Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement • Jun 20, 2012
Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
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I/We the undersigned, being (a) holder(s) of shares in the above-named Company, hereby appoint the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting or (see note 1 opposite)
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Please leave this box blank if you have appointed the Chairman. (see note 2 opposite) Do not insert your own name(s).
as my/our proxy to attend and to vote for me/us and on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held on Wednesday 25th July 2012 at 11am, and at any adjournment thereof, on the Resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting. I/We wish my/our proxy to vote as indicated on this form. I/We direct further that my/our proxy will vote (or abstain from voting) as he/she thinks fit in his/her sole discretion on any of the resolutions on which I/we do not give a direction and on any other matter which may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.
Please tick here if this proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments being made (see note 3 opposite).
Please indicate with an 'X' in the appropriate boxes how you wish your votes to be cast (see note 4 opposite).
| For | Vote Against Withheld |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 To receive the Company's accounts for the year ended 31st March 2012. | |||
| 2 To receive and approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31st March 2012. | |||
| 3 To declare a final dividend of 40 pence per share on the ordinary shares. | |||
| 4 To re-elect Mr TEP Stevenson as a director of the Company. | |||
| 5 To re-elect Mr NAP Carson as a director of the Company. | |||
| 6 To re-elect Mr AM Ferguson as a director of the Company. | |||
| 7 To re-elect Mr RJ MacLeod as a director of the Company. | |||
| 8 To re-elect Mr LC Pentz as a director of the Company. | |||
| 9 To re-elect Mr MJ Roney as a director of the Company. | |||
| 10 To re-elect Mr WF Sandford as a director of the Company. | |||
| 11 To re-elect Mrs DC Thompson as a director of the Company. | |||
| 12 To re-appoint KPMG Audit Plc as auditor for the forthcoming year. | |||
| 13 To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor. | |||
| 14 To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure within certain limits. |
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| 15 To authorise the directors to allot shares. | |||
| a consolidation of the ordinary share capital. | 16 To declare a special dividend of 100 pence per share on the ordinary shares and to approve | ||
| 17 To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares. | |||
| 18 To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares. | |||
| on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 19 To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than annual general meetings |
Voting ID Task ID Shareholder Reference Number
3 A member can appoint more than one proxy in relation to the meeting, provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attaching to different shares held by that member. To appoint more than one proxy, you must complete a separate Form of Proxy for each proxy unless you are appointing the proxies electronically in which case, please refer to note 5. Additional Form(s) of Proxy may be obtained by contacting the Company's registrars, Equiniti, or you may photocopy this form. Equiniti's contact details can be found on page 10 of the Annual General Meeting circular. Please indicate in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which they are authorised to act as your proxy. Please also indicate by ticking the box provided if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. If returned by post, all forms must be signed and returned together in the same envelope addressed to Equiniti, Freepost SEA10846, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99 6ZL.
4 If you do not indicate how you wish your proxy to use your vote on any particular matter, the proxy will exercise his or her sole discretion both as to how he or she votes and whether or not he or she abstains from voting, as he or she will on any other matter arising at the relevant meeting.
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Equiniti Aspect House Spencer Road LANCING BN99 6LQ (BN996LQ1AY)
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