10 Oct 2012 07:00
Sylvania Platinum Limited
("Sylvania Platinum", "Sylvania" or the "Company")
(AIM: SLP)
Closure of the Australian Certificated Register
Sylvania Platinum currently maintains:
(a) a certificated register in Australia (Australian Register);
(b) a certificated register in Jersey (Jersey Register); and
(c) under the Jersey Register is an uncertificated register in the UK of depository interests (DIs and DI Register).
The DIs represents ordinary shares and is admitted to CREST, a computerised settlement system which enables trading and settlement of the Company's securities in uncertificated form. The CREST system is utilised for electronic settlement on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM).
Following Sylvania's delisting from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in April 2012, and in order to reduce the administrative burden of maintaining an additional register in Australia, the Company will be closing its certificated Australian register two months from the date of this announcement, being 10 December 2012 (Register Closure Date). The Australian register is currently maintained by Computershare Investor Services Pty Ltd (Computershare).
On the Register Closure Date, all members on record on the Australian register as at 7PM AEST will be automatically transferred to the Company's Jersey register.
Further information on what options will be available to shareholders transferred in certificated form to the Jersey Register to allow for certificated shares to be converted into DIs (to allow for electronic trading and settlement of these securities on AIM) will be provided in due course.
All costs associated with the transfer process will be paid by the Company. If you have any queries in relation to the closure of the Australian register, please contact Computershare on 1300 850 505 (within Australia) or + 61 3 9415 4000 (outside Australia).
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company.
Ends
CORPORATE INFORMATION
Registered office: Sylvania Platinum Limited
Clarendon House
2 Church Street
Hamilton HM 11
Bermuda
Postal address: PO Box 524
Wembley WA 6913
Australia
CONTACT DETAILS
For further information please contact:
South AfricaTerence McConnachie (Managing Director) Sylvania Platinum Limited+27 (11) 673 1171
Louis Carroll (Director/Assistant Company Secretary)Sylvania Platinum Limited+44 (0) 7969 170 622
| Australia Richard Rossiter (Chairman)Sylvania Platinum Limited +61 (4) 1868 8338
Grant Button (Director/Assistant Company Secretary) Sylvania Platinum Limited+61 (8) 9226 4777
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United KingdomNominated Adviser RFC Ambrian LimitedSamantha Harrison +44 (0) 20 3440 6800
Broker RBC Europe Limited Martin Eales/James Kelly +44 (0) 20 7653 4000
Sylvania Website: www.sylvaniaplatinum.com
| Communications Graham Herring/Josh Royston/Beth Harris Newgate Threadneedle +44 (0) 20 7653 9850
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