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Classification: General
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(1)
The Company may give a disclosure notice to any person whom the Company knows or
has reasonable cause to believe:
(a)
to be interested in the Company's shares, or
(b)
to have been so interested at any time during the three years immediately
preceding the date on which the disclosure notice is issued.
(2)
The disclosure notice may require the person:
(a)
to confirm that fact or (as the case may be) to state whether or not it is the case,
and
(b)
if he holds, or has during that time held, any such interest, to give such further
information as may be required in accordance with the following provisions of this
article.
(3)
The notice may require the person to whom it is addressed to give particulars of his own
present or past interest in the Company's shares held by him at any time during the three
year period mentioned in paragraph (1) above.
(4)
The notice may require the person to whom it is addressed, where:
(a)
his interest is a present interest and another interest in the shares subsists; or
(b)
another interest in the shares subsisted during that three year period at a time
when his interest subsisted,
to give, so far as lies within his knowledge, such particulars with respect to that other
interest as may be required by the notice.
(5)
The particulars referred to in paragraph (4) above include:
(a)
the identity of persons interested in the shares in question; and
(b)
whether persons interested in the same shares are or were parties to:
(i)
an agreement to acquire interests in a particular company; or
(ii)
an agreement or arrangement relating to the exercise of any rights
conferred by the holding of the shares.
(6)
The notice may require the person to whom it is addressed, where his interest is a past
interest, to give (so far as lies within his knowledge) particulars of the identity of the
person who held that interest immediately upon his ceasing to hold it.
(7)
The information required by the notice must be given within such reasonable time as may
be specified in the notice.
(8)
If a disclosure notice is given by the Company to a person appearing to be interested in
any share, a copy shall at the same time be given to the holder of the relevant share, but
the accidental omission to do so or the non-receipt of the copy by the holder of the
relevant share shall not prejudice the operation of the following provisions of this article.
(9)
If the holder of, or any person appearing to be interested in, any share has been served
with a disclosure notice and, in respect of that share (a
default share
), has been in
default for the relevant period in supplying to the Company the information required by
the disclosure notice, the restrictions referred to below shall apply. Those restrictions shall
continue until: