Capital Change Notice – Employee Equity Scheme

Capital Change Notice

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Section 1: issuer information
Name of issuer Contact Energy Limited
NZX ticker code CEN
Class of Financial Product Ordinary shares
ISIN NZCENE0001S6
Section 2: capital change details
Number issued/acquired/redeemed/ 67,483
Nominal value (if any) N/A
Issue/acquisition/redemption/ price Under the terms of Contact’s Employee Equity
Scheme, the shares had no cash issue price.
Nature of the payment (for example,
cash or other consideration)
N/A
Amount paid up (if not in full) In full
Percentage of total class of Financial
Products issued/acquired/redeemed/
(calculated on the number of Financial
Products of the Class, excluding any
Treasury Stock, in existence)
0.01%
For an issue of Convertible Financial
Products or Options, the principal terms
of Conversion (for example the
Conversion price and Conversion date
and the ranking of the Financial Product
in relation to other Classes of Financial
Product) or the Option (for example, the
exercise price and exercise date)
N/A
Reason for issue/acquisition/redemption
and specific authority for
issue/acquisition/redemption/ (the
reason for change must be identified
here)
Issue of ordinary shares upon exercise of options
pursuant to Contact’s Employee Equity Scheme.
Total number of Financial Products of
the Class after the
issue/acquisition/redemption/Conversio
n (excluding Treasury Stock) and the
total number of Financial Products of
the Class held as Treasury Stock after
the issue/acquisition/redemption.
716,772,055 ordinary shares
In the case of an acquisition of shares,
whether those shares are to be held as
treasury stock
N/A
Specific authority for the issue,
acquisition, or redemption, including a
reference to the rule pursuant to which
Resolution of Directors on 13 November 2014

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the issue, acquisition, or redemption is
made
Terms or details of the issue,
acquisition, or redemption (for example:
restrictions, escrow arrangements)
Terms of Contact’s Employee Equity Scheme. The
issued shares rank equally with other fully paid
ordinary shares on issue.
Date of issue/acquisition/redemption 27/02/2019
Section 3: authority for this announcement
Name of person authorised to make this
announcement
Kirsten Clayton, Company Secretary
Contact phone number 04 462 1388
Contact email address companysecretary@contactenergy.co.nz
Date of release via MAP 28/02/2019