AGM Information • Jul 25, 2025
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") of the Company duly convened and held at 2.30 p.m. on Friday 25 July 2025 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE the following resolutions were duly passed:
and so that the Board may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which it considers 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 authorities to apply until the end of the next AGM of the Company in 2026 (or, if earlier, on 24 October 2026) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after the authority ends and the Board may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not ended.
Words and expressions defined for the purpose of the 2006 Act shall have the same meaning in this resolution.
All existing authorisations and approvals relating to political donations or expenditure under Part 14 of the 2006 Act are hereby revoked without prejudice to any donation made or expenditure incurred prior to the date hereof pursuant to such authorisation or approval.
19 in Appendix 2 to this Notice and the rules of which are produced to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chair, be approved and the Board be authorised to do all such acts and things necessary or desirable to establish the Sharesave; and
(B) That the Board be authorised to adopt further plans based on the Sharesave but modified to take account of local tax, exchange control or securities laws in overseas territories, provided that any cash or shares made available under such further plans are treated as counting against any limits on individual or overall participation in the Sharesave.
and so that the Board may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which it considers necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the law of, any territory or any other matter;
under paragraph (A) or paragraph (B) 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 (B) above, such power to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Board 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 power to apply until the end of the next AGM of the Company in 2026 (or, if earlier, on 24 October 2026) but during this period 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 power ends and the Board may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or arrangement as if the power had not ended.
such power to apply until the end of the next AGM of the Company in 2026 (or, if earlier, on 24 October 2026) (unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in a general meeting) but during this period 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 power ends and the Board may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or arrangement as if the power had not ended.
(A) to a maximum aggregate number of 87,678,078 ordinary shares; and
(B) by the condition that the minimum price which may be paid for an ordinary share is 5 pence and the maximum price which may be paid for an ordinary share is the highest of:
I. an amount equal to 5% above the average market value of an ordinary share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which that ordinary share is contracted to be purchased; and
II. the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent purchase bid on the trading venues where the purchase is carried out, in each case, exclusive of expenses,
such power to apply until the end of the next AGM of the Company in 2026 (or, if earlier, on 24 October 2026) (unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in a general meeting) but, in each case, so that the Company may enter into a contract to purchase ordinary shares which will or may be completed or executed wholly or partly after the power ends and the Company may purchase ordinary shares pursuant to any such contract as if the power had not ended.
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