(vi) Timing restrictions The Company may not grant any Award to any Participant after a price sensitive event has occurred or a price sensitive matter has been the subject of a decision until such price sensitive information has been published or disclosed in accordance with the requirements of the Listing Rules. In particular, the Company may not grant any Award during the period commencing one month immediately before the earlier of: (a) the date of the meeting of the Board (as such date is first notified to the Stock Exchange in accordance with the Listing Rules) for the approval of the Company’s results for any year, half-year, quarterly or any other interim period (whether or not required under the Listing Rules); and (b) the deadline for the Company to publish an announcement of its results for any year or half-year under the Listing Rules, or quarterly or any other interim period (whether or not required under the Listing Rules), and ending on the date of the actual publication of the results announcement, and where a grant is made to a Director: (a) notwithstanding paragraph (a) and (b) above, no Award shall be granted during the period of 60 days immediately preceding the publication date of the annual results or, if shorter, the period from the end of the relevant financial year up to the publication date of the results; and (b) during the period of 30 days immediately preceding the publication date of the quarterly results (if any) and half-year results or, if shorter, the period from the end of the relevant quarterly or halfyear period up to the publication date of the results. (vii) Grant to connected persons Any grant to any Director, chief executive or substantial Shareholder (other than an independent non-executive Director), of the Company, or any of their respective associates, shall be subject to the prior approval of the Remuneration Committee of the Company (excluding the independent non-executive Director who is the proposed Grantee of the grant in question) and all grants to connected persons shall be subject to compliance with the requirements of the Companies Law and the Listing Rules, including where necessary the prior approval of the Shareholders. (viii) Satisfaction of awards Subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Long Term Incentive Scheme and the specific terms applicable to each Award, an Award shall vest on the date(s) specified in the Grant Letter (the “Vesting Date”). If the vesting of an Award is subject to the satisfaction of performance-based, time-based and/or other conditions and such conditions are not satisfied, the Award shall lapse automatically in respect of such proportion of the underlying Shares as have not vested. The Board may in its absolute discretion, determine whether the whole or any part of the Award granted or to be granted under the Long Term Incentive Scheme shall be satisfied upon vesting by the allotment and issue or transfer of Shares or by a cash payment (“Cash Payment”, for the purpose of the Long Term Incentive Scheme, means a payment in cash made by the Company to Participant upon the vesting of an Award in lieu of Shares, based on the formula of A x B, where: A = the number of Shares in respect of which the Award has vested, and B = the closing price of a Share as stated in the daily quotation sheets issued by the Stock Exchange of a Share on the relevant Vesting Date.) Any such determination may be made on a case-by-case basis or generally at any time on or around the grant date or relevant Vesting Date of the Award in question, and the Board shall notify the relevant Grantees of such determination. Awards shall be satisfied as soon as practicable on or after the relevant Vesting Date and in any event no later than 30 days following the relevant Vesting Date, at the Company’s absolute discretion by: (a) the Company allotting and issuing the relevant number of Shares to the Grantee credited as fully paid; or E S R G R O U P L I M I T E D I N T E R I M R E P O R T 2 0 2 2 31
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