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Rotork PLC 27 April 2007 Extract from Notice of Meeting of Annual General Meeting of Rotork p.l.c. Friday, 20th April 2007 Special Resolutions Resolution 10 10.1 That the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 (the Act) to allot equity securities (as defined in section 94 of the Act) of the Company for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by Resolution 9 above as if section 89(1) of the Act did not apply to such allotment provided that this power shall be limited: 10.1.1 to the allotment of equity securities in connection with any invitation made to the holders of ordinary shares to subscribe by way of rights where the equity securities attributable to the interests of all the holders of ordinary shares are proportionate (as nearly as maybe) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held by them but subject to any exceptions, exclusions or other arrangements which in the opinion of the Directors are necessary or expedient for the purpose of dealing with fractional entitlements otherwise arising or legal or practical problems under the laws of any territory or the requirements of any recognised stock exchange or any regulatory body in any territory; and 10.1.2 to the allotment (otherwise than pursuant to 10.1.1 above) of equity securities up to an aggregate number of 4,314,161 ordinary shares of 5p each and shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, save that the Company may, prior to the expiry of such power, make any offer or agreement which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot relevant securities pursuant to any offer or agreement notwithstanding the expiry of the power conferred by this resolution. 11 That, subject to the consent of the holders of 9 1/2% cumulative preference shares of £1 each not being withdrawn in accordance with the resolution passed by the holders thereof on 3 August 1995, the Company be and it is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases (within the meaning of section 163(3) of the Companies Act 1985 (as amended)) of ordinary shares of 5p each of the Company provided that: 11.1 the maximum number of ordinary shares hereby authorised to be acquired is 8,500,000; 11.2 the minimum price which may be paid for any such share is 5 pence (exclusive of expenses); 11.3 the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for any such share is an amount equal to 105% of the middle of the average of the market quotations for an ordinary share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the ordinary share is contracted to be purchased; and 11.4 the authority hereby conferred shall expire fifteen months from the date of this resolution or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2008, save that the Company may, prior to the expiry of such authority, make any offer or agreement which would or might require ordinary shares to be purchased by the Company after such expiry and the Company may purchase ordinary shares pursuant to any such offer or agreement notwithstanding such expiry. 12 That, subject to the consent of the holders of 9 1/2% cumulative preference shares of £1 each (preference shares) not being withdrawn in accordance with the resolution passed by the holders thereof on 22 May 1998, the Company be and it is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases (within the meaning of section 163(3) of the Companies Act 1985 (as amended)) of preference shares of the Company provided that: 12.1 the maximum number of preference shares hereby authorised to be acquired is 44,795 (being all the preference shares remaining in issue at the date of this notice); 12.2 the minimum price which may be paid for any such share is £1.00 (exclusive of expenses) and the maximum price is £2.00 (exclusive of expenses). 12.3 the authority hereby conferred shall expire fifteen months from the date of this resolution or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2008, save that the Company may, prior to the expiry of such authority, make any offer or agreement which would or might require preference shares to be purchased by the Company after such expiry and the Company may purchase preference shares pursuant to any such offer or agreement notwithstanding such expiry. 13 That, a) the draft regulations produced to the meeting and signed by the Chairman of the meeting for the purposes of identification be and they are hereby adopted by the Company in substitution for its existing Articles of Association; b) the Company's Memorandum of Association be amended as follows: (i) by the insertion in clause 4(R) of the following words 'of any such person and, to the extent as may be permitted by law, to indemnify or to exempt any such person against or from any liability' immediately after the words 'to make payments towards insurance'; (ii) by the insertion of a new clause 4(S) as follows, and the renumbering of the subsequent clauses accordingly: '(S) To provide a Director, former Director, company secretary or other officer of the Company with funds to meet expenditure incurred by him in defending any criminal or civil proceedings or in connection with any application under those provisions of the Companies Act 1985 referred to in section 337A of that Act and to do anything to enable a Director, former Director, company secretary or other officer of the Company to avoid incurring such expenditure.' 11089 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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