SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 2Approved share incentive plans
Part 4Types of shares that may be awarded
Shares must be fully paid up and not redeemable
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1
Eligible shares must be—
a
fully paid up, and
b
not redeemable.
2
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) shares are not to be regarded as fully paid up if there is an undertaking to pay cash at a future date to the company whose shares they are.
3
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) “redeemable” shares include shares that may become redeemable at a future date.
4
Sub-paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to shares in a registered industrial and provident society which is a co-operative society.
5
In sub-paragraph (4)—
“registered industrial and provident society” means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 (c. 12) or the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 24 (N.I.)), and
“co-operative society” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the 1965 Act or, as the case may be, the 1969 Act.