Exhibit 1.1

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No. 2366616

THE COMPANIES ACT 1985



MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

UNITED UTILITIES PLC



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CONTENTS

|MEMORANDUM
            OF ASSOCIATION                    |  | i   | 
|-------------------------------------------------------- |  | --- | 
|                                                         |  |     | 
|AUTHORISED
            SHARE CAPITAL SINCE INCORPORATION |  | xii | 
|                                                         |  |     | 
|ARTICLES OF
            ASSOCIATION                      |  | 1   | 

|Article
          No                  |    | Page |                                                                 
|------------------------------------- | -- | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------
|                                      |    |      |                                                                 
|PRELIMINARY                           |    | 1    |                                                                 
|                                      | 1  |      | No other regulations
          to apply                         
|                                      | 2  |      | Interpretation                                                  
|                                      | 3  |      | Form of resolution                                              
|                                      | 4  |      | Registered office                                               
|SHARE CAPITAL                         |    | 4    |                                                                 
|                                      | 5  |      | Authorised share
          capital                              
|                                      | 6  |      | Allotment                                                       
|                                      | 7  |      | Redeemable shares                                               
|                                      | 8  |      | Power to attach
          rights                                
|                                      | 9  |      | Share warrants
          to bearer                              
|                                      | 10 |      | Commission and brokerage                                        
|                                      | 11 |      | Trusts not to be recognised                                     
|ALTERATION OF SHARE
          CAPITAL |    | 11   |                                                                 
|                                      | 12 |      | Increase, consolidation,
          cancellation and sub-division
|                                      | 13 |      | Fractions of
          shares                                   
|                                      | 14 |      | Reduction of
          capital                                  
|                                      | 15 |      | Purchase of own
          shares                                
|VARIATION
          OF CLASS RIGHTS   |    | 12   |                                                                 
|                                      | 16 |      | Sanction to variation                                           
|                                      | 17 |      | Class meetings                                                  
|                                      | 18 |      | Deemed variation                                                
|EVIDENCE
          OF TITLE           |    | 13   |                                                                 
|                                      | 19 |      | Arrangements
          relating to uncertificated securities    
|                                      | 20 |      | Right to share
          certificates                           
|                                      | 21 |      | Replacement certificates                                        
|LIEN ON SHARES                        |    | 15   |                                                                 
|                                      | 22 |      | Lien on shares
          not fully paid                         
|                                      | 23 |      | Enforcement of
          lien by sale                           
|                                      | 24 |      | Application of
          proceeds of sale                       
|CALLS ON SHARES                       |    | 16   |                                                                 
|                                      | 25 |      | Calls                                                           
|                                      | 26 |      | Liability of
          joint holders                            
|                                      | 27 |      | Interest on calls                                               
|                                      | 28 |      | Rights of member
          when call unpaid                     

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|                                          | 29 |    | Sums due on allotment
          treated as calls             |  | 17 | 
|----------------------------------------- | -- | -- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |  | -- | 
|                                          | 30 |    | Power to differentiate                                       |  | 17 | 
|                                          | 31 |    | Payment in advance
          of calls                        |  | 17 | 
|                                          | 32 |    | Delegation of
          power to make calls                  |  | 17 | 
|FORFEITURE OF SHARES                      |    | 17 |                                                             
|                                          | 33 |    | Notice if call
          not paid                            |  | 17 | 
|                                          | 34 |    | Forfeiture for
          non-compliance                      |  | 18 | 
|                                          | 35 |    | Notice after
          forfeiture                            |  | 18 | 
|                                          | 36 |    | Forfeiture may
          be annulled                         |  | 18 | 
|                                          | 37 |    | Surrender                                                    |  | 18 | 
|                                          | 38 |    | Disposal of forfeited
          shares                       |  | 18 | 
|                                          | 39 |    | Effect of forfeiture                                         |  | 19 | 
|                                          | 40 |    | Extinction of
          claims                               |  | 19 | 
|                                          | 41 |    | Evidence of forfeiture                                       |  | 19 | 
|TRANSFER OF SHARES                        |    | 19 |                                                             
|                                          | 42 |    | Transfer of
          certificated shares                    |  | 19 | 
|                                          | 43 |    | Transfer of uncertificated
          shares                  |  | 20 | 
|                                          | 44 |    | Right to refuse
          registration                       |  | 20 | 
|                                          | 45 |    | Notice of refusal                                            |  | 20 | 
|                                          | 46 |    | Closing of register                                          |  | 20 | 
|                                          | 47 |    | Fees on registration                                         |  | 21 | 
|                                          | 48 |    | Transfers by
          renunciation                          |  | 21 | 
|TRANSMISSION OF SHARES                    |    | 21 |                                                             
|                                          | 49 |    | On death                                                     |  | 21 | 
|                                          | 50 |    | Election of person
          entitled by transmission        |  | 21 | 
|                                          | 51 |    | Rights on transmission                                       |  | 21 | 
|DESTRUCTION
          OF DOCUMENTS        |    | 22 |                                                             
|                                          | 52 |    | Destruction of
          documents                           |  | 22 | 
|GENERAL MEETINGS                          |    | 23 |                                                             
|                                          | 53 |    | Annual general meetings                                      |  | 23 | 
|                                          | 54 |    | Extraordinary general meetings                               |  | 23 | 
|                                          | 55 |    | Convening of
          extraordinary general meeting         |  | 23 | 
|                                          | 56 |    | Notice of general meetings                                   |  | 23 | 
|                                          | 57 |    | Omission to send
          notice                            |  | 24 | 
|                                          | 58 |    | Special business                                             |  | 24 | 
|PROCEEDINGS
          AT GENERAL MEETINGS |    | 25 |                                                             
|                                          | 59 |    | Quorum                                                       |  | 25 | 
|                                          | 60 |    | If quorum not
          present                              |  | 25 | 
|                                          | 61 |    | Chairman                                                     |  | 25 | 
|                                          | 62 |    | Directors may
          attend and speak                     |  | 25 | 
|                                          | 63 |    | Power to adjourn                                             |  | 25 | 
|                                          | 64 |    | Notice of adjourned
          meeting                        |  | 26 | 
|                                          | 65 |    | Business of adjourned
          meeting                      |  | 26 | 
|                                          | 66 |    | Accommodation
          of members and security arrangements |  | 26 | 
|VOTING                                    |    | 27 |                                                             
|                                          | 67 |    | Method of voting                                             |  | 27 | 
|                                          | 68 |    | Chairman's declaration
          conclusive on show of hands |  | 27 | 

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|                                                           | 69  |    | Objection to
          error in voting                        |  | 28 | 
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|                                                           | 70  |    | Amendment to
          resolutions                            |  | 28 | 
|                                                           | 71  |    | Procedure on
          a poll                                 |  | 28 | 
|                                                           | 72  |    | Votes of members                                              |  | 29 | 
|                                                           | 73  |    | Casting vote                                                  |  | 29 | 
|                                                           | 74  |    | Restriction on
          voting rights for unpaid calls etc.  |  | 29 | 
|                                                           | 75  |    | Voting by proxy                                               |  | 29 | 
|                                                           | 76  |    | Form of proxy                                                 |  | 30 | 
|                                                           | 77  |    | Deposit of proxy                                              |  | 30 | 
|                                                           | 78  |    | More than one
          proxy may be appointed                |  | 31 | 
|                                                           | 79  |    | Board may supply
          proxy cards                        |  | 32 | 
|                                                           | 80  |    | Revocation of
          proxy                                 |  | 32 | 
|                                                           | 81  |    | Corporate representative                                      |  | 32 | 
|                                                           | 82  |    | Failure to disclose
          interests in shares             |  | 32 | 
|UNTRACED
          MEMBERS                                 |     | 35 |                                                              
|                                                           | 83  |    | Power of sale                                                 |  | 35 | 
|                                                           | 84  |    | Application of
          proceeds of sale                     |  | 36 | 
|APPOINTMENT,
          RETIREMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS |     | 36 |                                                              
|                                                           | 85  |    | Number of directors                                           |  | 36 | 
|                                                           | 86  |    | Power of company
          to appoint directors               |  | 36 | 
|                                                           | 87  |    | Power of board
          to appoint directors                 |  | 36 | 
|                                                           | 88  |    | Appointment of
          executive directors                  |  | 36 | 
|                                                           | 89  |    | Eligibility for
          appointment as a director           |  | 37 | 
|                                                           | 90  |    | Share qualification                                           |  | 37 | 
|                                                           | 91  |    | Resolution for
          appointment                          |  | 37 | 
|                                                           | 92  |    | Retirement at
          intervals of one year and three years |  | 37 | 
|                                                           | 93  |    | Directors to
          retire by rotation                     |  | 37 | 
|                                                           | 94  |    | Position of retiring
          director                       |  | 38 | 
|                                                           | 95  |    | Deemed re-appointment                                         |  | 38 | 
|                                                           | 96  |    | No retirement
          on account of age                     |  | 38 | 
|                                                           | 97  |    | Removal by ordinary
          resolution                      |  | 39 | 
|                                                           | 98  |    | Vacation of office
          by director                      |  | 39 | 
|                                                           | 99  |    | Resolution as
          to vacancy conclusive                 |  | 40 | 
|ALTERNATE DIRECTORS                                        |     | 40 |                                                              
|                                                           | 100 |    | Appointment                                                   |  | 40 | 
|                                                           | 101 |    | Participation
          in board meetings                     |  | 40 | 
|                                                           | 102 |    | Alternate director
          responsible for own acts         |  | 40 | 
|                                                           | 103 |    | Interests of
          alternate director                     |  | 40 | 
|                                                           | 104 |    | Revocation of
          appointment                           |  | 41 | 
|DIRECTORS' REMUNERATION, EXPENSES AND PENSIONS             |     | 41 |                                                              
|                                                           | 105 |    | Directors' fees                                               |  | 41 | 
|                                                           | 106 |    | Expenses                                                      |  | 41 | 
|                                                           | 107 |    | Remuneration
          of executive directors                 |  | 41 | 
|                                                           | 108 |    | Pensions and
          other benefits                         |  | 42 | 
|POWERS
          AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD                   |     | 42 |                                                              
|                                                           | 109 |    | Powers of the
          board                                 |  | 42 | 
|                                                           | 110 |    | Powers of directors
          being less than minimum number  |  | 42 | 

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|                                                  | 111 |    | Powers of executive
          directors                           |  | 43 | 
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|                                                  | 112 |    | Delegation to
          committees                                |  | 43 | 
|                                                  | 113 |    | Local management                                                  |  | 43 | 
|                                                  | 114 |    | Power of attorney                                                 |  | 44 | 
|                                                  | 115 |    | Use of the title                                                  |  | 44 | 
|                                                  | 116 |    | Exercise of
          voting power                                |  | 44 | 
|                                                  | 117 |    | Provision for
          employees                                 |  | 44 | 
|                                                  | 118 |    | Overseas registers                                                |  | 44 | 
|                                                  | 119 |    | Borrowing powers                                                  |  | 45 | 
|PROCEEDINGS
          OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES |     | 48 |                                                                  
|                                                  | 120 |    | Board meetings                                                    |  | 48 | 
|                                                  | 121 |    | Notice of board
          meetings                                |  | 49 | 
|                                                  | 122 |    | Quorum                                                            |  | 49 | 
|                                                  | 123 |    | Chairman of
          board                                       |  | 49 | 
|                                                  | 124 |    | Voting                                                            |  | 49 | 
|                                                  | 125 |    | Participation
          by telephone or video conference          |  | 49 | 
|                                                  | 126 |    | Resolution in
          writing                                   |  | 50 | 
|                                                  | 127 |    | Proceedings
          of committees                               |  | 50 | 
|                                                  | 128 |    | Minutes of proceedings                                            |  | 50 | 
|                                                  | 129 |    | Validity of
          proceedings                                 |  | 51 | 
|DIRECTORS'
          INTERESTS                    |     | 51 |                                                                  
|                                                  | 130 |    | Director may
          have interests                             |  | 51 | 
|                                                  | 131 |    | Disclosure of
          interests to board                        |  | 52 | 
|                                                  | 132 |    | Interested director
          not to vote or count for quorum     |  | 52 | 
|                                                  | 133 |    | Director's interest
          in own appointment                  |  | 53 | 
|                                                  | 134 |    | Chairman's ruling
          conclusive on director's interest     |  | 53 | 
|                                                  | 135 |    | Directors' resolution
          conclusive on chairman's interest |  | 53 | 
|                                                  | 136 |    | Connected persons                                                 |  | 53 | 
|SEALS                                             |     | 54 |                                                                  
|                                                  | 137 |    | Safe custody                                                      |  | 54 | 
|                                                  | 138 |    | Application
          of seals                                    |  | 54 | 
|                                                  | 139 |    | Official seal
          for use abroad                            |  | 54 | 
|THE SECRETARY                                     |     | 54 |                                                                  
|                                                  | 140 |    | The secretary                                                     |  | 54 | 
|AUTHENTICATION
          OF DOCUMENTS             |     | 55 |                                                                  
|                                                  | 141 |    | Power to authenticate                                             |  | 55 | 
|DIVIDENDS
          AND OTHER PAYMENTS            |     | 55 |                                                                  
|                                                  | 142 |    | Declaration
          of dividends                                |  | 55 | 
|                                                  | 143 |    | Interim dividends                                                 |  | 55 | 
|                                                  | 144 |    | Entitlement
          to dividends                                |  | 55 | 
|                                                  | 145 |    | Calls or debts
          may be deducted from dividends           |  | 56 | 
|                                                  | 146 |    | Distribution
          in specie                                  |  | 56 | 
|                                                  | 147 |    | Dividends not
          to bear interest                          |  | 56 | 
|                                                  | 148 |    | Method of payment                                                 |  | 56 | 
|                                                  | 149 |    | Uncashed dividends                                                |  | 57 | 
|                                                  | 150 |    | Unclaimed dividends                                               |  | 57 | 
|                                                  | 151 |    | Payment of share
          dividends                              |  | 57 | 

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|           | 152 |    | Reserves                                                         |  | 59 | 
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|           | 153 |    | Capitalisation
          of reserves                             |  | 59 | 
|           | 154 |    | Record dates                                                     |  | 61 | 
|ACCOUNTS   |     | 61 |                                                                 
|           | 155 |    | Accounting records                                               |  | 61 | 
|           | 156 |    | Inspection of
          records                                  |  | 61 | 
|           | 157 |    | Accounts to
          be sent to members                         |  | 61 | 
|           | 158 |    | Summary financial
          statements                           |  | 62 | 
|NOTICES    |     | 62 |                                                                 
|           | 159 |    | Notices to be
          in writing                               |  | 62 | 
|           | 160 |    | Service of notice
          on members                           |  | 62 | 
|           | 161 |    | Notice in case
          of death, bankruptcy or mental disorder |  | 63 | 
|           | 162 |    | Evidence of
          service                                    |  | 63 | 
|           | 163 |    | Notice binding
          on transferees                          |  | 63 | 
|           | 164 |    | Notice by advertisement                                          |  | 63 | 
|           | 165 |    | Suspension of
          postal services                          |  | 64 | 
|WINDING UP |     | 64 |                                                                 
|           | 166 |    | Division of
          assets                                     |  | 64 | 
|           | 167 |    | Transfer or
          sale under section 110 Insolvency Act 1986 |  | 64 | 
|INDEMNITY  |     | 64 |                                                                 
|           | 168 |    | Right to indemnity                                               |  | 64 | 
|           | 169 |    | Power to insure                                                  |  | 65 | 

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No. 2366616

THE COMPANIES ACT 1985

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PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

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MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

UNITED UTILITIES PLC

(Including amendments made on
      or before 21st July 2000)

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|1 | The company's name is UNITED
        UTILITIES PLC1

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|- | ----------------------------------------------
|2 | The company is to be a public
        company.

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|3 | The company's registered office
        is to be situated in England and Wales.

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|4 | The company's objects are:2

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|1 | The name of the company was
          changed from North West Water Group PLC to its present name with effect
          from 1st January 1996.
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|2 | Clause 4 was amended by special resolution
          passed on 25th July 1997.                                                                

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| |  | (C) | To acquire any such shares,
        stocks, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, notes, securities, obligations
        and investments by original subscription, contract, tender, purchase,
        exchange, participation in syndicates or otherwise, and whether or not
        fully paid up, and to subscribe for the same subject to such terms and
        conditions (if any) as may be thought fit.
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| | (6) | To carry on all or any of
        the businesses of, and provide services associated with, plumbers, engineers
        (including, without limitation, water, sewerage, mechanical, gas, electrical,
        heating, ventilation, civil construction, chemical and telecommunications
        engineers), mechanics, technicians, geologists, draughtsmen, designers,
        surveyors, architects, builders, painters and decorators.
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| | (14) | To carry on business as inventors,
        researchers and developers, to conduct, promote and commission research
        and development in connection with the activities of the company and
        its subsidiaries, to establish and maintain research stations, laboratories,
        workshops, testing and proving grounds, facilities and establishments
        and installations and to exploit and turn to account the results of any
        research and development carried out by or for it.
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| | (20) | To acquire by any means and
        hold and deal with any real or personal property or rights whatsoever
        and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to purchase,
        take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire and hold any
        real property and any estate or interest in such property, including,
        without limitation any lands, buildings, installations, structures, servitudes,
        easements, rights, privileges and concessions and to exploit and develop
        the same.
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| | (26) | To borrow or raise money or
        secure or discharge any debt or obligation (whether of the company or
        of any other person) in such manner as the company thinks fit and in
        particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing)
        by the creation or issue, upon such terms as to priority or otherwise
        as the company thinks fit, of securities of any kind or mortgages or
        charges (fixed or floating) founded or based upon all or any part of
        the undertaking, property, assets and rights (present and future) of
        the company, including its uncalled capital, or without any such security;
        and to receive money on deposit and advance payments with or without
        allowance of interest thereon.
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| | (33) | To apply for, promote and
        obtain any Act of Parliament, charter, privilege, concession, licence,
        appointment, consent, or authorisation of any government, state, municipality,
        minister, department, local authority, or other authority or public body
        for enabling the company to carry any of its objects into effect or for
        extending any of the company's powers or for effecting any modification
        of the company's constitution, or for any other purpose which may seem
        expedient, and to oppose any actions, steps, proceedings or applications
        which may seem calculated, directly or indirectly, to prejudice the interests
        of the company or of its members.
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| |  | (i) | the company;
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| | (44) | To distribute in specie or
        otherwise by way of dividends or bonus or reduction of capital all or
        any of the property or assets of the company among its members and particularly,
        but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, securities
        of any other company formed to take over the whole or any part of the
        assets or liabilities of the company or any proceeds of sale or other
        disposal of any property or assets of the company.
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| | (45)

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AND IT IS HEREBY DECLARED that in
    this clause:

|(i) | unless the context otherwise
        requires, words in the singular include the plural and vice versa;
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|(ii) | unless the context otherwise
        requires, a reference to a person includes a reference to a company,
        and a reference to a person or company includes a reference to a firm,
        partnership, corporation, government or other authority (municipal, local
        or otherwise), undertaking, organisation, association, statutory, public
        or other body and any other legal entity, whether resident, domiciled
        or situated (in any such case) in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;

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|(iii) | references to "other" and "otherwise" shall
        not be construed where a wider construction is possible;

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|(iv) | the words "subsidiary" (except
        in paragraph (v) below) and "holding company" have the same
        meaning as in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985 or any statutory
        modification or re-enactment of it;

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|(v) | the objects specified in each
        of the foregoing paragraphs of this clause shall be separate and distinct
        objects of the company and accordingly shall not be in any way limited
        or restricted (except so far as otherwise expressly stated in any paragraph)
        by reference to or inference from the terms of any other paragraph or
        the order in which the paragraphs occur or the name of the company, and
        none of the paragraphs shall be deemed merely subsidiary or incidental
        to any other paragraph.

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|5 | The liability of the members
        is limited.

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|6 | The company's share capital
        is £50,000 divided into 50,000 shares of £1 each3.
|  |                                                                                       

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|3 | The capital history of the
          company is set out on page xi.
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WE, the subscribers to this Memorandum
    of Association, wish to be formed into a company pursuant to this Memorandum;
    and we agree to take the number of shares shown opposite our respective names.

|                                           |                 
|------------------------------------------ | ----------------
|NAMES AND ADDRESSES
        OF SUBSCRIBERS | Number of Shares
|                                           | taken by each   
|                                           | Subscriber      
|                                           |                 
|                                           |                 
|Signed: J Samuels                          | ONE             
|                                           |                 
|JACQUELINE SAMUELS                         |                 
|                                           |                 
|For and on behalf of                       |                 
|Legibus Secretaries Limited                |                 
|Royex House                                |                 
|Aldermanbury Square                        |                 
|London EC2V 7LD                            |                 
|                                           |                 
|Signed: C Lee                              | ONE             
|                                           |                 
|CHRISTINE ANNE LEE                         |                 
|                                           |                 
|For and on behalf of                       |                 
|Legibus Nominees Limited                   |                 
|Royex House                                |                 
|Aldermanbury Square                        |                 
|London EC2V 7LD                            |                 
|                                           |                 
|Total shares taken                         | TWO             
|                                           |                 

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DATED the 16th day of March, 1989.

WITNESS to all the above signatures:-

Signed: D Ward

DENISE WARD

Royex HouseAldermanbury SquareLondon EC2V 71D

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UNITED UTILITIES PLC

AUTHORISED SHARE CAPITAL SINCE
      INCORPORATION

|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|-------------------------------- |  | ------------- |  | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 
|Effective date                   |  | £             |  | Event                                                                                                                                                                           | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|On Incorporation(1st April 1989) |  | 50,000        |  | Divided into 50,000 shares of £1
        each                                                                                                                                   | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|29th August 1989                 |  | 50,001        |  | Increased to £50,001 by
        the creation of 1 special rights redeemable preference share of £1
        and the 50,000 existing shares were redesignated as ordinary shares. | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|20th November 1989               |  | 2,216,001     |  | Increased by creation of 2,166,000
        ordinary shares of £1 each                                                                                                           | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|12th December 1989               |  | 475,000,001   |  | Increased by creation of 472,784,000
        ordinary shares of £1 each                                                                                                         | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|31st December 1994               |  | 475,000,001   |  | Redemption of the special rights
        redeemable preference share                                                                                                            | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|8th November 1995                |  | 660,000,001   |  | Increased by creation of 185,000,000
        ordinary shares of £1 each                                                                                                         | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|26th July 1996                   |  | 660,000,000   |  | Reduced by cancellation of the
        authorised and unissued special rights redeemable preference share                                                                       | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|26th July 1996                   |  | 720,000,000   |  | Increased by creation of 60,000,000
        ordinary shares of £1 each                                                                                                          | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|21st July 2000                   |  | 800,000,000   |  | Increased by creation of 80,000,000
        ordinary share of £1 each                                                                                                           | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 
|26th August 2003                 |  | 1,119,000,000 |  | Increased by the creation of
        638,000,000 A shares of 50 pence each.                                                                                                     | 
|                                 |  |               |  |                                                                                                                                                                                 | 

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No. 2366616

THE COMPANIES ACT 1985

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PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

UNITED UTILITIES PLC4

(As
      adopted on 25th July 1997 and amended by special resolutions
      passed on 30th July 1999, 21st July 2000, 31st July
      2002, 26th August 2003 and 30th July 2004)

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PRELIMINARY

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|1 | No other regulations to
          apply

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| | No regulations set out in any
        statute or in any statutory instrument or other subordinate legislation
        concerning companies shall apply to the company, but the following shall
        be the articles of association of the company.

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|- | --------------
|2 | Interpretation

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|2.1 | In these articles, unless
        the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following
        meanings:

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| | "these articles" means
        these articles of association as originally adopted or altered or varied
        from time to time (and "article" means one of these articles)

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| | "auditors" means the
        auditors for the time being of the company or, in the case of joint auditors,
        any one of them

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| | "board" means the
        board of directors for the time being of the company or the directors
        present or deemed to be present at a duly convened meeting of directors
        at which a quorum is present
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|4 | The name of the company was
          changed from North West Water Group PLC to its present name with effect
          from 1st January 1996.
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| | "CA 1985" means, subject
        to article 2.3, the Companies Act 1985
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| | "certificated share" means
        a share, title to which is recorded on the register as being held in
        certificated form

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| | "chairman" means the
        chairman (if any) of the board or, where the context requires, the chairman
        of a general meeting of the company

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| | "clear days" means
        (in relation to the period of a notice) that period, excluding the day
        when the notice is given or deemed to be given, and the day for which
        it is given or on which it is to take effect

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| | "depositary" means
        a custodian or other person (or a nominee for such custodian or other
        person) appointed under contractual arrangements with the company or
        other arrangements approved by the board whereby such custodian or other
        person or nominee holds or is interested in shares of the company or
        rights or interests in shares of the company and issues securities or
        other documents of title or otherwise evidencing the entitlement of the
        holder thereof to or to receive such shares, rights or interests, provided
        and to the extent that such arrangements have been approved by the board
        for the purpose of these articles, and shall include, where approved
        by the board, the trustees (acting in their capacity as such) of any
        employees' share scheme established by the company or any other scheme
        or arrangement principally for the benefit of employees or those in the
        service of the company and/or its subsidiaries or their respective businesses
        and the managers (acting in their capacity as such) of any investment
        or savings plan, which in each case the board has approved

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| | "dematerialised instruction" shall
        have the meaning ascribed to it in paragraph 3 of the Regulations

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| | "director" means a
        director for the time being of the company

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| | "electronic mail" includes
        any electronic transmission in any form through any medium

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| | "execution" includes
        any mode of execution (and "executed" shall be construed accordingly)

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| | "holder" means (in
        relation to any share) the member whose name is entered in the register
        as the holder or, where the context permits, the members whose names
        are entered in the register as the joint holders, of that share

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| | "London Stock Exchange" means
        London Stock Exchange plc

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| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | "member" means a member
        of the company or, where the context requires, a member of the board
        or of any committee

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| | "office" means the
        registered office for the time being of the company

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| | "ordinary share" means
        an ordinary share in the capital of the company

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| | "Other Resolution" means
        any resolution put to a general meeting of the company which is of a
        procedural nature, including without limitation any resolution to correct
        a patent error in a Substantive Resolution, any resolution for adjournment
        of a meeting or any resolution for the election of a chairman of the
        meeting
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| | "paid up" means paid
        up or credited as paid up

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| | "recognised person" means
        a recognised clearing house or a nominee of a recognised clearing house
        or of a recognised investment exchange which is designated as mentioned
        in section 185(4) CA 1985

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| | "register" means the
        register of members of the company to be kept (in the case of shares
        held in certificated form) by the company pursuant to section 352 CA
        1985 or (in the case of shares held in uncertificated form) by the operator
        of a relevant system pursuant to paragraph 20 of the Regulations

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| | "Regulations" means
        the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001, SI 2001 No. 3755

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| | "relevant system" shall
        have the meaning ascribed to it in paragraph 3 of the Regulations

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| | "seal" means any common
        seal of the company

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| | "secretary" means
        the secretary for the time being of the company or any other person appointed
        to perform any of the duties of the secretary of the company including
        (subject to the provisions of the statutes) a joint, temporary, assistant
        or deputy secretary

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| | "securities seal" means
        an official seal kept by the company pursuant to section 40 CA 1985

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| | --------------------------------------------
| | "share" means a share
        of the company

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| | "statutes" means CA
        1985 and every other statute (and any regulations subordinate thereto)
        for the time being in force concerning companies and affecting the company

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| | "Substantive Resolution" means
        any resolution put to a general meeting of the company which is not an
        Other Resolution

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| | "the company" means
        United Utilities PLC, company number 2366616

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| | "uncertificated share" means
        a share, title to which is recorded on the register as being held in
        uncertificated form

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| | "United Kingdom" means
        Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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| | "writing or written" means
        and includes printing, typewriting, lithography, photography and any
        other mode or modes of representing or reproducing words in a legible
        and non-transitory form and also includes (to the extent permitted from
        time to time by the statutes) electronic mail.

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|2.2 | Unless the context otherwise
        requires:
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| | (a)

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| | (b)

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| | (c)

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|2.3 | A reference to any statute
        or provision of a statute shall include any orders, regulations or other
        subordinate legislation made under it and shall, unless the context otherwise
        requires, include any statutory modification or re-enactment of it for
        the time being in force.

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|2.4 | Save as aforesaid, and unless
        the context otherwise requires, words or expressions contained in these
        articles shall bear the same meaning as in CA 1985 and words and expressions
        used in the Regulations have the same meanings when used in these Articles.

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|2.5 | The headings are inserted
        for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of these articles.

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|3 | Form of resolution

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| | Subject to the statutes, where
        for any purpose an ordinary resolution of the company is required, a
        special resolution or an extraordinary resolution shall also be effective,
        and where an extraordinary resolution is required a special resolution
        shall also be effective.

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|4 | Registered office

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| | The office shall be at such
        place in England and Wales as the board shall from time to time appoint.

SHARE CAPITAL

|5 | Authorised share capital
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|5.1 | The authorised share capital
        of the Company at the date of the adoption of this Article is £1,119,000,000
        divided into 800,000,000 ordinary shares of £1 each and 638,000,000
        A Shares of 50 pence each.

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|5.25 | The A shares of 50 pence each
        issued and to be issued by the Company pursuant to a resolution of members
        passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 26
        August 2003 (or, if such meeting was adjourned, at that adjourned meeting)
        (the "A Shares") shall have the following rights and restrictions:
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|5 | Article 5.2 was inserted
          by a special resolution passed on 26th August 2003.
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| | (i) | Income
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| | Save as provided below, out
        of profits available for distribution in respect of each financial year
        or other accounting period of the Company, the holders of the A Shares
        shall be entitled, contemporaneously with any payment of dividend or
        other distribution to the holders of ordinary shares and before profits
        are carried to reserves, to be paid rateably with the holders of ordinary
        shares a dividend or other distribution for each A Share which is equal
        to one-half of the dividend or other distribution to be paid to the holder
        of an ordinary share (provided that in calculating the aggregate payment
        to be made to any particular holder of A Shares (in respect of his holding
        of A Shares) any resulting fractions or payments shall be rounded-down
        to the nearest whole number or, as the case may be, penny) Provided that
        holders of A Shares shall not be entitled to participate in any dividend
        or other distribution declared or paid to holders of ordinary shares
        in respect of the financial year of the Company ended 31 March 2003 but
        otherwise the A Shares shall be entitled to participate in dividends
        or other distributions as if they had been fully paid up with effect
        from 1 April 2003.

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| | ----
| | (ii)

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| | On a return of capital on winding
        up or otherwise, the holders of the A Shares shall be entitled to share
        rateably with the holders of the ordinary shares in the distribution
        of profits or assets (if any) to the holders of ordinary shares on the
        basis of a distribution with respect to each A Share which is equal to
        one-half of the distribution to the holder of an ordinary share (provided
        that in calculating the aggregate payment to be made to any particular
        holder of A Shares (in respect of his holding of A Shares) any resulting
        fractions and all payments shall be rounded-down to the nearest whole
        number or, as the case may be, penny).

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| | -----
| | (iii)

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| | On a capitalisation issue of
        shares or debentures in accordance with Article 153, the holders of the
        A Shares shall be entitled contemporaneously with the issue of such shares
        or debentures to the holders of ordinary shares to have issued to them
        rateably with the holders of ordinary shares the number of such shares
        generally or debentures for each A Share which is equal to one-half in
        number of such shares or debentures as are to be issued to the holder
        of an ordinary share (provided that in calculating the number of shares
        or debentures to be allotted to any particular holder of A Shares (in
        respect of his holding of A Shares) resulting fractions of shares or
        debentures shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares
        or debentures).

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| | (iv)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Further issues
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| | The Company shall
        not make an offer or allotment of securities in connection with a rights
        issue or other issue in favour of the holders of ordinary shares generally
        unless the holders of the A Shares shall be entitled, contemporaneously
        with the offer or allotment of such securities to the holders of ordinary
        shares to have offered or allotted to them rateably with the holders
        of ordinary shares the number of such securities for each A Share which
        is equal to one-half in number of such securities offered or allotted
        to the holder of an ordinary share (provided that in calculating the
        number of securities to be offered or allotted to any particular holder
        of A Shares (in respect of his holding of A Shares) resulting fractions
        of securities shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number of securities).

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| | (v)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | Voting
    at general meetings
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| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
| | The holders of A Shares shall be entitled, in respect of their holdings of such shares, to receive notice of any general meeting of the Company and to attend, speak or vote at such general meeting on the same basis as the holder of ordinary shares provided that each holder of A Shares on a poll shall have only one vote for every two A Shares held (and provided that no fraction of a vote shall exist and in calculating the voting rights of holders of A Shares voting rights shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number).

| | (vi)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Class
    rights
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| | The Company may from time to time create, allot and issue further shares, whether ranking pari passu with or in priority to the A Shares, and such creation, allotment or issue of any such further shares (whether or not ranking in any respect in priority to the A Shares) shall be treated as being in accordance with the rights attaching to the A Shares and shall not involve a variation of such rights for any purpose or require the consent of holders of A Shares as a class.

| | (vii) | Further
    A Shares
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| |       | (a)                 

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| |  | (d) | In order to exercise any Subscription Rights, a holder of a certificated A Share must comply with the Subscription Terms (in the board's sole discretion) and must give notification to the Company (or its agent(s)) of the Subscription Rights being exercised in the manner described in the Subscription Terms, together with a remittance (in the form to be specified in the Subscription Terms) for the aggregate Subscription Price for the new A Shares in respect of which the Subscription Rights are being exercised, at such place(s) and by such time as may be stated in the Subscription Terms.
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| |  | (e) | New A Shares allotted pursuant to the valid exercise of Subscription Rights will be allotted and issued with effect from the Subscription Date to the registered holders of the A Shares in respect of which the relevant Subscription Rights have been validly exercised or, subject as provided by law and to the payment of stamp duty, stamp duty reserve tax or any like taxes as may be applicable to such other person(s) (not being more than four in number) as may be named in the relevant notification to the Company (or its agent(s)) of the Subscription Rights being exercised. No fractions of a new A Share will be issued on the exercise of any Subscription Rights and no refund will be made to a holder of A Shares exercising his Subscription Rights in respect of that
part of the relevant subscription moneys which represents such a fraction (if any).
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| | (viii) | Consolidation and reclassification                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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| |        | With effect from the end of the fifth Business Day following the Subscription Date, the following consolidation and reclassification of all A Shares then in issue shall take place (without further action by or the requirement for consent or agreement from any person) pursuant to part (F) of the resolution pursuant to which this Article 5.2 was adopted:

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| |      | (c)                    | each new ordinary share arising from the consolidation and reclassification of A Shares shall rank pari passuin all respects with the existing ordinary shares except that such new ordinary shares shall not be entitled to participate in any final dividend recommended and declared by the board for the financial year ending 31 March 2005 but otherwise the new ordinary shares shall be entitled to participate in dividends or other distributions as if they had been fully paid up with effect from 1 April 2005.
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| | (ix) | Capital reorganisation

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| |  | Unless and until the A Shares are consolidated and reclassified pursuant to Article 5.2(viii) above, the Company shall not without the sanction of the holders of A Shares (pursuant to Article 16) implement any consolidation or sub-division of capital or implement any capital reorganisation, reduction of capital (other than a repurchase of issued shares by the Company pursuant to a resolution passed by members of the Company), bonus issue or capital distribution other than as referred to in Article 5.2(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (vi).

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|6 | Allotment

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes and to any relevant authority of the company in general meeting required by the statutes, unissued shares at the date of adoption of these articles and any shares hereafter created shall be at the disposal of the board, which may allot (with or without conferring rights of renunciation), grant options over, offer or otherwise deal with or dispose of them or rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares to such persons (including the directors themselves), at such times and generally on such terms and conditions as the board may decide, provided that no share shall be issued at a discount.

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|7 | Redeemable shares

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes and to any special rights for the time being attached to any existing shares, any share may be issued which is, or at the option of the company or of the holder of such share is liable, to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as these Articles may provide.

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|8 | Power to attach rights

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes and to any special rights for the time being attached to any existing shares, any shares may be allotted or issued with or have attached to them such preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, transfer, return of capital or otherwise, as the company may from time to time by ordinary resolution determine or, if no such resolution has been passed or so far as the resolution does not make specific provision, as the board may determine.

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|9 | Share warrants to bearer
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|9.1 | The company may, with respect to any fully paid shares, issue a warrant (a "share warrant") stating that the bearer of the warrant is entitled to the shares specified in it and may provide (by coupons or otherwise) for the payment of future dividends on the shares included in a share warrant.

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|9.2 | The powers referred to in article 9.1 may be exercised by the board, which may determine and vary the conditions on which share warrants shall be issued, and in particular on which:

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| | (c)

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| | (c)

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| | Subject to such conditions and to these articles, the bearer of a share warrant shall be deemed to be a member for all purposes.  The bearer of a share warrant shall be subject to the conditions for the time being in force and applicable thereto, whether made before or after the issue of such share warrant.

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|10 | Commission and brokerage

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| | The company may in connection with the issue of any shares exercise all powers of paying commission and brokerage conferred or permitted by the statutes.  Subject to the provisions of the statutes, any such commission or brokerage may be satisfied by the payment of cash, the allotment of fully or partly paid shares, the grant of an option to call for an allotment of shares or any combination of such methods.

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|11 | Trusts not to be recognised

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| | Except as otherwise expressly provided by these articles, as required by law or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, the company shall not recognise any person as holding any share on any trust, and (except as aforesaid) the company shall not be bound by or recognise (even if having notice of it) any equitable, contingent, future, partial or other claim to or interest in any share except an absolute right of the holder to the whole of the share.

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ALTERATION OF SHARE
CAPITAL

|12 | Increase, consolidation, cancellation and sub-division
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| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | The company in general meeting may from time to time by ordinary resolution:

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| | (a)

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| | (b)

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| | (c)

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| | (d)

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|13 | Fractions of shares

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|13.1 | Whenever as the result of any consolidation, division or sub-division of shares any difficulty arises, the board may settle it as it thinks fit, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) where the number of shares held by any holder is not an exact multiple of the number of shares to be consolidated into a single share and as a result of such consolidation such holder would become entitled to a fraction of a consolidated share:

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13.2      For the purposes of any sale of consolidated shares pursuant to article 13.1, the board may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of (or, as the case may be, to give a dematerialised instruction in respect of) the shares to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser, and the transferee shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the sale.

|14 | Reduction of capital
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| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes and to any rights for the time being attached to any shares, the company may by special resolution reduce its share capital or any capital redemption reserve or share premium account in any way.

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|15 | Purchase of own shares

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, these articles and any rights for the time being attached to any shares, the company may purchase any of its own shares of any class (including any redeemable shares).  Any shares to be so purchased may be selected in any manner whatsoever.

VARIATION OF CLASS RIGHTS

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| | If at any time the share capital of the company is divided into shares of different classes, any of the rights for the time being attached to any share or class of shares in the company (and notwithstanding that the company may be or be about to be in liquidation) may be varied or abrogated in such manner (if any) as may be provided by such rights or, in the absence of any such provision, either with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than three-quarters in nominal value of the issued shares of the class or with the sanction of an extraordinary resolution passed at a separate general meeting of the holders of shares of the class duly convened and held as hereinafter provided (but not otherwise).

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|17 | Class meetings
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| | All the provisions in these articles as to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis apply to every meeting of the holders of any class of shares.  The board may convene a meeting of the holders of any class of shares whenever it thinks fit and whether or not the business to be transacted involves a variation or abrogation of class rights.  The quorum at every such meeting shall be not less than two persons holding or representing by proxy at least one-third of the nominal amount paid up on the issued shares of the class.  Every holder of shares of the class, present in person or by proxy, may demand a poll. Each such holder shall on a poll be entitled to one vote for every share of the class held by him.  If at any adjourned meeting of
such holders such quorum as aforesaid is not present, not less than one person holding shares of the class who is present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum.

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|18 | Deemed variation

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| | Subject to the terms of issue of or rights attached to any shares, the rights or privileges attached to any class of shares shall be deemed not to be varied or abrogated by the creation or issue of any new shares ranking pari passuin all respects (save as to the date from which such new shares shall rank for dividend) with or subsequent to those already issued or by the reduction of the capital paid up on such shares or by the purchase or redemption by the company of its own shares in accordance with the provisions of the statutes and these articles.

EVIDENCE
OF TITLE

|19 | Arrangements relating to uncertificated securities
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|19.1 | Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, title to any securities of the company may be evidenced and may be transferred without a written instrument in accordance with statutory regulations from time to time made under the statutes and subject to such regulations the board shall have power to implement any arrangements it may think fit for such evidencing and transfer which accord with those regulations.

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|19.2 | Where any provision of these articles confers authority on the company or the board or any of the directors to enter into (or to authorise some other person to enter into) any transaction in respect of shares held in uncertificated form (including, without limitation, article 23, article 38, article 50 and article 82) the board may authorise some person to give notice on behalf of the company to the operator of a relevant system, requiring that such shares be converted into certificated form and stating that such conversion is required in order to enable the company to give effect to the provisions of these articles.

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|20 | Right to share certificates
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|20.1 | On becoming the holder of any certificated share, every person (except a recognised person in respect of whom the company is not by law required to complete and have ready for delivery a certificate) shall be entitled, without charge, to have issued within two months after allotment or lodgement of a transfer (unless the terms of issue of the shares provide otherwise) one certificate for all the certificated shares of each class registered in his name.  Such certificate shall specify the number, class and distinguishing numbers (if any) of the shares in respect of which it is issued and the amount or respective amounts paid up thereon and shall be issued as provided in article 138.

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|20.2 | The issued shares of a particular class which are fully paid up and rank pari passu for all purposes shall not bear a distinguishing number.  All other shares shall bear a distinguishing number.

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|20.3 | The company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate in respect of shares held jointly by two or more persons.  Delivery of a certificate to the person first named on the register as the holder of such shares shall be sufficient delivery to all joint holders.

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|20.4 | Where a member (other than a recognised person) has transferred part only of the shares comprised in a certificate, he shall be entitled to a certificate for the balance of such shares without charge.

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|20.5 | No certificate shall be issued representing shares of more than one class or in respect of shares held by a recognised person, or in respect of any uncertificated shares.

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|21 | Replacement certificates

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|21.1 | Any two or more certificates representing certificated shares of any one class held by any member may at his request be cancelled and a single new certificate for such shares issued in lieu without charge on surrender of the original certificates for cancellation.

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|21.2 | If any member shall surrender for cancellation a share certificate representing certificated shares held by him and request the company to issue in lieu two or more share certificates representing such shares in such proportions as he may specify, the board may, if it thinks fit, comply with such request.

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|21.3 | Share certificates may be renewed or replaced on such terms as to provision of evidence and indemnity (with or without security) and to payment of any exceptional out of pocket expenses, including those incurred by the company in investigating such evidence and preparing such indemnity and security, as the board may decide, and on surrender of the original certificate (where it is defaced, damaged or worn out), but without any further charge.

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|21.4 | In the case of shares held jointly by several persons, any such request as is mentioned in this article 21 may be made by any one of the joint holders.

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LIEN ON SHARES

|22 | Lien on shares not fully paid
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| | The company shall have a first and paramount lien on each of its shares which is not fully paid, for all amounts payable to the company (whether presently or not) in respect of that share and to the extent and in the circumstances permitted by the statutes.  The board may waive any lien which has arisen and may resolve that any share shall for some limited period be exempt wholly or partially from the provisions of this article.

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|23 | Enforcement of lien by sale

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| | The board may sell all or any of the shares subject to any lien at such time or times and in such manner as it may determine.  However, no sale shall be made until such time as the moneys in respect of which such lien exists or some part thereof are or is presently payable or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged, and until a demand and notice in writing stating the amount due or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding payment or fulfilment or discharge thereof and giving notice of intention to sell in default shall have been served on the holder or the persons (if any) entitled by transmission to the shares, and default in payment, fulfilment or discharge
shall have been made by him or them for fourteen clear days after service of such notice.  For giving effect to any such sale, the board may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of, or to give a dematerialised instruction in respect of, the shares sold in the name and on behalf of the holder or the persons entitled by transmission in favour of the purchaser or as the purchaser may direct.  The purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, and the title of the transferee to the shares shall not be affected by any irregularity in or invalidity of the proceedings in reference to the sale.

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|24 | Application of proceeds of sale

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| | The net proceeds of any sale of shares subject to any lien, after payment of the costs, shall be applied in or towards satisfaction of so much of the amount due to the company or of the liability or engagement (as the case may be) as is presently payable or is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged.  The balance (if any) shall (in the case of a sale of certificated shares, on surrender to the company for cancellation of the certificate for the shares sold), subject to a like lien for any moneys not presently payable or any liability or engagement not liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged as existed on the shares before the sale, be paid to the holder or the person (if any) entitled by transmission to the shares so sold, without
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CALLS ON SHARES

|25 | Calls
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| | Subject to the terms of allotment of shares, the board may from time to time make calls on the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on the shares, of any class, held by them respectively (whether in respect of nominal value or premium) and not payable on a date fixed by or in accordance with the terms of issue.  Each member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen clear days' notice specifying when and where payment is to be made and whether or not by instalments) be liable to pay the amount of every call so made on him as required by the notice.  A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the board authorising such call was passed or (as the case may require) any person to whom power has been
delegated pursuant to these articles serves notice of exercise of such power.  A call may be required to be paid by instalments and may, before receipt by the company of any sum due thereunder, be either revoked or postponed in whole or part as regards all or any such members as the board may determine.  A person on whom a call is made shall remain liable notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the shares in respect of which the call was made.

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|26 | Liability of joint holders

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| | The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of all calls in respect thereof.

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|27 | Interest on calls

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| | If the whole of the sum payable in respect of any call is not paid on or before the day appointed for payment, the person from whom it is due and payable shall pay all costs, charges and expenses that the company may have incurred by reason of such non-payment, together with interest on the unpaid amount from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at the rate fixed by the terms of the allotment of the share or in the notice of the call or, if no rate is so fixed, at such rate, not exceeding fifteen per cent per annum (compounded on a six monthly basis), as the board shall determine. The board may waive payment of such costs, charges, expenses or interest in whole or in part.

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|28 | Rights of member when call unpaid

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| | Unless the board otherwise determines, no member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or to be present and vote at a general meeting or at any separate general meeting of the holders of any class of shares either in person or (save as proxy for another member) by proxy, or be reckoned in a quorum, or to exercise any other right or privilege as a member in respect of a share held by him unless and until he shall have paid all calls for the time being due and payable by  him in respect of that share, whether alone or jointly with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any) to the company.

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|29 | Sums due on allotment treated as calls
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| | Any sum payable in respect of a share on allotment or at any fixed date, whether in respect of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium or as an instalment of a call, shall for all purposes of these articles be deemed to be a call duly made.  If it is not paid, the provisions of these articles shall apply as if such amount had become due and payable by virtue of a call.

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|30 | Power to differentiate

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| | The board may make arrangements on the allotment or issue of shares for a difference as between the allottees or holders of such shares in the amount and time of payment of calls.

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|31 | Payment in advance of calls

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| | The board may, if it thinks fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same all or any part of the moneys uncalled and unpaid on the shares held by him.  Such payment in advance of calls shall extinguish pro tanto the liability on the shares on which it is made. The company may pay interest on the money paid in advance, or so much of it as exceeds the amount for the time being called up on the shares in respect of which such advance has been made, at such rate as the board may decide.  The board may at any time repay the amount so advanced on giving to such member not less than three months' notice in writing of its intention in that behalf, unless before the expiration of such notice the amount so advanced shall have been called
up on the shares in respect of which it was advanced.

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|32 | Delegation of power to make calls

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| | If any uncalled capital of the company is included in or charged by any mortgage or other security, the board may delegate on such terms as it thinks fit to the person in whose favour such mortgage or security is executed, or to any other person in trust for him, the power to make calls on the members in respect of such uncalled capital, to sue in the name of the company or otherwise for the recovery of moneys becoming due in respect of calls so made and to give valid receipts for such moneys.  The power so delegated shall subsist during the continuance of the mortgage or security, notwithstanding any change of directors, and shall be assignable if expressed so to be.

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

|33 | Notice if call not paid
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| | If any member fails to pay the whole of any call or any instalment of any call on or before the day appointed for payment, the board may at any time serve a notice in writing on such member or on any person entitled to the shares by transmission, requiring payment, on a date not less than fourteen clear days from the date of the notice, of the amount unpaid and any interest which may have accrued thereon and any costs, charges and expenses incurred by the company by reason of such non-payment.  The notice shall name the place where the payment is to be made and state that, if the notice is not complied with, the shares in respect of which such call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

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|34 | Forfeiture for non-compliance
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| | If the notice referred to in article 33 is not complied with, any share in respect of which it was given may, at any time before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the board to that effect.  Such forfeiture shall include all dividends declared or other moneys payable in respect of the forfeited shares and not paid before the forfeiture.

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|35 | Notice after forfeiture

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| | When any share has been forfeited, notice of the forfeiture shall be served on the person who was before forfeiture the holder of the share or the person entitled to such share by transmission (as the case may be).  An entry of such notice having been given, and of the forfeiture with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the register in respect of such share.  However, no forfeiture shall be invalidated by any omission to give such notice or to make such entry as aforesaid.

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|36 | Forfeiture may be annulled

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| | The board may, at any time before any share so forfeited has been cancelled or sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, annul the forfeiture, on terms that payment shall be made of all calls and interest due thereon and all expenses incurred in respect of the share and on such further terms (if any) as the board shall see fit.

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|37 | Surrender

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| | The board may accept a surrender of any share liable to be forfeited. In such case references in these articles to forfeiture shall include surrender.

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|38 | Disposal of forfeited shares

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| | Every share which shall be forfeited shall thereupon become the property of the company.  Subject to the provisions of the statutes, any such share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, either to the person who was before forfeiture the holder thereof or entitled thereto or to any other person, on such terms and in such manner as the board shall determine.  The board may, for the purposes of the disposal, authorise some person to transfer the share in question and may enter the name of the transferee in respect of the transferred share in the register notwithstanding (in the case of a certificated share) the absence of any share certificate being lodged in respect thereof.  An instrument of transfer executed by that person, or a
dematerialised instruction given at the request of that person, shall be as effective as if it had been executed or given by the holder of, or the person entitled by transmission to, the share.  The company may receive the consideration (if any) given for the share on its disposal.

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|39 | Effect of forfeiture
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| | A shareholder whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the shares forfeited and shall surrender to the company for cancellation the certificate (if any) for such shares.  He shall nevertheless be liable to pay to the company all calls made and not paid on such shares at the time of forfeiture, and interest thereon from the date of the forfeiture to the date of payment, in the same manner in all respects as if the shares had not been forfeited, and to satisfy all (if any) claims, demands and liabilities which the company might have enforced in respect of the shares at the time of forfeiture, without any reduction or allowance for the value of the shares at the time of forfeiture or for any consideration received
on their disposal.

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|40 | Extinction of claims

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| | The forfeiture of a share shall involve the extinction at the time of forfeiture of all interest in and all claims and demands against the company in respect of the share and all other rights and liabilities incidental to the share as between the holder whose share is forfeited and the company, except only such of those rights and liabilities as are by these articles expressly saved, or as are by the statutes given or imposed in the case of past members.

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|41 | Evidence of forfeiture

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| | A statutory declaration by a director or the secretary that a share has been forfeited in pursuance of these articles, and stating the date on which it was forfeited, shall, as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share adversely to the forfeiture thereof, be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated.  The declaration, together with the receipt of the company for the consideration (if any) given for the share on the sale or disposition thereof shall (subject if necessary to the execution of an instrument of transfer or the giving of a dematerialised instruction) constitute a good title to the share.  Subject to the execution of any necessary transfer, such person shall be registered as the holder of the share and shall be
discharged from all calls made prior to such sale or disposition and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money or other consideration (if any), nor shall his title to the share be affected by any act, omission or irregularity relating to or connected with the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture or disposal of the share.  Such person shall not (except by express agreement with the company) become entitled to any dividend which might have accrued on the share before the completion of the sale or disposition thereof.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

|42 | Transfer of certificated shares
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| | Subject to such of the restrictions of these articles as may be applicable, each member may transfer all or any of his certificated shares by instrument of transfer in writing in any usual form or in any form approved by the board.  Such instrument shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and (in the case of a transfer of a certificated share which is not fully paid up) by or on behalf of the transferee.  The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of such share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect of it.  All instruments of transfer which are registered may be retained by the company.

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|43 | Transfer of uncertificated shares
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| | Subject to such of the restrictions of these articles as may be applicable, each member may transfer all or any of his uncertificated shares in accordance with the rules and regulations in force from time to time which are applicable to a relevant system.

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|44 | Right to refuse registration

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|44.1 | The board may, in its absolute discretion and without giving any reason, refuse to register any transfer of a share (or renunciation of a renounceable letter of allotment) unless:

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| | provided that the board shall not refuse to register any transfer or renunciation of partly paid shares which are admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange on the grounds that they are partly paid shares in circumstances where such refusal would prevent dealings in such shares from taking place on an open and proper basis.

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|44.2 | Transfers of shares will not be registered in the circumstances referred to in article 82.

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|45 | Notice of refusal

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| | If the board refuses to register a transfer of a share it shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the company, send notice of the refusal to the transferee.  Any instrument of transfer which the board refuses to register shall (except in the case of suspected or actual fraud) be returned to the person depositing it.

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|46 | Closing of register

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| | The registration of transfers of shares or of any class of shares may be suspended at such times and for such periods (not exceeding thirty days in any year) as the board may from time to time determine, subject to the board having first obtained any consent or authorisation to such closure which may be required.  Notice of closure of the register shall be given in accordance with the requirements of the statutes.

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|47 | Fees on registration
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| | No fee shall be charged for registration of a transfer or on the registration of any probate, letters of administration, certificate of death or marriage, power of attorney, notice or other instrument relating to or affecting the title to any shares.

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|48 | Transfers by renunciation

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| | Nothing in these articles shall preclude the board from recognising a renunciation of the allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

|49 | On death
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| | If a member dies, the survivors or survivor, where he was a joint holder, and his executors or administrators, where he was a sole or the only survivor of joint holders, shall be the only persons recognised by the company as having any title to his shares. Nothing in these articles shall release the estate of a deceased member from any liability in respect of any share which has been solely or jointly held by him.

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|50 | Election of person entitled by transmission

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| | Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of any member, or of any other event giving rise to a transmission of such entitlement by operation of law, may, on such evidence as to his title being produced as the board may require, elect either to become registered as a member or to have some person nominated by him registered as a member.  If he elects to become registered himself, he shall give notice to the company to that effect.  If he elects to have some other person registered, he shall execute an instrument of transfer of such share to that person or, as the case may be, procure the transfer of such share to that person by means of a dematerialised instruction.  All the provisions of these articles
relating to the transfer of shares shall apply to the notice, instrument of transfer or dematerialised instruction (as the case may be) as if it were executed or given by the member and his death, bankruptcy or other event as aforesaid had not occurred.  Where the entitlement of a person to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member or of any other event giving rise to its transmission by operation of law is proved to the satisfaction of the board, the board shall within two months after proof cause the entitlement of that person to be noted in the register.

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|51 | Rights on transmission

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| | Where a person becomes entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of any member, or of any other event giving rise to a transmission of such entitlement by operation of law, the rights of the holder in relation to such share shall cease.  However, the person so entitled may give a good discharge for any dividends and other moneys payable in respect of it and shall have the same rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share, except that he shall not, before he is registered as the holder of the share, be entitled in respect of it to receive notice of, or to attend or vote at, any meeting of the company or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares of the company.  The board may at
any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share.  If the notice is not complied with within sixty days, the board may thereafter withhold payment of all dividends and other moneys payable in respect of such share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.

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DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS

|52 | Destruction of documents
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| | Provided that the company may destroy any such type of document at a date earlier than that authorised by this article if a copy of such document is retained on microfilm or by other similar means on which such copy is retained until the expiration of the period applicable to the destruction of the original of such document.

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|52.2 | It shall be conclusively presumed in favour of the company that every entry in the register purporting to have been made on the basis of a document so destroyed was duly and properly made, that every instrument of transfer so destroyed was duly registered, that every share certificate so destroyed was duly cancelled, that every other document so destroyed had been properly dealt with in accordance with its terms and was valid and effective in accordance with the particulars in the records of the company, provided that:

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GENERAL MEETINGS

|53 | Annual general meetings
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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, annual general meetings shall be held at such time and place as the board may determine.

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|54 | Extraordinary general meetings

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| | All general meetings, other than annual general meetings, shall be called extraordinary general meetings.

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|55 | Convening of extraordinary general meeting

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|55.1 | The board may convene an extraordinary general meeting whenever it thinks fit. An extraordinary general meeting shall also be convened on such requisition, or in default may be convened by such requisitionists, as provided by section 368 CA 1985.  At any meeting convened on such requisition or by such requisitionists no business shall be transacted except that stated by the requisition or proposed by the board.  If there are not within the United Kingdom sufficient members of the board to convene a general meeting, any director may call a general meeting.

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|55.2 | If on or before 31 March in any year any members shall in accordance with section 376 CA 1985 require the company in relation to the annual general meeting to be held in the period from 1 April in that year to 31 March in the next following year to give notice of a resolution which may properly be moved or to circulate a statement in acceptable form, the company will circulate that resolution or statement with the notice of the annual general meeting without cost to the requisitionists.  If any requisition is made in accordance with section 376 CA 1985 after 31 March in any year and prior to the annual general meeting to be held in the period from 1 April in that year to 31 March in the next following year the company shall require that the requisitionists
deposit or tender a sum sufficient to meet the company's reasonable expenses in giving effect to it.

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|56 | Notice of general meetings

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|56.1 | An annual general meeting and an extraordinary general meeting convened for the passing of a special resolution or an extraordinary resolution shall be convened by not less than twenty one clear days' notice in writing.  All other extraordinary general meetings shall be convened by not less than fourteen clear days' notice in writing.

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|56.2 | The notice shall specify:

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|56.3 | The notice shall be given to the members (other than any who, under the provisions of these articles or of any restrictions imposed on any shares, are not entitled to receive notice from the company), to the directors and to the auditors.
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|56.4 | If, after a notice convening a general meeting of the company has been despatched to members, the board becomes aware of any fact, event or circumstances which, in the board's opinion, would make it impractical or inappropriate to hold the general meeting on the date or time or at the place for which notice has been given, the board may give notice pursuant to article 164 to those entitled to receive the notice pursuant to article 56.3 either cancelling such meeting or postponing such meeting to a time and date which is not less than twenty one clear days from the date of such notice, which shall also specify the place at which such postponed meeting shall be held.

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|57 | Omission to send notice

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| | The accidental omission to send a notice of meeting or, in cases where it is intended that it be sent out with the notice, an instrument of proxy to, or the non-receipt of either by, any person entitled to receive the same shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.

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|58 | Special business6

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| | All business that is transacted at a general meeting shall be deemed special, except the following transactions at an annual general meeting:

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PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

|59 | Quorum
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| | No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum is present when the meeting proceeds to business.  Two persons entitled to attend and to vote on the business to be transacted, each being a member or a proxy for a member or a duly authorised representative of a member which is a body corporate, shall be a quorum.

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|60 | If quorum not present

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| | If within thirty minutes (or such longer interval as the chairman in his absolute discretion thinks fit) from the time appointed for the holding of a general meeting a quorum is not present, or if during a meeting such a quorum ceases to be present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of members, shall be dissolved.  In any other case, the meeting shall stand adjourned to such time (not being less than seven nor more than sixty days later) and place as the chairman (or, in default, the board) may determine.  If at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the meeting shall be dissolved.

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|61 | Chairman

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|61.1 | The chairman of the board shall preside at every general meeting of the company.  If there be no such chairman, or if at any meeting he shall not be present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, or shall be unwilling to act as chairman, the directors present shall choose one of their number to act or, if there be only one director present, he shall be chairman if willing to act.  If there be no director present and willing to act, the members present and entitled to vote shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

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|61.2 | The chairman of the meeting who presides pursuant to the provisions of article 61.1 may, at any time during a general meeting of the company, nominate any director of the company to be the chairman of the meeting for the remainder of or for any part of the meeting.

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|62 | Directors may attend and speak

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| | A director shall, notwithstanding that he is not a member, be entitled to attend and speak at any general meeting and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares of the company.

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|63 | Power to adjourn

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| | The chairman may, with the consent of a meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed by the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time (or indefinitely) and from place to place as the meeting shall determine.  However, without prejudice to any other power which he may have under these articles or at common law, the chairman may, without the need for the consent of the meeting, interrupt or adjourn any meeting from time to time and from place to place or for an indefinite period if he is of the opinion that it has become necessary to do so in order to secure the comfort, safety and security of those attending and the proper and orderly conduct of the meeting or to give all persons entitled to do so a reasonable opportunity
of attending, speaking and voting at the meeting or to ensure that the business of the meeting is properly disposed of.

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|64 | Notice of adjourned meeting
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| | Where a meeting is adjourned indefinitely, the board shall fix the time and place for the adjourned meeting.  Whenever a meeting is adjourned for fourteen days or more or indefinitely, seven clear days' notice at the least, specifying the place, the day and time of the adjourned meeting and the general nature of the business to be transacted, shall be given in the same manner as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid, no member shall be entitled to any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at any adjourned meeting.

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|65 | Business of adjourned meeting

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| | No business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business which might properly have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

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|66 | Accommodation of members and security arrangements

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|66.1 | The board may, for the purpose of ensuring the comfort, safety and security of those attending at any place specified for the holding of a general meeting, from time to time make such arrangements as the board shall consider to be appropriate in the circumstances and may from time to time vary any such arrangements or make new arrangements in place thereof.  In the case of any meeting to which such arrangements apply the board may, for the purposes of ensuring the comfort, safety and security of those attending, when specifying the place of the meeting:

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| | Such arrangements for simultaneous attendance may include arrangements for regulating the level of attendance in any manner aforesaid as between the principal place and any of such other places, provided that they shall operate so that any member who cannot be accommodated in the principal place as aforesaid are able to attend at one of such other places.  For the purposes of all other provisions of these articles any such meeting shall be treated as being held and taking place at the principal place.

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|66.2 | For the purpose of ensuring the safety and security of those attending any meeting the board may require that any person wishing to attend any meeting should submit to such searches or other security arrangements as the board shall consider appropriate in the circumstances and shall be entitled in its absolute discretion to refuse entry to any meeting to any person who refuses to cooperate with or to submit to such searches or to otherwise comply with such security arrangements.
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VOTING

|67 | Method of voting
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|67.1 | At any general meeting all Substantive Resolutions put to a vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll, and all Other Resolutions put to a vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, unless (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) a poll is duly demanded.  Subject to the provisions of CA 1985, a poll may be demanded by:

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|67.2 | The chairman of a general meeting may, in his absolute discretion, determine whether a resolution is a Substantive Resolution or an Ordinary Resolution and his decision shall be final.

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|67.3 | At general meetings, resolutions shall be put to the vote by the chairman and there shall be no requirement for the resolution to be proposed or seconded by any person.

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|68 | Chairman's declaration conclusive on show of
hands

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| | Unless a poll is duly demanded and the demand is not withdrawn, a declaration by the chairman of the meeting that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried, or carried unanimously or by a particular majority, or lost, or not carried by a particular majority, and an entry to that effect in the book containing the minutes of proceedings of the company, shall be conclusive evidence thereof, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.

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|69 | Objection to error in voting
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| | No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter or to the counting of, or failure to count, any vote, except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered or at which the error occurs.  Any objection or error shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting and shall only vitiate the decision of the meeting on any resolution if the chairman decides that the same is of sufficient magnitude to vitiate the resolution or may otherwise have affected the decision of the meeting.  The decision of the chairman on such matters shall be final and conclusive.

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|70 | Amendment to resolutions

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|70.1 | If an amendment shall be proposed to any resolution under consideration but shall in good faith be ruled out of order by the chairman of the meeting, any error in such ruling shall not invalidate the proceedings on the substantive resolution.

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|70.2 | In the case of a resolution duly proposed as a special or extraordinary resolution, no amendment thereto (other than an amendment to correct a patent error) may in any event be considered or voted on an in the case of a resolution duly proposed as an ordinary resolution no amendment thereto (other than an amendment to correct a patent error) may be considered or voted on unless either at least forty-eight hours prior to the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which such ordinary resolution is to be proposed notice in writing of the terms of the amendment and intention to move the same has been lodged at the company's registered office, or the chairman of the meeting in his absolute discretion decides that it may be considered or voted
on.

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|71 | Procedure on a poll

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|71.1 | Any poll duly demanded on the election of a chairman of a meeting or on any question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith.  A poll duly demanded on any other matter shall be taken at such time and place, not being more than thirty days from the date of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the poll was demanded, as the chairman shall direct.  The chairman shall determine the manner (including the use of ballot or voting papers or tickets or electronic mail) in which a poll shall be taken and may appoint scrutineers who need not be members.  No notice need be given of a poll not taken immediately if the time and place at which it is to be taken are announced at the meeting at which it is demanded.  In any other case at least seven clear days' notice
shall be given specifying the time and place at which the poll is to be taken.  The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded.

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|71.2 | The demand for a poll (other than on the election of a chairman or any question of adjournment) shall not prevent the continuance of the meeting for the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll has been demanded.  If a poll is demanded before the declaration of the result on a show of hands and the demand is duly withdrawn, the meeting shall continue as if the demand had not been made.

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|71.3 | The demand for a poll may, before the poll is taken, be withdrawn, but only with the consent of the chairman.  A demand so withdrawn shall validate the result of a show of hands declared before the demand was made.

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|71.4 | On a poll votes may be given in person or by proxy.  A member entitled to more than one vote need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.

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|72 | Votes of members
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|72.1 | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, to any special terms as to voting on which any shares may have been issued or may for the time being be held and to any suspension or abrogation of voting rights pursuant to these articles, at any general meeting every member who is present in person shall on a show of hands have one vote and every member present in person or by proxy shall on a poll have one vote for each share of which he is the holder.

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|72.2 | If two or more persons are joint holders of a share, then in voting on any question the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders.  For this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names of the holders stand in the register.

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|72.3 | Where in England or elsewhere a receiver or other person (by whatever name called) has been appointed by any court claiming jurisdiction in that behalf to exercise powers with respect to the property or affairs of any member on the ground (however formulated) of mental disorder, the board may in its absolute discretion, on or subject to production of such evidence of the appointment as the board may require, permit such receiver or other person to vote in person or, on a poll, by proxy on behalf of such member at any general meeting.  Evidence to the satisfaction of the board of the authority of the person claiming to exercise the right to vote shall be deposited at the office, or at such other place as is specified in accordance with these articles for the
deposit of instruments of proxy, not less than forty-eight hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the right to vote is to be exercised, and in default the right to vote shall not be exercisable.

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|73 | Casting vote

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| | In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll was demanded shall be entitled to a second or casting vote in addition to any other vote that he may have.

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|74 | Restriction on voting rights for unpaid calls
etc.

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| | No member shall, unless the board otherwise determines, be entitled to vote at a general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares, either in person or by proxy, or to exercise any other right or privilege as a member in respect of a share held by him unless and until all calls or other sums presently due and payable by him in respect of that share whether alone or jointly with any other person together with interest and expenses (if any) have been paid to the company.

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|75 | Voting by proxy

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| | Any person (whether a member of the company or not) may be appointed to act as a proxy.  Deposit of an instrument of proxy shall not preclude a member from attending and voting in person at the meeting in respect of which the proxy is appointed or at any adjournment thereof.

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|76 | Form of proxy
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|76.1 | An instrument appointing a proxy shall:

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|76.2 | In addition, the board may determine that, if and to the extent permitted from time to time by the statutes, and subject to such terms and conditions as the board may specify, a proxy may be appointed by electronic mail.

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|77 | Deposit of proxy

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|77.1 | The instrument appointing a proxy shall:

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| | (c) | where the poll is not taken
        forthwith but is taken not more than forty eight hours after it was demanded,
        be delivered at the meeting at which the poll was demanded to the chairman
        of the meeting or to any director;
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| | and subject to article 77.3 an instrument of proxy not deposited or delivered in a manner so permitted shall be invalid.

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|77.2 | If any instrument appointing a proxy is signed under a power of attorney or other authority, such power or authority (or a copy thereof certified notarially or in some other way approved by the board) must be deposited with such instrument.

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|77.3 | A director, the secretary or some person authorised for the purpose by the secretary may:

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| | as a valid instrument of proxy where such person determines, in good faith, that the documents deposited (including, where relevant, by electronic mail) indicate in sufficient detail the member's intention to appoint a proxy.

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|77.4 | No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiry of twelve months from the date named in it as the date of its execution, except at an adjourned meeting or on a poll demanded at a meeting or an adjourned meeting in cases where the meeting was originally held within twelve months from such date.

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|77.5 | To the extent (if any) that the board determines that proxies may be appointed by electronic mail, any provisions of articles 76 and 77 may be disapplied or varied, insofar as they relate to any appointment made in this way, in such manner as the board may specify.

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|78 | More than one proxy may be appointed

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| | A member may appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion.  When two or more valid but differing instruments of proxy are delivered in respect of the same share for use at the same meeting and in respect of the same matter, the one which is last validly delivered (regardless of its date or of the date of its execution) shall be treated as replacing and revoking the other or others as regards that share.  If the company is unable to determine which instrument was last validly delivered, none of them shall be treated as valid in respect of that share.

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|79 | Board may supply proxy cards
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| | The board may at the expense of the company send, by post or otherwise, instruments of proxy (reply-paid or otherwise) to members for use at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares, either in blank or nominating in the alternative any one or more of the directors or any other persons.  If for the purpose of any meeting invitations to appoint as proxy a person or one of a number of persons specified in the invitations are issued at the expense of the company, such invitations shall, subject to article 57, be issued to all (and not some only) of the members entitled to be sent a notice of the meeting and to vote thereat by proxy.

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|80 | Revocation of proxy

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| | A vote given or poll demanded in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the death or mental disorder of the principal or the revocation of the instrument of proxy, or of the authority under which the instrument of proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the instrument of proxy is given, unless notice in writing of such death, mental disorder, revocation or transfer shall have been received by the company at the office, or at such other place as has been appointed for the deposit of instruments of proxy, at least forty eight hours before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting or the taking of the poll at which the instrument of proxy is used.

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|81 | Corporate representative

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| | A corporation (whether or not a company within the meaning of CA 1985) which is a member may, by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorise such person (or if, but only if, such corporation is a depositary voting in its capacity as such, persons) as it thinks fit to act as its representative (or, as the case may be, representatives) at any meeting of the company or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares.  Any person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation (in respect of that part of the corporation's holdings to which the authority relates) as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual member.  The corporation shall for the purposes of these
articles be deemed to be present in person at any such meeting if a person so authorised is present at it; and all references to attendance and voting in person shall be construed accordingly.  A director, the secretary or some person authorised for the purpose by the secretary may require the representative to produce a certified copy of the resolution so authorising him or such other evidence of his authority reasonably satisfactory to them before permitting him to exercise his powers.

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|82 | Failure to disclose interests in shares

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|82.1 | If a member, or any other person appearing to be interested in shares held by that member, has been issued with a notice pursuant to section 212 CA 1985 and has failed in relation to any shares ("the default shares", which expression includes any shares issued after the date of such notice in right of those shares) to give the company the information thereby required within the prescribed period from the service of the notice, the following sanctions shall apply unless the board otherwise determines:

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| | (a) | the member shall not be entitled in respect of the default shares to be present or to vote (either in person or by representative or proxy) at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares or on any poll or to exercise any other right conferred by membership in relation to any such meeting or poll; and
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|82.2 | Where the sanctions under article 82.1 apply in relation to any shares, they shall cease to have effect (and any dividends withheld under article 82.1(b) shall become payable):

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|82.3 | Where, on the basis of information obtained from a member in respect of any share held by him, the company issues a notice pursuant to section 212 CA 1985 to any other person, it shall at the same time send a copy of the notice to the member, but the accidental omission to do so, or the non-receipt by the member of the copy, shall not invalidate or otherwise affect the application of article 82.1.

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|82.4 | Where default shares in which a person appears to be interested are held by a depositary, the provisions of this article 82 shall be treated as applying only to those shares held by the depositary in which such person appears to be interested and not (insofar as such person's apparent interest is concerned) to any other shares held by the depositary.

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|82.5 | Where the member on which a notice under section 212 CA 1985 is served is a depositary acting in its capacity as such, the obligations of the depositary as a member of the company shall be limited to disclosing to the company such information relating to any person appearing to be interested in the shares held by it as has been recorded by it pursuant to the arrangements entered into by the company or approved by the board pursuant to which it was appointed as a depositary.

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|82.7 | Nothing contained in this article 82 shall be taken to limit the powers of the company under section 216 CA 1985.

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UNTRACED
MEMBERS

|83 | Power of sale
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|83.1 | The company shall be entitled to sell at the best price reasonably obtainable any share of a member, or any share to which a person is entitled by transmission, if and provided that:

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|83.2 | To give effect to any sale of shares pursuant to this article the board may authorise some person to transfer the shares in question and may enter the name of the transferee in respect of the transferred shares in the register notwithstanding the absence of any share certificate being lodged in respect thereof and may issue a new certificate to the transferee.  An instrument of transfer executed by (or a dematerialised instruction given by) that person shall be as effective as if it had been executed by the holder of, or the person entitled by transmission to, the shares.  The purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase moneys, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings relating
to the sale.

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|83.3 | If during the period of twelve years referred to in article 83.1, or during any period ending on the date when all the requirements of paragraphs (a) to (d) of article 83.1 have been satisfied, any additional shares have been issued in respect of those held at the beginning of, or previously so issued during, any such period and all the requirements of paragraphs (b) to (d) of article 83.1 have been satisfied in regard to such additional shares, the company shall also be entitled to sell the additional shares.

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|84 | Application of proceeds of sale
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| | The company shall account to the member or other person entitled to such share for the net proceeds of such sale by carrying all moneys in respect thereof to a separate account.  The company shall be deemed to be a debtor to, and not a trustee for, such member or other person in respect of such moneys.  Moneys carried to such separate account may either be employed in the business of the company or invested in such investments as the board may from time to time think fit.  No interest shall be payable to such member or other person in respect of such moneys and the company shall not be required to account for any money earned on them.

APPOINTMENT,
RETIREMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

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|85 | Number of directors

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| | Unless and until otherwise determined by the company by ordinary resolution, the number of directors (other than any alternate directors) shall be not more than fifteen nor less than three.

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|86 | Power of company to appoint directors

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| | Subject to the provisions of these articles, the company may by ordinary resolution appoint a person who is willing to act to be a director, either to fill a vacancy or as an addition to the existing board, but the total number of directors shall not exceed the maximum number fixed in accordance with these articles.

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|87 | Power of board to appoint directors

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| | Without prejudice to the power of the company to appoint any person to be a director pursuant to these articles, the board shall have power at any time to appoint any person who is willing to act as a director, either to fill a vacancy or as an addition to the existing board, but the total number of directors shall not exceed any maximum number fixed in accordance with these articles.  Any director so appointed shall retire at the annual general meeting of the company next following such appointment and shall not be taken into account in determining the number of directors who are to retire by rotation at such meeting.

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|88 | Appointment of executive directors

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, the board may from time to time appoint one or more of its body to hold any employment or executive office (including that of executive chairman, chief executive or managing director) for such term (subject to the provisions of CA 1985) and subject to such other conditions as the board thinks fit in accordance with article 111.  The board may revoke or terminate any such appointment without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of contract between the director and the company.

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|89 | Eligibility for appointment as a director
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| | No person, other than a director retiring (by rotation or otherwise), shall be appointed or re-appointed a director at any general meeting unless:

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|90 | Share qualification

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| | A director shall not be required to hold any shares of the company.

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|91 | Resolution for appointment

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| | A resolution for the appointment of two or more persons as directors by a single resolution shall be void unless an ordinary resolution that it shall be so proposed has first been agreed to by the meeting without any vote being given against it.

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|92 | Retirement at intervals of one year and three
years71

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|92.1 | A director (not being a director holding any employment or executive office pursuant to article 88) shall retire from office, and may offer himself for re-appointment, at each annual general meeting if, at the start of business on the date of the notice convening that annual general meeting, he has served as a director for a continuous period of nine years or more, and for the purpose of this article 92.1 the retirement and re-appointment of a director at the same general meeting, whether pursuant to these articles or otherwise, shall not constitute an interruption to that director's period of continuous service.

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|92.2 | A director shall retire from office, and may offer himself for re-appointment, at the third annual general meeting following his appointment or last re-appointment by shareholders at a general meeting.

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|93 | Directors to retire by rotation

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|93.1 | Any director who is or will be required to retire at an annual general meeting pursuant to article 87 or article 92.1 shall not be taken into account in determining the number or the identity of the directors to retire by rotation at that meeting pursuant to this article 93.

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|7 | Articles 92 and 93 were amended by special resolutions passed on 30th July 1999 and 30th July 2004.
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|93.2 | The directors to retire by rotation at an annual general meeting pursuant to this article 93 shall be determined, both as to number and identity, by the composition of the board at the start of business on the date of the notice convening that annual general meeting, notwithstanding any change in the number or the identity of the directors after that time and before the conclusion of that annual general meeting.
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|93.3 | At each annual general meeting, one third of the directors who are subject to retirement by rotation, or, if their number is not three or a multiple of three, the number which is nearest to but does not exceed one third, shall retire from office and may offer themselves for re-appointment.  Subject to the provisions of the statutes and of these articles, the directors to retire by rotation pursuant to this article 93 shall be, first, any director who wishes to retire and not offer himself for re-appointment, secondly, any director who is or will be required to retire pursuant to article 92.2, and thirdly that director or those directors who have been longest in office since their appointment or last re-appointment by shareholders at a general meeting.  As
between two or more directors who have been in office an equal length of time since their last appointment or re-appointment by shareholders at a general meeting, the director or directors to retire shall, in default of agreement between them, be determined by lot.

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|94 | Position of retiring director

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| | A director who retires at an annual general meeting (whether by rotation or otherwise) may, if willing to act, be re-appointed.  If he is not re-appointed or deemed to have been re-appointed, he shall retain office until the meeting appoints someone in his place or, if it does not do so, until the end of the meeting.

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|95 | Deemed re-appointment

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| | At any general meeting at which a director retires by rotation the company may fill the vacancy and, if it does not do so, the retiring director shall, if willing, be deemed to have been re-appointed unless it is expressly resolved not to fill the vacancy or a resolution for the re-appointment of the director is put to the meeting and lost.

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|96 | No retirement on account of age

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| | No person shall be or become incapable of being appointed a director by reason of his having attained the age of seventy or any other age, nor shall any special notice be required in connection with the appointment or the approval of the appointment of such person.  No director shall vacate his office at any time by reason of the fact that he has attained the age of seventy or any other age; and section 293 CA 1985 shall not apply to the company.  Where any general meeting of the company is convened at which, to the knowledge of the board, a director will be proposed for appointment or re-appointment who will at the date of the meeting be seventy or more, the board shall give notice of his age in the notice convening the meeting or in any
document accompanying the notice, but the accidental omission to do so shall not invalidate any proceedings or any appointment or re-appointment of that director at that meeting.

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|97 | Removal by ordinary resolution
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| | In addition to any power of removal conferred by the statutes, the company may by ordinary resolution remove any director before the expiration of his period of office, but without prejudice to any claim for damages which he may have for breach of any contract of service between him and the company, and may (subject to these articles) by ordinary resolution appoint another person who is willing to act to be a director in his place.  Any person so appointed shall be treated, for the purposes of determining the time at which he or any other director is to retire, as if he had become a director on the day on which the person in whose place he is appointed was last appointed or re-appointed a director.

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|98 | Vacation of office by director

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| | Without prejudice to the provisions for retirement (by rotation or otherwise) contained in these articles, the office of a director shall be vacated if:

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|99 | Resolution as to vacancy conclusive
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| | A resolution of the board declaring a director to have vacated office under the terms of article 98 shall be conclusive as to the fact and grounds of vacation stated in the resolution.

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

|100 | Appointment
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|100.1 | Each director (other than an alternate director) may, by notice in writing delivered to the secretary at the office, or in any other manner approved by the board, appoint any other director or any person approved for that purpose by the board and willing to act, to be his alternate.

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|100.2 | No appointment of an alternate director who is not already a director shall be effective until his consent to act as a director in the form prescribed by CA 1985 has been received at the office.

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|100.3 | An alternate director need not hold a share qualification and shall not be counted in reckoning any maximum or minimum number of directors allowed by these articles.

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|101 | Participation in board meetings

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| | Every alternate director shall (subject to his giving to the company an address within the United Kingdom at which notices may be served on him) be entitled to receive notice of all meetings of the board and all committees of the board of which his appointor is a member and, in the absence from such meetings of his appointor, to attend and vote at such meetings and to exercise all the powers, rights, duties and authorities of his appointor.  A director acting as alternate director shall have a separate vote at board meetings for each director for whom he acts as alternate director, but he shall count as only one for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present.

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|102 | Alternate director responsible for own acts

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| | Every person acting as an alternate director shall be an officer of the company, shall alone be responsible to the company for his own acts and defaults and shall not be deemed to be the agent of the director appointing him.

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|103 | Interests of alternate director

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| | An alternate director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements with the company and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a director.  However, he shall not be entitled to receive from the company any fees for his services as alternate, except only such part (if any) of the fee payable to his appointor as such appointor may by notice in writing to the company direct.  Subject to this article, the company shall pay to an alternate director such expenses as might properly have been paid to him if he had been a director.

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|104 | Revocation of appointment
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| | An alternate director shall cease to be an alternate director:

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DIRECTORS' REMUNERATION, EXPENSES AND PENSIONS

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| | The directors (other than alternate directors) shall be entitled to receive by way of fees for their services as directors such sum as the board may, from time to time, determine (not exceeding, in aggregate, £550,000 per annum or such other sum as the company in general meeting by ordinary resolution shall, from time to time, determine).  Such sum (unless otherwise directed by the resolution of the company by which it is voted) shall be divided among the directors in such proportions and in such manner as the board may determine or, in default of such determination, equally (except that in such event any director holding office for less than the whole of the relevant period in respect of which the fees are paid shall only rank in such
division in proportion to the time during such period for which he holds office). Any fees payable pursuant to this article shall be distinct from any salary, remuneration or other amounts payable to a director pursuant to any other provisions of these articles and shall accrue from day to day.

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|106 | Expenses

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| | Each director shall be entitled to be repaid all reasonable travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by him in or about the performance of his duties as director, including any expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board or any committee of the board or general meetings or separate meetings of the holders of any class of shares or of debentures of the company.  If in the opinion of the directors it is desirable that any of their number should go or reside abroad or make any special journeys or perform any special services on behalf of the company or its business, such director or directors may be paid such reasonable additional remuneration by way of salary, percentage of profits or otherwise and expenses therefor as the
directors may from time to time determine.

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|107 | Remuneration of executive directors

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| | The salary or remuneration of any director appointed to hold any employment or executive office in accordance with the provisions of these articles may be either a fixed sum of money, or may altogether or in part be governed by business done or profits made or otherwise determined by the board, and may be in addition to or in lieu of any fee payable to him for his services as director pursuant to these articles.

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|108 | Pensions and other benefits
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| | The board may exercise all the powers of the company to provide pensions or other retirement or superannuation benefits and to provide death or disability benefits or other allowances or gratuities (whether by insurance or otherwise) for, or to institute and maintain any institution, association, society, club, trust, other establishment or profit-sharing, share incentive, share purchase or employees' share scheme calculated to advance the interests of the company or to benefit, any person who is or has at any time been a director or employee of the company or any company which is a holding company or a subsidiary undertaking of or allied to or associated with the company or any such holding company or subsidiary undertaking or any predecessor
in business of the company or of any such holding company or subsidiary undertaking, and for any member of his family (including a spouse or former spouse) and any person who is or was dependent on him.  For such purpose the board may establish, maintain, subscribe and contribute to any scheme, institution, association, club, trust or fund and pay premiums and, subject to the provisions of the statutes, lend money or make payments to, guarantee or give an indemnity in respect of, or give any financial or other assistance in connection with any of the aforesaid matters.  The board may procure any of such matters to be done by the company either alone or in conjunction with any other person.  Any director or former director shall be entitled to receive and retain for his own benefit any
pension or other benefit provided under this article and shall not be obliged to account for it to the company.

POWERS AND
DUTIES OF THE BOARD

|109 | Powers of the board
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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, the memorandum of association of the company and these articles and to any directions given by special resolution of the company, the business of the company shall be managed by the board, which may exercise all the powers of the company, whether relating to the management of the business or not. No alteration of the memorandum of association or of these articles and no such direction given by the company shall invalidate any prior act of the board which would have been valid if such alteration had not been made or such direction had not been given.  Provisions contained elsewhere in these articles as to any specific power of the board shall not be deemed to limit the general powers given by this
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|110 | Powers of directors being less than minimum number

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| | If the number of directors is less than the minimum for the time being prescribed by these articles, the remaining director or directors shall act only for the purposes of appointing an additional director or directors to make up such minimum or of convening a general meeting of the company for the purpose of making such appointment.  If there are no director or directors able or willing to act, any two members may summon a general meeting for the purpose of appointing directors.  Subject to the provisions of these articles, any additional director so appointed shall hold office only until the dissolution of the annual general meeting of the company next following such appointment unless he is re-elected during such meeting.

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|111 | Powers of executive directors
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|112 | Delegation to committees

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|112.1 | The board may delegate any of its powers, authorities and discretions (with power to sub-delegate) for such time on such terms and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit to any committee consisting of one or more directors and (if thought fit) one or more other persons, provided that:

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|112.2 | The board may confer such powers either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of and in substitution for, all or any of the powers of the board in that respect and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary any of such powers and discharge any such committee in whole or in part.  Insofar as any power, authority or discretion is so delegated, any reference in these articles to the exercise by the board of such power, authority or discretion shall be construed as if it were a reference to the exercise of such power, authority or discretion by such committee.

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|113 | Local management

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| | The board may establish any local or divisional boards or agencies for managing any of the affairs of the company in any specified locality, either in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and may appoint any persons to be members of such local or divisional board, or any managers or agents, and may fix their remuneration.  The board may delegate to any local or divisional board, manager or agent so appointed any of its powers, authorities and discretions (with power to sub-delegate) and may authorise the members for the time being of any such local or divisional board, or any of them, to fill any vacancies and to act notwithstanding vacancies; and any such appointment or delegation may be made for such time, on such terms and subject to such
conditions as the board may think fit.  The board may confer such powers either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of and in substitution for, all or any of the powers of the board in that respect and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.  Subject to any terms and conditions expressly imposed by the board, the proceedings of any local or divisional board or agency with two or more members shall be governed by such of these articles as regulate the proceedings of the board, so far as they are capable of applying.

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|114 | Power of attorney
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| | The board may, by power of attorney or otherwise, appoint any person or persons to be the agent of the company and may delegate to any such person or persons any of its powers, authorities and discretions (with power to sub-delegate), in each case for such purposes and for such time, on such terms (including as to remuneration) and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit.  The board may confer such powers either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of and in substitution for, all or any of the powers of the board in that respect and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary any of such powers.

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|115 | Use of the title''director''

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| | The board may appoint any person (not being a director) to any office or employment having a designation or title including the word "director" or attach to any existing office or employment with the company such designation or title and may terminate any such appointment or the use of such designation or title.  The inclusion of the word "director" in the designation or title of any such office or employment shall not imply that such person is, or is deemed to be, or is empowered in any respect to act as, a director for any of the purposes of the statutes or these articles.

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|116 | Exercise of voting power

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| | The board may exercise or cause to be exercised the voting power conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the company, or any power of appointment to be exercised by the company, in such manner in all respects as it thinks fit (including the exercise of the voting power or power of appointment in favour of the appointment of any director as a director or other officer or employee of such company or in favour of the payment of remuneration to the directors, officers or employees of such company).

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|117 | Provision for employees

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| | The board may exercise any power conferred on the company by the statutes to make provision for the benefit of persons employed or formerly employed by the company or any of its subsidiary undertakings (or any member of his family or any person who is dependent on him) in connection with the cessation or the transfer to any person of the whole or part of the undertaking of the company or that subsidiary undertaking.

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|118 | Overseas registers

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, the board may exercise the powers conferred on the company with regard to the keeping of an overseas branch, local or other register and may make and vary such regulations as it thinks fit respecting the keeping of any such register.

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|119 | Borrowing powers
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|119.1 | The board may exercise all the powers of the company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge all or any part of the undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital of the company and, subject to the provisions of the statutes, to create and issue debenture and other loan stock and debentures and other securities, whether outright or as collateral security for any debt, liability or obligation of the company or of any third party.

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|119.2 | The board shall restrict the borrowings of the company and exercise all voting and other rights and powers of control exercisable by the company in respect of its subsidiary undertakings so as to procure (as regards its subsidiary undertakings in so far as it can procure by such exercise) that the aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding in respect of moneys borrowed by the group (exclusive of moneys borrowed by one group company from another and after deducting cash deposited) shall not at any time, without the previous sanction of an ordinary resolution of the company exceed an amount equal to two and a half (21⁄2) times the adjusted capital and reserves.

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|119.4 | When the aggregate amount of moneys borrowed required to be taken into account for the purposes of this article 119 on any particular day is being ascertained, any of such moneys denominated or repayable in a currency other than sterling shall be converted for the purpose of calculating the sterling equivalent either:
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| | but if the amount in sterling resulting from conversion at that rate would be greater than that resulting from conversion at the middle market rate prevailing in London at the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the day on which the calculation falls to be made, the latter rate shall apply instead.

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|119.5 | A report or certificate of the auditors as to the amount of the adjusted capital and reserves or the amount of moneys borrowed falling to be taken into account for the purposes of this article 119 or to the effect that the limit imposed by this article 119 has not been or will not be exceeded at any particular time or times or as a result of any particular transaction or transactions shall be conclusive evidence of the amount or of that fact.

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|119.6 | No debt incurred or security given in respect of moneys borrowed in excess of the limit imposed by this article 119 shall be invalid or ineffectual, except in the case of express notice to the lender or recipient of the security at the time when the debt was incurred or security given that the limit had been or would thereby by exceeded, but no lender or other person dealing with the company shall be concerned to see or enquire whether such limit is observed.

PROCEEDINGS
OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES

|120 | Board meetings
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| | Subject to the provisions of these articles, the board may meet for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its proceedings as it thinks fit.

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|121 | Notice of board meetings
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| | One director may, and the secretary at the request of a director shall, summon a board meeting at any time on reasonable notice.  Notice of a board meeting shall be deemed to be properly given to a director if it is given to him personally or by word of mouth or sent in writing to him at his last known address or any other address given by him to the company for that purpose.  A director may waive the requirement that notice be given to him of any board meeting, either prospectively or retrospectively.  It shall not be necessary to give notice of a board meeting to a director who is absent from the United Kingdom unless he has requested the board in writing that notices of board meetings shall during his absence be given to him at any address in
the United Kingdom notified to the company for this purpose, but he shall not, in such event, be entitled to a longer period of notice than if he had been present in the United Kingdom at that address.

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|122 | Quorum

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| | The quorum necessary for the transaction of business may be determined by the board and until otherwise determined shall be two directors.  A duly convened meeting of the board at which a quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all or any of the authorities, powers, and discretions for the time being vested in or exercisable by the board.

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|123 | Chairman of board

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| | The board may appoint one or more of its body chairman or joint chairman and one or more of its body deputy chairman of its meetings and may determine the period for which he is or they are to hold office and may at any time remove him or them from office.  If no such chairman or deputy chairman is elected, or if at any meeting neither a chairman nor a deputy chairman is present within five minutes of the time appointed for holding the same, the directors present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.  Any chairman or deputy chairman may also hold executive office under the company.

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|124 | Voting

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| | Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes.  In the case of an equality of votes the chairman of that meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

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|125 | Participation by telephone or video conference

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|125.1 | Any director or his alternate may validly participate in a meeting of the board or a committee of the board through the medium of conference telephone, video conferencing link or any other form of communications equipment, provided that all persons participating in the meeting are able to hear and speak to each other throughout such meeting, or by a series of telephone calls from the chairman of the meeting.

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|125.2 | A person so participating by being present or being in telephone or video conference or any other form of communication with those in the meeting or with the chairman of the meeting shall be deemed to be present in person at the meeting and shall accordingly be counted in a quorum and be entitled to vote. Such a meeting shall be deemed to take place where the largest group of those participating is assembled or, if there is no group which is larger than any other group, where the chairman of the meeting then is.

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|125.3 | A resolution passed at any meeting held in the above manner, and signed by the chairman of the meeting, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the board (or committee, as the case may be) duly convened and held.
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|126 | Resolution in writing

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| | A resolution in writing signed by all the directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a board meeting and not being less than a quorum, or by all the members of a committee of the board for the time entitled to receive notice of such committee meeting and not being less than a quorum of that committee, shall be as valid and effective for all purposes as a resolution duly passed at a meeting of the board (or committee, as the case may be). Such a resolution:

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|127 | Proceedings of committees

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| | All committees of the board shall, in the exercise of the powers delegated to them and in the transaction of business, conform with any mode of proceedings and regulations which the board may prescribe and subject thereto shall be governed by such of these articles as regulate the proceedings of the board as are capable of applying.

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|128 | Minutes of proceedings

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|128.1 | The board shall cause minutes to be made in books kept for the purpose of recording:

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|128.2 | Any such minutes, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings were held or by the chairman of the next succeeding meeting or the secretary, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated in such minutes without any further proof.

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|129 | Validity of proceedings
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| | All acts done by a meeting of the board, or of a committee of the board, or by any person acting as a director, alternate director or member of a committee shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any person or persons acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were or was disqualified from holding office or not entitled to vote, or had in any way vacated their or his office, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed, and was duly qualified and had continued to be a director, alternate director or member of a committee and entitled to vote.

DIRECTORS'
INTERESTS

|130 | Director may have interests
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| | Subject to the provisions of the statues and provided that article 131 is complied with, a director, notwithstanding his office:

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| | (a) | may enter into or otherwise be interested in any contract, arrangement, transaction or proposal with the company or in which the company is otherwise interested, either in regard to his tenure of any office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or otherwise;

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| | and no such contract, arrangement, transaction or proposal shall be avoided on the grounds of any such interest or benefit.

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131      Disclosure
of interests to board

|131.1 | A director who, to his knowledge, is in any way (directly or indirectly) interested in any contract, arrangement, transaction or proposal with the company shall declare the nature of his interest at the meeting of the board at which the question of entering into the contract, arrangement, transaction or proposal is first considered, if he knows his interest then exists or, in any other case, at the first meeting of the board after he knows that he is or has become so interested.
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|132 | Interested director not to vote or count for
quorum

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| | Save as provided in this article, a director shall not vote on, or be counted in the quorum in relation to, any resolution of the board or of a committee of the board concerning any contract, arrangement, transaction or any other proposal whatsoever to which the company is or is to be a party and in which he has an interest which (together with any interest of any person connected with him within the meaning of section 346 CA 1985) is to his knowledge a material interest otherwise than by virtue of his interests in shares or debentures or other securities of or otherwise in or through the company, unless the resolution concerns any of the following matters:

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| | (e) | any proposal relating to an arrangement for the benefit of the employees of the company or any of its subsidiary undertakings which does not award him any privilege or benefit not generally awarded to the employees to whom such arrangement relates; or
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|133 | Director's interest in own appointment

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| | A director shall not vote or be counted in the quorum on any resolution of the board or committee of the board concerning his own appointment (including fixing or varying the terms of his appointment or its termination) as the holder of any office or place of profit with the company or any company in which the company is interested. Where proposals are under consideration concerning the appointment (including fixing or varying the terms of appointment or its termination) of two or more directors to offices or places of profit with the company or any company in which the company is interested, such proposals may be divided and a separate resolution considered in relation to each director.  In such case each of the directors concerned (if not
otherwise debarred from voting under these articles) shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment.

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|134 | Chairman's ruling conclusive on director's interest

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| | If any question arises at any meeting as to the materiality of a director's interest (other than the chairman's interest) or as to the entitlement of any director (other than the chairman) to vote or be counted in a quorum, and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or being counted in the quorum, such question shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting.  The chairman's ruling in relation to the director concerned shall be final and conclusive.

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|135 | Directors' resolution conclusive on chairman's
interest

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| | If any question arises at any meeting as to the materiality of the chairman's interest or as to the entitlement of the chairman to vote or be counted in a quorum, and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or being counted in the quorum, such question shall be decided by resolution of the directors or committee members present at the meeting (excluding the chairman), whose majority vote shall be final and conclusive.

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|136 | Connected persons

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| | For the purposes of articles 130 to 135 (which shall apply equally to alternate directors) an interest of a person who is for the purposes of the statutes connected (which word shall have the meaning given to it by section 346 CA 1985) with a director shall be treated as an interest of the director.

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SEALS

|137 | Safe custody
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| | The board shall provide for the safe custody of the seal, the securities seal and of any other seal of the company.

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|138 | Application of seals

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|138.1 | The seal shall be used only by the authority of a resolution of the board or of a committee of the board so authorised, which resolution may include a resolution for the giving of a general authority to any director, the secretary, an assistant secretary or other officer of the company to affix the seal from time to time.  The board may determine whether any instrument to which the seal is affixed shall be signed and, if it is to be signed, who shall sign it and by what means.  The board may also determine, either generally or in a particular case, that a signature may be dispensed with or affixed by mechanical, electronic or other means.

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|138.2 | Every certificate or share warrant shall be issued either:

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|139 | Official seal for use abroad

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, the company may have an official seal for use in any place abroad.

THE SECRETARY

|140 | The secretary
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|140.1 | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, the board shall appoint a secretary or joint secretaries and shall have power to appoint one or more persons to be an assistant or deputy secretary at such remuneration and on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit and any such person so appointed may be removed by the board.

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|140.2 | Any  provision of the statutes or of these articles requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a director and the secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as director and as, or in place of, the secretary.

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AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS

141      Power
to authenticate

| | Any director or the secretary or any person appointed for the purpose shall have power to authenticate any documents affecting the constitution of the company and any resolutions passed by the company or the directors or any committee of the directors, and any books, records, documents and accounts relating to the business of the company, and to certify copies thereof or extracts therefrom as true copies or extracts.  Where any books, records, documents or accounts are elsewhere than at the office the local manager or other officer of the company having the custody thereof shall be deemed to be a person appointed by the directors as aforesaid.  A document purporting to be a copy of a resolution, or an extract from the minutes of a meeting, of
the company or of the directors or any committee of the directors which is certified as aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence in favour of all persons dealing with the company upon the faith thereof that such resolution has been duly passed or, as the case may be, that such minutes or extract is a true and accurate record of proceedings at a duly constituted meeting.
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DIVIDENDS
AND OTHER PAYMENTS

|142 | Declaration of dividends
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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes and of these articles, the company may by ordinary resolution declare dividends to be paid to members according to their respective rights and interests in the profits of the company.  However, no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the board.

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|143 | Interim dividends

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| | Subject to the provisions of the statutes, the board may declare and pay such interim dividends (including any dividend payable at a fixed rate) as appears to the board to be justified by the profits of the company available for distribution.  If at any time the share capital of the company is divided into different classes, the board may pay such interim dividends on shares which rank after shares conferring preferential rights with regard to dividend as well as on shares conferring preferential rights, unless at the time of payment any preferential dividend is in arrear.  Provided that the board acts in good faith, it shall not incur any liability to the holders of shares conferring preferential rights for any loss that they may suffer by the
lawful payment of any interim dividend on any shares ranking after those with preferential rights.

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|144 | Entitlement to dividends

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| | Except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to shares, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid up (otherwise than in advance of calls) on the shares on which the dividend is paid.  Subject as aforesaid, all dividends shall be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amounts paid up on the shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid, but if any share is issued on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular date, it shall rank for dividend accordingly.

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|145 | Calls or debts may be deducted from dividends
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| | The board may deduct from any dividend or other money payable to any person on or in respect of a share all such sums as may be due from him to the company on account of calls or otherwise in relation to the shares of the company.

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|146 | Distribution in specie

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| | The board may, with the authority of an ordinary resolution of the company, direct that payment of any dividend declared may be satisfied wholly or partly by the distribution of assets, and in particular of paid up shares or debentures of any other company, or in any one or more of such ways.  Where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the board may settle it as it thinks fit.  In particular, the board may:

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|147 | Dividends not to bear interest

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| | Unless otherwise provided by the rights attached to the share, no dividend or other moneys payable by the company or in respect of a share shall bear interest as against the company.

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|148 | Method of payment

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|148.1 | The company may pay any dividend, interest or other sum payable in respect of a share in cash or by direct debit, bank transfer, cheque, dividend warrant, or money order, by any method provided by the rules of a relevant system, or by any other method (including by electronic media) as the board may consider appropriate and may send the same by post or other delivery service (or by such other means offered by the company as the member or persons entitled to it may agree in writing) to the registered address (or in the case of a depositary, subject to the approval of the board, such persons and addresses as the depositary may require) of the member or person entitled to it (or, if two or more persons are holders of the share or are jointly entitled to it by
reason of the death or bankruptcy of the member or otherwise by operation of law, to the registered address of such of those persons as is first named in the register) or to such person and such address as such member or person or persons may direct in writing.

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|148.2 | Every cheque, warrant, order or other form of payment is sent at the risk of the person entitled to the money represented by it, shall (where relevant) be crossed in accordance with the Cheques Act 1992 and shall be made payable to the person or persons entitled, or to such other person as the person or persons entitled may direct in writing. Payment of the cheque, warrant, order or other form of payment shall be a good discharge to the company.  If any such cheque, warrant, order or other form of payment has or shall be alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the board may, at the request of the person entitled thereto, issue a replacement cheque or warrant or order or make payment in some other form, subject to compliance with such conditions as to
evidence and indemnity and the payment of out of pocket expenses of the company in connection with the request as the board may think fit.

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|148.3 | Any joint holder or other person jointly entitled to a share may give an effective receipt for any dividend or other moneys payable in respect of such share.
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|148.4 | The board may, at its discretion, make provisions to enable a depositary and/or any member as the board shall from time to time determine to receive duly declared dividends in a currency or currencies other than sterling.  For the purposes of the calculation of the amount receivable in respect of any dividend, the rate of exchange to be used to determine the foreign currency equivalent of any sum payable as a dividend shall be such rate or rates and the payment thereof shall be on such terms and conditions as the board may in its absolute discretion determine.

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|149 | Uncashed dividends

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| | If cheques, warrants or orders for dividends or other sums payable in respect of a share sent by the company to the person entitled thereto are returned to the company or left uncashed on two consecutive occasions or, following one occasion, reasonable enquiries have failed to establish any new address to be used for the purpose, the company shall not be obliged to send any dividends or other moneys payable in respect of that share due to that person until he notifies the company of an address to be used for the purpose.

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|150 | Unclaimed dividends

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| | All dividends, interest or other sum payable and unclaimed for twelve months after having become payable may be invested or otherwise made use of by the board for the benefit of the company until claimed and the company shall not be constituted a trustee in respect thereof.  All dividends unclaimed for a period of twelve years after having been declared or become due for payment shall (if the board so resolves) be forfeited and shall cease to remain owing by the company.

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|151 | Payment of share dividends

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| | The board may, with the prior authority of an ordinary resolution of the company and subject to such terms and conditions as the board may determine, offer to any holders of ordinary shares the right to elect to receive ordinary shares, credited as fully paid, instead of the whole (or some part, to be determined by the board) of any dividend specified by the ordinary resolution.  The following provisions shall apply:

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| | (c) | no fractions of a share shall be allotted.  The board may make such provisions as it thinks fit for any fractional entitlements including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, the benefit thereof accrues to the company and/or under which fractional entitlements are accrued and/or retained and in each case accumulated on behalf of any member and such accruals or retentions are applied to the allotment by way of bonus to or cash subscription on behalf of such member of fully paid ordinary shares and/or provisions whereby cash payments may be made to members in respect of their fractional entitlements;
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| | (h) | the additional ordinary shares so allotted shall rank pari passu in all respects with each other and with the fully paid ordinary shares in issue on the record date for the dividend in respect of which the right of election has been offered, except that they will not rank for any dividend or other distribution or other entitlement which has been declared, paid or made by reference to such record date; and
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|152 | Reserves

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| | The board may, before recommending any dividend (whether preferential or otherwise), carry to reserve out of the profits of the company such sums as it thinks fit.  All sums standing to reserve may be applied from time to time, at the discretion of the board, for any purpose to which the profits of the company may properly be applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the company or be invested in such investments as the board thinks fit.  The board may divide the reserve into such special funds as it thinks fit, and may consolidate into one fund any special funds or any parts of any special funds into which the reserve may have been divided as it thinks fit.  Any sum which the board
may carry to reserve out of the unrealised profits of the company shall not be mixed with any reserve to which profits available for distribution have been carried.  The board may also, without placing the same to reserve, carry forward any profits which it may think prudent not to distribute.

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|153 | Capitalisation of reserves

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| | Subject to Article 5.2(iii), the board may, with the authority of an ordinary resolution of the company:

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| |  | (i) | the share premium account, the capital redemption reserve, any other undistributable reserve and any profits which are not available for distribution may, for the purposes of this article, only be applied in paying up unissued shares to be allotted to holders of shares credited as fully paid; and
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154      Record dates

| | Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles but without prejudice to the rights attached to any shares and subject always to the statutes the company or the board may by resolution specify any date (the "record date") as the date at the close of business (or such other time as the board may determine) on which persons registered as the holders of shares or other securities shall be entitled to receipt of any dividend, distribution, interest, allotment, issue, notice, information, document or circular and such record date may be on or at any time before the date on which the same is paid, made, given or served or (in the case of any dividend, distribution, interest, allotment or issue) at any time after the same is
recommended, resolved, declared or announced but without prejudice to the rights inter se in respect of the same of transferors and transferees of any such shares or other securities.  No change in the register of such holders after the record date shall invalidate the same.
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ACCOUNTS

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|155 | Accounting records

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| | The board shall cause accounting records to be kept in accordance with the statutes.

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|156 | Inspection of records

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| | No member (other than a director) shall have any right to inspect any accounting record or other document of the company unless he is authorised to do so by statute, by order of the court, by the board or by ordinary resolution of the company.

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|157 | Accounts to be sent to members

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| | Except as provided in article 158, a printed copy of the directors' and auditors' reports accompanied by printed copies of the annual accounts shall, not less than twenty one clear days before the annual general meeting before which they are to be laid, be delivered or sent by post to every member and holder of debentures of the company and to the auditors and to every other person who is entitled to receive notice of general meetings.  However, this article shall not require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person who under the provisions of these articles is not entitled to receive notices from the company or of whose address the company is unaware or to any holder of debentures of whose address the company is unaware or to more
than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.  If and to the extent permitted by the statutes, all or any of such documents may be delivered to a member by electronic mail.  If all or any of the shares in or debentures of the company are listed or dealt in on any stock exchange, there shall at the same time be forwarded to the secretary of that stock exchange such number of copies of each of those documents as the regulations of that stock exchange may require.

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|158 | Summary financial statements
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| | The company may, in accordance with section 251 CA 1985 and any regulations made under it, send (including, to the extent permitted by the statutes, by electronic mail) a summary financial statement to any member instead of or in addition to the documents referred to in article 157.  Where it does so, the statement shall be delivered or sent by post to the member not less than twenty one clear days before the annual general meeting before which those documents are to be laid.

NOTICES

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| | Any notice to be given to or by any person pursuant to these articles shall be in writing, except that a notice convening a board or board committee meeting need not be in writing.

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|160 | Service of notice on members

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|160.1 | The company may give any notice or document (including a share certificate) to a member, either personally or by sending it by post or other delivery service in a prepaid envelope addressed to the member at his registered address or by leaving it at that address or by any other means (including, to the extent permitted by the statutes and except in relation to a share certificate, electronic mail) authorised in writing by the member concerned.  In the case of a member registered on an overseas branch register any such notice or document which is posted may be posted either in the United Kingdom or in the territory in which such branch register is maintained.

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|160.2 | In the case of joint holders of a share, all notices or documents shall be given to the joint holder whose name stands first in the register in respect of the joint holding.  Notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the joint holders.

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|160.3 | Where a member (or, in the case of joint holders, the person first named in the register) has a registered address outside the United Kingdom but has notified the company of an address within the United Kingdom at which notices or other documents may be given to him, he shall be entitled to have notices given to him at that address; but otherwise no such member shall be entitled to receive any notice or document from the company.

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|160.4 | If on three consecutive occasions notices or other documents have been sent through the post to any member at his registered address or his address for the service of notices but have been returned undelivered, such member shall not thereafter be entitled to receive notices or other documents from the company until he shall have communicated with the company and supplied in writing a new registered address or address within the United Kingdom for the service of notices.

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|160.5 | The provisions of this article 160 and of articles 161 to 165 do not affect any provision of the statutes or these articles requiring notices or documents to be delivered in a particular manner.

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|161 | Notice in case of death, bankruptcy or mental
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| | The company may give notice to the person entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member or otherwise by operation of law, by sending or delivering it in any manner authorised by these articles for the giving of notice to a member, addressed to that person by name, or by the title of representative of the deceased or trustee of the bankrupt or representative by operation of law or by any like description, at the address (if any) within the United Kingdom supplied for the purpose by the person claiming to be so entitled.  Until such an address has been so supplied, a notice may be given in any manner in which it might have been given if the death or bankruptcy or operation of law had not occurred.

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|162 | Evidence of service

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|162.1 | Any member present, in person or by proxy, at any meeting of the company or of the holders of any class of shares of the company shall be deemed to have received due notice of such meeting, and, where requisite, of the purposes for which such meeting was called.

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|162.2 | Any notice, certificate or other document, addressed to a member at his registered address or address for service in the United Kingdom shall, if sent by post, be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day after the day when it was put in the post (or, where second-class mail is employed, on the second day after the day when it was put in the post).  Proof that an envelope containing the notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post as a prepaid letter shall be conclusive evidence that the notice was given.  Any notice, certificate or other document not sent by post but delivered or left at a registered address or address for service in the United Kingdom shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day on which it was so
delivered or left.  Any notice, certificate or other document sent by electronic mail shall, subject to the statutes and these articles, be deemed to have been served or delivered at the expiration of twenty-four hours from the time at which it was sent.

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|163 | Notice binding on transferees

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| | Every person who, by operation of law, transfers or by any other means becomes entitled to a share shall be bound by any notice in respect of that share (other than a notice given by the company under section 212 CA 1985) which, before his name is entered in the register, has been duly given to a person from whom he derives his title.

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|164 | Notice by advertisement

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| | Any notice to be given by the company to the members or any of them, and not otherwise provided for by these articles, shall be sufficiently given if given by advertisement in at least one national newspaper published in the United Kingdom and, where the company keeps an overseas branch register, in at least one daily newspaper published in the territory in which such register is maintained.  Any notice given by advertisement shall be deemed to have been served at noon on the day on which the advertisement first appears.

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|165 | Suspension of postal services
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| | If at any time by reason of the suspension, interruption or curtailment of postal services or electronic mail or threat thereof within the United Kingdom the company is or would be unable effectively to convene a general meeting by notices sent through the post or by electronic mail, a general meeting may be convened by a notice advertised in at least one national newspaper published in the United Kingdom and, where the company keeps an overseas branch register, in at least one daily newspaper published in the territory in which such register is maintained.  Such notice shall be deemed to have been duly served on all members entitled thereto at noon on the day on which the first of such advertisements appears.  In any such case the company shall
send confirmatory copies of the notice by post or by electronic mail if, at least seven days prior to the meeting, the posting of notices to addresses throughout the United Kingdom or, as the case may be, the sending of such notices by electronic mail again becomes practicable.

WINDING UP

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| | If the company is wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution of the company and any other sanction required by law, divide among the members in specie the whole or any part of the assets of the company and may, for that purpose, value any assets and determine how the division shall be carried out as between the members or different classes of members.  Any such division may be otherwise than in accordance with the existing rights of the members, but if any division is resolved otherwise than in accordance with such rights, the members shall have the same right of dissent and consequential rights as if such resolution were a special resolution passed pursuant to section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986.  The liquidator
may, with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of the assets in trustees on such trusts for the benefit of the members as he with the like sanction shall determine, but no member shall be compelled to accept any assets on which there is a liability.

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|167 | Transfer or sale under section 110 Insolvency
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| | A special resolution sanctioning a transfer or sale to another company duly passed pursuant to section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 may in the like manner authorise the distribution of any shares or other consideration receivable by the liquidator among the members otherwise than in accordance with their existing rights, and any such determination shall be binding on all the members, subject to the right of dissent and consequential rights conferred by the said section.

INDEMNITY

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|168.1 | So far as the law allows, but without prejudice to any indemnity to which he may otherwise be entitled, any person who is or was at any time a director, alternate director, officer or employee of the company shall be entitled to be indemnified and, if the board so determines, any other Relevant Person shall be entitled to be indemnified, out of the assets of the company against any Relevant Liability.

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| | So far as the law allows, the board may take out, maintain, renew, establish, participate in, and/or contribute to the cost of, insurance for, or for the benefit of any Relevant Person or any person who is or was at any time a trustee of any pension fund in which any employee or former employee of the company or any of the other bodies corporate which are referred to in paragraph (a) of Article 168.2 are interested, including insurance against any Relevant Liability and, so far as the law allows, may indemnify or exempt any such person from or against any such Relevant Liability.

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