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These excerpts taken from the BP 6-K filed May 22, 2008.

Contents of notices

60     (A)     Every notice calling a general meeting shall specify the place and the day and hour of the meeting, and where there are to be any Subsidiary Locations in accordance with Article 62 below it shall specify the Principal Place and may specify any one or more of the Subsidiary Locations.

(B)     There shall appear with reasonable prominence in every such notice a statement that a member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy or (if he holds more than one share) proxies to attend, speak and vote instead of him and that a proxy need not be a member of the Company.

(C)     In the case of an annual general meeting, the notice shall also specify the meeting as such.

(D)     In the case of any general meeting at which business other than routine business is to be transacted, the notice shall set out the text of all Substantive Resolutions to be considered by the meeting and shall state in the case of each resolution whether it is to be proposed as an ordinary resolution, as an extraordinary resolution or as a special resolution; and Section 311(2) of the Companies Act 2006 shall not apply to the Company.

(E)     For the purposes of determining which persons are entitled to attend or vote at a meeting and how many votes such persons may cast, the Company may specify in the notice of the meeting a time, not more than forty-eight hours before the time fixed for the meeting, by which a person who holds shares in registered form must be entered on the Register in order to have the right to attend or vote at the meeting or to appoint a proxy to do so.

Contents
of notices


60     (A)     Every
notice calling a general meeting shall specify the place and the day and hour of the meeting, and where there are to be any
Subsidiary Locations in accordance with Article 62 below it shall specify the Principal Place and may specify any one or more of the
Subsidiary Locations.



(B)     There
shall appear with reasonable prominence in every such notice a statement that a member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to
appoint a proxy or (if he holds more than one share) proxies to attend, speak and vote instead of him and that a proxy need not be a
member of the Company.



(C)     In
the case of an annual general meeting, the notice shall also specify the meeting as such.



(D)     In
the case of any general meeting at which business other than routine business is to be transacted, the notice shall set out the text
of all Substantive Resolutions to be considered by the meeting and shall state in the case of each resolution whether it is to be
proposed as an ordinary resolution, as an extraordinary resolution or as a special resolution; and Section 311(2) of the Companies
Act 2006 shall not apply to the Company.



(E)     For
the purposes of determining which persons are entitled to attend or vote at a meeting and how many votes such persons may cast, the
Company may specify in the notice of the meeting a time, not more than forty-eight hours before the time fixed for the meeting, by
which a person who holds shares in registered form must be entered on the Register in order to have the right to attend or vote at
the meeting or to appoint a proxy to do so.



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6-K (2 sections)
May 22, 2008
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