting of the shareholders, personally or
by proxy, and more than one of the joint shareholders votes in respect of that share, then only the vote of the joint shareholder present
whose name stands first on the central securities register in respect of the share will be counted. |
| 12.4 | Legal Personal Representatives as Joint Shareholders |
Two or more legal personal representatives of a shareholder in whose sole
name any share is registered are, for the purposes of Article 12.3, deemed to be joint shareholders.
| 12.5 | Representative of a Corporate Shareholder |
If a corporation, that is not a subsidiary of the Company, is a shareholder,
that corporation may appoint a person to act as its representative at any meeting of the shareholders by written instrument, fax or any
other method of transmitting legibly recorded messages and:
| (1) | for that purpose, the instrument appointing a representative must: |
| (a) | be received at the registered office of the Company or at any other place specified for the receipt of
proxies, in the notice calling the meeting, at least the number of business days for the receipt of proxies specified in the notice, or
if no number of days is specified in the notice, at least, two business days before the day set for the holding of the meeting; or |
| (b) | be provided, at the meeting, to the chair of the meeting or to a person designated by the chair of the
meeting; |
| (2) | if a representative is appointed under this Article 12.5: |
| (a) | the representative is entitled to exercise in respect of and at that meeting the same rights on behalf
of the corporation that the corporation could exercise if it were a shareholder who is an individual, including, without limitation, the
right to appoint a proxy holder; and |
| (b) | the representative, if present at the meeting, is to be counted for the purpose of forming a quorum and
is deemed to be a shareholder present in person at the meeting. |
| 12.6 | Proxy Provisions Do Not Apply to All Companies |
Article 12.9 does not apply to the Company if and for so long as it is
a public company or a preexisting reporting company which has the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions as part of its Articles or to
which the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions apply. Sections 12.7 to 12.16 apply to the Company only insofar as they are not inconsistent
with any applicable securities legislation and any regulations and rules made and promulgated under such legislation and all administrative
policy statements, blanket orders and rulings, notices and other administrative directions issued by securities commission or similar
authorities appointed under that legislation.
| 12.7 | Appointment of Proxy Holders |
Every shareholder of the Company, including a corporation that is a shareholder
but not a subsidiary of the Company, entitled to vote at a meeting of the shareholders of the Company may, by proxy, appoint one or more
(but not more than five) proxy holders to attend and act at the meeting in the manner, to the extent and with the powers conferred by
the instrument of proxy.
| 12.8 | Alternate Proxy Holders |
A shareholder may appoint one or more alternate proxy holders to act in
the place of an absent proxy holder.
| 12.9 | Validity of Proxy Vote |
A vote given in accordance with the terms of a proxy is valid notwithstanding
the death or incapacity of the shareholder giving the proxy and despite the revocation of the proxy or the revocation of the authority
under which the proxy is given, unless notice in writing of that death, incapacity or revocation is received:
| (1) | at the registered office of the Company, at any time up to and including the last business day before
the day set for the holding of the meeting or any adjourned meeting at which the proxy is to be used; or |
| (2) | at the meeting or any adjourned meeting, by the chair of the meeting or adjourned meeting, before any
vote in respect of which the proxy has been given has been taken. |
A proxy, whether for a specified meeting or otherwise, must be either in
the following form or in any other form designated by the directors, the scrutineer or the chair of the meeting:
[name of company]
(the “Company”)
The undersigned, being a shareholder of the Company, hereby appoints
[name] or, failing that person, [name], as proxy holder for the undersigned to attend, act and vote for and on behalf of
the undersigned at the meeting of shareholders of the Company to be held on [month, day, year] and at any adjournment of that meeting.
Number of shares in respect of which this proxy is given (if
no number is specified, then this proxy is given in respect of all shares registered in the name of the undersigned): .
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Signed [month, day, year] |
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[Signature of shareholder] |
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[Name of shareholder- printed] |
A proxy for a meeting of shareholders must be by written instrument, fax
or any other method of transmitting legibly messages and must:
| (1) | be received at the registered office of the Company or at any other place specified for the receipt of
proxies, in the notice calling the meeting, at least the number of business days specified in the notice for the receipt of proxies, or
if no number of days is specified, in the notice, at least two business days before the day set for the holding of the meeting; or |
| (2) | unless the notice provides otherwise, be deposited at the meeting, to the chair of the meeting or to a
person designated by the chair of the meeting. |
A proxy may be sent to the Company by written instrument, fax or any other
method of transmitting legibly recorded messages.
Subject to Article 12.13, every proxy may be revoked by an instrument in
writing that is:
| (1) | received at the registered office of the Company at any time up to and including the last business day
before the day set for the holding of the meeting at which the proxy is to be used; or |
| (2) | deposited with the chair of the meeting, at the meeting, before any vote in respect of which the proxy
is to be used shall have been taken. |
| 12.13 | Revocation of Proxy Must Be Signed |
An instrument referred to in Article 12.13 must be signed as follows:
| (1) | if the shareholder for whom the proxy holder is appointed is an individual, the instrument must be signed
by the shareholder or his or her legal personal representative; |
| (2) | if the shareholder for whom the proxy holder is appointed is a corporation, the instrument must be signed
by the corporation or by a representative appointed for the corporation under Article 12.5. |
| 12.14 | Production of Evidence of Authority to Vote |
The chair of any meeting of shareholders may, but need not, inquire into
the authority of any person to vote at the meeting and may, but need not, demand from that person production of evidence as to the existence
of the authority to vote.
| 13.1 | First Directors; Number of Directors |
The first directors are the persons designated as directors of the Company
in the Notice of Articles that applies to the Company when it is recognized under the Business Corporations Act. The number of
directors, excluding additional directors appointed under Article 14.8, is set at:
| (1) | subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the number of directors that is equal to the number of the Company’s
first directors; |
| (2) | if the Company is a public company, the greater of three and the most recently set of: |
| (a) | the number of directors set by ordinary resolution (whether or not previous notice of the resolution was
given); and |
| (b) | the number of directors set under Article 14.4; |
| (3) | if the Company is not a public company, the most recently set of: |
| (a) | the number of directors set by ordinary resolution (whether or not previous notice of the resolution was
given); and |
| (b) | the number of directors set under Article 14.4. |
| 13.2 | Change in Number of Directors |
If the number of directors is set under Articles 13.1(2)(a) or 13.1(3)(a):
| (1) | the shareholders may elect or appoint the directors needed to fill any vacancies in the board of directors
up to that number; |
| (2) | if the shareholders do not elect or appoint the directors needed to fill any vacancies in
the board of directors up to that number contemporaneously with the setting of that number, then the directors may appoint, or the
shareholders may elect or appoint, directors to fill those vacancies.
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| 13.3 | Directors’ Acts Valid Despite Vacancy |
An act or proceeding of the directors is not invalid merely because fewer
than the number of directors set or otherwise required under these Articles is in office.
| 13.4 | Qualifications of Directors |
A director is not required to hold a share in the capital of the Company
as qualification for his or her office but must be qualified as required by the Business Corporations Act to become, act or continue
to act as a director.
| 13.5 | Remuneration of Directors |
The directors are entitled to the remuneration for acting as directors,
if any, as the directors may from time to time determine. If the directors so decide, the remuneration of the directors, if any, will
be determined by the shareholders. That remuneration may be in addition to any salary or other remuneration paid to any officer or employee
of the Company as such, who is also a director.
| 13.6 | Reimbursement of Expenses of Directors |
The Company must reimburse each director for the reasonable expenses that
he or she may incur in and about the business of the Company.
| 13.7 | Special Remuneration for Directors |
If any director performs any professional or other services for the Company
that in the opinion of the directors are outside the ordinary duties of a director, or if any director is otherwise specially occupied
in or about the Company’s business, he or she may be paid remuneration fixed by the directors, or, at the option of that director,
fixed by ordinary resolution, and such remuneration may be either in addition to, or in substitution for, any other remuneration that
he or she may be entitled to receive.
| 13.8 | Gratuity, Pension or Allowance on Retirement of Director |
Unless otherwise determined by ordinary resolution, the directors on behalf
of the Company may pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any director who has held any salaried office or place of profit
with the Company or to his or her spouse or dependents and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision
of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.
| 14. | ELECTION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS |
| 14.1 | Election at Annual General Meeting |
At every annual general meeting and in every unanimous resolution contemplated
by Article 10.2:
| (1) | the shareholders entitled to vote at the annual general meeting for the election of directors must elect,
or in the unanimous resolution appoint, a board of directors consisting of the number of directors for the time being set under these
Articles; and |
| (2) | all the directors cease to hold office immediately before the election or appointment of directors under
paragraph (1), but are eligible for re-election or re-appointment. |
| 14.2 | Consent to be a Director |
No election, appointment or designation of an individual as a director
is valid unless:
| (1) | that individual consents to be a director in the manner provided for in the Business Corporations Act; |
| (2) | that individual is elected or appointed at a meeting at which the individual is present and the individual
does not refuse, at the meeting, to be a director; or |
| (3) | with respect to first directors, the designation is otherwise valid under the Business Corporations
Act. |
| 14.3 | Failure to Elect or Appoint Directors |
If:
| (1) | the Company fails to hold an annual general meeting, and all the shareholders who are entitled to vote
at an annual general meeting fail to pass the unanimous resolution contemplated by Article 10.2, on or before the date by which the annual
general meeting is required to be held under the Business Corporations Act; or |
| (2) | the shareholders fail, at the annual general meeting or in the unanimous resolution contemplated by Article
10.2, to elect or appoint any directors; |
then each director then in office continues to hold office until the earlier
of:
| (3) | the date on which his or her successor is elected or appointed; and |
| (4) | the date on which he or she otherwise ceases to hold office under the Business Corporations Act or
these Articles. |
| 14.4 | Places of Retiring Directors Not Filled |
If, at any meeting of shareholders at which there should be an election
of directors, the places of any of the retiring directors are not filled by that election, those retiring directors who are not reelected
and who are asked by the newly elected directors to continue in office will, if willing to do so, continue in office to complete the number
of directors for the time being set pursuant to these Articles until further new directors are elected at a meeting of shareholders convened
for that purpose. If any such election or continuance of directors does not result in the election or continuance of the number of directors
for the time being set pursuant to these Articles, the number of directors of the Company is deemed to be set at the number of directors
actually elected or continued in office.
| 14.5 | Directors May Fill Casual Vacancies, |
Any casual vacancy occurring in the board of directors may be filled by
the directors.
| 14.6 | Remaining Directors Power to Act |
The directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the board of directors,
but if the Company has fewer directors in office than the number set pursuant to these Articles as the quorum of directors, the directors
may only act for the purpose of appointing directors up to that number or of summoning a meeting of shareholders for the purpose of filling
any vacancies on the board of directors or, subject to the Business Corporations Act, for any other purpose.
| 14.7 | Shareholders May Fill Vacancies |
If the Company has no directors or fewer directors in office than the number
set pursuant to these Articles as the quorum of directors, the shareholders may elect or appoint directors to fill any vacancies on the
board of directors.
Notwithstanding Articles 13.1 and 13.2, between annual general meetings
or unanimous resolutions contemplated by Article 10.2, the directors may appoint one or more additional directors, but the number of additional
directors appointed under this Article 14.8 must not at any time exceed:
| (1) | one-third of the number of first directors, if, at the time of the appointments, one or more of the first
directors have not yet completed their first term of office; or |
| (2) | in any other case, one-third of the number of the current directors who were elected or appointed as directors
other than under this Article 14.8. |
Any director so appointed ceases to hold office immediately before the
next election or appointment of directors under Article 14.1(1), but is eligible for re-election or re-appointment.
| 14.9 | Ceasing to be a Director |
A director ceases to be a director when:
| (1) | the term of office of the director expires; |
| (3) | the director resigns as a director by notice in writing provided to the Company or a lawyer for the Company;
or |
| (4) | the director is removed from office pursuant to Articles 14.10 or 14.11. |
| 14.10 | Removal of Director by Shareholders |
The Company may remove any director before the expiration of his or her
term of office by special resolution. In that event, the shareholders may elect, or appoint by ordinary resolution, a director to fill
the resulting vacancy. If the shareholders do not elect or appoint a director to fill the resulting vacancy contemporaneously with the
removal, then the directors may appoint or the shareholders may elect, or appoint by ordinary resolution, a director to fill that vacancy.
| 14.11 | Removal of Director by Directors |
The directors may remove any director before the expiration of his or her
term of office if the director is convicted of an indictable offence, or if the director ceased to be qualified to act as a director of
a company and does not promptly resign, and the directors may appoint a director to fill the resulting vacancy.
| 15. | POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS |
The directors must, subject to the Business Corporations Act and
these Articles, manage or supervise the management of the business and affairs of the Company and have the authority to exercise all such
powers of the Company as are not, by the Business Corporations Act or by these Articles, required to be exercised by the shareholders
of the Company.
| 15.2 | Appointment of Attorney of Company |
The directors may from time to time, by power of attorney or other instrument,
under seal if so required by law, appoint any person to be the attorney of the Company for such purposes, and with such powers, authorities
and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the directors under these Articles and excepting the power to fill vacancies
in the board of directors, to remove a director, to change the membership of, or fill vacancies in, any committee of the directors, to
appoint or remove officers appointed by the directors and to declare dividends) and for such period, and with such remuneration and subject
to such conditions as the directors may think fit. Any such power of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection or convenience
of persons dealing with such attorney as the directors think fit. Any such attorney may be authorized by the directors to sub-delegate
all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in him or her.
| 16. | DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST OF DIRECTORS |
| 16.1 | Obligation to Account for Profits |
A director or senior officer who holds a disclosable interest (as that
term is used in the Business Corporations Act) in a contract or transaction into which the Company has entered or proposes to enter
is liable to account to the Company for any profit that accrues to the director or senior officer under or as a result of the contract
or transaction only if and to the extent provided in the Business Corporations Act.
| 16.2 | Restrictions on Voting by Reason of Interest |
A director who holds a disclosable interest in a contract or transaction
into which the Company has entered or proposes to enter is not entitled to vote on any directors’ resolution to approve that contract
or transaction, unless all the directors have a disclosable interest in that contract or transaction, in which case any or all of those
directors may vote on such resolution.
| 16.3 | Interested Director Counted in Quorum |
A director who holds a disclosable interest in a contract or transaction
into which the Company has entered or proposes to enter and who is present at the meeting of directors at which the contract or transaction
is considered for approval may be counted in the quorum at the meeting whether or not the director votes on any or all of the resolutions
considered at the meeting.
| 16.4 | Disclosure of Conflict of Interest or Property |
A director or senior officer who holds any office or possesses any property,
right or interest that could result, directly or indirectly, in the creation of a duty or interest that materially conflicts with that
individual’s duty or interest as a director or senior officer, must disclose the nature and extent of the conflict as required by
the Business Corporations Act.
| 16.5 | Director Holding Other Office in the Company |
A director may hold any office or place of profit with the Company, other
than the office of auditor of the Company, in addition to his or her office of director for the period and on the terms (as to remuneration
or otherwise) that the directors may determine.
No director or intended director is disqualified by his or her office from
contracting with the Company either with regard to the holding of any office or place of profit the director holds with the Company or
as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, and no contract or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which a director is in
any way interested is liable to be voided for that reason.
| 16.7 | Professional Services by Director or Officer |
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, a director or officer,
or any person in which a director or officer has an interest, may act in a professional capacity for the Company, except as auditor of
the Company, and the director or officer or such person is entitled to remuneration for professional services as if that director or officer
were not a director or officer.
| 16.8 | Director or Officer in Other Corporations |
A director or officer may be or become a director, officer or employee
of, or otherwise interested in, any person in which the Company may be interested as a shareholder or otherwise, and, subject to the Business
Corporations Act, the director or officer is not accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him
or her as director, officer or employee of, or from his or her interest in, such other person.
| 17. | PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS |
| 17.1 | Meetings of Directors |
The directors may meet together for the conduct of business, adjourn and
otherwise regulate their meetings as the directors think fit, and meetings of the directors held at regular intervals may be held at the
place, at the time and on the notice, if any, as the directors may from time to time determine.
Questions arising at any meeting of directors are to be decided by a majority
of votes and, in the case of an equality of votes, the chair of the board, if present at the meeting, does not have a second or casting
vote.
The following individual is entitled to preside as chair at a meeting of
directors:
| (1) | the chair of the board, if any; |
| (2) | in the absence of the chair of the board, the president, if any, if the president is a director; or |
| (3) | any other director chosen by the directors if: |
| (a) | neither the chair of the board nor the president, if a director, is present at the meeting within 15 minutes
after the time set for holding the meeting; |
| (b) | neither the chair of the board nor the president, if a director, is willing to chair the meeting; or |
| (c) | the chair of the board and the president, if a director, have advised the secretary, if any, or any other
director, that the chair of the board and the president will not be present at the meeting. |
| 17.4 | Meetings by Telephone or Other Communications Medium |
A director may participate in a meeting of the directors or of any committee
of the directors in person or by telephone if all directors participating in the meeting, whether in person or by telephone or other communications
medium, are able to communicate with each other. A director may participate in a meeting of the directors or of any committee of the directors
by a communications medium other than telephone if all directors participating in the meeting, whether in person or by telephone or other
communications medium, are able to communicate with each other and if all directors who wish to participate in the meeting agree to such
participation. A director who participates in a meeting in a manner contemplated by this Article 17.4 is deemed for all purposes of the
Business Corporations Act and these Articles to be present at the meeting and to have agreed to participate in that manner.
A director may, and the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Company,
if any, on the request of a director must, call a meeting of the directors at any time.
Other than for meetings held at regular intervals as determined by the
directors pursuant to Article 17.1, reasonable notice of each meeting of the directors, specifying the place, day and time of that meeting
must be given to each of the directors by any method set out in Article 23.1 or orally or by telephone.
| 17.7 | When Notice Not Required |
It is not necessary to give notice of a meeting of the directors to a director
if:
| (1) | the meeting is to be held immediately following a meeting of shareholders at which that director was elected
or appointed, or is the meeting of the directors at which that director is appointed; or |
| (2) | the director has waived notice of the meeting. |
| 17.8 | Meeting Valid Despite Failure to Give Notice |
The accidental omission to give notice of any meeting of directors to,
or the non-receipt of any notice by, any director does not invalidate any proceedings at that meeting.
| 17.9 | Waiver of Notice of Meetings |
Any director may send to the Company a document signed by him or her waiving
notice of any past, present or future meeting or meetings of the directors and may at any time withdraw that waiver with respect to meetings
held after that withdrawal. After sending a waiver with respect to all future meetings and until that waiver is withdrawn, no notice of
any meeting of the directors need be given to that director and all meetings of the directors so held are deemed not to be improperly
called or constituted by reason of notice not having been given to such director.
The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the directors
may be set by the directors and, if not so set, is deemed to be set at two directors or, if the number of directors is set at one, is
deemed to be set at one director, and that director may constitute a meeting.
| 17.11 | Validity of Acts Where Appointment Defective |
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, an act of a director or
officer is not invalid merely because of an irregularity in the election or appointment or a defect in the qualification of that director
or officer.
| 17.12 | Consent Resolutions in Writing |
A resolution of the directors or of any committee of the directors may
be passed without a meeting:
| (a) | in all cases, if each of the directors entitle to vote on the resolution consents to it in writing; or |
| (b) | in the case of a resolution to approve a contract or transaction in respect of which a director has disclosed
that he or she has or may have a disclosable interest, if each of the other directors who are entitled to vote on the resolution consents
to it in writing. |
A consent in writing under this Article 17 may be evidence by signed document,
fax, email or any other method of transmitting legibly recorded messages. A consent in writing may be in two or more counterparts which
together are deemed to constitute one entire document. A resolution of the directors or of any committee of the directors passed in accordance
with this Article 17.12 is deemed to effective on the date stated in the consent in writing and is deemed to be a proceeding at a meeting
of directors or of the committee of the directors and to be valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the directors
or of the committee of the directors that satisfies all the requirements of the Business Corporations Act and all the requirements
of these Articles relating to such meetings.
| 18. | EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMITTEES |
| 18.1 | Appointment and Powers of Executive Committee |
The directors may, by resolution, appoint an executive committee consisting
of the director or directors that they consider appropriate, and this committee has, during the intervals between meetings of the board
of directors, all of the directors’ powers, except:
| (1) | the power to fill vacancies in the board of directors; |
| (2) | the power to remove a director; |
| (3) | the power to change the membership of, or fill vacancies in, any committee of the directors; and |
| (4) | such other powers, if any, as may be set out in the resolution or any subsequent directors’ resolution. |
| 18.2 | Appointment and Powers of Other Committees |
The directors may, by resolution:
| (1) | appoint one or more committees (other than the executive committee) consisting of the director or directors
that they consider appropriate; |
| (2) | delegate to a committee appointed under paragraph (1) any of the directors’ powers, except: |
| (a) | the power to fill vacancies in the board of directors; |
| (b) | the power to remove a director; |
| (c) | the power to change the membership of, or fill vacancies in, any committee of the directors; and |
| (d) | the power to appoint or remove officers appointed by the directors; and |
| (3) | make any delegation referred to in paragraph (2) subject to the conditions set out in the resolution or
any subsequent directors’ resolution. |
| 18.3 | Obligations of Committees |
Any committee appointed under Articles 18.1 or 18.2, in the exercise of
the powers delegated to it, must:
| (1) | conform to any rules that may from time to time be imposed on it by the directors; and |
| (2) | report every act or thing done in exercise of those powers at such times as the directors may require. |
The directors may, at any time, with respect to a committee appointed under
Articles 18.1 or 18.2:
| (1) | revoke or alter the authority given to the committee, or override a decision made by the committee, except
as to acts done before such revocation, alteration or overriding; |
| (2) | terminate the appointment of, or change the membership of, the committee; and |
| (3) | fill vacancies in the committee. |
Subject to Article 18.3(1) and unless the directors otherwise provide in
the resolution appointing the committee or in any subsequent resolution, with respect to a committee appointed under Articles 18.1 or
18.2:
| (1) | the committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper; |
| (2) | the committee may elect a chair of its meetings but, if no chair of a meeting is elected, or if at a meeting
the chair of the meeting is not present within 15 minutes after the time set for holding the meeting, the directors present who are members
of the committee may choose one of their number to chair the meeting; |
| (3) | a majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quorum of the committee; and |
| (4) | questions arising at any meeting of the committee are determined by a majority of votes of the members
present, and in case of an equality of votes, the chair of the meeting does not have a second or casting vote. |
| 19.1 | Directors May Appoint Officers |
The directors may, from time to time, appoint such officers, if any, as
the directors determine and the directors may, at any time, terminate any such appointment.
| 19.2 | Functions, Duties and Powers of Officers |
The directors may, for each officer:
| (1) | determine the functions and duties of the officer; |
| (2) | entrust to and confer on the officer any of the powers exercisable by the directors on such terms and
conditions and with such restrictions as the directors think fit; and |
| (3) | revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of the functions, duties and powers of the officer. |
No officer may be appointed unless that officer is qualified in accordance
with the Business Corporations Act. One person may hold more than one position as an officer of the Company. Any person appointed
as the chair of the board or as the managing director must be a director. Any other officer need not be a director.
| 19.4 | Remuneration and Terms of Appointment |
All appointments of officers are to be made on the terms and conditions
and at the remuneration (whether by way of salary, fee, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) that the directors think fit
and are subject to termination at the pleasure of the directors, and an officer may in addition to such remuneration be entitled to receive,
after he or she ceases to hold such office or leaves the employment of the Company, a pension or gratuity.
In this Article 20:
| (1) | “eligible penalty” means a judgment, penalty or fine awarded or imposed in, or an amount paid
in settlement of, an eligible proceeding; |
| (2) | “eligible proceeding” means a legal proceeding or investigative action, whether current, threatened,
pending or completed, in which a director, former director, officer, or former officer of the Company (an “eligible party”)
or any of the heirs and legal personal representatives of the eligible party, by reason of the eligible party being or having been a director,
former director, officer or former officer of the Company: |
| (a) | is or may be joined as a party; or |
| (b) | is or may be liable for or in respect of a judgment, penalty or fine in, or expenses related to, the proceeding; |
| (3) | “expenses” has the meaning set out in the Business Corporations Act. |
| 20.2 | Mandatory Indemnification of Directors and Former Directors |
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, the Company shall, to
the fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify a director, former director, officer or former officer of the Company and his or her heirs
and legal personal representatives against all eligible penalties to which such person is or may be liable, and the Company may, after
the final disposition of an eligible proceeding, pay the expenses actually and reasonably incurred by such person in respect of that proceeding.
Subject to section 163 of the Business Corporations Act and subsection 162(2) of the Business Corporations Act, the Company shall pay,
as they are incurred in advance of the final disposition of an eligible proceeding, the expenses actually and reasonably incurred by an
eligible party in respect of that proceeding. The company must not make the payments referred to above unless the Company first receives
from the eligible party a written undertaking that, if it is ultimately determined that the payment of expenses is prohibited by section
163 of the Business Corporations Act, the eligible party will repay the amounts advanced. The rights of indemnification and advancement
of expenses contained in this Article shall not be exclusive of any other rights to indemnification or similar protection to which any
eligible party may be entitled under any agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, insurance policy or otherwise. Each
director and officer is deemed to have contracted with the Company on the terms of the indemnity contained in this Article 20.2.
| 20.3 | Indemnification of Other Persons |
Subject to any restrictions in the Business Corporations Act, the
Company may indemnify any person.
| 20.4 | Non-Compliance with Business Corporations Act |
The failure of a director, former director, officer or former officer of
the Company to comply with the Business Corporations Act or these Articles does not invalidate any indemnity to which he or she
is entitled under this Part.
| 20.5 | Company May Purchase Insurance |
To the extent determined commercially reasonable by the directors of the
Company, the Company may purchase and maintain director and officer insurance on terms and with the amount of coverage as may be determined
commercially reasonable by the directors of the Company for the benefit of any person (or his or her heirs or legal personal representatives)
who:
| (1) | is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company; |
| (2) | is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation at a time when the corporation is or
was an affiliate of the Company; |
| (3) | at the request of the Company, is or was a director, alternate director, officer, employee or agent of
a corporation or of a partnership, trust, joint venture or other unincorporated entity; |
| (4) | at the request of the Company, holds or held a position equivalent to that of a director, alternate director
or officer of a partnership, trust, joint venture or other unincorporated entity; against any liability incurred by him or her as such
director, alternate director, officer, employee or agent or person who holds or held such equivalent position. |
| 20.6 | Heirs and Beneficiaries |
The rights created by this Article shall inure to the benefit of each eligible
party and each heir, executor and administrator of such Indemnified Person.
Neither the amendment, modification nor repeal of this Article nor the
adoption of any provision in these Articles inconsistent with this Article 20 shall adversely affect any right or protection of any eligible
party with respect to any act or omission that occurred prior to the time of such amendment, modification, repeal or adoption.
| 21.1 | Payment of Dividends Subject to Special Rights |
The provisions of this Article 21 are subject to Article 2.1 and to the
rights, if any, of shareholders holding shares with special rights as to dividends.
| 21.2 | Declaration of Dividends |
Subject to the Business Corporations Act, the directors may from
time to time declare and authorize payment of such dividends as the directors may deem advisable.
The directors need not give notice to any shareholder of any declaration
under Article 21.2.
The directors may set a date as the record date for the purpose of determining
shareholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend. The record date must not precede the date on which the dividend is to be paid
by more than two months. If no record date is set, the record date is 5:00 p.m. on the date on which the directors pass the resolution
declaring the dividend.
| 21.5 | Manner of Paying Dividend |
A resolution declaring a dividend may direct payment of the dividend wholly
or partly by the distribution of specific assets or of fully paid shares or of bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company, or
in any one or more of those ways.
| 21.6 | Settlement of Difficulties |
If any difficulty arises in regard to a distribution under Article 21.5,
the directors may settle the difficulty as the directors deem advisable, and, in particular, may:
| (1) | set the value for distribution of specific assets; |
| (2) | determine that cash payments in substitution for all or any part of the specific assets to which any shareholders
are entitled may be made to any shareholders on the basis of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties; and |
| (3) | vest any such specific assets in trustees for the persons entitled to the dividend. |
| 21.7 | When Dividend Payable |
Any dividend may be made payable on such date as is fixed by the directors.
| 21.8 | Dividends to be Paid in Accordance with Number of Shares |
All dividends on shares of any class or series of shares must be declared
and paid according to the number of such shares held.
| 21.9 | Receipt by Joint Shareholders |
If several persons are joint shareholders of any share, any one of such
joint shareholders may give an effective receipt for any dividend, bonus or other money payable in respect of the share.
| 21.10 | Dividend Bears No Interest |
No dividend bears interest against the Company.
| 21.11 | Fractional Dividends |
If a dividend to which a shareholder is entitled includes a fraction of
the smallest monetary unit of the currency of the dividend, that fraction may be disregarded in making payment of the dividend and that
payment represents full payment of the dividend.
| 21.12 | Payment of Dividends |
Any dividend or other distribution payable in cash in respect of shares
may be paid by cheque, made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent, and mailed to the address of the shareholder, or in
the case of joint shareholders, to the address of the joint shareholder who is first named on the central securities register, or to the
person and to the address the shareholder or joint shareholders may direct in writing. The mailing of such cheque will, to the extent
of the sum represented by the cheque (plus the amount of the tax required by law to be deducted), discharge all liability for the dividend
unless such cheque is not paid on presentation or the amount of tax so deducted is not paid to the appropriate taxing authority.
| 21.13 | Capitalization of Surplus |
Notwithstanding anything contained in these Articles, the directors may
from time to time capitalize any surplus of the Company and may from time to time issue, as fully paid, shares or any bonds, debentures
or other securities of the Company as a dividend representing the surplus or any part of the surplus.
| 22. | DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND REPORTS |
| 22.1 | Recording of Financial Affairs |
The directors must cause adequate accounting records to be kept to record
properly the financial affairs and condition of the Company and to comply with the Business Corporations Act.
| 22.2 | Inspection of Accounting Records |
Unless the directors determine otherwise, or unless otherwise determined
by ordinary resolution, no shareholder of the Company is entitled to inspect or obtain a copy of any accounting records of the Company.
| 23.1 | Method of Giving Notice |
Unless the Business Corporations Act or these Articles provides
otherwise, a notice, statement, report or other record required or permitted by the Business Corporations Act or these Articles
to be sent by or to a person may be sent by any one of the following methods:
| (1) | mail addressed to the person at the applicable address for that person as follows: |
| (a) | for a record mailed to a shareholder, the shareholder’s registered address; |
| (b) | for a record mailed to a director or officer, the prescribed address for mailing shown for the director
or officer in the records kept by the Company or the mailing address provided by the recipient for the sending of that record or records
of that class; |
| (c) | in any other case, the mailing address of the intended recipient; |
| (2) | delivery at the applicable address for that person as follows, addressed to the person: |
| (a) | for a record delivered to a shareholder, the shareholder’s registered address; |
| (b) | for a record delivered to a director or officer, the prescribed address for delivery shown for the director
or officer in the records kept by the Company or the delivery address provided by the recipient for the sending of that record or records
of that class; |
| (c) | in any other case, the delivery address of the intended recipient; |
| (3) | sending the record by fax to the fax number provided by the intended recipient for the sending of that
record or records of that class; |
| (4) | sending the record by email to the email address provided by the intended recipient for the sending of
that record or records of that class; |
| (5) | making the record available for public electronic access in accordance with the procedures referred to
as ‘notice-and-access” under National Instrument 54-101 and National Instrument 51-102, as applicable, of the Canadian Securities
Administrators, or in accordance with similar electronic delivery or access method permitted by applicable securities legislation from
time-to-time; or |
| (6) | physical delivery to the intended recipient. |
| 23.2 | Deemed Receipt of Mailing |
A notice, statement, report or other record that is:
| (1) | mailed to a person by ordinary mail to the applicable address for that person referred to in Article 23.1
is deemed to be received by the person to whom it was mailed on the day, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excepted, following the date
of mailing; |
| (2) | faxed to a person to the fax number provided by that person referred to in Article 23.1 is deemed to be
received by the person to whom it was faxed on the day it was faxed; |
| (3) | e-mailed to a person to the email address provided by that person referred to in Article 23.1 is deemed
to be received by the person to whom it was e-mailed on the day it was e-mailed; or |
| (4) | made available for public electronic access in accordance with the procedures referred to as ‘notice-and-access”
or similar delivery procedures referred to in Article 23.1(5) is deemed to be received by the person on the date it was made available
for public electronic access. |
| 23.3 | Certificate of Sending |
A certificate signed by the secretary, if any, or other officer of the
Company or of any other corporation acting in that behalf for the Company stating that a notice, statement, report or other record was
addressed as required by Article 23.1, prepaid and mailed or otherwise sent as permitted by Article 23.1 is conclusive evidence of that
fact.
| 23.4 | Notice to Joint Shareholders |
A notice, statement, report or other record may be provided by the Company
to the joint shareholders of a share by providing the notice to the joint shareholder first named in the central securities register in
respect of the share.
A notice, statement, report or other record may be provided by the Company
to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death, bankruptcy or incapacity of a shareholder by:
| (1) | mailing the record, addressed to such person: |
| (a) | by name, by the title of the legal personal representative of the deceased or incapacitated shareholder,
by the title of trustee of the bankrupt shareholder or by any similar description; and |
| (b) | at the address, if any, supplied to the Company for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled;
or |
| (2) | if an address referred to in paragraph (1)(b) has not been supplied to the Company, by giving the notice
in a manner in which it might have been given if the death, bankruptcy or incapacity had not occurred. |
Except as provided in Articles 24.2 and 24.3, the Company’s seal,
if any, must not be impressed on any record except when that impression is attested by the signatures of:
| (2) | any officer, together with any director; |
| (3) | if the Company only has one director, that director; or |
| (4) | any one or more directors or officers or persons as may be determined by the directors. |
For the purpose of certifying under seal a certificate of incumbency of
the directors or officers of the Company or a true copy of any resolution or other document, despite Article 24.1, the impression of the
seal may be attested by the signature of any director or officer.
| 24.3 | Mechanical Reproduction of Seal |
The directors may authorize the seal to be impressed by third parties on
share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company as the directors may determine appropriate from time to time.
To enable the seal to be impressed on any share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company, whether in definitive
or interim form, on which facsimiles of any of the signatures of the directors or officers of the Company are, in accordance with the
Business Corporations Act or these Articles, printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced, there may be delivered to the person
employed to engrave, lithograph or print such definitive or interim share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities one or
more unmounted dies reproducing the seal and the chair of the board or any senior officer together with the secretary, treasurer, secretary-treasurer,
an assistant secretary, an assistant treasurer or an assistant secretary-treasurer may in writing authorize such person to cause the seal
to be impressed on such definitive or interim share certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities by the use of such dies. Share
certificates or bonds, debentures or other securities to which the seal has been so impressed are for all purposes deemed to be under
and to bear the seal impressed on them.
In this Article 25:
| (1) | “designated security” means: |
| (a) | a voting security of the Company; |
| (b) | a security of the Company that is not a debt security and that carries a residual right to participate
in the earnings of the Company or, on the liquidation or winding up of the Company, in its assets; or |
| (c) | a security of the Company convertible, directly or indirectly, into a security described in paragraph
(a) or (b); |
| (2) | “security” has the meaning assigned in the Securities Act (British Columbia); |
| (3) | “voting security” means a security of the Company that: |
| (a) | is not a debt security, and |
| (b) | carries a voting right either under all circumstances or under some circumstances that have occurred and
are continuing. |
Article 25.3 does not apply to the Company if and for so long as it is
a public company or a pre-existing reporting company which has the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions as part of its Articles or to
which the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions apply.
| 25.3 | Consent Required for Transfer of Shares or Designated Securities |
No share or designated security may be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed
of without the consent of the directors and the directors are not required to give any reason for refusing to consent to any such sale,
transfer or other disposition.
| 26. | ADVANCE NOTICE PROVISIONS |
| 26.1 | Nomination of Directors |
| (1) | Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at any Annual Meeting of shareholders or
at any Special Meeting of shareholders if one of the purposes for which the Special Meeting was called was the election of directors.
In order to be eligible for election to the Board at any Annual Meeting or Special Meeting of shareholders, persons must be nominated
in accordance with one of the following procedures: |
| (a) | by or at the direction of the Board or an authorized officer, including pursuant to a notice of meeting; |
| (b) | by or at the direction or request of one or more shareholders pursuant to a proposal made in accordance
with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (the “BCA”), or a requisition of the shareholders made in accordance
with the provisions of the BCA; or |
| (c) | by any person (a “Nominating Shareholder”): (A) who, at the close of business on the date
of the giving by the Nominating Shareholder of the notice provided for below in this Article 26.1 and at the close of business on the
record date for notice of such meeting, is entered in the central securities register of the Company as a holder of one or more shares
carrying the right to vote at such meeting or who beneficially owns shares that are entitled to be voted at such meeting; and (B) who
complies with the notice procedures set forth below in this Article 26.1. |
| (2) | In addition to any other requirements under applicable laws, for a nomination to be made by a Nominating
Shareholder, the Nominating Shareholder must give notice which is both timely (in accordance with paragraph (3) below) and in proper written
form (in accordance with paragraph (4) below) to the secretary of the Company at the principal executive offices of the Company. |
| (3) | A Nominating Shareholder’s notice to the secretary of the Company will be deemed to be timely if: |
| (a) | in the case of an Annual Meeting of shareholders, such notice is made not less than 30 nor more than 65
days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders
is to be held on a date that is less than 50 days after the date (the “Notice Date”) on which the first public announcement
of the date of the Annual Meeting is made, notice by the Nominating Shareholder is made not later than the close of business on the 10th
day following the Notice Date; and |
| (b) | in the case of a Special Meeting (which is not also an Annual Meeting) of Shareholders called for the
purpose of electing directors (whether or not called for other purposes), such notice is made not later than the close of business on
the 15th day following the day on which the first public announcement of the date of the Special Meeting of Shareholders was made. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Board may, in its sole discretion, waive any requirement of this paragraph (3). |
For greater certainty, the time periods for the giving of notice
by a Nominating Shareholder as aforesaid shall, in all cases, be determined based on the original date of the applicable Annual Meeting
or Special Meeting, and in no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an Annual Meeting or Special Meeting or the announcement
thereof commence a new time period for the giving of such notice.
| (4) | A Nominating Shareholder’s notice to the secretary of the Company will be deemed to be in proper
form if: |
| (a) | as to each person whom the Nominating Shareholder proposes to nominate for election as a director, such
notice sets forth: (A) the name, age, business address and residential address of the person; (B) the principal occupation or employment
of the person; (C) the class or series and number of shares in the capital of the Company which are controlled or which are owned beneficially
or of record by the person as of the record date for the meeting of shareholders (if such date shall then have been made publicly available
and shall have occurred) and as of the date of such notice; and (D) any other information relating to the person that would be required
to be disclosed in a dissident’s proxy circular in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to
the BCA and Applicable Securities Laws (as defined in paragraph (7) below); and |
| (b) | as to the Nominating Shareholder giving the notice, such notice sets forth any proxy, contract, arrangement,
understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Nominating Shareholder has a right to vote any shares of the Company and any other
information relating to such Nominating Shareholder that would be required to be made in a dissident’s proxy circular in connection
with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to the Business Corporations Act and Applicable Securities Laws (as defined
in paragraph (7) below). |
| (5) | The Company may require any proposed nominee for election as a Director to furnish such additional information
as may reasonably be requested by the Company to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director
of the Company or that could be material to a reasonable shareholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such
proposed nominee. |
| (6) | No person shall be eligible for election as a director of the Company unless nominated in accordance with
the provisions of this Article 26.1; provided, however, that nothing in this Article 26.1 shall be deemed to restrict or preclude discussion
by a shareholder (as distinct from the nomination of directors) at an Annual Meeting or Special Meeting of any matter that is properly
brought before such meeting pursuant to the provisions of the BCA or at the discretion of the Chairman of the meeting. The Chairman of
the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether any nomination for election of a director was made in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Article 26.1 and, if any proposed nomination is not in compliance with such procedures, to declare such nomination
defective and that it be disregarded. |
| (7) | For purposes of this Article 26: |
| (a) | “Annual Meeting” means any annual meeting of Shareholders; |
| (b) | “Applicable Securities Laws” means the applicable securities legislation of each relevant
province and territory of Canada, as amended from time to time, the rules, regulations and forms made or promulgated under any such laws
and the published national instruments, multilateral instruments, policies, bulletins and notices of the securities commission or similar
securities regulatory authority of each province and territory of Canada; |
| (c) | “BCA” means the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia), as amended; |
| (d) | “Board” means the board of directors of the Company as constituted from time to time; |
| (e) | “Public Announcement” means disclosure in a press release reported by a national news
service in Canada, or in a document publicly filed by the Company under its profile on the System of Electronic Document Analysis and
Retrieval (SEDAR+) at www.sedarplus.ca; and |
| (f) | “Special Meeting” means any special meeting of Shareholders if one of the purposes
for which such meeting is called is the election of directors. |
| (8) | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article 26.1, notice given to the secretary of the Company
pursuant to this Article 26.1 may only be given by personal delivery, facsimile transmission or by email (at such email address as may
be stipulated from time to time by the secretary of the Company for purposes of this Article 26.1), and shall be deemed to have been given
and made only at the time it is served by personal delivery to the secretary at the address of the principal executive offices of the
Company, email (at the address as aforesaid) or sent by facsimile transmission (provided that receipt of confirmation of such transmission
has been received); provided that if such delivery or electronic communication is made on a day which is a not a business day or later
than 5:00 p.m. (Vancouver time) on a day which is a business day, then such delivery or electronic communication shall be deemed to have
been made on the next following day that is a business day. |
| (9) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may, in its sole discretion, waive any requirement of this Article
26.1. |
| (1) | Article 26.1 does not apply to the Company in the following circumstances: |
| (a) | if and for so long as the Company is not a public company or a pre-existing reporting company which has
the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions as part of its Articles or to which the Statutory Reporting Company Provisions apply; or |
| (b) | to the election or appointment of a director or directors in the circumstances set forth in Article 14.7. |
| (2) | Any director or officer of the Company is hereby authorized and directed for and in the name of and on
behalf of the Company to execute or cause to be executed, whether under corporate seal of the Company or otherwise, and to deliver or
make or cause to be delivered or made all such filings and documents, and to do or cause to be done all such acts and things, as in the
opinion of such director or officer may be necessary or desirable in connection with the foregoing. |
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EXHIBIT 99.1
TRX Gold Reports Continuance into the Province of British Columbia
TORONTO, March 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TRX Gold Corporation (TSX: TRX) (NYSE American: TRX) (the “Company” or “TRX Gold”) is pleased to announce that further to the Company having received the necessary approval of its shareholders at the Company’s annual and special meeting of shareholders held on February 27, 2025, the Company has successfully completed its continuance, effective March 27, 2025, from the jurisdiction of the Province of Alberta into the Province of British Columbia under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). The Company’s certificate of continuance and articles of incorporation are available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
About TRX Gold Corporation
TRX Gold is rapidly advancing the Buckreef Gold Project. Anchored by a Mineral Resource published in May 2020, the project currently hosts a Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource (“M&I Resource”) of 35.88 million tonnes (“MT”) at 1.77 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold containing 2,036,280 ounces (“oz”) of gold and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 17.8 MT at 1.11 g/t gold for 635,540 oz of gold. The leadership team is focused on creating both near-term and long-term shareholder value by increasing gold production to generate positive cash flow. The positive cash flow will be utilized for exploratory drilling with the goal of increasing the current mineral resource base and advancing the larger project development which represents 90% of current mineral resources. TRX Gold’s actions are led by the highest environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) standards, evidenced by the relationships and programs that the Company has developed during its nearly two decades of presence in the Geita Region, Tanzania. Please refer to the Company’s Updated Mineral Resources Estimate for Buckreef Gold Project, dated May 15, 2020, and filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ and with the SEC on June 23, 2020 (the “2020 Technical Report”) for more information.
For investor or shareholder inquiries, please contact:
Investor Relations
TRX Gold Corporation
IR@TRXgold.com
1-437-224-5241
www.TRXgold.com
The TSX and NYSE American have not reviewed and do not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the contents of this press release, which has been prepared by the management of TRX Gold.
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