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(1)A person who is a party to an agreement to which section 204 applies is subject to the requirements of this section at any time when—
(a)the target company is a public company, and he knows it to be so, and
(b)the shares in that company to which the agreement relates consist of or include shares comprised in relevant share capital of the company, and he knows that to be the case; and
(c)he knows the facts which make the agreement one to which section 204 applies.
(2)Such a person is under obligation to notify every other party to the agreement, in writing, of the relevant particulars of his interest (if any) apart from the agreement in shares comprised in relevant share capital of the target company—
(a)on his first becoming subject to the requirements of this section, and
(b)on each occurrence after that time while he is still subject to those requirements of any event or circumstances within section 198 (1) (as it applies to his case otherwise than by reference to interests treated as his under section 205 as applying to that agreement).
(3)The relevant particulars to be notified under subsection (2) are—
(a)the number of shares (if any) comprised in the target company's relevant share capital in which the person giving the notice would be required to state his interest if he were under the obligation of disclosure with respect to that interest (apart from the agreement) immediately after the time when the obligation to give notice under subsection (2) arose, and
(b)the relevant particulars with respect to the registered ownership of those shares, so far as known to him at the date of the notice.
(4)A person who is for the time being subject to the requirements of this section is also under obligation to notify every other party to the agreement, in writing—
(a)of any relevant particulars with respect to the registered ownership of any shares comprised in relevant share capital of the target company in which he is interested apart from the agreement, and
(b)of any change in those particulars,
of which in either case he becomes aware at any time after any interest notification date and before the first occasion following that date on which he becomes subject to any further obligation to give notice under subsection (2) with respect to his interest in shares comprised in that share capital.
(5)The reference in subsection (4) to an interest notification date, in relation to a person's interest in shares comprised in the target company's relevant share capital, is to either of the following—
(a)the date of any notice given by him with respect to his interest under subsection (2), and
(b)where he has failed to give that notice, the date on which the period allowed by this section for giving the notice came to an end.
(6)A person who is a party to an agreement to which section 204 applies is under an obligation to notify each other party to the agreement, in writing, of his current address—
(a)on his first becoming subject to the requirements of this section, and
(b)on any change in his address occurring after that time and while he is still subject to those requirements.
(7)A reference to the relevant particulars with respect to the registered ownership of shares is to such particulars in relation to those shares as are mentioned in section 202(3)(a) or (b).
(8)A person's obligation to give any notice required by this section to any other person must be performed within the period of 5 days next following the day on which that obligation arose.
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