Compliance with Model Code

RNS Number : 4596T

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

03 October 2014

 

3 October 2014

STANDARD LIFE EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC ("the Company")

Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC announces that it is satisfied, by virtue of the points listed below, that all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have in the period leading up to the announcement of the Annual Financial Report, has been notified to a Regulated Information Service ("RIS") and that the Company is thereby exempted from the provisions of the Model Code in relation to closed periods for any dealings by persons discharging managerial responsibilities in the Company and any purchases by the Company of its own securities.

In so stating the Company has regard to;

1)   the announcement on the 3 October 2014 of the Net Asset Value per share as of the close of business on the 2 October 2014,

2)   the Company's belief, following reasonable enquiries, that there will be no material difference between the information published on the 3 October 2014 and that to be included in the forthcoming Annual Financial Report,

3)   the Company's practice of calculating Net Asset Values per share each business day and the announcement of these Net Asset Values to an RIS,

4)   there being no other unpublished information which constitutes price sensitive information in respect of the Company's securities and

5)   there being no unquoted investments within the Company's portfolio.

This announcement is issued pursuant to paragraph 15.5.1 of the FCA Listing Rules as amended 28 September 2007.

 

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