OFS-1.4.1

The following offerings are exempt from this Module:

(a) Securities approved or authorised as part of a collective investment undertaking and offered or marketed subject to CBB Rulebook Volume 7;
(b) Securities offered, allotted, or to be allotted in connection with securities offered because of a take-over, merger, acquisition and share repurchase by means of an exchange offer; these are subject to Module TMA;
(c) Equity securities offered, allotted or to be allotted free of charge to existing shareholders if dividends are paid out in the form of shares of the same class;
(d) Securities utilised for lending and borrowing transactions concluded under the CBB Rules and the relevant licensed exchange's requirements for such transaction; and
(e) An offering of ordinary shares by means of an equity crowdfunding offer by an equity crowdfunding issuer through a crowdfunding platform operated by a licensed crowdfunding platform operator and subject to the requirements of Module MAE of the CBB Rulebook Volume 6.
Amended: October 2017
January 2014