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RECORD DATES
123.
122.
Fixing of record dates
(1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, but without prejudice to any rights
attached to any shares, the Company or the board may fix a date as the record date by
reference to which a dividend or other distribution will be declared or paid or a distribution,
allotment or issue made, and that date may be before, on or after the date on which the
dividend, distribution, allotment or issue is declared, paid or made.
(2)
In the absence of a record date being fixed, entitlement to any dividend, distribution,
allotment or issue shall be determined by reference to the date on which the dividend is
declared or the distribution, allotment or issue is made.
ACCOUNTS AND INTERNAL AUDITING
124.
123.
Accounting records
(1)
The board shall cause accounting records of the Company to be kept in accordance with
the Statutes.
(2)
No member (as such) shall have any right of inspecting any account, book or document of
the Company, except as conferred by law or authorised by the board or by any ordinary
resolution of the Company.
125.
124.
Internal auditing
The board shall ensure that there is an internal audit function within the Company that is
responsible for auditing the Company’s accounting systems and internal controls. The
internal audit function will report directly to the audit committee of the board. The audit
committee shall delegate administrative responsibility for such function to the executive
management of the Company.
COMMUNICATIONS
126.
125.
Communications to the Company
(1)
Subject to the Statutes and except where otherwise expressly stated in these articles, any
document or information to be sent or supplied to the Company (whether or not such
document or information is required or authorised under the Statutes) shall be in hard
copy form or, subject to paragraph (2), be sent or supplied in electronic form or by means
of a website.
(2)
Subject to the Statutes, a document or information may be given to the Company in
electronic form only if it is given in such form and manner and to such address as may
have been specified by the board from time to time for the receipt of documents in
electronic form. The board may prescribe such procedures as it thinks fit for verifying the
authenticity or integrity of any such document or information given to it in electronic form.
(3)
A communication sent to the Company by electronic means shall not be treated as
received by the Company if it is rejected by computer virus protection arrangements.
127.
126.
Communications by the Company
(1)
A document or information may be sent or supplied in hard copy form by the Company to
any member either personally or by sending or supplying it by post addressed to the
member at his registered address or by leaving it at that address.
(2)
Subject to the Statutes, a document or information may be sent or supplied by the
Company in electronic form to any member who has agreed (generally or specifically and