16.1 Subject to any rights or restrictions attached to any Shares and to the provisions of Article [15.6] and this Article [16], on a show of hands every Shareholder present by a representative duly authorised in accordance with the Act or represented by proxy shall have one vote, and on a poll every Shareholder shall have one vote for every A Share of which it is the Holder or (as the case may be) one vote for the B Share of which it is the Holder.
16.2 The A Shares shall not confer the right to vote, either on a show of hands or on a poll, upon a resolution for the appointment or removal from office of any B Director.
16.3 The B Share shall not confer the right to vote, either on a show of hands or on a poll, upon a resolution for the appointment or removal from office of any A Director.
16.4 If any resolution of the nature referred to in Article [16.5] is proposed at any general meeting or by way of a written resolution, the B Shareholder, if voting against the resolution, shall be entitled to exercise, in relation to that resolution, the number of votes which exceeds by one the total number of votes which may be cast by all other Shareholders.
16.5 The provisions of Article [16.4] shall apply in relation to:
16.5.1 any resolution to increase the Company's share capital by new Shares of such amount as the resolution prescribes, to consolidate all or any of its share capital into Shares of larger amounts than its existing Shares, to sub-divide its Shares (or any of them) into Shares of small amounts or to cancel Shares which, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person;
16.5.2 any resolution which would alter or exclude or modify the operation of any of the following provisions of these Articles:
(a) [1] to [8] (Powers of Directors, Role of B Director, Maximisation of Financial Performance, Application of Revenues, Users' Group, Proceedings of Directors, Conflicts of Interest and Appointment and Removal of Directors);
(b) [9].# (Termination of Director's Appointment);
(c) [10] and [11] (Directors' Remuneration and Expenses and Alternate Directors)
(d) [12.3] to [12.10] (Share Capital);
(e) [13] to [16] (Asset Lock, Transfer of Loan Stock and Shares, Proceedings at General Meetings, Votes).