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RNS Number : 6232E
British Land Co PLC
19 July 2016
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The British Land Company PLC (the 'Company') announces that all resolutions were passed by 
shareholders at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today. The results of the poll are 
set out in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website: 
www.britishland.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/2016 .
Votes were cast for a total of 756,267,780 ordinary shares of the Company, representing 73.47 per cent of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions relating to special business (resolutions 18 to 25) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
RESOLUTION
VOTES
Withheld1
For
As % of votes cast
Against
As % of votes cast
1.ToreceivetheAnnualReportandAccountsforthe year ended 31 March2016
748,720,369
99.26
5,550,463
0.74
2,237,462
2.ToapprovetheDirectors'RemunerationReport
715,113,263
96.01
29,690,657
3.99
11,704,372
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy
727,144,638
97.13
21,494,166
2.87
7,869,489
4. To re-elect AubreyAdamsasaDirector
756,116,267
99.98
116,620
0.02
275,407
5. To re-elect LucindaBellasaDirector
753,233,314
99.62
2,902,224
0.38
372,756
6. To re-elect Simon Borrows as a Director
756,073,880
99.98
162,048
0.02
272,366
7.Tore-electJohnGildersleeveasaDirector
754,665,435
99.79
1,565,850
0.21
277,009
8.To re-electLynnGladdenas a Director
755,930,854
99.96
302,035
0.04
275,405
9. To re-elect Chris Griggas a Director
754,668,127
99.79
1,564,804
0.21
275,363
10.Tore-electWilliam JacksonasaDirector
755,893,317
99.96
339,320
0.04
275,657
11.Tore-electCharlesMaudsleyasaDirector
753,336,244
99.62
2,896,956
0.38
275,094
12.Tore-electTimRoberts as a Director
753,338,506
99.62
2,894,677
0.38
275,111
13. To re-elect Tim Scoreas a Director
756,179,859
99.99
50,773
0.01
277,662
14.Tore-electLordTurnbullasaDirector
727,020,756
96.97
22,685,865
3.03
6,801,672
15. Tore- elect Laura Wade-Gery as a Director
755,912,182
99.97
216,243
0.03
379,869
16.Tore-appointPricewaterhouseCoopersLLP as the auditor of the Company
754,249,702
99.73
2,018,078
0.27
240,514
17. To authorise theDirectors to agree the auditor's remuneration
753,897,842
99.69
2,343,483
0.31
266,969
18. To authorise the payment of scrip dividends
755,596,945
100.00
35,306
0.00
876,043
19. To authorise theCompanytomakelimited political donations and political expenditure of
not more than 20,000 intotal
746,960,749
99.37
4,725,748
0.63
4,821,796
20. To authorise amendments to the Long-Term Incentive Plan
744,210,248
98.58
10,682,672
1.42
1,615,373
21. To authorise theDirectorstoallotshares uptoalimitedamount
684,840,176
90.56
71,399,884
9.44
268,234
22. To authorise theDirectorstoallotshares andselltreasuryshares forcash,withoutmaking apre-emptiveoffertoshareholders2
744,123,246
99.20
6,032,147
0.80
6,352,901
23. To authorise the Directors to allot additional shares and sell treasury shares for cash, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders in line with recommendations of the Pre-Emption Group2
731,266,314
97.47
18,948,265
2.53
6,293,714
24. To authorise theCompanytopurchaseits ownshares2
746,384,523
99.29
5,339,030
0.71
4,784,741
25. To authorise thecallingofgeneralmeetings (not being anAGM)bynoticeofnot lessthan14cleardays2
622,705,812
82.85
128,890,697
17.15
4,911,785
1 A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against eachresolution.
2 These resolutions were proposed as Special Resolutions.
Enquiries:
CompanySecretariat
Heledd Hanscomb,BritishLand 02074672852
York House, 45 Seymour Street, London W1H 7LX

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