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the following paragraphs:
       "(da) where the on-market offeror is or includes a corporation or corporations—particulars of all acquisitions or disposals of shares in that corporation or any of those corporations by the target company or any person associated with the target company, in the period of 4 months immediately preceding the date of the take-over announcement, including particulars of the price per share in relation to each acquisition or disposal;
       (db) particulars of all acquisitions or disposals of shares in the target company, by any person associated with the target company, in the period of 4 months immediately preceding

       the date of the take-over announcement, including particulars of the price per share in relation to each acquisition or disposal;"; and
    (j) by omitting from sub-paragraphs 2 (e) (i) and (ii) of Part D "of affairs".
PART III—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO CROSSINGS

Other interpretative and evidentiary provisions
10. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (9) and substituting the following sub-section:
"(9) A reference in sub-section 13 (3) or 40 (3) to an acquisition of shares in a company at an official meeting of a stock exchange in the ordinary course of trading on the stock market of that stock exchange does not include a reference to an acquisition of shares pursuant to a transaction that, when it is reported to the relevant stock exchange, is, pursuant to the business rules or listing rules of that stock exchange, described as 'special'.".

Take-over announcements
11. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraphs (1) (a), (b) and (c) and substituting the following paragraphs:
    "(a) the shares are acquired as a result of the acceptance of offers made in accordance with this section; and
    (b) the requirements of this section that are applicable to the person acquiring the shares are complied with.".
PART IV—AMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL ON ENACTMENT OF COMPANIES ACT 1981
12. Section 5 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

Incorporation
"5. (1) Subject to this Act and the Companies and Securities (Interpretation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1980, the Companies Act 1981 is incorporated, and shall be read as one, with this Act as if this Act were part of the Companies Act 1981 and any regulations under the Companies Act 1981 shall have effect for the purposes of the Companies Act 1981 as so incorporated with this Act.
"(2) For the purposes of the operation of the Companies Act 1981 and regulations under that Act and the performance of functions and the exercise of powers under that Act or those regulations, with respect to the provisions of, or matters relating to or arising under, this Act—
    (a) references in the Companies