ITEM 5.02            DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
                     APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENT OF CERTAIN
                     OFFICERS

The Governance Principles of Independent Bank Corp. (the "Company") provide that Directors will be ineligible to serve on the Board once they attain the age of 72 and that Directors who reach that age during their elected term shall retire from the Board upon reaching the age of 72.

Frederick Taw, who has served as a Director of Rockland Trust Company ("Rockland Trust") and Independent Bank Corp. (the "Company") since 2015, will retire from the Board of Directors, effective June 8, 2022, in accordance with the Company's Governance Principles as Mr. Taw reaches the age of 72. Mr. Taw previously served as a Director of Peoples Federal Bancshares, Inc. until February 2015, when it was merged with and into the Company.

In connection with Mr. Taw's retirement, the size of the Board of Directors of both Rockland Trust and the Company will decrease from fifteen to fourteen and the number of Class I Directors on the Company's Board of Directors will decrease from five to four.




                   ITEM 9.01   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

d. The following exhibits are included with this Report:



Exhibit Index

Exhibit #                Exhibit Description
101                      The instance document does not appear in the interactive data file because
                         its XBRL tags are embedded within the inline XBRL document.
104                      Cover page interactive data file (formatted as inline XBRL and contained
                         in Exhibit 101).

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