SCIENTIFIC & BUSINESS SYSTEMS LIMITED RETIREMENT BENEFITS SCHEME

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND BENEFICIARIES UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

Pursuant to section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925, notice is given that all the Creditors, Members and others having any claim against or claim to be beneficially interested in the assets of the Scientific & Business Systems Limited Retirement Benefits Scheme, are required to send particulars in writing to the Trustees of the Scheme, c/o Rosemary Smith, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Benefit Solutions, East Wing, 1st Floor, No 1 Portsoken Street, London E1 8LN, on or before 30 December 2001. After this date, the Trustees will proceed to distribute the remaining assets of the Scheme among the persons entitled to them, and will have regard only to the claims of which they then have notice. The Trustees shall not be liable to any person of whose claims or demands they then have not had notice. Jardine Lloyd Thompson Benefit Solutions, for and on behalf of the Trustees of the Scheme.