---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-028368"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TRT"
cik: "0000732026"
company_name: "TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL"
filed_at: "2023-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T22:57:28.653602+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trio-Tech amends bylaws: prohibits written consent, reduces quorum, adds e-meetings

## Summary
- Board adopted amended bylaws on Oct 11, 2023; effective immediately.
- Shareholders can no longer act by written consent; all actions require a meeting.
- Quorum reduced from a majority to one-third of outstanding shares.
- Directors, officers, and agents receive mandatory indemnification, subject to exceptions.
- Chair of Board granted a casting vote in case of director deadlock.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-028368
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TRT
- cik: 0000732026
- company_name: TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL
- filed_at: 2023-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732026/000143774923028368/0001437749-23-028368-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732026/000143774923028368/trt20231016_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL: Amended and restated bylaws to permit electronic shareholder meeting attendance, prohibit written consent, reduce quorum, provide mandatory indemnification, and grant chair a casting vote on deadlock (effective 2023-10-11).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-10-11
  source text: On October 11, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Trio-Tech International. (the “ Company ”) approved and adopted the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “ Bylaws ”), which amend and restate the Company’s original bylaws to include: (i) permitting electronic attendance to a meeting of the Company’s shareholders (a “ Meeting ”); (ii) prohibiting action by written consent of shareholders in lieu of a meeting thereof; (iii) reducing the number of shares that are required to be present at a Meeting for establishing a quorum; (iv) providing for mandatory indemnification of expenses and losses of directors, officers, and agents, subject to certain exceptions; and (v) to provide for a casting vote for the Chair of the Board in the event of a deadlock in the directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732026/000143774923028368/0001437749-23-028368-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.