# The Merger Reference (Universal Foods Corporation and Pointing Holdings Limited) (Interim Provision) Order 1999, Article 4: Interim Provisions


Without prejudice to the generality of article 3:
(i) the existing business of Pointing including production, sales and invoicing and the provision of technical information to customers shall continue to be operated from the existing head office at Prudhoe;
(ii) WJE shall not solicit custom from any person to whom Pointing had regularly supplied goods in the ordinary course of business unless that person was a customer of WJE prior to 17th August 1999;
(iii) save in respect of disposals made in the ordinary course of business Pointing shall maintain all assets, including interests in land, interests in other businesses and intellectual property, used in the operation of the business of Pointing and shall not dispose of any such assets;
(iv) WJE shall not dispose of any assets, including interests in land, interests in other businesses and intellectual property, which it has acquired from Pointing.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2560/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merger-reference-universal-foods-corporation-and-pointing-holdings-limited-interim-provision-order-1999/article-4
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