Reduction of Capital

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Reduction of Capital

REDUCTION OF CAPITAL AND CANCELLATION OF SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT

ALBA LIFE LIMITED

(Registered Number SC004348)

Notice is hereby given that on 20 December 2006 an order was pronounced in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, confirming (1) the reduction of £36,999,999 in nominal value of the share capital of Alba Life Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Acts and with its registered office at Britannic Court, 50 Bothwell Street, Glasgow G2 6HR (“the Company”), and (2) the cancellation of the credit balance on the Company's share premium account, both in terms of a written resolution of the Company dated 1 November 2006. A certified copy of that order was registered by the Registrar of Companies in Scotland on 20 December 2006.

Dundas & Wilson CS LLP

Saltire Court, 20 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2EN.

Solicitors to the Company.