Dividends The amount of dividends paid by the Corporation since 31 December 2015 were as follows: In respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2015 as reported in the directors’ report of that year: RM’000 A second interim tax exempt dividend of 12.5 sen per share on 4,463,794,000 ordinary shares under single tier system, declared on 5 February 2016 paid on 9 March 2016 557,975 Final tax exempt dividend of 10.0 sen per share on 4,463,794,000 ordinary shares under the single tier system, approved by the shareholders on 19 April 2016 and paid on 19 May 2016 446,379 In respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2016: RM’000 A first interim tax exempt dividend of 10.0 sen per share on 4,463,794,000 ordinary shares under single tier system, declared on 4 August 2016 and paid on 7 September 2016 446,379 A second tax exempt dividend, under the single tier system, in respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2016 of 20.0 sen per share amounting to a dividend payable of RM892,758,800, will be paid on 16 March 2017. The second dividend is not reflected in the current year’s financial statements. The dividend will be accounted for in equity as an appropriation of retained profits in the financial year ending 31 December 2017. Directors The names of the directors of the Corporation in office since the date of the last report and at the date of this report are: Dato’ Ab. Halim bin Mohyiddin Datuk Manharlal Ratilal Datuk Nasarudin Md Idris Dato’ Halipah binti Esa Dato’ Kalsom binti Abd. Rahman Lim Beng Choon Dato’ Sekhar Krishnan Yee Yang Chien Mohamed Firouz bin Asnan MISC BERHAD • Annual Report 2016 156 directors’ report
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