Barclays Group Reorganisation Act 2002

5 Notice of appointments

(1) The transferor and transferee shall, not less than thirty days before a proposed appointed day, display at every one of their branches (if any) open to the public in the United Kingdom and at their registered offices a notice naming that day and—

(a) stating that it is proposed to be an appointed day for the purposes of this Act,

(b) describing concisely the undertaking in respect of which it is proposed to be the appointed day, and

(c) naming the proposed appointed transferor and transferee.

(2) Barclays may publicise the effect of the appointment of the appointed day in any other manner as Barclays in its discretion sees fit.

(3) On or before an appointed day, Barclays shall publish in the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette, the Belfast Gazette and a national newspaper a notice naming that day and—

(a) stating that it is an appointed day for the purposes of this Act,

(b) describing concisely the appointed undertaking in respect of which it is to be the appointed day, and

(c) naming the appointed transferor and transferee.

(4) The publication of a notice in the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette or the Belfast Gazette under subsection (3) above shall be conclusive evidence of a day being an appointed day for the purposes of this Act.

(5) A photocopy or other reproduction, certified by an authorised officer of Barclays, of a page or part of a page of the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette or the Belfast Gazette containing the notice shall be conclusive evidence of publication of the notice.

(6) A notice displayed under subsection (1) above or any publicity under subsection (2) above shall not bind the directors of Barclays to make the appointment described in the notice; and any appointment made under subsection (1) of section 4 (Appointments) of this Act, notice of which has been published under subsection (3) above, will not be invalidated by any accidental omission to display a notice under subsection (1) above.