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BLACKWALL LIMITED — Share Issue/Capital Change 2011
Oct 17, 2011
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BlackWall Property Funds Limited ACN 146 935 131
Employee Share Plan Terms & Conditions
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Level 33, Australia Square, 264 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone 61 2 9258 1960 Facsimile 61 2 9258 1111 www.herceglaw.com.au Reference: 70275
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Contents
| 1. | Definitions __________3 |
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| 2. | Interpretation________4 |
| 3. | First Grant __________5 |
| 4. | Subsequent grants __________5 |
| 5. | Trading lock_________6 |
| 6. | Reorganisation of Capital __________7 |
| 7. | Bonus issues ________7 |
| 8. | Rights issues ________7 |
| 9. | Pari passu ranking__________7 |
| 10. | Quotation on the exchange ________8 |
| 11. | Calculations _________8 |
| 12. | Executive Directors_________8 |
| 13. | Notices _____________8 |
| 14. | Governing law _____________8 |
| 15. | Duties and taxes ___________8 |
| 16. | Amendment of plan_________8 |
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BlackWall Property Funds Limited
Em lo ee Share Plan Terms & Conditions p y
1. DEFINITIONS
In these terms and conditions, unless the context otherwise requires:
ASX means the Australian Securities Exchange Limited.
Board means the board of directors of the Company.
Business Day means Monday to Friday inclusive, except New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and any other day the ASX declares is not a business day.
Company means BlackWall Property Funds Limited ACN 146 935 131.
Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
Employees means the employees of the Company and the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries who are either:
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(a) permanent full-time or permanent part-time employees (as those terms are defined or understood under applicable industrial laws in the context of each employee’ respective position) who have served the company for a minimum aggregate period (whether continuous or otherwise) of three months; or
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(b) otherwise determined by the Managing Director to be eligible to participate in the Plan.
Holding Lock means a facility that prevents securities being deducted from, or entered into, a holding of securities pursuant to a transfer.
Listing Rules means the official listing rules of the ASX.
Managing Director means the person who occupies the position of managing director of the Company from time to time.
Offer Close Date means the date that the offer period closes under the Company’s Offer to subscribe in the Company's Shares.
Plan means the Employee share plan contemplated by and subject to these terms and conditions.
Plan Share means any Share granted under the Plan for which the Trading Lock Period has not yet expired.
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Share Registry means the share registry appointed from time to time by the Company to administer its Company-sponsored sub-register of holders of shares.
Shares means fully paid ordinary shares in the capital of the Company, or the ordinary shares into which fully paid ordinary shares are consolidated or subdivided or otherwise reconstructed from time to time.
Trading Lock Period means the period of three years commencing the date of issue of any Shares under these terms and conditions.
2. INTERPRETATION
In these terms and conditions, unless the context otherwise requires:
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(a) headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement;
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(b) the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
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(c) the word “person” includes a body corporate, an unincorporated association or an authority;
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(d) a reference to a party includes its successors and permitted assigns;
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(e) a reference to a document, includes any amendment, replacement or novation of it;
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(f) a reference to a statute, ordinance or by-law includes regulations and other instruments under it and consolidations amendments re-enactments or replacements of any of them;
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(g) law means common law, principles of equity, and laws made by parliament (and laws made by parliament include State, Territory and Commonwealth laws and regulations and other instruments under them, and consolidations, amendments, re-enactments or replacements of any of them);
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(h) an accounting term is a reference to that term as it is used in accounting standards under the Corporations Act, or, if not inconsistent with those standards, in accounting principles and practices generally accepted in Australia;
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(i) if a period of time is specified and dates from a given day or the day of an act or event, it is to be calculated exclusive of that day;
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(j) a reference to a day is to be interpreted as the period of time commencing at midnight and ending 24 hours later;
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(k) if an act prescribed under this Agreement to be done by a party on or by a given day is done after 5.00 pm on that day, it is taken to be done on the next day;
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(l) if an event must occur on a stipulated day which is not a business day then the stipulated day will be taken to be the next business day;
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(m) all references to dollars, $, cost, value and price are to Australian currency;
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(n) where any word or phrase is given a definite meaning in this Agreement any part of speech or other grammatical form of the word or phrase has a corresponding meaning;
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(o) where any word or phrase is given a definite meaning by reference to a provision of any statute the reference is intended to adopt any amendment to or corresponding definition in that statute or any amendment, re-enactment or replacement of it; and
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(p) an agreement, representation or warranty by two or more persons binds them jointly and severally.
3. FIRST GRANT
3.1 Time and value of grant
Subject to clause 3.2, the Company may issue Shares to each Employee with a market value of no more than $1,000 (as determined by the Managing Director).
3.2 Employee preconditions
The Company shall not issue Shares to an Employee under clause 3.1 unless the Company has received from the relevant Employee all of the following in a written form satisfactory to the Company:
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(a) agreement to the terms and conditions of the Plan; and
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(b) agreement to be bound by the Company’s constitution.
4. SUBSEQUENT GRANTS
4.1 Discretionary issues
Subject to the conditions set out in clause 4.2, from time to time and at any time, the Company may issue Shares to Employees in a manner and subject to any further conditions determined by the Board in its absolute discretion.
4.2
Conditions of further grants
Any further issue of Shares under clause 4.1 is subject to the following conditions:
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(a) any restrictions or requirements under the Corporations Act and Listing Rules;
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(b) any criteria established by the Board (including, without limitation, the achievement of performance targets); and
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- (c) a limit on the number of Plan Shares issued to an Employee in any one year period of that number of Shares equal in market value (as determined by the Managing Director) to no more than $1,000.
5. TRADING LOCK
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(a) Subject to clause 5(g), an Employee shall not sell, encumber or otherwise deal with Plan Shares until after the expiry of the Trading Lock Period.
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(b) The Company shall notify each Employee who is issued Plan Shares of:
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(1) the date of issue of those Shares; and
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(2) the earliest date the Employee may sell, encumber or otherwise deal with those Shares.
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(c) On the issue of Plan Shares, the Company shall direct the Share Registry to:
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(1) enter the Plan Shares on the Company-sponsored sub-register of holders of Shares; and
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(2) apply a Holding Lock to Plan Shares for the duration of the Trading Lock Period in relation to those Shares.
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(d) Plan Shares must remain entered in the Company-sponsored sub-register for the duration of the Trading Lock Period in relation to those shares.
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(e) No employee may require the Company to instruct the Share Registry to remove the Holding Lock on Shares during the Trading Lock Period.
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(f) At the expiry of the Trading Lock Period, the Company shall instruct the Share Registry to remove the Holding Lock on the relevant Shares.
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(g) If an Employee who holds Plan Shares:
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(1) dies;
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(2) becomes permanently disabled and as a consequence ceases to be an employee of the Company or any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries; or
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(3) is compulsorily retrenched by the Company or any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries,
that Employee (or that Employee’s estate) may sell, encumber or otherwise deal with those Shares notwithstanding that the Trading Lock Period in relation to those Shares has not then expired.
- (h) On request from an Employee entitled to sell, encumber or otherwise deal with that Employee's Plan Shares under clause 5(g) (or that Employee's estate), the Company shall instruct the Share Registry to remove the Holding Lock on the relevant Shares.
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6. REORGANISATION OF CAPITAL
If at any time or times before the expiry of the Trading Lock Period:
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(a) there is a consolidation of the Share capital of the Company, the number of Plan Shares must be consolidated in the same ratio as the Share capital;
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(b) there is a sub-division of the Share capital of the Company, the number of Plan Shares must be sub-divided in the same ratio as the Share capital;
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(c) in a return of Share capital, the number of Plan Shares must remain the same and the capital of each Plan Share must be reduced by the same amount as the amount returned in relation to each Share;
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(d) there is reduction of capital by a cancellation of paid up Share capital that is either lost or not represented by available assets, where no Shares are cancelled, the number of Plan Shares must remain unaltered;
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(e) there is a pro-rata cancellation of Shares, the number of Plan Shares must be reduced in the same ratio as the Share capital;
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(f) there is any other reconstruction of the issued capital of the Company, the number of Plan Shares must be reorganised so that the holder of the Plan Share will not receive a benefit not conferred on holders of Shares; and
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(g) subject to any provisions with respect to rounding of entitlements as sanctioned by the meeting of the holders of Shares approving a reorganisation of capital, in all other respects the terms of the Plan Shares remain unchanged.
7. BONUS ISSUES
Except in relation to the issue of Plan Shares by way of bonus issue, each Plan Share confers on the holder the same rights to participate in other bonus issues by the Company as the rights conferred by other Shares.
8. RIGHTS ISSUES
Each Plan Share confers on the holder the same right to participate in any new issues of securities by the Company as the right conferred by a Share.
9. PARI PASSU RANKING
Subject to these terms and conditions, Plan Shares rank pari passu in all respects with other Shares of the Company as at the date of issue of those Plan Shares.
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10. QUOTATION ON THE EXCHANGE
Within fifteen Business Days of the issue of Plan Shares, the Company shall apply for official quotation on the Exchange of any of those Plan Shares not already quoted on the Exchange.
11. CALCULATIONS
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(a) Any calculations or adjustments which are required to be made for the purposes of the Plan Shares will be made by the auditors of the Company for the time being and will, in the absence of manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on the Employee who holds those Shares.
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(b) The Company must notify each Employee who holds Plan Shares of any adjustments made to the number of Plan Shares within 10 Business Days of the date of the adjustment.
12. EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
The participation of executive directors in this Plan is subject to any approval by shareholders of the Company required under the Listing Rules.
13. NOTICES
Any notice regarding the Plan Shares will be sent to the registered address of the holder as recorded in the register of members maintained by the Company.
14. GOVERNING LAW
This plan is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of New South Wales.
15. DUTIES AND TAXES
The Company is not responsible for any duties or taxes which may become payable in connection with the issue and allotment of Plan Shares or any other dealing with the Plan Shares and may make any withholding or payment which it is required by law to make in relation to the Plan Shares or this Plan.
16. AMENDMENT OF PLAN
Subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules, from time to time and at any time, the Company may:
- (a) suspend or terminate the Plan; or
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- (b) amend, add to or delete any of the terms and conditions of the Plan.
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