BONUS OPTION PLAN
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15. INTERPRETATION
In these Terms and Conditions, the following denitions apply:
“Acquisition Price” in relation to an Eligible Dividend, means the
arithmetic average of the daily volume weighted average sale
price of all Shares sold on ASX and / or any other trading platforms
(for example, Cboe Australia) as the Board may determine from
time to time in the ordinary course of trading on the relevant
trading platform(s) during the Pricing Period, less a discount (if
any) determined by the Board from time to time and notied by
the Company to Shareholders (with the arithmetic average, after
deduction of any discount, rounded to the nearest whole cent but
if the fraction is one half of a cent the amount is to be rounded
down to the nearest whole cent). For the purpose of calculating the
Acquisition Price, the Company may determine at its discretion that a
particular transaction is not to be included in the calculation because,
in the Company’s view, it is not within the ordinary course of trading.
“ASX” means ASX Limited (ABN 98 008 624 691) or the market
operated by it (as the context requires).
“Board” means the directors of the Company acting collectively under
the Constitution or a committee or person to whom the directors of
the Company have delegated a relevant power in accordance with
the Constitution or the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (or both).
“BOP” means the Company’s Bonus Option Plan the subject of these
Terms and Conditions.
“BOP Account” means an account established and maintained under
rule 4.3.
“BOP Election Date” means the date determined by the Board and
announced to ASX for calculating participation in the BOP with
respect to the relevant Eligible Dividend.
“BOP Participant” means a Shareholder who is not ineligible to
participate as determined by rule 1.2 and:
(a) whose Election has been received and accepted by the Company
and is eective in accordance with rules 2 and 12; and
(b) who has not ceased to participate by operation of rules 8, 9 or 10.
“BOP Share” means a Share that is taken to be participating in the BOP
in accordance with rules 2, 3.1 and 3.2.
“Cboe Australia” means Cboe Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 47 129 584 667)
or the market operated by it (as the context requires).
“Company” means ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ABN 16 659 510 791).
“Constitution” means the constitution of the Company from time to
time.
“DRP” means the Company’s Dividend Reinvestment Plan.
“Election“ means an application to participate in the BOP in the form
(including electronic form) prescribed or approved by the Company
from time to time.
“Eligible Dividend” means each cash dividend determined by the
Board in respect of Shares and (at the discretion of the Board)
includes any special dividends.
“Listing Rules” means the Listing Rules of ASX as they apply to the
Company from time to time.
“Pricing Period” means, in relation to any Eligible Dividend, the period
of 10 trading days (or such other number of trading days as the
Board may determine from time to time) commencing on the third
trading day immediately following the Record Date in relation to that
Eligible Dividend (or such other day as the Board may determine).
For this purpose, “trading day” means (unless otherwise determined
by the Board) a day which is dened to be a “Trading Day” in the
Listing Rules, other than a day on which the Shares have been placed
in a “trading halt” (as dened in the Listing Rules) or on voluntary
suspension (the suspension of a listed entity’s securities from
quotation requested by the entity as described in Listing Rule 17.2) for
more than 2 hours.
“Record Date” means 5.00 pm (Melbourne, Australia time) (or such
other time as the Board determines) on the date for calculating
entitlements to the relevant Eligible Dividend.
“Share” means a fully paid ordinary share in the Company.
“Share Registrar” means the person appointed as registrar of the
Share Registry from time to time.
“Share Registry” means the Company’s share register maintained by
the Share Registrar.
“Shareholder” means a holder of a Share or Shares from time to time.
16. TRADING RULES
For so long as the Company remains admitted to the ocial list of
ASX, despite anything else contained in these Terms and Conditions:
(a) if the Trading Rules prohibit an act being done by the Company,
the act shall not be done;
(b) nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions prohibits an act
being done by the Company that the Trading Rules require to be
done;
(c) if the Trading Rules require an act to be done or not to be done,
authority is given for that act to be done or not to be done (as the
case may be);
(d) if the Trading Rules require these Terms and Conditions to contain
a provision and they do not contain that provision, these Terms
and Conditions are taken to contain that provision;
(e) if the Trading Rules require these Terms and Conditions not to
contain a provision and they contain that provision, these Terms
and Conditions are deemed not to contain that provision; and
(f) if any of these Terms and Conditions are or become inconsistent
with the Trading Rules, these Terms and Conditions are to
be taken not to contain that provision to the extent of the
inconsistency.
In this rule, Trading Rules mean:
(a) the Listing Rules; and
(b) the operating rules of ASX Settlement Pty Limited
ABN 49 008 504 532.