1080. (1) Whenever shares for which dealing facilities are provided on a regulated market or other market referred to in section 1072(2)(a) are the subject of an overseas market purchase either by the PLC which issued the shares or by a company which is that PLC’s subsidiary, the PLC which issued the shares has the following duty.

(2) That duty of the PLC is to publish—

(a) on its website; or

(b) in any other prescribed manner;

for a continuous period of not less than 28 days beginning on the day that next follows the overseas market purchase concerned and is a day on which the market concerned is open for business the following information for total purchases on the market concerned on each such day—

(i) the date, in the place outside the State where the market concerned is located, of the overseas market purchase;

(ii) the purchase price at which the shares were purchased, or the highest such price and lowest such price paid by the PLC or the subsidiary;

(iii) the number of shares which were purchased; and

(iv) the market on which the shares were purchased.

(3) If a PLC fails to fulfil its duty under subsection (1), the PLC and any officer of it who is in default shall be guilty of a category 3 offence.