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[F1430D Joint offers.E+W+S

(1)A takeover offer may be made by two or more persons jointly and in that event this Part of this Act has effect with the following modifications.

(2)The conditions for the exercise of the rights conferred by sections 429 and 430A shall be satisfied by the joint offerors acquiring or contracting to acquire the necessary shares jointly (as respects acquisitions by virtue of acceptances of the offer) and either jointly or separately (in other cases); and, subject to the following provisions, the rights and obligations of the offeror under those sections and sections 430 and 430B shall be respectively joint rights and joint and several obligations of the joint offerors.

(3)It shall be a sufficient compliance with any provision of those sections requiring or authorising a notice or other document to be given or sent by or to the joint offerors that it is given or sent by or to any of them; but the statutory declaration required by section 429(4) shall be made by all of them and, in the case of a joint offeror being a company, signed by a director of that company.

(4)In sections 428, 430(8) and 430E references to the offeror shall be construed as references to the joint offerors or any of them.

(5)In section 430(6) and (7) references to the offeror shall be construed as references to the joint offerors or such of them as they may determine.

(6)In sections 430(4)(a) and 430B(4)(a) references to the offeror being no longer able to provide the relevant consideration shall be construed as references to none of the joint offerors being able to do so.

(7)In section 430C references to the offeror shall be construed as references to the joint offerors except that any application under subsection (3) or (5) may be made by any of them and the reference in subsection (5)(a) to the offeror having been unable to trace one or more of the persons holding shares shall be construed as a reference to none of the offerors having been able to do so.]

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C1S. 430D(5) amended (19.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/3272, reg. 35(4)

S. 430D(5) amended (26.11.2001) by S.I. 2001/3755, reg. 42(14) (with regs. 39, 45)

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