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

Variations of rights which may be made

6     The holders of any class of shares may at any time and from time to time, and whether before or during liquidation, by an extraordinary resolution passed at a meeting of such holders, consent on behalf of all the holders of shares of the class to the issue or creation of any shares ranking equally therewith, or having any priority thereto, or to the abandonment of any preference or priority or of any accrued dividend, or the reduction for any time or permanently of the dividends payable thereon, or to the amalgamation into one class of the shares of any two or more classes or to the sub-division of shares of one class into shares of different classes, or any alteration in these Articles varying or taking away any rights or privileges attached to shares of the class, or to any scheme for the reduction of the Company’s capital affecting the class of shares in a manner not otherwise authorised by these Articles, or to any scheme for the distribution (though not in accordance with legal rights) of assets in money or in kind in or before liquidation, or to any contract for the sale of the whole or any part of the Company’s property or business determining the way in which as between the several classes of shareholders the purchase consideration shall be distributed, and generally consent to any alteration, contract, compromise or arrangement which the persons voting thereon could if sui juris and holding all the shares of the class consent to or enter into, and such resolution shall be binding upon all the holders of shares of the class.

Variations
of rights which may be made


6     The
holders of any class of shares may at any time and from time to time, and whether before or during liquidation, by an extraordinary
resolution passed at a meeting of such holders, consent on behalf of all the holders of shares of the class to the issue or creation
of any shares ranking equally therewith, or having any priority thereto, or to the abandonment of any preference or priority or of
any accrued dividend, or the reduction for any time or permanently of the dividends payable thereon, or to the amalgamation into one
class of the shares of any two or more classes or to the sub-division of shares of one class into shares of different classes, or any
alteration in these Articles varying or taking away any rights or privileges attached to shares of the class, or to any scheme for
the reduction of the Company’s capital affecting the class of shares in a manner not otherwise authorised by these Articles, or
to any scheme for the distribution (though not in accordance with legal rights) of assets in money or in kind in or before
liquidation, or to any contract for the sale of the whole or any part of the Company’s property or business determining the way
in which as between the several classes of shareholders the purchase consideration shall be distributed, and generally consent to any
alteration, contract, compromise or arrangement which the persons voting thereon could if sui
juris
and holding all the shares of the class consent to or enter into, and such
resolution shall be binding upon all the holders of shares of the class.



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6-K (2 sections)
May 22, 2008
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