AEC Education PLC
AEC Education Plc
Business Address: Suite 3, 2nd Floor, Roxby House, 20-22 Station Road, Sidcup
Kent DA15 7EJ
t: + 44 (0) 20 8308 1202 f: + 44 (0) 20 8302 8768
7 June 2010
Dear Sirs,
Request to send or supply documents and information via a website
and/or in electronic form
This document is important and requires your immediate attention. If you are in any
doubt as to what action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own
financial advice from your stockbroker or other independent adviser authorised under
the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
As you may recall, when the Company amended its Articles of Association one of the changes
made was to allow the Company to send or supply documents and information (Documents
and Information) to shareholders in electronic form and/or via a website.
Increased use of electronic communications will deliver savings to the Company in terms of
administration, printing and postage costs, as well as speeding up the provision of information
to shareholders. The reduced use of paper will also have environmental benefits.
Under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006, in order to be able to take advantage of this
authority we are required to ask you individually to confirm your agreement to the Company
sending or supplying Documents and Information to you as a member of the Company via a
website (the Website).
If we do not receive a response from you within 28 days of the date of this letter, then you will
be taken to have agreed (under paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to the Companies Act 2006) that
the Company may send or supply Documents and Information to you via the Website. If you
would prefer to receive Documents and Information in paper form rather than via the Website,
you will need to let us know by completing the second reply slip at the end of this letter and
returning it to the Company at the above address.
If you agree or are deemed to agree that we may send or supply Documents and Information
to you via the Website, we will notify you when Documents and Information are available to
access on the Website and we will provide you with:
• the address of the Website,
• the place on the Website where the relevant Documents and Information may be
accessed, and
• details of how to access the Documents or Information.
If you agree or are deemed to agree Documents and Information via the Website but not by
email, the Company will need to notify you in hard copy form of the presence of Documents
and Information on the Website. This may negate the costs savings associated with using the
Website so the Company requests you to provide your email address by completing the first
reply slip below.
AEC Education PLC
AEC Education Plc
Business Address: Suite 3, 2nd Floor, Roxby House, 20-22 Station Road, Sidcup
Kent DA15 7EJ
t: + 44 (0) 20 8308 1202 f: + 44 (0) 20 8302 8768
If the Company is required to restrict the sending of any Documents or Information to any
shareholders within the European Economic Area (EEA), for example due to the local laws of
the EEA country in which the particular shareholders are resident or otherwise located, we will
not be permitted to use electronic means to communicate with any shareholders holding
shares of the same class as those shareholders within the EEA. In any such case, we will
send you hard copies of the Documents or Information.
Please also confirm your agreement to the Company sending or supplying Documents and
Information to you in electronic form. If you agree to this, please provide your electronic
address, for example an email address, for these purposes.
Please note that there may be particular circumstances in which the Company needs to send
Documents or Information to you in hard copy rather than by Website or email, in which case
the Company reserves the right to do so.
If you wish to notify the Company of a change of email address at any time please write to the
Company Secretary at the address above.
Please detach the reply slip below and sign and return it to the Company at the above
address, indicating your consent to the Company sending or supplying Documents and
Information to you in electronic form (in accordance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the
Companies Act 2006). Please also provide details of your email address for this purpose in the
space provided on the reply slip.
Yours faithfully,
William J Swords
Chairman
AEC Education PLC
AEC Education Plc
Business Address: Suite 3, 2nd Floor, Roxby House, 20-22 Station Road, Sidcup
Kent DA15 7EJ
t: + 44 (0) 20 8308 1202 f: + 44 (0) 20 8302 8768
PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THIS FORM TO THE COMPANY AT
SUITE 3,2ND FLOOR, ROXBY HOUSE, 20-22 STATION ROAD, SIDCUP,
KENT DA15 7EJ IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
I/We agree to the Company’s request to send or supply documents and information to me/us in
electronic form. My/our address for such purposes is
……………………………………………………………………………………….
[insert email address above]
Signed ……………………………………………..
Name: ……………………………………………..
Please print in BLOCK CAPITALS
Date ………………………………………………..
ONLY COMPLETE AND RETURN THE SLIP BELOW IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO WISH
THE COMPANY TO SEND OR SUPPLY YOU WITH DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION VIA
THE WEBSITE
I/We elect to continue to receive documents and information in hard copy from the Company
by post.
Signed ……………………………………………..
Name: ……………………………………………..
Please print in BLOCK CAPITALS
Date ………………………………………………..