The following amendment has been made to the 'Transaction in Own Shares' announcement released on 23/8/2016 at 17.56 under RNS No 9546H
The price at which the shares were bought back should have read 280.66 pence per Ordinary share, and not £2.8066 pence per Ordinary share as stated in the previous announcement.
All other details remain unchanged.
The full amended text is shown below.
WITAN PACIFIC INVESTMENT TRUST PLC (the "Company")
Buy-back of own shares
The Company announces that it has today bought back 2,665 Ordinary shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company (being 0.0040% of the Company's total issued share capital) at a price of 280.66 pence per Ordinary share, to be held in treasury.
Following the share buy-back the Company's issued ordinary share capital consists of 65,944,000 Ordinary Shares, 739,631 of which shares (being 1.1216% of the Company's total issued share capital) are held in treasury. Each share carries one vote. Accordingly, the number of shares with voting rights in issue is 65,204,369. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Capita Company Secretarial Services Limited - Corporate Secretary
Email: WitanPacificInvestmentTrustPLC@capita.co.uk