15.5.1 Model Code Exemption

Aberdeen New Dawn Invest Trust PLC
02 May 2008




02/05/08

ABERDEEN NEW DAWN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC ('the Company')


Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust PLC announces that it is satisfied, by virtue
of the points listed below, that all inside information which the Directors and
the Company may have in the period leading up to the Preliminary Announcement of
the Annual Results, has been notified to a Regulated Information Service ('RIS')
and that the Company is thereby exempted from the provisions of the Model Code
in relation to closed periods for any dealings by persons discharging managerial
responsibilities in the Company and any purchases by the Company of its own
securities.


In so stating the Company has regard to;

1) the announcement on the 2 May 2008 of the Net Asset Value per share as
   of the close of business on the 1 May 2008,

2) the Company's belief, following reasonable enquiries, that there will be no 
   material difference between the information published on the 2 May 2008 and
   that to be included in the forthcoming Preliminary Announcement of the Annual
   Results,

3) the Company's practice of calculating Net Asset Values per share each
   business day and the announcement of these Net Asset Values to an RIS,

4) there being no other unpublished information which constitutes
   price-sensitive information in respect of the Company's securities and

5) there being no unquoted investments within the Company's portfolio,


This announcement is issued pursuant to paragraph 15.5.1 of the FSA Listing
Rules as amended 28/09/2007.





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