Substantial Shareholder
Verbatim from SID (accessed 2026-05-27).
A shareholder who has an interest of interests in one or more voting shares in the company; and the total votes attached to that share, or those shares, is not less than 5 per cent of the total votes attached to all the voting shares in the company. “Voting shares” exclude treasury shares.
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