In the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) Companies Court.  No 6113 of 2001 In the Matter of NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY and in the Matter of GE PENSIONS LIMITED and in the Matter of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 Notice is hereby given that a Petition (the “Petition”) was on 10 October 2001 presented to Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in England by National Mutual Life Assurance Society (“National Mutual”) for: (1) the sanction of the Court under Part I of Schedule 2C to the Insurance Companies Act 1982 (the “Act”) to a Scheme (the “Scheme”) providing for the transfer to GE Pensions Limited (“GE Pensions”) of the long term business (as defined by section 1(1) of the Act) of National Mutual; and (2) an order making ancillary provision for implementing the Scheme under paragraph 5 of Schedule 2C to the Act. Copies of the Petition, including a print of the Scheme, and a report by an Independent Actuary pursuant to paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2C to the Act (the “Independent Actuary’s Report”) may be inspected at each of the addresses specified in the Schedule hereto and at the address set out below for the Solicitors for National Mutual during normal business hours for a period of at least 21 days from the first publication of this notice. The Petition is directed to be heard before the Companies Court Judge at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL on 18 March 2002. Any person (including any employee of National Mutual or GE Pensions) who alleges that he or she would be adversely affected by the carrying out of the Scheme may appear at the time of the said hearing in person or by Counsel. Any person who intends so to appear, and any member or policyholder of National Mutual who dissents from the Scheme but does not intend so to appear, should give not less than two clear days’ prior notice in writing of such intention or dissent and of the reasons therefore to the solicitors named below. Copies of the Petition and the Independent Actuary’s Report will be furnished by such Solicitors to any person requiring them prior to the making of an Order sanctioning the Scheme on payment of the prescribed charge for the same. Dated this 23rd day of November 2001 Lovells, 65 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DY, telephone 020-7296 2000, fax 020-7296 2001, Ref A3/TJG/CSR, Solicitors for National Mutual Schedule Offices of National Mutual in the United Kingdom The Priory, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 2DW Clarence Chambers, 18 Donegall Square East, Belfast BT1 5HE (strictly by appointment only by telephoning 0161 819 3400) Lyndon House, 62 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B16 8PE 5th Floor, Howard House, Queens Avenue, Bristol BS8 1SD Summit House, 9-10 Windsor Place, Cardiff CF10 3BX 18 Blythswood Square, Glasgow G2 4BG Sterling House, The Bourse, Boar Lane, Leeds LS1 5DE 5th Floor, Sicilian House, Sicilian Avenue, London WC1A 2QR 3rd Floor East, Brazennose House, Brazennose Street, Manchester M2 5BP 2nd Floor, Century House, 8-18 Chapel Bar, Nottingham NG1 6JQ 1st Floor, Kings Lodge, 194 Kings Road, Reading RG1 4NH 3rd Floor, Union House, Eridge Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8HF Offices in EEA Member States Lovells, Graben 29A, 1010 Vienna, Austria Lovells, Avenue Louise 523, 1050 Brussels, Belgium PricewaterhouseCoopers, Strandvejen 44, 2900 Hellerup, Copenhagen, Denmark SVH PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, Itamerentori 2, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland Lovells, 37 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75008 Paris, France Lovells, Schlüterstrasse 37, 10629 Berlin, Germany PricewaterhouseCoopers, ICC Building, Casemates Square, Gibraltar PricewaterhouseCoopers, 268 Kifissias Avenue, GR-152 32 Halandri, Athens, Greece PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hofdabakki 9, 112 Reykjavik, Iceland Lovells, Due Macelli 66, 00187 Rome, Italy Gassner & Partner, Wirtschaftsprufung-und-Beratung AG, Plattenbach 30, Postfach 134, FL-9496 Balzers, Liechtenstein PricewaterhouseCoopers Sarl, 400 Route d’Esch, L-1014 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Lovells, Frederiksplein 42, 1017 XN Amsterdam, Postbus 545, 1000 AM Amsterdam, Netherlands PricewaterhouseCoopers, Karenslyt Alle 12, N-0277 Oslo, Norway Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Avenida da Liberdade 245-7, 1269-034 Lisbon, Portugal PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Lovells, Bilbao 1.5 Piso, 03001 Alicante, Spain Ohrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers, Torsgatan 21, 113 97 Stockholm, Sweden