(1)In the case of securities of any class that were listed : in the Stock Exchange Daily Official List on each of the relevant; days, the base value of securities of that class for the purposes of section 35 above shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be deemed to be the average of the mean of the quotations for securities of that class appearing in that List on each of the relevant days, such addition, if any, being made to the average as is necessary to make it a complete multiple of one halfpenny.
(2)Where, in the case of securities of any class whose base value would, apart from this subsection, fall to be ascertained under subsection (1) above, there has been, at any time after the last of the relevant days, a fresh issue of securities of that class, the base value of every security of that class for the purposes of section 35 above shall (subject to subsection (3) below) instead of being ascertained under subsection (1) above, be deemed to be the average of the base values of all the securities of that class calculated on the basis that—
(a)the base value of each of the securities comprised in that issue is the price at which it was issued or, if it was issued free, is nil; and
(b)the base value of the remaining securities is that which they had or would have had for the purposes of that section immediately before the issue took place.
(3)Where, at any time after the last of the relevant days, any securities whose base value would, apart from this subsection, fall to be ascertained under subsection (1) or (2) above have been converted into securities of a different nominal value—
(a)the base value of those securities as so converted shall, for the purposes of section 35 above, be deemed to be a value bearing to the base value which the securities had or would have had for the purposes of that section immediately before the conversion took place the same proportion as the nominal value of the securities as converted bears to the nominal value of the securities immediately before the conversion took place; and
(b)subsection (2) above shall apply to any fresh issue of securities which have been converted as mentioned above, but if a part only of a class of securities has been so converted, the converted securities shall, for the purposes of that subsection, be treated as securities of a different class from that of the unconverted securities.
(4)If all the securities of any issue were originally disposed of to a person who did not become the registered holder of those securities, the price of each of the securities shall, for the purposes of subsection (2) above, be deemed to be either—
(a)the price paid for the security by the first registered holder thereof, or
(b)the price received by the company for the security plus an amount equal to 2 ½ per cent. of that price,
whichever is the lower.
(5)If any question arises under the preceding provisions of this section as to the base value of any securities, it shall be settled by agreement between the Secretary of State and the stockholders' representative or, in default of such agreement, by arbitration under this Act.
(6)Calculations for the purposes of this section are to be completed correct to five places of decimals.
(7)In this section—
“convert ” means, in relation to any securities, to consolidate and divide those securities into units of larger nominal value or to sub-divide those securities into units of smaller nominal value, without in either case making any change in the aggregate nominal value of the securities;
“the mean of the quotations ” means the average of the two figures shown in the Stock Exchange Daily Official List on the date in question in respect of the security in question under the heading “Quotations ” ;
“quotation ” has the same meaning as in the Stock Exchange Daily Official List, and accordingly does not include the statements of the business that was done; and
“the Stock Exchange Daily Official List ” means the publication known as the Stock Exchange Daily List of Officially Quoted Securities which is published by and under the authority of the Council of the Stock Exchange, London;
and for the purposes of subsection (1) above, an alteration effected, after the last of the relevant days, in rights attaching to securities shall not be taken to have changed them into different securities.