The plan must provide that the trustees must treat participants fairly and equally in exercising their powers in relation to the acquisition of dividend shares.

The plan must provide for the trustees to acquire dividend shares on behalf of participants on the acquisition date.

The number of dividend shares acquired on behalf of each participant must be determined in accordance with the market value of the shares on the acquisition date.

In this paragraph “the acquisition date” means the date set by the trustees for the acquisition of dividend shares and falling not later than 30 days after the dividend is received by them.