1.   History of the share capital including details of any bonus, rights or other issues.

2.   Types of takeover offer General offer A general offer is an offer for the entire issued equity share capital of a company.

3.   In June the entire share capital of the two Scottish integrated electricity companies was sold to the public, thus completing the privatization of the non-nuclear electricity supply industry.

4.   The authorization of any change in share capital -- rights issues, placements, scrip issues and repurchases.

5.   The Company does not have a share capital and is limited by guarantee.

6.   The purchaser may need to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders if insufficient share capital or authority exists and consider the need to disapply any pre-emption rights.

7.   The dividend is usually expressed to be cumulative, since in the case of equity share capital there is a presumption that dividends are non-cumulative unless otherwise stated.

8.   Where the company has preference share capital, the ABI requests that class meeting consent should be obtained from the preference shareholders.

9.   Such a scheme is simpler as it avoids the necessity for a reduction of share capital.