As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2014

 

Registration No. 333- _________

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Nevada

  

2841

  

46-5027260

(State or jurisdiction of

  

(Primary Standard Industrial

  

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

  

Classification Code Number)

  

Identification No.)

 

Charnwood Building Holywell Park

Ashby Road

Loughborough, Leicestershire

United Kingdom

LE11 3AQ

(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)

 

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury

Chief Executive Officer

85 Toothill Road

Loughborough

United Kingdom

LE11 1PN

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 

Copies to:

 

Mitchell S. Nussbaum, Esq.

Loeb & Loeb LLP

345 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10154

(212) 407-4923

(212) 898-1184 (fax)


Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box.


If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

  





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If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of large accelerated filer, accelerated filer and smaller reporting company in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):


Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company


 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE


Title of Class of Securities to be Registered

 

Amount

To be Registered (1)  

 

Proposed Maximum Aggregate Price Per Share (2)  

 

Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price 

 

Amount of Registration Fee (3)

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share

 

 

20,000,000

 

$

.02

 

$

400,000

 

$

51.52

   

(1)  Pursuant to Rule 416 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the shares of Common Stock offered hereby also include such presently indeterminate number of shares of our Common Stock as shall be issued by us to the selling stockholders as a result of stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

   

(2)  The proposed offering price per share for the selling stockholders was estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and was based upon the most recent sales price per share.

  

(3)  Paid herewith. 


The registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

  

 



SUBJECT TO COMPLETION        , 2014



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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. The selling stockholders may not sell these securities publicly until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

 

20,000,000 shares of Common Stock

 

This prospectus relates to the public offering of up to 20,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of NEMAURA MEDICAL INC., by the selling stockholders set forth in the Selling Stockholder table on page 19.  The securities offered by the selling stockholders pursuant to this prospectus will have an aggregate public offering price of up to $400,000.  The shares were issued to the selling stockholders in private transactions, which were exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


Nemaura’s common stock is presently not traded on any market or securities exchange. Accordingly, the sales price to the public is fixed at $0.02 per share for the duration of the offering.  A trading market will be available if our stock becomes quoted on a trading exchange.

 

Management has not made a decision to seek quotation on the OTCBB at this time and there is no guarantee that a quotation will be sought.  The selling stockholders must sell their shares at the fixed price of $0.02 per share, unless and until a public market for our Common Stock is established, or the shares are registered on a national securities exchange or on any over-the-counter market.  Information regarding the selling stockholders and the time and manner in which they may offer and sell the Shares under this prospectus is provided under “Selling Stockholders” and “Plan of Distribution” in this prospectus.



We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of Common Stock by the selling stockholders.


We will pay the expenses of registering these shares.

 

INVESTMENT IN THE COMMON STOCK INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. YOU SHOULD CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE RISK FACTORS BEGINNING ON PAGE 3 OF THIS PROSPECTUS BEFORE PURCHASING ANY OF THE SHARES OFFERED BY THIS PROSPECTUS.

 

NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THIS PROSPECTUS IS TRUTHFUL OR COMPLETE.  ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.


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The date of this prospectus is              , 2014



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


 

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PART I – INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

  

 

  

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

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RISK FACTORS

6

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

18

USE OF PROCEEDS

18

DETERMINATION OF OFFERING PRICE

18

SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

18

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

20

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

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DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

32

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

32

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

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MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

36

CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

36

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

38

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

39

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

40

LEGAL MATTERS

40

EXPERTS

40

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION

  F-1

 

 

PART II   INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

  

 

  

OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION

II-1

INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

II-1

RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES

II-2

EXHIBITS

II-3

UNDERTAKINGS

II-4

SIGNATURES

II-6


You may only rely on the information contained in this prospectus or that we have referred you to. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities other than the Common Stock offered by this prospectus. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any Common Stock in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. Neither the delivery of this prospectus nor any sale made in connection with this prospectus shall, under any circumstances, create any implication that there has been no change in our affairs since the date of this prospectus.



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PART I


Prospectus Summary


This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, including, the section entitled “Risk Factors” before deciding to invest in our Common Stock.


The Company


 NEMAURA MEDICAL INC. (“we”, the “Company”, the “Registrant”) was organized on December 24, 2013 under the laws of the State of Nevada. We are a development stage company as defined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ASC No. 915, Development Stage Entities. Through our subsidiaries, Dermal Diagnostics Limited and Trial Clinic Limited, we perform medical device research and manufacturing specializing in discovering, developing and commercializing a continuous glucose monitoring (“CGM”) device which consists of a disposable patch containing a sensor, and a non-disposable miniature electronic watch with a re-chargeable power source.


We currently have one (1) CGM watch product candidate.  Our initial focus has been on the development of a CGM watch that can more efficiently and effectively apply a very small electrical current to the skin, which leads to efficient extraction of glucose from the body into a chamber in the patch. The glucose sensor detects the level of glucose and stores the data on an internal memory platform, as well as displaying the glucose reading on an LCD display.  An alarm is set-off when the reading is 'out of range'.  The effectiveness of the (CGM) in blood sugar control facilitates therapeutic adjustments to avoid hypo-glycemic and hyper-glycemic excursions.


Corporate Structure


We are a holding company organized under the corporate laws of the State of Nevada.  We own 100% of the ordinary shares of Region Green Limited, a British Virgins Islands corporation.  Region Green Limited owns 100% of the shares of Dermal Diagnostics (Holdings) Limited, a corporation formed in England and Wales. Dermal Diagnostics (Holdings) owns 100% of the shares of our two operating entities Dermal Diagnostics Limited and Trial Clinic Limited, both of which were formed in England and Wales.    


The following diagram illustrates our corporate and shareholder structure as of the date of this prospectus


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The Offering



This prospectus is related to the resale of up to 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock offered by the selling stockholders identified in the “Selling Stockholders” section on page 19.


Common Stock offered by the selling stockholders

Up to 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock.

  

  

Common Stock outstanding prior to the offering

200,000,000 (1)

  

  

Common Stock to be outstanding after the offering

200,000,000

  

  

Use of proceeds

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the Common Stock hereunder.  


  

(1)  Based upon the total number of issued and outstanding shares as of March 26, 2014.




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RISK FACTORS


Investing in our Common Stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below with all of the other information included in this prospectus before making an investment decision. If any of the possible adverse events described below actually occurs, our business, results of operations or financial condition would likely suffer. In such an event, if our shares are listed on a national securities exchange, or quoted in the over the counter markets, the market price of our Common Stock could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment.


Risks Related to Our Product Candidate and Operation


We are a development stage company as defined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ASC No. 915.


We are a development stage company that, since inception, has devoted substantially all of its efforts establishing a new business and while operations have commenced we have generated no revenue from our limited operations.


We are largely dependent on the success of our sole product candidate, the CGM Watch, and we may not be able to successfully commercialize this potential product.


We have incurred and will continue to incur significant costs relating to the development and marketing of our sole product candidate, the CGM Watch. We have not obtained approval to market this potential product in any jurisdiction and we may never be able to obtain approval or, if approvals are obtained, to commercialize this product successfully.


We have recently begun to direct our efforts toward the expansion of our scientific staff and research capabilities to identify and develop product candidates in addition to the CGM Watch. We do not know whether any preclinical development or clinical trials for this or other product candidates we may develop will begin on time or be completed on schedule, if at all. In addition, we do not know whether any of our potential clinical trials will result in marketable products. We do not anticipate that any additional product candidates will reach the market for at least several years, if at all.


If we fail to successfully commercialize our product(s), we may be unable to generate sufficient revenue to sustain and grow our business, and our business, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.


If we fail to obtain regulatory approval of the CGM Watch or any of our other future products, we will be unable to commercialize these potential products.

 

The development, testing, manufacturing and marketing of our product is subject to extensive regulation by governmental authorities in Great Britain and the European Union. In particular, the process of obtaining CE approval by a Notified Body, a third party that can carry out a conformity assessment recognized by the European Union, is costly and time consuming, and the time required for such approval is uncertain. Our product must undergo rigorous preclinical and clinical testing and an extensive regulatory approval process mandated for the CE. Such regulatory review includes the determination of manufacturing capability and product performance.  As of the date of this filing we have not applied for CE approval.


We can give no assurance that our current or future products will be approved by the European Union or Great Britain or any other governmental body. In addition, there can be no assurance that all necessary approvals will be granted for future products or that CE review or actions will not involve delays caused by requests for additional information or testing that could adversely affect the time to market for and sale of our product. Further failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements can, among other things; result in the suspension of regulatory approval as well as possible civil and criminal sanctions.


Failure to enroll patients in our clinical trials may cause delays in developing the CGM Watch or any of our future products.


We may encounter delays in the development and commercialization, or fail to obtain marketing approval, of the CGM Watch or any other future products if we are unable to enroll enough patients to complete clinical trials. Our ability to enroll sufficient numbers of patients in our clinical trials depends on many factors, including the severity of illness of the population, the size of the patient population, the nature of the clinical protocol, the proximity of patients to clinical sites, and the eligibility criteria for the trial and competing clinical trials. Delays in planned patient enrollment may result in increased costs and harm our ability to complete our clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval.




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Delays in clinical testing could result in increased costs to us and delay our ability to generate revenue.


Significant delays in clinical testing could materially adversely impact our product development costs. We do not know whether planned clinical trials will begin on time, will need to be restructured or will be completed on schedule, if at all. Clinical trials can be delayed for a variety of reasons, including delays in obtaining regulatory approval to commence and continue a study, delays in reaching agreement on acceptable clinical study terms with prospective sites, delays in obtaining institutional review board approval to conduct a study at a prospective site and delays in recruiting patients to participate in a study.


Significant delays in testing or regulatory approvals for any of our current or future products, including the CGM Watch, could prevent or cause delays in the commercialization of such product candidates, reduce potential revenues from the sale of such product candidates and cause our costs to increase.


Our clinical trials for any of our current or future products may produce negative or inconclusive results and we may decide, or regulators may require us, to conduct additional clinical and/or preclinical testing for these products or cease our trials.


We will only receive regulatory approval to commercialize a product candidate if we can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the applicable regulatory agency that the product is safe and effective. We do not know whether our future clinical trials will demonstrate safety and efficacy sufficiently to result in marketable products. Because our clinical trials for the CGM Watch may produce negative or inconclusive results, we may decide, or regulators may require us, to conduct additional clinical and/or preclinical testing for this product or cease our clinical trials. If this occurs, we may not be able to obtain approval for this product or our anticipated time to market for this product may be substantially delayed and we may also experience significant additional development costs. We may also be required to undertake additional clinical testing if we change or expand the indications for our product.


If approved, the commercialization of our product, the CGM Watch, may not be profitable due to the need to develop sales, marketing and distribution capabilities, or make arrangements with a third party to perform these functions.


In order for the commercialization of our potential product to be profitable, our product must be cost-effective and economical to manufacture on a commercial scale. Subject to regulatory approval, we expect to incur significant sales, marketing, distribution, and to the extent we do not outsource manufacturing, manufacturing expenses in connection with the commercialization of the CGM Watch and our other potential products. We do not currently have a dedicated sales force or manufacturing capability, and we have no experience in the sales, marketing and distribution of medical diagnostic device products. In order to commercialize the CGM Watch or any of our other potential products that we may develop, we must develop sales, marketing and distribution capabilities or make arrangements with a third party to perform these functions. Developing a sales force is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to develop this capacity. If we are unable to establish adequate sales, marketing and distribution capabilities, independently or with others, we may not be able to generate significant revenue and may not become profitable. Our future profitability will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to:


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the costs and timing of developing a commercial scale manufacturing facility or the costs of outsourcing the manufacturing of the CGM Watch;


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receipt of regulatory approval of the CGM Watch;


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the terms of any marketing restrictions or post-marketing commitments imposed as a condition of approval by regulatory authorities;


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the costs of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing any patent claims and other intellectual property rights;


·

costs of establishing sales, marketing and distribution capabilities;


·

the effect of competing technological and market developments; and


·

the terms and timing of any collaborative, licensing and other arrangements that we may establish.




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Even if we receive regulatory approval for the CGM Watch or any other product candidates, we may never receive significant revenues from any of them. To the extent that we are not successful in commercializing our potential products, we will incur significant additional losses if we do not successfully commercialize our products.


Our proprietary rights may not adequately protect our intellectual property and product and if we cannot obtain adequate protection of our intellectual property and product, we may not be able to successfully market our product.


Our commercial success will depend in part on obtaining and maintaining intellectual property protection for our technologies and product. We will only be able to protect our technologies and product from unauthorized use by third parties to the extent that valid and enforceable patents cover them, or that other market exclusionary rights apply.


While we have issued enforceable patents covering the CGM Watch, the patent positions of companies like ours can be highly uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions for which important legal principles remain unresolved. No consistent policy regarding the breadth of claims allowed in such companies’ patents has emerged to date in Great Britain and the European Union. The general patent environment outside the United States involves significant uncertainty. Accordingly, we cannot predict the breadth of claims that may be allowed or that the scope of these patent rights would provide a sufficient degree of future protection that would permit us to gain or keep our competitive advantage with respect to this product and technology. Additionally, companies like ours are dependent on creating a pipeline of products. We may not be able to develop additional proprietary technologies or products that produce commercially viable products or that are themselves patentable.


Our issued patents may be subject to challenge and possibly invalidated by third parties. Changes in either the patent laws or in the interpretations of patent laws in Great Britain or the European Union or other countries may diminish the market exclusionary ability of our intellectual property.


In addition, others may independently develop similar or alternative technologies that may be outside the scope of our intellectual property. Should third parties obtain patent rights to similar technology, this may have an adverse effect on our business.


To the extent that consultants or key employees apply technological information independently developed by them or by others to our product, disputes may arise as to the proprietary rights of the information, which may not be resolved in our favor. Consultants and key employees that work with our confidential and proprietary technologies are required to assign all intellectual property rights in their discoveries to us. However, these consultants or key employees may terminate their relationship with us, and we cannot preclude them indefinitely from dealing with our competitors. If our trade secrets become known to competitors with greater experience and financial resources, the competitors may copy or use our trade secrets and other proprietary information in the advancement of their products, methods or technologies. If we were to prosecute a claim that a third party had illegally obtained and was using our trade secrets, it would be expensive and time consuming and the outcome would be unpredictable. In addition, courts in Great Britain and the European Union are sometimes less willing to protect trade secrets than courts in the United States. Moreover, if our competitors independently develop equivalent knowledge, we would lack any contractual claim to this information, and our business could be harmed.


Our ability to commercialize our product will depend on our ability to sell such products without infringing the patent or proprietary rights of third parties. If we are sued for infringing intellectual property rights of third parties, such litigation will be costly and time consuming and an unfavorable outcome would have a significant adverse effect on our business.


Our ability to commercialize our product will depend on our ability to sell such products without infringing the patents or other proprietary rights of third parties. Third-party intellectual property in the field of diagnostic medical devices is complicated, and third-party intellectual property rights in this field are continuously evolving. We have not performed searches for third-party intellectual property rights that may raise freedom-to-operate issues, and we have not obtained legal opinions regarding commercialization of our product other than patent research prior to the filing of our patent applications, and search and examination reports from the respective patent examination offices.


In addition, because patent applications are published months after their filing, and because applications can take several years to issue, there may be currently pending third-party patent applications that are unknown to us, which may later result in issued patents. If a third-party claims that we infringe on its patents or other proprietary rights, we could face a number of issues that could seriously harm our competitive position, including:


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infringement claims that, with or without merit, can be costly and time consuming to litigate, can delay the regulatory approval process and can divert management s attention from our core business strategy;




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substantial damages for past infringement which we may have to pay if a court determines that our products or technologies infringe upon a competitor s patent or other proprietary rights;



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if a license is available from a holder, we may have to pay substantial royalties or grant cross licenses to our patents or other proprietary rights; and


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Re-designing our process so that it does not infringe the third-party intellectual property, which may not be possible, or which may require substantial time and expense including delays in bringing our own products to market.


Such actions could harm our competitive position and our ability to generate revenue and could result in increased costs.


Nemaura Medical Inc. is an Emerging Growth Company (EGC) as defined under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.


An “emerging growth company” is an issuer whose initial public offering was or will be completed after Dec. 8, 2011, and had total annual gross revenues of less than $1 billion during its most recently completed fiscal year. An issuer’s EGC status terminates on the earliest of:


The last day of the first fiscal year of the issuer during which it had total annual gross revenues of $1 billion or more;

The last day of the fiscal year of the issuer following the fifth anniversary of the date of the issuer’s initial public offering;

The date on which such issuer has issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period determined on a rolling basis; or

The date on which the issuer is deemed to be a “large accelerated filer” under the Exchange Act, which means, among other things, that it has a public float in excess of $700 million.


Pursuant to the JOBS Act of 2012, as an emerging growth company the Company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period for any new or revised accounting standards that may be issued by the PCAOB or the SEC. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the standard for the private company. This may make comparison of the Company's financial statements with any other public company which is not either an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible as possible different or revised standards may be used.


The Company has elected to use the extended transition period for complying with new or revised financial accounting standards available under Section 102(b)(2)(B) of the Act. Among other things, this means that the Company's independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting so long as it qualifies as an emerging growth company, which may increase the risk that weaknesses or deficiencies in the internal control over financial reporting go undetected. Likewise, so long as it qualifies as an emerging growth company, the Company may elect not to provide certain information, including certain financial information and certain information regarding compensation of executive officers that would otherwise have been required to provide in filings with the SEC, which may make it more difficult for investors and securities analysts to evaluate the Company. As a result, investor confidence in the Company and the market price of its common stock may be adversely affected.


As an Emerging Growth Company our investors could suffer the loss of their investment in the event of a downturn of the economy, the loss of one or more of the Officers or Directors, broad market fluctuations, or revenues and operating results falling below our expectations.


If our product, the CGM Watch, does not gain market acceptance among physicians, patients and the medical community, we will be unable to generate significant revenue, if any.


The CGM Watch that we developed may not achieve market acceptance among physicians, patients, third-party payers and others in the medical community. If we receive the regulatory approvals necessary for commercialization, the degree of market acceptance will depend upon a number of factors, including:


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the establishment and demonstration in the medical community of the clinical efficacy and safety of our product and its potential advantages over existing diagnostic medical devices;


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the prevalence and severity of any side effects;


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our ability to offer our product at an acceptable price;


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the relative convenience and ease of use of our product;


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the strength of marketing and distribution support; and


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sufficient third-party coverage or reimbursement.


The market may not accept the CGM Watch based on any number of the above factors. If the CGM Watch is approved, there may be other therapies available which directly compete for the same target market. The market may choose to continue utilizing the existing products for any number of reasons, including familiarity with or pricing of these existing products. The failure of any of our product to gain market acceptance could impair our ability to generate revenue, which could have a material adverse effect on our future business,


We have no commercial manufacturing facility for our CGM Watch and no experience in manufacturing products for commercial purposes and the failure to find manufacturing partners or create a manufacturing facility ourselves could have an adverse impact on our ability to grow our business.


We have no commercial manufacturing facility for the CGM Watch and no experience in manufacturing commercial quantities of our product. As such, we are dependent on third parties to supply our product according to our specifications, in sufficient quantities, on time, in compliance with appropriate regulatory standards and at competitive prices. We cannot be sure that we will be able to obtain an adequate supply of our product candidates on acceptable terms, or at all.


Manufacturers supplying diagnostic medical devices must comply with regulations which require, among other things, compliance with evolving regulations under Medical Device Directives stipulated under ISO13485. The manufacturing of products at any facility will be subject to strict quality control, testing and record keeping requirements, and continuing obligations regarding the submission of safety reports and other post-market information. Both the sensor and patch manufacturing facilities for the CGM Watch are currently ISO13485 certified. We cannot guarantee that the facilities will continue to pass regulatory inspection, or that future changes to ISO13485 standards will not also affect the manufactures of the sensors and patches.


If we fail to attract and retain senior management, consultants, advisors and scientific and technical personnel, our product development and commercialization efforts could be impaired.


Our performance is substantially dependent on the performance of our senior management and key scientific and technical personnel, particularly Dr. Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Although we have entered into an employment agreement with Dr. Chowdhury, there is no assurance that he will remain in our employ for the entire term of such employment agreement. The loss of the services of any member of our senior management or our scientific or technical staff may significantly delay or prevent the development of our product and other business objectives by diverting management’s attention to transition matters and identification of suitable replacements, if any, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.


We also rely on consultants and advisors to assist us in formulating our research and development strategy. All of our consultants and advisors are either self-employed or employed by other organizations, and they may have conflicts of interest or other commitments, such as consulting or advisory contracts with other organizations, that may affect their ability to contribute to us.


In addition, we believe that we will need to recruit additional executive management and scientific and technical personnel. There is currently intense competition for skilled executives and employees with relevant scientific and technical expertise, and this competition is likely to continue. The inability to attract and retain sufficient scientific, technical and managerial personnel could limit or delay our product development efforts, which would adversely affect the development of our product and commercialization of our potential product and growth of our business.




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We expect to expand our research, development, clinical research and marketing capabilities and, as a result, we may encounter difficulties in managing our growth, which could disrupt our operations.


We expect to have significant growth in expenditures, the number of our employees and the scope of our operations, in particular with respect to those potential products that we elect to commercialize independently or together with others. To manage our anticipated future growth, we must continue to implement and improve our managerial, operational and financial systems, expand our facilities and continue to train qualified personnel. Due to our limited resources, we may not be able to effectively manage the expansion of our operations or train additional qualified personnel. The physical expansion of our operations may lead to significant costs and may divert our management and business development resources. Any inability to manage growth could delay the execution of our business plan or disrupt our operations.

  

We will need to raise additional funds in order to finance the anticipated commercialization of our product by incurring indebtedness, through collaboration and licensing arrangements, or by issuing securities which may cause dilution to existing stockholders, or require us to relinquish rights to our technologies and our product.


Developing our product, conducting clinical trials, establishing manufacturing facilities and developing marketing and distribution capabilities is expensive. We will need to finance future cash needs through additional public or private equity offerings, debt financings or corporate collaboration and licensing arrangements. We cannot be certain that additional funding will be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all. If adequate funds are not available, we may be required to delay, reduce the scope of, or eliminate one or more of our research or development programs or our commercialization efforts. To the extent that we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our stockholders may experience dilution. To the extent that we raise additional funds through collaboration and licensing arrangements, it may be necessary to relinquish some rights to our technologies or our product or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us.


We have a limited operating history and you should not rely on our historical financial data as an indicator of our future financial performance.


We have a limited operating history in the medical device industry. You should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks and difficulties we face with our limited operating history and should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance. In particular, we may face challenges in planning our growth strategy and forecasting market demand accurately as a result of our limited historical data and limited experience in implementing and evaluating our business strategies. If we are unable to successfully address these risks, difficulties and challenges as a result of our limited operating history, our ability to implement our strategic initiatives could be adversely affected, which may in turn have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.


We have a history of losses and may not achieve or maintain profitability.


We have incurred net losses every year since our inception in 2009 and have generated minimal revenue during the development stage from product sales or licenses to date. As of December 31, 2013, we had a deficit accumulated during the development stage of approximately $2,579,764. We may expect to incur losses for the next several years and cannot be certain that we will ever achieve profitability. As a result, our business is subject to all of the risks inherent in the development of a new business enterprise, such as the risk that we may not obtain substantial additional capital needed to support the expenses of developing our technology and commercializing our potential products; develop a market for our potential products; successfully transition from a company with a research focus to a company capable of either manufacturing and selling potential products or profitably licensing our potential products to others; and/or attract and retain qualified management, technical and scientific staff.


We currently have not generated any revenue from product sales and may never become profitable.


To date, we have generated no revenue for product sales and we do not know when or if our product will generate revenue. Our ability to generate revenue depends on a number of factors, including our ability to successfully complete clinical trials for the CGM Watch and obtain regulatory approval to commercialize these potential products. Even then, we will need to establish and maintain sales, marketing, distribution and to the extent we do not outsource manufacturing, manufacturing capabilities. We plan to rely on one or more strategic collaborators to help generate revenues in markets outside of Great Britain however, we cannot be sure that our collaborators, if any, will be successful. Our ability to generate revenue will also be impacted by certain challenges, risks and uncertainties frequently encountered in the establishment of new technologies and products in emerging markets and evolving industries. These challenges include our ability to:


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execute our business model;

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create brand recognition;


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manage growth in our operations;


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create a customer base cost-effectively;


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retain customers;


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access additional capital when required; and


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attract and retain key personnel.


We cannot be certain that our business model will be successful or that it will successfully address these and other challenges, risks and uncertainties. If we are unable to generate significant revenue, we may not become profitable, and we may be unable to continue our operations. Even if we are able to commercialize the CGM Watch, we may not achieve profitability for at least several years, if at all, after generating material revenue. However, we believe that we do not have sufficient cash to fund operations for a minimum of 12 months.


Fluctuations in foreign exchange rates may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.


Our functional currency is the Great Britain Pound Sterling (“GBP”).  The reporting currency is the United States dollar (US$).  Income and expenditures are translated at the average exchange rates prevailing during the reporting period.  Assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates as of balance sheet date.  Stockholder’s equity is translated into United States dollars from GBP at historical exchange rates.  Currency fluctuations and restrictions on currency exchange may adversely affect our business, including limiting our ability to convert GBP into foreign currencies and, if the GBP were to decline in value, reducing our revenue in U.S. dollar terms.  To the extent the U.S. dollar strengthens against foreign currencies, the translation of these foreign currencies denominated transactions results in reduced revenue, operating expenses and net income for our international operations. Similarly, to the extent the U.S. dollar weakens against foreign currencies, the translation of these foreign currency denominated transactions results in increased revenue, operating expenses and net income for our international operations. We are also exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations as we convert the financial statements of our foreign subsidiaries into U.S. dollars in consolidation. If there is a change in foreign currency exchange rates, the conversion of the foreign subsidiaries’ financial statements into U.S. dollars will lead to a translation gain or loss which is recorded as a component of other comprehensive income. We have not entered into agreements or purchased instruments to hedge our exchange rate risks. The availability and effectiveness of any hedging transaction may be limited and we may not be able to successfully hedge our exchange rate risks.


Risks Related to Our Industry


Our competitors may develop products that are less expensive, safer or more effective, which may diminish or eliminate the commercial success of any potential products that we may commercialize.


If our competitor’s market products that are less expensive, safer or more effective than our future products developed from our product candidates, or that reach the market before our products, we may not achieve commercial success. For example, if approved, the CGM Watch’s primary competition in the glucose monitoring device setting will be companies such as Abbott, Dexcom, Echo and Medtronic who produce glucose monitoring devices.   The market may choose to continue utilizing the existing products for any number of reasons, including familiarity with or pricing of these existing products. The failure of our product to compete with products marketed by our competitors would impair our ability to generate revenue, which would have a material adverse effect on our future business, financial condition and results of operations.


We expect to compete with several companies including Abbott, Dexcom, Echo and Medtronic, and our competitors may:


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develop and market products that are less expensive or more effective than our future product;


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commercialize competing products before we can launch any products developed from our product candidate;


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initiate or withstand substantial price competition more successfully than we can;


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have greater success in recruiting skilled technical and scientific workers from the limited pool of available talent;


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more effectively negotiate third-party licenses and strategic relationships; and


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take advantage of acquisition or other opportunities more readily than we can.


We expect to compete for market share against large medical diagnostic device manufacturing companies, smaller companies that are collaborating with larger companies, new companies, and other public and private research organizations.


In addition, our industry is characterized by rapid technological change. Because our research approach integrates many technologies, it may be difficult for us to stay abreast of the rapid changes in each technology. If we fail to stay at the forefront of technological change, we may be unable to compete effectively. Our competitors may render our technologies obsolete by advances in existing technological approaches or the development of new or different approaches, potentially eliminating the advantages in our product discovery process that we believe we derive from our research approach and proprietary technologies.


The use of hazardous materials in our operations may subject us to environmental claims or liabilities.


Our research and development activities involve the use of hazardous chemical materials. Injury or contamination from these materials may occur and we could be held liable for any damages, which could exceed our available financial resources. This liability could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.


We are subject to laws and regulations governing the use, manufacture, storage, handling and disposal of hazardous materials and waste products. We may be required to incur significant costs to comply with environmental laws and regulations in the future that could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.


If we fail to comply with extensive regulations enforced by regulatory agencies with respect to diagnostic medical device products, the commercialization of our product could be prevented, delayed or halted.


Research, preclinical development, clinical trials, manufacturing and marketing of our product is subject to extensive regulation by various government authorities. We have not received marketing approval for the CGM Watch. The process of obtaining the required regulatory approvals is lengthy and expensive, and the time required for such approvals is uncertain. The approval process is affected by such factors as:


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the indication and claims of the diagnostic device;


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the quality of submission relating to the product;


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the product s clinical efficacy and safety;


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the manufacturing facility compliance;


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the availability of alternative devices;


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the risks and benefits demonstrated in clinical trials; and


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the patent status and marketing exclusivity rights of certain innovative products.


Any regulatory approvals that we or our partners receive for our product may also be subject to limitations on the indicated uses for which the product may be marketed or contain requirements for potentially costly post-marketing follow-up studies. The subsequent discovery of previously unknown problems with the product, including adverse events of unanticipated severity or frequency, may result in restrictions on the marketing of the product and withdrawal of the product from the market.


Manufacturing, labeling, storage and distribution activities also are subject to strict regulation and licensing by government authorities. The manufacturing facilities for our product will be subject to periodic inspection by the regulatory authorities and from time to time, these agencies may send notice of deficiencies as a result of such inspections. Our failure or the failure of our



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manufacturing facilities, to continue to meet regulatory standards or to remedy any deficiencies could result in corrective action by the authorities, including the interruption or prevention of marketing, closure of our manufacturing facilities, and fines or penalties.


Regulatory authorities also will require post-marketing surveillance to monitor and report potential adverse effects of our product. If approved, any of our products’ subsequent failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements could, among other things, result in warning letters, fines, suspension or revocation of regulatory approvals, product recalls or seizures, operating restrictions, injunctions and criminal prosecutions.

 

Government policies may change and additional government regulations may be enacted that could prevent or delay regulatory approval of our product. We cannot predict the likelihood, nature or extent of adverse government regulation that may arise from future legislation or administrative action. If we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we might not be permitted to market our product and our business could suffer.


In the future, we intend to distribute and sell our product outside of the United Kingdom and the European Union, which will subject us to further regulatory risk.


In addition to seeking approval from the United Kingdom and the European Union for the CGM Watch, we will seek regulatory approval from the FDA in the United States to market the CGM Watch. We may in the future also seek approvals for additional countries. The regulatory review process varies from country to country, and approval by foreign government authorities is unpredictable, uncertain and generally expensive. The ability to market our product could be substantially limited due to delays in receipt of, or failure to receive, the necessary approvals or clearances.  Marketing of our product in these countries, and in most other countries, is not permitted until we have obtained required approvals or exemptions in each individual country. Failure to obtain necessary regulatory approvals could impair our ability to generate revenue from international sources.


Market acceptance of our product will be limited if users are unable to obtain adequate reimbursement from third-party payers.


Government health administration authorities, private health insurers and other organizations generally provide reimbursement for products like our product and our commercial success will depend in part on these third-party payers agreeing to reimburse patients for the costs of our product. Even if we succeed in bringing our product to market, we cannot assure you that third-party payers will consider our product cost effective or provide reimbursement in whole or in part for its use.


Significant uncertainty exists as to the reimbursement status of newly approved health care products. Our product is intended to replace or alter existing therapies or procedures. These third-party payers may conclude that our product is less safe, effective or cost-effective than these existing therapies or procedures. Therefore, third-party payers may not approve our product for reimbursement.


If third-party payers do not approve our product for reimbursement or fail to reimburse for them adequately, sales will suffer as some physicians or their patients will opt for a competing product that is approved for reimbursement or is adequately reimbursed. Even if third-party payers make reimbursement available, these payers’ reimbursement policies may adversely affect our ability and the ability of our potential collaborators to sell our product on a profitable basis.


The trend toward managed healthcare, the growth of organizations such as health maintenance organizations and legislative proposals to reform healthcare and government insurance programs could significantly influence the purchase of healthcare services and products, resulting in lower prices and reduced demand for our product which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.


In addition, legislation and regulations affecting the pricing of our product may change in ways adverse to us before or after the regulatory agencies approve our product for marketing. While we cannot predict the likelihood of any of these legislative or regulatory proposals, if any government or regulatory agencies adopt these proposals, they could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.


Product liability claims may damage our reputation and, if insurance proves inadequate, the product liability claims may harm our business.


We may be exposed to the risk of product liability claims that is inherent in the diagnostic medical device. A product liability claim may damage our reputation by raising questions about our product’s safety and efficacy and could limit our ability to sell our product by preventing or interfering with commercialization of our product.




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In addition, product liability insurance for our industry is generally expensive to the extent it is available at all. There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain and maintain such insurance on acceptable terms or that we will be able to secure increased coverage if the commercialization of our product progresses, or that future claims against us will be covered by our product liability insurance. Moreover, there can be no assurance that any product liability coverage from any insurance policy and/or any rights of indemnification and contribution that we may have will offset any future claims. We currently do not maintain product liability insurance. A successful claim against us with respect to uninsured liabilities and not subject to any indemnification or contribution could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.


We could be negatively impacted by the application or enforcement of fraud and abuse laws, including anti-kickback laws and other anti-referral laws.


We are not aware of any current business practice which is in violation of any fraud and abuse law. However, continued vigilance to assure compliance with all potentially applicable laws will be a necessary expense associated with product development. For example, all product marketing efforts must be strictly scrutinized to assure that they are not associated with improper remunerations to referral sources in violation of any anti-kickback statutes. Remunerations may include potential future activities for our product, including discounts, rebates and bundled sales, which must be appropriately structured to take advantage of statutory and regulatory “safe harbors.” From time to time we may engage physicians in consulting activities. In addition, we may decide to sponsor continuing medical education activities for physicians or other medical personnel. We also may award or sponsor study grants to physicians from time to time. All relationships with physicians, including consulting arrangements, continuing medical education and study grants, must be similarly reviewed for compliance with any anti-kickback statute to assure that remuneration is not provided in return for referrals. Patient inducements may also be unlawful. Inaccurate reports of product pricing, or a failure to provide a product at an appropriate price to various governmental entities, could also serve as a basis for an enforcement action under various theories.


Claims which are “tainted” by virtue of kickbacks or a violation of self-referral rules may be alleged as false claims if other elements of a violation are established. Because our potential customers may seek payments from healthcare programs for our product, even during the clinical trial stages, we must assure that we take no actions which could result in the submission of false claims. For example, free product samples which are knowingly or with reckless disregard billed to healthcare programs could constitute false claims. If the practice was facilitated or fostered by us, we could be liable. Moreover, inadequate accounting for or a misuse of grant funds used for product research and development could be alleged as a violation of relevant statutes.


The risk of our being found in violation of these laws is increased by the fact that many of them have not been fully interpreted by the regulatory authorities or the courts, and their provisions are open to a variety of interpretations, and additional legal or regulatory change.


Risks Related to Our Common Stock


Our stock price may be volatile.


The stock market, particularly in recent years, has experienced significant volatility particularly with respect to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other diagnostic medical device company stocks. The volatility of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other diagnostic medical device company stocks often does not relate to the operating performance of the companies represented by the stock. Factors that could cause this volatility in the market price of our Common Stock include:


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results from and any delays in our clinical trials;


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failure or delays in entering our product into clinical trials;


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failure or discontinuation of any of our research programs;


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delays in establishing new strategic relationships;


·

delays in the development or commercialization of our product;


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actual and anticipated fluctuations in our financial and operating results;


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developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or other proprietary rights;


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introduction of technological innovations or new commercial products by us or our competitors;


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issues in manufacturing our product;


·

market acceptance of our product;


·

third-party healthcare reimbursement policies;


·

regulatory actions affecting us or our industry;


·

litigation or public concern about the safety of our product; and


·

additions or departures of key personnel.


These and other external factors may cause the market price and demand for our Common Stock to fluctuate substantially, which may limit or prevent investors from readily selling their shares of Common Stock and may otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of our Common Stock. In the past, when the market price of a stock has been volatile, holders of that stock have instituted securities class action litigation against the company that issued the stock. If any of our stockholders brought a lawsuit against us, we could incur substantial costs defending the lawsuit. Such a lawsuit could also divert the time and attention of our management.


We have not paid and may not pay any dividends on our Common Stock.

We have paid no dividends on our Common Stock to date and may not pay dividends to holders of our Common Stock in the foreseeable future. While our future dividend policy will be based on the operating results and capital needs of the business, it is currently anticipated that any earnings will be retained to finance our future expansion and for the implementation of our business plan. As an investor, you should take note of the fact that a lack of a dividend can further affect the market value of our stock, and could significantly affect the value of any investment in our Company.


We will be subject to the reporting requirements of federal securities laws. This can be expensive and may divert resources from other projects, and thus impairing our ability to grow.


We will be subject to the information and reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and other federal securities laws, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”).  The costs of preparing and filing annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC (including reporting of any Merger that may occur in the future) and furnishing audited reports to stockholders will cause our expenses to be higher than they would have been if we had remained privately held.


If we fail to establish and maintain an effective system of internal control, we may not be able to report our financial results accurately or to prevent fraud. Any inability to report and file our financial results accurately and timely could harm our reputation and adversely impact the trading price of our Common Stock.


Upon completion of this offering, we will be subject to reporting obligations under the U.S. securities laws. The Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, adopted rules requiring every public company to include a management report on such company’s internal control over financial reporting in its annual report, which contains management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting.  Our management may conclude that our internal control over our financial reporting is not effective Our reporting obligations as a public company will place a significant strain on our management, operational and financial resources and systems for the foreseeable future.


Prior to this offering, we have been a private company with a short operating history and limited accounting personnel and other resources with which to address our internal control and procedures over financial reporting.  We have identified material weaknesses, which include (i) the limited segregation of duties and a lack of sufficient personnel with an appropriate level of accounting



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knowledge, experience and training in the application of US GAAP commensurate with our financial reporting requirements; (ii) insufficient policies and procedures relating to the consistent development, maintenance and retention of documentation to support the amounts and the disclosures in the financial statements.  We will continue to implement measures to remedy these material weaknesses as well as other deficiencies.  If we fail to timely achieve and maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, we may not be able to conclude that we have effective internal control over financial reporting. Moreover, effective internal control over financial reporting is necessary for us to produce reliable financial reports and is important to help prevent fraud. As a result, our failure to achieve and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could result in the loss of investor confidence in the reliability of our financial statements, which in turn could harm our business and negatively impact the market price of our commons stock.


Effective internal control is necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and prevent fraud. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, we may not be able to manage our business as effectively as we would if an effective control environment existed, and our business and reputation with investors may be harmed. As a result, our small size and any current internal control deficiencies may adversely affect our financial condition, results of operation and access to capital. We have not performed an in-depth analysis to determine if historical un-discovered failures of internal controls exist, and may in the future discover areas of our internal control that need improvement.


Public company compliance may make it more difficult to attract and retain officers and directors.


The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and new rules subsequently implemented by the SEC have required changes in corporate governance practices of public companies. As a public company, we expect these new rules and regulations to increase our compliance costs in 2014 and beyond and to make certain activities more time consuming and costly. As a public company, we also expect that these new rules and regulations may make it more difficult and expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance in the future and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors or as executive officers.


A limited trading market for our Common Stock may result in limited liquidity for shares of our Common Stock and significant volatility in our stock price.


Our Stock is not quoted on the OTCBB or any other exchange and no assurance can be given that an active public trading market will develop or, if developed, that it will be sustained. The OTCBB is generally regarded as a less efficient and less prestigious trading market than other national markets. There is no assurance if or when our Common Stock will be quoted on the OTCBB or another more prestigious exchange or market. Active trading markets generally result in lower price volatility and more efficient execution of buy and sell orders. The absence of an active trading market reduces the liquidity of our Common Stock.


The market price of our stock is likely to be highly volatile because for some time there will likely be a thin trading market for the stock, which causes trades of small blocks of stock to have a significant impact on our stock price. As a result of the lack of trading activity, the quoted price for our Common Stock on the OTCBB is not necessarily a reliable indicator of its fair market value. Further, if we cease to be quoted, holders of our Common Stock would find it more difficult to dispose of, or to obtain accurate quotations as to the market value of, our Common Stock, and the market value of our Common Stock would likely decline.


Our Common Stock will be deemed a “penny stock,” which makes it more difficult for our investors to sell their shares.


Our Common Stock will be subject to the “penny stock” rules adopted under Section 15(g) of the Exchange Act. The penny stock rules generally apply to companies whose common stock is not listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market or other national securities exchange and trades at less than $5.00 per share, other than companies that have had average revenue of at least $6,000,000 for the last three years or that have tangible net worth of at least $5,000,000 ($2,000,000 if the company has been operating for three or more years). These rules require, among other things, that brokers who trade penny stock to persons other than “established customers” complete certain documentation, make suitability inquiries of investors and provide investors with certain information concerning trading in the security, including a risk disclosure document and quote information under certain circumstances. Many brokers have decided not to trade penny stocks because of the requirements of the penny stock rules and, as a result, the number of broker-dealers willing to act as market makers in such securities is limited. If we remain subject to the penny stock rules for any significant period, it could have an adverse effect on the market, if any, for our securities. If our securities are subject to the penny stock rules, investors will find it more difficult to dispose of our securities.


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If our stockholders sell substantial amounts of our Common Stock in the public market upon the expiration of any statutory holding period, under Rule 144, or issued upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, it could create a circumstance commonly referred to as an “overhang” and in anticipation of which the market price of our Common Stock could fall. The existence of an overhang, whether or not sales have occurred or are occurring, also could make more difficult our ability to raise additional financing through the sale of equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that we deem reasonable or appropriate.


The interests of Mr. Chowdhury, or the controlling shareholders, may not always coincide with the interests of us and our other shareholders, and the controlling shareholders may exert significant control or substantial influence over us and may take actions that are not in, or may conflict with, public shareholders’ best interests.


The controlling shareholders will control the exercise of voting rights of over 50 % of the shares eligible to vote in any of our annual or special meeting.  Therefore, these controlling shareholders will be able to exercise significant influence over all matters that require us to obtain shareholder approval, including the election of directors to our board and approval of significant corporate transactions that we may consider, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets.  The controlling shareholders may cause us to take actions that are not in, or may conflict with, the interests of us or the public shareholders. In the case where the interests of the controlling shareholders conflict with those of our other shareholders, or if the controlling shareholders choose to cause us to pursue objectives that would conflict with the interests of our other shareholders, such other shareholders could be left in a disadvantageous position by such actions caused by the controlling shareholders and the price of our common stock could be adversely affected.


FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS


Statements in this prospectus may be “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that express our intentions, beliefs, expectations, strategies, predictions or any other statements relating to our future activities or other future events or conditions. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may, and are likely to, differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including those described above and those risks discussed from time to time in this prospectus, including the risks described under “Risk Factors,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in this prospectus and in other documents which we file with the SEC. In addition, such statements could be affected by risks and uncertainties related to our ability to raise any financing which we may require for our operations, competition, government regulations and requirements, pricing and development difficulties, our ability to make acquisitions and successfully integrate those acquisitions with our business, as well as general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this prospectus, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.



USE OF PROCEEDS


We will receive no proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock offered by the selling security holders.



DETERMINATION OF THE OFFERING PRICE


Our Common Stock is not traded on any national securities exchange and is not quoted on any over-the-counter market. As a result, the selling stockholders may only sell the shares at a fixed price per share.  If our shares become quoted on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board, or are registered on a national securities exchange, the selling stockholders may sell all or a portion of their shares in the over-the-counter market at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, or related to the market price at the time of sale, or at other negotiated prices.  Our offering price was based on the last price per share sold in a private offering.



SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

This prospectus includes 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock offered for resale by the selling stockholders identified below.  The selling stockholders acquired their shares from the Company in private transactions.  We are registering the shares to permit the selling stockholders and their pledgees, donees, transferees and other successors-in-interest that receive their shares from a selling



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stockholder as a gift, partnership distribution or other non-sale related transfer after the date of this prospectus to resell the shares when and as they deem appropriate in the manner described in the “Plan of Distribution”.


The following table details the names of the selling stockholders, the number of shares owned by the selling stockholders, and the number of shares that may be offered by the selling stockholders for resale under this prospectus. The number and percentage of shares beneficially owned is determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act and the information is not necessarily indicative of beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Under such rule, beneficial ownership includes any shares as to which the selling stockholder has sole or shared voting power or investment power and also any shares, which the selling stockholder has the right to acquire within 60 days. Applicable percentage ownership is based on 200,000,000 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of March 26, 2014, together with securities exercisable or convertible into shares of Common Stock within 60 days of such date for the stockholder. Number and percentage owned after the offering assumes the sale of all or none of the shares offered under this prospectus. All shares of Common Stock offered under this prospectus are currently issued and outstanding.  Not all of our shareholders have registered shares in this offering.


The selling stockholders may sell up to 20,000,000 shares of our Common Stock from time to time in one or more offerings under this prospectus. Because the selling stockholders may offer all, some or none of the shares they hold, and because, based upon information provided to us, there are currently no agreements, arrangements, or understandings with respect to the sale of any of the shares, no definitive estimate as to the number of shares that will be held by the selling stockholders after the offering can be provided. The following table has been prepared on the assumption that all or none of the shares offered under this prospectus will be sold to parties unaffiliated with the selling stockholders.  With the exception of Mr. Chowdhury, none of the selling stockholders has been an officer or director of us or any of our predecessors or affiliates within the last three years, nor has any selling stockholder had a material relationship with us except as described in the footnotes below.


Name of Selling Security Holder

Shares Beneficially Owned Prior to Offering

Maximum Number of Shares to be Sold

Amount of Securities Owned After the Offering 3

Percentage of Securities Owned After the Offering 3

Addjab Limited 7

1,200,000

1,200,000

-0-

-0-

Adeeba Ahmed

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Afzul Mohmud

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Ahmed Dadibhai

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Amaira Badat

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Ambreen Hussain

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Ammaar Mohmud

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Anis Jamall

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Asif Mohmud

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Charles Heard

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

David Scott

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Dewan M. H. Chowdhury

4,136,875

4,136,875

-0-

-0-

Dominic Slattery

10,000

10,000

-0-

-0-

East Yield Investment Ltd. 4

2,347,000

2,347,000

-0-

-0-

Faheema Mohmud

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Fazila Timol

200,000

200,000

-0-

-0-

Fortune Lake Mgmt. Ltd. 6

2,347,000

2,347,000

-0-

-0-

Hafsa Bibi Timol

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Hasan Dadibhai

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Hayat Ouziad

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Ibrahaim Patel

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Ismail Makda

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Julie Barton-Naylor

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Julie Pomeroy

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Jumaid Jamall

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Junaid Mansoor

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Karmen Cheung

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Karrar Khan

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Kathryn Farrar

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Khadija Dadibhai

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

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Michael Daniels

165,000

165,000

-0-

-0-

Mohammed Zakir Shaikh

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Muhammad Dadibahi

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Museji Takolia

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Nafeesah Munshi

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Nasira Hasani

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Noorjehan Takolia

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Oves Timol

200,000

200,000

-0-

-0-

Pine Capital Asset Mgt. Inc. 5

7,141,000

7,141,000

-0-

-0-

Rabia Ismail

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Richard Freeman

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Richard Toon

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Riyaz Timol

1,697,125

1,697,125

-0-

-0-

Robert Carson

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Ruksana Khan

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Safira Mohmud

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Safiyyah Ahmed

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Saleha Lokhat

200,000

200,000

-0-

-0-

Sameer Hussain

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Sarfaraz Ismail

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Sohail Hasani

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Somaiya Ravat

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Stephen Metcalf

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Suhayl Ismail

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Susan Gibbons

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Tahseen Rehman Minhas

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Vincent Crabtree

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Waliul Islam

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Wasif Hasani

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Yiqing Han

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Yunus Bhayat

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

Yusuf Timol

200,000

200,000

-0-

-0-

Zohra Adam

3,000

3,000

-0-

-0-

TOTAL

20,000,000

20,000,000

-0-

-0-


(1)

Under applicable SEC rules, a person is deemed to beneficially own securities which the person has the right to acquire within 60 days through the exercise of any option or warrant or through the conversion of a convertible security. Also under applicable SEC rules, a person is deemed to be the “beneficial owner” of a security with regard to which the person directly or indirectly, has or shares (a) voting power, which includes the power to vote or direct the voting of the security, or (b) investment power, which includes the power to dispose, or direct the disposition, of the security, in each case, irrespective of the person’s economic interest in the security. Each listed selling stockholder has the sole investment and voting power with respect to all shares of Common Stock shown as beneficially owned by such selling stockholder, except as otherwise indicated in these footnotes.

(2)

As of March 26, 2014, there were 200,000,000 shares of our Common Stock issued and outstanding. In determining the percent of Common Stock beneficially owned by a selling stockholder as of March 26, 2014, (a) the numerator is the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such selling stockholder (including the shares that he has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 26, 2014), and (b) the denominator is the sum of the 200,000,000 shares of Common Stock outstanding on March 26, 2014.

(3)

Represents the amount and percentage of shares in the event all of the securities are sold during the offering.

(4)

The beneficial owner, shareholder, Officer and Director is Albert Li.

(5)

The beneficial owners and Officers and Directors are Clarence Chan and Victor Lee.

(6)

The beneficial owner, shareholder, Officer and Director is Wong Lap Woon.

(7)

The beneficial owners are Shakeel Arshad and Farrukh Akram, and the Office and Director is Lindsey Daniels.




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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION


The selling stockholders, and any of their donees, pledgees, transferees or other successors-in-interest selling shares of Common Stock received after the date of this prospectus from a selling stockholder as a gift, pledge, partnership distribution or other transfer, may, from time to time, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of their shares of Common Stock on any stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the shares are traded or in private transactions. These dispositions may be at fixed prices, at prevailing market prices at the time of sale, at prices related to the prevailing market price, at varying prices determined at the time of sale, or at negotiated prices. We have not been advised of any arrangements by the selling stockholders for the sale of any of the Common Stock owned by them.


The selling stockholders may use any one or more of the following methods when disposing of shares or interests therein:


·

ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;


·

block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent, but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;


·

crosses, where the same broker acts as an agent on both sides of the trade;


·

purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;


·

an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;


·

privately negotiated transactions;


·

short sales;


·

through the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;


·

broker-dealers may agree with the selling stockholders to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share;


·

a combination of any such methods of sale; and


·

any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law.


The selling stockholders may, from time to time, pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the shares of Common Stock owned by them and, if they default in the performance of their secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the shares of Common Stock, from time to time, under this prospectus, or under an amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act amending the list of selling stockholders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors in interest as selling stockholders under this prospectus. The selling stockholders also may transfer the shares of Common Stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees, pledgees or other successors in interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus; provided, however, that prior to any such transfer the following information (or such other information as may be required by the federal securities laws from time to time) with respect to each such selling beneficial owner must be added to the prospectus by way of a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment, as appropriate: (1) the name of the selling beneficial owner; (2) any material relationship the selling beneficial owner has had within the past three years with us or any of our predecessors or affiliates; (3) the amount of securities of the class owned by such security beneficial owner before the transfer; (4) the amount to be offered for the security beneficial owner’s account; and (5) the amount and (if one percent or more) the percentage of the class to be owned by such security beneficial owner after the transfer is complete.


Any selling stockholder and any other person participating in a distribution will be subject to applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations under that statute, including, without limitation, possibly Regulation M. This may limit the timing of purchases and sales of any of the securities by a selling stockholder and any other participating person. Regulation M may also restrict the ability of any person engaged in the distribution of the securities to engage in market-making activities with respect to the securities. All of the foregoing may affect the marketability of the securities and the ability of any person or entity to engage in market-making activities with respect to the securities.



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DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED

This prospectus relates to the public offering of up to 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock by the selling stockholders. The total amount of shares consists of 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock that are currently issued and outstanding.


Authorized Capital Stock

 

We have authorized 420,000,000 shares of capital stock, par value $0.001 per share which are shares of Common Stock.  We have no authorized preferred stock.


Common Stock


The holders of our Common Stock are entitled to one vote per share. In addition, the holders of our Common Stock will be entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by our board of directors out of legally available funds; however, the current policy of our board of directors is to retain earnings, if any, for operations and growth. Upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, the holders of our Common Stock will be entitled to share ratably in all assets that are legally available for distribution. The holders of our Common Stock will have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights.  The holders of our Common Stock do not have cumulative rights in the election of directors. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of our Common Stock will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any series of preferred stock, which may be designated solely by action of our board of directors and issued in the future.


Warrants


We have issued no warrants as of the date of this prospectus.   


Anti-takeover Effects of Our Articles of Incorporation and By-laws


Our articles of incorporation do not provide any provisions that may have anti-takeover effects, making it more difficult for or preventing a third party from acquiring control of our company or changing our board of directors and management.  The holders of our common stock do not have cumulative voting rights in the election of our directors, which makes it more difficult for minority stockholders to be represented on the board.  The existence of authorized but unissued shares of common stock could render more difficult or discourage an attempt to obtain control of our company by means of a proxy contest, tender offer, merger, or otherwise.


Our By-laws do not provide any provisions that may have anti-takeover effects.


Anti-takeover Effects of Nevada Law

Business Combinations


The “business combination” provisions of Sections 78.411 to 78.444, inclusive, of the Nevada Revised Statutes, or NRS, generally prohibit a Nevada corporation with at least 200 stockholders of record, a “resident domestic corporation,” from engaging in various “combination” transactions with any “interested stockholder” unless certain conditions are met or the corporation has elected in its articles of incorporation to not be subject to these provisions.  We have not elected to opt out of these provisions and if we meet the definition of resident Domestic Corporation, now or in the future, our company will be subject to these provisions.


A “combination” is generally defined to include (a) a merger or consolidation of the resident domestic corporation or any subsidiary of the resident domestic corporation with the interested stockholder or affiliate or associate of the interested stockholder; (b) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer, or other disposition, in one transaction or a series of transactions, by the resident domestic corporation or any subsidiary of the resident domestic corporation to or with the interested stockholder or affiliate or associate of the interested stockholder having: (i) an aggregate market value equal to 5% or more of the aggregate market value of the assets of the resident domestic corporation, (ii) an aggregate market value equal to 5% or more of the aggregate market value of all outstanding shares of the resident domestic corporation, or (iii) 10% or more of the earning power or net income of the resident domestic corporation; (c) the issuance or transfer in one transaction or series of transactions of shares of the resident domestic corporation or any subsidiary of the resident domestic corporation having an aggregate market value equal to 5% or more of the resident domestic corporation to the interested stockholder or affiliate or associate of the interested stockholder; and (d) certain other transactions with an interested stockholder or affiliate or associate of the interested stockholder.



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An “interested stockholder” is generally defined as a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns (or within three years, did own) 10% or more of a corporation’s voting stock. An “affiliate” of the interested stockholder is any person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries is controlled by or is under common control with the interested stockholder. An “associate” of an interested stockholder is any (a) corporation or organization of which the interested stockholder is an officer or partner or is directly or indirectly the beneficial owner of 10% or more of any class of voting shares of such corporation or organization; (b) trust or other estate in which the interested stockholder has a substantial beneficial interest or as to which the interested stockholder serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity; or (c) relative or spouse of the interested stockholder, or any relative of the spouse of the interested stockholder, who has the same home as the interested stockholder.


If applicable, the prohibition is for a period of two years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless such transaction is approved by the board of directors prior to the date the interested stockholder obtained such status; or the combination is approved by the board of directors and thereafter is approved at a meeting of the stockholders by the affirmative vote of stockholders representing at least 60% of the outstanding voting power held by disinterested stockholders; and extends beyond the expiration of the two-year period, unless (a) the combination was approved by the board of directors prior to the person becoming an interested stockholder; (b) the transaction by which the person first became an interested stockholder was approved by the board of directors before the person became an interested stockholder; (c) the transaction is approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power held by disinterested stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose no earlier than two years after the date the person first became an interested stockholder; or (d) if the consideration to be paid to all stockholders other than the interested stockholder is, generally, at least equal to the highest of: (i) the highest price per share paid by the interested stockholder within the three years immediately preceding the date of the announcement of the combination or in the transaction in which it became an interested stockholder, whichever is higher, plus compounded interest and less dividends paid, (ii) the market value per share of common shares on the date of announcement of the combination and the date the interested stockholder acquired the shares, whichever is higher, plus compounded interest and less dividends paid, or (iii) for holders of preferred stock, the highest liquidation value of the preferred stock, plus accrued dividends, if not included in the liquidation value. With respect to (i) and (ii) above, the interest is compounded at the rate for one-year United States Treasury obligations from time to time in effect.


Applicability of the Nevada business combination statute would discourage parties interested in taking control of our company if they cannot obtain the approval of our board of directors. These provisions could prohibit or delay a merger or other takeover or change in control attempt and, accordingly, may discourage attempts to acquire our company even though such a transaction may offer our stockholders the opportunity to sell their stock at a price above the prevailing market price.


Control Share Acquisitions


The “control share” provisions of Sections 78.411 to 78.444, inclusive, of the Nevada Revised Statutes, apply to “issuing corporations” that are Nevada corporations with at least 200 stockholders of record, including at least 100 stockholders of record who are Nevada residents, and that conduct business directly or indirectly in Nevada, unless the corporation has elected to not be subject to these provisions.


The control share statute prohibits an acquirer of shares of an issuing corporation, under certain circumstances, from voting its shares of a corporation’s stock after crossing certain ownership threshold percentages, unless the acquirer obtains approval of the target corporation’s disinterested stockholders. The statute specifies three thresholds: (a) one-fifth or more but less than one-third, (b) one-third but less than a majority, and (c) a majority or more, of the outstanding voting power. Generally, once a person acquires shares in excess of any of the thresholds, those shares and any additional shares acquired within 90 days thereof become “control shares” and such control shares are deprived of the right to vote until disinterested stockholders restore the right. These provisions also provide that if control shares are accorded full voting rights and the acquiring person has acquired a majority or more of all voting power, all other stockholders who do not vote in favor of authorizing voting rights to the control shares are entitled to demand payment for the fair value of their shares in accordance with statutory procedures established for dissenters’ rights.


A corporation may elect to not be governed by, or “opt out” of, the control share provisions by making an election in its articles of incorporation or bylaws, provided that the opt-out election must be in place on the 10 th day following the date an acquiring person has acquired a controlling interest, that is, crossing any of the three thresholds described above.  We have not opted out of these provisions and will be subject to the control share provisions of the NRS if we meet the definition of an issuing corporation upon an acquiring person acquiring a controlling interest unless we later opt out of these provisions and the opt out is in effect on the 10 th day following such occurrence.


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meeting of the stockholders.  The Nevada control share law, if applicable, could have the effect of discouraging takeovers of our company based on the following organizational structure.


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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS


Corporate History Overview


We are a development stage company as defined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) No. 915 Development Stage Entities.  Since inception we have devoted substantially all of our efforts establishing a new business and while operations have commenced we have generated no revenue from our limited operations.


We are a holding corporation that owns one hundred percent (100%) of a diagnostic medical device company specializing in discovering, developing and commercializing specialty medical devices.  We were organized on December 24, 2013 under the laws of the State of Nevada.   We own one hundred percent (100%) of Region Green Limited, a British Virgin Islands corporation formed on December 12, 2013.  Region Green Limited owns one hundred percent (100%) of the stock in Dermal Diagnostic (Holdings) Limited, an England and Wales corporation formed on December 11, 2013.  We own one hundred percent (100%) of the stock in Dermal Diagnostics Limited, an England and Wales corporation formed on January 23, 2009 and Trial Clinic Limited, an England and Wales corporation formed on December 1, 2011.  


In December 2013, we restructured the company and re-domiciled as a domestic corporation in the United States.  The corporate re-organization was accomplished to preserve the tax advantages under the laws of the England and Wales tax laws for the benefit of the shareholders of both Dermal Diagnostics Limited and Trial Clinic Limited.


Dermal Diagnostics Limited (“DDL”), an England and Wales corporation, is a diagnostic medical device company headquartered in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. DDL was founded in 2009 to engage in the discovery, development and commercialization of  diagnostic medical devices. The Company’s initial focus has been on the development of a novel continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device which consists of a disposable patch containing a sensor, and a non-disposable miniature electronic watch with a re-chargeable power source. CGM through a non-invasive patch can enable early detection of subtle changes in blood glucose levels.


Manufacturers for our sensors are Parlex,(a division of Johnson Electrics) Isle of White, UK ; Polarseal Limited, Surrey, England for our patches; and CIL Limited located in Andover, UK for the manufacture of our electronics.


Our clinical testing will be conducted by contract clinical research organizations. These will be conducted in various centers around the world to cover a wide demographic – including the Middle East, Asia, and Europe and the USA – all of which are managed by our in-house medical devices director.



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Our business is conducted through our wholly owned subsidiaries Dermal Diagnostics Limited and Trial Clinic Limited. The discussion of our business in this prospectus is that of our current business which is conducted through Dermal Diagnostics Limited and Trial Clinic Limited.  The organizational diagram below shows our current business structure.



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Our Products


We currently have one (1) CGM watch product.  The CGM Watch is purely the packaging for the electronics that control and receive feedback from the “sensor-patch” which is our patented technology.  Additionally, we have identified the potential for the CGM watch to be useful in the mobile phone application with wireless data transmission from the watch.  The CGM Watch is a continuous glucose monitoring device which consists of a disposable patch containing a sensor, and a non-disposable miniature electronic watch with a re-chargeable power source. The system applies a very small electrical current to the skin, which leads to efficient extraction of glucose from the body into a chamber in the patch. The glucose sensor detects the level of glucose and stores the data on an internal memory platform, as well as displaying the glucose reading on an LCD display.  An alarm is set-off when the reading is 'out of range'. The technique utilized in this device has been the subject of extensive studies with over twenty (20) clinical reports in the public domain, and is the only non-invasive technique to have been approved by both the FDA and EMEA. The effectiveness of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) in blood sugar control facilitates the therapeutic adjustments to avoid hypo-glycemic and hyper-glycemic excursions.


Additional applications for the CGM Watch may include:


·

Mobile Phone Application with wireless data transmission from watch;


·

Development of a Web-server accessed by physicians and diabetic professionals to track the condition remotely thereby reducing healthcare costs and managing the condition more effectively;


·

A complete virtual GP that monitors a person s vital signs and transmits results via the web; and


·

With further investment, other patches can be developed which are able to measure alternative analytes, including lactates, uric acid, lithium and drugs.  This would be a step-change in the monitoring of conditions, particularly in the hospital setting.  Lactate monitoring is currently used to determine the relative fitness of professional athletes.




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Our Business Strategy


We are a development stage company as defined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ASC No. 915.  Since inception we have devoted substantially all of our efforts establishing a new business and while operations have commenced we have generated no revenue from our limited operations.  We intend to lead in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative and targeted diagnostic medical devices that improve disease monitoring, management and overall patient care. We plan to take the following steps to implement our strategy:


·

Seek regulatory approval for the CGM Watch in the United Kingdom and the European Union and in other selective countries including the Middle East.   We plan to perform clinical trials in the United Kingdom and the European Union and Middle East for our product.  If we achieve regulatory approval, we would expect to license our product outside of the United Kingdom and the European Union and may seek regulatory approval in the United States to support our licensing capabilities.

 

·

Develop our own specialty sales and marketing teams to market the CGM Watch in the United Kingdom and the European Union. We intend to develop specialty sales teams and/or enter into licensing agreements with established marketing companies for production and distribution of our product in the United Kingdom and the European Union.


·

Expand the indications for which the CGM Watch may be used . We believe that the CGM Watch may offer other significant benefits other than those found in the non-acute setting for the monitoring of other diseases.


·

Expand our product pipeline through our proprietary platform technologies, acquisitions and strategic licensing arrangements. We intend to leverage our proprietary platform technologies to grow our portfolio of product candidates for the diagnosis of diabetes and other diseases. In addition, we intend to license our product and acquire products and technologies that are consistent with our research and development and business focus and strategies.


Product Development


Management has extensive experience in regulatory and clinical development of diagnostic medical devices. We intend to take advantage of our extensive clinical research and development experience in the field of diagnostic medical devices in an attempt to increase the probability of product approval.  We believe that while the overall regulatory process for diagnostic medical devices for diabetes is currently similar to those governing other diagnostic devices, the development timelines may be significantly shorter. Whereas typical clinical trials involving pharmaceuticals must be monitored over long periods (often years), diagnostic medical devices for diabetes may take significantly less time to evaluate. This shortened clinical development time relative to pharmaceuticals is a function of the speed with which a diabetes diagnostic medical device can be tested and evaluated for its clinical output, in this case the accuracy with which it can trend blood glucose levels, which is in the order of several hours and days to see the end point, as compared to several months and years where drugs undergo clinical studies. Also, because the results of the absorption of glucose through the patch are instantaneous, the clinical trials do not initially require long term follow-up for primary endpoints that typically may take significant periods of time to evaluate. Accordingly, we believe our clinical trials may enroll quickly and that the evaluable data will be made available to us in similar fashion. When taken together, we believe our experience in the clinical development of diabetes diagnostic medical devices, familiarity with the regulatory approval process in the United Kingdom and the European Union and shorter development times may allow for our first product to emerge onto the commercial markets within 2 years.  As we continue to raise funds for marketing the device in some European Union territories, we will also collaborate with future licensees and marketing partners to achieve our product development and meet our projected milestones.


Product Development Timelines


Milestone

Target Completion Date

Production and safety testing of devices for clinical test

April 31, 2014

Production and testing and verification of up to 100 devices for clinical test

June 30 2014

Ethics approval for clinical testing

June 30, 2014

Submission for first CE approval with first set of claims

August 31, 2014

File algorithm patent in all major global territories

September 30, 2014

Clinical testing phases I to III to define device claims

December 31, 2014

Manufacturing development of devices

December 31, 2014

Manufacturing development of sensors

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Market Opportunity for the Company’s Products

 

According to the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas (the “IDF”), there are approximately 382 million people in the world who have diabetes as of December 2013.  The IDF is predicting that by 2035 this will rise to 592 million people.  The number of people with type 2 diabetes is increasing in every country and currently eighty percent (80%) of people with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries.  The greatest number of people with diabetes is between 40 and 59 years of age.


Statistics published by the IDF report that diabetes is a huge and growing problem, and the costs to society are high and escalating. In addition, Europe has the highest prevalence of children with type 1 diabetes.  


Statistical Data for Diabetes in Europe


 

2013

2035

Adult population

(20-79 years, millions)

659

669

Diabetes (20 – 79 years)

Regional prevalence (%)

8.5

10.3

Comparative prevalence (%)

6.8

7.1

Number of people with diabetes

(millions)

56.3

68.9

Impaired Glucose Tolerance (20 – 79 years)

Regional prevalence (%)

9.2

11.0

Comparative prevalence (%)

8.1

8.9

Number of people with IGT (millions)

60.6

73.7

Type 1 diabetes (0 – 14 years)

Number of children with type 1

diabetes (thousands)

129.4

-

Number of newly diagnosed cases per year (thousands)

20.0

-


Each year approximately 600,000 people die from diabetes in Europe.   


Deaths From Diabetes

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Europe has the highest incidence of children with type 1 diabetes according to data supplied from IDF.org. The top five countries for the number of people afflicted with diabetes in Europe are listed in the table below.


Top 5 Countries In Europe For People Afflicted With Diabetes 20-79 Years (2013)


Countries/Territories

Millions

Russian Federation

10.9

Germany

7.6

Turkey

7

Spain

3.8

Italy

3.6




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Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone needed to allow sugar (glucose) to enter cells to produce energy. The far more common type 2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or doesn't make enough insulin.


Various factors may contribute to type 1 diabetes including genetics and exposure to certain viruses. Although type 1 diabetes typically appears during childhood or adolescence, it also can develop in adults.


Despite active research, type 1 diabetes has no cure, although it can be managed. With proper treatment, people who have type 1 diabetes can expect to live longer, healthier lives than they did in the past.  Type 1diabetes includes autoimmune type 1 diabetes (type 1a) which is characterized by having positive autoantibodies, as well as idiopathic type 1 diabetes (type 1b) where autoantibodies are negative and c-peptide is low.  Patients with type 1 diabetes (insulin dependent) require long term treatment with exogenous insulin and these patients perform self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) to calculate the appropriate dose of insulin. SMBG is done by using blood samples obtained by finger sticks but frequent SMBG does not detect all the significant deviations in blood glucose, specifically in patients who have rapidly fluctuating glucose levels.


Type 2 diabetes, once known as adult-onset or noninsulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition that affects the way your body metabolizes sugar (glucose), your body's main source of fuel. With type 2 diabetes, your body either resists the effects of insulin, a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into your cells, or doesn't produce enough insulin to maintain a normal glucose level. Untreated, type 2 diabetes can be life-threatening.


More common in adults, type 2 diabetes increasingly affects children as childhood obesity increases. There's no cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can be managed by eating well, exercising and maintaining a healthy weight. If diet and exercise don't control the blood sugar, diabetes medications or insulin therapy may be required.


Each year, millions of patients undergo diabetes testing in the European Union and in the United States. The main reason for this testing is to detect and evaluate diabetes in patients with symptoms of diabetes. These studies provide clinical benefit in the initial evaluation of patients with suspected but unproven diabetes, and in those patients in whom a diagnosis of diabetes has been established and information on prognosis or risk is required.


We believe that our market opportunity is a direct function of the number of persons tested, diagnosed and treated for either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. The IDF indicates that the total world market opportunity for a continuous glucose monitoring device is in the billions of dollars and is projected to grow annually through the year 2035. We estimate the potential market opportunity five years following the approval of our first product at between $1billion and $7 billion annually.


CGM Watch Market Opportunity


We do not believe it is possible to estimate the number of diabetes patients that undergo finger pricks or other types of invasive glucose monitoring. However we believe there is no product currently on the market that may allow for non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring.  We believe the CGM Watch may be readily adopted by the medical community for the assessment of a patient continuously.


We believe our non-invasive CGM Watch possesses many significant advantages and may represent an ideal device for the detection of discordances in an individual’s blood sugar levels, and the identification of jeopardized hyper and hypo glycemic excursions. If approved for commercialization, we believe the CGM Watch may represent a best in class non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring device to reach those afflicted with diabetes. While we cannot estimate the market share that our CGM Watch may capture, we assume that the CGM Watch will capture a significant share of the non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring market.


Commercialization Plan


The Company intends to develop its products through the completion of stage II studies and/or stage III studies, designed to verify the claims that the device may be used as an adjunct to finger-stick measurement, at which point it will seek to partner with organizations that may facilitate the further development and distribution of its products. The Company intends also to seek early in the research and development cycle, strategic partners for programs that may fall outside of the Company s core competencies.




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Competition


We expect to compete with several medical device manufacturing companies including Dexcom, Abbott, Echo and Medtronic, and our competitors may:


·

develop and market products that are less expensive or more effective than our future product;

·

commercialize competing products before we or our partners can launch any products developed by us;

·

operate larger research and development programs or have substantially greater financial resources than we do;

·

initiate or withstand substantial price competition more successfully than we can;

·

have greater success in recruiting skilled technical and scientific workers from the limited pool of available talent;

·

more effectively negotiate third-party licenses and strategic relationships; and

·

take advantage of acquisition or other opportunities more readily than we can.


We will compete for market share against large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, smaller companies that are collaborating with larger pharmaceutical companies, new companies, academic institutions, government agencies and other public and private research organizations. Many of these competitors, either alone or together with their partners, may develop new products that will compete with ours, and these competitors may, and in certain cases do, operate larger research and development programs or have substantially greater financial resources than we do.


We believe that when the CGM Watch is approved for sales, it will be the current standard for companies that are engaged in the development and commercialization of diagnostic medical devices for diabetes continuous glucose monitoring. We do see competition coming from specific competitors for the CGM Watch.  It is difficult to analyze Nemaura’s major competitors since there are no non-invasive diagnostic medical devices to continuously monitor blood glucose levels.  At the present time Echo Therapeutics, Inc.  (NASDAQ: ECTE) has submitted an application to the Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark Technical File to its European Notified Body to obtain market approval for its Symphony CGM System in the hospital critical care environment.  This device is for continuous glucose blood level monitoring in a critical care environment in hospitals.  This device does require the removal of the top layer of skin.  As a result we do not believe this device to be a direct competitor to our product.


Competitors Data


Feature

Abbott FreeStyle Navigator

MiniMed Paradigm® REAL-Time System

MiniMed Guardian® REAL-Time System

DexCom™ SEVEN® PLUS

Photos

[NEMAURAS1009.JPG]

Photo from DexCom

[NEMAURAS1010.JPG] MiniMed Paradigm REAL-Time with new, smaller MiniLinkTM Transmitter Photo from Medtronic MiniMed

[NEMAURAS1011.JPG] Guardian REAL-Time System with new, smaller MiniLinkTM Transmitter Photo from Medtronic MiniMed

[NEMAURAS1012.JPG] Photo from DexCom

Availablility

Across the US

Across the US

Across the US

Across the US

FDA approval

March 13, 2008 for adults 18+

Children 7-17 and Adults 18+

Children 7-17 and Adults 18+

March 2006 for adults 18 and older

Communicates with an insulin pump

No

Yes, communicates with the Paradigm 522 and 722 pumps

No

No

Accuracy

 

Consensus Error Grid: 98.9% A+B MARD (Mean) - 19.7% MARD (Median) - 15.6%

Consensus Error Grid: 98.9% A+B MARD (Mean) - 19.7%

MARD (Median) - 15.6%

Clark Error Grid 97% A&B; Median 11.4%; Mean 15.7%




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Accuracy

GluocoWatch Biographer data for comparison:

MARD: 17% to 21%

Clarke Error Grid A+B: 94% Clarke Error Grid A: 60%

Skin-intrusive

yes

yes

yes

yes

Start-up

Initialization Time

2 hours

2 hours

2 hours

2 hours

10 hours

Calibrate at 10, 12, 24 and 72 hours after insertion with no further calibration for the final 2 days of the 5 day wear

First calibration is 2 hours after insertion. Second calibration within next 6 hours after first, then every 12 hours. Will alarm if calibration value not entered.

First calibration is 2 hours after insertion. Second calibration within next 6 hours after first, then every 12 hours. Will alarm if calibration value not entered.

Calibrate every 12 hours, first calibration must have 2 done within 30 minutes of each other. Can calibrate at any glucose rate of change (blood glucose need not be stable).

Displays glucose numbers

Every 1 minute

Every 5 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Computer Software

Freestyle CoPilot

Carelink™ Personal Software

Carelink™ Personal Software

DexCom Data Manager® 3 Software

Warranty

 

6 months on transmitter, 4 years on insulin pump

9 months on transmitter, 1 year on monitor

1 year warranty for receiver and transmitter

FDA Approval Links

FreeStyle Navigator® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System -P050020

Paradigm REAL-Time and Guardian REAL-Time Systems P980022/S015

Paradigm REAL-Time and Guardian REAL-Time Systems P980022/S015

STS-7 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System - P050012/S001


Intellectual Property


Nemaura has retained qualified patent counsel, Serjeants LLP in Leicester, UK in all matters relating to our technologies.  The Company believes that clear and extensive patent coverage for its technologies is central to long-term success and will invest accordingly.  This applies to both domestic and international patent coverage.


Nemaura has obtained the licenses to its patents and patent applications from any and all necessary assignees that are the patent assignee in each case.  These patents cover all of the Company’s lead technologies and include additional indications that are outside the field of diabetes diagnostic medical devices.  The Company intends to take the lead in the preservation and/or prosecution of these patents and patent applications going forward as required.


Following is a list of our patents pending:


Patent Applications Pending

Australian Patent Application 200965416

Brazilian Patent Application P10915328-4

Canadian Patent Application 2766331

Chinese Patent Application 200980130090.3

Indian Patent Application 218-KOLNP/2011

Japanese Patent Application 2011-51599

United Kingdom Patent Application 1208950.4


Governmental Regulations


Government authorities in the United Kingdom and Wales and the European Union as well as other foreign countries extensively regulate, among other things, the research, development, testing, manufacture, labeling, promotion, advertising, distribution, sampling, marketing and import and export of medical devices, including patches and other pharmaceutical products. Our Patches for Reverse Iontophoresis in the United Kingdom and Wales will be subject to strict regulation and require regulatory approval prior to commercial distribution. The process of obtaining governmental approvals and complying with ongoing regulatory requirements requires the expenditure of substantial time and financial resources. In addition, statutes, rules, regulations and policies may change



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and new legislation or regulations may be issued that could delay such approvals. If we fail to comply with applicable regulatory requirements at any time during the product development process, approval process, or after approval, we may become subject to administrative or judicial sanctions. These sanctions could include the authority’s refusal to approve pending applications, withdrawals of approvals, clinical holds, warning letters, product recalls, product seizures, total or partial suspension of our operations, injunctions, fines, civil penalties or criminal prosecution. Any agency enforcement action could have a material adverse effect on us.


The European Commission on Public Health (the “ECPH”) provides the regulation for the development and commercialization of new medical diagnostic devices.  Any medical device placed on the European market must comply with the relevant legislation, notably with Directive 93/42/EEC, with the active implantable devices Directive 90/385/EEC or with the in vitro devices Directive 98/79/EC. We must first determine whether the device we intend to manufacture or import falls under any of these directives.  All medical devices must fulfil the essential requirements set out in the above mentioned directives.  Where available relevant standards may be used to demonstrate compliance with the essential requirements defined in the devices Directives.  


Manufacturers also need to determine the appropriate conformity assessment route. For devices falling under Directive 93/42/EEC other than custom-made devices and devices intended for clinical investigation, the conformity assessment route depends on the class of the device, to be determined in accordance with certain rules set forth in the directives.


Once the applicable class or list has been determined, manufacturers need to follow the appropriate conformity assessment procedure. Subject to the type of the device, this may require manufacturers to have their quality systems and technical documentation reviewed by a Notified Body before they can place their products on the market.  A Notified Body is a third party body that can carry out a conformity assessment recognized by the European Union. The Notified Body will need to assure itself that relevant requirements have been met before issuing relevant certification. Manufacturers can then place the CE marking on their products to demonstrate compliance with the requirements.


Other Regulation in the United Kingdom and Wales and the EU


Healthcare Reimbursement


Government and private sector initiatives to limit the growth of healthcare costs, including price regulation, competitive pricing, coverage and payment policies, and managed-care arrangements, are continuing in many countries where we do business, including the United Kingdom and Wales. These changes are causing the marketplace to put increased emphasis on the delivery of more cost-effective medical products. Government programs, private healthcare insurance and managed-care plans have attempted to control costs by limiting the amount of reimbursement they will pay for particular procedures or treatments. This has created an increasing level of price sensitivity among customers for products. Some third-party payers must also approve coverage for new or innovative devices or therapies before they will reimburse healthcare providers who use the medical devices or therapies. Even though a new medical product may have been cleared for commercial distribution, we may find limited demand for the product until reimbursement approval has been obtained from governmental and private third-party payers.


Environmental Regulation


We are also subject to various environmental laws and regulations both within and outside the United Kingdom and Wales. Like many other medical device companies, our operations involve the use of substances, including hazardous wastes, which are regulated under environmental laws, primarily manufacturing and sterilization processes. We do not expect that compliance with environmental protection laws will have a material impact on our consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flow. These laws and regulations are all subject to change, however, and we cannot predict what impact, if any, such changes might have on our business, financial condition or results of operations.


Foreign Regulation


Whether or not we obtain regulatory approval for a product, we must obtain approval from the comparable regulatory authorities of foreign countries before we can commence clinical trials or marketing of the product in those countries. The approval process varies from country to country, and the time may be longer or shorter than that required for EC approval. The requirements governing the conduct of clinical trials, product licensing, pricing and reimbursement also vary greatly from country to country.


Under European Union regulatory systems, we may submit marketing authorization applications under a decentralized procedure. The decentralized procedure provides for mutual recognition of national approval decisions. Under this procedure, the holder of a national marketing authorization may submit an application to the remaining member states. Within 90 days of receiving the applications and



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assessment report, each member state must decide whether to recognize approval. This procedure is referred to as the mutual recognition procedure, or called the MRP.


In addition, regulatory approval of prices is required in most countries other than the United States. We face the risk that the prices which result from the regulatory approval process would be insufficient to generate an acceptable return to us or our collaborators.


Employees


We currently have three (3) full-time and two part-time employees to manage the ongoing operation, though it is expected that selective hires will be made to allow us to manage ongoing clinical trials.  The company anticipates augmenting the staff with eleven (11) full-time and two (2) part-time employees during the fiscal year 2014.



DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY


Our offices are located in Charnwood Building Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.  The offices house our headquarters; offices; laboratory; and small in-house manufacturing facility. The monthly rent is $3,884.  The lease is for a term of one (1) year expiring on December 31, 2014.  We believe that we will be able to continue on a year to year lease for as long as necessary.



LEGAL PROCEEDINGS


We do not know of any material, active, pending or threatened proceeding against us or our subsidiaries, nor are we, or any subsidiary, involved as a plaintiff or defendant in any material proceeding or pending litigation.



MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL

CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

This report contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements containing the words “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “projects,” “will,” and other words of similar import or the negative of those terms or expressions. Forward-looking statements in this report include, but are not limited to, expectations of future levels of research and development spending, general and administrative spending, levels of capital expenditures and operating results, sufficiency of our capital resources, our intention to pursue and consummate strategic opportunities available to us, including sales of certain of our assets. Forward-looking statements subject to certain known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  

 

Corporate Overview

 

We are a development stage company as defined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ASC No. 915.  Since inception we have devoted substantially all of our efforts establishing a new business and while operations have commenced we have generated no revenue from our limited operations.  We are a holding company for a diagnostic medical device company and a clinical trial company specializing in discovering, developing and commercializing diagnostic medical devices with initial applications in the area of diabetes.

 

The Company was organized on December 24, 2013 under the laws of the State of Nevada. Due to the corporate tax laws of the United Kingdom we have re-organized our corporate structure to provide the continuity of ownership of the common stock for our original incorporator and subsequent investors and protect their tax incentives for long term capital gain.




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Corporate Structure Diagram [NEMAURAS1014.GIF]

Recent Developments

 

In November of 2013 the Board of Directors of the Company chose to move forward into the public markets.  The Board has elected to file a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and a Form 211 Application with FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) for a trading symbol on the OTCBB.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards if currently adopted would have a material effect on the accompanying financial statements.

 

  Critical Accounting Policies


Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted. It is suggested that these consolidated financial statements be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto. The results of operations for interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full fiscal year.


Research and Development Expenses


The Company charges research and development expenses to operations as incurred. Research and development expenses primarily consist of salaries and related expenses for personnel and outside contractor and consulting services. Other research and development expenses include the costs of materials and supplies used in research and development, prototype manufacturing, clinical studies, related information technology and an allocation of facilities costs.


Income taxes


Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, and operating loss carry forwards. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is provided to reduce the carrying amount of deferred income tax assets if it is considered more likely than not that some portion, or all, of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized.

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Recognized income tax positions are measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. The Company has elected to classify interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as part of income tax expense in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.

 

Results Of Operations

Nine Months Ended December 31, 2013 Compared To The Nine Months Ended December 31, 2012

 

Revenue

 

We are a development stage company that has since inception that has devoted substantially all of its efforts establishing a new business and while operations have commenced we have generated no revenue from our limited operations.  There were no operating revenues for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development expenses were $253,043 and $494,042 for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The decrease was primarily due to increases in clinical trial expenses being performed in house rather than the use subcontractors.  We expect research and development expenses to increase in future periods as we continue our clinical studies of our CGM Watch and pursue our strategic opportunities.


General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative expenses were $171,064 and $128,887 for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.  General and administrative expenses increased approximately 33% due to increases in consultants and regulatory fees.  We expect general and administrative expenses to increase going forward, in the long term, as we proceed to move our technologies forward toward commercialization.

  

Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2013 compared to the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012

 

Revenue

 

During each of the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, we had no revenues, and are considered a development stage company.  We do not expect to have revenues relating to our products prior to December 31, 2014.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development expenses were $658,724 and $580,437 for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The increase was primarily due to increases in clinical trial expenses overall in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. We expect research and development expenses to continue to increase in future periods as we continue our clinical studies of our CGM Watch and pursue our strategic opportunities.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative expenses were $171,850 and $118,333 for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The increase was due to additional management of subcontractors, and legal regulatory consultancy and quality systems development and implementation. We expect general and administrative expenses to increase going forward, in the long term, as we proceed to move our technologies forward toward commercialization.

 

Effects of exchange rate

 

For the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 we had exchange rates that affected our cash flows.  For the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 we had ($10,724) and ($485) respectively that impacted our cash flows.



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Liquidity and Capital Resources


We have experienced net losses and negative cash flows from operations since our inception.  We have sustained cumulative losses of $2,579,764 through December 31, 2013.  We have historically financed our operations through the issuances of equity, UK government grants and contributions of services from related entities.   

 

We continue to actively pursue various funding options, including equity offerings and debt financings, to obtain additional funds to continue the development of our products and bring them to commercial markets. There can be no assurance that we will be able to consummate any fund raising transactions on terms acceptable to us or at all.

 

Our current cash and cash equivalents of approximately $6,826 as of December 31, 2013 will not be sufficient to fund our operations into the 2015 fiscal year.  This projection of insufficient funds is based on the budgeted monthly operating expenses including projected costs for clinical trials.  There can be no assurances that we will be able to continue to raise additional capital as may be needed and meet our projections for operating expenses.  If we are unable to raise additional capital as we need to meet our projections for operating expenses, our liquidity will be materially adversely affected and we may be forced to cease or significantly delay our clinical trials.

 

We believe that the successful growth and operation of our business is dependent upon our ability to do any or all of the following:

 

·

obtain adequate sources of debt or equity financing to pay unfunded operating expenses and fund long-term business operations; and

 

·

manage or control working capital requirements by controlling operating expenses.

 

In March of 2014 we received proceeds of approximately $400,000 in connection with the private placement of 20 million shares of our common stock.


There can be no assurance that we will be successful in achieving our long-term plans as set forth above, or that such plans, if consummated, will enable us to obtain profitable operations or continue in the long-term.

 

Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 was ($205,136) which reflected half of our net loss of ($424,107).  Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended December 31, 2012 was ($620,381), which reflected our net loss of ($622,929).


Net cash used in operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2013 was ($768,306) which primarily reflected our net loss of ($830,574).  Net cash used in operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2012 was ($604,540), which primarily reflected our net loss of ($698,770).


Net cash used in investing activities was $10,956 for the nine months ended December 31, 2013, which reflected the purchase of intellectual property.  For the nine months ended December 31, 2012, net cash used in investing activities was $28,417, which reflected the purchase of intellectual property.


Net cash used in investing activities was $29,274 for the year ended March 31, 2013, which reflected the purchase of intellectual property.  For the year ended March 31, 2012, net cash used in investing activities was $6,294, which reflected the purchase of intellectual property.

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $711,416 for the year ended March 31, 2013.  For the year ended March 31, 2012, net cash provided by financing activities was $718,116. Net cash provided by financing activities represents proceeds from the issuance of common stock for cash.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements, including unrecorded derivative instruments that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources. We have certain warrants and options outstanding but we do not expect to receive sufficient proceeds from the exercise of these instruments unless and until the trading price of our Common Stock is significantly



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greater than the applicable exercise prices of the options and warrants and mainly following any necessary registering of underlying securities.


 

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

 

Our Common Stock has not been approved for quotation on the OTCBB or any other quotation medium.   There is no established public trading market for our securities. There can be no assurance that a regular trading market will develop or if developed, may not be sustained.

 

As of March 26, 2014, we have not appointed an outside transfer agent.

 

Dividend Policy

 

We have not previously paid any cash dividends on our Common Stock and do not anticipate or contemplate paying dividends on our Common Stock in the foreseeable future. We currently intend to utilize all available funds to develop our business. We can give no assurances that we will ever have excess funds available to pay dividends.


CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS

ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

 

On December 6, 2013 we engaged  GHP Horwath, PC as our independent auditors. They are our first auditors and we have had no disagreements with GHP Horwath, PC on any matters of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, in connection with its reports.



DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS

 

The following persons are our executive officers and directors, and hold the positions set forth opposite their respective names.


Executive Officers and Directors

Name

Age

Position

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury

41

Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman and Director

Bashir Timol

39

Director


Our directors hold office until the earlier of their death, resignation or removal or until their successors have been qualified.

 

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury . Dr. Chowdhury has been our President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since our incorporation on January 20, 2009.  He is in charge of research and development of our core technologies, product development, innovation and commercialization. He also coordinates and oversees legal compliance; development of the company mission; policy and planning. Prior to establishing the Company, Dr. Chowdhury was the founder and CEO of Microneedle Technologies and Nemaura Pharma Limited where he played a pivotal role in the development, manaufacture and launch of a microneedle device used in skin clinics, which is also currently being evalauted for skin cancer drug delivery. Dr. Chowdhury identified and negotiated a multi-million pound licensing deal for a transdermal patch to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally he was involved in negotiations for out-licensing patches to treat Parkinson’s and Hypertension, and in-licensing complementary technologies.


Dr. Chowdhury originally trained as a pharmaceutical scientist, and has a Masters in Microsystems and Nanotechnology from Cranfield University, and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford on nano-drug delivery. His experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry spans from product development to manufacturing, and technical and corporate management.


Bashir Timol . Mr. Timol has been a Director since Nemaura Medical Inc. was organized on December 24, 2013.  Prior to this, he has been a director of Dermal Diagnostics Limited from October 30, 2013. Mr. Timol is responsible for financial planning, business and market development and corporate strategies.  Mr, Timol possesses over 10 years’ experience in food and beverage, franchise, and logistic operations.  He is an entrepreneur investing and operating a number of retail food chains in the UK, including DIXY Chicken and Costa Coffee.  Mr. Timol holds a bachelor degree in Economics.



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Executive Officers

Name

Age

Position

Julie Pomeroy

58

Director of Finance

Professor Karrar Khan

79

Director of Product Development

David Scott

64

Director of Commercial Development and Licensing

Dr. Richard Toon

45

Technical and Business Development Manager

 

Julie Pomeroy . Ms. Pomeroy is a physics graduate of Birmingham University in 1977 and began her professional career with Robson Rhodes, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1980. After qualifying as an associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, she worked for Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse and subsequently moved into the commercial sector in the early 1990’s as Group Tax Manager and subsequently Director of Corporate Finance for a utility company. She also qualified as an associate of the Institute of Corporate Treasurers. Ms. Pomeroy also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Weston Medical, a drug delivery company and Group FD at Carter & Carter Group. She has led two full list offerings on the London Stock Exchange, and is also a Chartered Director.  She was employed at Secantor Limited from 2006 to the present as a Senior associate providing part time services as a Finance Director to growing SMEs.

Professor Karrar Khan . Professor Kahn received his BA in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Portsmouth University in 1973. His experience includes 20 years as Head of Pharmaceutical Development for Boots Pharmaceuticals and Knoll and two years as Director for OSI where he managed their pharmaceutical development, analytical operations and DMPK. His expertise ranges from development for phase 1 to phase 3- 4 and significant experience of bringing prescription and OTC products to market on a global level.  In addition he has contributed to the registration and launch of over 60 pharmaceutical products. Professor Khan is a Qualified person under the EC Quality Assurance Directive. Professor Kahn will assist in product development and product strategies of the Company.  Professor Khan worked as a consultant for TauRx Therapeutics Limited from 2007 until the present.  He joined Nemaura in 2009 and is Product Development Director for Nemaura.


David Scott .  Mr. Scott is a trained chemist with a BSc in Chemistry from Nottingham University in 1972. He is a skilled negotiator who has closed a number of major deals for inward and outward licensing for pharmaceutical products, delivery systems and technologies. He has also provided licensing training for a number of multinational pharmaceutical companies and training organizations and has published numerous reports.  Mr. Scott will assist the Company in negotiating licensing contracts and development. He is the author of the best-selling report, "Scrip’s Practical Guide to Pharmaceutical Licensing”.  Mr. Scott is also an accredited “Certified Licensing Professional”.  David has spent the past 17 years as a freelance consultant and has provided strategic advice on inward and outward licensing agreements on behalf of a range of worldwide clients. He joined Nemaura in 2009.


Dr. Richard Toon . Dr. Toon is a chartered chemist who originally trained as a synthetic chemist and more recently trained in law. He received his BSc from Nottingham University in 1995 and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Loughborough University in 1999. More recently he received his Graduate Diploma Law (2004) from Nottingham Trent University when he focused his career has on commercial law activities, such as contract negotiation, intellectual property issues, and business development. Dr. Toon was a Research Specialist at 3M Healthcare from 2002 to 2009 then an Enterprise Business Manager at Keele University from 2009 to 2012.  Dr. Toon joined Nemaura in 2010.


Family Relationships

 

There are no family relationships between any of our directors and our executive officers.

 

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

 

To our knowledge, during the past ten (10) years, none of our directors, executive officers, promoters, control persons, or nominees has been:

 

·

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·

convicted in a criminal proceeding or is subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);

 

·

subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities; or

 

·

found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law.


Code of Ethics


We adopted a Code of Ethics on January 15, 2014 that applies to all directors, officers and employees.  Our Code of Ethics is available on our website at www.nemaura.co.uk.com. A copy of our code of ethics will also be provided to any person without charge, upon written request sent to us at our offices located at Charnwood Building Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.



CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

We are not listed on a national securities exchange or in an inter-dealer quotation system that has requirements that a majority of the board of directors be independent.  Further, we have not applied for a listing with a national exchange or in an inter-dealer quotation system which has requirements that a majority of the board of directors be independent.  We have no independent directors on our Board of Directors as defined in Item 407 of Regulation S-K.  At this time our entire Board of Directors is responsible for the duties and obligations of an Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees.  


In the future we will conduct our regular Board of Director meetings on the last business Friday of each quarter for the calendar year.  Each of our directors attended our previous meetings. We have no standing committees regarding compensation, audit or other nominating committees.  


At our future annual shareholders meetings, each shareholder will be given specific information on how he/she can direct communications to the Officers and Directors of the corporation.  All communications from shareholders will be relayed to the members of the Board of Directors.  


SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT


The following tables set forth certain information as of March 26, 2014 regarding the beneficial ownership of our Common Stock, by (i) each person or entity who, to our knowledge, owns more than 5% of our Common Stock; (ii) our executive officers; (iii) each director; and (iv) all of our executive officers and directors as a group.


Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes to the following table, each person named in the table has sole voting and investment power and that person’s address is c/o NEMAURA MEDICAL INC., Charnwood Building Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom LE11 3AQ. Shares of Common Stock subject to options, warrants, or other rights currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of March 26, 2014, are deemed to be beneficially owned and outstanding for computing the share ownership and percentage of the stockholder holding such options, warrants or other rights, but are not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of any other stockholder.


Beneficial Ownership

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner

Shares Beneficially Owned(1)

Percentage Total Voting Power(1)

Chowdhury, Dewan F.H.

87,537,000

43.77%

Timol, Bashir

26,261,100

13.13%

Total Officers and Directors as a Group (2)

113,798,100 (1)

56.90% (1)

Holders of 5% or more of our Common Stock

 

 

Ismail, Sufyan

21,884,250

10.94%

(1)

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION


At the present time Dr. Chowdhury and Mr. Timol receive cash compensation for their services. The following table sets forth information concerning the annual and long-term compensation of our Officers and Directors, and the most highly compensated employee and/or executive Officers.  The listed individuals shall be hereinafter referred to as the "Named Executive Officer."


Summary Compensation

Name and principal position

Year

Salary

($)

Bonus

($)

Stock Awards

($)

Option Awards

($)

Non-Equity Incentive Plan Com-pensation ($)

Non-Qualified Deferred Compen-sation Earnings

($)

All Other Compen-sation

($)

Total

($)

Dr. Chowdhury, Dewan F.H. 1

2014 YTD

25,249

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

25,249

Bashir Timol 2

2014 YTD

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Dr. Chowdhury, Dewan F.H.

2013

18,937

 

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

18,937

Bashir Timol

2013

-0-

 

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Dr. Chowdhury, Dewan F.H.

2012

-0-

 

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Bashir Timol

2012

-0-

 

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

1 There is an employment contract with Dr. Chowdhury that was executed November 13, 2013.     

2 There is no employment contract with Mr. Timol.   


Outstanding equity awards for 2014


There are no outstanding equity awards as of the fiscal year ended March 26, 2014.


Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation


We do not have a standing compensation committee.  Mr. Chowdhury determined his own compensation, which is set forth in his employment agreement.  There are no compensation committee interlocks to disclose.


Compensation of Directors


Pursuant to our By Laws, Directors will not be compensated for their services in their capacity as directors. If and when the Company has net profits, after all expenses are paid prior to any income tax being considered, director compensation for actual attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board may be authorized. At this time, Directors are not paid for meetings attended.  All travel and lodging expenses associated with corporate matters are reimbursed by us, if and when incurred.  


As of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013, our Directors had received no compensation. Our Directors will not be compensated for their services in their capacity as directors, but may, by resolution of the board, be paid a fixed sum and expenses for actual attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board.  At this time, Directors’ meeting expenses are not paid.  In the future, such payment will be revisited as the Company’s performance and income improves.  There can be no guarantee that we will ever have profits from which our Directors may receive payment.



CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS


Except as set forth below, as of the beginning of the last fiscal year, there have been no transactions, whether directly or indirectly, between us and any of our officers, directors or their family members.



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Nemaura Pharma Limited (Pharma) and NDM Technologies Limited (NDM) are entities controlled by the Company’s majority shareholder, Mr. Chowdhury.  


From inception, Pharma invoiced DDL and TCL for research and development services.  In addition, certain operating expenses of DDL and TCL were incurred and paid by Pharma and NDM. In accordance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin 55, these financial statements reflect all of the costs associated with the operations of DDL and TCL. While certain costs incurred by Pharma and NDM are directly attributable to DDL and TCL, other costs were shared between the organizations. In situations where the costs were shared, expense has been allocated between Pharma and NDM and DDL and TCL using a fixed percentage allocation. Management believes that the methodologies used are reasonable.  DDL and TCL advanced Pharma certain amounts to cover a portion of the costs.  The remaining amounts where contributed to the Company in the form of contributed services.


Following is a summary of activity between the Company and Pharma and NDM for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 and for the period from inception (January 20, 2009) through March 31, 2013.


 

Year Ended

Period from January 20, 2009 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2013

($)

March 31,

2013

($)

March 31,

2012

($)

Balance due (to) Pharma and NDM at beginning of period

0

0

0

Amounts advanced to Pharma

797,580

610,834

1,717,310

Amounts invoiced by Pharma to DDL and TCL

(441,754)

(487,749)

(923,216)

Expenses paid by Pharma on behalf of DDL and TCL

(388,819)

(211,022)

(1,716,008)

Assets contributed by Pharma on behalf of DDL and TCL

(26,547)

(4,777)

(57,643)

Capital contribution by Pharma (excess of expenses paid over amounts advanced)

59,227

86,006

485,145

Foreign currency translation

313

6,708

14,403

Balance due from (to) Pharma and NDM at end of the period

0

0

0



LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the shares offered hereby will be passed upon for us by Loeb & Loeb LLP, 345 Park Avenue., Suite 18, New York, NY 10154.

EXPERTS

The audited financial statements of Nemaura Medical Inc. included herein have been audited by GHP Horwath, P.C. independent registered accounting firm, for the periods and to the extent set forth in their report appearing herein. Such financial statements have been so included in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon the firm’s authority as an expert in auditing and accounting.



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act, with respect to the Common Stock offered hereby. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules thereto. Some items are omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. For further information with respect to us and the Common Stock offered hereby, we refer you to the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules filed therewith. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract, agreement or any other document referred to are summaries of the material terms of the respective contract, agreement or other document. With respect to each of these contracts, agreements or other documents filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, reference is made to the exhibits for a more complete description of the matter involved. A copy of the registration statement, and the exhibits and schedules thereto, may be inspected without charge at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of these materials may be obtained by writing to the Public Reference Section of the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at



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1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference facilities. The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC. The address of the SEC’s website is http://www.sec.gov.


We will file periodic reports and other information with the SEC. Such periodic reports and other information will be available for inspection and copying at the public reference room and website of the SEC referred to above. We maintain a website at http://www.nemaura.co.uk.com. You may access our future annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act with the SEC free of charge at our website as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The information and other content contained on our website are not part of the prospectus.



DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION

FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES


Our articles of incorporation do not provide that we will indemnify our officers and directors to the fullest extent permitted under the Nevada Revised Statute (“NRS”). Our corporate by-laws provide for indemnification in accordance with NRS Section 78.7502 which provides that a corporation shall indemnify any director, officer, employee, or agent of a corporation against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with any defense to the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit, or proceeding referred to Section 78.7502(1) or 78.7502(2), or in defense of any claim, issue, or matter therein.


NRS 78.7502(1) provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative, except an action by or in the right of the corporation, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the action, suit or proceeding if he: (a) is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138; or (b) acted in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.


NRS Section 78.7502(2) provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys’ fees actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of the action or suit if he: (a) is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138; or (b) acted in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. Indemnification may not be made for any claim, issue or matter as to which such a person has been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, after exhaustion of all appeals there from, to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court in which the action or suit was brought or other court of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court deems proper.


Our by-laws provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the NRS and shall advance reasonable costs and expenses incurred with respect to any proceeding to which a person is made a party as a result of being a director or officer in advance of final disposition of such proceeding without regard to any limitations set forth in the NRS. We may purchase and maintain liability insurance, or make other arrangements for such obligations or otherwise, to the extent permitted by the NRS.

 

NRS Section 78.747 provides that except as otherwise provided by specific statute, no director or officer of a corporation is individually liable for a debt or liability of the corporation, unless the director or officer acts as the alter ego of the corporation. The court as a matter of law must determine the question of whether a director or officer acts as the alter ego of a corporation.


Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that, in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in



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connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by us is against public policy as expressed hereby in the Securities Act and we will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


JUMPSTART OUR BUSINESS STARTUPS ACT

In April, 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act ("JOBS Act") was enacted into law. The JOBS Act provides, among other things:

Exemptions for emerging growth companies from certain financial disclosure and governance requirements for up to five years and provides a new form of financing to small companies;

Amendments to certain provisions of the federal securities laws to simplify the sale of securities and increase the threshold number of record holders required to trigger the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;

Relaxation of the general solicitation and general advertising prohibition for Rule 506 offerings;

Adoption of a new exemption for public offerings of securities in amounts not exceeding $50 million; and

Exemption from registration by a non-reporting company of offers and sales of securities of up to $1,000,000 that comply with rules to be adopted by the SEC pursuant to Section 4(6) of the Securities Act and exemption of such sales from state law registration, documentation or offering requirements.

In general, under the JOBS Act a company is an emerging growth company if its initial public offering ("IPO") of common equity securities was effected after December 8, 2011 and the company had less than $1 billion of total annual gross revenues during its last completed fiscal year. A company will no longer qualify as an emerging growth company after the earliest of

(i) the completion of the fiscal year in which the company has total annual gross revenues of $1 billion or more,

(ii) the completion of the fiscal year of the fifth anniversary of the company's IPO;

(iii) the company's issuance of more than $1 billion in nonconvertible debt in the prior three-year period, or

(iv) the company becoming a "larger accelerated filer" as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The JOBS Act provides additional new guidelines and exemptions for non-reporting companies and for non-public offerings. Those exemptions that impact the Company are discussed below.

Financial Disclosure. The financial disclosure in a registration statement filed by an emerging growth company pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 will differ from registration statements filed by other companies as follows:

(i) audited financial statements required for only two fiscal years;

(ii) selected financial data required for only the fiscal years that were audited;

(iii) executive compensation only needs to be presented in the limited format now required for smaller reporting companies. (A smaller reporting company is one with a public float of less than $75 million as of the last day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter)

However, the requirements for financial disclosure provided by Regulation S-K promulgated by the Rules and Regulations of the SEC already provide certain of these exemptions for smaller reporting companies. The Company is a smaller reporting company. Currently a smaller reporting company is not required to file as part of its registration statement selected financial data and only needs audited financial statements for its two most current fiscal years and no tabular disclosure of contractual obligations.

The JOBS Act also exempts the Company's independent registered public accounting firm from complying with any rules adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") after the date of the JOBS Act's enactment, except as otherwise required by SEC rule.

The JOBS Act also exempts an emerging growth company from any requirement adopted by the PCAOB for mandatory rotation of the Company's accounting firm or for a supplemental auditor report about the audit.



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Internal Control Attestation. The JOBS Act also provides an exemption from the requirement of the Company's independent registered public accounting firm to file a report on the Company's internal control over financial reporting, although management of the Company is still required to file its report on the adequacy of the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

Section 102(a) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from the requirements in §14A(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for companies with a class of securities registered under the 1934 Act to hold shareholder votes for executive compensation and golden parachutes.

Other Items of the JOBS Act. The JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can communicate with potential investors that are qualified institutional buyers or institutions that are accredited to determine interest in a contemplated offering either prior to or after the date of filing the respective registration statement. The Act also permits research reports by a broker or dealer about an emerging growth company regardless if such report provides sufficient information for an investment decision. In addition the JOBS Act precludes the SEC and FINRA from adopting certain restrictive rules or regulations regarding brokers, dealers and potential investors, communications with management and distribution of a research reports on the emerging growth company IPO.

Section 106 of the JOBS Act permits emerging growth companies to submit 1933 Act registration statements on a confidential basis provided that the registration statement and all amendments are publicly filed at least 21 days before the issuer conducts any road show. This is intended to allow the emerging growth company to explore the IPO option without disclosing to the market the fact that it is seeking to go public or disclosing the information contained in its registration statement until the company is ready to conduct a roadshow.

Election to Opt Out of Transition Period. Section 102(b) (1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a 1933 Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the 1934 Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standard.

The JOBS Act provides a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of the transition period pursuant to Section 107(b).



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


 

Page

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2013 (unaudited)

F-2

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 and from inception (January 20, 2009) through December 31, 2013 (unaudited)

F-3

Consolidated Changes of Cashflows for the periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 and from inception (January 20, 2009) through December 31, 2013Consolidated Changes of Cash flows (unaudited)

F-4

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)

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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

(UNAUDITED)


 

As of December 31, (unaudited)

 

 

ASSETS

 

Current Assets:

 

Cash

6,826

Other receivable

2,253

Total Current Assets

9,079

 

 

Other Assets:

 

Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization

71,939

Total assets

81,018

 

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

Current Liabilities:

 

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

18,228

 

 

Total current liabilities

18,228

Total liabilities

18,228

 

 

Commitments:

 

Stockholders’ Equity:

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value,

 

420,000,000 shares authorized and

180,000

180,000,000 shares issued and outstanding

 

Additional paid in capital

2,477,652

Accumulated deficit

(2,579,764)

Accumulated other comprehensive income

(15,098)

Total stockholders’ equity

62,790

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

81,018













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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)

(UNAUDITED)


 

Nine months ended

December 31,

Cumulative From Inception (January 20, 2009)

Through December 31,

 

2013

($)

2012

($)

2013

($)

 

 

 

 

Revenues

-

-

-

Total Revenues

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

Operating Expenses:

 

 

 

Research and development

253,043

494,042

2,106,679

General and administrative

171,064

128,887

473,085

Total operating expenses

424,107

622,929

2,579,764

 

 

 

 

Loss from operations

(424,107)

(622,929)

(2,579,764)

 

 

 

 

Net loss

(424,107)

(622,929)

(2,579,764)

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income/(loss)

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

9,906

(9,947)

(12,938)

Comprehensive loss

(414,201)

(632,876)

(2,592,702)

 

 

 

 

Loss per share

 

 

 

Basic and diluted

*

*

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average number of shares outstanding

180,000,000

180,000,000

 


*   Per share amounts are less than $0.01

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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

NINE MONTHS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND INCEPTION TO DECEMBER 31, 2013

(UNAUDITED)


 

For the Nine Months Ended December 31

Cumulative From Inception (January 20, 2009) through December 31,

 

2013

($)

2012

($)

2013

($)

Cash Flows From Operating Activities:

 

 

 

Net loss

(424,107)

 (622,929)

 (2,579,764)

 

 

 

 

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

  Depreciation and amortization

2,230

 2,046

 14,005

  Contributed services by a related party

218,863

189

704,017

Changes in assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

  Other receivables

(2,122)

 313

 (4,457)

Net cash used in operating activities

(205,136)

 (620,381)

 (1,866,199)

 

 

 

 

Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

 

 

 

Purchase of Intellectual Property

(10,956)

 (28,417)

 (82,464)

Net cash used in investing activities

(10,956)

 (28,417)

 (82,464)

 

 

 

 

Cash Flows From Financing Activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from common stock

 

355,709

1,953,637

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

355,709

1,953,637

Net increase (decrease) in cash

(216,092)

 (293,089)

 4,974

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash

22,433

 (3,147)

 1,852

Cash, beginning of period

200,485

 297,410

 

Cash, end of period

6,826

 1,174

 6,826





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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND 2012

(UNAUDITED)


NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES


Dermal Diagnostics Limited (DDL) and Trial Clinic Limited (TCL) were incorporated in England and Wales on 20 January 2009 and 12 January 2011, respectively.  Together, these two entities perform medical device research and manufacturing of a continuous glucose monitoring system (“CGM”).  The CGM system is a non-invasive, wireless continuous glucose monitoring device for use by persons with Type I and Type II diabetes, and also for screening pre-diabetic patients. The CGM allows for the extraction of analytes, such as glucose, in a non-invasive manner to the surface of the skin where it is measured using unique sensors and interpreted using a unique algorithm.


Dermal Diagnostics (Holdings) Limited (DDHL), is a holding company that was incorporated in England and Wales on 11 December 2013 and acquired 100% of the equity interests of DDL and TCL.  


Region Green Limited (RGL), is a holding company that was incorporated in the British Virgins Islands on 12 December 2013 and acquired 100% of the equity interests of DDHL.


Nemaura Medical Inc. (“Nemaura” or “Company”) was organized on December 24, 2013 under the laws of the State of Nevada with an authorized share capital of 420 million common shares.  Also on December 24, 2013 Nemaura acquired 100% of the equity interests of RGL.


At the time of these acquisition transactions, DDL, TCL, DDHL, RGL and Nemaura were under common control.  Accordingly, in 2013 these transactions have been accounted for as a common control transaction in a manner similar to a pooling of interests. The weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the respective periods has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the December 24, 2013 recapitalization that resulted in the issuance of 180 million ordinary shares of Nemaura Medical Inc.


NOTE 2 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION


The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and the Company’s subsidiaries, DDL, TCL, DDHL and RGL. The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and all significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.


From inception the Company’s activities have primarily consisted of establishing facilities, recruiting personnel, conducting research and development, developing business and financial plans and raising capital. Accordingly the Company is considered to be in the development stage, and these financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) No. 915, “Development Stage Entities.”


The accompanying balance sheet as of December 31, 2013, and 2012 and the related statements of comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, have been prepared by the Company without audit and following the same accounting policies and methods of computation as compared to the year ended March 31, 2013. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (which include normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for such periods have been made. The results of operations for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 (unaudited), are not necessarily indicative of operating results for the full year.


The functional currency for the majority of the Company’s operations is the Great Britain Pound Sterling (“GBP”), and the reporting currency is the US Dollar.

Going concern and management’s plans:

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company is in the development stage, has not generated revenues and has incurred net losses of approximately $424,000 and $623,000 during the nine month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.  At December 31, 2013, the Company has a working capital deficit and a stockholders’ deficit of approximately $9,100 and $2,580,000, respectively.  



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND 2012

(UNAUDITED)

The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability or classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.  The following paragraphs describe management’s plans with regard to these conditions.  

Subsequent to period end the Company received total proceeds of $400,000 from the sale of 20 million shares in a private placement.


The Company continues to explore sources of additional financing to satisfy its current operating requirements.


NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES


(a)  Economic and political risk

The Company’s operations are conducted in United Kingdom. Accordingly, the political, economic, and legal environments in the United Kingdom may influence the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.


(b)  Cash


The Company considers highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.  The Company currently has no cash equivalents and cash consists primarily of cash deposits maintained in a major financial institution in the United Kingdom.

 

(c) Fair value of financial instruments


The Company’s financial instruments primarily consist of cash held in a major UK financial institution.


(d) Intangible assets


Intangible assets consist of licenses and patents associated with the CGM and are amortized on a straight-line basis, generally over their legal life.


(e) Research and Development Expenses


The Company charges research and development expenses to operations as incurred. Research and development expenses primarily consist of salaries and related expenses for personnel and outside contractor and consulting services. Other research and development expenses include the costs of materials and supplies used in research and development, prototype manufacturing, clinical studies, related information technology and an allocation of facilities costs.


(f) Income taxes


Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, and operating loss carry forwards. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled.


The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is provided to reduce the carrying amount of deferred income tax assets if it is considered more likely than not that some portion, or all, of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized.


The Company recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not of being sustained.  Recognized income tax positions are measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs.



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND 2012

(UNAUDITED)


The Company has elected to classify interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as part of income tax expense in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income/(loss).


(g) Earnings per share


Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. The impact of any potentially dilutive securities is excluded. For the nine months ended


December 31, 2013, the ordinary shares outstanding have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the December 24, 2013 recapitalization.


(h) Use of estimates


The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the year. Actual results may differ from those estimates.


(i) Foreign currency translation


The functional currency of the Company is the Great Britain Pound Sterling (“GBP”).  The reporting currency is the United States dollar (US$).  Stockholders equity is translated into United States dollars from GBP at historical exchange rates.  Assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates as of balance sheet date. Income and expenditures are translated at the average exchange rates prevailing during the reporting period.  The translation rates are as follows:


 

 

 

December 31

2013 (unaudited) 

December 31

2012 (unaudited)

Period end GBP : US$ exchange rate

 

 

1:1.656 

1:1.626

Average period/yearly GBP : US$ exchange rate

 

 

1:1.560 

1:1.582


Adjustments resulting from translating the financial statements into the United States dollar are recorded as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income in Stockholders’ Equity.


(k) Recent accounting pronouncements


The Company does not expect the adoption of recent accounting pronouncements to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.




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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONT.)

DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND 2012

(UNAUDITED)


NOTE 4 – CASH

As of December 31, 2013 (unaudited), the Company had $6,826 in cash which is held at a major UK banking institution.


NOTE 5 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS


As of December 31, 2013 (unaudited) intangible assets are summarized as follows:


 

December 31, 2013

Patents and licenses

$  80,667

Less accumulated amortization

(8,728)

 

$  71,939


Estimated amortization expense is approximately $3,800 for each of the next five years.


NOTE 6 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS


Nemaura Pharma Limited (Pharma) and NDM Technologies Limited (NDM) are entities controlled by the Company’s majority shareholder DFH Chowdhury.


From inception, Pharma invoiced DDL and TCL for research and development services.  In addition, certain operating expenses of DDL and TCL were incurred and paid by Pharma and NDM.  In accordance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Bulletin 55, these financial statements reflect all of the costs associated with the operations of DDL and TCL.  While certain costs incurred by Pharma and NDM are directly attributable to DDL and TCL, other costs were shared between the organizations.  In situations where the costs were shared, expense has been allocated between Pharma and NDM and DDL and TCL using a fixed percentage allocation.  Management believes that the methodologies used are reasonable.  DDL and TCL advanced Pharma certain amounts to cove a portion of the costs.  The remaining amounts were contributed to the Company in the form of contributed services.



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND 2012

(UNAUDITED)


Following is a summary of activity between the Company and Pharma and NDM for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 and the period from inception (January 20, 2009) through December 31, 2013:



Nine Months Ended December 31,

Period from January 20, 2009 (Date of Inception) to December 31, 2013

($)

2013

($)

2012

($)

Balance due (to) Pharma and NDM at beginning of period

 

 

 

Amounts advanced to Pharma

221,208

648,733

1,936,173

Amounts invoiced by Pharma to DDL and TCL

(398,673)

(331,315)

(1,375,921)

Expenses paid by Pharma on behalf of DDL and TCL

(25,289)

(291,614)

(1,203,842)

Intellectual property costs paid by Pharma on behalf of DDL and TCL

(3,399)

(26,372)

(62,951)

Capital contributed by Pharma (excess of expenses paid over amounts advanced)

218,863

189

704,017

Foreign exchange differences

(12,710)

379

2,524

 

 

 

 

Balance due from (to) Pharma and NDM at end of the period

 

 

 



NOTE 7 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS


In March 2014, the Company issued 20 million shares in a private placement transaction for cash proceeds of $400,000 of which $230,000 is being held in escrow to pay certain expenses.  The balance is expected to be available to the company in the first fiscal quarter of 2015.



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS



 

Page

Report of Independent Registered Public Accountant

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Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2013 and 2012

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Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended March 31, 2013, and  2012 and from inception (January 20, 2009) through to March 31,2013

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Consolidated Statements of Changes of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 and from inception (January 20, 2009) through to March 31,2013

F-14

Consolidated Statement of Cashflows for the years ended March 31, 2013, and  2012 and from inception (January 20, 2009) through to March 31,2013

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT


Board of Directors

Nemaura Medical Inc.


We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Nemaura Medical Inc. and its subsidiaries (A Development Stage Company) (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2013 and 2012, and the related statements of comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years then ended, and for the period from inception (January 20, 2009) through March 31, 2013. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.


We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.


In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Nemaura Medical Inc. and its subsidiaries as of March 31, 2013 and 2012, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years then ended, and for the period from inception (January 20, 2009) through March 31, 2013, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.


The Company has significant transactions and relationships with related parties that are described in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements. It is possible that the terms of these transactions may not be the same as those that would result from transactions among unrelated parties.


/S/ GHP HORWATH, P.C.


Denver, Colorado

March 27, 2014



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS


 

 

As of March 31,

As of March 31,

 

 

($) 2013

($) 2012

 

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

Current Assets:

 

 

 

Cash and

 

200,485

297,373

Other receivable

 

-

       316

Total Current Assets

 

200,485

297,689

 

 

 

 

Other Assets:

 

 

 

Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization

 

57,643

33,632

Total assets

 

258,128

331,321

 

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

-

-

 

 

 

 

Commitments:

 

 

 

Stockholders’ Equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value, 420,000,000 shares authorized and 180,000,000 shares issued and outstanding

 

180,000

180,000

 

 

 

 

Additional paid in capital

 

2,258,789

1,488,146

Accumulated deficit

 

(2,155,657)

(1,325,083)

Accumulated other comprehensive income

 

(25,004)

(11,742)

Total stockholders’ equity

 

258,128

331,321

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

 

258,128

331,321



See notes to the consolidated financial statements



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC

(A EVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)



 

 

 

Year Ended March, 31

From Inception (January 20, 2009)

To March 31,

 

 

 

($) 2013

($) 2012

($) 2013

Revenues

 

 

-

-

-

Total revenues

 

 

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

 

658,724

580,437

1,853,637

General and administrative

 

 

171,850

118,333

302,020

Total operating expenses

 

 

830,574

698,770

2,155,657

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(830,574)

(698,770)

(2,155,657)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

 

(830,574)

(698,770)

(2,155,657)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income/(loss)

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

 

(13,262)

(604)

(25,004)

Comprehensive loss

 

 

(843,836)

(699,374)

(2,180,661)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss per share

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted

 

 

(0.01)

*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average number of shares outstanding

 

 

180,000,000

180,000,000

 


*   Per share amount is less than $0.01



See notes to the consolidated financial statements




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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE PERIOD FROM INCEPTION (JANUARY 20, 2009) THROUGH 31 MARCH 2013


 

Share capital

$

Additional Paid in Capital

$

Accumulated Deficit

$

Accumulated

Other Comprehensive Income

$

Total Stockholders’ Equity

$

Balance at January 20, 2009 (Inception)

-

-

-

-

-

Common Stock issued for cash

180,000

344,105

-

-

524,105

Contribution services by related party

-

339,919

-

-

339,919

Net Loss

-

-

(626,313)

-

(626,313)

Other comprehensive income –foreign currency transaction gain (loss)

-

-

-

(11,138)

(11,138)

Balance at March 31, 2011

180,000

684,024

(626,313)

(11,138)

226,573

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock issued for cash

-

718,116

-

-

718,116

Contributed services by related party

 

86,006

 

 

86,006

Net loss

-

-

(698,770)

-

(698,770)

Other comprehensive income – foreign currency translation gain (loss)

-

-

-

(604)

(604)

Balance at March 31, 2012

180,000

1,488,146

(1,325,083)

(11,742)

331,321

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock issued for cash

-

711,416

-

-

711,416

Contributed services by related party

 

59,227

 

 

59,227

Net loss

-

-

(830,574)

-

(830,574)

Other comprehensive income - foreign currency translation gain (loss)

-

-

-

(13,262)

(13,262)

Balance at March, 31, 2013

180,000

2,258,789

(2,155,657)

(25,004)

258,128



See notes to the consolidated financial statements



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)


CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS


 

 

For the Years

Ended March 31

Cumulative From Inception (January 20, 2009) through March 31, 2013

 

 

2013 ($)

2012 ($)

2011($)

Cash Flows From Operating Activities:

 

 

 

 

Net loss


(830,574)

(698,770)

(2,155,657)

 

 

 

 

 

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

2,725

1,518

11,777

Contributed services by related party


59,227

86,006

 485,152

Changes in assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

Other receivable

 

316

6,706

(2,335)

Net cash used in operating activities

 

(768,306)

(604,540)

(1,661,063)

 


 

 

 

Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

 

 

 

 

Purchase of Intellectual Property

 

(29,274)

(6,294)

(71,508)

Net cash used in investing activities


(29,274)

(6,294)

(71,508)

 


 

 

 

Cash Flows From Financing Activities:

 

 

 

 

Common stock issued for cash

 

711,416

718,116

1,953,637

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

711,416

718,116

1,953,637

Net increase (decrease) in cash

 

(86,164)

107,282

221,066

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash


(10,724)

(485)

(20,581)

Cash, beginning of period

 

297,373

190,576

0

Cash, end of period


200,485

297,373

200,485


See notes to the consolidated financial statements



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

Notes to consolidated financial statements

March 31, 2013


NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES


Dermal Diagnostics Limited (DDL) and Trial Clinic Limited (TCL) were incorporated in England and Wales on January 20, 2009 and January 12, 2011, respectively.  Together, these two entities perform medical device research and manufacturing of a continuous glucose monitoring system (“CGM”).  The CGM system is a non-invasive, wireless continuous glucose monitoring device for use by persons with Type I and Type II diabetes, and also for screening pre-diabetic patients. The CGM allows for the extraction of analytes, such as glucose, in a non-invasive manner to the surface of the skin where it is measured using unique sensors and interpreted using a unique algorithm.


Dermal Diagnostics (Holdings) Limited (DDHL) is a holding company that was incorporated in England and Wales on December 11, 2013 and acquired 100% of the equity interests of DDL and TCL.

  

Region Green Limited (RGL), is a holding company that was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on December 12, 2013 and acquired 100% of the equity interests of DDHL.


Nemaura Medical Inc. (“Nemaura” or “Company”) was organized on December 24, 2013 under the laws of the State of Nevada with an authorized share capital of 420 million common shares.  Also on December 24, 2013 Nemaura acquired 100% of the equity interests of RGL.


At the time of these acquisition transactions, DDL, TCL, DDHL, RGL and Nemaura were under common control.  Accordingly, in 2013 these transactions have been accounted for as a common control transaction in a manner similar to a pooling of interests. The weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the respective periods has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the December 24, 2013 recapitalization that resulted in the issuance of 180 million ordinary shares of Nemaura Medical Inc.


NOTE 2 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION


The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and the Company’s subsidiaries, DDL, TCL, DDHL and RGL. The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and all significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.


From inception the Company’s activities have primarily consisted of establishing facilities, recruiting personnel, conducting research and development, developing business and financial plans and raising capital. Accordingly, the Company is considered to be in the developmental stage, and these financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) No. 915, “Development Stage Entities.”


The functional currency for the majority of the Company’s operations is the Great Britain Pound Sterling (“GBP”), and the reporting currency is the US Dollar.


NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES


(a)  Economic and political risk

The Company’s operations are conducted in United Kingdom. Accordingly, the political, economic, and legal environments in the United Kingdom may influence the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

March 31, 2013

 (b)  Cash

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.  The Company currently has no cash equivalents and cash consists primarily of cash deposits maintained in a major financial institution in the United Kingdom.


(c) Fair value of financial instruments


The Company’s financial instruments primarily consist of cash held in a major financial institution in the United Kingdom.


(d) Intangible assets


Intangible assets consist of licenses and patents associated with the CGM and are amortized on a straight-line basis, generally over their legal life.

 

(e) Research and Development Expenses


The Company charges research and development expenses to operations as incurred. Research and development expenses primarily consist of salaries and related expenses for personnel and outside contractor and consulting services. Other research and development expenses include the costs of materials and supplies used in research and development, prototype manufacturing, clinical studies, related information technology and an allocation of facilities costs.  Research and development expenses are net of grants received from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board.  Total grants received through March 31, 2013 were approximately $666,485.


(f) Income taxes


Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, and operating loss carry forwards. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is provided to reduce the carrying amount of deferred income tax assets if it is considered more likely than not that some portion, or all, of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized.


The Company recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not of being sustained.  Recognized income tax positions are measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. The Company has elected to classify interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as part of income tax expense in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income/(loss).


(g) Earnings per share


Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. The impact of any potentially dilutive securities is excluded. For the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, the ordinary shares outstanding have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the December 24, 2013 recapitalization.




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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

March 31, 2013

(h) Use of estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the year. Actual results may differ from those estimates.


(i) Foreign currency translation


The functional currency of the Company is the Great Britain Pound Sterling (“GBP”).  The reporting currency is the United States dollar (US$).  Stockholder’s equity is translated into United States dollars from GBP at historical exchange rates.  Assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates as of balance sheet date. Income and expenditures are translated at the average exchange rates prevailing during the reporting period.  The translation rates are as follows:


 

 

March 31, 2013

 

March 31, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year end GBP : US$ exchange rate

 

1:1.523

 

1:1.598

 

Average period/yearly GBP : US$ exchange rate           

 

1:1.581

 

1:1.596

 


Adjustments resulting from translating the financial statements into the United States dollar are recorded as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income in Stockholders’ Equity.


(j) Recent accounting pronouncements


The Company does not expect the adoption of recent accounting pronouncements to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.


NOTE 4 – CASH


As of March 31, 2013 and 2012, the Company held $200,485 and $297,373, respectively, in cash which is held at a major UK banking institution.


NOTE 5 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS


As of March 31, 2013 and March 31, 2012 intangible assets are summarized as follows:


 

March 31, 2013

($)

March 31, 2012

($)

Patents and licenses

63,768

37,032

Less accumulated amortization

(6,125)

(3,400)

 

57,643

33,632


Estimated amortization expense is approximately $3,800 for each of the next five years.



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

March 31, 2013


NOTE 6 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS


Nemaura Pharma Limited (Pharma) and NDM Technologies Limited (NDM) are entities controlled by the Company’s majority shareholder DFH Chowdhury.   


From inception, Pharma invoiced DDL and TCL for research and development services.  In addition, certain operating expenses of DDL and TCL were incurred and paid by Pharma and NDM. In accordance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin 55, these financial statements reflect all of the costs associated with the operations of DDL and TCL. While certain costs incurred by Pharma and NDM are directly attributable to DDL and TCL, other costs were shared between the organizations. In situations where the costs were shared, expense has been allocated between Pharma and NDM and DDL and TCL using a fixed percentage allocation. Management believes that the methodologies used are reasonable.  DDL and TCL advanced Pharma certain amounts to cover a portion of the costs.  The remaining amounts where contributed to the Company in the form of contributed services.


Following is a summary of activity between the Company and Pharma and NDM for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 and for the period from inception (January 20, 2009) through March 31, 2013.


 

Year Ended March 31,

2013

($)

Year Ended March 31,

2012

($)

Period from January 20, 2009 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2013

($)

Balance due (to) Pharma and NDM at beginning of period

 

 

 

Amounts advanced to Pharma

797,580

610,834

1,717,310

Amounts invoiced by Pharma to DDL and TCL

(441,754)

(487,749)

(983,216)

Expenses paid by Pharma on behalf of DDL and TCL

(388,819)

(211,022)

(1,175,999)

Intellectual property costs paid by Pharma on behalf of DDL and TCL

(26,547)

(4,777)

(57,643)

Capital contribution by Pharma (excess of expenses paid over amounts advanced)

59,227

86,006

485,145

Foreign currency translation

313

6,708

14,403

Balance due from (to) Pharma and NDM at end of the period

 

 

 



NOTE 7 – INCOME TAXES


The Company and its subsidiaries file separate income tax returns.


The United States of America


The Company is incorporated in the State of Nevada in the U.S., and is subject to U.S. federal corporate income tax at progressive rates ranging from 15% to 35%. The state of Nevada does not impose any state corporate income tax.


British Virgin Islands


RGL is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”). Under the current laws of the BVI, RGL is not subject to tax on income or capital gains. In addition, upon payments of dividends by RGL, no BVI withholding tax is imposed.



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NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONT.)

March 31, 2013


United Kingdom


DDL, TCL and DDHL are all incorporated in the United Kingdom (UK) and the applicable UK statutory income tax rate for these companies is 20%.


For the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, and for the period from January 20, 2009 (Date of Inception), loss before income tax expense (benefit) all arose in the UK.

 

Reconciliation of our effective tax rate to income (loss) to the statutory U.S federal tax rate is as follows:


 

 

Year ended March 31,

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

Loss before income taxes

 

$

(830,574)

 

 

 

 

 

$

(698,770)

 

 

 

Expected tax benefit

 

 

(282,000) 

 

 

 

(34%

 

 

(238,000) 

 

 

 

(34%)

Foreign tax differential

 

 

   116,000

 

 

 

14%

 

 

 

98,000

 

 

 

14%

Non-deductible expenses

 

 

78,000

 

 

 

9%

 

 

 

42,000

 

 

 

6%

Change in valuation allowance

 

 

88,000

 

 

 

11%

 

 

 

98,000

 

 

 

14%

Actual income tax expense

 

$

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

-

 

 

 

 

The tax effects of the temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of deferred income tax assets are presented below:


 

 

As of March 31,

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

Net operating tax loss carried forwards

 (186,000)

 

 

 

(98,000)

Total deferred income tax assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valuation allowance

 

   186,000

 

 

 

 

  98,000

Net deferred tax assets

-

 

 

 

-


For each of the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, the Company did not have unrecognized tax benefits, and therefore no interest or penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits were accrued. Management does not expect that the amount of unrecognized tax benefits will change significantly within the next twelve months.


The Company mainly files income tax returns in the United States and the UK. The Company is subject to U.S. federal income tax examination by tax authorities for tax years beginning in 2013.   The UK tax returns for the Company’s UK subsidiaries are open to examination by the UK tax authorities for the tax years beginning in January 20, 2009.


The Company has Net Operating Losses (NOLs) of approximately $547,000 at March 31, 2013.  These NOLs may be carried forward indefinitely.


NOTE 8 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS


In March 2014 the Company issued 20 million shares in a private placement transaction for cash proceeds of $400,000 of which $230,000 is being held in escrow to pay certain expenses.  The balance is expected to be available to the company in the first fiscal quarter of 2015.



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PART II   INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 13.  Other Expenses Of Issuance And Distribution

We will pay all expenses in connection with the registration and sale of the Common Stock by the selling stockholders. The expenses of issuance and distribution are set forth below.


SEC Filing Fee

$

80*

Legal Expenses

$

25,000*

Accounting Expenses

$

47,000*

Miscellaneous

$

4,588*

Total

$

76,668*

* Estimate

 

 


Item 14.  Indemnification Of Directors And Officers


We are a Nevada corporation and generally governed by the Nevada Private Corporations Code, Title 78 of the Nevada Revised Statutes, or NRS.


Section 78.138 of the NRS provides that, unless the corporation’s Articles of Incorporation provide otherwise, a director or officer will not be individually liable unless it is proven that (i) the director’s or officer’s acts or omissions constituted a breach of his or her fiduciary duties, and (ii) such breach involved intentional misconduct, fraud, or a knowing violation of the law. Our Articles of Incorporation provide that no director or officer shall be personally liable to the corporation or any of its stockholders for damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer except (i) for acts or omissions that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law by the director, (ii) for conduct violating the NRS, or (iii) for any transaction from which the director will personally receive a benefit in money, property, or services to which the director is not legally entitled.


Section 78.7502 of the NRS permits a company to indemnify its directors and officers against expenses, judgments, fines, and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with a threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding, if the officer or director (i) is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138, or (ii) acted in good faith and in a manner the officer or director reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, if a criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct of the officer or director was unlawful. Section 78.7502 of the NRS also precludes indemnification by the corporation if the officer or director has been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, after exhaustion of all appeals, to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court determines that in view of all the circumstances, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses and requires a corporation to indemnify its officers and directors if they have been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any claim, issue, or matter resulting from their service as a director or officer.


Section 78.751 of the NRS permits a Nevada company to indemnify its officers and directors against expenses incurred by them in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, or proceeding as they are incurred and in advance of final disposition thereof, upon determination by the stockholders, the disinterested board members, or by independent legal counsel. Section 78.751 of NRS requires a corporation to advance expenses as incurred upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the officer or director to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that such officer or director is not entitled to be indemnified by the company if so provided in the corporations articles of incorporation, bylaws, or other agreement. Section 78.751 of the NRS further permits the company to grant its directors and officer’s additional rights of indemnification under its articles of incorporation, bylaws, or other agreement.


Section 78.752 of the NRS provides that a Nevada company may purchase and maintain insurance or make other financial arrangements on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the company, or is or was serving at the request of the company as a director, officer, employee, or agent of another company, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise, for any liability asserted against him and liability and expenses incurred by him in his capacity as a director, officer, employee, or agent, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the company has the authority to indemnify him against such liability and expenses.




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Our By-Laws implement the indemnification provisions permitted by Chapter 78 of the NRS by providing that we shall indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent and under all circumstances permitted by the NRS against expense, liability, and loss reasonably incurred or suffered by them in connection with their service as an officer or director.  Our By-Laws also provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the NRS and shall advance reasonable costs and expenses incurred with respect to any proceeding to which a person is made a party as a result of being a director or officer in advance of final disposition of such proceeding without regard to any limitations set forth in the NRS 78.7502. We may purchase and maintain liability insurance, or make other arrangements for such obligations or otherwise, to the extent permitted by the NRS.


At the present time, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving a director, officer, employee, or other agent of ours in which indemnification would be required or permitted. We are not aware of any threatened litigation or proceeding that may result in a claim for such indemnification.


Item 15.  Recent Sales Of Unregistered Securities


The information below lists all of the securities sold by us during the past three years which were not registered under the Securities Act.  The securities sold were by the Company and stock purchase agreements were executed by each individual.  The shares were sold and the subscriptions accepted by the Company in March of 2014.

Name of Selling Security Holder

Amount of Securities Purchased

Amount of Consideration

Type of Consideration

Addjab Limited

1,200,000

$24,000.00

Cash

Adeeba Ahmed

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Afzul Mohmud

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Ahmed Dadibhai

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Amaira Badat

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Ambreen Hussain

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Ammaar Mohmud

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Anis Jamall

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Asif Mohmud

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Charles Heard

3,000

$60.00

Cash

David Scott

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Dewan M. H. Chowdhury

4,136,875

$82,737.50

Cash

Dominic Slattery

10,000

$200.00

Cash

East Yield Investment Limited

2,347,000

$46,940.00

Cash

Faheema Mohmud

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Fazila Timol

200,000

$4,000.00

Cash

Fortune Lake Management Limited

2,347,000

$46,940.00

Cash

Hafsa Bibi Timol

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Hasan Dadibhai

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Hayat Ouziad

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Ibrahaim Patel

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Ismail Makda

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Julie Barton-Naylor

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Julie Pomeroy

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Jumaid Jamall

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Junaid Mansoor

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Karmen Cheung

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Karrar Khan

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Kathryn Farrar

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Khadija Dadibhai

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Michael Daniels

165,000

$3,300.00

Cash

Mohammed Zakir Shaikh

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Muhammad Dadibahi

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Museji Takolia

3,000

$60.00

Cash




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Nafeesah Munshi

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Noorjehan Takolia

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Oves Timol

200,000

$4,000.00

Cash

Pine Capital Asset Mgt. Inc.

7,141,000

$142,820.00

Cash

Rabia Ismail

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Richard Freeman

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Richard Toon

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Riyaz Timol

1,697,125

$33,942.50

Cash

Robert Carson

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Ruksana Khan

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Safira Mohmud

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Safiyyah Ahmed

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Saleha Lokhat

200,000

$4,000.00

Cash

Sameer Hussain

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Sarfaraz Ismail

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Sohail Hasani

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Somaiya Ravat

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Stephen Metcalf

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Suhayl Ismail

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Susan Gibbons

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Syed Mohammad Hasani

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Tahseen Rehman Minhas

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Vincent Crabtree

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Waliul Islam

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Wasif Hasani

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Yiqing Han

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Yunus Bhayat

3,000

$60.00

Cash

Yusuf Timol

200,000

$4,000.00

Cash

Zohra Adam

3,000

$60.00

Cash

TOTAL

20,000,000

$400,000

Cash


For each of the transactions referred to above, we relied upon an exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, which exempt transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering.


Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

EXHIBITS

The following exhibits are filed as part of this registration statement

Exhibit No.

Description

3.1

Articles of Incorporation.

3.2

Bylaws.

5.1*

Opinion of Loeb & Loeb LLP regarding legality of securities.

10.4

Lease Agreement between Loughborough University and NEMAURA MEDICAL INC. dated January 1, 2014.

10.5

Employment Agreement dated November 1, 2013 between the Company and Dewan F.H. Chowdhury.

10.6

Employment Agreement dated November 1, 2013 between the Company and Ambreen Hussain

10.7

Employment Agreement dated November 1, 2013 between the Company and Junaid Mansoor.

10.8

Employment Agreement dated November 1, 2013 between the Company and Robert Carson.

10.9

Employment Agreement dated November 1, 2013 between the Company and Waliul Islam.

14.1

Code of Ethics adopted by the Board of Directors.

23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

23.2*

Consent of Loeb & Loeb LLP.

24

Power of Attorney (included in signature page)

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Item 17. Undertakings


1.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i)

To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933.

(ii)

To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.

(iii)

To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

Provided, however, that paragraphs (B)(1)(i) and (B)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

2.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

3.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the Offering.

4.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

5.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purposes of determining liability to any purchaser:

(i)

If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

6.

The registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities: The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i)

Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the Offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii)

Any free writing prospectus relating to the Offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii)

The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the Offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv)

Any other communication that is an offer in the Offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

7.

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undersigned registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.



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SIGNATURES

 In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Form S-1 and has authorized this Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned in the City of Manchester, England, on March 28, 2014.


 

NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

 

By:

/s/DEWAN F. H. CHOWDHURY

 

 

Dewan F. H. Chowdhury

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)


KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Dewan F.H, Chowdhury as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith) to this Registration Statement and any subsequent registration statement filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which relates to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Name

 

Position

Date

 

 

 

 

/s/DEWAN F. H. CHOWDHURY

 

 

March 28, 2014

Dewan F. H. Chowdhury

 

President, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer), Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer and Chairman

 

 

 

 

 

/s/BASHIR TIMOL

 

 

March 28, 2014

Bashir Timol

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 




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BY LAWS

OF

NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

ARTICLE I - OFFICES

The principal office of the corporation shall be established and maintained as designated in the Articles of Incorporation. The corporation may also have offices at such places within or without the State of Nevada as the Board of Directors (hereinafter, "Board") may from time to time establish.

ARTICLE II - STOCKHOLDERS

1.

PLACE OF MEETINGS.   Meetings of the Stockholders shall be held at the principal office of the corporation or at such place within or without the State of Nevada as the Board shall authorize.

2.

ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of Stockholders shall be held on the first Monday of each year in the month of February; however, if such day falls on a legal holiday, then on the next business day following at the same time. At the annual meeting of Stockholders, the Stockholders shall elect the Board of Directors and transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

3.

SPECIAL MEETINGS .   Special meetings of the Stockholders may be called by the Board or by the President or at the written request of Stockholders owning a majority of the stock entitled to vote at such meeting. A meeting requested by the Stockholders shall be called for a date not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days after a request is made. The Secretary shall issue the call for the meeting unless the President, the Board or the Stockholders shall designate another to make said call.

4.

NOTICE OF MEETINGS .   Written Notice of each meeting of Stockholders shall state the purpose of the meeting and the time and place of the meeting. Notice shall be mailed to each Stockholder having the right and entitled to vote at such meetings to their last address as it appears on the records of the corporation, not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date set for such meeting. Such notice shall be sufficient for the meeting and any adjournment thereof. If any Stockholder shall transfer his stock after notice, it shall not be necessary to notify the transferee. Any Stockholder may waive notice of any meeting before, during or after the meeting.

5.

RECORD DATE .   The Board may fix a record date not more than forty (40) days prior to the date set for a meeting of Stockholders as the date of which the Stockholders of record who have the right to and are entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting and any adjournment thereof shall be determined. Notice that such date has been fixed may be published in the city, town or county where the principal office of the corporation is located and in each city or town where a transfer agent of the stock of the corporation is located.

6.

VOTING .   Every Stockholder shall be entitled at each meeting and upon each proposal presented at each meeting to one vote for each share of voting stock recorded in her name on the books of the corporation on the record date as fixed by the Board. If no record date was fixed, on the date of the meeting the book of records of Stockholders shall be produced at the meeting upon the request of any Stockholder. Upon demand of any Stockholder, the vote for Directors and the vote upon any question before the meeting shall be by ballot. All elections for Directors shall be decided by plurality vote; all other questions shall be decided by majority vote.

7.

QUORUM .   The presence, in person or by proxy, of Stockholders holding a majority of the stock of the corporation entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the Stockholders. In case quorum shall not be present at any meeting, a majority in interest of the Stockholders entitled to vote thereat present



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in person or by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until the requisite amount of stock entitled to shall be present. At any such adjourned meeting at which the requisite amount of stock entitled to vote be represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed; but only those Stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting shall be entitled to vote at any adjournment or adjournments thereof.

8.

PROXIES At any Stockholders' meeting or any adjournment thereof, any Stockholder of record having the right and entitled to vote thereat may be represented and vote by proxy appointed in an instrument. No such proxy shall be voted after three years from the date of the instrument unless the instrument provides for a longer period. In the event that any such instrument provides for or more persons to act as proxies, a majority of such persons present at the meeting, or if only one is present, that one, shall have all the powers conferred by the instrument upon all persons so designated unless the instrument shall otherwise provide.

9.

STOCKHOLDER LIST .   After fixing a record date for a meeting, the corporation shall prepare an alphabetical list of the names of all its Stockholders who are entitled to notice of a Stockholders' meeting. Such list shall be arranged by voting group with the names and addresses of, and the number class and series if any, of shares held by each. This list shall be available for inspection by any Stockholder for a period of ten days prior to the meeting.

ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS

1.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS .   The business of the corporation shall be managed and its corporate powers exercised by a Board each of whom shall be of full age. It shall not be necessary for Directors to be Stockholders. The number of Director(s) shall be determined by the Stockholders at their annual meeting.  There shall be no less than one (1) director and no more than fifteen (15) directors.

2.

ELECTION AND TERM OF DIRECTORS Directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of stockholders and each Director elected shall hold office until her successor has been elected and qualified, or until the Director's prior resignation or removal.

3.

VACANCIES . If the office of any Director, member of a committee or other office becomes vacant the remaining Directors in office, by a majority vote, may appoint any qualified person to fill such vacancy, who shall hold office for the unexpired term and until a successor shall be duly chosen.

4.

REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS .   Any or all of the Directors may be removed with or without cause by a vote of a majority of all the stock outstanding and entitled to vote at a special meeting of Stockholders called for that purpose.

5.

NEWLY CREATED DIRECTORSHIPS .   The number of Directors may be increased by amendment of these Bylaws by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors, though less than a quorum, or, by the affirmative vote of a majority in interest of the Stockholders, at the annual meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, and by like vote the additional Directors may be chosen at such meeting to hold office until the next annual election and until their successors are elected and qualify.

6.

RESIGNATION .   A Director may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Board, the President or the Secretary of the Corporation. Unless otherwise specified in the notice, the resignation shall take effect upon receipt thereof by the Board or such officer, and the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

7.

QUORUM OF D1RECTORS .   A majority of the Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If at any meeting of the Board there shall be less than a quorum present, a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting until a quorum is obtained and no further notice thereof need be given other than by announcement at the meeting which shall be so adjourned.



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PLACE AND TIME OF BOARD MEETINGS .   The Board may hold its meetings at the office of the corporation or at such other places either within or without the State of Nevada as it may from time to time determine.  There shall be semi-annual meetings of the Board of Directors to conduct a review of the business and policies of the corporation and to conduct any business that may be brought forward.

9.

REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING.   A regular meeting of the Board shall be held immediately following the annual meeting of the Stockholders at the place of such annual meeting of Stockholders.

10.

CONDUCT OF BUSINESS WITHOUT MEETINGS .   Any action of the Directors or committees may be taken without a meeting if consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all persons who would be entitled to vote on such action at a meeting and filed with the Secretary of the corporation as part of the proceedings of the Directors or committees as the case may be.

11.

NOTICE OF MEETINGS OF THE BOARD .    Regular meetings of the Board may be held without notice at such time and place as it shall from time to time determine. Special meetings of the Board shall be held upon notice to the Directors and may be called by the President upon three days’ notice to each Director either personally or by mail or by wire or by facsimile; special meetings shall be called by the President or by the Secretary in a like manner on written request by two Directors. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any Director who submits a Waiver of Notice whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him.

12.

EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMITTEES .   The Board, by resolution, may designate two or more of their number to one or more committees, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or these Bylaws may exercise the powers of the Board in the management of the business of the corporation.

13.

COMPENSATION .  Directors, as such may receive, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors, fees and other compensation for their services as directors, including without limitation their services as members of committees of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IV - OFFICERS

1.

OFFICERS. ELECTION AND TERM .

1.1.

The Board may elect or appoint a Chairman, a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer and an Assistant Treasurer and such other officers as it may determine who shall have duties and powers as hereinafter provided.

1.2.

All officers shall be elected or appointed to hold office until the meeting of the Board following the next annual meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been elected or appointed and qualified.

2.

REMOVAL. RESIGNATION. SALARY. ETC .

2.1.

Any officer elected or appointed by the Board may be removed by the Board with or without cause.

2.2.

In the event of the death, resignation or removal of an officer, the Board in its discretion may elect or appoint a successor to fill the unexpired term.

2.3.

Any two or more offices may be held by the same person.

2.4.

The salaries of all officers shall be fixed by the Board.

2.5.

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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER .   The Chairman of the Board shall be the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and shall have general and active overall management of the business and affairs of the corporation subject to the consent and directions of the Board of Directors, and shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and Board of Directors.

4.

PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER .   The President shall be the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) shall have general and active management of the daily operational aspects of the business and affairs of the corporation. He shall act in behalf of the Chairman of the Board when requested to do so by the Chairman.  Except as the Board shall authorize the execution thereof in some other manner, the President shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts in behalf of the corporation and shall cause the seal to be affixed to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed, the seal shall be attested by the signature of the Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer.

5.

VICE PRESIDENTS During the absence or disability of the President, the Vice-President, or if there be more than one, the executive Vice-President, shall have all the powers and functions of the President. Each Vice-President shall perform such other duties as the Board shall prescribe.

6.

SECRETARY .   The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board and of the Stockholders, record all votes and minutes of all proceedings in a book to kept for that purpose, give or cause to be given notice of all meetings of Stockholders and of meetings and special meetings of the Board, keep in safe custody the seal of the corporation and affix it to any instrument when authorized by the Board. or the President, when required, prepare or cause to be prepared and available at each meeting of Stockholders a certified list in alphabetical order of the names of Stockholders entitled to vote thereat, indicating the number of shares of each respective class held by each, keep all the documents and records of the corporation as required by law or otherwise in a proper and safe manner, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board or assigned by the President.

7.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES .   During the absence or disability of the Secretary, the Assistant-Secretary, or if there are more than one, the one so designated by the Secretary or by the Board, shall have all the powers and functions of the Secretary.

8.

TREASURER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.  The Treasurer shall be the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities, keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in the corporate books, deposit all money and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board, disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered or authorized by the Board and preserve proper vouchers for such disbursements, render to the President and Board at the regular meetings of the Board, or whenever they require it, an account of all the transactions made as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation. The Treasurer shall also render a full financial report at the annual meeting of the Stockholders if so requested. The Treasurer may request and shall be furnished by all corporate officers and agents with such reports and statements as he may require as to all financial transactions of the corporation, and perform such other duties as are designated by these Bylaws or as from time to time are assigned by the Board.

9.

ASSISTANT TREASURERS .   During the absence or disability of the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer, or if there be more than one, the one so designated by the Treasurer or the Board, shall have all the powers and functions of the Treasurer.

10.

SURETIES AND BONDS .   In case the Board shall so require, any officer or agent of the corporation shall execute to the corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Board may direct, conditioned upon the faithful performance of duties to the corporation and including responsibility for negligence and for the accounting of all property, funds or securities of the corporation which the officer or agent may be responsible for.



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ARTICLE V - CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

1.

CERTIFICATES .   The shares of the corporation shall be represented by certificates. They shall be numbered and entered in the books of the corporation as they are issued. They shall exhibit the holder's name, the number of shares and shall be signed by the President and Secretary and shall bear the corporate seal. When such certificates are signed by the transfer agent or an assistant transfer agent or by a transfer clerk acting on behalf of the corporation and a registrar, the signatures of such officers may be facsimiles.

2.

LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATES .   The Board may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificates theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board may, in its discretion as a condition preceding the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or the owner's legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.

3.

TRANSFER OF SHARES .   Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, and cancel the old certificate; every such transfer shall be entered on the transfer book of the corporation which shall be kept at its principal office. Whenever a transfer shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of the transfer ledger. No transfer shall be made within ten days next preceding the annual meeting of the Stockholders.

4.

CLOSING TRANSFER BOOKS The Board shall have the power to close the share transfer books of the corporation for a period of not more than ten days during the thirty day period immediately preceding

4.1.

any Stockholder's meeting, or

4.2.

any date upon which Stockholders shall be called upon to have a right to take action without a meeting, or

4.3.

any date fixed for the payment of a dividend or any other form of distribution, and only those Stockholders of record at the time the transfer books are closed, shall be recognized as such for the purpose of

4.3.1.

receiving notice of or voting at such meeting or

4.3.2.

allowing them to take appropriate action, or

4.3.3.

entitling them to receive any dividend or other form of distribution.

ARTICLE VI - DIVIDENDS

The Board may out of funds legally available, at any regular or special meeting declare dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation as and when it deems expedient. Before declaring any dividend there may be set apart out of any funds of the corporation available for dividends, such sum or sums as the Board from time to time in their discretion deem proper for working capital or as a reserve fund to meet contingencies or for equalizing dividends for such other purposes as the Board shall deem conducive to the interest of the corporation.



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CORPORATE SEAL

The seal of the corporation shall bear the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and the words "CORPORATE SEAL, Nevada" or "OFFICIAL CORPORATE SEAL, Nevada". The seal may be used by causing it to be impressed directly on the instrument or writing to be sealed, or upon adhesive substance affixed thereto. The seal on the certificates for shares or on any corporate obligation for the payment of money may be facsimile, engraved or printed.

ARTICLE VII - EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS

All corporate instruments and documents shall be signed or countersigned, executed, verified or acknowledged by such officer or officers or other person or persons as the Board may from time to time designate. All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, agent or agents of the corporation and in such manner as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board.

ARTICLE VIII - FISCAL YEAR

The fiscal year shall begin on the first day of each year and end on December 31 st .

ARTICLE IX - NOTICE AND WAIVER OF NOTICE

1.

SUFFICIENCY OF NOTICE .   Whenever any notice is required by these Bylaws to be given, personal notice is not meant unless expressly so stated, and any notice so required shall be deemed to be sufficient if given by depositing the same in a United States Postal Service post office mail collecting container in a sealed postage-paid wrapper, addressed to the person entitled thereto at the last known post office address, and such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the day of such mailing. Stockholders not entitled to vote shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meetings except as otherwise provided by Statute.

2.

WAIVERS .   Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given under the provisions of any law, or under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation of the corporation or these Bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto.

ARTICLE X - CONSTRUCTION

Whenever a conflict arises between the language of these Bylaws and the Articles of Incorporation, the Articles of Incorporation shall govern.

ARTICLE XI - AMENDMENTS

1.

These Bylaws may be altered or repealed at any annual meeting of the Stockholders or at any special meeting thereof if notice of the proposed alteration or repeal to made is contained in the notice of such special meeting, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat.

2.

These Bylaws may amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board except the Board may not amend or repeal any Bylaw which expressly provides that the Board may not amend or repeal that Bylaw provision.

ARTICLE XII - EMERGENCY BYLAWS

1.

CONDUCT OF BUSINESS WITHOUT MEETINGS .   Pursuant to Nevada Statues the corporation adopts the following By-laws, which shall be effective only if a quorum of the Directors of the corporation



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cannot be readily assembled because of some catastrophic event.

2.

CALLING A MEETING In the event of such catastrophic event, any member of the Board shall be authorized to call a meeting of the Board. Such member calling an emergency meeting shall use any means of communication at their disposal to notify all other members of the Board of such meeting.

3.

QUORUM .   Anyone member of the Board shall constitute a quorum of the Board. The members of the Board meeting during such an emergency may select any person or persons as additional Board members, officers or agents of the corporation.

4.

INDEMNIFICATION .   The members of such emergency Board are authorized to utilize any means at their disposal to preserve and protect the assets of the corporation. Any action taken in good faith and acted upon in accordance with these Bylaws shall bind the corporation; and the corporation shall hold harmless any Director, officer, employee or agent who undertakes an action pursuant to these Bylaws.

5.

TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY BYLAWS These emergency Bylaws shall not be effective at the end of the emergency period.

ARTICLE XIII - MISCELLANEOUS

1.

REPRESENTATION OF SHARES IN OTHER CORPORATIONS .  Shares of other corporations standing in the name of this corporation may be voted or represented and all incidents thereto may be exercised on behalf of the corporation by the Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice President and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary.

2.

SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS .  Shares of this corporation owned by a subsidiary shall not be entitled to vote on any matter.  A subsidiary for these purposes is defined as a corporation, the shares of which possessing more than 25% of the total combined voting power of all classes of shares entitled to vote, are owned directly or indirectly through one (1) or more subsidiaries.

3.

INDEMNITY .  Subject to applicable law, the corporation may indemnify any Director, Officer, agent or employee as to those liabilities and on those terms and conditions as appropriate.  In any event, the corporation shall have the right to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any such persons whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against the liability insured against.



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Dated: 01 November 2013


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited


2

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury



Employment agreement













Table of contents

1

Definitions

1

2

Duration of employment

2

3

Period continuously employed

2

4

Former contracts

2

5

Job title

2

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

2

7

Place of work

3

8

Normal hours of work

3

9

Pay

4

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

4

11

Expenses

5

12

Holidays

5

13

Absence from work

6

14

Sick pay

6

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

7

16

Right to require a medical examination

7

17

Medical records

8

18

Personal records

8

19

Right to search

8

20

Health and safety

9

21

Outside interests

9

22

Our documents

9

23

Our property

9

24

Confidential information

10

25

Public interest disclosure

10

26

Intellectual property

11

27

Grievance procedure

12

28

Disciplinary procedure

12

29

Termination

15

30

Payment in lieu of notice

15

31

Garden leave

16

32

Retirement

16

33

Deductions

16

34

Post termination restrictions

17

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

18

36

Misrepresentation

18






37

Changes to terms

18

38

Waiver

19

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

19

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

19

41

Notices

19

42

Third party rights

19

43

Entire agreement

20

44

Interpretation

20

Schedule One – Job Description

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This employment agreement is made on 1 November 2013


Between:


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited (company number 6795555) whose registered office is at Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ; and

2

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury of 85 Toothill Road, Loughborough, Leics LE11 1PN

It is agreed as follows:


1

Definitions

1.1

In this agreement the following definitions apply

“We”, “we”, “Our”, “our”, “us”, “ours”

Dermal Diagnostics Limited.

“You”, “you”, “Your”, “your”, “yours”

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury

“associated employer”

Any associated employer of ours as defined in the Employment Rights Act 1996.

“board”

Our board of directors and any person acting with the board’s authority but not including you.

“our premises”

Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ.

“the East Midlands”

the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

“working day”

Monday to Friday inclusive but not any statutory holiday.

“person”

Any individual, group of people, firm, partnership, association (whether incorporated or not), private members’ club, company or other incorporated or unincorporated body.

“your employment”

Your employment under this agreement.

“recognised investment exchange”

As defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

“Restricted Period”

In the case of senior employees, 12 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated; in the case of junior employees, 6 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated.

“intellectual property”

Copyright, database rights, designs (registered and unregistered), patents, trademarks, moral rights and any other intellectual property rights of any nature whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world.



2

Duration of employment

2.1

Your employment started on 1 November 2013 and will continue unless and until it is ended under clause 29 or clause 30.  

3

Period continuously employed

3.1

For the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the relevant date for calculating your continuous period of employment is 1 September 2007.

4

Former contracts

4.1

This agreement replaces all other employment agreements between the parties.

4.2

You confirm that you will not breach any duty of any type owed to any person by signing this agreement.

5

Job title

5.1

We will employ you as CEO

5.2

For the purposes of clause 34, you are a senior employee.

5.3

Your current job description is set out in schedule 1.

5.4

We may change your job title upon reasonable written notice to you.

5.5

We may appoint others to work in a similar position or in place of you.

5.6

We may require you to take up any other position that we consider appropriate.

5.7

We may require you to take up a position with any associated employer.

5.8

We may transfer this agreement to any associated employer, in which case all references in this agreement to us will be treated as references to the relevant associated employer from the date of transfer.

5.9

We will give you one month’s notice of any changes to the current position.

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

6.1

During your employment you must:

6.1.1

follow our reasonable and lawful directions;

6.1.2

comply with all of our rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures;

6.1.3

keep us promptly and fully informed of your conduct of our business and explain your actions to us whenever requested;

6.1.4

account to us for any inducement offered to you for any business transaction;

6.1.5

devote your whole time and attention to our business during your normal working hours unless prevented from doing so by sickness or injury;

6.1.6

do your best to promote our interests and our business;

6.1.7

do your job to the best of your ability.







6.2

During your employment you must not:

6.2.1

do anything which could damage our interests or our business;

6.2.2

prepare to join a competitor of ours or to set up in competition with us;

6.2.3

introduce any business which we could deal with to any person other than us;

6.2.4

receive for your own benefit (directly or indirectly) any inducement of any sort for any business transaction;

6.2.5

agree on our behalf:

6.2.5.1

to purchase or lease any land, building or premises; or

6.2.5.2

to give any debenture, mortgage or other security on any of our property;

6.2.6

agree on our behalf to any capital financing, purchases or sales;

6.2.7

agree on our behalf to employ any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.8

dismiss any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.9

agree on our behalf to purchase or sell goods or services.

6.3

If you are in breach of any of the terms of this agreement you must tell us immediately and must indemnify us in relation to any liability we incur as a result of your breach.

6.4

If you become aware of any misconduct or other breach of contract committed by any of our other employees you must tell us immediately.

6.5

You must not use our telephones, faxes, IT equipment or stationery for anything other than our business. We own any communications sent, received and stored on such media. We are able to monitor and intercept telephone calls, letters, faxes and emails and to identify the sender and the recipient. You authorise us to do so.

7

Place of work

7.1

Your main place of work will be our premises, but you must also work at various places throughout the East Midlands as we require.

7.2

We may require that you work from a different location or place of work on a temporary or permanent basis.

7.3

We may require you to move house in order properly to do your job. [If so, we will pay such contribution to your moving expenses as we consider appropriate.]

7.4

We may require you to work overseas. We will not require you to work outside the United Kingdom for more than one month at a time. You will not be required to live outside the United Kingdom.

8

Normal hours of work

8.1

You are expected to work 37.5 hours each week. You will control your working hours on a day-to-day basis, subject only that on each working day you must not begin work later than 10am nor finish work later than 4pm. Outside these core hours, you are expected to work such hours so that you always average 37.5 hours per week with respect to a monthly reference period.

8.2

You are entitled to one hour’s break for lunch which is unpaid and does not count towards your weekly 37.5 hour requirement.







8.3

You will also be required to work such extra hours as may be necessary for you to do your job.

8.4

You agree that the forty-eight hour average working week limit prescribed by the Working Time Regulations 1998 will not apply to you but you may withdraw your agreement by giving us two months’ notice in writing.

8.5

We do not have to provide you with work at any time or give you the opportunity to maintain or enhance your abilities or skills.

9

Pay

9.1

We will pay you a basic salary at the rate of £90,000 per annum pro rata.

9.2

We will not pay you extra for any overtime you work.

9.3

Your salary will accrue from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for some unauthorised reason.

9.4

We will not pay you for any days of unauthorised absence.

9.5

We will pay your salary monthly in arrears during the last week of each calendar month or on such other day as we may notify to you.

9.6

Payment will be made by BACS.

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

10.1

You may join our stakeholder pension scheme subject to its deed and rules.

10.2

You must provide accurate information to the pension scheme providers as and when they request it and you must comply with all rules of the pension scheme.

10.3

Your entitlement to benefits under any pension scheme is subject to the scheme’s rules.

10.4

We may vary the rules of the scheme or withdraw the scheme at any time without liability to you. If it is withdrawn, the scheme will be replaced with an alternative pension scheme of our choice, which may or may not provide similar benefits to you. We will not be liable to you for any loss you suffer as a result of any change of scheme.

10.5

The trustees of the scheme are responsible for payment of any benefits under the scheme. We do not guarantee any such payment.

10.6

We have no obligation in respect of your relationship with the trustees or the scheme providers.

10.7

If your employment or this agreement ends for any reason, you will not be entitled to any compensation for any loss or reduction in value of any rights or expectations in relation to our pension scheme that arises as a result.

10.8

There is no State Second Pension contracting-out certificate in force in relation to your employment. Your employment is not contracted out employment.

10.9

We may [contract out of the State Second Pension][vary or surrender the contracting-out certificate] at any time.

11

Expenses

11.1

Subject to clause 11.4 below, we will reimburse you for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred in doing your job.







11.2

Payment will be made monthly in arrears.

11.3

You must produce such invoices, vouchers or other evidence as we may require.

11.4

You must not incur any expense greater than £100.00 without prior written authorisation from your designated manager.

12

Holidays

12.1

Our holiday year is from 01 January to 31 December each year.

12.2

In each complete holiday year you will be entitled to the pro rata days based on the following full time equivalent:

12.2.1

eight statutory holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day; and

12.2.2

25 working days’ paid holiday

12.3

If your employment starts or ends part way through a holiday year, you will be entitled to:

12.3.1

any statutory holiday falling during your employment; and

12.3.2

a proportion of the working days equivalent to the proportion of the relevant holiday year for which we actually employ you.

12.4

If you are required to work on any statutory holiday we may either allow you an extra day’s holiday or pay you for the day.

12.5

Your entitlement to statutory holidays will accrue as and when they occur. Your additional holiday entitlement will accrue pro rata from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for an unauthorised reason.

12.6

During any continuous period of absence due to sickness or injury of one month or more you will only accrue the minimum holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and not any contractual holiday.

12.7

When calculating your accrued holiday entitlement, we will always round up to the nearest half-day.

12.8

We may require you to take holiday at any time. We will notify you of our requirements at least one week in advance. Subject to clauses 2.5 and 12.11, you may take holiday at any time provided that you give at least two weeks’ notice and we do not object.

12.9

You may carry any unused holiday entitlement forward to a subsequent holiday year.

12.10

We will not pay you for any working day’s holiday accrued but not taken in a holiday year.

12.11

You may not take more than ten working days’ holiday together without the prior written agreement of your designated manager.

12.12

If either party gives notice to end your employment, we may require you to take some or all of your remaining holiday during your notice period but otherwise you will not be entitled to take any holiday during your notice period.

12.13

Subject to clause 12.14 at the end of your employment, we will pay you in accordance with the Working Time Regulations 1998 in lieu of any holiday entitlement not taken. You will be required to repay us any pay received for holiday taken in excess of your holiday entitlement.

12.14

If your employment is terminated pursuant to clause 29.2 or you resign without giving notice due under clause 29.1 you will be entitled to be paid in lieu of any untaken holiday entitlement you







would have accrued based on your minimum holiday entitlement pursuant to the Working Time Regulations 1998 only and not pursuant to clause 12.2. For these purposes any holiday entitlement that you have taken in the holiday year in which your employment ends (including any paid holiday or any statutory holiday) will be deemed first to be holiday entitlement due to you under the Working Time Regulations 1998. The amount of the payment in lieu pursuant to clause 12.13 and this clause will be calculated on the basis that each days paid holiday is equal to 1/260 th of your basic annual salary.

12.15

The provisions of regulation 15(1) to (4) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (length of notice to be given or received to take holidays) do not apply to your employment or this agreement.

13

Absence from work

13.1

You must follow our absence notification procedure. This applies to all absences other than when you take properly authorised holiday.

13.2

Subject to clause 13.3 if you are absent from work for any reason without advance authorization, you must notify your designated manager by 11 am on the first day of absence, giving the reason for the absence and the expected length of absence. You must confirm the reason in writing as soon as possible.

13.3

If you are absent to undergo elective surgery you must explain to your manager no later than four weeks prior to the surgery when the surgery is due to take place, how long you are likely to be absent from work and whether the surgery is medically required. We may refuse to permit you time off to undergo the elective surgery if too disruptive to the needs of our business at the time you intend to be absent.

13.4

If you are absent from work for more than seven days due to sickness or injury, you must provide your designated manager with a doctor’s certificate on the eighth day of absence. You must then provide your designated manager with consecutive doctor’s certificates top cover your entire period of absence.

13.5

You must report personally to your designated manager by 10:30 am on the first day that you return to work.

13.6

If you are absent for more than 30 working days in any twelve months, we will treat your absence as a disciplinary matter. We may treat any absence as a disciplinary matter, depending on the circumstances.

13.7

During any period of absence of more than 10 working days, you will be required to return all company property issued to you. This includes all property issued to you purely for your own benefit. We will not compensate you for the withdrawal of any of our property.

14

Sick pay

14.1

We operate the statutory sick pay scheme under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. You must co-operate in the maintenance of all necessary records. We will offset any payment made to you during a period of sickness (other than for salary earned previously) against any liability for statutory sick pay.

14.2

We have absence notification procedures that you must follow. The following is simply an explanation of the statutory sick pay regime.

14.2.1

Statutory sick pay is payable in respect of absence from work due to sickness on qualifying days. Your qualifying days are the days on which you normally work.

14.2.2

No statutory sick pay is payable for the first three qualifying days of a period of sickness absence unless the first day of this sickness can be linked to a previous period of sickness. These first three days are known as “waiting days”.







14.2.3

Two periods of sickness can be linked if separated by fifty-six calendar days or fewer. If you have completed waiting days in the first period of sickness, these will count as waiting days for the second period.

14.2.4

Statutory sick pay is payable for all other qualifying days during the period of sickness absence up to a maximum payment equal to twenty-eight times the appropriate weekly rate. Where periods of sickness absence are linked together, your maximum entitlement is calculated cumulatively.

14.2.5

Statutory sick pay is payable in the same way and at the same time as normal pay and is subject to the usual deductions.

14.3

Entitlement to statutory sick pay depends upon your compliance with the following rules.

14.3.1

You must not be statutorily excluded.

14.3.2

You must notify us of absence from work due to sickness on the first qualifying day on which you are sick. You should notify us as soon as possible and must do so no later than the end of the first day.

14.3.3

If and only if you are unable for good reason to contact us personally or by getting someone to contact us on your behalf that day (e.g., by telephone), we will accept written notice of sickness provided that it is posted on the first qualifying day.

14.3.4

If your period of sickness lasts longer than seven days, you are required to provide a medical certificate at the start of each subsequent calendar week of continued sickness.

14.3.5

On return to work after any period of sickness absence, you are required to complete our self-certification form for sickness absence. This is available from your designated manager.

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

15.1

You may become a member of, hold office in and/or support the activities of any independent trade union but you do not have to do so.

15.2

You do not have to tell us about your trade union membership, office or activities but if you do, you authorise us to retain a record and agree to notify us of any change in details.

15.3

Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not formally recognise a trade union.

15.4

There are no collective agreements affecting your employment.

16

Right to require a medical examination

16.1

You must submit to a medical examination by any registered medical practitioner we nominate and:

16.1.1

you consent to the examination;

16.1.2

you consent that a report may be published in relation to the examination and that we may have access to it;

16.1.3

subject to clause 16.1.4 you are entitled to have access to the report before it is supplied to us;

16.1.4

the registered medical practitioner may withhold the report from you if he suspects that any physical or mental harm may result from its release;

16.1.5

you may request alterations to any errors which you perceive in the report;







16.1.6

you consent that the report be released to us after you have had the opportunity to inspect it and to request alterations and even if the registered medical practitioner has withheld it from you.

16.2

You may withdraw your consent but if you do, we will have to make decisions based on the limited information available to us. That may not be in your best interests.

16.3

You must not unreasonably delay any examination or the provision of any report to us.

16.4

We will pay for the examination and the report.

17

Medical records

17.1

You understand and agree that we will keep all sickness, absence and medical records for all employment purposes including:

17.1.1

to assist in the performance of our health and safety obligations;

17.1.2

to assist us to assess whether any adaptation is needed to the workplace or working conditions;

17.1.3

for redundancy selection should that become necessary and should your history of absences be relevant to such a selection;

17.1.4

for assessment of your capability;

17.1.5

to monitor compliance with our absence notification procedure.

18

Personal records

18.1

You understand and agree that during the course of your employment we will compile a personnel file for you containing details concerning your employment and any relevant previous employment.

18.2

You authorise us to retain sensitive information in your personnel file for all purposes connected with your employment.

18.3

You authorise us to release your personnel file or any of the details contained in it to any person we consider appropriate whether or not that person is within the European Economic Area.

19

Right to search

19.1

If we suspect you of theft or industrial espionage, we may search your clothing and personal property whilst you are on our premises or any premises from which we operate (including suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ premises).

19.2

You may refuse to allow a search to be carried out but must understand in that case:

19.2.1

the police will be called; and

19.2.2

we may draw adverse inferences if you also refuse to wait for the police to arrive.

19.3

Any search may be conducted without prior notice.

19.4

Any search will be carried out in the presence of two witnesses. In the case of a personal search, the witnesses will be the same gender as you.

19.5

Personal property includes any vehicle owned by either party.







20

Health and safety

20.1

You should be familiar with our health and safety policy and all procedures concerning safety in emergencies including the use and operation of safety equipment and protective clothing. In particular, you must understand:

20.1.1

fire and other emergency procedures;

20.1.2

the position of all first-aid and fire appliances;

20.1.3

the fire escape routes;

20.1.4

the accident procedures;

20.1.5

the names and locations of qualified first-aiders.

20.2

A copy of our health and safety policy can be obtained from your designated manager upon request.

20.3

Details of any accident must be reported as soon as possible after the event.

20.4

Protective equipment, clothing and overalls must be worn where appropriate and your designated manager’s instructions must be followed at all times in that regard.

20.5

Disciplinary action may be taken against you if we consider you have put your own or any other person’s health or safety at risk.

21

Outside interests

21.1

During your employment you must not directly or indirectly be employed, engaged, concerned or interested in any business or undertaking or any activity which we consider may be or become harmful to our interests, which might interfere with your job or which may be or become in competition with us.

21.2

Nothing in clause 21.1 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

21.3

Nothing in clause 21.1 affects your rights in respect of trade union membership.

22

Our documents

22.1

All notes, memoranda, records, papers, documents, correspondence, writings, contact lists, address books, and all information recorded on magnetic tape or disc or otherwise recorded or stored for reproduction whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means including any copy which is in your possession or control and which relates to us will be and remain our property.

22.2

Our documents must not be used for any unauthorised purpose.

22.3

You must return all such items in your possession or under your control to us when requested.

23

Our property

23.1

You must not remove our property from our premises unless specifically authorised to do so.

23.2

You are responsible for the care of property issued to you and you must produce such property to us for inspection when requested.

23.3

You must not use our property for any unauthorised purpose.







23.4

Any property issued to you will remain ours and you must return such property to us when requested.

24

Confidential information

24.1

In the course of your employment you will have access to and be entrusted with information in respect of our business and our suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ businesses, which information is or may be secret or confidential and important to us and our suppliers, clients and agents respectively.

24.2

Such information includes (but is not limited to) that relating to inventions, ideas, dealings, transactions, plans, proposals, policies, statements, procedures, rules, regulations, operations, finances, prices, business, marketing, development, manpower plans, client lists or details (whether held electronically or otherwise), contact lists, address books, computer systems and software, designs for products or proposed products, designs for machinery for the manufacture of products or proposed products, manufacturing processes, terms of business (whether for sale or purchase) including discounts given and received and renewal dates of contracts, salaries and any employee’s terms and conditions of employment, formulae and know-how or other matters connected with the products or services purchased, manufactured, marketed or provided by us.

24.3

You must not at any time whether during or after the end of your employment directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person other than to do your job or as required or permitted by law:

24.3.1

divulge such information to any person;

24.3.2

use such information for your own purposes or for any purposes which are not our purposes;

24.3.3

permit any unauthorised disclosure of any such information.

24.4

You must do your best to prevent any other person disclosing such information.

24.5

Clause 24 does not relate to information that is (other than through your breach of clause 24) generally available to the public.

24.6

You might also gain access to confidential information relating to other employees, either from the other employees themselves or in the course of your job.

24.7

Unauthorised and inappropriate disclosure of confidential information is likely to amount to a disciplinary offence and may, in certain circumstances, be subject to criminal sanctions.

25

Public interest disclosure

25.1

If you are concerned that we or any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents may be guilty of:

25.1.1

a criminal offence;

25.1.2

failure to comply with a legal obligation;

25.1.3

miscarriage of justice;

25.1.4

endangering health or safety;

25.1.5

damage to the environment; or

25.1.6

concealing any of the above,

you must report the matter immediately to your designated manager.







25.2

We encourage employees to report all such acts or failures and consequently it is a condition of your employment that you must do so immediately that you become aware of one. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. In serious cases, your employment may be terminated without notice or payment in lieu.

25.3

We will investigate your concerns.

25.4

We will try to conclude an investigation, to inform you of the result and to commence any remedial action we consider appropriate within a period or periods that we will set when we start the investigation. If we are unable to comply with any time limit, we will inform you within that time limit and we will tell you how much longer we expect to need.

26

Intellectual property

26.1

Whilst we employ you, you might, either alone or with others, create or conceive:

26.1.1

inventions, novel creations, ideas, discoveries, developments, writings, trade marks, service marks, designs, drawings, improvements and innovations; and/or

26.1.2

works in which copyright, design right and/or database right will subsist in various media.

26.2

You must maintain full records of your activities and present them to us when we ask you to do so. We will own such records.

26.3

You must tell us about such matters as soon as you are aware of them and you must not give any other person any details of them.

26.4

You agree that any intellectual property in such matters belongs to us. To the extent that it does not belong to us automatically, you must transfer it to us unconditionally. We will pay the expenses involved. This clause does not affect any right you may have to apply for a patent in your own name.

26.5

You will do everything necessary to assist in the transfer of any intellectual property to us including, but not limited to, signing any document we consider necessary.

26.6

You will do everything necessary to assist in any application for us to be registered as owner of such intellectual property. You appoint us as your agent to enable us to be registered.

26.7

You will not claim ownership of or assert any moral right in such intellectual property and you must not do anything that will jeopardise our rights or any application we may make for registration.

26.8

You must not use or make reference to any intellectual property other than for our purposes nor promote such intellectual property for your own benefit.

26.9

When any such matter is created or conceived we and not you must be identified as the owner of it and of the intellectual property in it. This includes, but is not limited to, our name appearing on any such matter.

26.10

You give us a warranty that no such matter infringes the rights of any other person. If any other person makes a claim against us, you will pay to us all costs and compensation including consequential losses such as loss of profits, business or goodwill we suffer as a result of such a claim including any money we may have to pay to that other person. We will give you authority and assist you to deal with any such claim provided that you pay our expenses for doing so.

26.11

If any such matter does infringe the rights of any other person, we will not admit liability.

26.12

If a third party obtains or in our opinion is likely to obtain an injunction preventing us from using such matters, you must do everything you can to ensure we can continue to use such matters without infringing the injunction, including obtaining any necessary licence.







26.13

Clause 26 applies to such matters created or conceived:

26.13.1

during or outside normal working hours;

26.13.2

before or within six months after the end of your employment;

26.13.3

in relation to our business and its current and future activities; and

26.13.4

where it involves the use of our equipment, supplies, facilities, confidential information or time.

26.14

Nothing in this clause is intended to affect or diminishes your rights under the Patents Act 1977.

27

Grievance procedure

27.1

If you have any grievance relating to your employment, you should raise it in writing with your designated manager.

27.2

We will appoint a manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the investigating manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.3

You may appeal against the decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

27.4

A director will then appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.5

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

27.6

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

27.7

We may change the person appointed to deal with the grievance or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28

Disciplinary procedure

28.1

If:

28.1.1

you commit any act of misconduct; or

28.1.2

you appear incapable of performing the duties or doing the work allocated to you; or

28.1.3

you commit an act of gross misconduct or gross negligence; or

28.1.4

your role becomes redundant or we contemplate terminating your employment for some other substantial reason,

we will appoint a manager to investigate the matter, to write to you setting out our concerns and to meet with you to discuss them before we decide on any action to be taken. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.2

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the meeting, the investigating manager will present his results to another manager appointed by us to decide what (if any) action is necessary based on the findings of the investigation (the disciplining manager).







28.3

If action is necessary, the disciplining manager will invite you to a meeting within seven working days to discuss with you the findings of the investigation and any action the disciplining manager may take following that meeting. The disciplining manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken.

28.4

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found guilty of misconduct.

28.4.1

For a first offence, we may give a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.4.2

For an offence committed before the first warning expires, we will give you a final warning in writing. This warning will state if you commit a further offence of misconduct before it expires, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.4.3

We may dismiss you for an offence committed before the final warning expires. We will notify you in writing.

28.5

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found to be incapable of doing the job.

28.5.1

On the first occasion, we may give you a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.5.2

If we consider it necessary to give another warning before the first warning expires, this will be given in writing. This warning will state if you do not improve sufficiently, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.5.3

If you do not show a marked improvement before the final warning expires, we may dismiss you. If we decide to dismiss you, we will notify you in writing.

28.6

During the first year of your employment, we need not give warnings prior to dismissing you.

28.7

We may take into account expired disciplinary warnings previously issued to you when deciding on the appropriate disciplinary action.

28.8

Depending on the circumstances of the case, we may consider the matter sufficiently serious to warrant a more severe sanction than usual. In such a case, we will take such disciplinary action as we consider appropriate.

28.9

Gross misconduct or gross negligence may result in immediate dismissal without notice or pay in lieu. We will notify you in writing.

28.10

Rather than terminating your employment, we may take alternative disciplinary action against you such as demotion, change of job title or description, change of job, suspension (with or without pay) or reduction in pay.

28.11

You may appeal against any disciplinary decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

28.12

If you appeal against the original decision, a director will appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the matter and meet you to discuss it. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.13

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the appeal meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken as a result of your appeal.

28.14

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.







28.15

We may suspend you on full pay during the period of any investigation. If you are suspended during an investigation, this agreement will continue, together with all rights and obligations under the agreement.

28.16

During any period of suspension you must stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate including the premises of our suppliers, clients or agents.

28.17

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

28.18

We may change the person appointed to deal with disciplinary or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28.19

You may see the disciplinary records contained in your personnel file at any time.

28.20

We may keep a record of warnings even after they have been removed from your file. These may be used for selection for redundancy, although we need not rely on such records for redundancy selection if we do not consider it appropriate to do so.

28.21

The following offences are examples of misconduct:

28.21.1

bad timekeeping;

28.21.2

unreasonable unexplained absence;

28.21.3

failure to do your job or to follow lawful instructions;

28.21.4

persistent or regular absenteeism;

28.21.5

minor damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.21.6

minor breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.21.7

failure to observe our procedures;

28.21.8

abusive behaviour;

28.21.9

failure to disclose to us matters as required in clause 25.

Offences of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.22

The following are examples of incapability:

28.22.1

poor performance

28.22.2

persistent or long term absenteeism;

28.22.3

incompetence;

28.22.4

unsuitability;

28.22.5

lack of application.

28.23

Matters of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.24

The following offences are examples of gross misconduct:

28.24.1

theft;

28.24.2

unauthorised possession of our documents or property;







28.24.3

unauthorised use of our facilities;

28.24.4

unauthorised acceptance of gifts;

28.24.5

serious damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.24.6

harassment or any other form of discrimination;

28.24.7

falsification (whether by inclusion or omission of information) of reports, accounts, expense claims or self certification forms;

28.24.8

falsification of time sheets;

28.24.9

refusal to carry out duties or reasonable instructions;

28.24.10

intoxication by reason of drink or drugs;

28.24.11

operating machinery or driving after consumption of drink or drugs;

28.24.12

serious breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.24.13

violent, dangerous or intimidatory conduct;

28.24.14

gross insubordination;

28.24.15

breach of health and safety regulations;

28.24.16

smoking in a non-smoking area;

28.24.17

disclosure of any private or confidential information relating to our officers, employees, suppliers, clients agents or us except as set out in this agreement.

Offences of a similar nature will be dealt with under this procedure.

29

Termination

29.1

Either party may end your employment by giving the other notice in writing. Subject to clause 2.3:

29.1.1

we must give you one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of twelve weeks;

29.1.2

you must give us one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of six weeks.

29.2

Nothing in clause 29.1 will prevent us from terminating your employment without notice and without pay in lieu if you are guilty of gross misconduct.

30

Payment in lieu of notice

30.1

We may choose to end your employment by paying your basic salary only during the period of notice set out in clause 29.1.1.

30.2

If either party gives notice under clause 29.1, we may choose at any time during the notice period to terminate your employment by paying your basic salary only during the remainder of the notice period.

30.3

We will not be deemed to have chosen to pay in lieu of notice unless we give you written notice to that effect, specifically referring to clause 30. Your employment will end as soon as notice is given under clause 30.3.







30.4

Our right to choose to make a payment in lieu of notice does not give you any right to receive one.

31

Garden leave

31.1

If either party serves notice to end your employment:

31.1.1

we may at any time during the period of notice and for any part of the notice period require you to:

31.1.1.1

stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate and the premises of any of our suppliers, clients or agents;

31.1.1.2

cease to do your job;

31.1.1.3

perform such new or different duties as we may delegate to you;

31.1.1.4

remain available to perform any duties we request of you (other than when taking holiday); and

31.1.1.5

work from any place within the East Midlands as we may require;

31.1.2

you must not contact or attempt to contact any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents except at our request and you must disclose to us any approach made to you by any employee supplier, client or agent of ours;

31.1.3

you must answer any queries we may have and assist us in the transfer of suppliers, clients and agents to our control; and

31.1.4

you must take all holiday you have or will have accrued but not already taken by the end of your employment with us ensuring that you follow our procedures in doing so.

31.2

During the notice period you will remain an employee of ours and will not be permitted to be employed by any other person, even if you are not paid by that person.

31.3

During the notice period we will continue to pay you all salary and to provide all benefits to which you are entitled during the notice period.

31.4

All other provisions of this agreement will continue in force for the period of this agreement. In particular, you will continue to be bound by clauses 6, 21, 24 and 25.

32

Retirement

32.1

If it does not end earlier, your employment will end when you reach the normal retirement age as defined in our pension scheme. You will not be entitled to any notice on termination by reason of retirement.

32.2

You may ask to work after your retirement date. We will consider any request but are not bound to agree to it.

33

Deductions

33.1

You agree that we may at any time deduct any sum you owe to us from any sum we owe to you, whether or not any such sum has fallen due for payment.

33.2

The phrase ‘any sum you owe to us’ includes any cost we may incur if we require you to work during your notice period but you fail to do so for or all part of it.

33.3

We may withhold any payment from you until you comply with clauses 22.3 and 23.4.







34

Post termination restrictions

34.1

Clients and agents During the Restricted Period you must not with a view to supplying drug delivery and diagnostic products, including (but not limited to) any products similar to those in respect of which we own a patent:

34.1.1

canvas, solicit or approach any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours; or

34.1.2

deal or contract with any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours.

34.2

Tenders During the Restricted Period you must not solicit, interfere with, tender for or try to entice away from us any contracts, projects, business or the renewal of any of them which is being negotiated at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement and in which negotiation you are involved.

34.3

Competition During the Restricted Period you must not carry on or be engaged in the role of a Formulation Scientist or have any interest in any business within the East Midlands that is similar to any business that we carry on.

34.4

Employees During the Restricted Period you must not:

34.4.1

solicit or attempt to entice from our employment any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement; or

34.4.2

employ or negotiate or arrange the employment or engagement of any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement.

34.5

Clause 34.1 only applies where we have a relationship to protect. If the client or agent in question habitually deals with a number of other suppliers of drug delivery and diagnostic products within the East Midlands, nothing in clause 34.1 will prevent you canvassing, soliciting, approaching, dealing or contracting with such a client or agent on behalf of such a supplier but you must bear in mind, if doing so, that you also have a duty of confidentiality to us as set out in clause 24.

34.6

Nothing in clause 34.3 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

34.7

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2 and 34.3 prohibit only activities that are in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.8

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2, 34.3 and 34.4 apply during your employment in respect of activities that are or will be in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.9

Each of the restrictions in clause 34 applies to stop you acting directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person.

34.10

Any period of garden leave you serve under clause 31 will reduce the period of each of the restrictions set out in clause 34 by an equivalent period.

34.11

If you breach any of the restrictions set out in clause 34 after the end of the employment, the Restricted Period will begin again from the date of the last such breach of that restriction. The period of the restriction will then be calculated from the date of the breach rather than from the end of the employment.







35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

35.1

You undertake that you will immediately draw the restrictions contained in clause 34 to the attention of any person with whom you seek work, who approaches you with an offer of work or with whom you anticipate going into business.

35.2

You understand that you should receive legal advice as to the terms and effect of these restrictions before agreeing to be bound by them.

35.3

The parties agree that each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is reasonable and necessary as between themselves and to protect our reasonable interests. If, however, any of them is found by a court to be unreasonable or unenforceable but would be reasonable and enforceable if certain words were deleted or added, then the restriction will apply with those words deleted or added as appropriate.

35.4

Each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is to be treated as separate and can be severed from the others. If any one or more of the restrictions is found to be unenforceable this will not affect the enforceability of the other restrictions.

35.5

We may give you notice to change or to reduce the scope of the restrictions contained in clause 34 at any time.

35.6

We may transfer or assign our rights under clause 34 to any successor of ours. You may not transfer or assign any rights or obligations under clause 34 to any other.

36

Misrepresentation

36.1

You must not make any untrue statement in relation to us and, in particular, must not state or suggest to any person that you remain employed by or connected with us after the end of your employment.

36.2

You must not use any name that includes our name or any name similar to it for any purpose that is not our purpose either before or after the end of your employment.

37

Changes to terms

37.1

Within this agreement, we have given ourselves the right to make various, specific changes.

37.2

We may also give you notice that we want to make changes to any of the terms of this agreement.

37.2.1

No such change will be effective unless notified to you in writing.

37.2.2

You will be given at least one month’s notice of any proposed change.

37.2.3

Each change will be deemed accepted unless you notify us of any objection in writing before the end of the relevant notice period.

37.3

From time to time, we may give you authority to do certain things on our behalf that are normally forbidden by this agreement.

37.3.1

We will set out your authority in writing.

37.3.2

We will limit the period and scope of your authority as we consider appropriate.

37.3.3

Such authority will not amount to a change to the terms of this agreement other than for its own, limited purposes.







38

Waiver

38.1

No waiver by us of any right or remedy arising either from any breach by you of any term of this agreement or from any default by you under this agreement will prevent the subsequent enforcement of this agreement

38.2

If we waive any breach or default by you on any occasion, that will not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and will not affect any other right that we have or may have against you under this agreement.

38.3

Failure or delay on our part to exercise any right or remedy that we have or may have under this agreement will not prevent us exercising such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

38.4

No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy will stop us from exercising any such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

39.1

The complete or partial invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement for any purpose will not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision for any other purpose and will not affect the remaining provisions of this agreement.

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

40.1

Any provision of this agreement that is expressed to operate or have effect for our benefit after the end of your employment will do so however your employment ends.

41

Notices

41.1

Any notice to be given under this agreement must be in writing and signed by the party issuing the notice.

41.2

Any notice may be served personally by hand or by pre-paid first class post.

41.3

Notices may be served:

41.3.1

on you at the address set out above or, if you move house and notify us of your new address, to your new address; and

41.3.2

on us at our premises or at such other address in the UK as we may notify to you.

41.4

Any notice will be served:

41.4.1

if delivered personally, upon delivery;

41.4.2

if by pre-paid first class post, at 5.00 pm on the second working day after posting.

41.5

To prove personal service, it will be necessary to prove that the content of the notice was drawn to the attention of the recipient at the time of service.

41.6

To prove service by pre-paid first class post it will be necessary only to prove that the notice was placed in an envelope and that the envelope was properly stamped, addressed and posted.

42

Third party rights

42.1

Any associated employer may rely on clauses 6, 21.1, 22, 23, 24, 25.1, 26 and 34 against you and every reference to us in those clauses will be construed to include every such associated







employer. For this purpose only, we sign this agreement on our own behalf and as agent for all associated employers.

42.2

Except as provided in clause 42.1, the effects of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 are excluded from this agreement.

42.3

No party to this agreement needs permission from any third party to change or end this agreement.

43

Entire agreement

43.1

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties in relation to your employment. Other than as set out in this agreement, the rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures to which it refers have no contractual force.

43.2

If there is any difference between what is set out in this agreement and what is set out in any other document, the details in this agreement are the correct details.

43.3

You confirm that in signing this agreement, you are not relying on anything we may have told you or put in writing that is not contained in this agreement.

43.4

Clause 43.3 is not intended to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

44

Interpretation

44.1

In this agreement, the headings and table of contents are inserted for convenience only and do not affect its interpretation or construction.

44.2

In this agreement, references to clauses and schedules are, unless otherwise stated, to clauses of and schedules to this agreement. References to this agreement include all clauses of and schedules to this agreement.

44.3

In this agreement, references to the singular include the plural and vice versa unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.4

In this agreement, references to the masculine, feminine or neuter include each of them unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.5

In this agreement, references to statutes or to statutory instruments include all re-enactments or modifications of them and any regulations made under them except to the extent that any such reference has the effect of extending, increasing or prolonging our liabilities set out in this agreement.

44.6

Words and expressions defined in the Companies Act 1985 will be given the same meaning in this agreement unless they are given a different meaning within this agreement or unless to do so does not make sense in the context in which the word or expression is used.

44.7

This agreement is subject to English law and the parties agree to submit to the English courts in dealing with any claim or matter arising.  


 

 

Signed on behalf of

Dermal Diagnostics Limited

by


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Director


Signed by

Dewan Fazlul Hoque Chowdhury


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Schedule One – Job Description


Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.


1.

Strategic Objectives – formulates and maintains corporate strategic objectives in conjunction with advisers and board of directors

2.

Commercial Objectives – determines the overall commercial goals of the company and ensures that they are adequately managed and implemented by suitably qualified personnel

3.

Quality culture – instils the need for a high profile quality assurance culture throughout the organisation at every level through conformance with working practices and procedures implemented as part of the companies QA policies and systems.

4.

Communication – ensures all personnel are kept informed of the developments and growth of the company and communicates all technical and commercial developments and their ramifications to the board.

5.

Leadership – directs all personnel ensuring working standards and the working environment are maintained at the highest level.






Dated: 1 November 2013


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited


2

Ambreen Hussain



Employment agreement













Table of contents

1

Definitions

1

2

Duration of employment

2

3

Period continuously employed

2

4

Former contracts

2

5

Job title

2

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

2

7

Place of work

3

8

Normal hours of work

3

9

Pay

4

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

4

11

Expenses

5

12

Holidays

5

13

Absence from work

6

14

Sick pay

6

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

7

16

Right to require a medical examination

7

17

Medical records

8

18

Personal records

8

19

Right to search

8

20

Health and safety

9

21

Outside interests

9

22

Our documents

9

23

Our property

10

24

Confidential information

10

25

Public interest disclosure

10

26

Intellectual property

11

27

Grievance procedure

12

28

Disciplinary procedure

12

29

Termination

15

30

Payment in lieu of notice

16

31

Garden leave

16

32

Retirement

17

33

Deductions

17

34

Post termination restrictions

17

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

18

36

Misrepresentation

18






37

Changes to terms

18

38

Waiver

19

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

19

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

19

41

Notices

19

42

Third party rights

20

43

Entire agreement

20

44

Interpretation

20

Schedule One – Job Description

22







This employment agreement is made on 1 November 2013


Between:


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited (company number 6795555) whose registered office is at Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ; and

2

Ambreen Hussain of 4 Compton Close, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3SF

It is agreed as follows:


1

Definitions

1.1

In this agreement the following definitions apply

“We”, “we”, “Our”, “our”, “us”, “ours”

Dermal Diagnostics Limited.

“You”, “you”, “Your”, “your”, “yours”

Ambreen Hussain

“associated employer”

Any associated employer of ours as defined in the Employment Rights Act 1996.

“board”

Our board of directors and any person acting with the board’s authority but not including you.

“our premises”

Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ.

“the East Midlands”

the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

“working day”

Monday to Friday inclusive but not any statutory holiday.

“person”

Any individual, group of people, firm, partnership, association (whether incorporated or not), private members’ club, company or other incorporated or unincorporated body.

“your employment”

Your employment under this agreement.

“recognised investment exchange”

As defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

“Restricted Period”

In the case of senior employees, 12 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated; in the case of junior employees, 6 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated.

“intellectual property”

Copyright, database rights, designs (registered and unregistered), patents, trademarks, moral rights and any other intellectual property rights of any nature whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world.



2

Duration of employment

2.1

Your employment started on 1 November 2013 and will continue for a period of 12 months unless and until it is ended under clause 29 or clause 30. We will review these terms at the end of the 12 month period.

3

Period continuously employed

3.1

For the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the relevant date for calculating your continuous period of employment is 19 March 2012.

4

Former contracts

4.1

This agreement replaces all other employment agreements between the parties.

4.2

You confirm that you will not breach any duty of any type owed to any person by signing this agreement.

5

Job title

5.1

We will employ you as a PA.

5.2

For the purposes of clause 34, you are a junior employee.

5.3

Your current job description is set out in schedule 1.

5.4

We may change your job title upon reasonable written notice to you.

5.5

We may appoint others to work in a similar position or in place of you.

5.6

We may require you to take up any other position that we consider appropriate.

5.7

We may require you to take up a position with any associated employer.

5.8

We may transfer this agreement to any associated employer, in which case all references in this agreement to us will be treated as references to the relevant associated employer from the date of transfer.

5.9

We will give you one month’s notice of any changes to the current position.

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

6.1

During your employment you must:

6.1.1

follow our reasonable and lawful directions;

6.1.2

comply with all of our rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures;

6.1.3

keep us promptly and fully informed of your conduct of our business and explain your actions to us whenever requested;

6.1.4

account to us for any inducement offered to you for any business transaction;

6.1.5

devote your whole time and attention to our business during your normal working hours unless prevented from doing so by sickness or injury;

6.1.6

do your best to promote our interests and our business;







6.1.7

do your job to the best of your ability.

6.2

During your employment you must not:

6.2.1

do anything which could damage our interests or our business;

6.2.2

prepare to join a competitor of ours or to set up in competition with us;

6.2.3

introduce any business which we could deal with to any person other than us;

6.2.4

receive for your own benefit (directly or indirectly) any inducement of any sort for any business transaction;

6.2.5

agree on our behalf:

6.2.5.1

to purchase or lease any land, building or premises; or

6.2.5.2

to give any debenture, mortgage or other security on any of our property;

6.2.6

agree on our behalf to any capital financing, purchases or sales;

6.2.7

agree on our behalf to employ any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.8

dismiss any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.9

agree on our behalf to purchase or sell goods or services.

6.3

If you are in breach of any of the terms of this agreement you must tell us immediately and must indemnify us in relation to any liability we incur as a result of your breach.

6.4

If you become aware of any misconduct or other breach of contract committed by any of our other employees you must tell us immediately.

6.5

You must not use our telephones, faxes, IT equipment or stationery for anything other than our business. We own any communications sent, received and stored on such media. We are able to monitor and intercept telephone calls, letters, faxes and emails and to identify the sender and the recipient. You authorise us to do so.

7

Place of work

7.1

Your main place of work will be our premises, but you must also work at various places throughout the East Midlands as we require.

7.2

We may require that you work from a different location or place of work on a temporary or permanent basis.

7.3

We may require you to move house in order properly to do your job. [If so, we will pay such contribution to your moving expenses as we consider appropriate.]

7.4

We may require you to work overseas. We will not require you to work outside the United Kingdom for more than one month at a time. You will not be required to live outside the United Kingdom.

8

Normal hours of work

8.1

You are expected to work 37.5 hours each week. You will control your working hours on a day-to-day basis, subject only that on each working day you must not begin work later than 10am nor finish work later than 4pm. Outside these core hours, you are expected to work such hours so that you always average 37.5 hours per week with respect to a monthly reference period.







8.2

You are entitled to one hour’s break for lunch which is unpaid and does not count towards your weekly 37.5 hour requirement.

8.3

You will also be required to work such extra hours as may be necessary for you to do your job.

8.4

You agree that the forty-eight hour average working week limit prescribed by the Working Time Regulations 1998 will not apply to you but you may withdraw your agreement by giving us two months’ notice in writing.

8.5

We do not have to provide you with work at any time or give you the opportunity to maintain or enhance your abilities or skills.

9

Pay

9.1

We will pay you a basic salary of £15,000 per annum.

9.2

We will not pay you extra for any overtime you work.

9.3

Your salary will accrue from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for some unauthorised reason.

9.4

We will not pay you for any days of unauthorised absence.

9.5

We will pay your salary monthly in arrears during the last week of each calendar month or on such other day as we may notify to you.

9.6

Payment will be made by BACS.

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

10.1

You may join our stakeholder pension scheme subject to its deed and rules.

10.2

You must provide accurate information to the pension scheme providers as and when they request it and you must comply with all rules of the pension scheme.

10.3

Your entitlement to benefits under any pension scheme is subject to the scheme’s rules.

10.4

We may vary the rules of the scheme or withdraw the scheme at any time without liability to you. If it is withdrawn, the scheme will be replaced with an alternative pension scheme of our choice, which may or may not provide similar benefits to you. We will not be liable to you for any loss you suffer as a result of any change of scheme.

10.5

The trustees of the scheme are responsible for payment of any benefits under the scheme. We do not guarantee any such payment.

10.6

We have no obligation in respect of your relationship with the trustees or the scheme providers.

10.7

If your employment or this agreement ends for any reason, you will not be entitled to any compensation for any loss or reduction in value of any rights or expectations in relation to our pension scheme that arises as a result.

10.8

There is no State Second Pension contracting-out certificate in force in relation to your employment. Your employment is not contracted out employment.

10.9

We may [contract out of the State Second Pension][vary or surrender the contracting-out certificate] at any time.







11

Expenses

11.1

Subject to clause 11.4 below, we will reimburse you for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred in doing your job.

11.2

Payment will be made monthly in arrears.

11.3

You must produce such invoices, vouchers or other evidence as we may require.

11.4

You must not incur any expense greater than £100.00 without prior written authorisation from your designated manager.

12

Holidays

12.1

Our holiday year is from 01 January to 31 December each year.

12.2

In each complete holiday year you will be entitled to:

12.2.1

eight statutory holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day; and

12.2.2

20 working days’ paid holiday.

12.3

If your employment starts or ends part way through a holiday year, you will be entitled to:

12.3.1

any statutory holiday falling during your employment; and

12.3.2

a proportion of the working days equivalent to the proportion of the relevant holiday year for which we actually employ you.

12.4

If you are required to work on any statutory holiday we may either allow you an extra day’s holiday or pay you for the day.

12.5

Your entitlement to statutory holidays will accrue as and when they occur. Your additional holiday entitlement will accrue pro rata from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for an unauthorised reason.

12.6

During any continuous period of absence due to sickness or injury of one month or more you will only accrue the minimum holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and not any contractual holiday.

12.7

When calculating your accrued holiday entitlement, we will always round up to the nearest half-day.

12.8

We may require you to take holiday at any time. We will notify you of our requirements at least one week in advance. Subject to clauses 2.5 and 12.11, you may take holiday at any time provided that you give at least two weeks’ notice and we do not object.

12.9

You may carry any unused holiday entitlement forward to a subsequent holiday year.

12.10

We will not pay you for any working day’s holiday accrued but not taken in a holiday year.

12.11

You may not take more than ten working days’ holiday together without the prior written agreement of your designated manager.

12.12

If either party gives notice to end your employment, we may require you to take some or all of your remaining holiday during your notice period but otherwise you will not be entitled to take any holiday during your notice period.







12.13

Subject to clause 12.14 at the end of your employment, we will pay you in accordance with the Working Time Regulations 1998 in lieu of any holiday entitlement not taken. You will be required to repay us any pay received for holiday taken in excess of your holiday entitlement.

12.14

If your employment is terminated pursuant to clause 29.2 or you resign without giving notice due under clause 29.1 you will be entitled to be paid in lieu of any untaken holiday entitlement you would have accrued based on your minimum holiday entitlement pursuant to the Working Time Regulations 1998 only and not pursuant to clause 12.2. For these purposes any holiday entitlement that you have taken in the holiday year in which your employment ends (including any paid holiday or any statutory holiday) will be deemed first to be holiday entitlement due to you under the Working Time Regulations 1998. The amount of the payment in lieu pursuant to clause 12.13 and this clause will be calculated on the basis that each days paid holiday is equal to 1/260 th of your basic annual salary.

12.15

The provisions of regulation 15(1) to (4) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (length of notice to be given or received to take holidays) do not apply to your employment or this agreement.

13

Absence from work

13.1

You must follow our absence notification procedure. This applies to all absences other than when you take properly authorised holiday.

13.2

Subject to clause 13.3 if you are absent from work for any reason without advance authorization, you must notify your designated manager by 11 am on the first day of absence, giving the reason for the absence and the expected length of absence. You must confirm the reason in writing as soon as possible.

13.3

If you are absent to undergo elective surgery you must explain to your manager no later than four weeks prior to the surgery when the surgery is due to take place, how long you are likely to be absent from work and whether the surgery is medically required. We may refuse to permit you time off to undergo the elective surgery if too disruptive to the needs of our business at the time you intend to be absent.

13.4

If you are absent from work for more than seven days due to sickness or injury, you must provide your designated manager with a doctor’s certificate on the eighth day of absence. You must then provide your designated manager with consecutive doctor’s certificates top cover your entire period of absence.

13.5

You must report personally to your designated manager by 10:30 am on the first day that you return to work.

13.6

If you are absent for more than 30 working days in any twelve months, we will treat your absence as a disciplinary matter. We may treat any absence as a disciplinary matter, depending on the circumstances.

13.7

During any period of absence of more than 10 working days, you will be required to return all company property issued to you. This includes all property issued to you purely for your own benefit. We will not compensate you for the withdrawal of any of our property.

14

Sick pay

14.1

We operate the statutory sick pay scheme under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. You must co-operate in the maintenance of all necessary records. We will offset any payment made to you during a period of sickness (other than for salary earned previously) against any liability for statutory sick pay.

14.2

We have absence notification procedures that you must follow. The following is simply an explanation of the statutory sick pay regime.







14.2.1

Statutory sick pay is payable in respect of absence from work due to sickness on qualifying days. Your qualifying days are the days on which you normally work.

14.2.2

No statutory sick pay is payable for the first three qualifying days of a period of sickness absence unless the first day of this sickness can be linked to a previous period of sickness. These first three days are known as “waiting days”.

14.2.3

Two periods of sickness can be linked if separated by fifty-six calendar days or fewer. If you have completed waiting days in the first period of sickness, these will count as waiting days for the second period.

14.2.4

Statutory sick pay is payable for all other qualifying days during the period of sickness absence up to a maximum payment equal to twenty-eight times the appropriate weekly rate. Where periods of sickness absence are linked together, your maximum entitlement is calculated cumulatively.

14.2.5

Statutory sick pay is payable in the same way and at the same time as normal pay and is subject to the usual deductions.

14.3

Entitlement to statutory sick pay depends upon your compliance with the following rules.

14.3.1

You must not be statutorily excluded.

14.3.2

You must notify us of absence from work due to sickness on the first qualifying day on which you are sick. You should notify us as soon as possible and must do so no later than the end of the first day.

14.3.3

If and only if you are unable for good reason to contact us personally or by getting someone to contact us on your behalf that day (e.g., by telephone), we will accept written notice of sickness provided that it is posted on the first qualifying day.

14.3.4

If your period of sickness lasts longer than seven days, you are required to provide a medical certificate at the start of each subsequent calendar week of continued sickness.

14.3.5

On return to work after any period of sickness absence, you are required to complete our self-certification form for sickness absence. This is available from your designated manager.

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

15.1

You may become a member of, hold office in and/or support the activities of any independent trade union but you do not have to do so.

15.2

You do not have to tell us about your trade union membership, office or activities but if you do, you authorise us to retain a record and agree to notify us of any change in details.

15.3

Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not formally recognise a trade union.

15.4

There are no collective agreements affecting your employment.

16

Right to require a medical examination

16.1

You must submit to a medical examination by any registered medical practitioner we nominate and:

16.1.1

you consent to the examination;

16.1.2

you consent that a report may be published in relation to the examination and that we may have access to it;







16.1.3

subject to clause 16.1.4 you are entitled to have access to the report before it is supplied to us;

16.1.4

the registered medical practitioner may withhold the report from you if he suspects that any physical or mental harm may result from its release;

16.1.5

you may request alterations to any errors which you perceive in the report;

16.1.6

you consent that the report be released to us after you have had the opportunity to inspect it and to request alterations and even if the registered medical practitioner has withheld it from you.

16.2

You may withdraw your consent but if you do, we will have to make decisions based on the limited information available to us. That may not be in your best interests.

16.3

You must not unreasonably delay any examination or the provision of any report to us.

16.4

We will pay for the examination and the report.

17

Medical records

17.1

You understand and agree that we will keep all sickness, absence and medical records for all employment purposes including:

17.1.1

to assist in the performance of our health and safety obligations;

17.1.2

to assist us to assess whether any adaptation is needed to the workplace or working conditions;

17.1.3

for redundancy selection should that become necessary and should your history of absences be relevant to such a selection;

17.1.4

for assessment of your capability;

17.1.5

to monitor compliance with our absence notification procedure.

18

Personal records

18.1

You understand and agree that during the course of your employment we will compile a personnel file for you containing details concerning your employment and any relevant previous employment.

18.2

You authorise us to retain sensitive information in your personnel file for all purposes connected with your employment.

18.3

You authorise us to release your personnel file or any of the details contained in it to any person we consider appropriate whether or not that person is within the European Economic Area.

19

Right to search

19.1

If we suspect you of theft or industrial espionage, we may search your clothing and personal property whilst you are on our premises or any premises from which we operate (including suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ premises).

19.2

You may refuse to allow a search to be carried out but must understand in that case:

19.2.1

the police will be called; and

19.2.2

we may draw adverse inferences if you also refuse to wait for the police to arrive.







19.3

Any search may be conducted without prior notice.

19.4

Any search will be carried out in the presence of two witnesses. In the case of a personal search, the witnesses will be the same gender as you.

19.5

Personal property includes any vehicle owned by either party.

20

Health and safety

20.1

You should be familiar with our health and safety policy and all procedures concerning safety in emergencies including the use and operation of safety equipment and protective clothing. In particular, you must understand:

20.1.1

fire and other emergency procedures;

20.1.2

the position of all first-aid and fire appliances;

20.1.3

the fire escape routes;

20.1.4

the accident procedures;

20.1.5

the names and locations of qualified first-aiders.

20.2

A copy of our health and safety policy can be obtained from your designated manager upon request.

20.3

Details of any accident must be reported as soon as possible after the event.

20.4

Protective equipment, clothing and overalls must be worn where appropriate and your designated manager’s instructions must be followed at all times in that regard.

20.5

Disciplinary action may be taken against you if we consider you have put your own or any other person’s health or safety at risk.

21

Outside interests

21.1

During your employment you must not directly or indirectly be employed, engaged, concerned or interested in any business or undertaking or any activity which we consider may be or become harmful to our interests, which might interfere with your job or which may be or become in competition with us.

21.2

Nothing in clause 21.1 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

21.3

Nothing in clause 21.1 affects your rights in respect of trade union membership.

22

Our documents

22.1

All notes, memoranda, records, papers, documents, correspondence, writings, contact lists, address books, and all information recorded on magnetic tape or disc or otherwise recorded or stored for reproduction whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means including any copy which is in your possession or control and which relates to us will be and remain our property.

22.2

Our documents must not be used for any unauthorised purpose.

22.3

You must return all such items in your possession or under your control to us when requested.







23

Our property

23.1

You must not remove our property from our premises unless specifically authorised to do so.

23.2

You are responsible for the care of property issued to you and you must produce such property to us for inspection when requested.

23.3

You must not use our property for any unauthorised purpose.

23.4

Any property issued to you will remain ours and you must return such property to us when requested.

24

Confidential information

24.1

In the course of your employment you will have access to and be entrusted with information in respect of our business and our suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ businesses, which information is or may be secret or confidential and important to us and our suppliers, clients and agents respectively.

24.2

Such information includes (but is not limited to) that relating to inventions, ideas, dealings, transactions, plans, proposals, policies, statements, procedures, rules, regulations, operations, finances, prices, business, marketing, development, manpower plans, client lists or details (whether held electronically or otherwise), contact lists, address books, computer systems and software, designs for products or proposed products, designs for machinery for the manufacture of products or proposed products, manufacturing processes, terms of business (whether for sale or purchase) including discounts given and received and renewal dates of contracts, salaries and any employee’s terms and conditions of employment, formulae and know-how or other matters connected with the products or services purchased, manufactured, marketed or provided by us.

24.3

You must not at any time whether during or after the end of your employment directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person other than to do your job or as required or permitted by law:

24.3.1

divulge such information to any person;

24.3.2

use such information for your own purposes or for any purposes which are not our purposes;

24.3.3

permit any unauthorised disclosure of any such information.

24.4

You must do your best to prevent any other person disclosing such information.

24.5

Clause 24 does not relate to information that is (other than through your breach of clause 24) generally available to the public.

24.6

You might also gain access to confidential information relating to other employees, either from the other employees themselves or in the course of your job.

24.7

Unauthorised and inappropriate disclosure of confidential information is likely to amount to a disciplinary offence and may, in certain circumstances, be subject to criminal sanctions.

25

Public interest disclosure

25.1

If you are concerned that we or any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents may be guilty of:

25.1.1

a criminal offence;

25.1.2

failure to comply with a legal obligation;







25.1.3

miscarriage of justice;

25.1.4

endangering health or safety;

25.1.5

damage to the environment; or

25.1.6

concealing any of the above,

you must report the matter immediately to your designated manager.

25.2

We encourage employees to report all such acts or failures and consequently it is a condition of your employment that you must do so immediately that you become aware of one. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. In serious cases, your employment may be terminated without notice or payment in lieu.

25.3

We will investigate your concerns.

25.4

We will try to conclude an investigation, to inform you of the result and to commence any remedial action we consider appropriate within a period or periods that we will set when we start the investigation. If we are unable to comply with any time limit, we will inform you within that time limit and we will tell you how much longer we expect to need.

26

Intellectual property

26.1

Whilst we employ you, you might, either alone or with others, create or conceive:

26.1.1

inventions, novel creations, ideas, discoveries, developments, writings, trade marks, service marks, designs, drawings, improvements and innovations; and/or

26.1.2

works in which copyright, design right and/or database right will subsist in various media.

26.2

You must maintain full records of your activities and present them to us when we ask you to do so. We will own such records.

26.3

You must tell us about such matters as soon as you are aware of them and you must not give any other person any details of them.

26.4

You agree that any intellectual property in such matters belongs to us. To the extent that it does not belong to us automatically, you must transfer it to us unconditionally. We will pay the expenses involved. This clause does not affect any right you may have to apply for a patent in your own name.

26.5

You will do everything necessary to assist in the transfer of any intellectual property to us including, but not limited to, signing any document we consider necessary.

26.6

You will do everything necessary to assist in any application for us to be registered as owner of such intellectual property. You appoint us as your agent to enable us to be registered.

26.7

You will not claim ownership of or assert any moral right in such intellectual property and you must not do anything that will jeopardise our rights or any application we may make for registration.

26.8

You must not use or make reference to any intellectual property other than for our purposes nor promote such intellectual property for your own benefit.

26.9

When any such matter is created or conceived we and not you must be identified as the owner of it and of the intellectual property in it. This includes, but is not limited to, our name appearing on any such matter.

26.10

You give us a warranty that no such matter infringes the rights of any other person. If any other person makes a claim against us, you will pay to us all costs and compensation including







consequential losses such as loss of profits, business or goodwill we suffer as a result of such a claim including any money we may have to pay to that other person. We will give you authority and assist you to deal with any such claim provided that you pay our expenses for doing so.

26.11

If any such matter does infringe the rights of any other person, we will not admit liability.

26.12

If a third party obtains or in our opinion is likely to obtain an injunction preventing us from using such matters, you must do everything you can to ensure we can continue to use such matters without infringing the injunction, including obtaining any necessary licence.

26.13

Clause 26 applies to such matters created or conceived:

26.13.1

during or outside normal working hours;

26.13.2

before or within six months after the end of your employment;

26.13.3

in relation to our business and its current and future activities; and

26.13.4

where it involves the use of our equipment, supplies, facilities, confidential information or time.

26.14

Nothing in this clause is intended to affect or diminishes your rights under the Patents Act 1977.

27

Grievance procedure

27.1

If you have any grievance relating to your employment, you should raise it in writing with your designated manager.

27.2

We will appoint a manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the investigating manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.3

You may appeal against the decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

27.4

A director will then appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.5

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

27.6

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

27.7

We may change the person appointed to deal with the grievance or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28

Disciplinary procedure

28.1

If:

28.1.1

you commit any act of misconduct; or

28.1.2

you appear incapable of performing the duties or doing the work allocated to you; or

28.1.3

you commit an act of gross misconduct or gross negligence; or







28.1.4

your role becomes redundant or we contemplate terminating your employment for some other substantial reason,

we will appoint a manager to investigate the matter, to write to you setting out our concerns and to meet with you to discuss them before we decide on any action to be taken. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.2

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the meeting, the investigating manager will present his results to another manager appointed by us to decide what (if any) action is necessary based on the findings of the investigation (the disciplining manager).

28.3

If action is necessary, the disciplining manager will invite you to a meeting within seven working days to discuss with you the findings of the investigation and any action the disciplining manager may take following that meeting. The disciplining manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken.

28.4

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found guilty of misconduct.

28.4.1

For a first offence, we may give a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.4.2

For an offence committed before the first warning expires, we will give you a final warning in writing. This warning will state if you commit a further offence of misconduct before it expires, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.4.3

We may dismiss you for an offence committed before the final warning expires. We will notify you in writing.

28.5

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found to be incapable of doing the job.

28.5.1

On the first occasion, we may give you a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.5.2

If we consider it necessary to give another warning before the first warning expires, this will be given in writing. This warning will state if you do not improve sufficiently, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.5.3

If you do not show a marked improvement before the final warning expires, we may dismiss you. If we decide to dismiss you, we will notify you in writing.

28.6

During the first year of your employment, we need not give warnings prior to dismissing you.

28.7

We may take into account expired disciplinary warnings previously issued to you when deciding on the appropriate disciplinary action.

28.8

Depending on the circumstances of the case, we may consider the matter sufficiently serious to warrant a more severe sanction than usual. In such a case, we will take such disciplinary action as we consider appropriate.

28.9

Gross misconduct or gross negligence may result in immediate dismissal without notice or pay in lieu. We will notify you in writing.

28.10

Rather than terminating your employment, we may take alternative disciplinary action against you such as demotion, change of job title or description, change of job, suspension (with or without pay) or reduction in pay.







28.11

You may appeal against any disciplinary decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

28.12

If you appeal against the original decision, a director will appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the matter and meet you to discuss it. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.13

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the appeal meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken as a result of your appeal.

28.14

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

28.15

We may suspend you on full pay during the period of any investigation. If you are suspended during an investigation, this agreement will continue, together with all rights and obligations under the agreement.

28.16

During any period of suspension you must stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate including the premises of our suppliers, clients or agents.

28.17

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

28.18

We may change the person appointed to deal with disciplinary or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28.19

You may see the disciplinary records contained in your personnel file at any time.

28.20

We may keep a record of warnings even after they have been removed from your file. These may be used for selection for redundancy, although we need not rely on such records for redundancy selection if we do not consider it appropriate to do so.

28.21

The following offences are examples of misconduct:

28.21.1

bad timekeeping;

28.21.2

unreasonable unexplained absence;

28.21.3

failure to do your job or to follow lawful instructions;

28.21.4

persistent or regular absenteeism;

28.21.5

minor damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.21.6

minor breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.21.7

failure to observe our procedures;

28.21.8

abusive behaviour;

28.21.9

failure to disclose to us matters as required in clause 25.

Offences of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.22

The following are examples of incapability:

28.22.1

poor performance

28.22.2

persistent or long term absenteeism;







28.22.3

incompetence;

28.22.4

unsuitability;

28.22.5

lack of application.

28.23

Matters of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.24

The following offences are examples of gross misconduct:

28.24.1

theft;

28.24.2

unauthorised possession of our documents or property;

28.24.3

unauthorised use of our facilities;

28.24.4

unauthorised acceptance of gifts;

28.24.5

serious damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.24.6

harassment or any other form of discrimination;

28.24.7

falsification (whether by inclusion or omission of information) of reports, accounts, expense claims or self certification forms;

28.24.8

falsification of time sheets;

28.24.9

refusal to carry out duties or reasonable instructions;

28.24.10

intoxication by reason of drink or drugs;

28.24.11

operating machinery or driving after consumption of drink or drugs;

28.24.12

serious breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.24.13

violent, dangerous or intimidatory conduct;

28.24.14

gross insubordination;

28.24.15

breach of health and safety regulations;

28.24.16

smoking in a non-smoking area;

28.24.17

disclosure of any private or confidential information relating to our officers, employees, suppliers, clients agents or us except as set out in this agreement.

Offences of a similar nature will be dealt with under this procedure.

29

Termination

29.1

Either party may end your employment by giving the other notice in writing. Subject to clause 2.3:

29.1.1

we must give you one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of twelve weeks;

29.1.2

you must give us one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of six weeks.







29.2

Nothing in clause 29.1 will prevent us from terminating your employment without notice and without pay in lieu if you are guilty of gross misconduct.

30

Payment in lieu of notice

30.1

We may choose to end your employment by paying your basic salary only during the period of notice set out in clause 29.1.1.

30.2

If either party gives notice under clause 29.1, we may choose at any time during the notice period to terminate your employment by paying your basic salary only during the remainder of the notice period.

30.3

We will not be deemed to have chosen to pay in lieu of notice unless we give you written notice to that effect, specifically referring to clause 30. Your employment will end as soon as notice is given under clause 30.3.

30.4

Our right to choose to make a payment in lieu of notice does not give you any right to receive one.

31

Garden leave

31.1

If either party serves notice to end your employment:

31.1.1

we may at any time during the period of notice and for any part of the notice period require you to:

31.1.1.1

stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate and the premises of any of our suppliers, clients or agents;

31.1.1.2

cease to do your job;

31.1.1.3

perform such new or different duties as we may delegate to you;

31.1.1.4

remain available to perform any duties we request of you (other than when taking holiday); and

31.1.1.5

work from any place within the East Midlands as we may require;

31.1.2

you must not contact or attempt to contact any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents except at our request and you must disclose to us any approach made to you by any employee supplier, client or agent of ours;

31.1.3

you must answer any queries we may have and assist us in the transfer of suppliers, clients and agents to our control; and

31.1.4

you must take all holiday you have or will have accrued but not already taken by the end of your employment with us ensuring that you follow our procedures in doing so.

31.2

During the notice period you will remain an employee of ours and will not be permitted to be employed by any other person, even if you are not paid by that person.

31.3

During the notice period we will continue to pay you all salary and to provide all benefits to which you are entitled during the notice period.

31.4

All other provisions of this agreement will continue in force for the period of this agreement. In particular, you will continue to be bound by clauses 6, 21, 24 and 25.







32

Retirement

32.1

If it does not end earlier, your employment will end when you reach the normal retirement age as defined in our pension scheme. You will not be entitled to any notice on termination by reason of retirement.

32.2

You may ask to work after your retirement date. We will consider any request but are not bound to agree to it.

33

Deductions

33.1

You agree that we may at any time deduct any sum you owe to us from any sum we owe to you, whether or not any such sum has fallen due for payment.

33.2

The phrase ‘any sum you owe to us’ includes any cost we may incur if we require you to work during your notice period but you fail to do so for or all part of it.

33.3

We may withhold any payment from you until you comply with clauses 22.3 and 23.4.

34

Post termination restrictions

34.1

Clients and agents During the Restricted Period you must not with a view to supplying drug delivery and diagnostic products, including (but not limited to) any products similar to those in respect of which we own a patent:

34.1.1

canvas, solicit or approach any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours; or

34.1.2

deal or contract with any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours.

34.2

Tenders During the Restricted Period you must not solicit, interfere with, tender for or try to entice away from us any contracts, projects, business or the renewal of any of them which is being negotiated at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement and in which negotiation you are involved.

34.3

Competition During the Restricted Period you must not carry on or be engaged in the role of a Formulation Scientist or have any interest in any business within the East Midlands that is similar to any business that we carry on.

34.4

Employees During the Restricted Period you must not:

34.4.1

solicit or attempt to entice from our employment any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement; or

34.4.2

employ or negotiate or arrange the employment or engagement of any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement.

34.5

Clause 34.1 only applies where we have a relationship to protect. If the client or agent in question habitually deals with a number of other suppliers of drug delivery and diagnostic products within the East Midlands, nothing in clause 34.1 will prevent you canvassing, soliciting, approaching, dealing or contracting with such a client or agent on behalf of such a supplier but you must bear in mind, if doing so, that you also have a duty of confidentiality to us as set out in clause 24.

34.6

Nothing in clause 34.3 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.







34.7

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2 and 34.3 prohibit only activities that are in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.8

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2, 34.3 and 34.4 apply during your employment in respect of activities that are or will be in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.9

Each of the restrictions in clause 34 applies to stop you acting directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person.

34.10

Any period of garden leave you serve under clause 31 will reduce the period of each of the restrictions set out in clause 34 by an equivalent period.

34.11

If you breach any of the restrictions set out in clause 34 after the end of the employment, the Restricted Period will begin again from the date of the last such breach of that restriction. The period of the restriction will then be calculated from the date of the breach rather than from the end of the employment.

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

35.1

You undertake that you will immediately draw the restrictions contained in clause 34 to the attention of any person with whom you seek work, who approaches you with an offer of work or with whom you anticipate going into business.

35.2

You understand that you should receive legal advice as to the terms and effect of these restrictions before agreeing to be bound by them.

35.3

The parties agree that each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is reasonable and necessary as between themselves and to protect our reasonable interests. If, however, any of them is found by a court to be unreasonable or unenforceable but would be reasonable and enforceable if certain words were deleted or added, then the restriction will apply with those words deleted or added as appropriate.

35.4

Each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is to be treated as separate and can be severed from the others. If any one or more of the restrictions is found to be unenforceable this will not affect the enforceability of the other restrictions.

35.5

We may give you notice to change or to reduce the scope of the restrictions contained in clause 34 at any time.

35.6

We may transfer or assign our rights under clause 34 to any successor of ours. You may not transfer or assign any rights or obligations under clause 34 to any other.

36

Misrepresentation

36.1

You must not make any untrue statement in relation to us and, in particular, must not state or suggest to any person that you remain employed by or connected with us after the end of your employment.

36.2

You must not use any name that includes our name or any name similar to it for any purpose that is not our purpose either before or after the end of your employment.

37

Changes to terms

37.1

Within this agreement, we have given ourselves the right to make various, specific changes.

37.2

We may also give you notice that we want to make changes to any of the terms of this agreement.

37.2.1

No such change will be effective unless notified to you in writing.







37.2.2

You will be given at least one month’s notice of any proposed change.

37.2.3

Each change will be deemed accepted unless you notify us of any objection in writing before the end of the relevant notice period.

37.3

From time to time, we may give you authority to do certain things on our behalf that are normally forbidden by this agreement.

37.3.1

We will set out your authority in writing.

37.3.2

We will limit the period and scope of your authority as we consider appropriate.

37.3.3

Such authority will not amount to a change to the terms of this agreement other than for its own, limited purposes.

38

Waiver

38.1

No waiver by us of any right or remedy arising either from any breach by you of any term of this agreement or from any default by you under this agreement will prevent the subsequent enforcement of this agreement

38.2

If we waive any breach or default by you on any occasion, that will not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and will not affect any other right that we have or may have against you under this agreement.

38.3

Failure or delay on our part to exercise any right or remedy that we have or may have under this agreement will not prevent us exercising such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

38.4

No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy will stop us from exercising any such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

39.1

The complete or partial invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement for any purpose will not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision for any other purpose and will not affect the remaining provisions of this agreement.

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

40.1

Any provision of this agreement that is expressed to operate or have effect for our benefit after the end of your employment will do so however your employment ends.

41

Notices

41.1

Any notice to be given under this agreement must be in writing and signed by the party issuing the notice.

41.2

Any notice may be served personally by hand or by pre-paid first class post.

41.3

Notices may be served:

41.3.1

on you at the address set out above or, if you move house and notify us of your new address, to your new address; and

41.3.2

on us at our premises or at such other address in the UK as we may notify to you.

41.4

Any notice will be served:

41.4.1

if delivered personally, upon delivery;







41.4.2

if by pre-paid first class post, at 5.00 pm on the second working day after posting.

41.5

To prove personal service, it will be necessary to prove that the content of the notice was drawn to the attention of the recipient at the time of service.

41.6

To prove service by pre-paid first class post it will be necessary only to prove that the notice was placed in an envelope and that the envelope was properly stamped, addressed and posted.

42

Third party rights

42.1

Any associated employer may rely on clauses 6, 21.1, 22, 23, 24, 25.1, 26 and 34 against you and every reference to us in those clauses will be construed to include every such associated employer. For this purpose only, we sign this agreement on our own behalf and as agent for all associated employers.

42.2

Except as provided in clause 42.1, the effects of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 are excluded from this agreement.

42.3

No party to this agreement needs permission from any third party to change or end this agreement.

43

Entire agreement

43.1

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties in relation to your employment. Other than as set out in this agreement, the rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures to which it refers have no contractual force.

43.2

If there is any difference between what is set out in this agreement and what is set out in any other document, the details in this agreement are the correct details.

43.3

You confirm that in signing this agreement, you are not relying on anything we may have told you or put in writing that is not contained in this agreement.

43.4

Clause 43.3 is not intended to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

44

Interpretation

44.1

In this agreement, the headings and table of contents are inserted for convenience only and do not affect its interpretation or construction.

44.2

In this agreement, references to clauses and schedules are, unless otherwise stated, to clauses of and schedules to this agreement. References to this agreement include all clauses of and schedules to this agreement.

44.3

In this agreement, references to the singular include the plural and vice versa unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.4

In this agreement, references to the masculine, feminine or neuter include each of them unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.5

In this agreement, references to statutes or to statutory instruments include all re-enactments or modifications of them and any regulations made under them except to the extent that any such reference has the effect of extending, increasing or prolonging our liabilities set out in this agreement.

44.6

Words and expressions defined in the Companies Act 1985 will be given the same meaning in this agreement unless they are given a different meaning within this agreement or unless to do so does not make sense in the context in which the word or expression is used.







44.7

This agreement is subject to English law and the parties agree to submit to the English courts in dealing with any claim or matter arising.  


 

 

Signed on behalf of

Dermal Diagnostics Limited

by


…………………………. ï sign here

Director


Signed by

Ambreen Hussain


…………………………. ï sign here







Schedule One – Job Description


PA to company director

Purchase ordering

Company admin

Assistance with company bookkeeping

Assist with Quality System

Any other duties as requested by Company Director or Company Accountant






Dated: 01 November 2013


1

 Dermal Diagnostics Limited


2

Junaid Mansoor



[EX107EMPLOYMENTAGREEMENTM002.GIF] Employment agreement













Table of contents

1

Definitions

2

2

Duration of employment

2

3

Period continuously employed

2

4

Former contracts

2

5

Job title

2

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

2

7

Place of work

2

8

Normal hours of work

2

9

Pay

2

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

2

11

Expenses

2

12

Holidays

2

13

Absence from work

2

14

Sick pay

2

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

2

16

Right to require a medical examination

2

17

Medical records

2

18

Personal records

2

19

Right to search

2

20

Health and safety

2

21

Outside interests

2

22

Our documents

2

23

Our property

2

24

Confidential information

2

25

Public interest disclosure

2

26

Intellectual property

2

27

Grievance procedure

2

28

Disciplinary procedure

2

29

Termination

2

30

Payment in lieu of notice

2

31

Garden leave

2

32

Retirement

2

33

Deductions

2

34

Post termination restrictions

2

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

2

36

Misrepresentation

2






37

Changes to terms

2

38

Waiver

2

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

2

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

2

41

Notices

2

42

Third party rights

2

43

Entire agreement

2

44

Interpretation

2

Schedule One – Job Description

2







This employment agreement is made on 1 November 2013


Between:


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited (company number 6795555) whose registered office is at Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ; and

2

Junaid Mansoor of 24 Dale Street, Leicester, LE2 0FX

It is agreed as follows:


1

Definitions

1.1

In this agreement the following definitions apply

“We”, “we”, “Our”, “our”, “us”, “ours”

Dermal Diagnostics Limited.

“You”, “you”, “Your”, “your”, “yours”

Junaid Mansoor

“associated employer”

Any associated employer of ours as defined in the Employment Rights Act 1996.

“board”

Our board of directors and any person acting with the board’s authority but not including you.

“our premises”

Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ.

“the East Midlands”

the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

“working day”

Monday to Friday inclusive but not any statutory holiday.

“person”

Any individual, group of people, firm, partnership, association (whether incorporated or not), private members’ club, company or other incorporated or unincorporated body.

“your employment”

Your employment under this agreement.

“recognised investment exchange”

As defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

“Restricted Period”

In the case of senior employees, 12 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated; in the case of junior employees, 6 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated.

“intellectual property”

Copyright, database rights, designs (registered and unregistered), patents, trademarks, moral rights and any other intellectual property rights of any nature whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world.



2

Duration of employment

2.1

Your employment started on 1 November 2013 and will continue for a period of 12 months unless and until it is ended under clause 29 or clause 30. We will review these terms at the end of the 12 month period.

3

Period continuously employed

3.1

For the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the relevant date for calculating your continuous period of employment is 14 November 2011.

4

Former contracts

4.1

This agreement replaces all other employment agreements between the parties.

4.2

You confirm that you will not breach any duty of any type owed to any person by signing this agreement.

5

Job title

5.1

We will employ you as a Product Development Scientist.

5.2

For the purposes of clause 34, you are a  junior employee.

5.3

Your current job description is set out in schedule 1.

5.4

We may change your job title upon reasonable written notice to you.

5.5

We may appoint others to work in a similar position or in place of you.

5.6

We may require you to take up any other position that we consider appropriate.

5.7

We may require you to take up a position with any associated employer.

5.8

We may transfer this agreement to any associated employer, in which case all references in this agreement to us will be treated as references to the relevant associated employer from the date of transfer.

5.9

We will give you one month’s notice of any changes to the current position.

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

6.1

During your employment you must:

6.1.1

follow our reasonable and lawful directions;

6.1.2

comply with all of our rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures;

6.1.3

keep us promptly and fully informed of your conduct of our business and explain your actions to us whenever requested;

6.1.4

account to us for any inducement offered to you for any business transaction;

6.1.5

devote your whole time and attention to our business during your normal working hours unless prevented from doing so by sickness or injury;

6.1.6

do your best to promote our interests and our business;







6.1.7

do your job to the best of your ability.

6.2

During your employment you must not:

6.2.1

do anything which could damage our interests or our business;

6.2.2

prepare to join a competitor of ours or to set up in competition with us;

6.2.3

introduce any business which we could deal with to any person other than us;

6.2.4

receive for your own benefit (directly or indirectly) any inducement of any sort for any business transaction;

6.2.5

agree on our behalf:

6.2.5.1

to purchase or lease any land, building or premises; or

6.2.5.2

to give any debenture, mortgage or other security on any of our property;

6.2.6

agree on our behalf to any capital financing, purchases or sales;

6.2.7

agree on our behalf to employ any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.8

dismiss any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.9

agree on our behalf to purchase or sell goods or services.

6.3

If you are in breach of any of the terms of this agreement you must tell us immediately and must indemnify us in relation to any liability we incur as a result of your breach.

6.4

If you become aware of any misconduct or other breach of contract committed by any of our other employees you must tell us immediately.

6.5

You must not use our telephones, faxes, IT equipment or stationery for anything other than our business. We own any communications sent, received and stored on such media. We are able to monitor and intercept telephone calls, letters, faxes and emails and to identify the sender and the recipient. You authorise us to do so.

7

Place of work

7.1

Your main place of work will be our premises, but you must also work at various places throughout the East Midlands as we require.

7.2

We may require that you work from a different location or place of work on a temporary or permanent basis.

7.3

We may require you to move house in order properly to do your job. [If so, we will pay such contribution to your moving expenses as we consider appropriate.]

7.4

We may require you to work overseas. We will not require you to work outside the United Kingdom for more than one month at a time. You will not be required to live outside the United Kingdom.

8

Normal hours of work

8.1

You are expected to work 37.5 hours each week. You will control your working hours on a day-to-day basis, subject only that on each working day you must not begin work later than 10am nor finish work later than 4pm. Outside these core hours, you are expected to work such hours so that you always average 37.5 hours per week with respect to a monthly reference period.







8.2

You are entitled to one hour’s break for lunch which is unpaid and does not count towards your weekly 37.5 hour requirement.

8.3

You will also be required to work such extra hours as may be necessary for you to do your job.

8.4

You agree that the forty-eight hour average working week limit prescribed by the Working Time Regulations 1998 will not apply to you but you may withdraw your agreement by giving us two months’ notice in writing.

8.5

We do not have to provide you with work at any time or give you the opportunity to maintain or enhance your abilities or skills.

9

Pay

9.1

We will pay you a basic salary at the rate of £18,000 per annum.

9.2

We will not pay you extra for any overtime you work.

9.3

Your salary will accrue from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for some unauthorised reason.

9.4

We will not pay you for any days of unauthorised absence.

9.5

We will pay your salary monthly in arrears during the last week of each calendar month or on such other day as we may notify to you.

9.6

Payment will be made by BACS.

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

10.1

You may join our stakeholder pension scheme subject to its deed and rules.

10.2

You must provide accurate information to the pension scheme providers as and when they request it and you must comply with all rules of the pension scheme.

10.3

Your entitlement to benefits under any pension scheme is subject to the scheme’s rules.

10.4

We may vary the rules of the scheme or withdraw the scheme at any time without liability to you. If it is withdrawn, the scheme will be replaced with an alternative pension scheme of our choice, which may or may not provide similar benefits to you. We will not be liable to you for any loss you suffer as a result of any change of scheme.

10.5

The trustees of the scheme are responsible for payment of any benefits under the scheme. We do not guarantee any such payment.

10.6

We have no obligation in respect of your relationship with the trustees or the scheme providers.

10.7

If your employment or this agreement ends for any reason, you will not be entitled to any compensation for any loss or reduction in value of any rights or expectations in relation to our pension scheme that arises as a result.

10.8

There is no State Second Pension contracting-out certificate in force in relation to your employment. Your employment is not contracted out employment.

10.9

We may [contract out of the State Second Pension][vary or surrender the contracting-out certificate] at any time.







11

Expenses

11.1

Subject to clause 11.4 below, we will reimburse you for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred in doing your job.

11.2

Payment will be made monthly in arrears.

11.3

You must produce such invoices, vouchers or other evidence as we may require.

11.4

You must not incur any expense greater than £100.00 without prior written authorisation from your designated manager.

12

Holidays

12.1

Our holiday year is from 01 January to 31 December each year.

12.2

In each complete holiday year you will be entitled to:

12.2.1

eight statutory holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day; and

12.2.2

20 working days’ paid holiday.

12.3

If your employment starts or ends part way through a holiday year, you will be entitled to:

12.3.1

any statutory holiday falling during your employment; and

12.3.2

a proportion of the working days equivalent to the proportion of the relevant holiday year for which we actually employ you.

12.4

If you are required to work on any statutory holiday we may either allow you an extra day’s holiday or pay you for the day.

12.5

Your entitlement to statutory holidays will accrue as and when they occur. Your additional holiday entitlement will accrue pro rata from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for an unauthorised reason.

12.6

During any continuous period of absence due to sickness or injury of one month or more you will only accrue the minimum holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and not any contractual holiday.

12.7

When calculating your accrued holiday entitlement, we will always round up to the nearest half-day.

12.8

We may require you to take holiday at any time. We will notify you of our requirements at least one week in advance. Subject to clauses Error! Referen úúúú and 12.11, you may take holiday at any time provided that you give at least two weeks’ notice and we do not object.

12.9

You may carry any unused holiday entitlement forward to a subsequent holiday year.

12.10

We will not pay you for any working day’s holiday accrued but not taken in a holiday year.

12.11

You may not take more than ten working days’ holiday together without the prior written agreement of your designated manager.

12.12

If either party gives notice to end your employment, we may require you to take some or all of your remaining holiday during your notice period but otherwise you will not be entitled to take any holiday during your notice period.







12.13

Subject to clause 12.14 at the end of your employment, we will pay you in accordance with the Working Time Regulations 1998 in lieu of any holiday entitlement not taken. You will be required to repay us any pay received for holiday taken in excess of your holiday entitlement.

12.14

If your employment is terminated pursuant to clause 29.2 or you resign without giving notice due under clause 29.1 you will be entitled to be paid in lieu of any untaken holiday entitlement you would have accrued based on your minimum holiday entitlement pursuant to the Working Time Regulations 1998 only and not pursuant to clause 12.2. For these purposes any holiday entitlement that you have taken in the holiday year in which your employment ends (including any paid holiday or any statutory holiday) will be deemed first to be holiday entitlement due to you under the Working Time Regulations 1998. The amount of the payment in lieu pursuant to clause 12.13 and this clause will be calculated on the basis that each days paid holiday is equal to 1/260 th of your basic annual salary.

12.15

The provisions of regulation 15(1) to (4) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (length of notice to be given or received to take holidays) do not apply to your employment or this agreement.

13

Absence from work

13.1

You must follow our absence notification procedure. This applies to all absences other than when you take properly authorised holiday.

13.2

Subject to clause 13.3 if you are absent from work for any reason without advance authorization, you must notify your designated manager by 11 am on the first day of absence, giving the reason for the absence and the expected length of absence. You must confirm the reason in writing as soon as possible.

13.3

If you are absent to undergo elective surgery you must explain to your manager no later than four weeks prior to the surgery when the surgery is due to take place, how long you are likely to be absent from work and whether the surgery is medically required. We may refuse to permit you time off to undergo the elective surgery if too disruptive to the needs of our business at the time you intend to be absent.

13.4

If you are absent from work for more than seven days due to sickness or injury, you must provide your designated manager with a doctor’s certificate on the eighth day of absence. You must then provide your designated manager with consecutive doctor’s certificates top cover your entire period of absence.

13.5

You must report personally to your designated manager by 10:30 am on the first day that you return to work.

13.6

If you are absent for more than 30 working days in any twelve months, we will treat your absence as a disciplinary matter. We may treat any absence as a disciplinary matter, depending on the circumstances.

13.7

During any period of absence of more than 10 working days, you will be required to return all company property issued to you. This includes all property issued to you purely for your own benefit. We will not compensate you for the withdrawal of any of our property.

14

Sick pay

14.1

We operate the statutory sick pay scheme under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. You must co-operate in the maintenance of all necessary records. We will offset any payment made to you during a period of sickness (other than for salary earned previously) against any liability for statutory sick pay.

14.2

We have absence notification procedures that you must follow. The following is simply an explanation of the statutory sick pay regime.







14.2.1

Statutory sick pay is payable in respect of absence from work due to sickness on qualifying days. Your qualifying days are the days on which you normally work.

14.2.2

No statutory sick pay is payable for the first three qualifying days of a period of sickness absence unless the first day of this sickness can be linked to a previous period of sickness. These first three days are known as “waiting days”.

14.2.3

Two periods of sickness can be linked if separated by fifty-six calendar days or fewer. If you have completed waiting days in the first period of sickness, these will count as waiting days for the second period.

14.2.4

Statutory sick pay is payable for all other qualifying days during the period of sickness absence up to a maximum payment equal to twenty-eight times the appropriate weekly rate. Where periods of sickness absence are linked together, your maximum entitlement is calculated cumulatively.

14.2.5

Statutory sick pay is payable in the same way and at the same time as normal pay and is subject to the usual deductions.

14.3

Entitlement to statutory sick pay depends upon your compliance with the following rules.

14.3.1

You must not be statutorily excluded.

14.3.2

You must notify us of absence from work due to sickness on the first qualifying day on which you are sick. You should notify us as soon as possible and must do so no later than the end of the first day.

14.3.3

If and only if you are unable for good reason to contact us personally or by getting someone to contact us on your behalf that day (e.g., by telephone), we will accept written notice of sickness provided that it is posted on the first qualifying day.

14.3.4

If your period of sickness lasts longer than seven days, you are required to provide a medical certificate at the start of each subsequent calendar week of continued sickness.

14.3.5

On return to work after any period of sickness absence, you are required to complete our self-certification form for sickness absence. This is available from your designated manager.

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

15.1

You may become a member of, hold office in and/or support the activities of any independent trade union but you do not have to do so.

15.2

You do not have to tell us about your trade union membership, office or activities but if you do, you authorise us to retain a record and agree to notify us of any change in details.

15.3

Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not formally recognise a trade union.

15.4

There are no collective agreements affecting your employment.

16

Right to require a medical examination

16.1

You must submit to a medical examination by any registered medical practitioner we nominate and:

16.1.1

you consent to the examination;

16.1.2

you consent that a report may be published in relation to the examination and that we may have access to it;







16.1.3

subject to clause 16.1.4 you are entitled to have access to the report before it is supplied to us;

16.1.4

the registered medical practitioner may withhold the report from you if he suspects that any physical or mental harm may result from its release;

16.1.5

you may request alterations to any errors which you perceive in the report;

16.1.6

you consent that the report be released to us after you have had the opportunity to inspect it and to request alterations and even if the registered medical practitioner has withheld it from you.

16.2

You may withdraw your consent but if you do, we will have to make decisions based on the limited information available to us. That may not be in your best interests.

16.3

You must not unreasonably delay any examination or the provision of any report to us.

16.4

We will pay for the examination and the report.

17

Medical records

17.1

You understand and agree that we will keep all sickness, absence and medical records for all employment purposes including:

17.1.1

to assist in the performance of our health and safety obligations;

17.1.2

to assist us to assess whether any adaptation is needed to the workplace or working conditions;

17.1.3

for redundancy selection should that become necessary and should your history of absences be relevant to such a selection;

17.1.4

for assessment of your capability;

17.1.5

to monitor compliance with our absence notification procedure.

18

Personal records

18.1

You understand and agree that during the course of your employment we will compile a personnel file for you containing details concerning your employment and any relevant previous employment.

18.2

You authorise us to retain sensitive information in your personnel file for all purposes connected with your employment.

18.3

You authorise us to release your personnel file or any of the details contained in it to any person we consider appropriate whether or not that person is within the European Economic Area.

19

Right to search

19.1

If we suspect you of theft or industrial espionage, we may search your clothing and personal property whilst you are on our premises or any premises from which we operate (including suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ premises).

19.2

You may refuse to allow a search to be carried out but must understand in that case:

19.2.1

the police will be called; and

19.2.2

we may draw adverse inferences if you also refuse to wait for the police to arrive.







19.3

Any search may be conducted without prior notice.

19.4

Any search will be carried out in the presence of two witnesses. In the case of a personal search, the witnesses will be the same gender as you.

19.5

Personal property includes any vehicle owned by either party.

20

Health and safety

20.1

You should be familiar with our health and safety policy and all procedures concerning safety in emergencies including the use and operation of safety equipment and protective clothing. In particular, you must understand:

20.1.1

fire and other emergency procedures;

20.1.2

the position of all first-aid and fire appliances;

20.1.3

the fire escape routes;

20.1.4

the accident procedures;

20.1.5

the names and locations of qualified first-aiders.

20.2

A copy of our health and safety policy can be obtained from your designated manager upon request.

20.3

Details of any accident must be reported as soon as possible after the event.

20.4

Protective equipment, clothing and overalls must be worn where appropriate and your designated manager’s instructions must be followed at all times in that regard.

20.5

Disciplinary action may be taken against you if we consider you have put your own or any other person’s health or safety at risk.

21

Outside interests

21.1

During your employment you must not directly or indirectly be employed, engaged, concerned or interested in any business or undertaking or any activity which we consider may be or become harmful to our interests, which might interfere with your job or which may be or become in competition with us.

21.2

Nothing in clause 21.1 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

21.3

Nothing in clause 21.1 affects your rights in respect of trade union membership.

22

Our documents

22.1

All notes, memoranda, records, papers, documents, correspondence, writings, contact lists, address books, and all information recorded on magnetic tape or disc or otherwise recorded or stored for reproduction whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means including any copy which is in your possession or control and which relates to us will be and remain our property.

22.2

Our documents must not be used for any unauthorised purpose.

22.3

You must return all such items in your possession or under your control to us when requested.







23

Our property

23.1

You must not remove our property from our premises unless specifically authorised to do so.

23.2

You are responsible for the care of property issued to you and you must produce such property to us for inspection when requested.

23.3

You must not use our property for any unauthorised purpose.

23.4

Any property issued to you will remain ours and you must return such property to us when requested.

24

Confidential information

24.1

In the course of your employment you will have access to and be entrusted with information in respect of our business and our suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ businesses, which information is or may be secret or confidential and important to us and our suppliers, clients and agents respectively.

24.2

Such information includes (but is not limited to) that relating to inventions, ideas, dealings, transactions, plans, proposals, policies, statements, procedures, rules, regulations, operations, finances, prices, business, marketing, development, manpower plans, client lists or details (whether held electronically or otherwise), contact lists, address books, computer systems and software, designs for products or proposed products, designs for machinery for the manufacture of products or proposed products, manufacturing processes, terms of business (whether for sale or purchase) including discounts given and received and renewal dates of contracts, salaries and any employee’s terms and conditions of employment, formulae and know-how or other matters connected with the products or services purchased, manufactured, marketed or provided by us.

24.3

You must not at any time whether during or after the end of your employment directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person other than to do your job or as required or permitted by law:

24.3.1

divulge such information to any person;

24.3.2

use such information for your own purposes or for any purposes which are not our purposes;

24.3.3

permit any unauthorised disclosure of any such information.

24.4

You must do your best to prevent any other person disclosing such information.

24.5

Clause 24 does not relate to information that is (other than through your breach of clause 24) generally available to the public.

24.6

You might also gain access to confidential information relating to other employees, either from the other employees themselves or in the course of your job.

24.7

Unauthorised and inappropriate disclosure of confidential information is likely to amount to a disciplinary offence and may, in certain circumstances, be subject to criminal sanctions.

25

Public interest disclosure

25.1

If you are concerned that we or any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents may be guilty of:

25.1.1

a criminal offence;

25.1.2

failure to comply with a legal obligation;







25.1.3

miscarriage of justice;

25.1.4

endangering health or safety;

25.1.5

damage to the environment; or

25.1.6

concealing any of the above,

you must report the matter immediately to your designated manager.

25.2

We encourage employees to report all such acts or failures and consequently it is a condition of your employment that you must do so immediately that you become aware of one. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. In serious cases, your employment may be terminated without notice or payment in lieu.

25.3

We will investigate your concerns.

25.4

We will try to conclude an investigation, to inform you of the result and to commence any remedial action we consider appropriate within a period or periods that we will set when we start the investigation. If we are unable to comply with any time limit, we will inform you within that time limit and we will tell you how much longer we expect to need.

26

Intellectual property

26.1

Whilst we employ you, you might, either alone or with others, create or conceive:

26.1.1

inventions, novel creations, ideas, discoveries, developments, writings, trade marks, service marks, designs, drawings, improvements and innovations; and/or

26.1.2

works in which copyright, design right and/or database right will subsist in various media.

26.2

You must maintain full records of your activities and present them to us when we ask you to do so. We will own such records.

26.3

You must tell us about such matters as soon as you are aware of them and you must not give any other person any details of them.

26.4

You agree that any intellectual property in such matters belongs to us. To the extent that it does not belong to us automatically, you must transfer it to us unconditionally. We will pay the expenses involved. This clause does not affect any right you may have to apply for a patent in your own name.

26.5

You will do everything necessary to assist in the transfer of any intellectual property to us including, but not limited to, signing any document we consider necessary.

26.6

You will do everything necessary to assist in any application for us to be registered as owner of such intellectual property. You appoint us as your agent to enable us to be registered.

26.7

You will not claim ownership of or assert any moral right in such intellectual property and you must not do anything that will jeopardise our rights or any application we may make for registration.

26.8

You must not use or make reference to any intellectual property other than for our purposes nor promote such intellectual property for your own benefit.

26.9

When any such matter is created or conceived we and not you must be identified as the owner of it and of the intellectual property in it. This includes, but is not limited to, our name appearing on any such matter.

26.10

You give us a warranty that no such matter infringes the rights of any other person. If any other person makes a claim against us, you will pay to us all costs and compensation including







consequential losses such as loss of profits, business or goodwill we suffer as a result of such a claim including any money we may have to pay to that other person. We will give you authority and assist you to deal with any such claim provided that you pay our expenses for doing so.

26.11

If any such matter does infringe the rights of any other person, we will not admit liability.

26.12

If a third party obtains or in our opinion is likely to obtain an injunction preventing us from using such matters, you must do everything you can to ensure we can continue to use such matters without infringing the injunction, including obtaining any necessary licence.

26.13

Clause 26 applies to such matters created or conceived:

26.13.1

during or outside normal working hours;

26.13.2

before or within six months after the end of your employment;

26.13.3

in relation to our business and its current and future activities; and

26.13.4

where it involves the use of our equipment, supplies, facilities, confidential information or time.

26.14

Nothing in this clause is intended to affect or diminishes your rights under the Patents Act 1977.

27

Grievance procedure

27.1

If you have any grievance relating to your employment, you should raise it in writing with your designated manager.

27.2

We will appoint a manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the investigating manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.3

You may appeal against the decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

27.4

A director will then appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.5

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

27.6

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

27.7

We may change the person appointed to deal with the grievance or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28

Disciplinary procedure

28.1

If:

28.1.1

you commit any act of misconduct; or

28.1.2

you appear incapable of performing the duties or doing the work allocated to you; or

28.1.3

you commit an act of gross misconduct or gross negligence; or







28.1.4

your role becomes redundant or we contemplate terminating your employment for some other substantial reason,

we will appoint a manager to investigate the matter, to write to you setting out our concerns and to meet with you to discuss them before we decide on any action to be taken. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.2

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the meeting, the investigating manager will present his results to another manager appointed by us to decide what (if any) action is necessary based on the findings of the investigation (the disciplining manager).

28.3

If action is necessary, the disciplining manager will invite you to a meeting within seven working days to discuss with you the findings of the investigation and any action the disciplining manager may take following that meeting. The disciplining manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken.

28.4

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found guilty of misconduct.

28.4.1

For a first offence, we may give a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.4.2

For an offence committed before the first warning expires, we will give you a final warning in writing. This warning will state if you commit a further offence of misconduct before it expires, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.4.3

We may dismiss you for an offence committed before the final warning expires. We will notify you in writing.

28.5

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found to be incapable of doing the job.

28.5.1

On the first occasion, we may give you a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.5.2

If we consider it necessary to give another warning before the first warning expires, this will be given in writing. This warning will state if you do not improve sufficiently, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.5.3

If you do not show a marked improvement before the final warning expires, we may dismiss you. If we decide to dismiss you, we will notify you in writing.

28.6

During the first year of your employment, we need not give warnings prior to dismissing you.

28.7

We may take into account expired disciplinary warnings previously issued to you when deciding on the appropriate disciplinary action.

28.8

Depending on the circumstances of the case, we may consider the matter sufficiently serious to warrant a more severe sanction than usual. In such a case, we will take such disciplinary action as we consider appropriate.

28.9

Gross misconduct or gross negligence may result in immediate dismissal without notice or pay in lieu. We will notify you in writing.

28.10

Rather than terminating your employment, we may take alternative disciplinary action against you such as demotion, change of job title or description, change of job, suspension (with or without pay) or reduction in pay.







28.11

You may appeal against any disciplinary decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

28.12

If you appeal against the original decision, a director will appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the matter and meet you to discuss it. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.13

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the appeal meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken as a result of your appeal.

28.14

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

28.15

We may suspend you on full pay during the period of any investigation. If you are suspended during an investigation, this agreement will continue, together with all rights and obligations under the agreement.

28.16

During any period of suspension you must stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate including the premises of our suppliers, clients or agents.

28.17

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

28.18

We may change the person appointed to deal with disciplinary or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28.19

You may see the disciplinary records contained in your personnel file at any time.

28.20

We may keep a record of warnings even after they have been removed from your file. These may be used for selection for redundancy, although we need not rely on such records for redundancy selection if we do not consider it appropriate to do so.

28.21

The following offences are examples of misconduct:

28.21.1

bad timekeeping;

28.21.2

unreasonable unexplained absence;

28.21.3

failure to do your job or to follow lawful instructions;

28.21.4

persistent or regular absenteeism;

28.21.5

minor damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.21.6

minor breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.21.7

failure to observe our procedures;

28.21.8

abusive behaviour;

28.21.9

failure to disclose to us matters as required in clause 25.

Offences of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.22

The following are examples of incapability:

28.22.1

poor performance

28.22.2

persistent or long term absenteeism;







28.22.3

incompetence;

28.22.4

unsuitability;

28.22.5

lack of application.

28.23

Matters of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.24

The following offences are examples of gross misconduct:

28.24.1

theft;

28.24.2

unauthorised possession of our documents or property;

28.24.3

unauthorised use of our facilities;

28.24.4

unauthorised acceptance of gifts;

28.24.5

serious damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.24.6

harassment or any other form of discrimination;

28.24.7

falsification (whether by inclusion or omission of information) of reports, accounts, expense claims or self certification forms;

28.24.8

falsification of time sheets;

28.24.9

refusal to carry out duties or reasonable instructions;

28.24.10

intoxication by reason of drink or drugs;

28.24.11

operating machinery or driving after consumption of drink or drugs;

28.24.12

serious breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.24.13

violent, dangerous or intimidatory conduct;

28.24.14

gross insubordination;

28.24.15

breach of health and safety regulations;

28.24.16

smoking in a non-smoking area;

28.24.17

disclosure of any private or confidential information relating to our officers, employees, suppliers, clients agents or us except as set out in this agreement.

Offences of a similar nature will be dealt with under this procedure.

29

Termination

29.1

Either party may end your employment by giving the other notice in writing. Subject to clause Error! Referenúúúúú:

29.1.1

we must give you one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of twelve weeks;

29.1.2

you must give us one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of six weeks.







29.2

Nothing in clause 29.1 will prevent us from terminating your employment without notice and without pay in lieu if you are guilty of gross misconduct.

30

Payment in lieu of notice

30.1

We may choose to end your employment by paying your basic salary only during the period of notice set out in clause 29.1.1.

30.2

If either party gives notice under clause 29.1, we may choose at any time during the notice period to terminate your employment by paying your basic salary only during the remainder of the notice period.

30.3

We will not be deemed to have chosen to pay in lieu of notice unless we give you written notice to that effect, specifically referring to clause 30. Your employment will end as soon as notice is given under clause 30.3.

30.4

Our right to choose to make a payment in lieu of notice does not give you any right to receive one.

31

Garden leave

31.1

If either party serves notice to end your employment:

31.1.1

we may at any time during the period of notice and for any part of the notice period require you to:

31.1.1.1

stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate and the premises of any of our suppliers, clients or agents;

31.1.1.2

cease to do your job;

31.1.1.3

perform such new or different duties as we may delegate to you;

31.1.1.4

remain available to perform any duties we request of you (other than when taking holiday); and

31.1.1.5

work from any place within the East Midlands as we may require;

31.1.2

you must not contact or attempt to contact any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents except at our request and you must disclose to us any approach made to you by any employee supplier, client or agent of ours;

31.1.3

you must answer any queries we may have and assist us in the transfer of suppliers, clients and agents to our control; and

31.1.4

you must take all holiday you have or will have accrued but not already taken by the end of your employment with us ensuring that you follow our procedures in doing so.

31.2

During the notice period you will remain an employee of ours and will not be permitted to be employed by any other person, even if you are not paid by that person.

31.3

During the notice period we will continue to pay you all salary and to provide all benefits to which you are entitled during the notice period.

31.4

All other provisions of this agreement will continue in force for the period of this agreement. In particular, you will continue to be bound by clauses 6, 21, 24 and 25.







32

Retirement

32.1

If it does not end earlier, your employment will end when you reach the normal retirement age as defined in our pension scheme. You will not be entitled to any notice on termination by reason of retirement.

32.2

You may ask to work after your retirement date. We will consider any request but are not bound to agree to it.

33

Deductions

33.1

You agree that we may at any time deduct any sum you owe to us from any sum we owe to you, whether or not any such sum has fallen due for payment.

33.2

The phrase ‘any sum you owe to us’ includes any cost we may incur if we require you to work during your notice period but you fail to do so for or all part of it.

33.3

We may withhold any payment from you until you comply with clauses 22.3 and 23.4.

34

Post termination restrictions

34.1

Clients and agents During the Restricted Period you must not with a view to supplying drug delivery and diagnostic products, including (but not limited to) any products similar to those in respect of which we own a patent:

34.1.1

canvas, solicit or approach any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours; or

34.1.2

deal or contract with any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours.

34.2

Tenders During the Restricted Period you must not solicit, interfere with, tender for or try to entice away from us any contracts, projects, business or the renewal of any of them which is being negotiated at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement and in which negotiation you are involved.

34.3

Competition During the Restricted Period you must not carry on or be engaged in the role of a Formulation Scientist or have any interest in any business within the East Midlands that is similar to any business that we carry on.

34.4

Employees During the Restricted Period you must not:

34.4.1

solicit or attempt to entice from our employment any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement; or

34.4.2

employ or negotiate or arrange the employment or engagement of any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement.

34.5

Clause 34.1 only applies where we have a relationship to protect. If the client or agent in question habitually deals with a number of other suppliers of drug delivery and diagnostic products within the East Midlands, nothing in clause 34.1 will prevent you canvassing, soliciting, approaching, dealing or contracting with such a client or agent on behalf of such a supplier but you must bear in mind, if doing so, that you also have a duty of confidentiality to us as set out in clause 24.

34.6

Nothing in clause 34.3 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.







34.7

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2 and 34.3 prohibit only activities that are in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.8

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2, 34.3 and 34.4 apply during your employment in respect of activities that are or will be in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.9

Each of the restrictions in clause 34 applies to stop you acting directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person.

34.10

Any period of garden leave you serve under clause 31 will reduce the period of each of the restrictions set out in clause 34 by an equivalent period.

34.11

If you breach any of the restrictions set out in clause 34 after the end of the employment, the Restricted Period will begin again from the date of the last such breach of that restriction. The period of the restriction will then be calculated from the date of the breach rather than from the end of the employment.

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

35.1

You undertake that you will immediately draw the restrictions contained in clause 34 to the attention of any person with whom you seek work, who approaches you with an offer of work or with whom you anticipate going into business.

35.2

You understand that you should receive legal advice as to the terms and effect of these restrictions before agreeing to be bound by them.

35.3

The parties agree that each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is reasonable and necessary as between themselves and to protect our reasonable interests. If, however, any of them is found by a court to be unreasonable or unenforceable but would be reasonable and enforceable if certain words were deleted or added, then the restriction will apply with those words deleted or added as appropriate.

35.4

Each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is to be treated as separate and can be severed from the others. If any one or more of the restrictions is found to be unenforceable this will not affect the enforceability of the other restrictions.

35.5

We may give you notice to change or to reduce the scope of the restrictions contained in clause 34 at any time.

35.6

We may transfer or assign our rights under clause 34 to any successor of ours. You may not transfer or assign any rights or obligations under clause 34 to any other.

36

Misrepresentation

36.1

You must not make any untrue statement in relation to us and, in particular, must not state or suggest to any person that you remain employed by or connected with us after the end of your employment.

36.2

You must not use any name that includes our name or any name similar to it for any purpose that is not our purpose either before or after the end of your employment.

37

Changes to terms

37.1

Within this agreement, we have given ourselves the right to make various, specific changes.

37.2

We may also give you notice that we want to make changes to any of the terms of this agreement.

37.2.1

No such change will be effective unless notified to you in writing.







37.2.2

You will be given at least one month’s notice of any proposed change.

37.2.3

Each change will be deemed accepted unless you notify us of any objection in writing before the end of the relevant notice period.

37.3

From time to time, we may give you authority to do certain things on our behalf that are normally forbidden by this agreement.

37.3.1

We will set out your authority in writing.

37.3.2

We will limit the period and scope of your authority as we consider appropriate.

37.3.3

Such authority will not amount to a change to the terms of this agreement other than for its own, limited purposes.

38

Waiver

38.1

No waiver by us of any right or remedy arising either from any breach by you of any term of this agreement or from any default by you under this agreement will prevent the subsequent enforcement of this agreement

38.2

If we waive any breach or default by you on any occasion, that will not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and will not affect any other right that we have or may have against you under this agreement.

38.3

Failure or delay on our part to exercise any right or remedy that we have or may have under this agreement will not prevent us exercising such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

38.4

No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy will stop us from exercising any such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

39.1

The complete or partial invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement for any purpose will not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision for any other purpose and will not affect the remaining provisions of this agreement.

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

40.1

Any provision of this agreement that is expressed to operate or have effect for our benefit after the end of your employment will do so however your employment ends.

41

Notices

41.1

Any notice to be given under this agreement must be in writing and signed by the party issuing the notice.

41.2

Any notice may be served personally by hand or by pre-paid first class post.

41.3

Notices may be served:

41.3.1

on you at the address set out above or, if you move house and notify us of your new address, to your new address; and

41.3.2

on us at our premises or at such other address in the UK as we may notify to you.

41.4

Any notice will be served:

41.4.1

if delivered personally, upon delivery;







41.4.2

if by pre-paid first class post, at 5.00 pm on the second working day after posting.

41.5

To prove personal service, it will be necessary to prove that the content of the notice was drawn to the attention of the recipient at the time of service.

41.6

To prove service by pre-paid first class post it will be necessary only to prove that the notice was placed in an envelope and that the envelope was properly stamped, addressed and posted.

42

Third party rights

42.1

Any associated employer may rely on clauses 6, 21.1, 22, 23, 24, 25.1, 26 and 34 against you and every reference to us in those clauses will be construed to include every such associated employer. For this purpose only, we sign this agreement on our own behalf and as agent for all associated employers.

42.2

Except as provided in clause 42.1, the effects of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 are excluded from this agreement.

42.3

No party to this agreement needs permission from any third party to change or end this agreement.

43

Entire agreement

43.1

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties in relation to your employment. Other than as set out in this agreement, the rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures to which it refers have no contractual force.

43.2

If there is any difference between what is set out in this agreement and what is set out in any other document, the details in this agreement are the correct details.

43.3

You confirm that in signing this agreement, you are not relying on anything we may have told you or put in writing that is not contained in this agreement.

43.4

Clause 43.3 is not intended to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

44

Interpretation

44.1

In this agreement, the headings and table of contents are inserted for convenience only and do not affect its interpretation or construction.

44.2

In this agreement, references to clauses and schedules are, unless otherwise stated, to clauses of and schedules to this agreement. References to this agreement include all clauses of and schedules to this agreement.

44.3

In this agreement, references to the singular include the plural and vice versa unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.4

In this agreement, references to the masculine, feminine or neuter include each of them unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.5

In this agreement, references to statutes or to statutory instruments include all re-enactments or modifications of them and any regulations made under them except to the extent that any such reference has the effect of extending, increasing or prolonging our liabilities set out in this agreement.

44.6

Words and expressions defined in the Companies Act 1985 will be given the same meaning in this agreement unless they are given a different meaning within this agreement or unless to do so does not make sense in the context in which the word or expression is used.







44.7

This agreement is subject to English law and the parties agree to submit to the English courts in dealing with any claim or matter arising.  


 

 

Signed on behalf of

Dermal Diagnostics Limited

by


…………………………. ï sign here

Director


Signed by

Junaid Mansoor


…………………………. ï sign here







Schedule One – Job Description


Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1.

Design and planning of developmental work packages to achieve the agreed project objectives. Work packages may include material characterisation, laboratory and pilot scale manufacture, supportive stability studies and comparative product/ formulation assessment.

2.

Execution and reporting of project work packages in accordance with the relevant local procedures.

3.

Compliance with the relevant quality system procedures.

4.

Authoring of technique/ equipment specific procedures.

5.

Maintaining a safe working environment in all laboratory and office areas and support to monthly self -inspections as required

6.

Coordination of servicing and maintenance for identified items of laboratory equipment.

7.

Proposing of ideas for improvement that may impact positively on quality, efficiency, productivity, capability or capacity.

8.

Self development through reading relevant literature and identifying potential training opportunities.







Dated: 01 November 2013


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited


2

Robert Carson



Employment agreement

















Table of contents

1

Definitions

1

2

Duration of employment

2

3

Period continuously employed

2

4

Former contracts

2

5

Job title [and description]

2

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

2

7

Place of work

3

8

Normal hours of work

3

9

Pay

4

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

4

11

Expenses

5

12

Holidays

5

13

Absence from work

6

14

Sick pay

6

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

7

16

Right to require a medical examination

7

17

Medical records

8

18

Personal records

8

19

Right to search

8

20

Health and safety

9

21

Outside interests

9

22

Our documents

9

23

Our property

9

24

Confidential information

10

25

Public interest disclosure

10

26

Intellectual property

11

27

Grievance procedure

12

28

Disciplinary procedure

12

29

Termination

15

30

Payment in lieu of notice

15

31

Garden leave

16

32

Retirement

16

33

Deductions

16

34

Post termination restrictions

17

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

18

36

Misrepresentation

18






37

Changes to terms

18

38

Waiver

19

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

19

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

19

41

Notices

19

42

Third party rights

19

43

Entire agreement

20

44

Interpretation

20

Schedule One – Job Description

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This employment agreement is made on 1 November 2013


Between:


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited (company number 6795555) whose registered office is at Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ; and

2

Robert Carson of 18 Lon Cilan, Cilcain, Flintshire, CH7 5PL

It is agreed as follows:


1

Definitions

1.1

In this agreement the following definitions apply

“We”, “we”, “Our”, “our”, “us”, “ours”

Dermal Diagnostics Limited.

“You”, “you”, “Your”, “your”, “yours”

Robert Carson

“associated employer”

Any associated employer of ours as defined in the Employment Rights Act 1996.

“board”

Our board of directors and any person acting with the board’s authority but not including you.

“our premises”

Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ.

“the East Midlands”

the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

“working day”

Monday to Friday inclusive but not any statutory holiday.

“person”

Any individual, group of people, firm, partnership, association (whether incorporated or not), private members’ club, company or other incorporated or unincorporated body.

“your employment”

Your employment under this agreement.

“recognised investment exchange”

As defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

“Restricted Period”

In the case of senior employees, 12 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated; in the case of junior employees, 6 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated.

“intellectual property”

Copyright, database rights, designs (registered and unregistered), patents, trademarks, moral rights and any other intellectual property rights of any nature whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world.

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2

Duration of employment

2.1

Your employment started on 1 November 2013 and will continue for a period of 12 months unless and until it is ended under clause 29 or clause 30. We will review these terms at the end of the 12 month period.

3

Period continuously employed

3.1

For the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the relevant date for calculating your continuous period of employment is 1 November 2013.

4

Former contracts

4.1

This agreement replaces all other employment agreements between the parties.

4.2

You confirm that you will not breach any duty of any type owed to any person by signing this agreement.

5

Job title

5.1

We will employ you as a Medical Device Director.

5.2

For the purposes of clause 34, you are a senior employee.

5.3

Your current job description is set out in schedule 1.

5.4

We may change your job title upon reasonable written notice to you.

5.5

We may appoint others to work in a similar position or in place of you.

5.6

We may require you to take up any other position that we consider appropriate.

5.7

We may require you to take up a position with any associated employer.

5.8

We may transfer this agreement to any associated employer, in which case all references in this agreement to us will be treated as references to the relevant associated employer from the date of transfer.

5.9

We will give you one month’s notice of any changes to the current position.

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

6.1

During your employment you must:

6.1.1

follow our reasonable and lawful directions;

6.1.2

comply with all of our rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures;

6.1.3

keep us promptly and fully informed of your conduct of our business and explain your actions to us whenever requested;

6.1.4

account to us for any inducement offered to you for any business transaction;

6.1.5

devote your whole time and attention to our business during your normal working hours unless prevented from doing so by sickness or injury;

6.1.6

do your best to promote our interests and our business;





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6.1.7

do your job to the best of your ability.

6.2

During your employment you must not:

6.2.1

do anything which could damage our interests or our business;

6.2.2

prepare to join a competitor of ours or to set up in competition with us;

6.2.3

introduce any business which we could deal with to any person other than us;

6.2.4

receive for your own benefit (directly or indirectly) any inducement of any sort for any business transaction;

6.2.5

agree on our behalf:

6.2.5.1

to purchase or lease any land, building or premises; or

6.2.5.2

to give any debenture, mortgage or other security on any of our property;

6.2.6

agree on our behalf to any capital financing, purchases or sales;

6.2.7

agree on our behalf to employ any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.8

dismiss any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.9

agree on our behalf to purchase or sell goods or services unless this is specifically part of your role.

6.3

If you are in breach of any of the terms of this agreement you must tell us immediately and must indemnify us in relation to any liability we incur as a result of your breach.

6.4

If you become aware of any misconduct or other breach of contract committed by any of our other employees you must tell us immediately.

6.5

You must not use our telephones, faxes, IT equipment or stationery for anything other than our business. We own any communications sent, received and stored on such media. We are able to monitor and intercept telephone calls, letters, faxes and emails and to identify the sender and the recipient. You authorise us to do so.

7

Place of work

7.1

Your main place of work will be our premises, but you must also work at various places throughout the East Midlands as we require.

7.2

We may require that you work from a different location or place of work on a temporary or permanent basis.

7.3

We may require you to move house in order properly to do your job. [If so, we will pay such contribution to your moving expenses as we consider appropriate.]

7.4

We may require you to work overseas. We will not require you to work outside the United Kingdom for more than one month at a time. You will not be required to live outside the United Kingdom.

8

Normal hours of work

8.1

The standard working week for employees is 37.5 hours each week. You will control your working hours on a day-to-day basis, subject only that on each working day you must not begin work later than 10am nor finish work later than 4pm. You are on a part time contract and therefore work a shorter working week.  





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8.2

You are entitled to one hour’s break for lunch which is unpaid and does not count towards your weekly hour requirement.

8.3

You will also be required to work such extra hours as may be necessary for you to do your job.

8.4

You agree that the forty-eight hour average working week limit prescribed by the Working Time Regulations 1998 will not apply to you but you may withdraw your agreement by giving us two months’ notice in writing.

8.5

We do not have to provide you with work at any time or give you the opportunity to maintain or enhance your abilities or skills.

9

Pay

9.1

We will pay you a basic salary at the rate of £70,000 per annum plus 10% pension contribution. This salary will be pro rated for the actual days worked. You will be working for a minimum of 4 days per month. This will increase to £77,000 from 1 st January 2014 plus 10% pension contribution.

9.2

We will not pay you extra for any overtime you work other than additional days calculated at the daily rate.

9.3

Your salary will accrue from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for some unauthorised reason.

9.4

We will not pay you for any days of unauthorised absence.

9.5

We will pay your salary monthly in arrears during the last week of each calendar month or on such other day as we may notify to you.

9.6

Payment will be made by BACS.

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

10.1

You may join our stakeholder pension scheme subject to its deed and rules.

10.2

You must provide accurate information to the pension scheme providers as and when they request it and you must comply with all rules of the pension scheme.

10.3

Your entitlement to benefits under any pension scheme is subject to the scheme’s rules.

10.4

We may vary the rules of the scheme or withdraw the scheme at any time without liability to you. If it is withdrawn, the scheme will be replaced with an alternative pension scheme of our choice, which may or may not provide similar benefits to you. We will not be liable to you for any loss you suffer as a result of any change of scheme.

10.5

The trustees of the scheme are responsible for payment of any benefits under the scheme. We do not guarantee any such payment.

10.6

We have no obligation in respect of your relationship with the trustees or the scheme providers.

10.7

If your employment or this agreement ends for any reason, you will not be entitled to any compensation for any loss or reduction in value of any rights or expectations in relation to our pension scheme that arises as a result.

10.8

There is no State Second Pension contracting-out certificate in force in relation to your employment. Your employment is not contracted out employment.





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10.9

We may [contract out of the State Second Pension][vary or surrender the contracting-out certificate] at any time.

11

Expenses

11.1

Subject to clause 11.4 below, we will reimburse you for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred in doing your job.

11.2

Payment will be made monthly in arrears.

11.3

You must produce such invoices, vouchers or other evidence as we may require.

11.4

You must not incur any expense greater than £100.00 without prior written authorisation from your designated manager.

12

Holidays

12.1

Our holiday year is from 01 January to 31 December each year.

12.2

In each complete holiday year you will be entitled to the pro rata days based on the following full time equivalent:

12.2.1

eight statutory holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day; and

12.2.2

25 working days’ paid holiday.

12.2.3

As you are a part time employee, you will be entitled to a proportion of holidays based on your contracted hours.

12.3

If your employment starts or ends part way through a holiday year, you will be entitled to:

12.3.1

any statutory holiday falling during your employment; and

12.3.2

a proportion of the working days equivalent to the proportion of the relevant holiday year for which we actually employ you.

12.4

If you are required to work on any statutory holiday we may either allow you an extra day’s holiday or pay you for the day.

12.5

Your entitlement to statutory holidays will accrue as and when they occur. Your additional holiday entitlement will accrue pro rata from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for an unauthorised reason.

12.6

During any continuous period of absence due to sickness or injury of one month or more you will only accrue the minimum holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and not any contractual holiday.

12.7

When calculating your accrued holiday entitlement, we will always round up to the nearest half-day.

12.8

We may require you to take holiday at any time. We will notify you of our requirements at least one week in advance. Subject to clause 12.11, you may take holiday at any time provided that you give at least two weeks’ notice and we do not object.

12.9

You may carry any unused holiday entitlement forward to a subsequent holiday year subject to the Director’s discretion.

12.10

We will not pay you for any working day’s holiday accrued but not taken in a holiday year.





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12.11

You may not take more than ten working days’ holiday together without the prior written agreement of your designated manager.

12.12

If either party gives notice to end your employment, we may require you to take some or all of your remaining holiday during your notice period but otherwise you will not be entitled to take any holiday during your notice period.

12.13

Subject to clause 12.14 at the end of your employment, we will pay you in accordance with the Working Time Regulations 1998 in lieu of any holiday entitlement not taken. You will be required to repay us any pay received for holiday taken in excess of your holiday entitlement.

12.14

If your employment is terminated pursuant to clause 29.2 or you resign without giving notice due under clause 29.1 you will be entitled to be paid in lieu of any untaken holiday entitlement you would have accrued based on your minimum holiday entitlement pursuant to the Working Time Regulations 1998 only and not pursuant to clause 12.2. For these purposes any holiday entitlement that you have taken in the holiday year in which your employment ends (including any paid holiday or any statutory holiday) will be deemed first to be holiday entitlement due to you under the Working Time Regulations 1998. The amount of the payment in lieu pursuant to clause 12.13 and this clause will be calculated on the basis that each days paid holiday is equal to 1/260 th of your basic annual salary.

12.15

The provisions of regulation 15(1) to (4) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (length of notice to be given or received to take holidays) do not apply to your employment or this agreement.

13

Absence from work

13.1

You must follow our absence notification procedure. This applies to all absences other than when you take properly authorised holiday.

13.2

Subject to clause 13.3 if you are absent from work for any reason without advance authorization, you must notify your designated manager by 11 am on the first day of absence, giving the reason for the absence and the expected length of absence. You must confirm the reason in writing as soon as possible.

13.3

If you are absent to undergo elective surgery you must explain to your manager no later than four weeks prior to the surgery when the surgery is due to take place, how long you are likely to be absent from work and whether the surgery is medically required. We may refuse to permit you time off to undergo the elective surgery if too disruptive to the needs of our business at the time you intend to be absent.

13.4

If you are absent from work for more than seven days due to sickness or injury, you must provide your designated manager with a doctor’s certificate on the eighth day of absence. You must then provide your designated manager with consecutive doctor’s certificates top cover your entire period of absence.

13.5

You must report personally to your designated manager by 10:30 am on the first day that you return to work.

13.6

If you are absent for more than 30 working days in any twelve months, we will treat your absence as a disciplinary matter. We may treat any absence as a disciplinary matter, depending on the circumstances.

13.7

During any period of absence of more than 10 working days, you will be required to return all company property issued to you. This includes all property issued to you purely for your own benefit. We will not compensate you for the withdrawal of any of our property.

14

Sick pay

14.1

We operate the statutory sick pay scheme under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. You must co-operate in the maintenance of all necessary records. We will offset any





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payment made to you during a period of sickness (other than for salary earned previously) against any liability for statutory sick pay.

14.2

We have absence notification procedures that you must follow. The following is simply an explanation of the statutory sick pay regime.

14.2.1

Statutory sick pay is payable in respect of absence from work due to sickness on qualifying days. Your qualifying days are the days on which you normally work.

14.2.2

No statutory sick pay is payable for the first three qualifying days of a period of sickness absence unless the first day of this sickness can be linked to a previous period of sickness. These first three days are known as “waiting days”.

14.2.3

Two periods of sickness can be linked if separated by fifty-six calendar days or fewer. If you have completed waiting days in the first period of sickness, these will count as waiting days for the second period.

14.2.4

Statutory sick pay is payable for all other qualifying days during the period of sickness absence up to a maximum payment equal to twenty-eight times the appropriate weekly rate. Where periods of sickness absence are linked together, your maximum entitlement is calculated cumulatively.

14.2.5

Statutory sick pay is payable in the same way and at the same time as normal pay and is subject to the usual deductions.

14.3

Entitlement to statutory sick pay depends upon your compliance with the following rules.

14.3.1

You must not be statutorily excluded.

14.3.2

You must notify us of absence from work due to sickness on the first qualifying day on which you are sick. You should notify us as soon as possible and must do so no later than the end of the first day.

14.3.3

If and only if you are unable for good reason to contact us personally or by getting someone to contact us on your behalf that day (e.g., by telephone), we will accept written notice of sickness provided that it is posted on the first qualifying day.

14.3.4

If your period of sickness lasts longer than seven days, you are required to provide a medical certificate at the start of each subsequent calendar week of continued sickness.

14.3.5

On return to work after any period of sickness absence, you are required to complete our self-certification form for sickness absence. This is available from your designated manager.

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

15.1

You may become a member of, hold office in and/or support the activities of any independent trade union but you do not have to do so.

15.2

You do not have to tell us about your trade union membership, office or activities but if you do, you authorise us to retain a record and agree to notify us of any change in details.

15.3

Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not formally recognise a trade union.

15.4

There are no collective agreements affecting your employment.

16

Right to require a medical examination

16.1

You must submit to a medical examination by any registered medical practitioner we nominate and:





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16.1.1

you consent to the examination;

16.1.2

you consent that a report may be published in relation to the examination and that we may have access to it;

16.1.3

you are entitled to have access to the report before it is supplied to us;

16.1.4

you may request alterations to any errors which you perceive in the report;

16.1.5

you consent that the report be released to us after you have had the opportunity to inspect it and to request alterations and even if the registered medical practitioner has withheld it from you.

16.2

You may withdraw your consent but if you do, we will have to make decisions based on the limited information available to us. That may not be in your best interests.

16.3

You must not unreasonably delay any examination or the provision of any report to us.

16.4

We will pay for the examination and the report.

17

Medical records

17.1

You understand and agree that we will keep all sickness, absence and medical records for all employment purposes including:

17.1.1

to assist in the performance of our health and safety obligations;

17.1.2

to assist us to assess whether any adaptation is needed to the workplace or working conditions;

17.1.3

for redundancy selection should that become necessary and should your history of absences be relevant to such a selection;

17.1.4

for assessment of your capability;

17.1.5

to monitor compliance with our absence notification procedure.

18

Personal records

18.1

You understand and agree that during the course of your employment we will compile a personnel file for you containing details concerning your employment and any relevant previous employment.

18.2

You authorise us to retain sensitive information in your personnel file for all purposes connected with your employment.

18.3

You authorise us to release your personnel file or any of the details contained in it to any person we consider appropriate whether or not that person is within the European Economic Area.

19

Right to search

19.1

If we suspect you of theft or industrial espionage, we may search your clothing and personal property whilst you are on our premises or any premises from which we operate (including suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ premises).

19.2

You may refuse to allow a search to be carried out but must understand in that case:

19.2.1

the police will be called; and

19.2.2

we may draw adverse inferences if you also refuse to wait for the police to arrive.





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19.3

Any search may be conducted without prior notice.

19.4

Any search will be carried out in the presence of two witnesses. In the case of a personal search, the witnesses will be the same gender as you.

19.5

Personal property includes any vehicle owned by either party.

20

Health and safety

20.1

You should be familiar with our health and safety policy and all procedures concerning safety in emergencies including the use and operation of safety equipment and protective clothing. In particular, you must understand:

20.1.1

fire and other emergency procedures;

20.1.2

the position of all first-aid and fire appliances;

20.1.3

the fire escape routes;

20.1.4

the accident procedures;

20.1.5

the names and locations of qualified first-aiders.

20.2

A copy of our health and safety policy can be obtained from your designated manager upon request.

20.3

Details of any accident must be reported as soon as possible after the event.

20.4

Protective equipment, clothing and overalls must be worn where appropriate and your designated manager’s instructions must be followed at all times in that regard.

20.5

Disciplinary action may be taken against you if we consider you have put your own or any other person’s health or safety at risk.

21

Outside interests

21.1

Whilst we appreciate that you are also employed by a number of other companies, However, during your employment with us you must not directly or indirectly be employed, engaged, concerned or interested in any business or undertaking or any activity which we consider may be or become harmful to our interests, which might interfere with your job or which may be or become in competition with us

21.2

You must notify the CEO of other companies with which you have an engagement.

21.3

Nothing in clause 21.1 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

21.4

Nothing in clause 21.1 affects your rights in respect of trade union membership.

22

Our documents

22.1

All notes, memoranda, records, papers, documents, correspondence, writings, contact lists, address books, and all information recorded on magnetic tape or disc or otherwise recorded or stored for reproduction whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means including any copy which is in your possession or control and which relates to us will be and remain our property.

22.2

Our documents must not be used for any unauthorised purpose.





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22.3

You must return all such items in your possession or under your control to us when requested.

23

Our property

23.1

You must not remove our property from our premises unless specifically authorised to do so.

23.2

You are responsible for the care of property issued to you and you must produce such property to us for inspection when requested.

23.3

You must not use our property for any unauthorised purpose.

23.4

Any property issued to you will remain ours and you must return such property to us when requested.

24

Confidential information

24.1

In the course of your employment you will have access to and be entrusted with information in respect of our business and our suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ businesses, which information is or may be secret or confidential and important to us and our suppliers, clients and agents respectively.

24.2

Such information includes (but is not limited to) that relating to inventions, ideas, dealings, transactions, plans, proposals, policies, statements, procedures, rules, regulations, operations, finances, prices, business, marketing, development, manpower plans, client lists or details (whether held electronically or otherwise), contact lists, address books, computer systems and software, designs for products or proposed products, designs for machinery for the manufacture of products or proposed products, manufacturing processes, terms of business (whether for sale or purchase) including discounts given and received and renewal dates of contracts, salaries and any employee’s terms and conditions of employment, formulae and know-how or other matters connected with the products or services purchased, manufactured, marketed or provided by us.

24.3

You must not at any time whether during or after the end of your employment directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person other than to do your job or as required or permitted by law:

24.3.1

divulge such information to any person;

24.3.2

use such information for your own purposes or for any purposes which are not our purposes;

24.3.3

permit any unauthorised disclosure of any such information.

24.4

You must do your best to prevent any other person disclosing such information.

24.5

Clause 24 does not relate to information that is (other than through your breach of clause 24) generally available to the public.

24.6

You might also gain access to confidential information relating to other employees, either from the other employees themselves or in the course of your job.

24.7

Unauthorised and inappropriate disclosure of confidential information is likely to amount to a disciplinary offence and may, in certain circumstances, be subject to criminal sanctions.

25

Public interest disclosure

25.1

If you are concerned that we or any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents may be guilty of:

25.1.1

a criminal offence;





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25.1.2

failure to comply with a legal obligation;

25.1.3

miscarriage of justice;

25.1.4

endangering health or safety;

25.1.5

damage to the environment; or

25.1.6

concealing any of the above,

you must report the matter immediately to your designated manager.

25.2

We encourage employees to report all such acts or failures and consequently it is a condition of your employment that you must do so immediately that you become aware of one. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. In serious cases, your employment may be terminated without notice or payment in lieu.

25.3

We will investigate your concerns.

25.4

We will try to conclude an investigation, to inform you of the result and to commence any remedial action we consider appropriate within a period or periods that we will set when we start the investigation. If we are unable to comply with any time limit, we will inform you within that time limit and we will tell you how much longer we expect to need.

26

Intellectual property

26.1

Whilst we employ you, you might, either alone or with others, create or conceive in the field of glucose diagnostic products:

26.1.1

inventions, novel creations, ideas, discoveries, developments, writings, trade marks, service marks, designs, drawings, improvements and innovations; and/or

26.1.2

works in which copyright, design right and/or database right will subsist in various media.

26.2

You must maintain full records of your activities and present them to us when we ask you to do so. We will own such records.

26.3

You must tell us about such matters as soon as you are aware of them and you must not give any other person any details of them.

26.4

You agree that any intellectual property in such matters belongs to us. To the extent that it does not belong to us automatically, you must transfer it to us unconditionally. We will pay the expenses involved. This clause does not affect any right you may have to apply for a patent in your own name.

26.5

You will do everything necessary to assist in the transfer of any intellectual property to us including, but not limited to, signing any document we consider necessary.

26.6

You will do everything necessary to assist in any application for us to be registered as owner of such intellectual property. You appoint us as your agent to enable us to be registered.

26.7

You will not claim ownership of or assert any moral right in such intellectual property and you must not do anything that will jeopardise our rights or any application we may make for registration.

26.8

You must not use or make reference to any intellectual property other than for our purposes nor promote such intellectual property for your own benefit.

26.9

When any such matter is created or conceived we and not you must be identified as the owner of it and of the intellectual property in it. This includes, but is not limited to, our name appearing on any such matter.





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26.10

You give us a warranty that no such matter infringes the rights of any other person. If any other person makes a claim against us, you will pay to us all costs and compensation including consequential losses such as loss of profits, business or goodwill we suffer as a result of such a claim including any money we may have to pay to that other person. We will give you authority and assist you to deal with any such claim provided that you pay our expenses for doing so.

26.11

If any such matter does infringe the rights of any other person, we will not admit liability.

26.12

If a third party obtains or in our opinion is likely to obtain an injunction preventing us from using such matters, you must do everything you can to ensure we can continue to use such matters without infringing the injunction, including obtaining any necessary licence.

26.13

Clause 26 applies to such matters created or conceived:

26.13.1

during or outside normal working hours;

26.13.2

before or within six months after the end of your employment;

26.13.3

in relation to our business and its current and future activities; and

26.13.4

where it involves the use of our equipment, supplies, facilities, confidential information or time.

26.14

Nothing in this clause is intended to affect or diminishes your rights under the Patents Act 1977.

27

Grievance procedure

27.1

If you have any grievance relating to your employment, you should raise it in writing with your designated manager.

27.2

We will appoint a manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the investigating manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.3

You may appeal against the decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

27.4

A director will then appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.5

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

27.6

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

27.7

We may change the person appointed to deal with the grievance or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28

Disciplinary procedure

28.1

If:

28.1.1

you commit any act of misconduct; or

28.1.2

you appear incapable of performing the duties or doing the work allocated to you; or





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28.1.3

you commit an act of gross misconduct or gross negligence; or

28.1.4

your role becomes redundant or we contemplate terminating your employment for some other substantial reason,

we will appoint a manager to investigate the matter, to write to you setting out our concerns and to meet with you to discuss them before we decide on any action to be taken. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.2

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the meeting, the investigating manager will present his results to another manager appointed by us to decide what (if any) action is necessary based on the findings of the investigation (the disciplining manager).

28.3

If action is necessary, the disciplining manager will invite you to a meeting within seven working days to discuss with you the findings of the investigation and any action the disciplining manager may take following that meeting. The disciplining manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken.

28.4

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found guilty of misconduct.

28.4.1

For a first offence, we may give a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.4.2

For an offence committed before the first warning expires, we will give you a final warning in writing. This warning will state if you commit a further offence of misconduct before it expires, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.4.3

We may dismiss you for an offence committed before the final warning expires. We will notify you in writing.

28.5

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found to be incapable of doing the job.

28.5.1

On the first occasion, we may give you a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.5.2

If we consider it necessary to give another warning before the first warning expires, this will be given in writing. This warning will state if you do not improve sufficiently, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.5.3

If you do not show a marked improvement before the final warning expires, we may dismiss you. If we decide to dismiss you, we will notify you in writing.

28.6

During the first year of your employment, we need not give warnings prior to dismissing you.

28.7

We may take into account expired disciplinary warnings previously issued to you when deciding on the appropriate disciplinary action.

28.8

Depending on the circumstances of the case, we may consider the matter sufficiently serious to warrant a more severe sanction than usual. In such a case, we will take such disciplinary action as we consider appropriate.

28.9

Gross misconduct or gross negligence may result in immediate dismissal without notice or pay in lieu. We will notify you in writing.

28.10

Rather than terminating your employment, we may take alternative disciplinary action against you such as demotion, change of job title or description, change of job, suspension (with or without pay) or reduction in pay.





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28.11

You may appeal against any disciplinary decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

28.12

If you appeal against the original decision, a director will appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the matter and meet you to discuss it. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.13

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the appeal meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken as a result of your appeal.

28.14

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

28.15

We may suspend you on full pay during the period of any investigation. If you are suspended during an investigation, this agreement will continue, together with all rights and obligations under the agreement.

28.16

During any period of suspension you must stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate including the premises of our suppliers, clients or agents.

28.17

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

28.18

We may change the person appointed to deal with disciplinary or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28.19

You may see the disciplinary records contained in your personnel file at any time.

28.20

We may keep a record of warnings even after they have been removed from your file. These may be used for selection for redundancy, although we need not rely on such records for redundancy selection if we do not consider it appropriate to do so.

28.21

The following offences are examples of misconduct:

28.21.1

bad timekeeping;

28.21.2

unreasonable unexplained absence;

28.21.3

failure to do your job or to follow lawful instructions;

28.21.4

persistent or regular absenteeism;

28.21.5

minor damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.21.6

minor breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.21.7

failure to observe our procedures;

28.21.8

abusive behaviour;

28.21.9

failure to disclose to us matters as required in clause 25.

Offences of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.22

The following are examples of incapability:

28.22.1

poor performance

28.22.2

persistent or long term absenteeism;





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28.22.3

incompetence;

28.22.4

unsuitability;

28.22.5

lack of application.

28.23

Matters of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.24

The following offences are examples of gross misconduct:

28.24.1

theft;

28.24.2

unauthorised possession of our documents or property;

28.24.3

unauthorised use of our facilities;

28.24.4

unauthorised acceptance of gifts;

28.24.5

serious damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.24.6

harassment or any other form of discrimination;

28.24.7

falsification (whether by inclusion or omission of information) of reports, accounts, expense claims or self certification forms;

28.24.8

falsification of time sheets;

28.24.9

refusal to carry out duties or reasonable instructions;

28.24.10

intoxication by reason of drink or drugs;

28.24.11

operating machinery or driving after consumption of drink or drugs;

28.24.12

serious breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.24.13

violent, dangerous or intimidatory conduct;

28.24.14

gross insubordination;

28.24.15

breach of health and safety regulations;

28.24.16

smoking in a non-smoking area;

28.24.17

disclosure of any private or confidential information relating to our officers, employees, suppliers, clients agents or us except as set out in this agreement.

Offences of a similar nature will be dealt with under this procedure.

29

Termination

29.1

Either party may end your employment by giving the other 3 month’s notice in writing.

29.2

Nothing in clause 29.1 will prevent us from terminating your employment without notice and without pay in lieu if you are guilty of gross misconduct.

30

Payment in lieu of notice

30.1

We may choose to end your employment by paying your basic salary only during the period of notice set out.





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30.2

If either party gives notice under clause 29.1, we may choose at any time during the notice period to terminate your employment by paying your basic salary only during the remainder of the notice period.

30.3

We will not be deemed to have chosen to pay in lieu of notice unless we give you written notice to that effect, specifically referring to clause 30. Your employment will end as soon as notice is given under clause 30.3.

30.4

Our right to choose to make a payment in lieu of notice does not give you any right to receive one.

31

Garden leave

31.1

If either party serves notice to end your employment:

31.1.1

we may at any time during the period of notice and for any part of the notice period require you to:

31.1.1.1

stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate and the premises of any of our suppliers, clients or agents;

31.1.1.2

cease to do your job;

31.1.1.3

perform such new or different duties as we may delegate to you;

31.1.1.4

remain available to perform any duties we request of you (other than when taking holiday); and

31.1.1.5

work from any place within the East Midlands as we may require;

31.1.2

you must not contact or attempt to contact any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents except at our request and you must disclose to us any approach made to you by any employee supplier, client or agent of ours;

31.1.3

you must answer any queries we may have and assist us in the transfer of suppliers, clients and agents to our control; and

31.1.4

you must take all holiday you have or will have accrued but not already taken by the end of your employment with us ensuring that you follow our procedures in doing so.

31.2

During the notice period you will remain an employee of ours and will not be permitted to be employed by any other person, even if you are not paid by that person.

31.3

During the notice period we will continue to pay you all salary and to provide all benefits to which you are entitled during the notice period.

31.4

All other provisions of this agreement will continue in force for the period of this agreement. In particular, you will continue to be bound by clauses 6, 21, 24 and 25.

32

Retirement

32.1

If it does not end earlier, your employment will end when you reach the normal retirement age as defined in our pension scheme. You will not be entitled to any notice on termination by reason of retirement.

32.2

You may ask to work after your retirement date. We will consider any request but are not bound to agree to it.





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33

Deductions

33.1

You agree that we may at any time deduct any sum you owe to us from any sum we owe to you, whether or not any such sum has fallen due for payment.

33.2

The phrase ‘any sum you owe to us’ includes any cost we may incur if we require you to work during your notice period but you fail to do so for or all part of it.

33.3

We may withhold any payment from you until you comply with clauses 22.3 and 23.4.

34

Post termination restrictions

34.1

Clients and agents During the Restricted Period you must not with a view to supplying drug delivery and diagnostic products, including (but not limited to) any products similar to those in respect of which we own a patent:

34.1.1

canvas, solicit or approach any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours; or

34.1.2

deal or contract with any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours.

34.2

Tenders During the Restricted Period you must not solicit, interfere with, tender for or try to entice away from us any contracts, projects, business or the renewal of any of them which is being negotiated at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement and in which negotiation you are involved.

34.3

Competition During the Restricted Period you must not carry on or be engaged in the role of a Medical Device Director or have any interest in any business within the East Midlands that is similar to any business that we carry on.

34.4

Employees During the Restricted Period you must not:

34.4.1

solicit or attempt to entice from our employment any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement; or

34.4.2

employ or negotiate or arrange the employment or engagement of any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement.

34.5

Clause 34.1 only applies where we have a relationship to protect. If the client or agent in question habitually deals with a number of other suppliers of drug delivery and diagnostic products within the East Midlands, nothing in clause 34.1 will prevent you canvassing, soliciting, approaching, dealing or contracting with such a client or agent on behalf of such a supplier but you must bear in mind, if doing so, that you also have a duty of confidentiality to us as set out in clause 24.

34.6

Nothing in clause 34.3 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

34.7

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2 and 34.3 prohibit only activities that are in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.8

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2, 34.3 and 34.4 apply during your employment in respect of activities that are or will be in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.9

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34.10

Any period of garden leave you serve under clause 31 will reduce the period of each of the restrictions set out in clause 34 by an equivalent period.

34.11

If you breach any of the restrictions set out in clause 34 after the end of the employment, the Restricted Period will begin again from the date of the last such breach of that restriction. The period of the restriction will then be calculated from the date of the breach rather than from the end of the employment.

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

35.1

You undertake that you will immediately draw the restrictions contained in clause 34 to the attention of any person with whom you seek work, who approaches you with an offer of work or with whom you anticipate going into business.

35.2

You understand that you should receive legal advice as to the terms and effect of these restrictions before agreeing to be bound by them.

35.3

The parties agree that each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is reasonable and necessary as between themselves and to protect our reasonable interests. If, however, any of them is found by a court to be unreasonable or unenforceable but would be reasonable and enforceable if certain words were deleted or added, then the restriction will apply with those words deleted or added as appropriate.

35.4

Each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is to be treated as separate and can be severed from the others. If any one or more of the restrictions is found to be unenforceable this will not affect the enforceability of the other restrictions.

35.5

We may give you notice to change or to reduce the scope of the restrictions contained in clause 34 at any time.

35.6

We may transfer or assign our rights under clause 34 to any successor of ours. You may not transfer or assign any rights or obligations under clause 34 to any other.

36

Misrepresentation

36.1

You must not make any untrue statement in relation to us and, in particular, must not state or suggest to any person that you remain employed by or connected with us after the end of your employment.

36.2

You must not use any name that includes our name or any name similar to it for any purpose that is not our purpose either before or after the end of your employment.

37

Changes to terms

37.1

Within this agreement, we have given ourselves the right to make various, specific changes.

37.2

We may also give you notice that we want to make changes to any of the terms of this agreement.

37.2.1

No such change will be effective unless notified to you in writing.

37.2.2

You will be given at least one month’s notice of any proposed change.

37.2.3

Each change will be deemed accepted unless you notify us of any objection in writing before the end of the relevant notice period.

37.3

From time to time, we may give you authority to do certain things on our behalf that are normally forbidden by this agreement.

37.3.1

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37.3.2

We will limit the period and scope of your authority as we consider appropriate.

37.3.3

Such authority will not amount to a change to the terms of this agreement other than for its own, limited purposes.

38

Waiver

38.1

No waiver by us of any right or remedy arising either from any breach by you of any term of this agreement or from any default by you under this agreement will prevent the subsequent enforcement of this agreement

38.2

If we waive any breach or default by you on any occasion, that will not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and will not affect any other right that we have or may have against you under this agreement.

38.3

Failure or delay on our part to exercise any right or remedy that we have or may have under this agreement will not prevent us exercising such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

38.4

No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy will stop us from exercising any such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

39.1

The complete or partial invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement for any purpose will not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision for any other purpose and will not affect the remaining provisions of this agreement.

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

40.1

Any provision of this agreement that is expressed to operate or have effect for our benefit after the end of your employment will do so however your employment ends.

41

Notices

41.1

Any notice to be given under this agreement must be in writing and signed by the party issuing the notice.

41.2

Any notice may be served personally by hand or by pre-paid first class post.

41.3

Notices may be served:

41.3.1

on you at the address set out above or, if you move house and notify us of your new address, to your new address; and

41.3.2

on us at our premises or at such other address in the UK as we may notify to you.

41.4

Any notice will be served:

41.4.1

if delivered personally, upon delivery;

41.4.2

if by pre-paid first class post, at 5.00 pm on the second working day after posting.

41.5

To prove personal service, it will be necessary to prove that the content of the notice was drawn to the attention of the recipient at the time of service.

41.6

To prove service by pre-paid first class post it will be necessary only to prove that the notice was placed in an envelope and that the envelope was properly stamped, addressed and posted.





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42

Third party rights

42.1

Any associated employer may rely on clauses 6, 21.1, 22, 23, 24, 25.1, 26 and 34 against you and every reference to us in those clauses will be construed to include every such associated employer. For this purpose only, we sign this agreement on our own behalf and as agent for all associated employers.

42.2

Except as provided in clause 42.1, the effects of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 are excluded from this agreement.

42.3

No party to this agreement needs permission from any third party to change or end this agreement.

43

Entire agreement

43.1

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties in relation to your employment. Other than as set out in this agreement, the rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures to which it refers have no contractual force.

43.2

If there is any difference between what is set out in this agreement and what is set out in any other document, the details in this agreement are the correct details.

43.3

You confirm that in signing this agreement, you are not relying on anything we may have told you or put in writing that is not contained in this agreement.

43.4

Clause 43.3 is not intended to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

44

Interpretation

44.1

In this agreement, the headings and table of contents are inserted for convenience only and do not affect its interpretation or construction.

44.2

In this agreement, references to clauses and schedules are, unless otherwise stated, to clauses of and schedules to this agreement. References to this agreement include all clauses of and schedules to this agreement.

44.3

In this agreement, references to the singular include the plural and vice versa unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.4

In this agreement, references to the masculine, feminine or neuter include each of them unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.5

In this agreement, references to statutes or to statutory instruments include all re-enactments or modifications of them and any regulations made under them except to the extent that any such reference has the effect of extending, increasing or prolonging our liabilities set out in this agreement.

44.6

Words and expressions defined in the Companies Act 1985 will be given the same meaning in this agreement unless they are given a different meaning within this agreement or unless to do so does not make sense in the context in which the word or expression is used.

44.7

This agreement is subject to English law and the parties agree to submit to the English courts in dealing with any claim or matter arising.  


 

 

Signed on behalf of

Dermal Diagnostics Limited

by


…………………………. ï sign here

Director


Signed by

Robert Carson


…………………………. ï sign here





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Schedule One – Job Description


Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.


1.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring product ideas from feasibility to launch

2.

Developing timelines, milestones, and tracking budgets of new projects;

3.

Assist in building of a research team and creative, focused, and positive environment that can successfully take products from concept to completion;

4.

Coordinate in-house trials of new product concepts, submit samples for clinical/quality testing and analyse results;

5.

Generate reports and design records, present results to team;

6.

Perform required validations for product design file;

7.

Compose design files, master device records for product launch;

8.

Organise, manage and direct project team tasks and assures proper application of Design Control standards, tools and methodologies in project work;

9.

Identify and assemble project team(s) and provides leadership and mentoring to assure effective project completion;

10.

Deliver full project objectives on time and on budget;

11.

Responsible for maintaining current and complete project management data and documents.







Dated: 1 November 2013


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited


2

Waliul Islam



[EX109WALIULISLAMEMPLOYMEN002.GIF] Employment agreement













Table of contents

1

Definitions

1

2

Duration of employment

2

3

Period continuously employed

2

4

Former contracts

2

5

Job title

2

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

2

7

Place of work

3

8

Normal hours of work

3

9

Pay

4

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

4

11

Expenses

4

12

Holidays

5

13

Absence from work

6

14

Sick pay

6

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

7

16

Right to require a medical examination

7

17

Medical records

8

18

Personal records

8

19

Right to search

8

20

Health and safety

9

21

Outside interests

9

22

Our documents

9

23

Our property

9

24

Confidential information

10

25

Public interest disclosure

10

26

Intellectual property

11

27

Grievance procedure

12

28

Disciplinary procedure

12

29

Termination

15

30

Payment in lieu of notice

15

31

Garden leave

16

32

Retirement

16

33

Deductions

16

34

Post termination restrictions

17

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

18

36

Misrepresentation

18






37

Changes to terms

18

38

Waiver

19

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

19

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

19

41

Notices

19

42

Third party rights

19

43

Entire agreement

20

44

Interpretation

20

Schedule One – Job Description

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This employment agreement is made on 1 November 2013


Between:


1

Dermal Diagnostics Limited (company number 6795555) whose registered office is at Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ; and

2

Waliul Islam of 8 Annies Wharf, Loughborough, Leics LE11 1LD

It is agreed as follows:


1

Definitions

1.1

In this agreement the following definitions apply

“We”, “we”, “Our”, “our”, “us”, “ours”

Dermal Diagnostics Limited.

“You”, “you”, “Your”, “your”, “yours”

Waliul Islam

“associated employer”

Any associated employer of ours as defined in the Employment Rights Act 1996.

“board”

Our board of directors and any person acting with the board’s authority but not including you.

“our premises”

Charnwood Building, Holywell Park, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3AQ.

“the East Midlands”

the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

“working day”

Monday to Friday inclusive but not any statutory holiday.

“person”

Any individual, group of people, firm, partnership, association (whether incorporated or not), private members’ club, company or other incorporated or unincorporated body.

“your employment”

Your employment under this agreement.

“recognised investment exchange”

As defined in section 285 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

“Restricted Period”

In the case of senior employees, 12 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated; in the case of junior employees, 6 months beginning with the day after your employment is terminated.

“intellectual property”

Copyright, database rights, designs (registered and unregistered), patents, trademarks, moral rights and any other intellectual property rights of any nature whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world.



2

Duration of employment

2.1

Your employment started on 1 November 2013 and will continue for a period of 12 months when it will be reviewed further, unless and until it is ended under clause 29 or clause 30.

3

Period continuously employed

3.1

For the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the relevant date for calculating your continuous period of employment is 1 February 2012.

4

Former contracts

4.1

This agreement replaces all other employment agreements between the parties.

4.2

You confirm that you will not breach any duty of any type owed to any person by signing this agreement.

5

Job title

5.1

We will employ you as a Design Engineer.  

5.2

For the purposes of clause 34, you are a junior employee.

5.3

Your current job description is set out in schedule 1.

5.4

We may change your job title upon reasonable written notice to you.

5.5

We may appoint others to work in a similar position or in place of you.

5.6

We may require you to take up any other position that we consider appropriate.

5.7

We may require you to take up a position with any associated employer.

5.8

We may transfer this agreement to any associated employer, in which case all references in this agreement to us will be treated as references to the relevant associated employer from the date of transfer.

5.9

We will give you one month’s notice of any changes to the current position.

6

Promotion and protection of our interests

6.1

During your employment you must:

6.1.1

follow our reasonable and lawful directions;

6.1.2

comply with all of our rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures;

6.1.3

keep us promptly and fully informed of your conduct of our business and explain your actions to us whenever requested;

6.1.4

account to us for any inducement offered to you for any business transaction;

6.1.5

devote your whole time and attention to our business during your normal working hours unless prevented from doing so by sickness or injury;

6.1.6

do your best to promote our interests and our business;

6.1.7

do your job to the best of your ability.







6.2

During your employment you must not:

6.2.1

do anything which could damage our interests or our business;

6.2.2

prepare to join a competitor of ours or to set up in competition with us;

6.2.3

introduce any business which we could deal with to any person other than us;

6.2.4

receive for your own benefit (directly or indirectly) any inducement of any sort for any business transaction;

6.2.5

agree on our behalf:

6.2.5.1

to purchase or lease any land, building or premises; or

6.2.5.2

to give any debenture, mortgage or other security on any of our property;

6.2.6

agree on our behalf to any capital financing, purchases or sales;

6.2.7

agree on our behalf to employ any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.8

dismiss any employee, worker or agent;

6.2.9

agree on our behalf to purchase or sell goods or services.

6.3

If you are in breach of any of the terms of this agreement you must tell us immediately and must indemnify us in relation to any liability we incur as a result of your breach.

6.4

If you become aware of any misconduct or other breach of contract committed by any of our other employees you must tell us immediately.

6.5

You must not use our telephones, faxes, IT equipment or stationery for anything other than our business. We own any communications sent, received and stored on such media. We are able to monitor and intercept telephone calls, letters, faxes and emails and to identify the sender and the recipient. You authorise us to do so.

7

Place of work

7.1

Your main place of work will be our premises, but you must also work at various places throughout the East Midlands as we require.

7.2

We may require that you work from a different location or place of work on a temporary or permanent basis.

7.3

We may require you to move house in order properly to do your job. [If so, we will pay such contribution to your moving expenses as we consider appropriate.]

7.4

We may require you to work overseas. We will not require you to work outside the United Kingdom for more than one month at a time. You will not be required to live outside the United Kingdom.

8

Normal hours of work

8.1

You are expected to work 37.5 hours each week. You will control your working hours on a day-to-day basis, subject only that on each working day you must not begin work later than 10am nor finish work later than 4pm. Outside these core hours, you are expected to work such hours so that you always average 37.5 hours per week with respect to a monthly reference period.

8.2

You are entitled to one hour’s break for lunch which is unpaid and does not count towards your weekly 37.5 hour requirement.







8.3

You will also be required to work such extra hours as may be necessary for you to do your job.

8.4

You agree that the forty-eight hour average working week limit prescribed by the Working Time Regulations 1998 will not apply to you but you may withdraw your agreement by giving us two months’ notice in writing.

8.5

We do not have to provide you with work at any time or give you the opportunity to maintain or enhance your abilities or skills.

9

Pay

9.1

We will pay you a basic salary of £19,000 per annum.

9.2

We will not pay you extra for any overtime you work.

9.3

Your salary will accrue from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for some unauthorised reason.

9.4

We will not pay you for any days of unauthorised absence.

9.5

We will pay your salary monthly in arrears during the last week of each calendar month or on such other day as we may notify to you.

9.6

Payment will be made by BACS.

10

Pension and contracting out certificate

10.1

You may join our stakeholder pension scheme subject to its deed and rules.

10.2

You must provide accurate information to the pension scheme providers as and when they request it and you must comply with all rules of the pension scheme.

10.3

Your entitlement to benefits under any pension scheme is subject to the scheme’s rules.

10.4

We may vary the rules of the scheme or withdraw the scheme at any time without liability to you. If it is withdrawn, the scheme will be replaced with an alternative pension scheme of our choice, which may or may not provide similar benefits to you. We will not be liable to you for any loss you suffer as a result of any change of scheme.

10.5

The trustees of the scheme are responsible for payment of any benefits under the scheme. We do not guarantee any such payment.

10.6

We have no obligation in respect of your relationship with the trustees or the scheme providers.

10.7

If your employment or this agreement ends for any reason, you will not be entitled to any compensation for any loss or reduction in value of any rights or expectations in relation to our pension scheme that arises as a result.

10.8

There is no State Second Pension contracting-out certificate in force in relation to your employment. Your employment is not contracted out employment.

10.9

We may [contract out of the State Second Pension][vary or surrender the contracting-out certificate] at any time.

11

Expenses

11.1

Subject to clause 11.4 below, we will reimburse you for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred in doing your job.







11.2

Payment will be made monthly in arrears.

11.3

You must produce such invoices, vouchers or other evidence as we may require.

11.4

You must not incur any expense greater than £100.00 without prior written authorisation from your designated manager.

12

Holidays

12.1

Our holiday year is from 01 January to 31 December each year.

12.2

In each complete holiday year you will be entitled to:

12.2.1

eight statutory holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Late Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day; and

12.2.2

20 working days’ paid holiday.

12.3

If your employment starts or ends part way through a holiday year, you will be entitled to:

12.3.1

any statutory holiday falling during your employment; and

12.3.2

a proportion of the working days equivalent to the proportion of the relevant holiday year for which we actually employ you.

12.4

If you are required to work on any statutory holiday we may either allow you an extra day’s holiday or pay you for the day.

12.5

Your entitlement to statutory holidays will accrue as and when they occur. Your additional holiday entitlement will accrue pro rata from working day to working day but will not accrue on any working day during which you are absent due to sickness or injury or for an unauthorised reason.

12.6

During any continuous period of absence due to sickness or injury of one month or more you will only accrue the minimum holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and not any contractual holiday.

12.7

When calculating your accrued holiday entitlement, we will always round up to the nearest half-day.

12.8

We may require you to take holiday at any time. We will notify you of our requirements at least one week in advance. Subject to clauses Error! Referen úúúú and 12.11, you may take holiday at any time provided that you give at least two weeks’ notice and we do not object.

12.9

You may carry any unused holiday entitlement forward to a subsequent holiday year.

12.10

We will not pay you for any working day’s holiday accrued but not taken in a holiday year.

12.11

You may not take more than ten working days’ holiday together without the prior written agreement of your designated manager.

12.12

If either party gives notice to end your employment, we may require you to take some or all of your remaining holiday during your notice period but otherwise you will not be entitled to take any holiday during your notice period.

12.13

Subject to clause 12.14 at the end of your employment, we will pay you in accordance with the Working Time Regulations 1998 in lieu of any holiday entitlement not taken. You will be required to repay us any pay received for holiday taken in excess of your holiday entitlement.

12.14

If your employment is terminated pursuant to clause 29.2 or you resign without giving notice due under clause 29.1 you will be entitled to be paid in lieu of any untaken holiday entitlement you would have accrued based on your minimum holiday entitlement pursuant to the Working Time







Regulations 1998 only and not pursuant to clause 12.2. For these purposes any holiday entitlement that you have taken in the holiday year in which your employment ends (including any paid holiday or any statutory holiday) will be deemed first to be holiday entitlement due to you under the Working Time Regulations 1998. The amount of the payment in lieu pursuant to clause 12.13 and this clause will be calculated on the basis that each days paid holiday is equal to 1/260 th of your basic annual salary.

12.15

The provisions of regulation 15(1) to (4) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (length of notice to be given or received to take holidays) do not apply to your employment or this agreement.

13

Absence from work

13.1

You must follow our absence notification procedure. This applies to all absences other than when you take properly authorised holiday.

13.2

Subject to clause 13.3 if you are absent from work for any reason without advance authorization, you must notify your designated manager by 11 am on the first day of absence, giving the reason for the absence and the expected length of absence. You must confirm the reason in writing as soon as possible.

13.3

If you are absent to undergo elective surgery you must explain to your manager no later than four weeks prior to the surgery when the surgery is due to take place, how long you are likely to be absent from work and whether the surgery is medically required. We may refuse to permit you time off to undergo the elective surgery if too disruptive to the needs of our business at the time you intend to be absent.

13.4

If you are absent from work for more than seven days due to sickness or injury, you must provide your designated manager with a doctor’s certificate on the eighth day of absence. You must then provide your designated manager with consecutive doctor’s certificates top cover your entire period of absence.

13.5

You must report personally to your designated manager by 10:30 am on the first day that you return to work.

13.6

If you are absent for more than 30 working days in any twelve months, we will treat your absence as a disciplinary matter. We may treat any absence as a disciplinary matter, depending on the circumstances.

13.7

During any period of absence of more than 10 working days, you will be required to return all company property issued to you. This includes all property issued to you purely for your own benefit. We will not compensate you for the withdrawal of any of our property.

14

Sick pay

14.1

We operate the statutory sick pay scheme under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. You must co-operate in the maintenance of all necessary records. We will offset any payment made to you during a period of sickness (other than for salary earned previously) against any liability for statutory sick pay.

14.2

We have absence notification procedures that you must follow. The following is simply an explanation of the statutory sick pay regime.

14.2.1

Statutory sick pay is payable in respect of absence from work due to sickness on qualifying days. Your qualifying days are the days on which you normally work.

14.2.2

No statutory sick pay is payable for the first three qualifying days of a period of sickness absence unless the first day of this sickness can be linked to a previous period of sickness. These first three days are known as “waiting days”.







14.2.3

Two periods of sickness can be linked if separated by fifty-six calendar days or fewer. If you have completed waiting days in the first period of sickness, these will count as waiting days for the second period.

14.2.4

Statutory sick pay is payable for all other qualifying days during the period of sickness absence up to a maximum payment equal to twenty-eight times the appropriate weekly rate. Where periods of sickness absence are linked together, your maximum entitlement is calculated cumulatively.

14.2.5

Statutory sick pay is payable in the same way and at the same time as normal pay and is subject to the usual deductions.

14.3

Entitlement to statutory sick pay depends upon your compliance with the following rules.

14.3.1

You must not be statutorily excluded.

14.3.2

You must notify us of absence from work due to sickness on the first qualifying day on which you are sick. You should notify us as soon as possible and must do so no later than the end of the first day.

14.3.3

If and only if you are unable for good reason to contact us personally or by getting someone to contact us on your behalf that day (e.g., by telephone), we will accept written notice of sickness provided that it is posted on the first qualifying day.

14.3.4

If your period of sickness lasts longer than seven days, you are required to provide a medical certificate at the start of each subsequent calendar week of continued sickness.

14.3.5

On return to work after any period of sickness absence, you are required to complete our self-certification form for sickness absence. This is available from your designated manager.

15

Trade union membership and collective agreements

15.1

You may become a member of, hold office in and/or support the activities of any independent trade union but you do not have to do so.

15.2

You do not have to tell us about your trade union membership, office or activities but if you do, you authorise us to retain a record and agree to notify us of any change in details.

15.3

Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not formally recognise a trade union.

15.4

There are no collective agreements affecting your employment.

16

Right to require a medical examination

16.1

You must submit to a medical examination by any registered medical practitioner we nominate and:

16.1.1

you consent to the examination;

16.1.2

you consent that a report may be published in relation to the examination and that we may have access to it;

16.1.3

subject to clause 16.1.4 you are entitled to have access to the report before it is supplied to us;

16.1.4

the registered medical practitioner may withhold the report from you if he suspects that any physical or mental harm may result from its release;

16.1.5

you may request alterations to any errors which you perceive in the report;







16.1.6

you consent that the report be released to us after you have had the opportunity to inspect it and to request alterations and even if the registered medical practitioner has withheld it from you.

16.2

You may withdraw your consent but if you do, we will have to make decisions based on the limited information available to us. That may not be in your best interests.

16.3

You must not unreasonably delay any examination or the provision of any report to us.

16.4

We will pay for the examination and the report.

17

Medical records

17.1

You understand and agree that we will keep all sickness, absence and medical records for all employment purposes including:

17.1.1

to assist in the performance of our health and safety obligations;

17.1.2

to assist us to assess whether any adaptation is needed to the workplace or working conditions;

17.1.3

for redundancy selection should that become necessary and should your history of absences be relevant to such a selection;

17.1.4

for assessment of your capability;

17.1.5

to monitor compliance with our absence notification procedure.

18

Personal records

18.1

You understand and agree that during the course of your employment we will compile a personnel file for you containing details concerning your employment and any relevant previous employment.

18.2

You authorise us to retain sensitive information in your personnel file for all purposes connected with your employment.

18.3

You authorise us to release your personnel file or any of the details contained in it to any person we consider appropriate whether or not that person is within the European Economic Area.

19

Right to search

19.1

If we suspect you of theft or industrial espionage, we may search your clothing and personal property whilst you are on our premises or any premises from which we operate (including suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ premises).

19.2

You may refuse to allow a search to be carried out but must understand in that case:

19.2.1

the police will be called; and

19.2.2

we may draw adverse inferences if you also refuse to wait for the police to arrive.

19.3

Any search may be conducted without prior notice.

19.4

Any search will be carried out in the presence of two witnesses. In the case of a personal search, the witnesses will be the same gender as you.

19.5

Personal property includes any vehicle owned by either party.







20

Health and safety

20.1

You should be familiar with our health and safety policy and all procedures concerning safety in emergencies including the use and operation of safety equipment and protective clothing. In particular, you must understand:

20.1.1

fire and other emergency procedures;

20.1.2

the position of all first-aid and fire appliances;

20.1.3

the fire escape routes;

20.1.4

the accident procedures;

20.1.5

the names and locations of qualified first-aiders.

20.2

A copy of our health and safety policy can be obtained from your designated manager upon request.

20.3

Details of any accident must be reported as soon as possible after the event.

20.4

Protective equipment, clothing and overalls must be worn where appropriate and your designated manager’s instructions must be followed at all times in that regard.

20.5

Disciplinary action may be taken against you if we consider you have put your own or any other person’s health or safety at risk.

21

Outside interests

21.1

During your employment you must not directly or indirectly be employed, engaged, concerned or interested in any business or undertaking or any activity which we consider may be or become harmful to our interests, which might interfere with your job or which may be or become in competition with us.

21.2

Nothing in clause 21.1 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

21.3

Nothing in clause 21.1 affects your rights in respect of trade union membership.

22

Our documents

22.1

All notes, memoranda, records, papers, documents, correspondence, writings, contact lists, address books, and all information recorded on magnetic tape or disc or otherwise recorded or stored for reproduction whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means including any copy which is in your possession or control and which relates to us will be and remain our property.

22.2

Our documents must not be used for any unauthorised purpose.

22.3

You must return all such items in your possession or under your control to us when requested.

23

Our property

23.1

You must not remove our property from our premises unless specifically authorised to do so.

23.2

You are responsible for the care of property issued to you and you must produce such property to us for inspection when requested.

23.3

You must not use our property for any unauthorised purpose.







23.4

Any property issued to you will remain ours and you must return such property to us when requested.

24

Confidential information

24.1

In the course of your employment you will have access to and be entrusted with information in respect of our business and our suppliers’, clients’ and agents’ businesses, which information is or may be secret or confidential and important to us and our suppliers, clients and agents respectively.

24.2

Such information includes (but is not limited to) that relating to inventions, ideas, dealings, transactions, plans, proposals, policies, statements, procedures, rules, regulations, operations, finances, prices, business, marketing, development, manpower plans, client lists or details (whether held electronically or otherwise), contact lists, address books, computer systems and software, designs for products or proposed products, designs for machinery for the manufacture of products or proposed products, manufacturing processes, terms of business (whether for sale or purchase) including discounts given and received and renewal dates of contracts, salaries and any employee’s terms and conditions of employment, formulae and know-how or other matters connected with the products or services purchased, manufactured, marketed or provided by us.

24.3

You must not at any time whether during or after the end of your employment directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person other than to do your job or as required or permitted by law:

24.3.1

divulge such information to any person;

24.3.2

use such information for your own purposes or for any purposes which are not our purposes;

24.3.3

permit any unauthorised disclosure of any such information.

24.4

You must do your best to prevent any other person disclosing such information.

24.5

Clause 24 does not relate to information that is (other than through your breach of clause 24) generally available to the public.

24.6

You might also gain access to confidential information relating to other employees, either from the other employees themselves or in the course of your job.

24.7

Unauthorised and inappropriate disclosure of confidential information is likely to amount to a disciplinary offence and may, in certain circumstances, be subject to criminal sanctions.

25

Public interest disclosure

25.1

If you are concerned that we or any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents may be guilty of:

25.1.1

a criminal offence;

25.1.2

failure to comply with a legal obligation;

25.1.3

miscarriage of justice;

25.1.4

endangering health or safety;

25.1.5

damage to the environment; or

25.1.6

concealing any of the above,

you must report the matter immediately to your designated manager.







25.2

We encourage employees to report all such acts or failures and consequently it is a condition of your employment that you must do so immediately that you become aware of one. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. In serious cases, your employment may be terminated without notice or payment in lieu.

25.3

We will investigate your concerns.

25.4

We will try to conclude an investigation, to inform you of the result and to commence any remedial action we consider appropriate within a period or periods that we will set when we start the investigation. If we are unable to comply with any time limit, we will inform you within that time limit and we will tell you how much longer we expect to need.

26

Intellectual property

26.1

Whilst we employ you, you might, either alone or with others, create or conceive:

26.1.1

inventions, novel creations, ideas, discoveries, developments, writings, trade marks, service marks, designs, drawings, improvements and innovations; and/or

26.1.2

works in which copyright, design right and/or database right will subsist in various media.

26.2

You must maintain full records of your activities and present them to us when we ask you to do so. We will own such records.

26.3

You must tell us about such matters as soon as you are aware of them and you must not give any other person any details of them.

26.4

You agree that any intellectual property in such matters belongs to us. To the extent that it does not belong to us automatically, you must transfer it to us unconditionally. We will pay the expenses involved. This clause does not affect any right you may have to apply for a patent in your own name.

26.5

You will do everything necessary to assist in the transfer of any intellectual property to us including, but not limited to, signing any document we consider necessary.

26.6

You will do everything necessary to assist in any application for us to be registered as owner of such intellectual property. You appoint us as your agent to enable us to be registered.

26.7

You will not claim ownership of or assert any moral right in such intellectual property and you must not do anything that will jeopardise our rights or any application we may make for registration.

26.8

You must not use or make reference to any intellectual property other than for our purposes nor promote such intellectual property for your own benefit.

26.9

When any such matter is created or conceived we and not you must be identified as the owner of it and of the intellectual property in it. This includes, but is not limited to, our name appearing on any such matter.

26.10

You give us a warranty that no such matter infringes the rights of any other person. If any other person makes a claim against us, you will pay to us all costs and compensation including consequential losses such as loss of profits, business or goodwill we suffer as a result of such a claim including any money we may have to pay to that other person. We will give you authority and assist you to deal with any such claim provided that you pay our expenses for doing so.

26.11

If any such matter does infringe the rights of any other person, we will not admit liability.

26.12

If a third party obtains or in our opinion is likely to obtain an injunction preventing us from using such matters, you must do everything you can to ensure we can continue to use such matters without infringing the injunction, including obtaining any necessary licence.







26.13

Clause 26 applies to such matters created or conceived:

26.13.1

during or outside normal working hours;

26.13.2

before or within six months after the end of your employment;

26.13.3

in relation to our business and its current and future activities; and

26.13.4

where it involves the use of our equipment, supplies, facilities, confidential information or time.

26.14

Nothing in this clause is intended to affect or diminishes your rights under the Patents Act 1977.

27

Grievance procedure

27.1

If you have any grievance relating to your employment, you should raise it in writing with your designated manager.

27.2

We will appoint a manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the investigating manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.3

You may appeal against the decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

27.4

A director will then appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the grievance and to meet with you to discuss it. Unless some further investigation is required after the meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken in respect of your grievance.

27.5

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.

27.6

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

27.7

We may change the person appointed to deal with the grievance or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28

Disciplinary procedure

28.1

If:

28.1.1

you commit any act of misconduct; or

28.1.2

you appear incapable of performing the duties or doing the work allocated to you; or

28.1.3

you commit an act of gross misconduct or gross negligence; or

28.1.4

your role becomes redundant or we contemplate terminating your employment for some other substantial reason,

we will appoint a manager to investigate the matter, to write to you setting out our concerns and to meet with you to discuss them before we decide on any action to be taken. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.2

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the meeting, the investigating manager will present his results to another manager appointed by us to decide what (if any) action is necessary based on the findings of the investigation (the disciplining manager).







28.3

If action is necessary, the disciplining manager will invite you to a meeting within seven working days to discuss with you the findings of the investigation and any action the disciplining manager may take following that meeting. The disciplining manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken.

28.4

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found guilty of misconduct.

28.4.1

For a first offence, we may give a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.4.2

For an offence committed before the first warning expires, we will give you a final warning in writing. This warning will state if you commit a further offence of misconduct before it expires, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.4.3

We may dismiss you for an offence committed before the final warning expires. We will notify you in writing.

28.5

We will usually take the following formal disciplinary action against you if you are found to be incapable of doing the job.

28.5.1

On the first occasion, we may give you a verbal or written warning. If the warning is verbal, we will place a note on your personnel file. The warning will expire after six months.

28.5.2

If we consider it necessary to give another warning before the first warning expires, this will be given in writing. This warning will state if you do not improve sufficiently, we may dismiss you. The warning will expire after twelve months.

28.5.3

If you do not show a marked improvement before the final warning expires, we may dismiss you. If we decide to dismiss you, we will notify you in writing.

28.6

During the first year of your employment, we need not give warnings prior to dismissing you.

28.7

We may take into account expired disciplinary warnings previously issued to you when deciding on the appropriate disciplinary action.

28.8

Depending on the circumstances of the case, we may consider the matter sufficiently serious to warrant a more severe sanction than usual. In such a case, we will take such disciplinary action as we consider appropriate.

28.9

Gross misconduct or gross negligence may result in immediate dismissal without notice or pay in lieu. We will notify you in writing.

28.10

Rather than terminating your employment, we may take alternative disciplinary action against you such as demotion, change of job title or description, change of job, suspension (with or without pay) or reduction in pay.

28.11

You may appeal against any disciplinary decision in writing to any director. Any appeal must be made within seven days after you receive notice of the original decision stating your grounds for appeal.

28.12

If you appeal against the original decision, a director will appoint a suitable appeal manager to investigate the matter and meet you to discuss it. Your own views as expressed at the meeting will be taken into account.

28.13

Unless some further investigation is required as a result of the appeal meeting, the appeal manager will notify you within seven days of the meeting whether and, if so, what action will be taken as a result of your appeal.

28.14

There will be no appeal against the appeal manager’s decision.







28.15

We may suspend you on full pay during the period of any investigation. If you are suspended during an investigation, this agreement will continue, together with all rights and obligations under the agreement.

28.16

During any period of suspension you must stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate including the premises of our suppliers, clients or agents.

28.17

At each of the meetings, you may be accompanied by a fellow employee or by a representative of any trade union of which you are a member.

28.18

We may change the person appointed to deal with disciplinary or appeal meeting if we consider it appropriate to do so.

28.19

You may see the disciplinary records contained in your personnel file at any time.

28.20

We may keep a record of warnings even after they have been removed from your file. These may be used for selection for redundancy, although we need not rely on such records for redundancy selection if we do not consider it appropriate to do so.

28.21

The following offences are examples of misconduct:

28.21.1

bad timekeeping;

28.21.2

unreasonable unexplained absence;

28.21.3

failure to do your job or to follow lawful instructions;

28.21.4

persistent or regular absenteeism;

28.21.5

minor damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.21.6

minor breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.21.7

failure to observe our procedures;

28.21.8

abusive behaviour;

28.21.9

failure to disclose to us matters as required in clause 25.

Offences of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.22

The following are examples of incapability:

28.22.1

poor performance

28.22.2

persistent or long term absenteeism;

28.22.3

incompetence;

28.22.4

unsuitability;

28.22.5

lack of application.

28.23

Matters of a similar nature will also be dealt with under this procedure.

28.24

The following offences are examples of gross misconduct:

28.24.1

theft;

28.24.2

unauthorised possession of our documents or property;







28.24.3

unauthorised use of our facilities;

28.24.4

unauthorised acceptance of gifts;

28.24.5

serious damage to our property or property in our possession, custody or control;

28.24.6

harassment or any other form of discrimination;

28.24.7

falsification (whether by inclusion or omission of information) of reports, accounts, expense claims or self certification forms;

28.24.8

falsification of time sheets;

28.24.9

refusal to carry out duties or reasonable instructions;

28.24.10

intoxication by reason of drink or drugs;

28.24.11

operating machinery or driving after consumption of drink or drugs;

28.24.12

serious breach of our rules or of this agreement;

28.24.13

violent, dangerous or intimidatory conduct;

28.24.14

gross insubordination;

28.24.15

breach of health and safety regulations;

28.24.16

smoking in a non-smoking area;

28.24.17

disclosure of any private or confidential information relating to our officers, employees, suppliers, clients agents or us except as set out in this agreement.

Offences of a similar nature will be dealt with under this procedure.

29

Termination

29.1

Either party may end your employment by giving the other notice in writing. Subject to clause Error! Referenúúúúú:

29.1.1

we must give you one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of twelve weeks;

29.1.2

you must give us one week’s notice for each complete year of employment subject to a minimum of four weeks and a maximum of six weeks.

29.2

Nothing in clause 29.1 will prevent us from terminating your employment without notice and without pay in lieu if you are guilty of gross misconduct.

30

Payment in lieu of notice

30.1

We may choose to end your employment by paying your basic salary only during the period of notice set out in clause 29.1.1.

30.2

If either party gives notice under clause 29.1, we may choose at any time during the notice period to terminate your employment by paying your basic salary only during the remainder of the notice period.







30.3

We will not be deemed to have chosen to pay in lieu of notice unless we give you written notice to that effect, specifically referring to clause 30. Your employment will end as soon as notice is given under clause 30.3.

30.4

Our right to choose to make a payment in lieu of notice does not give you any right to receive one.

31

Garden leave

31.1

If either party serves notice to end your employment:

31.1.1

we may at any time during the period of notice and for any part of the notice period require you to:

31.1.1.1

stay away from our premises and any premises at which we operate and the premises of any of our suppliers, clients or agents;

31.1.1.2

cease to do your job;

31.1.1.3

perform such new or different duties as we may delegate to you;

31.1.1.4

remain available to perform any duties we request of you (other than when taking holiday); and

31.1.1.5

work from any place within the East Midlands as we may require;

31.1.2

you must not contact or attempt to contact any of our employees, suppliers, clients or agents except at our request and you must disclose to us any approach made to you by any employee supplier, client or agent of ours;

31.1.3

you must answer any queries we may have and assist us in the transfer of suppliers, clients and agents to our control; and

31.1.4

you must take all holiday you have or will have accrued but not already taken by the end of your employment with us ensuring that you follow our procedures in doing so.

31.2

During the notice period you will remain an employee of ours and will not be permitted to be employed by any other person, even if you are not paid by that person.

31.3

During the notice period we will continue to pay you all salary and to provide all benefits to which you are entitled during the notice period.

31.4

All other provisions of this agreement will continue in force for the period of this agreement. In particular, you will continue to be bound by clauses 6, 21, 24 and 25.

32

Retirement

32.1

If it does not end earlier, your employment will end when you reach the normal retirement age as defined in our pension scheme. You will not be entitled to any notice on termination by reason of retirement.

32.2

You may ask to work after your retirement date. We will consider any request but are not bound to agree to it.

33

Deductions

33.1

You agree that we may at any time deduct any sum you owe to us from any sum we owe to you, whether or not any such sum has fallen due for payment.







33.2

The phrase ‘any sum you owe to us’ includes any cost we may incur if we require you to work during your notice period but you fail to do so for or all part of it.

33.3

We may withhold any payment from you until you comply with clauses 22.3 and 23.4.

34

Post termination restrictions

34.1

Clients and agents During the Restricted Period you must not with a view to supplying drug delivery and diagnostic products, including (but not limited to) any products similar to those in respect of which we own a patent:

34.1.1

canvas, solicit or approach any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours; or

34.1.2

deal or contract with any person who (at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement) is a client or agent of ours.

34.2

Tenders During the Restricted Period you must not solicit, interfere with, tender for or try to entice away from us any contracts, projects, business or the renewal of any of them which is being negotiated at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement and in which negotiation you are involved.

34.3

Competition During the Restricted Period you must not carry on or be engaged in the role of a Formulation Scientist or have any interest in any business within the East Midlands that is similar to any business that we carry on.

34.4

Employees During the Restricted Period you must not:

34.4.1

solicit or attempt to entice from our employment any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement; or

34.4.2

employ or negotiate or arrange the employment or engagement of any employee of ours over whom you exercise control or influence at any time during the 12 months before you are last required to do work under this agreement.

34.5

Clause 34.1 only applies where we have a relationship to protect. If the client or agent in question habitually deals with a number of other suppliers of drug delivery and diagnostic products within the East Midlands, nothing in clause 34.1 will prevent you canvassing, soliciting, approaching, dealing or contracting with such a client or agent on behalf of such a supplier but you must bear in mind, if doing so, that you also have a duty of confidentiality to us as set out in clause 24.

34.6

Nothing in clause 34.3 prevents you from holding or being beneficially interested in up to 5% of the shares in any company quoted on the London Stock Exchange or equivalent recognised investment exchange provided that you give us full details.

34.7

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2 and 34.3 prohibit only activities that are in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.8

The restrictions contained in clauses 34.1, 34.2, 34.3 and 34.4 apply during your employment in respect of activities that are or will be in competition with us at the relevant time.

34.9

Each of the restrictions in clause 34 applies to stop you acting directly or indirectly, whether alone or with or on behalf of any other person.

34.10

Any period of garden leave you serve under clause 31 will reduce the period of each of the restrictions set out in clause 34 by an equivalent period.

34.11

If you breach any of the restrictions set out in clause 34 after the end of the employment, the Restricted Period will begin again from the date of the last such breach of that restriction. The







period of the restriction will then be calculated from the date of the breach rather than from the end of the employment.

35

Additional provisions relating to clause 34

35.1

You undertake that you will immediately draw the restrictions contained in clause 34 to the attention of any person with whom you seek work, who approaches you with an offer of work or with whom you anticipate going into business.

35.2

You understand that you should receive legal advice as to the terms and effect of these restrictions before agreeing to be bound by them.

35.3

The parties agree that each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is reasonable and necessary as between themselves and to protect our reasonable interests. If, however, any of them is found by a court to be unreasonable or unenforceable but would be reasonable and enforceable if certain words were deleted or added, then the restriction will apply with those words deleted or added as appropriate.

35.4

Each of the restrictions contained in clause 34 is to be treated as separate and can be severed from the others. If any one or more of the restrictions is found to be unenforceable this will not affect the enforceability of the other restrictions.

35.5

We may give you notice to change or to reduce the scope of the restrictions contained in clause 34 at any time.

35.6

We may transfer or assign our rights under clause 34 to any successor of ours. You may not transfer or assign any rights or obligations under clause 34 to any other.

36

Misrepresentation

36.1

You must not make any untrue statement in relation to us and, in particular, must not state or suggest to any person that you remain employed by or connected with us after the end of your employment.

36.2

You must not use any name that includes our name or any name similar to it for any purpose that is not our purpose either before or after the end of your employment.

37

Changes to terms

37.1

Within this agreement, we have given ourselves the right to make various, specific changes.

37.2

We may also give you notice that we want to make changes to any of the terms of this agreement.

37.2.1

No such change will be effective unless notified to you in writing.

37.2.2

You will be given at least one month’s notice of any proposed change.

37.2.3

Each change will be deemed accepted unless you notify us of any objection in writing before the end of the relevant notice period.

37.3

From time to time, we may give you authority to do certain things on our behalf that are normally forbidden by this agreement.

37.3.1

We will set out your authority in writing.

37.3.2

We will limit the period and scope of your authority as we consider appropriate.

37.3.3

Such authority will not amount to a change to the terms of this agreement other than for its own, limited purposes.







38

Waiver

38.1

No waiver by us of any right or remedy arising either from any breach by you of any term of this agreement or from any default by you under this agreement will prevent the subsequent enforcement of this agreement

38.2

If we waive any breach or default by you on any occasion, that will not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and will not affect any other right that we have or may have against you under this agreement.

38.3

Failure or delay on our part to exercise any right or remedy that we have or may have under this agreement will not prevent us exercising such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

38.4

No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy will stop us from exercising any such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

39

Invalidity or unenforceability

39.1

The complete or partial invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement for any purpose will not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision for any other purpose and will not affect the remaining provisions of this agreement.

40

Provisions operating after the end of the agreement

40.1

Any provision of this agreement that is expressed to operate or have effect for our benefit after the end of your employment will do so however your employment ends.

41

Notices

41.1

Any notice to be given under this agreement must be in writing and signed by the party issuing the notice.

41.2

Any notice may be served personally by hand or by pre-paid first class post.

41.3

Notices may be served:

41.3.1

on you at the address set out above or, if you move house and notify us of your new address, to your new address; and

41.3.2

on us at our premises or at such other address in the UK as we may notify to you.

41.4

Any notice will be served:

41.4.1

if delivered personally, upon delivery;

41.4.2

if by pre-paid first class post, at 5.00 pm on the second working day after posting.

41.5

To prove personal service, it will be necessary to prove that the content of the notice was drawn to the attention of the recipient at the time of service.

41.6

To prove service by pre-paid first class post it will be necessary only to prove that the notice was placed in an envelope and that the envelope was properly stamped, addressed and posted.

42

Third party rights

42.1

Any associated employer may rely on clauses 6, 21.1, 22, 23, 24, 25.1, 26 and 34 against you and every reference to us in those clauses will be construed to include every such associated







employer. For this purpose only, we sign this agreement on our own behalf and as agent for all associated employers.

42.2

Except as provided in clause 42.1, the effects of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 are excluded from this agreement.

42.3

No party to this agreement needs permission from any third party to change or end this agreement.

43

Entire agreement

43.1

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties in relation to your employment. Other than as set out in this agreement, the rules, regulations, policies, statements and procedures to which it refers have no contractual force.

43.2

If there is any difference between what is set out in this agreement and what is set out in any other document, the details in this agreement are the correct details.

43.3

You confirm that in signing this agreement, you are not relying on anything we may have told you or put in writing that is not contained in this agreement.

43.4

Clause 43.3 is not intended to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

44

Interpretation

44.1

In this agreement, the headings and table of contents are inserted for convenience only and do not affect its interpretation or construction.

44.2

In this agreement, references to clauses and schedules are, unless otherwise stated, to clauses of and schedules to this agreement. References to this agreement include all clauses of and schedules to this agreement.

44.3

In this agreement, references to the singular include the plural and vice versa unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.4

In this agreement, references to the masculine, feminine or neuter include each of them unless that does not make sense in the context of the reference.

44.5

In this agreement, references to statutes or to statutory instruments include all re-enactments or modifications of them and any regulations made under them except to the extent that any such reference has the effect of extending, increasing or prolonging our liabilities set out in this agreement.

44.6

Words and expressions defined in the Companies Act 1985 will be given the same meaning in this agreement unless they are given a different meaning within this agreement or unless to do so does not make sense in the context in which the word or expression is used.

44.7

This agreement is subject to English law and the parties agree to submit to the English courts in dealing with any claim or matter arising.  


 

 

Signed on behalf of

Dermal Diagnostics Limited

by


…………………………. ï sign here

Director


Signed by

Waliul Islam


…………………………. ï sign here







Schedule One – Job Description


Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1.

Meeting with senior management to establish the design brief, including the concept, usability and performance criteria

2.

Brainstorming with sketches or developing design concepts using CAD

3.

Taking part in group team meetings

4.

Sketching initial design ideas

5.

Identifying the suitability and availability of materials

6.

Producing detailed schematics using CAD software to produce design

7.

Creating samples or working models by hand or using computerised prototyping equipment

8.

Documenting all changes and decisions linked to each product

9.

Devise project plans and flow charts for associated projects

10.

Testing the design concept by computerised modelling or physical hands on testing of models

11.

Researching materials, processes, market requirements and design trends

12.

Presenting to senior management to present design proposals

13.

Attending training courses and conferences in continuous professional development programmes affiliated to healthcare design industry, IMECHE, IET.








NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.

CODE OF BUSINESS CONDUCT AND ETHICS

(ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON JANUARY 16, 2014)

INTRODUCTION


This Code of Business Conduct and Ethics covers a wide range of business practices and procedures. It does not cover every issue that may arise but it sets out basic principles to guide all employees of NEMAURA MEDICAL INC. (the "Company"). All of our officers, directors and employees must conduct themselves accordingly and seek to avoid even the appearance of improper behavior. The code should also be provided to and followed by the Company's agents and representatives, including consultants.


If a law conflicts with a policy in this Code, you must comply with the law. If you have any questions about these conflicts, you should ask your supervisor how to handle the situation.


Those who violate standards in this Code will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. If you are in a situation that you believe may violate or lead to a violation of this Code, follow the guidelines described in Section 14 of this Code.


1.

COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS

Obey the law, both in letter and in spirit, is the foundation on which our ethical standards are built. All employees must respect and obey the laws of the cities, states and countries in which we operate. Although not all employees are expected to know the details of these laws, it is important to know enough about them to determine when to seek advice from supervisors, managers or other appropriate personnel.


2.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST


A "conflict of interest" exists when a person's private interests interferes in any way with the interests of the Company. A conflict situation can arise when an employee, officer or director takes actions or has interests that may make it difficult to perform his or her Company work objectively and efficiently. Conflicts of interest may also arise when an employee, officer or director, or members of his or her family, receives improper personal benefits as a result of his or her position in the Company. Loans to, or guarantees of obligations of, employees and their family members may create conflicts of interest.


It is almost always a conflict of interest for a Company employee to work simultaneously for a competitor, customer or supplier. You are not allowed to work for a competitor as a consultant or board member. The best policy is to avoid any direct or indirect business connection with our customers, suppliers or competitors, except on our behalf. Conflicts of interest are prohibited as a matter of Company policy, except under guidelines approved by our Board of Directors. Conflicts of interest may not always be clear-cut, so if you have a question, you should consult with higher levels of management. Any employee, officer or director who becomes aware of a conflict or potential conflict should bring it to the attention of a supervisor, manager or other appropriate personnel or consult with the procedures described in Section 14 of this Code.


3.

INSIDER TRADING


Employees who have access to confidential information are not permitted to use or share that information for stock trading purposes or for any other purpose except the conduct of our business. All non-public information about the Company should be considered confidential information. To use non-public information for persona financial benefit or to "tip" others who might make an investment decision on the basis of this information is not only unethical but also illegal.




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4.

CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES


Employees, officer and directors are prohibited from taking for themselves personally, opportunities that are discovered through the use of corporate property, information or position without the consent of the Board of Directors. No employee may use corporate property, information or position for improper personal gain and no employee may compete with the Company, directly or indirectly.


5.

COMPETITION AND FAIR DEALING


We seek to outperform our competition fairly and honestly. Stealing proprietary information, possessing trade secret information that was obtained without the owner's consent, or inducing such disclosures by past or present employees of other companies is prohibited. Each officer, director and employee should respect the rights of and deal fairly with the Company's customers, suppliers, competitors and employees. No employee should take unfair advantage of anyone through manipulation, concealment, abuse of privileged information, misrepresentation of material facts, or any other intentional unfair-dealing practice.


The purpose of business entertainment and gifts in a commercial setting is to create good will and sound working relationships, not to gain unfair advantage with customers. No gift, or entertainment should ever be offered, given, provided or accepted by any Company employee, family member of an employee or agent, unless it (a) is not in cash, (b) is consistent with customary business practices, (c) is not excessive in value, (d) cannot be construed as a bribe or payoff and (e) does not violate any laws or regulations. Please discuss with your supervisor any gifts or proposed gifts that you are not certain are appropriate.


6.

DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT


The diversity of the Company's employees is a tremendous asset. We are firmly committed to providing equal opportunity in all respects aspects of employment and will not tolerate illegal discrimination or harassment of any kind. Examples include derogatory comments based on racial or ethnic characteristics and unwelcome sexual advances.


7.

HEALTH AND SAFETY


The Company strives to provide each employee with a safe and healthy work environment. Each employee has responsibility for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for all employees by following safety and health rules and practices and reporting accidents, injuries and unsafe equipment, practices or conditions.


Violence and threatening behavior are not permitted. Employees should report to work in condition to perform their duties, free from the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol. The use of alcohol and/or illegal drugs in the workplace will not be tolerated.


8.

RECORD-KEEPING

 

The Company requires honest and accurate recording and reporting of information in order to make responsible business decisions. For example, only the true and actual number of hours worked should be reported.


Many employees regularly use business expense accounts, which must be documented and recorded accurately. If you are not sure whether a certain expense is legitimate, ask your supervisor or the Company's controller or chief financial officer.


All of the Company's books, records, accounts and financial statements must be maintained in reasonable detail, must appropriately reflect the Company's transactions and must conform to both applicable legal requirements and to the Company's systems of accounting and internal controls. Unrecorded or "off the books" funds or assets should not be maintained unless permitted by applicable laws or regulations.




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Business records and communications often become public, and we should avoid exaggeration, derogatory remarks, guesswork or inappropriate characterizations of people and companies that can be misunderstood. This applies equally to e-mail, internal memos and formal reports. Records should always be retained or destroyed according to the Company's record retention policies. In accordance with these policies, in the event of litigation or governmental investigation please consultant your supervisor. All e-mail communications are the property of the Company and employees, officers and directors should not expect that Company or personal e-mail communications are private. All e-mails are the property of the Company. No employee, officer or director shall use Company computers, including access to the internet, for personal or non-Company business.


9.

CONFIDENTIALITY


Employees must maintain the confidentiality of confidential information entrusted to them by the Company or its customers, except when disclosure is required by laws or regulations. Confidential information includes all non-public information that might be of use to competitors, or harmful to the Company or its customers, if disclosed. It also includes information that suppliers and customers have entrusted to us. The obligation to preserve confidential information continues even after employment ends. In connection with this obligation, employees, officers and directors may be required to execute confidentiality agreements confirming their agreement to be bound not to disclose confidential information. If you are uncertain whether particular information is confidential or non-public, please consult your supervisor.


10.

PROTECTION AND PROPER USE OF COMPANY ASSETS


All officers, directors and employees should endeavor to protect the Company's assets and ensure their efficient use. Theft, carelessness and waste have a direct impact on the Company's profitability. Any suspected incident of fraud or theft should be immediately reported for investigation. Company equipment should not be used for non-Company business.


The obligation of officers, directors and employees to protect the Company's assets includes it proprietary information. Proprietary information includes intellectual property such as trade secrets, patents, trademarks and copyrights, as well as business, marketing and service plans, engineering and manufacturing ideas, designs, databases, records, salary information and any unpublished financial data and reports. Unauthorized use or distribution of this information would violate Company policy. It could also be illegal and result in civil or even criminal penalties.


11.

PAYMENTS TO GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL


The Unites States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibits giving anything of value, directly or indirectly, to officials of foreign governments or foreign political candidates in order to obtain or retain business. It is strictly prohibited to make illegal payments to government officials of any country.


In addition, the U. S. government has a number of laws and regulations regarding business gratuities that may be accepted by U. S. government personnel. The promise, offer or delivery to an official or employee of the U. S. government of a gist, favor or other gratuity in violation of these rules would not only violate Company policy, but could also be a criminal offense.  State and local governments, as well as foreign governments, may have similar rules.

12.

WAIVERS OF THE CODE OF BUSINESS CONDUCT AND ETHICS


Any waiver of the provisions of this Code may be made only by the Board of Directors and will be promptly disclosed as required by law or stock exchange rule or regulation.


13.

REPORTING ANY ILLEGAL OR UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR


Employees are encouraged to talk with supervisors, managers or Company officials about observed illegal or unethical behavior, and when in doubt about the best course of action in a particular situation. It is the Company's policy not to allow retaliation for reports of misconduct by others made in good faith by employees. Employees are expected to cooperate in internal investigations of misconduct,



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Any employee may submit a good faith concern regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters without fear of dismissal or retaliation of any kind.


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COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES


We must all work to ensure prompt and consistent action against violations of this Code. However, in some situations, it is difficult to know if a violation has occurred. Since we cannot anticipate every situation that may arise, it is important that we have a way to approach a new question or problem. These are steps to keep in mind:


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Make sure you have all the facts. In order to reach the rights solutions, we must be as fully informed as possible.


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Ask yourself, what specifically am I being asked to do - does it seem unethical or improper? This will enable you to focus on the specific question you are faced with, and the alternatives you have. Use your judgment and common sense; if something seems unethical or improper, it probably is.


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Clarify your responsibility and role. In most situations, there is shared responsibility. Are your colleagues informed?  It may help to get others involved and discuss the problem.


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Discuss the problem with your supervisor. This is the basic guidance for all situations. In many cases, your supervisor will be more knowledgeable about the question, and will appreciate being brought into the decision-making process.   Keep in mind that it is your supervisor's responsibility to help solve problems. If your supervisor does not or cannot remedy the situation, or you are uncomfortable bringing the problem to the attention of your supervisor, bring the issue to the attention of the human resources supervisor, or to an officer of the Company.


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You may report ethical violations in confidence and without fear of retaliation. If your situation requires that your identity be kept secret, your anonymity will be protected. The Company does not permit retaliation of any kind for good faith reports of ethical violations.


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Always ask first - act later. If you are unsure of what to do in any situation, seek guidance before your act.




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CODE OF ETHICS FOR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

AND SENIOR FINANCIAL OFFICERS OF

NEMAURA MEDICAL INC.


NEMAURA MEDICAL INC. (the "Company") has a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applicable to all employees, officers and directors of the Company. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and senior financial officers of the Company, including its chief financial officer and principal accounting officer, are bound by the provisions set forth therein relating to ethical conduct, conflicts of interest and compliance with law. In addition to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, the CEO and senior financial officers of the Company are also subject to the following specific policies:


1.

The CEO and senior financial officers are responsible for full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in the periodic reports and other filings required to be made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, it is the responsibility of the CEO and each senior financial officer promptly to bring to the attention of the Board of Directors any material information of which he or she may become aware that affects the disclosures made by the Company in its public filings or otherwise impairs the ability of the Company to make full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable public disclosures.


2.

The CEO and each senior financial officer shall promptly bring to the attention of the Company's Audit Committee any information he or she may have concerning (a) significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data or (b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company's financial reporting, disclosures or internal controls.



3.

The CEO and each senior financial officer shall promptly bring to the attention of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee any information he or she may have concerning any violation of the Company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, including any actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships, involving management or other employees who have a significant rule in the Company's financial reporting, disclosures or internal controls.


4.

The CEO and each senior financial officer shall promptly bring to the attention of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee any information he or she may have concerning evidence of a material violation of the securities or other laws, rules or regulations applicable to the Company and the operation of its business, by the Company or any agent thereof, or of violation of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics or of these additional procedures.


5.

The Board of Directors shall determine, or designate appropriate persons to determine, appropriate actions to be taken in the event of violations of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of these additional procedures by the CEO and the Company's senior financial officers. Such actions shall be reasonably designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote accountability for adherence to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and to these additional procedures, and shall include written notices to the individual involved that the Board has determined that there has been a violation, censure by the Board, demotion or reassignment of the individual involved, suspension with or without pay or benefits (as determined by the Board) and termination of the individual's employment. In determining what action is appropriate in a particular case, the Board of Directors or such designee shall take into account all relevant information, including the nature and severity of the violation, whether the violation was a single occurrence or repeated occurrences, whether the violation appears to have been intentional or inadvertent, whether the individual in question had been advised prior to the violation as to the proper course of action and whether or not the individual in question had committed other violations in the past.




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CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the use in this Registration Statement of our report dated March 27, 2014, relating to the consolidated financial statements of Nemaura Medical Inc., and to the reference to our Firm under the caption “Experts” in the Prospectus.



GHP Horwath, P.C.


Denver, Colorado

March 27, 2014