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Classification: General
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seal
...
means any common seal of the Company or any
official seal or securities seal which the Company
may have or be permitted to have under the
Statutes;
secretary
...
means the secretary of the Company or, if there
are joint secretaries, any of the joint secretaries
and includes an assistant or deputy secretary
and any person appointed by the board to
perform any of the duties of the secretary of the
Company;
special resolution
...
means a special resolution defined in Article 90
of the Law;
Statutes
...
means the Law and every other statute,
statutory instrument, regulation or order for the
time being in force concerning companies
registered under the Law including, for the
avoidance of doubt, the Electronic
Communications (Jersey) Law 2000 and the
Uncertificated Securities Order;
treasury shares
...
means those shares held by the Company in
treasury in accordance with Article 58A of the
Law;
UKCGC
...
means the UK Corporate Governance Code
issued from time to time by the Financial
Reporting Council;
Uncertificated
Securities Order
...
means the Companies (Uncertificated Securities)
(Jersey) Order 1999; and
United Kingdom
...
means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.
(b)
any reference to an uncertificated share, or to a share being held in uncertificated
form, means a share title to which may be transferred by means of a relevant
system, and any reference to a certificated share means any share other than an
uncertificated share;
(c)
any other words or expressions defined in the Law or, if not defined in the Law, in
any other of the Statutes (in each case as in force on the date of adoption of these
articles) have the same meaning in these articles except that the word "company"
includes any body corporate;
(d)
any reference elsewhere in these articles to any statute or statutory provision
includes a reference to any modification or re-enactment of it for the time being in
force;
(e)
words importing the singular number include the plural number and vice versa,
words importing one gender include the other gender and words importing persons
include bodies corporate and unincorporated associations;
(f)
any reference to writing includes a reference to any method of reproducing words
in a legible form, whether sent or supplied in electronic form or otherwise;
(g)
any reference to a signature or to something being signed or executed includes a
signature printed or reproduced by mechanical or other means or any stamp or