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Gov. of Singapore Investment Corp.05 October 2007 This announcement supersedes the announcement made under RNS No 1485F releasedon 4 October 2007. The number of relevant securities (following dealing) and the number of securities sold has been amended. Please see below for the details of the respective amendments: a. Box 2(a) - The number of relevant securities (following dealing) has been amended to 20,929,344 at 0.972%. b. Box 3(a) - An additional sale of 128,130 has been included. The full amended text is shown below. FORM 8.3 DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE (Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of person dealing (Note 1) GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE INVESTMENT CORPORATION PTE LTD Company dealt in FRIENDS PROVIDENT PLC Class of relevant security to which ORD 10p the dealings being disclosed relate (Note 2) Date of dealing 03 OCT 07 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevantsecurity dealt in (Note 3) Long Short Number (%) Number (%) (1) Relevant securities 20,929,344 0.972 (2) Derivatives (other than options) (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total 20,929,344 0.972 (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, otherthan the class dealt in (Note 3) Class of relevant security: Long Short 5.25% Convertible bonds Number (%) Number (%) due Dec 2007 (1) Relevant securities 7,030,000 2.424 (2) Derivatives (other than options) (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total 7,030,000 2.424 (c) Rights to subscribe (Note 3) Class of relevant security: Details 3. DEALINGS (Note 4) (a) Purchases and sales Purchase/sale Number of securities Price per unit (Note 5) SALE 77,133 GBP1.7030SALE 4,123 GBP1.6829SALE 1,252,680 GBP1.7030SALE 66,564 GBP1.6829SALE 400,187 GBP1.7030SALE 23,127 GBP1.6829 SALE 128,130 GBP1.6974 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product Long/short Number of Price per name, e.g. (Note 6) securities unit (Note 5)CFD (Note 7) (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product Writing, Number of Exercise Type, Expiry Option name,e.g. selling, securities price e.g. date money call purchasing, to which American, paid/ option varying the option European received etc. relates etc. per unit (Note 7) (Note 5) (ii) Exercising Product name, Number of Exercise price per unit e.g. call option securities (Note 5) (d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 4) Nature of transaction Details Price per unit (Note 8) (if applicable) (Note 5) 4. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. .............................................................................. Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached? (Note 9) NO Date of disclosure 05 Oct 2007 Contact name CELINA CHUA / JULIA YAP Telephone number (65) 6889 8503 / (65) 6889 8877 If a connected EFM, name of offeree NA /offeror with which connected If a connected EFM, state nature of NA connection (Note 10) Notes The Notes on Form 8.3 can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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