REG-Rights and Issues Investment Trust PLC Rights and Issues Investment Trust PLC: ADJOURNMENT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Rights and Issues Investment TrustAnnouncement

25/03/2020 16:15

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   Rights and Issues Investment Trust PLC (RIII)
   Rights and Issues Investment Trust PLC: ADJOURNMENT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL
   MEETING

   25-March-2020 / 16:14 GMT/BST
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                     RIGHTS AND ISSUES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

        Hamilton Centre, Rodney Way, Chelmsford, CM1 3BY, United Kingdom

                                +44 1245 398905

                                        

   THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

   If you are in any doubt as to what action to take, you should immediately
   consult your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other
   independent professional adviser authorised under the Financial Services
   and Markets Act 2000 if you are resident in the United Kingdom or, if you
   reside elsewhere, another appropriately authorised financial adviser. If
   you have sold or transferred all of your shares in Rights and Issues
   Investment Trust PLC, please send this document as soon as possible to the
   stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was
   effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.

   RIGHTS AND ISSUES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC (the "Company")

   ADJOURNMENT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

   The National Emergency announced by the government on 23rd March 2020 has
   placed statutory restrictions on personal travel and meetings, and
   gatherings of more than two people.

   The Board of Rights and Issues Investment Trust Plc hereby announce the
   adjournment, under Article 61.1, of the AGM which was to take place on the
   1st April 2020.

   At a meeting held on 24th March 2020 the Board approved the payment of a
   second interim dividend of 21.5 pence per Ordinary share for the financial
   year ended 31st December 2019, payable on 3rd April 2020.  The ex-dividend
   and record date remain unchanged at 12th March and 13th March 2020
   respectively.  

   Notice is hereby given that the fifty-seventh Annual General Meeting of
   the members of Rights and Issues Investment Trust Public Limited Company
   will be held in the Grid Iron Building, 8th Floor, Number One Pancras
   Square, Pancras Road, Kings Cross, London, N1C 4AG on 24th June 2020 at 12
   noon for the purposes of voting on the Ordinary and Special Resolutions
   contained in the Annual Report and Financial Statements 2019, dated 21st
   February 2020, other than Resolution 3 (approval of a proposed final
   dividend).

   The Board urge all members to complete the form of proxy issued with the
   Annual Report and Financial Statements 2019.

   All proxies submitted to the Company will remain valid at the adjourned
   meeting unless withdrawn by notice in writing to the Company not less than
   48 hours (excluding any part of a day which is a non-working day) before
   the time of the adjourned meeting or any adjournment of that meeting.

   Dr D. M. Bramwell

   Chairman

   25th March 2020

    

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   ISIN:           GB0007392078
   Category Code:  MSCU
   TIDM:           RIII
   OAM Categories: 3.1. Additional regulated information required to be
                   disclosed under the laws of a Member State
   Sequence No.:   54682
   EQS News ID:    1007211


    
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