(1) Each provision of this section and section 125 applies save to the extent that the company's constitution provides otherwise.
(2) A company may, by ordinary resolution, declare dividends but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the directors of the company.
(3) The directors of a company may from time to time -
(a) pay to the members such interim dividends as appear to the directors to be justified by the profits of the company, subject to section 117;
(b) before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the company such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the directors, be applicable for any purpose to which the profits of the company may be properly applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion either be employed in the business of the company or be invested in such investments as the directors may lawfully determine;
(c) without placing the profits of the company to reserve, carry
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