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Rules of the ProCook Group plc
Deferred Bonus Plan 2021
Adopted on 29 October 2021
Amended by resolution of the shareholders on [19 September 2023]
Expires on 29 October 2031
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CONTENTS
Rule | Page | |
1 | INTERPRETATION | 2 |
2 | COMMITTEE MAY GRANT AWARDS | 77 |
3 | RESTRICTIONS ON THE GRANTING OF AWARDS | 77 |
4 | GRANT OF AWARDS | 88 |
5 | DIVIDEND EQUIVALENT SHARES | 9 |
6 | EXERCISE OF AWARDS | 10 |
7 | CASH EQUIVALENT | 11 |
8 | RESTRICTIONS UPON THE EXERCISE OF AWARDS AND LAPSE OF AWARDS | 1212 |
9 | CESSATION OF EMPLOYMENT | 12 |
10 | CHANGE IN CONTROL, LIQUIDATION AND DEMERGER | 13 |
11 | ADJUSTMENT OF AWARDS | 1515 |
12 | PRO-RATING OF AWARDS ON EARLY EXERCISE | 1515 |
13 | CLAWBACK AND MALUS | 15 |
14 | COSTS | 17 |
15 | ADMINISTRATION | 17 |
16 | GENERAL | 1818 |
17 | AMENDMENTS TO THESE RULES | 18 |
18 | OVERSEAS EMPLOYEES | 19 |
19 | DATA PROTECTION | 19 |
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RULES
of the
PROCOOK GROUP PLC DEFERRED BONUS PLAN 2021
1. INTERPRETATION In these Rules:
1.1 the following expressions have the following meanings unless inconsistent with the context:
"Admission Date" | the date that the Shares are admitted to the premium |
listing segment of the Official List of the UK Financial | |
Conduct Authority and to trading on the Main Market of | |
the London Stock Exchange | |
"Adoption Date" | the date on which the Plan is adopted by a resolution |
of the Board | |
"Annual Bonus Plan" | the ProCook Group plc Annual Bonus Plan or any |
replacement bonus plan adopted by the Company from | |
time to time | |
"Award" | subject to Rule 7, a right to acquire Shares for nil |
consideration granted to an Eligible Employee pursuant | |
to the Plan and for the time being subsisting (or, where | |
the context so requires, a right to acquire Shares so to | |
be granted) | |
"Award Certificate" | a certificate issued pursuant to Rule 4.4 |
"Award Date" | in respect of any Award, the date upon which that |
Award is granted by the Company | |
"Award Holder" | a person holding an Award or, where the context so |
requires, the legal personal representatives of such a | |
person and in the context of Rule 13 only, in addition | |
to the persons identified in the foregoing provisions of | |
this definition, a person who has at any time held an | |
Award | |
"Balancing Payment" | in respect of an Award, such amount as is determined |
in accordance with Rules 13.4 or 13.5 | |
"Board" | the board of directors for the time being of the |
Company or the directors present at a duly convened | |
meeting of the directors or a duly appointed committee | |
of the board of directors at which a quorum is present | |
"Bonus" | a bonus awarded pursuant to an award granted under |
the Annual Bonus Plan | |
"Committee" | the remuneration committee of the Board |
"Company" | ProCook Group plc (registered number 13679248) |
"Control" | the meaning given to that term by section 995 of the |
Income Tax Act 2007 and "Controlled" shall be | |
construed accordingly |
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"Dealing Day" | a day on which the London Stock Exchange is open for | |
the transaction of business | ||
"Dividend Equivalent | in relation to any Award, the Shares notionally added | |
Shares" | to such Award pursuant to the provisions of Rule 5 | |
"Early Exercise Trigger" | in respect of any Award, the Award Holder ceasing to | |
be an Eligible Employee in circumstances where, | ||
pursuant to Rule 9, the Award may be exercised in a | ||
stated period of time after such cessation of | ||
employment | ||
"Eligible Employee" | any individual who, at the relevant date, is an | |
employee (including an executive director) of any | ||
company within the Group | ||
"Employee Tax Liability" | all income tax and/or employee's national insurance | |
contributions or similar levies for which a company in | ||
the Group (or any other person who, at the relevant | ||
time, is the employer of the Eligible Employee) is | ||
obliged to account to HMRC | ||
"Excess Shares" | in respect of an Award to which Rule 13.3 applies, the | |
number of Shares over which the Award would not be, | ||
or would not have been, capable of exercise but for the | ||
relevant circumstance, such number of Shares being | ||
determined by the Committee in its absolute discretion | ||
"Exercise Period" | in respect of an Award: | |
(a) | the period commencing on the day | |
immediately after the Vesting Date in respect | ||
of such Award and ending on the day | ||
immediately before the tenth anniversary of | ||
the Award Date; or | ||
(b) | such shorter period as may be determined by | |
the Committee in its absolute discretion as at | ||
the Award Date; or | ||
(c) | if the Award Holder, having not previously | |
exercised the Award, shall be prevented from | ||
so doing on the last day of the periods set out | ||
above by virtue of Rule 8.1, the period | ||
ending 21 days after the first day on which | ||
the Award Holder is no longer so prevented | ||
(but no later than the tenth anniversary of the | ||
Award Date) | ||
"Financial Year" | a financial year of the Company (as determined in | |
accordance with the provisions of section 390 of the | ||
Companies Act 2006) | ||
"General Offer" | a general offer to acquire the whole or part of the | |
issued ordinary share capital of the Company (or such | ||
part of such capital as is not then owned by the offeror |
or any company Controlled by the offeror and/or any persons acting In Concert with the offeror) as a result of which the offeror (or any such companies and/or such persons) may gain Control of the Company
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"Group" | the Company and all of the Subsidiaries for the time | |
being or, where the context so requires, any one or | ||
more of them | ||
"HMRC" | HM Revenue & Customs or where the context so | |
requires in relation to any Award Holder or Eligible | ||
Employee who is subject to taxation in a jurisdiction | ||
outside the United Kingdom, any other equivalent body | ||
or fiscal authority competent to collect or impose taxes | ||
in the relevant jurisdiction concerned | ||
"In Concert" | the meaning given to that term in The City Code on | |
Takeovers and Mergers as amended from time to time | ||
"Issue or Reorganisation" | any capitalisation issue or rights issue (other than an | |
issue of shares pursuant to the exercise of an option | ||
given to the shareholders of the Company to receive | ||
shares in lieu of dividend) or open offer or any other | ||
variation in the share capital of the Company including | ||
(without limitation) any consolidation, sub-division or | ||
reduction of capital of the Company | ||
"ITEPA" | the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 | |
"London Stock | London Stock Exchange plc or any successor body | |
Exchange" | thereto | |
"Market Value" | in respect of any date in question: | |
(a) | if the Shares are for the time being admitted | |
to trading on the Official List of the UK Listing | ||
Authority, and have been so admitted for not | ||
less than three Dealing Days, the average | ||
closing price for a Share as derived from the | ||
Official List for the three consecutive Dealing | ||
Days immediately preceding that date, or | ||
such other price as may be specified by the | ||
Committee; or | ||
(b) | if the condition referred to in paragraph (a) | |
of this definition is not satisfied, the market | ||
value of a Share as at the date concerned as | ||
determined in accordance with Part VIII of the | ||
Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 | ||
"Other Award" | means: | |
(a) | an option or award in respect of Shares or | |
cash held by an Award Holder under any | ||
incentive arrangement in which such Award | ||
Holder participates other than an Award | ||
granted under the Plan; and | ||
(b) | any payment to be made to an Award Holder | |
other than pursuant to the Plan | ||
"Other Discretionary | any Other Employees' Scheme other than a share | |
Scheme" | incentive plan which meets the requirements of Parts 2 | |
to 9 (inclusive) of Schedule 2 to ITEPA, a savings- | ||
related share option scheme which meets the | ||
requirements of Parts 2 to 7 (inclusive) of Schedule 3 | ||
to ITEPA | or any other share option scheme of the |
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