What is the quorum for a general meeting?

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This depends on the company's articles. Table A provides:

Art. 40. No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present. Two persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted, each being a member or a proxy for a member or a duly authorised representative of a corporation, shall be a quorum.

Art. 41. If such a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, or if during a meeting such a quorum ceases to be present, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the directors may determine.

Many company's articles add the following provisions:

(a) If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the start of a general meeting the meeting shall be adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place, or to such other day and at such other time and place as the directors may determine; and if at the adjourned general meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for its start, such adjourned general meeting shall be dissolved.

(b) Article 41 of Table A shall not apply to the company.

(c) At any time when the company has only one member that member present in person or by proxy shall constitute a quorum and article 40 of Table A shall be modified accordingly.

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