AGM Information • Apr 24, 2025
AGM Information
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OF
SERCO GROUP PLC (the 'Company')
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at the offices of Clifford Chance LLP, 10 Upper Bank Street, London, E14 5JJ on Thursday, 24 April 2025 the following special business resolutions were duly passed, resolutions 7 and 11 as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 8 to 10 and 12 to 13 as Special Resolutions of the Company.
such authorities to apply after this resolution is passed in substitution for all existing authorities pursuant to Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 and to expire at the conclusion of the Company's next annual general meeting or 6pm on 30 June 2026, whichever is the earlier, unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in a general meeting but, in each case, so that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements before the authority expires which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares to be granted after the authority expires and the Directors may allot shares or grant such rights under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
References in this Resolution 7 to the nominal amount of rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares (including where such rights are referred to as equity securities as defined in Section 560(1) of the Companies Act 2006) are to the nominal amount of shares that may be allotted pursuant to the rights.
To resolve that, in substitution for all existing authorities and subject to the passing of Resolution 7 above, the Directors be generally authorised pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560(1) of the Companies Act 2006) for cash pursuant to the authority granted by Resolution 7 and/or pursuant to section 573 of the Companies Act 2006 to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash, in each case free of the restriction in section 561 of the Companies Act 2006, such authority to be limited:
(a) to the allotment of equity securities and/or sale of treasury shares for cash in connection with an offer of, or an invitation to apply for, equity securities (but in the case of an allotment pursuant to the authority granted by paragraph (b) of Resolution 7, such authority shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a fully pre-emptive offer only):
and so that the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any 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 any other matter;
such authority to apply until the end of the Company's next annual general meeting after this resolution is passed (or, if earlier, until 6pm on 30 June 2026) unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting but, in each case, so that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements before the authority expires 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 conferred hereby had not expired.
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 specified 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 the Notice of Meeting; and
(ii) to the allotment of equity securities and/or sale of treasury shares for cash (otherwise than under paragraph (i) above) up to an aggregate nominal amount equal to 20% of any allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares from time to time under paragraph (i) above, such authority to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Directors determine 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 the Notice of Meeting,
such authority to apply until the end of the Company's next annual general meeting after this resolution is passed (or, if earlier, 6pm on 30 June 2026) unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting but, in each case, so that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements before the authority expires 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 conferred hereby had not expired.
resolution has effect, commencing on the date of the passing of this resolution and ending at the conclusion of the Company's next annual general meeting or, if earlier, at 6pm on 30 June 2026 to:
(a) make political donations to political parties and/or independent election candidates;
provided that the total aggregate amount of political donations and political expenditure pursuant to this authority shall not exceed £100,000 for the Group as a whole, and the amount authorised under each of paragraphs (a) to (c) shall be limited to such amount.
All existing authorisations and approvals relating to political donations or political expenditure under Part 14 of the Companies Act 2006 are hereby revoked without prejudice to any donation made or expenditure incurred prior to the date hereof pursuant to such authorisation or approval.
For the purposes of this resolution, the terms 'political donation', 'political parties', 'political organisation' and 'political expenditure' have the meanings given by sections 363 to 365 of the Companies Act 2006.
By order of the Board
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Nickesha Graham-Burrell Group Company Secretary
24 April 2025
Serco Group plc Serco House 16 Bartley Wood Business Park Bartley Way, Hook, RG27 9UY
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