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BOWNE INTEGRATED TYPESETTING SYSTEM
CRC: 36602
Name: NATIONAL GRID
Date: 17-JUN-2008 03:10:51.35Operator: BNY99999TPhone: [phone]Site: BOWNE OF NEW YORK
Y59930.SUB, DocName: EX-2.A, Doc: 2, Page: 18
Description: EXHIBIT 2(A)
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[E/O] EDGAR 2 *Y59930/417/2*
BOWNE INTEGRATED TYPESETTING SYSTEM
CRC: 36602
Name: NATIONAL GRID
Date: 17-JUN-2008 03:10:51.35Operator: BNY99999TPhone: [phone]Site: BOWNE OF NEW YORK
Y59930.SUB, DocName: EX-2.A, Doc: 2, Page: 18 Description: EXHIBIT 2(A)
0/2417.00.00.00Y59930BNY
[E/O] EDGAR 2 *Y59930/417/2*
reasonable cause to believe to be, or to have been at any time during the three years immediately preceding the date on which the notice is
issued, interested in shares consisting of the company’s “relevant share capital” to confirm that fact or to indicate whether or not that is the
case, and where such person holds or during the relevant time had held an interest in such shares, to give such further information as may be
required relating to such interest and any other interest in the shares of which such person is aware.
Where notice is served by a company under the foregoing provisions on a person who is or was interested in shares of the company and
that person fails to give the company any information required by the notice within the time specified in the notice, the company may apply to
the English court for an order directing that the shares in question be subject to restrictions prohibiting, among other things, any transfer o
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those shares, the taking up of rights in respect of such shares and, other than on liquidation, payments in respect of such shares.
A person who fails to fulfill the obligations imposed by Sections 198 and 212 of the U.K. Companies Act, 1985 described above is
subject to criminal penalties.
(c) The Depositary agrees to use reasonable efforts to forward to any Owners at the request of the Issuer and at the Issuer’s expense,
any request by the Issuer for information and to comply with any instructions of the Issuer, to the extent reasonably practicable, given to
effectuate the foregoing restrictions. If the Issuer requests information from the Depositary or the Custodian, as the registered owners of Shares,
pursuant to the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Issuer or the U.K. Companies Act, 1985, the obligations of the Depositary or
the Custodian, as the case may be, shall be limited to disclosing to the Issuer such information relating to the Shares in question as has in each
case been recorded by it pursuant to the terms of this Deposit Agreement.
SECTION 4.1. Cash Distributions.
Whenever the Depositary shall receive any cash dividend or other cash distribution on any Deposited Securities, the Depositary shall,
subject to the provisions of Section 4.5, convert such dividend or distribution into Dollars, if applicable, and shall
ARTICLE 4. THE DEPOSITED SECURITIES.