Purchase of Own Securities
October 01 2003 - 3:01AM
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:3898Q
National Australia Bank Ld
01 October 2003
Rule 3.8A
Appendix 3C
Announcement of buy-back
(except minimum holding buy-back)
Information and documents given to ASX become ASX's property and may be made
public.
Introduced 1/9/99. Origin: Appendix 7B. Amended 13/3/2000, 30/9/2001.
Name of entity ABN
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED 12 004 044 537
We (the entity) give ASX the following information.
Information about buy-back
1 Type of buy-back
ON-MARKET
2 +Class of shares which is the subject
of the buy-back (eg, ordinary/ ORDINARY
preference)
3 Voting rights (eg, one for one)
ONE FOR ONE
4 Fully paid/partly paid (and if partly
paid, details of how much has been FULLY PAID
paid and how much is outstanding)
5 Number of shares in the +class on
issue 1,503,955,770
6 Whether shareholder approval is
required for buy-back No
7 Reason for buy-back To buy back shares to manage the capital requirements of
the entity.
8 Any other information material to a
shareholder's decision whether to NIL
accept the offer (eg, details of any
proposed takeover bid)
On-market buy-back
9 Name of broker who will act on the Goldman Sachs J B Were and Salomon Smith Barney Citigroup
company's behalf
10 Deleted 30/9/2001.
11 If the company intends to buy back a The Company's current intention is to continue to seek to buy
maximum number of shares - that number back a number of ordinary shares approximating the number of
ordinary shares issued under the Company's dividend package
Note: This requires a figure to be plans and staff share and option plans. Based on the number of
included, not a percentage. shares previously issued under these plans, the number of
shares to be bought back is likely to be approximately 25.5
million shares.
12 If the company intends to buy back
shares within a period of time - that In the period from 1 October 2003 to 30
period of time; if the company intends
that the buy-back be of unlimited September 2004
duration - that intention
13 If the company intends to buy back
shares if conditions are met - those Not applicable
conditions
Employee share scheme buy-back
14 Number of shares proposed to be bought
back Not applicable
15 Price to be offered for shares
Not applicable
Selective buy-back
16 Name of person or description of class
of person whose shares are proposed to Not applicable
be bought back
17 Number of shares proposed to be bought
back Not applicable
18 Price to be offered for shares
Not applicable
Equal access scheme
19 Percentage of shares proposed to be
bought back Not applicable
20 Total number of shares proposed to be
bought back if all offers are accepted Not applicable
21 Price to be offered for shares
Not applicable
22 +Record date for participation in offer
Not applicable
Cross reference: Appendix 7A, clause 9.
Compliance statement
1. The company is in compliance with all Corporations Act
requirements relevant to this buy-back.
2. There is no information that the listing rules require to be
disclosed that has not already been disclosed, or is not contained in,
or attached to, this form.
Sign here: ........................ Date: 1 October 2003
Print name: BT Case..............................................
Associate Company Secretary
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