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128 Experian Annual Report 2013 Financial statements
20. Dividends
2013 2012
US cents
per share US$m
US cents
per share US$m
Amounts recognised and paid during the financial year:
First interim – paid in February 2013 (2012: January 2012) 10.75 106
10.25 102
Second interim – paid in July 2012 (2012: July 2011) 21.75 216 19.00 188
Dividends paid on ordinary shares 32.50 322 29.25 290
Full year dividend for the financial year 34.75 343 32.00 317
A dividend of 24.00 US cents per ordinary share will be paid on 19 July 2013 to shareholders on the register at the close of business on 21 June
2013 and is not included as a liability in these financial statements. This dividend, together with the first interim dividend of 10.75 US cents per
ordinary share paid in February 2013, comprises the full year dividend for the financial year of 34.75 US cents.
Unless shareholders elect by 21 June 2013 to receive US dollars, their dividends will be paid in sterling at a rate per share calculated on the basis
of the exchange rate from US dollars to sterling on 28 June 2013.
Pursuant to the Income Access Share arrangements put in place in October 2006, shareholders in the Company can elect to receive their
dividends from a UK source (the ‘IAS election’). Shareholders who held 50,000 or fewer Experian shares (i) on the date of admission of the
Company’s shares to listing on the London Stock Exchange or (ii) in the case of shareholders who did not own shares at that time, on the first
dividend record date after they became shareholders in the Company, will be deemed to have elected to receive their dividends under the IAS
election arrangements unless they elect otherwise. Shareholders who hold more than 50,000 shares and who wish to receive their dividends
from a UK source must make an IAS election. All elections remain in force indefinitely unless revoked. Unless shareholders have made, or are
deemed to have made, an IAS election, dividends will be received from an Irish source and will be taxed accordingly.
In the year ended 31 March 2013 the employee trusts waived their entitlements to dividends of US$7m (2012: US$4m). There is no entitlement to
dividend in respect of own shares held in treasury.
Notes to the Group financial statements continued