Overseas Shareholders holders of Scheme Shares who are resident in, ordinarily resident in, or citizens of, jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom;
Malta means the Island of Malta, the Island of Gozo and the other islands of the Maltese Archipelago, including the territorial waters thereof;
SCA means Security Capital Assurance Ltd, a Bermuda limited liability company.
ESBD means the Electronic State Business Daily, the electronic marketplace where State of Texas bid opportunities over $25,000 are posted. The ESBD may currently be accessed at http://www.txsmartbuy.com/sp.
Warsaw Convention means the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, October 12, 1929, as amended, but not including the Montreal Convention as defined above.
SC means the Special Conditions of Contract by which the GC may be amended or supplemented.
Topco has the meaning set out in the Preamble;
L/C has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(a).
France means the European and overseas departments of the French Republic including the territorial sea, and any area outside the territorial sea within which, in accordance with international law, the French Republic has sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting the natural resources of the seabed and its subsoil and the superjacent waters;
Topcoat means a coating that is applied over a primer on an aerospace vehicle or component for appearance, identification, camouflage, or protection. Topcoats that are defined as specialty coatings are not included under this definition.
OJEU means the Official Journal of the European Union.
SONIAi means the SONIA Reference Rate for:
FLEGT means Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade, and is a reference to the EU scheme to address the problem of illegally logged timber.
Crown means the government of the United Kingdom (including the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive Committee, the Scottish Executive and the National Assembly for Wales), including, but not limited to, government ministers and government departments and particular bodies, persons, commissions or agencies from time to time carrying out functions on its behalf;
Company Shareholders Meeting shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2 hereof.
Swale means a shallow depression in the ground sloping to a place for disposal for the purpose of providing a method of drainage of surface water.
S&W means the Scope of Works in Section II of this Volume.
Company Secretary means a company secretary as defined in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (56 of 1980) and who has obtained a certificate of practice under sub-section (1) of section 6 of that Act;
Amalco means the corporation continuing from the Amalgamation;
Scheme Shareholders means the registered holders of Scheme Shares at the relevant time.
Company Shareholder Meeting has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2(a).
SONIA means, in respect of any Business Day, a reference rate equal to the daily Sterling Overnight Index Average rate for such Business Day as provided by the administrator of SONIA to authorised distributors and as then published on the Relevant Screen Page or, if the Relevant Screen Page is unavailable, as otherwise published by such authorised distributors in each case on the Business Day immediately following such Business Day;
PLC means Programmable Logic Controller;
Euronext Dublin means the Irish Stock Exchange plc trading as Euronext Dublin;
Drop box means a device used for serial or sequential distribution of effluent by gravity flow to a lateral of a soil treatment area.
SBS means the New York City Department of Small Business Services.