Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02380:body:0:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02380
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 9823–12456

6 months, the offeror shall, within the period of one month commencing 5 months after the date that the offer bears—
     (a) serve on the target company a notice—
         (i) signed in the same manner as a Part A statement is required by paragraph 16 (2) (d) to be signed and setting out any information that the offeror would have been required to include in the relevant Part A statement if the statement had been lodged with the Commission for registration 5 months after the date that the offer bears, being information that differs from the information included in that relevant Part A statement; and
         (ii) setting out the provisions of sub-section (12);
     (b) dispatch in a manner approved by the Commission to each person to whom an offer under the take-over scheme was made (including a person who had accepted an offer) a copy of that notice; and
     (c) if the target company is a listed public company—serve on the stock exchange that is the home exchange in relation to that company a copy of that notice.

"(12) Where an offeree who has accepted a take-over offer that is subject to a prescribed condition receives a copy of a notice relating to the offer dispatched pursuant to sub-section (11), the offeree may, by notice in writing given to the offeror within one month after receipt of the first-mentioned notice and accompanied by any consideration that has been received by the offeree (together with any necessary documents of transfer), withdraw his acceptance of the offer and, where such a notice is given by the offeree to the offeror and is accompanied by any such consideration and any necessary documents of transfer, the offeror shall return to the offeree, within 14 days after receipt of the notice, any documents that were sent by the offeree to the offeror with the acceptance of the offer.

"(13) An offeror is not entitled to serve a notice under sub-section (10) or (11) unless a copy of the notice has been registered by the Commission.

"(14) Where a copy of a notice is lodged with the Commission for registration under sub-section (13), the Commission shall not register the copy of the notice unless—
     (a) in the case of a notice under sub-section (10)—the Commission is of the opinion that the proposed variation is permitted by this section; and
     (b) in the case of a notice under sub-section (10) or (11)—the notice appears to comply with the requirements of this section and the Commission is of the opinion that the notice does not contain any matter that is false in a material particular or materially misleading in the form and context in which it appears.

"(15)