Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Notice 2003

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  • Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Notice 2003: expired, on 1 November 2013, by clause 3.

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Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Notice 2003

(SR 2003/310)

  • Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Notice 2003: expired, on 1 November 2013, by clause 3.

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This notice is administered by the Financial Markets Authority.

Pursuant to the Securities Act 1978, the Securities Commission gives the following notice.

Notice

1 Title

  • This notice is the Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Notice 2003.

2 Commencement

  • This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

3 Expiry

  • This notice expires on the close of 31 October 2013.

    Clause 3: amended, on 31 October 2008, by clause 4 of the Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Amendment Notice 2008 (SR 2008/419).

4 Interpretation

  • (1) In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    Act means the Securities Act 1978

    broker means any NZX Firm (as defined in Rule 1.1 of the New Zealand Exchange Limited Business Rules) appointed by Contact from time to time for the purposes of the share top-up plan

    Contact means Contact Energy Limited

    dividend has the same meaning as in section 53 of the Companies Act 1993

    eligible person means a person who, at 5 pm on the date specified by Contact for determining entitlement to the relevant dividend, is—

    • (a) the registered holder of 5 000 or fewer specified securities that are the same class as the securities offered under the share top-up plan; and

    • (b) not a director of Contact or an associated person (as defined in Rule 1.3.1 of the NZX Listing Rules) of a director of Contact; and

    • (c) a resident of a country that has not been excluded by Contact from the application of the share top-up plan to avoid any risk of breaching the laws of that country

    NZSX means the securities market (as defined in the Securities Markets Act 1988) operated by New Zealand Exchange Limited known as the NZSX or the New Zealand Stock Market

    participating securities holder means an eligible person who—

    • (a) has elected to participate in the share top-up plan; and

    • (b) whose participation in the share top-up plan has not been terminated in accordance with the terms of that plan

    Regulations means the Securities Regulations 1983

    relevant specified security means a specified security to which this notice applies

    share top-up plan means a plan under which relevant specified securities are to be sold only to eligible persons

    specified security means an equity security issued by Contact.

    (2) Any term or expression that is defined in the Act or the Regulations and used, but not defined, in this notice has the same meaning as in the Act or the Regulations.

5 Application of notice

  • This notice applies to specified securities that—

    • (a) have been previously allotted; and

    • (b) are to be sold by the broker under the share top-up plan to an eligible person in consideration for directing Contact to pay the purchase price for the securities from all dividends declared by Contact and payable to that person.

6 Exemption from sections 37 and 37A of Act and from Regulations (except regulation 8)

  • Contact, the broker, and every person acting on behalf of either or both of them are exempted from sections 37 and 37A of the Act and the Regulations (except regulation 8) in respect of the relevant specified securities.

7 Conditions of exemption

  • (1) The exemption in clause 6 is subject to the condition that, before an eligible person elects to acquire relevant specified securities, that person receives a document that contains—

    • (a) an offer of relevant specified securities under the share top-up plan; and

    • (b) a description of the share top-up plan and its terms and conditions; and

    • (c) a statement that there is available from Contact (or Contact's share registrar), on request and free of charge, a copy of the most recent annual report and financial statements (that comply with the Financial Reporting Act 1993) of Contact.

    (2) The exemption in clause 6 is subject to the further condition that the share top-up plan contains provisions requiring that—

    • (a) the purchase price of the relevant specified securities is the volume weighted average sale price at which specified securities of the same class are traded in on-market transactions on the NZSX over a period specified in the share top-up plan (of not less than 3 days on which the NZSX is open for trading) after 5 pm on the date specified by Contact for determining entitlement to the relevant dividend; and

    • (b) at the time the purchase price of the relevant specified securities is set, Contact and the broker have no information that is not publicly available that would, or would be likely to, have a material adverse effect on the realisable price of the securities if the information were publicly available; and

    • (c) every eligible person is given a reasonable opportunity to elect to participate in the share top-up plan; and

    • (d) the relevant specified securities transferred to a participating securities holder under the share top-up plan have attached to them the same rights, and are transferred for the same purchase price, as securities of the same class transferred to other participating securities holders; and

    • (e) if, for any reason, any participating securities holder does not receive all or any of the relevant specified securities to which that participating securities holder is entitled under the share top-up plan, Contact will pay to the participating securities holder the difference between the portion of the dividend received by the participating securities holder in relevant specified securities (if any) and the dividend the participating securities holder would have received had the holder not elected to participate in the share top-up plan; and

    • (f) Contact must, within 28 days of receiving a written notice from a participating securities holder that requests the termination of the holder's participation in the share top-up plan, terminate the holder's participation in the share top-up plan; and

    • (g) no brokerage or commission costs are payable by participating securities holders in relation to any relevant specified securities to which those holders are entitled under the share top-up plan.

    (3) The exemption in clause 6 is subject to the further condition that a description of the share top-up plan and its terms and conditions is included in Contact's annual report and placed on Contact's website, together with a statement that there is available from Contact (or Contact's share registrar), on request and free of charge, a copy of the terms and conditions of the share top-up plan.

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of October 2003.

The Common Seal of the Securities Commission was affixed in the presence of:

[Seal]

F R S Clouston,
Member.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 30 October 2003.

Reprints notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Securities Act (Contact Energy Limited) Exemption Notice 2003 that incorporates all the amendments to that notice as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

  • Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, will have the status of an official version once issued by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel under section 17(1) of that Act.

3 Editorial and format changes
4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint