Paragraph 2 Draft terms of merger

a draft of the proposed terms of the scheme (from here on referred to as the “draft terms”) has been drawn up and adopted by the directors of all the transferor and pre-existing transferee companies concerned in the scheme,

subject to paragraph 11(3), in the case of each of those companies the directors have delivered a copy of the draft terms to the registrar and the registrar has published in the Gazette notice of receipt by him of a copy of the draft terms from that company, and

subject to paragraphs 10 to 14, that notice was so published at least one month before the date of any meeting of that company summoned under Article 418(1) or for the purposes of paragraph 1.

in respect of each transferor company and transferee company concerned in the scheme, its name, the address of its registered office and whether it is a company limited by shares or a company limited by guarantee and having a share capital;

the number of shares in any transferee company to be allotted to members of any transferor company for a given number of their shares (from here on referred to as the “share exchange ratio”) and the amount of any cash payment;

the terms relating to the allotment of shares in any transferee company;

the date from which the holding of shares in a transferee company will entitle the holders to participate in profits, and any special conditions affecting that entitlement;

the date from which the transactions of any transferor company are to be treated for accounting purposes as being those of any transferee company;

any rights or restrictions attaching to shares or other securities in any transferee company to be allotted under the scheme to the holders of shares to which any special rights or restrictions attach, or of other securities, in any transferor company, or the measures proposed concerning them;

any amount of benefit paid or given or intended to be paid or given to any of the experts referred to in paragraph 5 or to any director of a transferor company or pre-existing transferee company, and the consideration for the payment of benefit.

give particulars of the property and liabilities to be transferred (to the extent these are known to the transferor company) and their allocation among the transferee companies;

make provision for the allocation among and transfer to the transferee companies of any other property and liabilities which the transferor company has or may subsequently acquire; and

specify the allocation to members of the transferor company of shares in the transferee companies and the criteria upon which that allocation is based.