Minutes of an Extraordinary Meeting of the London Company of Kingdom Witnesses (1994)

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MINUTES of an extraordinary General Meeting held at IBSA House, The Ridgeway, London NW7 on Monday June 6,1994 at 2.00 p.m.

On February 23, 1994 two Special Resolutions were duly passed by the London Company of Kingdom Witnesses resolving to change clause 3 of the Memorandum of the London Company of Kingdom Witnesses and secondly to change the name of the London Company of Kingdom Witnesses. The Resolution adopted acknowledged that the changes were subject to the approval of the Charity Commission. The Charity Commissioners took the view that the approved Resolutions were ineffective as prior consent had not been obtained. They stated that this was the case even though the Resolution made provision for the future consent of the Charity Commissioners. In order to rectify matters the Charity Commission advised that two new Resolutions should be placed before the meeting of the Company. Approval for the draft Resolutions was given in the Charity Commissioner's letter of April 28, 1994 reference SM275946A/1 296116RME(Ldn).

The following two Special Resolutions were duly passed.

IT IS RESOLVED that Clause 3 of the Memorandum of the London Company of Kingdom Witnesses should be amended as follows:

1 Subclause (D) should become subclause (G),

2 Subclause (E) should become subclause (D) and be amended by: 1.2.1 substituting "charity or charities" for "association or associations"

2.2 substituting "to further either the objects of the Company or the same objects as those of the Company" for "to further the objects of the Company";

3 The following should be inserted between the subclause (D) referred to in paragraph 1.2 of this Resolution and the subclause (E) referred to in paragraph 1.4 of this Resolution: "and in furtherance and for the purposes of each and any one or more of the objects set out in the foregoing subclauses (A) to (D) but not further or otherwise the Company shall have the powers set out in the following subclauses (E) to (K)"

4 A new subclause (E) should be inserted as follows: "To take and accept any gift of money property or other assets, whether subject to any special trust or not, for any one or more of the objects of the Company or of any charity or charities as referred to in subclause (D)."

5 Subclause (F) should be amended by substituting "any one or more of the objects of the Company" for "the objects of the Company mentioned in paragraph 3(A) hereof";

6 Subclauses (G) to (J) should become subclauses (H) to (K).

IT IS RESOLVED that the name of the Company be changed from London Company of Kingdom Witnesses to THE KINGDOM HALL TRUST.

The Resolutions were proposed by R Drage and seconded by S Smith and unanimously approved by all those in attendance.

Persons present: Ronald Drage, Sydney Smith, Thomas Cruse

Signed: ...

T P Cruse - Secretary

I certify this to be a true copy of the original