TRANSFER OF SHARES
Subject to these Articles, any Shareholder may transfer all or any of his Shares by an instrument of transfer in the form acceptable to the Board provided always that such instrument complies with the requirements of the Act. The instrument of transfer shall be sent to the Company or as it directs for registration.
The instrument of transfer of any share shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and contain the name and address of the transferee. The Board may also resolve, either generally or in any particular case, upon request by either the transferor or transferee, to accept mechanically executed transfers. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register in respect thereof. The Company shall not be required to treat a transferee of a share as a Shareholder until the transferee’s name has been entered in the Register. Nothing in these Articles shall preclude the Board from recognising a renunciation of the allotment or provisional allotment of any share by the allottee in favour of some other person.
The Board may require that an instrument of transfer is signed by a transferee if registration as a holder of the share imposes a liability to the Company on the transferee.
Subject to the requirements of the Act and the laws of the British Virgin Islands, transfers of uncertificated shares which are traded on AIM may be effected by any method of transferring or dealing in securities introduced by AIM or operated in accordance with the AIM Rules or the Regulations as appropriate and which have been approved by the Board for such purpose.
The Board may resolve to, in its absolute discretion, and without giving any reason therefor, refuse to register a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) to a person of whom it does not approve, or any share issued under any share incentive scheme for employees upon which a restriction on transfer imposed thereby still subsists, provided always that where any such share is listed on AIM or the Official List of the UK Listing Authority, the refusal does not prevent dealings in shares of that class from taking place on an open and proper basis.
REFUSAL TO REGISTER
The Board may also refuse to register a transfer of any share to more than four (4) joint holders or a transfer of any share (not being a fully paid up share) on which the Company has a lien provided always that where any such share is listed on AIM or the Official List of the UK Listing Authority, (“UKLA”) such discretion may not be exercised in such a way as to prevent dealings in the shares of that class from taking place on an open and proper basis.
No transfer shall be made to an infant or to a person of unsound mind or under other legal disability.
Without limiting the generality of the preceding Article, the Board may decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless:-
--- If applicable, a fee of such maximum sum as is prescribed in the AIM Rules to be payable or such lesser sum as the Board may from time to time require is paid to the Company in respect thereof;
---the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of share;
---the instrument of transfer is lodged at the Office or such other place in the BVI at which the Register is kept in accordance with the Act or the Registration Office (as the case may be) accompanied by the relevant share certificate(s) and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer (and, if the instrument of transfer is executed by some other person on his behalf, the authority of that person so to do); and
---if applicable, the instrument of transfer is duly and properly stamped.
---If the Board refuses to register a transfer of any share, it shall, within two (2) months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the Company, send to each of the transferor and transferee notice of the refusal.
---Notwithstanding the above provisions of the Articles, the Board may, subject to the Statutes and if permitted by the Act, permit shares of any class held in uncertificated form to be transferred without an instrument of transfer by means of a relevant system, including CREST.
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