AGM Information • May 24, 2024
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 100 Liverpool Street, London, EC2M 2AT at 2.00pm on 23 May 2024, the following one ordinary and four special resolutions were passed.
That, in substitution for all existing and previously unexercised authorities, the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 ('the Act') to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company and grant rights to subscribe for, or convert any security into, shares in the Company:
such authorities to expire at the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company (or, if earlier, at the close of business on 30 June 2025), unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting, save that the Company may before such expiry make any offer or agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert any security in shares to be granted, after such expiry, and the Directors may allot shares, or grant such rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares, in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authorisations conferred hereby had not expired.
For the purposes of this Resolution 12 "rights issue" means an offer to:
to subscribe for further securities by means of the issue of a renounceable letter (or other negotiable document) which may be traded for a period before payment for the securities is due, including an offer to which the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions or make any other arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange, or any other matter whatsoever.
That, in substitution for all existing and previously unexercised authorities and if Resolution 12 is passed, the Directors be authorised to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560(1) of the Act) for cash under the authority given by that resolution and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such authority to be limited to:
and so that the Directors may impose such exclusions or other arrangements as they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with fractional entitlements, treasury shares, record dates or legal, regulatory or practical difficulties which may arise under the laws of, or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange in, any territory, or any other matter whatsoever; and
such authority to expire at the end of the next AGM of the Company (or, if earlier, at the close of business on 30 June 2025) unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting, but, in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires and the Company may allot equity securities (and/or sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired. For the purpose of this Resolution 13, "rights issue" has the same meaning as in Resolution 12 above.
That, if Resolution 12 is passed, the Directors be authorised, in addition to any authority granted under Resolution 13, to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560(1) of the Act) for cash under the authority given by Resolution 12 and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such authority to be limited to:
(a) the allotment of equity securities and/or sale of treasury shares up to an aggregate nominal amount of £2,102,879, such authority to be used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within 12 months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Directors determine to be an acquisition or other capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this notice; and
(b) the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than under paragraph 14(a) above) up to a nominal amount equal to 20% of any allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares from time to time under paragraph 14(a) above, such authority to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Board of the Company determines to be of a kind contemplated by paragraph 3 of Section 2B of the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this notice,
such authority to expire at the end of the next AGM of the Company (or, if earlier, at the close of business on 30 June 2025) unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting, but, in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (and/or sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
That, in substitution for all existing and previously unexercised authorities, the Company is generally and unconditionally authorised for the purposes of section 701 of the Act to make market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may from time to time determine, and where such shares are held as treasury shares the Company may use them for the purposes of its employee share schemes, provided that:
That a general meeting of the Company (other than an annual general meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice
____________________ Tony Hunter Company Secretary
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