S.I. No. 546/1998 - Stock Transfer (Forms) Regulations, 1998.

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Bodies corporate should execute under then common seal

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Full name(s) and full postal address(es) (including County or, if applicable. Postal District number) of the person(s) to whom the security is transferred.

Please State title, if any, or whether Mr., Mrs. or Miss. Please complete in typewriting or in Block Capitals.

I/We request that such entries be made in the register as are necessary to give effect to this transfer.

Stamp of Buying Broker(s) of any)

Stamp or name and address of person lodging this form

(if other than the Buying Broker(s))

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 31st day of December, 1998.

CHARLIE McCREEVY

Minister for Finance

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Regulations permit the transmission by fax of Stock Transfer Forms as a valid instruction mechanism.

S.I. No. 546 of 1998.

STOCK TRANSFER (FORMS) REGULATIONS, 1998.

I, Charlie McCreevy, Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 5

of the

Stock Transfer Act, 1963

(No. 34 of 1963) (as amended by

section 8

of the

Companies (Amendment) Act, 1977

(No. 31 of 1977), and

section 83

of the

Central Bank Act, 1997

(No. 16 of 1997)) hereby make the following regulations