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STAR COMBO PHARMA LIMITED — Governance Information 2018
May 13, 2018
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Governance Information
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Star Combo Pharma Limited ACN 615 728 375
EMPLOYEE SHARE PLAN
The Directors are empowered to operate the Employee Share Plan on the following terms and in accordance with the Listing Rules (where applicable).
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Inthis Plan:
Acceptance Form means the acceptance form approved by the Company from time to time by which an Eligible Participant or Associate (asapplicable) accepts an Offer made bythe Company.
Acceptance Period means the period, to bedetermined by the Board, within which any Acceptance Form must bereceived by the Company.
Associate has the meaning given to the term in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth).
Associated Body Corporate means:
- (a) a body corporate that is a related body corporate (as defined in the Corporations Act) of the Company;
- (b) a body corporate that has voting power in the Company of not less than 20%;and
- (c) a body corporate in which the Company has voting power of not less than 20%.
ASIC means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
ASX meansASXLimited (ACN008624691)orthe Australian Securities Exchange,asthe context requires.
Board means the board of Directors of the Company or a committee of them.
Business Day means those days other than a Saturday, Sunday, New Year's Day, Australia Day,Good Friday, EasterMonday, Anzac Day,Christmas Day,Boxing Dayand any other day which the ASXshall declare and publish is not a businessday.
Class Order means classorder ASICO14/1000 issuedby ASICasamended or replaced.
Company means Star Combo Pharma Limited {ACN }.
Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
Director meansa director of the Company.
Eligible Participant means:
- (a) a full-time, part-time or casual employee (including an executive director) of the Company orany Associated BodyCorporate;
- (b) a non-executive director of th~ Company or any Associated Body Corporate;
- (c) a contractor of, or consultant to, the Companyor any Associated Body Corporate;
- (d) any other person whom ASICallows to participate in the Planwithout requiring compliance with Chapters 6D.2,6D.3 (except section736) and 7.9 of the Corporations Act; or
- (e) any person who isa prospective participant asdescribed in the above paragraphs.
Issue Date, in relation to particular Plan Shares, means the date on which the Plan SharesarealIotted andissued.
Issue Price meansthe priceat whichthe Companyoffers to issueaPlanShareto an Eligible Participant inaccordancewith the Plan.
listing Rules means the Listing Rulesof the ASXasamended from time to time.
Offer meansanoffer made by the Company to an Eligible Participant to participate in the Plan.
Participant means an Eligible Participant or an Associateof an Eligible Participant who acceptsan Offer to acquire PlanSharesunder the Plan.
Plan means the plan established by these Terms and Conditions known as the Star Combo Pharma Limited EmployeeShare Plan.
Plan Shares means Sharesissuedpursuant to the Plan.
Restriction Condition means a condition set out in an Offer that must be satisfied (unless waived by the Board in its absolute discretion) before the PlanSharesto which the Restriction Condition applies can be sold, transferred, assigned, charged or otherwise encumbered.
Restriction Period, in relation to a Plan Share, means the period commencing on the date of issue of the PlanShare and ending on the date all Restriction Conditions that apply to that PlanShare(if any)aresatisfied or waived by the Board.
Retirement means where a Participant intends to permanently cease all gainful employment in circumstances where the Participant provides, in good faith, a written statutory declaration to the Board to that effect.
Securities includes shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, notes and any options to subscribe for the same.
Share means an ordinary fully paid share in the capital of the Company.
Share Payment means, in respect of an Eligible Participant or Associate (as applicable), an amount equal to the Issue Price multiplied by the number of Plan Shares accepted by the Eligible Participant or Associate (as applicable) in their Acceptance Form.
Terms and Conditions means these terms and conditions as amended from time to time.
Total and Permanent Disability means that the Eligible Participant has, in the opinion of the Board, after considering such medical and other evidence as it sees fit, become incapacitated to such an extent as to render the Eligible Participant unlikely ever to engage in any occupation with the Company or its Associated Bodies Corporate for which he or she is reasonably qualified by education, training or experience.
- 1.2 Unless the context otherwise requires, words defined in the Listing Rules or in the Corporations Act will have the same meanings in this document.
- 1.3 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and words denoting one gender shall include all genders.
2. PURPOSE
- 2.1 The Plan has been established as an initiative for creating a stronger link between employee performance and reward and increasing shareholder value by enabling Eligible Participants to have a greater involvement with, and share in, the future growth and profitability of the Company.
- 2.2 The Plan is subject to deferred tax legislation, including legislation derived from the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Employee Share Schemes) Bi1l2015.
3. COMMENCEMENT
The Plan will commence on the date determined by the Board.
4. OFFERAND ACCEPTANCE OF PLAN SHARES
4.1 The Company (acting through the Board) may from time to time, in its absolute discretion, make an Offer to issue Plan Shares to any Eligible Participant (including an Eligible Participant who has previously received an Offer) upon such terms as the Board may determine and in compliance with ASIC Class Order [CO 14/1000] as amended or replaced from time to time.
- 4.2 For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in these Terms and Conditions obliges the Company at any time to make an Offer, or further Offer, to any Eligible Participant.
- 4.3 Each Offer must be in writing and must specify (or alternatively, the documents accompanying the Offer must specify):
- (a) the maximum number of Plan Shares the Eligible Participant may apply for (as determined by the Board), subject always to the limit on the total numberofPlanSharesunderciause9;
- (b) the Issue Price ofthe Plan Shares orthe manner in which the Issue Price is to be calculated;
- (c) theAcceptancePeriod;
- (d) any Restriction Conditions (including, without limitation, any service condition or performance criteria);
- (e) the obligations of the Participant;and
- (f) any other matter the Board considers relevant,
and must contain such other information and be accompanied by such other documents as may be required by law or the Listing Rules.
- 4.4 Subject to clause 4.5, any Offer made by the Company may be accepted in whole or in part by the Eligible Participant or an Associate of the Eligible Participant by signing and returning to the Company the Acceptance Form before the close ofthe Acceptance Period together with a cheque for the Share Payment for those Plan Shares (unless the Share Payment is nil). Any acceptance of an Offer will only be effective if received by the Company within the Acceptance Period.
- 4.5 The Company may accept or reject any Acceptance Form in its absolute discretion and may, before accepting or rejecting the Acceptance Form, require the Eligible Participant or the Associate (as applicable) to provide any information that the Board requests concerning the person's entitlement to lodge an acceptance under this Plan.
- 4.6 The Company must promptly notify an Eligible Participant or Associate (as applicable) whether the Acceptance Form has been accepted, in whole or in part and must promptly refund any Share Payment to the extent an Acceptance Form isnotaccepted.
5. ISSUE PRICE
EachPlan Share issued pursuant to an Offer must be issuedand allotted by the CompanyatanIssuePriceto bedetermined bythe Board,which may beanominal or nil IssuePriceif sodetermined bythe Board.
6. ALLOTMENT AND ISSUEOF PLAN SHARES
- 6.1 The Company must allot and issue PlanSharesto an Eligible Participant or Associate(asapplicable) in accordance with anaccepted Acceptance Form within five BusinessDaysofthe Company receiving the SharePayment for those PlanSharesinclearedfunds.
- 6.2 The Company will apply for quotation on the ASXof Plan Shares issued under the Planassoonaspracticable afterthe IssueDateinaccordancewith the ListingRules.
7. RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONSATTACHING TO PLAN SHARES
- 7.1 A Participant will, from and including the IssueDate,bethe legalowner of the PlanSharesallotted andissuedunder the Plan.
- 7.2 EachPlanShareshall be issuedon the sameterms and conditions as,and will rank pari passuwith, allother issuedSharesfrom the IssueDateexcept for entitlements which havearecord date before the IssueDate.
8. RESTRICTION PERIOD AND BUY BACK
- 8.1 Subject to clause8.5,a Participant maynot sell,transfer, assign,mortgage, chargeor otherwise encumber a PlanShareuntil the end of any applicable Restriction Period.
- 8.2 TheParticipantagreesto:
- (a) execute an ASX restriction agreement in relation to the Plan Shares reflecting any Restriction Period applying to the Plan Sharesunder the Plan;
- (b) the Company lodging the share certificates for Plan Shares (where issuer sponsored) with a bank or recognised trustee to hold until the expiry of any Restriction Periodapplying to the Plan Shares or until the Plan Shares are otherwise released from restrictions (at which time the Company shall arrange for the share certificates to be provided to the Participant); and
- (c) the application of a holding lock over Plan Shares until any
Restriction Period applying to the Plan Shares under the Plan has expired (at which time the Company shall arrange for the holding lock to be removed).
- 8.3 Subject to clause 8.5, where a Restriction Condition in relation to Plan Shares is not satisfied by the due date, or becomes incapable of satisfaction in the opinion of the Board, the Company must, unless the Restriction Condition is waived by the Board:
- (a) where the Plan Shares were issued for no cash consideration, subject to the Corporations Act and the ASXListing Rules, buy back the relevant Plan Shares within 12 months of the date the Restriction Condition was not satisfied (or became incapable of satisfaction) under Part 2J.l of the Corporations Act at a price equal to \$0.0001perShare;or
- (b) where the Shareswere issuedfor cashconsideration, subject to the Corporations Act and the ASX Listing Rules, use its best endeavours to buy back the relevant Plan Shares within 12 months of the date the Restriction Condition was not satisfied (or became incapable of satisfaction) under Part 2J.l of the Corporations Act at a price equal to the cashconsideration paid by the Participant for the PlanShares.
- 8.4 Forthe purposesof clause8.3, the Participant irrevocably appoints each of the Companyand eachdirector ofthe Companyashisor her attorney to do all things necessary to give effect to the buy-back of the Participant's PlanSharesincluding executing all documents and seeking or providing all necessaryapprovals and the Participant acknowledges andagreesthat the power of attorney isgivenfor valuable consideration (inthe form of the PlanShares).
- 8.5 Notwithstandingclauses 8.1and8.3,where:
- (a) the Participant dies;
- (b) the Eligible Participant to whom the Offer was originally made ceasesto be employed asaresult of:
- (i) bona fide Retirement from the workforce (unless the Retirement happens within six months of the date of the issueof the PlanShares);
- (ii) bona fide redundancy;or
- (iii) Totaland Permanent Disability,
the Board may elect to:
- (c) allow the Participant to retain the Plan Shares;
- (d) waive any of the Restriction Conditions; and/or
- (e) permit the Participant (or their personal legal representative) to sell, transfer, assign, mortgage, charge or otherwise encumber the Participant's PlanShares.
- 8.6 Where, in the opinion of the Board, acting reasonably, the Eligible Participant has acted fraudulently or dishonestly or is (or has been) in material breach of his or her obligations to the Company:
- (a) the Company may, by written notice to the Eligible Participant (or their Associate if their Associate has been issued Plan Shares in lieu of an issue to the Eligible Participant), buy back the Plan Shares issued to the Eligible Participant (or their Associate as the case may be), whether or not the Restriction Period for those Plan Shares has ended, in accordance with clause 8.3(a) of this Plan regardless of whether the Eligible Participant (or their Associate as the case may be), has paid cash consideration for the Plan Shares;and
- (b) where the Company has issued the Eligible Participant (or their Associate as the case may be) with a written notice under clause 8.6(a), and the
Restriction Period for those Plan Shares has ended, the Eligible Participant (or their Associate as the case may be) may not sell, transfer, assign, mortgage, charge or otherwise encumber any of the Plan Share the subject of the written notice without the prior written consent of the Company.
9. LIMIT ON NUMBER OF PLAN SHARES
The Company must take reasonable steps to ensure that the number of PlanShares offered bythe Company under this Planwhen aggregated with:
- (a) the number of PlanSharesissuedduring the previous five yearsunder the Plan (or any other employee share plan extended only to Eligible Participants);and
- (b) the number of Shares that would be issued if each outstanding offer for Shares (including options to acquire unissued Shares)under any employee incentive schemeof the Companywere to beexercisedor accepted,
does not exceed 5%of the total number of issuedSharesat the time of an Offer (but disregarding any offer of Sharesor option to acquire Sharesthat can be disregarded in accordance with the ClassOrder).
10. NO EFFECTONEMPLOYMENT
- 10.1 The right of the Company or an Associated Body Corporate to dismiss any Eligible Participant or to vary the terms of employment of any Eligible Participant shall not be prejudiced or affected inany way by:
- (a) the participation of the Company, an Associated Body Corporate or a Participant inthe Plan;or
- (b) anything contained intheseTerms andConditions.
- 10.2 An Eligible Participant may not use hisor her participation in the Planor the rights or benefits as an Eligible Participant under the Terms and Conditions as grounds for seekingdamages in anyaction brought by the EligibleParticipant against the Company or an Associated Body Corporate whether in respect of any alleged wrongful dismissal orotherwise.
11. ADMINISTRATION OFTHE PLAN BYTHE BOARD
- 11.1 The Plan will be administered by the Board in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
- 11.2 The Boardhasthe power to:
- (a) determine appropriate procedures for administration of the Planconsistent with its terms;
- (b) resolve conclusively all questions of fact or interpretation in connection withthePlan;
- (c) delegate the exerciseof anyof its powers or discretions arising under the Plan to anyone or more personsfor suchperiod andonsuchconditions asthe Board maydetermine; and
- (d) suspendor terminate the Planbygiving written adviceto Eligible Participants.
12. ALTERATIONS TO THE PLAN
The Company may by special resolution (or by a resolution of the Board if permitted by the Listing Rules,or otherwise as permitted by the Listing Rules)amend or add to these Terms and Conditions.
13. GOVERNING LAW
The Terms and Conditions of this Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws for the time being in force in Victoria.
SIGNED AS A DEED THIS
DAY OF OCTOBER 2017 BY STAR COMBO PHARMA LIMITED PURSUANT TO S.127 OF THE CORPORATIONS LAW
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Director
Director