19th Sep 2007 15:46
Senior PLC19 September 2007 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached (ii): Senior plc 2. Reason for the notification: An acquisition or disposal of Voting Rights 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation (iii): BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited as trustee of the BT Pension Scheme. SeeSection 9 for further information. 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) (iv): N/A 5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different) (v): 18 September 2007 6. Date on which issuer notified: 19 September 2007 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 2% 8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares Class/type Situation previous to the Resulting situation after the triggeringof shares Triggering transaction(vi) transaction (viii) Number of Number of Number of Number of Voting % of Voting Shares Voting Shares Rights Rights Rights (viii) Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect (x) (xi) GB0007958233 11,848,471 11,848,471 4,706,720 4,706,720 5,048,300 1.207% 1.294% B: Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii) Type of Expiration Exercise / Number of voting rights that may % offinancial Date Conversion be acquired if the instrument is votinginstrument (xiii) Period / Date exercised / converted. rights (xiv) TOTAL (A+B) Number of voting rights % of voting rights 9,755,020 2.501% 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable (xv): BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited is the parent undertaking of Britel FundTrustees Limited, which is the parent undertaking of Hermes Pensions ManagementLimited. Hermes Pensions Management Limited is the parent undertaking of: 1. Hermes Equity Ownership Services Limited (voting rights held in this issuer: 0.117%) 2. Hermes Investment Management Limited (voting rights held in this issuer: 2.384%) 3. Hermes Assured Limited (included with number 2) Please see Section 13 for further information. Proxy Voting: 10. Name of the proxy holder: 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: 13. Additional information: Hermes Equity Ownership Services Limited hold the voting rights under a standingproxy contained in services agreements for the provision of corporate governanceservices to various underying clients. Hermes Investment Management Limited hold the voting rights under a standingproxy contained in investment management agreements with various underyingclients, which includes all the shares owned directly by BT Pension Scheme. All voting rights held on behalf of the above entities are aggregated for thepurposes of DTR 5.2.1(a). The aggregation is made at the lower threshold of 3%and above because Hermes Equity Ownership Services Limited does not manageinvestments for the purposes of the investment manager exemption contained inDTR 5.1.5. This disclosure is made by BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited, which is theultimate parent undertaking for the purposes of DTR 5.2.1(e). 14. Contact name: A Bodenham, Company Secretary, Senior plc 15. Contact telephone number: 01923 714745 Annex to Notification Of Major Interests In Shares (xvi) A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation Full name (including legal form for legal entities): Senior plc Contact address (registered office for legal entities): 59/61 High Street, Rickmansworth, WD3 1RH. Phone number: 01923 714745 Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons): B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable (xvii) Full name: A Bodenham Contact address: 59/61 High Street, Rickmansworth, WD3 1RH. Phone number: 01923 714745 Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legalentity subject to the notification obligation): C: Additional information : Notes to the Forms (i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filedwith the competent authority. (ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifyingthe issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate. (iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the personacquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the cases providedfor in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreement referredto in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the direct or indirect holder of financialinstruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which votingrights are attached, as appropriate. In relation to the transactionsreferred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), the following list is providedas indication of the persons who should be mentioned: - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the person that acquires thevoting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and thenatural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily forconsideration the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the person holding thecollateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights anddeclares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateralunder these conditions; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the person who has a lifeinterest in shares if that person is entitled to exercise the voting rightsattached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the voting rightswhen the life interest is created; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the parent undertaking and,provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under DTR 5.1,under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those situations,the controlled undertaking; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of theshares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares depositedwith him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing thedeposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the person that controls thevoting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he canexercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who hasgiven his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise thevoting rights at his discretion. (iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This shouldbe the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the naturalperson or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2. (v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an onexchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in thecase of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement. The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on whichthe acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takeseffect (see DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when thecorporate event took effect. (vi) Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification, Incase the situation previous to the triggering transaction was below 3%, pleasestate 'below 3%'. (vii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold , the notifyingparty should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, onlythat the new holding is less than 3%. For the case provided for inDTR5.2.1(a), there should be no disclosure of individual holdings perparty to the agreement unless a party individually crosses or reaches anArticle 9 threshold. This applies upon entering into, introducing changesto or terminating an agreement. (viii) Direct and indirect (ix) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached 'directholding' and voting rights 'indirect holdings', please split the votingrights numberand percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if thereis no combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank. (x) Voting rights to shares in respect of which the notifying party is a directshareholder (DTR 5.1) (xi) Voting rights held by the notifying party as an indirect shareholder (DTR5.2.1) (xii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying partyshould not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that thenew holding is below 3%. (xiii) Date of maturity / expiration of the financial instrument i.e. the datewhen the right to acquire shares ends. (xiv) If the financial instrument has such a period-please specify the period -for example once every three months starting from the (date) (xv) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled undertakingsthrough which the voting rights are held. The notification should alsoinclude the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by each controlledundertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertaking holds 5% ormore, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is intendedto cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking. (xvi) This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority. (xvii) Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of theshareholder or the natural person/legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 andDTR5.3 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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