Compliance with Model Code

3 April 2013

ABERDEEN PRIVATE EQUITY FUND LIMITED

Compliance with Model Code

Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Limited (the "Company") announces that, by virtue of the points listed below, it is satisfied that all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have in the period leading up to the announcement of the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 March 2013, has been, and will be, notified to a Regulated Information Service ("RIS") and that the Company is thereby exempted from the provisions of the Model Code in relation to closed periods for any dealings by persons discharging managerial responsibilities in the Company and any purchases by the Company of its own securities.

In so stating, the Company has regard to:

1. the announcement on 22 March 2013 of the unaudited Net Asset Value per share as at close of business on 28 February 2013;

2. the Company's practice of calculating the Net Asset Value per share on a monthly basis andthe announcement of these Net Asset Values to a RIS; and

3. there being no other unpublished information which constitutes price sensitive informationin respect of the Company's securities.

This announcement is issued pursuant to paragraph 15.5.1 of the FSA Listing Rules.