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| | Employee | | means any person employed by the Company or any Group Company under a contract of employment and includes each Senior Employee; |
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| | Encumbrance | | means any interest or equity of any person (including any right to acquire, option or right of pre-emption or conversion) or any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, assignment, hypothecation, security interest, title retention or any other security agreement or arrangement, or any agreement, obligation or commitment to create, grant, give or permit to subsist any of the above; |
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| | Exchange Rate | | means, in relation to any currency to be converted into or from pounds sterling for the purposes of this Deed, the middle-market rates for that currency into or, as the case may be, from pounds sterling, as published in the London edition of The Financial Times first published after the relevant date or, where no such rate of exchange is published in respect of that date, at the rate quoted by www.oanda.com immediately before the close of business in London on that date (or, if such date is not a Business Day, on the Business Day immediately preceding such date); |
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| | FCA | | has the meaning given to it in the Share Purchase Agreement; |
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| | FCA Rules | | means the rules contained in the FCA’s Handbook of Rules and Guidance as is in force from time to time (as varied by any waivers or dispensations granted by the FCA and applicable to the relevant person); |
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| | FSMA | | means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as in force from time to time); |
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| | Group | | means collectively the Company and each of the Subsidiaries (and a reference to “Group Company” shall be construed accordingly); |
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| | Hazardous Substances | | any natural or artificial substances or materials (whether solid, liquid, gas or otherwise and whether alone or in combination with any other substance or material) capable of causing harm to human health or the environment (including flora, fauna and any other living organisms), including noise, light, radiation, heat, vibration, waste, carbon dioxide and any other greenhouse gases; |
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| | HMRC | | means HM Revenue and Customs; |
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| | Intellectual Property Rights | | means patents, trademarks, trade names, service marks, domain names, design rights, copyright, rights in databases and other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including applications for the grant of any such rights; |