Form 6-K - By-Laws


 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 6-K

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


For the month of: August 2005 Commission File Number: 1-14830
   
GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC.
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
 

 

 

725 Montée de Liesse
Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Canada H4T 1P5

(Address of principal executive offices)
   

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

Form 20-F       Form 40-F    X  

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Yes        No   X  

If  “Yes” is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the Registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-_N/A_.


GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC.


BY-LAW ONE


MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS AND DIRECTORS


ARTICLE 1.         
MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS

                1.1          Place and Time.  Meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held at the registered office of the Corporation or at such other place and at such time as the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may determine, from time to time.

                1.2          Chairman. Subject to the provisions of any resolution of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or, in his absence or inability or refusal or failure to act, a Vice-Chairman of the Board or, in his absence or inability or refusal or failure to act, the Vice-President or, if there be more than one Vice-President, that one of them who may have been designated for the purpose by the Board of Directors, shall preside at all meetings of shareholders. All of the foregoing officers may attend such meetings but no Vice-President shall act as chairman if the Board of Directors shall have determined that he shall not so act. If all of the foregoing officers be absent or unable or refuse or fail to act, the persons present may choose a chairman.

                1.3          Quorum. The holder or holders of not less than 25 per cent of the outstanding shares of the Corporation carrying voting rights at the meeting, present in person or represented by proxy or by an authorized representative, shall constitute a quorum.


ARTICLE 2.         MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS

                2.1          Place, Time and Notice. Immediately after the annual meeting of shareholders in each year, a meeting of such of the newly elected directors as are then present may be held, provided that they shall constitute a quorum, without notice, for the appointment of officers of the Corporation and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.

                                Subject to the provisions of any resolution of the Board of Directors, meetings of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board or a Vice-Chairman of the Board or the President or any Vice-President who is a director or any two directors and notice of the time and place for holding any meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given at least 24 hours (excluding week-ends and statutory holidays) prior to the time fixed for the meeting. Any meeting so called may be held at the registered office of the Corporation or any other place which shall have been fixed by the Board of Directors.


                2.2          Chairman. Subject to the provisions of any resolution of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or, in his absence, or inability or refusal or failure to act, any Vice-Chairman of the Board or, in his absence or inability or refusal or failure to act, the President or, in his absence or inability or refusal or failure to act, the Vice-President or, if there be more than one Vice-President, that one of them who may have been designated for the purpose by the Board of Directors, shall president at all meetings of the Board of Directors; provided that neither the President nor any Vice-President shall so act unless he is a director. If all of the foregoing officers be absent or unable or refuse or fail to act, the directors present may choose a chairman from among their number. The Chairman at any meeting of directors may vote as a director.

                2.3          Quorum. Except where the Corporation has only one director, the Board of Directors may, from time to time, fix by resolution the quorum for meetings of the Board of Directors but until otherwise fixed three (3) directors in office shall constitute a quorum.

                Enacted on June 9, 1998.
                
Witness the signatures of the Chairman of the Board
                and Chief Executive Officer and the Secretary of the Corporation

 

 

 


GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC.


SPECIAL BY-LAW 2003-1


AMENDING GENERAL BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION


BY-LAW ONE of the General By-laws of the Corporation is hereby amended by inserting the following paragraph at the end of Article 1:

1.4  

Electronic Meetings.  If the Directors of the Corporation call a meeting of shareholders pursuant to the laws governing the Corporation, those Directors may determine that the meeting shall be held in accordance with the regulations, if any, governing the Corporation entirely by means of telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all participants to communicate adequately with each other during the meeting.


ENACTED by the board of directors on December 3, 2003.

RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED by the shareholders on February 4, 2004.

 


 

SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securitiecs Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC.
 
 
 
(Signed) Pierre Poirier
Pierre Poirier
Director, Legal Services
 

Date: August 5, 2005