AGM Information • May 19, 2022
AGM Information
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That, the Directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised, pursuant to Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014, to exercise all of the powers of the Company to allot and issue all relevant securities (within the meaning of Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014) of the Company:
(b) are offered by way of one or more rights issues for period(s) fixed by the Directors to or in favour of the holders of equity securities on the register of members and/or any persons having a right to subscribe for equity securities in the capital of the Company at such record date(s) as the Directors may determine and where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of such holders and persons are proportional in nominal value (as nearly as may be practicable) to the respective number of equity securities held by them on such record date(s), and subject generally, but without limitation to any of the foregoing, to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may consider necessary or expedient in relation to legal and/or practical issues (including to deal with any fractional entitlements and/or arising in respect of overseas members and/or jurisdictional issues) under the laws of, or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange in, any territory.
The authority hereby conferred under this Resolution 7 shall commence at the time of the passing of this resolution and shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company afterthe passing of this resolution or close of business on the date which is 15 calendar months after the date of passing this resolution, whicheveris earlier, unless and to the extent that such power is varied, revoked, orrenewed priorto such date; provided that the Company may before such expiry make offer(s) and/or agreement(s) which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry, and the Directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of any such offer(s) and/or agreement(s) as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
9. To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following as a special resolution (Resolution 9):
That the Company and any subsidiary of the Company for the time being be and they are each hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases including overseas market purchases (in each case within the meaning of Section 1072 of the Companies Act 2014), of any ordinary shares in the share capital of the Company (including any contract of purchase, which will or might be concluded wholly or partly after the expiry date below) on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Directors may determine from time to time subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, provided that:
any number of ordinary shares on the trading venue where the purchase pursuant to the authority conferred by this resolution will be carried out);
c. the minimum price (excluding expenses), which may be paid for ordinary shares purchased pursuant to this authorisation will be an amount equal to the nominal value thereof; and
d. this authority expires at close of trading on the earlier of the date of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or the close of business on the date which is 15 calendar months after the passing of this special resolution unless and to the extent varied, revoked orrenewed by specialresolution prior to such date, save that the Company may make a purchase after the expiry of the authorisation in any case where the contract of purchase is executed wholly or partly before the authorisation expired and may complete any such contract as if the authority conferred had not expired.
For the purpose of Resolution 9 and Resolution 10, the "Appropriate Price" is the average of the five amounts resulting from determining whichever of the following (I), (II) or (III) specified below in relation to shares of the class of which such treasury share is to be reissued shall be appropriate in respect of each of the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the treasury share is re-issued, as determined from information on the business done published in the Daily Official List in Dublin of the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) relating to each of these five business days:
and if there shall be only a high (but not a low) or a low (but not a high) market guide price reported, or if there shall not be any market guide price reported, for any particular day, then that day shall not count as one of the said five business days for the purposes of determining the "Appropriate Price". If the means of providing the foregoing information as to dealings and prices by reference to which the "Appropriate Price "is to be determined is altered or is replaced by some other means, then the "Appropriate Price "is to be determined on the basis of the equivalent information published by the relevant authority in relation to dealings published in the Daily Official List in Dublin of the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) or its equivalent.
10. To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following as a special resolution (Resolution 10):
That the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014 to re-allot treasury shares (within the meaning of Section 106 of the Companies Act 2014) as relevant securities and pursuant to Section 1023 of the Companies Act 2014, to re-allot treasury shares as equity securities as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to any such re-allotment provided that:
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