Company: NCNA
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-151464
Chunk: 38

Company: NuCana plc
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 38
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 interim dividends to
the holders of any class of shares. Subject to any special rights attaching to, or terms of issue of, any shares, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up on the shares on which the dividend is paid. No dividend
shall be payable to us in respect of any shares held by us as treasury shares.

We may, upon the recommendation of the board of directors,
by ordinary resolution, direct payment of a dividend wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets.

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All dividends unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise used at the directors’ discretion for our benefit until claimed (subject as provided in the articles of association), and all dividends unclaimed after a period of 12 years from the date when such dividend became due for payment shall be forfeited and shall revert to us. The board of directors may, if so authorized by ordinary resolution passed at any general meeting, offer any holders of the ordinary shares the right to elect to receive in lieu of that dividend an allotment of ordinary shares credited as fully paid. We may cease to send any check or warrant by mail or may stop the transfer of any sum by any bank or other funds transfer system for any dividend payable on any of our shares, which is normally paid in that manner on those shares if in respect of at least two consecutive dividends the check or warrants have been returned undelivered or remain uncashed or the transfer has failed, or in respect of one dividend the check or warrant has been returned undelivered or remains uncashed or the transfer has failed and reasonable inquiries made by us have failed to establish any new address of the holder. We or the directors may specify a “record date” on which persons registered as the holders of shares shall be entitled to receipt of any dividend. Distribution of assets on winding-up.Subject to any special rights attaching to, or the terms of issue of any shares, on any winding-upof the company our surplus assets remaining after satisfaction of our liabilities will be distributed among our shareholders in proportion to their respective holdings of shares and the amounts paid up on those shares. On any winding-upof the company (whether the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision or by the Court), the liquidator may with the authority of a special resolution of the company and any other sanction required by any relevant legislation, divide among our shareholders (excluding the company itself to the extent that it is a shareholder by virtue of its holding any shares or treasury shares) in specie or in kind the whole