In the High Court of Justice Chancery Division Companies Court.  No 3567 of 2003 In the Matter of ECCLESIASTICAL INSURANCE OFFICE plc and In the Matter of ALLCHURCHES LIFE ASSURANCE LIMITED and In the Matter of THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000 Notice is hereby given that application has been made by Claim Form dated 27 May 2003 (the Application) to Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice by the above-named Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc (EIO) and Allchurches Life Assurance Limited (ALA) for: 1. the sanction of the Court under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the Act) and in accordance with regulations made thereunder to an insurance business transfer scheme (the Scheme) providing for the transfer of EIO’s long term insurance business (the Transferred Business) to ALA, a wholly owned subsidiary of EIO; 2. such other Orders (including ancillary Orders pursuant to section 112 of the Act) as the Court thinks fit. The Scheme is being applied for to bring all the long term insurance business carried on by the Ecclesiastical Insurance Group within one Company in the Group, namely ALA. Following the coming into effect of the Scheme, the policies written in relation to the Transferred Business will become policies of ALA rather than EIO. A copy of the report prepared by an independent expert pursuant to section 109 of the Act (the Report) and a statement (the Statement) setting out the terms of the Scheme and containing a summary of the Report will be sent, free of charge, to any person who requests them, before the making of an Order sanctioning the Scheme, from the address or telephone number or e-mail address set out in the Schedule to this Notice below. Copies of the Report and the Statement may be viewed on the website www.ecclesiastical.co.uk until the making of an Order sanctioning the Scheme. The Claim Form is directed to be heard before a Judge at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL, on 28 July 2003. Any person (including an employee of EIO’s long term insurance business or of ALA) who claims that he or she would be adversely affected by the carrying out of the Scheme may appear at the time of the said hearing in person or by Counsel. Any person who intends so to appear is requested to give not less than two clear days’ prior notice in writing of such intention and of the reasons therefor to the Solicitors named below. Speechly Bircham, 6 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3LX, telephone 020-7427 6400, facsimile 020-7353 4367.  (Ref MDC/NJ.) SCHEDULE Customer Services, Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, Beaufort House, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire GL1 1JZ, telephone Helpdesk 0800 1070190, email Financial_Services@eigmail.com. 19 June 2003.