Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish American Investment Co PLC
17 September 2003



THE SCOTTISH AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY PLC

The Scottish American Investment Company plc announces that on 16th September
2003 it purchased for cancellation 152,000 ordinary shares in the market at a
price of 144.5p per ordinary share. There remain 135,370,943 ordinary shares in
issue.







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