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(1)Any reference in Part IV (allotment of shares and debentures) [F2, Part 7 (accounts) or section 744 (general interpretation)] to offering shares or debentures to the public is to be read as including a reference to offering them to any section of the public, however selected.
(2)This section does not require an offer to be treated as made to the public if it can properly be regarded, in all the circumstances—
(a)as not being calculated to result, directly or indirectly, in the shares or debentures becoming available for subscription or purchase by persons other than those receiving the offer; or
(b)as being a domestic concern of the persons receiving and making it.
(3)An offer of shares in or debentures of a private company (other than an offer to which subsection (5) applies) is to be regarded (unless the contrary is proved) as being a domestic concern of the persons making and receiving it if—
(a)it is made to—
(i)an existing member of the company making the offer,
(ii)an existing employee of that company,
(iii)the widow or widower [F3or surviving civil partner] of a person who was a member or employee of that company,
(iv)a member of the family of a person who is or was a member or employee of that company, or
(v)an existing debenture holder; or
(b)it is an offer to subscribe for shares or debentures to be held under an employee’s share scheme.
(4)Subsection (5) applies to an offer—
(a)which falls within paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (3); but
(b)which is made on terms which permit the person to whom it is made to renounce his right to the allotment of shares or issue of debentures.
(5)The offer is to be regarded (unless the contrary is proved) as being a domestic concern of the persons making and receiving it if the terms are such that the right may be renounced only in favour—
(a)of any person mentioned in subsection (3)(a); or
(b)in the case of an employee’s share scheme, of a person entitled to hold shares or debentures under the scheme.
(6)For the purposes of subsection (3)(a)(iv), the members of a person’s family are—
(a)the person’s spouse [F4or civil partner] and children (including step-children) and their descendants, and
(b)any trustee (acting in his capacity as such) of a trust the principal beneficiary of which is the person him or herself or of any of those relatives.
(7)Where an application has been made to the competent authority in any EEA State for the admission of any securities to official listing, then an offer of those securities for subscription or sale to a person whose ordinary business it is to buy or sell shares or debentures (whether as principal or agent) is not to be regarded as an offer to the public for the purposes of this Part.
(8)For the purposes of subsection (7)—
(a)“competent authority” means a competent authority appointed for the purposes of the Council Directive of 28 May 2001 on the admission of securities to official stock exchange listing and on information to be published on those securities; and
(b)“official listing” means official listing pursuant to that directive.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 742A-C inserted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 29
F2Words in s. 742A(1) substituted (4.3.2004) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/355), art. 2(3)
F3Words in s. 742A(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(1), 263, Sch. 27 para. 104(2); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)
F4Words in s. 742A(6) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(1), 263, Sch. 27 para. 104(3); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)
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