Exhibit 10.14



LOGO



LS Interval Ownership
Limited



Geoff Bruce

31 Bristow Close

Great Sankey

Warrington

Cheshire WA5 5EU



1 January 1998



Dear Geoff,



I am writing to set out the proposed terms of your employment with LS Interval Ownership Ltd (in this letter the Company). I should mention that the
definitions of some of the words and expressions used in this letter are in paragraph 17.



|1. | Position and Location
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You will be employed as Group Finance Director of the Company or in such other capacity as the Company may require. Your responsibilities and objectives
will be as agreed from time to time. You will be based at the Companys Head Office from time to time travelling to other locations in Europe and the United Kingdom as reasonably required in the performance of your duties. In addition you may
be required to work on a permanent basis at other locations in Europe. Should it become necessary to change your principal residence at the request of the Company, you will be reimbursed such removal and other incidental expenses as the Board
considers fair and reasonable.



|2. | Commencement and Period of Employment
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Your period of continuous employment with the Company began on 1 May 1995. Your employment will continue until either party gives to the other one
years written notice to terminate it.



Pine Lake Resort,
Carnforth, Nr. Lancaster _________________________________________________



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|3. | Hours of Work and Duties
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|3.1 | You will be required to work during normal business hours and such other hours as may be reasonably necessary for the proper performance of your duties for the Group.
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|3.2 | You are to devote the whole of your time to the business of the Group, unless prevented by ill health or injury. You may not (without the prior written consent of the Board) accept
any other appointment. Without such consent you may also not be directly or indirectly engaged in, concerned with or financially interested in any other business, except through a holding for investment purposes only of not more than three per cent
in any class of shares or securities in any company listed or dealt in on any recognised stock exchange. You may not undertake any paid work in your spare time without the prior written approval of the Board, who will need to be satisfied that this
will not affect the performance of your duties.
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|3.3 | You will be responsible for the day to day management of the Companys finances and accounts function subject always to the directions of the Board. You will report to the
Chief Executive of the Company. You will perform such duties for the Group and exercise such powers as the Board and/or the Chief Executive may require. Those duties are to be carried out loyally, diligently and in accordance with the directions of
the Chief Executive. You should keep him properly informed about the business of the Group and promote and protect the interests of the Group, not doing anything which is to its detriment.
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|3.4 | Unless you have the prior written consent of the Board, you may not directly or indirectly receive or retain any payment or benefit, either in respect of any business transacted
(whether or not by you) by or on behalf of the Group, or with a view to any such business being transacted.
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|3.5 | During your employment, you must comply and procure, so far as you are able, that your spouse and infant children (if any) or any trust in which you, your spouse or infant children
may be concerned or interested in as trustee or beneficiary, comply with any code of conduct relating to securities transactions by directors and specified employees issued by the Group from time to time. You will promptly give the Company such
information as the Group may require to enable it to comply with its legal obligations or the requirements of any Stock Exchange.
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|4. | Salary and Expenses
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|4.1 | You will be paid a salary at the rate of £80,000 per annum. The Board will review your salary with effect from 1 January in each year, commencing on 1 January 1999. Your
salary will accrue from day to day and will be paid by equal installments in arrears and normally on the last day of each month, subject to such deductions as are required by law or under the terms of your employment. In addition to your salary, you
will receive a discretionary bonus of up to 50% of your salary, payable annually in arrears.
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|4.2 | You will be entitled, on production of satisfactory evidence of expenditure, to be reimbursed for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses wholly and properly incurred by you in the
performance of your duties. Any credit card supplied to you by the Company may only be used for expenses incurred by you in the performance of those duties.
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|4.3 | The Group may withhold the payment of any money owing or due to be paid to you if you are in breach of the terms of this Agreement and may withhold or deduct any money owing or due
to be paid by you to it under this Agreement or otherwise from any money owing or due to be paid to you.
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|5. | Ill Health and Injury
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|5.1 | If you are unable to perform your duties as a result of ill health or injury, you will be entitled, for so long as your employment continues, to your salary during any period of
incapacity of not more than 60 days (whether consecutive or not) in any period of 52 consecutive weeks. The payment of such salary will be subject to the production of satisfactory evidence from a registered medical practitioner in respect of any
period of absence of more than seven consecutive days and will include any statutory sick pay and other social security benefits to which you are or may be entitled. Your qualifying days for statutory sick pay are Monday to Friday.
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|5.2 | You will promptly inform the Company if you are unable to perform your duties as a result of ill health or injury caused by a third party and for which compensation
may be recoverable. In return for the Company continuing to pay your salary and to provide other benefits during your employment, you will take such action as the Company may reasonably request to pursue a claim against such third party, in order to
recover for the benefit of the Company the costs of continuing your employment. You will keep the Company regularly informed of the progress of any claim, provide
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| | such information about it as the Company may from time to time reasonably require, and will immediately notify the Company in writing of the compromise,
settlement, award or judgment. You will, if you are asked to do so, refund to the Company the lesser of the amount
recovered by you (after deducting any related costs borne by you) and the aggregate cost of the salary and other benefits paid to you during your ill health or injury and will hold these proceeds on trust for the Company to apply them in repayment
of this obligation.
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|5.3 | You will from time to time upon request submit yourself to a medical examination at the Companys expense by a suitably qualified person of the Companys choice, if you
are unable to perform your duties for the Group as a result of ill health or injury. If that person is unable to confirm that you are fit to perform your duties or if there are factors which such person considers are relevant to the performance of
those duties, you will co-operate in ensuring the prompt delivery of all relevant medical reports to the Company and will allow the Company access to any relevant medical report which has been prepared by a medical practitioner responsible for your
clinical care.
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|6. | Holidays
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In addition to normal public holidays, you will be entitled to 20 working days paid holiday in each calendar year, with no more than 10 working days
being taken at any one time. You will be entitled to additional days at the discretion of the Chief Executive. This entitlement accrues pro rata throughout each year. Your holidays are to be taken as agreed with the Chief Executive, after your
having given at least four weeks prior notice, except that the Company may require you to take your holiday during your notice period or during the period when you are not required to work pursuant to
paragraph 12.3. Any holiday not taken at the end of each calendar year will lapse and no payment in lieu of any unused entitlement will be made. On the termination of your employment (except by reason of paragraph 12.1) you will be entitled to a
days salary for each day of holiday accrued but not taken in the year of departure. If you have taken excess holiday the Company may deduct a days salary for each excess day from any monies owed to you.



|7. | Car
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|7.1 | The Company will provide you with a suitable car as determined by the Board, for you to use in the performance of your duties. You will also be entitled to
reasonable
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| | private use of that car subject to such restrictions and upon such conditions as the Company may from time to time impose.
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|7.2 | The Company will pay for the cost of insuring and taxing the car and will reimburse you, upon the production of satisfactory evidence of payment or expenditure, for all reasonable
running expenses (including petrol, maintenance and repairs) in connection with its use.
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|7.3 | You agree to comply with all conditions and directions, which may be given by the Company from time to time concerning the use of its cars, and will not take it outside the United
Kingdom without the prior written consent of the Company.
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|8. | Other Benefits
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|8.1 | The Company will contribute a sum equivalent to 7% of your gross salary to a personal pension scheme nominated by you, provided that the your scheme has been approved by the Commissioners of the Inland Revenue and the Companys contributions do not exceed the limits
prescribed by law. If they do exceed the limits, the Companys contributions will be restricted to them.
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|8.2 | The Company will at its expense provide private medical insurance for you, subject to the provisions governing such insurance and on such terms as the Board may from time to time
decide, including the obtaining of insurance at reasonable rates of premium.
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|9. | Confidentiality and Company Property
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|9.1 | During your employment you will have access to and will be entrusted with confidential information and trade secrets relating to the business of the Group. This includes but is not
limited to information and secrets relating to:
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| | (a) | corporate and marketing strategy, business development and plans, sales reports and research results;
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| | (b) | business methods and processes, technical information and know-how relating to the Groups business and which is not available to the public generally, including inventions,
designs, programs, techniques, database systems, formulae and ideas;
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| | (c) | business contacts, lists of customers, owners and suppliers and details of contracts with them and information on employees and the terms of their employment;
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| | (d) | stock levels, sales, expenditure levels and buying and pricing policies;
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| | (e) | budgets, management accounts, trading statements and other financial reports;
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| | (f) | unpublished price sensitive information relating to shares or securities listed or dealt in on any recognised stock exchange;
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| | (g) | any document markedconfidential.
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|9.2 | You may not during your employment (otherwise than in the proper performance of your duties and then only to those who need to know such information or secrets) or afterwards
(otherwise than with the prior written consent of the Board or as required by law) use or disclose any confidential information or trade secrets concerning the business of the Group or in respect of which the Group may be bound by an obligation of
confidence to any third party. You should also use your best endeavours to prevent the publication or disclosure of such information or secrets. These restrictions will not apply after your employment has terminated to information which has become
available to the public generally, otherwise than through unauthorised disclosure.
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|9.3 | All notes, memoranda and other records (including those stored on computer software) made by you during your employment and relating to the business of the Group belong to the Group
and should promptly be handed over to the Company (or as it may direct) from time to time.
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|10. | Intellectual Property Rights
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|10.1 | You will be in a position of special responsibility and under a special obligation to further the interests of the Group. Accordingly any discovery, invention, secret process or
improvement in procedure discovered, invented, developed or devised by you during your employment with the Group (and whether or not in conjunction with a third party) and in the course of your duties affecting or relating to the business of the
Group or capable of being used or adapted for use in it, should immediately be disclosed to the Company and, subject to such rights as you may have under the Patents Act 1977, will belong to the relevant company in the Group.
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|10.2 | Any trade mark, design or other copyright work created by you during your employment with the Company (and whether or not in conjunction with a third party) in connection with,
affecting or relating to the business of the Group or capable of being used or adapted for use in it must immediately be disclosed to the Company and will belong to the relevant company in the Group. You will not infringe any rights in such works
and will notify the Company immediately of any circumstances where such rights may have been infringed.
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|10.3 | You agree that you will at the Companys expense and upon request (whether during or after the termination of your employment) execute such documents as may be necessary to
implement the provisions of this paragraph 10 and vest all rights, title and interest in such property in the relevant company in the Group.
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|11. | Disciplinary and Grievance Procedure
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|11.1 | There is no formal disciplinary procedure applicable to your employment. You are expected to exhibit a high standard of propriety, integrity and efficiency in all your dealings with
and in the name of the Group. You may be suspended with pay or required to take any accrued holiday entitlement during any investigation which it may be necessary for the Company to undertake. If you are dissatisfied with any disciplinary decision,
you may refer it to the Board, whose decision will be final.
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|11.2 | If you have any grievance relating to your employment, you should refer it to the Chief Executive, whose decision will also be final
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|12. | Termination
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|12.1 | The Company may, notwithstanding any other terms of your employment and irrespective of whether the grounds for termination arose before or after it began, at any time by notice in
writing, terminate your employment with immediate effect:
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| | (a) | if you have been unable to perform your duties by reason of ill health or injury for 61 days (whether consecutive or not) in any period of 52 consecutive weeks;
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| | (b) | if you become of unsound mind, a patient for the purpose of any statute relating to mental health, a petition is presented or any order is made or any notice is
issued convening a meeting for the purpose of passing a resolution
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| | for your bankruptcy or you become bankrupt or make any composition or enter into any deed of arrangement with your creditors generally;
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| | (c) | if you are prohibited by law from being a director or taking part in the management of the Group;
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| | (d) | if you are convicted of an offence relating to insider dealing or a criminal offence other than one which in the opinion of the Board does not affect your position as an employee of
the Company, bearing in mind the nature of your duties and the capacity in which you are employed; or
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| | (e) | if you are guilty of any serious default or misconduct in connection with or affecting the business of the Group, commit any serious or repeated breach of your obligations under
your employment, are guilty of serious neglect or negligence in the performance of your duties or behave in a manner (whether on or off duty) which is likely to bring the Group into disrepute or which seriously impairs your ability to perform your
duties.
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|12.2 | Your employment will automatically cease without any notice being given on your 65th birthday.
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|12.3 | If the Company wishes to terminate your employment or if you wish to leave its employment before the expiry of the notice in paragraph 2 and whether or not either party has given
notice to the other under that paragraph, the Company may require you to perform duties not within your normal duties or special projects or may require you not to attend for work for the period of the notice being given under paragraph 2 or (if no
such notice has been given) for a period equivalent to the notice period required to be given by you to terminate the contract. For so long as you are not required to work during such period, you will remain an employee of the Company. You will
continue to receive your salary and other contractual entitlements and to be bound by all the terms of this Agreement. You will not directly or indirectly work for any person, have any contact with any customer of the Group or, for business
purposes, any such employee without the prior written agreement of the Board.
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|12.4 | On the termination of your employment or upon the Company exercising its rights under paragraph 12.3, you will at the request of the Company resign without claim for compensation
from all offices held by you in the Group. If you fail to do so, the Board may nominate someone on your behalf to sign such documents and to take such other steps as are necessary to give effect to such resignations.
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|12.5 | On the termination of your employment you will hand over to the Company all property (including company credit cards) belonging to the Group or relating to its business, which may
be in your possession or under your control and without you or anyone on your behalf keeping copies of any reproduceable items and without having downloaded any information stored on any computer disk.
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|12.6 | After the termination of your employment you will not at any time make any untrue or misleading statement about the Group or its officers or employees or represent yourself as being
after such termination employed by or connected with the Group.
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|12.7 | If the head office of the Company should change location during the term of this Agreement, you will be entitled to deem that to be a termination of your employment by the Company
provided that you have given written notice to the Company of your intention to deem it as such within 30 days of any such change of location. For the purposes of this Clause 12.7, a change of location shall be a relocation of the Companys
head office at least 20 miles from its present location.
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|13. | Restrictive Covenants
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|13.1 | During your employment and for the periods set out below after its termination less any period during which you are not required to attend for work pursuant to paragraph 12.3, you
will not (except with prior written consent of the Board) directly or indirectly do or attempt to do any of the following:
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| | (a) | for 12 months entice, induce or encourage a Customer to transfer or remove custom from the Company or any Associated Company;
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| | (b) | for 12 months solicit or accept business from a Customer for the supply of Relevant Services;
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| | (c) | for 12 months entice, induce or encourage an Employee to leave or seek to leave his or her position with the Company or any Associated Company for the purpose of being involved in
or concerned with either the supply of Relevant Services or a business which competes with or is similar to a Relevant Business or which plans to compete with a Relevant Business, regardless of whether or not that Employee acts in breach of his or
her contract of employment with the Company or any Associated Company by so doing and regardless of whether the Relevant Business is within or outside the Territory; or
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| | (d) | for 12 months employ, engage or work with an Employee of the Company or any Associated Company for the purpose of the supply of Relevant Services or a business which competes or
which plans to compete with or is similar to a Relevant Business, regardless of whether or not that Employee acts in breach of his or her contract of employment with the Company or any Associated Company by so doing and regardless of whether the
Relevant Business is within or outside the Territory.
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|13.2 | For the purpose of this paragraph 13:
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| | (a) | Customer means a person:
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| | (i) | who at any time during the Relevant Period was a customer of the Company or any Associated Company (whether or not goods or services were actually provided during such period) or to
whom at the expiry of the Relevant Period the Company or any Associated Company was actively and directly seeking to supply goods or services, in either case for the purpose of a Relevant Business;
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| | (ii) | a member of any of the timeshare clubs with which the Company is involved or an owner of any of the Companys timeshare produces; or
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| | (iii) | with whom you or an Employee in a Relevant Business reporting directly to you had dealings at any time during the Relevant Period or were in possession of confidential information
about such customer in the performance of their duties to the Company or an Associated Company.
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| | (b) | Relevant Services means goods or services identical or similar to or competitive with those which at the expiry of the Relevant Period the Company or any Associated
Company was supplying or negotiating or actively and directly seeking to supply to a Customer for the purpose of a Relevant Business;
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| | (c) | Relevant Business means the business of:
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| | (i) | the business of supplying, managing, selling, marketing administering or otherwise supporting timeshare and holiday ownership products including points-based holiday ownership
schemes or
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| | (ii) | any other business of the Company or any Associated Company in which, pursuant to your duties, you were materially involved at any time during the Relevant Period.
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| | (d) | Territory means England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Spain (including the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands), France,
Austria and each state of the United States of America and Canada in which the Company or any Associated Company is operating at the expiry of the Relevant Period and any other country or state in which the Company or any Associated Company is
operating or planning to operate at the expiry of the Relevant Period. A business will be within the Territory if either any such business in which you are to be involved is located or to be located within the Territory or it is conducted or to be
conducted wholly or partly within the Territory and in this Agreement the Company shall be deemed to be operating a business at locations where the Company or any Associated Company has interests at any leisure or holiday resort;
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| | (e) | Employee means a person who is employed by or who renders services to the Company or any Associated Company in a Relevant Business, who has client
responsibility/influence over customers/knowledge of confidential information and who in either case was so employed or so rendered services during the period of 6 months ending on the last day on which you actively worked under this Agreement for
the Company or any Associated Company and who had dealings with you during that period.
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| | (f) | Relevant Period means the period of twelve months ending on the last day of your employment or the period of your employment if shorter than twelve months.
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|13.3 | Each sub-paragraph and part of such sub-paragraph of this paragraph 13 constitutes an entirely separate and independent restriction and does not operate to limit any other
obligation owed by you, whether that obligation is express or implied by law. If any restriction is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is intended and understood by the parties that such invalidity or
unenforceability will not affect the remaining restrictions.
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|13.4 | You acknowledge that before entering into this Agreement you had the opportunity to obtain legal advice and that each of the restrictions in this paragraph 13 goes
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| | further than is necessary for the protection of the Companys and each Associated Companys legitimate business interests.
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|13.5 | Before accepting any offer of employment either during your employment or during the continuance of the restrictions in this paragraph 13, you will immediately provide to the person
making such offer a complete signed copy of this Agreement.
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|14. | Continuing Obligations
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The termination of your employment will not affect the rights and remedies of either party against the other in respect of any previous breach of its
provisions nor will it affect the continuing obligations of either party under any provision of your employment which applies after it has terminated.



|15. | Corporate Reconstruction
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If your employment terminates:



| | (a) | by reason of the liquidation of the Company for the purpose of amalgamation or reconstruction; or
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| | (b) | as part of any arrangement for the amalgamation of the undertaking of the Company not involving liquidation; or
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| | (c) | as part of any arrangement for the transfer of the whole or part of the undertaking of the Company to an Associated Company;
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and you are offered employment of a similar nature by any person resulting
from such amalgamation or reconstruction or with which the undertaking of the Company is amalgamated or such Associated Company on terms which, when taken as a whole, are no less favourable to you than the terms of your employment, you will have no
claim against the Company or any Associated Company in respect of the termination of your employment by reason of the events described in (a), (b) or (c) of this paragraph. The provisions of Clause 12.7 above shall override the provisions of this
Clause 15.



|16. | Notices
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All notices and other communications relating to your employment will take effect if delivered, upon delivery; if posted, at the earlier of the time of
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in the United Kingdom by first class post) 10.00am on the second business day after posting; if sent by
telex, when the appropriate recipient machines answerback code is received by the transmitting machine following the transmission of the whole telex; or, if sent by facsimile, when a complete and legible copy of the communication has been
received.



|17. | Interpretation
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|17.1 | Definitions
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In this letter the following words and phrases will have the meanings given below:



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|Associated Company |  | any company which for the time being is:                                                                                              
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|                     |  | (i)     a holding company (as defined by Section 736 of the Companies Act 1985) of the
Company;                                       
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|                     |  | (ii)    a subsidiary (as defined by Section 736 of the Companies Act 1985) of the Company or of any holding company of
the Company;   
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|                     |  | (iii)  a company over which the Company has control within the meaning of Section 840 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act
1988; or
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|                     |  | (iv)   a subsidiary undertaking as defined by Section 258 of the Companies Act 1985;                                                  
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|Board              |  | the Board of Directors of the Company including any duly appointed committee or nominee of the Board;                                 
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|days salary       |  | 1/260th of your salary;                                                                                                               
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|Effective Date     |  | 1 January 1998;                                                                                                                       
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|Group              |  | the Company and/or any Associated Company;                                                                                            
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|remuneration       |  | salary and any amounts payable under paragraph 4.2,                                                                                   
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|salary             |  | the salary payable from time to time under paragraph 4.1;                                                                             



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|termination |  | the ending of your employment however it arises and irrespective of its cause or manner, other than (in relation to paragraph 13) its wrongful termination by the Company.



|17.2 | Construction
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| | (a) | The provisions of Schedule 13, Part 1 of the Companies Act 1985 will apply in determining whether you have an interest in any shares or other securities.
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| | (b) | References to acting directly or indirectly will include acting alone or jointly with or on behalf of or by means of another person and/or giving advice or providing services with a
view to assisting another person.
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| | (c) | References to a person will include an individual, firm, corporation and any other organisation however it is constituted and words denoting the singular shall include the plural
and vice versa,
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| | (d) | References to statutory provisions will be construed as references to those provisions as amended or re-enacted from time to time (whether before or after the date of this letter).
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| | (e) | The paragraph headings have been added for convenience only and will not affect the construction of this Agreement.
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|18. | Miscellaneous
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|18.1 | This Agreement replaces with effect from the Effective Date all terms previously agreed between us.
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|18.2 | The terms of this Agreement constitute the entire agreement between us and no variation or addition to it and no waiver of any provision will be effective unless in writing and
signed by both parties.
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|18.3 | You will be accepting the terms of this letter on the basis that the Company is agreeing to its terms for itself and for each other Associated Company, with the intention that each
such Company will be entitled to enforce the terms of this letter against you.
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|18.4 | The terms of this letter will be construed in accordance with English law and both parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts to settle any
disputes which may arise in connection with your employment.
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If
you wish to accept the terms of this letter would you please sign and return the enclosed copy of this letter to me. In doing so, you will be confirming that you are not committing yourself to us in breach of any agreement with any other person and
that you will not be restricted or prevented from undertaking or performing your duties by any such agreement.



Yours sincerely,



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|/s/    RICHARD HARRINGTON
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|Richard Harrington       



[On Copy]



I have read and agree to the contents of this letter



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|Signed |  | /s/    GEOFF BRUCE
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Date 5/1/98



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