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ANZ proposes to pay a fully franked 2008 Final Dividend of 74 cents per ordinary share on 18 December 2008.
The Record Date for the 2008 Final Dividend is 12 November 2008 (5.00pm Melbourne time).
ANZ has a policy that all dividends payable to shareholders in Australia, New Zealand or Great Britain will be paid by direct credit to their nominated financial institution account (excluding credit card accounts).
For those shareholders who will receive payment of the 2008 Final Dividend in New Zealand Dollars or Great Britain Pounds Sterling, their dividend entitlements will be converted to those currencies using ANZ's exchange rate at 5.00pm (Melbourne time) on 14 November 2008.
ANZ offers both a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) and a Bonus Option Plan (BOP) as alternatives to receiving cash dividends.
ANZ has announced that it has entered into an agreement with UBS AG, Australia Branch to underwrite the issue of a specified number of ANZ shares in respect of the balance of the 2008 Final Dividend not reinvested by shareholders in the DRP or foregone by shareholders under the BOP.
ANZ has changed the DRP and BOP terms and conditions to ensure consistency with market practice.
Effective for the 2008 Final Dividend only, the Acquisition Price set in order to calculate the number of shares to be allotted under the DRP and BOP will be determined by reference to the arithmetic average of the daily volume weighted average sale price of all ANZ shares sold on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in the ordinary course of trading on the ASX during the fifteen trading days commencing on and including 14 November 2008.
A discount of 1.5% will be applied in determining the Acquisition Price and will apply in respect of the 2008 Final Dividend and to future dividends until such time as ANZ announces otherwise.
The Acquisition Price for the 2008 Final Dividend will be announced once it is set.
Dividend Donations to Charity
ANZ offers a Dividend Charity Donation Program, enabling ANZ shareholders who are Australian resident taxpayers to donate some or all of their ANZ cash dividends to one of a number of charities.
Further details about ANZ dividends, the DRP and BOP (including the recent changes), and the Dividend Charity Donation Program can be found below.
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