except where that provision expressly specifies otherwise.
1.4 Business Day
Except where otherwise expressly provided, where under this document the day on which any act, matter or thing is to be done is a day other than a Business Day, such act, matter or thing shall be done on the immediately following Business Day.
2. CONDITIONS
2.1 Conditions to this Share Scheme
This Share Scheme is conditional upon, and will have no force or effect until, the satisfaction of each of the following conditions, and the provisions of clauses 3, 4 and 5 will not come into effect unless and until each of these conditions have been satisfied:
(a) as at 8.00 am on the Second Court Date each of the conditions set out in clause 3.1 of the Merger Implementation Deed (other than the condition relating to the approval of the Court set out in clause 3.1(j) of the Merger Implementation Deed) have been satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms of the Merger Implementation Deed;
(b) as at 8.00 am on the Second Court Date the Merger Implementation Deed has not been terminated;
(c) the Court approves this Share Scheme under section 411(4)(b) of the Corporations Act with or without modification;
(d) such other conditions made or required by the Court under section 411(6) of the Corporations Act in relation to this Share Scheme as are acceptable to Crescent and Coventry have been satisfied; and
(e) the coming into effect, pursuant to section 411(10) of the Corporations Act, of the orders of the Court made under section 411(4)(b) of the Corporations Act (and, if applicable, section 411(6) of the Corporations Act) in relation to this Share Scheme.
2.2 Certificates in relation to conditions
(a) At or before the Court hearing on the Second Court Date, Coventry and Crescent will each provide to the Court a certificate (or such other evidence as the Court may request) confirming whether or not all of the conditions set out in clause 3.1 (other than the condition set out in clause 3.1(j) of the Merger Implementation Deed) of the Merger Implementation Deed have been satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms of the Merger Implementation Deed.
(b) The certificates given by Coventry and Crescent constitute conclusive evidence that the conditions have been satisfied or waived (as the case may be).
2.3 Termination of Merger Implementation Deed
Without limiting any rights under the Merger Implementation Deed, in the event that the Merger Implementation Deed is terminated in accordance with its terms before 8.00 am on the Second Court Date, Coventry and Crescent are each released from:
(a) further obligation to take steps to implement this Share Scheme; and
(b) any liability with respect to this Share Scheme.
3. SCHEME
3.1 Effective Date of Scheme
Subject to clause 3.2, this Share Scheme will take effect on and from the Effective Date.
3.2 End Date
This Share Scheme will lapse and be of no further force or effect if the Effective Date has not occurred on or before the End Date.
4. IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHEME
4.11 Lodgement
If the Conditions are satisfied, Coventry must lodge with ASIC in accordance with section 411(10) of the Corporations Act an office copy of the Court order approving this Share Scheme promptly after, and in any event by no later than 4.00 pm on the Business Day following the date on which the Court approves this Share Scheme (or such other Business Day as Coventry and Crescent agree in writing).
4.2 Transfer of Scheme Shares
On the Implementation Date, subject to the provision of the Share Scheme Consideration in the manner contemplated by clause 5 and Crescent having provided Coventry with written confirmation thereof, all of the Scheme Shares will, together with all rights and entitlements attaching to the Scheme Shares, be transferred to Crescent without the need for any further act by any Scheme Shareholder (other than acts performed by Coventry or its directors as attorney or agent for Scheme Shareholders under this Share Scheme), by:
(a) Coventry delivering to Crescent a duly completed and executed share transfer form or forms to transfer all of the Scheme Shares to Crescent (executed by Coventry as the attorney and agent of each Scheme Shareholder under clause 7.2) (which may be a master transfer of all or part of the Scheme Shares);
(b) Crescent duly executing such share transfer form or forms and delivering it or them to Coventry for registration; and
(c) immediately after receipt of the share transfer form or forms under clause 4.2(b), Coventry entering, or procuring the entry of, the name and address of Crescent in the Coventry Share Register as the holder of all of the Scheme Shares.
4.3 Timing
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Share Scheme, while Crescent Shares and Crescent CDIs forming part of the Share Scheme Consideration must be issued (and relevant registers updated to record their issuance) on the Implementation Date, any requirements under clause 5 for the sending of share certificates, holding statements or allotment advices may be satisfied within 10 Business Days after the Implementation Date.
4.4 Provision of Scheme Consideration to the holders of Excluded Shares
Nothing in this Share Scheme requires Crescent to provide Share Scheme Consideration to any holder of Excluded Shares.
5. Share Scheme Consideration
5.1 Election procedure
(a) Subject to the remaining provisions of this clause 5.1, each Scheme Shareholder will be entitled to elect to receive as consideration for the transfer of its Scheme Shares to Crescent under this Share Scheme either Crescent Shares or Crescent CDIs by completing the Election Form and returning it to the address specified in the Election Form so that it is received by 3.00 pm on the Record Date. An election (other than a deemed election) under this clause 5.1 must be made in accordance with the terms and conditions on the Election Form.
(b) An Ineligible Overseas Shareholder may not make any election pursuant to this clause 5.1 and any election purportedly made will be invalid. Ineligible Overseas Shareholders will be deemed to have elected to receive Crescent Shares and the Crescent Shares will be dealt with in accordance with clause 5.7.
(c) A Scheme Shareholder (other than an Ineligible Overseas Shareholder) who does not validly elect between Crescent Shares and Crescent CDIs will be deemed to have elected to receive Crescent CDIs. Accordingly, a Scheme Shareholder who wishes to receive Crescent CDIs does not need to make an election under this clause 5.1.
(d) Subject to clause 5.1(e), an election made or deemed to be made by a Scheme Shareholder under this clause 5.1 will be deemed to apply in respect of the Scheme Shareholder's entire registered holding of Scheme Shares at the Record Date, regardless of whether the Scheme Shareholder's holding of Scheme Shares at the Record Date is greater or less than the Scheme Shareholder's holding at the time of the election.
(e) A Scheme Shareholder who is noted on the Coventry Share Register as holding one or more parcels of Coventry Shares as trustee or nominee for, or otherwise on account of another person, may make separate elections under this clause 5.1 in relation to each of those parcels of Coventry Shares (subject to it providing to Coventry and Crescent any substantiating information they reasonably require), and an election made in respect of any such parcel, or an omission to make an election in respect of any such parcel, will not be taken to extend to the other parcels.
(f) Coventry may, with the agreement of Crescent, settle as it thinks fit any difficulty, matter of interpretation or dispute which may arise in connection with determining the validity of any election, and any such decision will be conclusive and binding on Coventry and Crescent and the relevant Scheme Shareholder.
5.2 Share Scheme Consideration
Subject to this Share Scheme becoming Effective, in consideration of the transfer to Crescent of each Scheme Share held by a Scheme Shareholder under this Share Scheme, Crescent will provide the Share Scheme Consideration to each Scheme Shareholder for each Scheme Share held by it on the Implementation Date.
5.3 Rounding entitlements
If the number of Scheme Shares held by a Scheme Shareholder as at 5.00 pm on the Record Date is such that the aggregate entitlement of the Scheme Shareholder to Share Scheme Consideration is such that a fractional entitlement to a Crescent Share or Crescent CDI (as the case may be) arises, then the entitlement of that Scheme Shareholder must be rounded down to the nearest whole number of Crescent Shares or Crescent CDIs (as the case may be).
5.4 Provision of Share Scheme Consideration
Subject to clause 4.3, the obligations of Crescent under this Share Scheme to provide the Share Scheme Consideration to Scheme Shareholders will be satisfied:
(a) in the case of Crescent Shares which are required to be issued to Scheme Shareholders under this clause 5, by Crescent procuring that:
(i) the name and address of each such Scheme Shareholder is entered into the Crescent Share Register on the Implementation Date in respect of the Crescent Shares to which it is entitled under this clause 5; and
(ii) either a share certificate is sent to the Registered Address of each such Scheme Shareholder representing the number of Crescent Shares issued to the Scheme Shareholder pursuant to this Share Scheme, or the Scheme Shareholders is entered into a direct registration system or other electronic book-entry system as holding the number of Crescent Shares issued to the Scheme Shareholders pursuant to this Share Scheme;
(b) in the case of Crescent CDIs which are required to be issued to Scheme Shareholders under this clause 5, by Crescent:
(i) issuing to the Depositary to be held on trust that number of Crescent Shares that will enable the Depositary to issue Crescent CDIs as envisaged by clause 5.4(b)(iii) on the Implementation Date;
(ii) procuring that the name and address of the Depositary is entered into the Crescent Share Register in respect of those Crescent Shares on the Implementation Date and that a share certificate in the name of the Depositary representing those Crescent Shares is sent to the Depositary;
(iii) procuring that on the Implementation Date the Depositary issues to each such Scheme Shareholder the number of Crescent CDIs to which it is entitled under this clause 5;
(iv) procuring that on the Implementation Date the name of each such Scheme Shareholder is entered in the records maintained by the Depositary as the holder of the Crescent CDIs issued to that Scheme Shareholder on the Implementation Date;
(v) in the case of each such Scheme Shareholder who held Coventry Shares on the CHESS subregister - procuring that the Crescent CDIs are held on the CHESS subregister on the Implementation Date and sending or procuring the sending of an allotment advice that sets out the number of Crescent CDIs issued and procuring that ASX Settlement will provide at the end of the month of allotment a CDI holding statement confirming the number of Crescent CDIs held on the CHESS subregister by that Scheme Shareholder; and
(vi) in the case of each such Scheme Shareholder who held Coventry Shares on the issuer sponsored subregister - procuring that the CDIs are held on the issuer sponsored subregister on the Implementation Date and sending or procuring the sending of a CDI holding statement to each Scheme Shareholder which sets out the number of Crescent CDIs held on the issuer sponsored subregister by that Scheme Shareholder; and
(c) in the case of Crescent Shares to be issued in respect of Share Scheme Consideration due to Ineligible Overseas Shareholders - by Crescent procuring that:
(i) the name and address of the Sale Nominee is entered into the Crescent Share Register on the Implementation Date in respect of the Crescent Shares required to be issued to it under this clause 5;
(ii) a share certificate in the name of the Sale Nominee is sent to the Sale Nominee representing the number of Crescent Shares so issued to it; and
(iii) the Sale Nominee sells those Crescent Shares on behalf of the Ineligible Overseas Shareholders, and pays the proceeds in accordance with clauses 5.7.
5.5 Joint holders
In the case of Scheme Shares held in joint names:
(a) any cheque required to be paid to Scheme Shareholders will be payable to the joint holders; and
(a) the Crescent Shares or Crescent CDIs (as the case may be) to be issued under this Share Scheme will be issued to and registered in the names of the joint holders,
and will be forwarded to the holder whose name appears first in the Coventry Share Register as at 5.00 pm on the Record Date.
5.6 Binding instruction or notifications
Except for a Scheme Shareholder's tax file number, any binding instruction or notification between a Scheme Shareholder and Coventry relating to Scheme Shares as at 5.00 pm on the Record Date (including any instructions relating to payment of dividends or to communications from Coventry) will, from 5.00 pm on the Record Date, be deemed (except to the extent determined otherwise by Crescent in its sole discretion) to be a similarly binding instruction or notification to, and accepted by Crescent, in respect of the Crescent Shares or Crescent CDIs (as the case may be) issued to the Scheme Shareholder until that instruction or notification is revoked or amended in writing addressed to Crescent, provided that any such instructions or notifications accepted by Crescent will apply to and in respect of the issue of Crescent Shares or Crescent CDIs (as the case may be) as the Share Scheme Consideration only to the extent that they:
(a) are not inconsistent with the other provisions of this Share Scheme; or
(b) are recognised under Canadian law or Crescent's constituent documents.
5.7 Ineligible Overseas Shareholders
(a) Unless Crescent and Coventry are satisfied, acting reasonably, that the laws of an Ineligible Overseas Shareholder's country of residence (as shown in the Coventry Share Register) permit the issue and allotment of Crescent Shares or Crescent CDIs (as the case may be) to the Ineligible Overseas Shareholder, either unconditionally or after compliance with conditions which Crescent in its sole discretion regards as acceptable, Crescent will issue the Crescent Shares to which that Ineligible Overseas Shareholder would otherwise be entitled to the Sale Nominee, and Crescent will be under no obligation under this Share Scheme to issue, and will not issue, any Crescent Shares (or Crescent CDIs) to any such Ineligible Overseas Shareholder.
(b) Crescent will procure that, as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event not more than 15 Business Days after the Implementation Date, the Sale Nominee:
(i) sells on the financial market on which the Crescent Shares are then listed all of the Crescent Shares issued to the Sale Nominee pursuant to clause 5.7(a) in such manner, at such price and on such other terms as the Sale Nominee determines in good faith and at the risk of the Ineligible Overseas Shareholders; and
(ii) remits to Crescent the proceeds of sale (after converting to Australian dollars and deducting any applicable brokerage, stamp duty and other selling costs, taxes and charges), subject to any applicable withholding taxes.
(c) Promptly after the last sale of Crescent Shares in accordance with clause 5.7(b), Crescent will pay to each Ineligible Overseas Shareholder the proportion of the net proceeds of sale received by Crescent pursuant to clause 5.7(b)(ii) to which that Ineligible Overseas Shareholder is entitled (calculated on an average basis so that all Ineligible Overseas Shareholders receive the same price per Scheme Share subject to rounding).
(d) Crescent will pay the relevant fraction of the proceeds of sale referred to in clause © to each Ineligible Overseas Shareholder by sending, or procuring the despatch to each such Ineligible Overseas Shareholder by prepaid post to the registered address of the Ineligible Overseas Shareholder at 5.00 pm on the Record Date, a cheque in the name of that Ineligible Overseas Shareholder for the relevant amount (denominated in Australian dollars).
(e) Each Ineligible Overseas Shareholder appoints Coventry as its agent to receive on its behalf any financial services guide or other notices (including any updates of those documents) that the Sale Nominee is required to provide to Ineligible Overseas Shareholders under the Corporations Act.
5.8 Status of Crescent Shares
Subject to this Share Scheme becoming Effective, Crescent will:
(a) issue the Crescent Shares required to be issued by it under this Share Scheme on terms such that each such Crescent Share will rank equally in all respects with each existing Crescent Share;
(b) ensure that each Crescent Share issued as Share Scheme Consideration is duly issued and is fully paid, non assessable and free from any mortgage, charge, lien, encumbrance or other security interest; and
(c) use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
(i) all Crescent Shares issued as Share Scheme Consideration are approved for listing and trading on the TSX-V as of the first trading day on the TSX-V following the Effective Date (or such later date as the TSX-V or ASX requires); and
(ii) as from the Business Day following the Effective Date (or such later date as the TSX-V or ASX requires) the Crescent CDIs are listed for quotation on the official list of the ASX initially on a deferred settlement basis and on an ordinary settlement basis.
6. DEALINGS IN COVENTRY SHARES
6.1 Dealings in Coventry Shares by Scheme Shareholders
For the purposes of establishing who are Scheme Shareholders, dealings in Coventry Shares will be recognised by Coventry provided that:
(a) in the case of dealings of the type to be effected on CHESS, the transferee is registered in the Coventry Share Register as the holder of the relevant Coventry Shares by 5.00 pm on the Record Date; and
(b) in all other cases, registrable transfers or transmission applications in respect of those dealings are received at the place where the Coventry Share Register is kept on or before 5.00 pm on the Record Date,
and Coventry will not accept for registration, or recognise for the purpose of establishing who are Scheme Shareholders, any transmission application or transfer in respect of Coventry Shares received after 5.00 pm on the Record Date.
6.2 Coventry Share Register
Coventry will, until the Share Scheme Consideration has been paid and Crescent has been entered in the Coventry Share Register as the holder of all of the Scheme Shares, maintain the Coventry Share Register in accordance with the provisions of this clause 6 and the Coventry Share Register in this form and the terms of this Share Scheme will solely determine entitlements to the Share Scheme Consideration.
6.3 Information to be made available to Crescent
Coventry must procure that as soon as practicable following the Record Date, details of the names, registered addresses and holdings of Coventry Shares of every Scheme Shareholder shown in the Coventry Share Register at 5.00 pm on the Record Date are made available to Crescent in such form as Crescent may reasonably require.
6.4 Effect of Share certificates and holding statements
As from 5:00 pm the Record Date, all share certificates and holding statements for the Scheme Shares (other than for Crescent following the Implementation Date) will cease to have effect as documents of title, and each entry on the Coventry Share Register at that date will cease to have any effect other than as evidence of entitlement to the Share Scheme Consideration.
6.5 Disposals after Record Date
If this Share Scheme becomes Effective, a Scheme Shareholder, and any person claiming through that Scheme Shareholder, must not dispose of or purport or agree to dispose of any Scheme Shares or any interest in them after the Record Date.
6.6 Quotation of Coventry Shares
(a) It is expected that suspension of trading in Coventry Shares on the ASX will occur from the close of trading on ASX on the Effective Date.
(b) At a time after the Implementation Date to be determined by Crescent, Coventry will apply:
(i) for termination of official quotation of Coventry Shares on ASX; and
(ii) to have itself removed from the official list of ASX.
7. GENERAL PROVISIONS
7.1 Effect of Scheme
Each Scheme Shareholder acknowledges that this Share Scheme binds Coventry and all of the holders for the time being of Coventry Shares (including those who do not attend the meeting of Coventry Shareholders to approve this Share Scheme or who do not vote at that meeting or who vote against this Share Scheme at that meeting) and, to the extent permitted by law, overrides the constitution of Coventry.
7.2 Appointment of agent and attorney
Each Scheme Shareholder, without the need for any further act, is deemed to have irrevocably appointed Coventry as its agent and attorney for the purpose of:
(a) executing any document or form or doing any other act necessary to give effect to the terms of this Share Scheme including, without limitation, the execution of the share transfer(s) to be delivered under clause 4.2(a) and the giving of the Scheme Shareholders' consent under clause 7.4; and
(b) enforcing the Deed Poll against Crescent,
and Coventry accepts such appointment. Coventry, as agent of each Scheme Shareholder, may sub-delegate its functions, authorities or powers under this clause 7.2 to all or any of its directors and officers (jointly, severally, or jointly and severally).
7.3 Enforcement of Deed Poll
Coventry undertakes in favour of each Scheme Shareholder that it will enforce the Deed Poll against Crescent on behalf of and as agent and attorney for the Scheme Shareholder.
7.4 Scheme Shareholders' consent
Each Scheme Shareholder irrevocably:
(a) consents to Coventry and Crescent doing all things and executing all deeds, instruments, transfers or other documents as may be necessary, incidental or expedient to the implementation and performance of this Share Scheme; and
(b) acknowledges that this Share Scheme binds Coventry and all of the Coventry Shareholders from time to time (including those who do not attend the Share Scheme Meeting, do not vote at that meeting or vote against this Share Scheme).
7.5 Scheme Shareholder's agreements