Capital Change Notice

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Stock Exchange Listings NZX (MEL) ASX (MEZ)
Capital Change Notice

12 October 2023
Meridian Energy Limited provides the attached Capital Change Notice pursuant to NZX listing rule
3.13.1. This Notice relates to the cancellation of 476,174 performance share rights for senior executives.
The performance share rights were issued pursuant to the Meridian Executive Long-Term Incentive
Scheme in March 2021.


ENDS
Jason Woolley
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Meridian Energy Limited


For investor relations queries, please contact:
Owen Hackston
Investor Relations Manager
021 246 4772
For media queries, please contact:
Philip Clark
External Communications Advisor
022 589 1052

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Capital Change Notice

Updated as at 17 October 2021


Section 1: Issuer information
Name of issuer Meridian Energy Limited
NZX ticker code MEL
Class of financial product Share rights which give the holder
options to acquire ordinary shares
ISIN (If unknown, check on NZX website) NZMELE0002S7
Currency NZD
Section 2: Capital change details
Number issued/acquired/redeemed 476,174
Nominal value (if any) Nil
Issue/acquisition/redemption price per security No consideration is payable for the
cancellation of the share rights.
Nature of the payment (for example, cash or other
consideration)
Nil
Amount paid up (if not in full) Nil
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)
1

25.93%
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)
Cancellation of Share Rights that had
previously been issued under the
Meridian Energy Limited Long Term
Incentive Plan, approved by the
Meridian Board on 23 August 2019.
Total number of Financial Products of the Class after
the issue/acquisition/redemption/Conversion (excluding
Treasury Stock) and the total number of Financial
Products of the Class held as Treasury Stock after the
issue/acquisition/redemption.
1,360,159 Share Rights
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 the issue, acquisition, or redemption is made
Board resolution dated 11 October
2023

1
The percentage is to be calculated immediately before the issue, acquisition, redemption or Conversion.

Terms or details of the issue, acquisition, or redemption
(for example: restrictions, escrow arrangements)
The terms and details of the
cancellation are contained in the
Meridian Energy Limited Long Term
Incentive Scheme Rules.
Date of issue/acquisition/redemption
2
11 October 2023
Section 3: Authority for this announcement and contact person
Name of person

authorised to make this
announcement
Jason Woolley
Contact person for this announcement Jason Woolley
Contact phone number +64 21 309 962
Contact email address Jason.Woolley@meridianenergy.co.nz
Date of release through MAP

12 October 2023




2
Continuous issuers using this form in reliance on Rule 3.13.2, please indicate the period during which the relevant
issue/acquisition/redemptions were made (for example, 1 January 2019 to 31 January 2019).

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Notification of cessation of +securities
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Announcement Summary
Entity name
MERIDIAN ENERGY LIMITED
Announcement Type
New announcement
Date of this announcement
Thursday October 12, 2023
Details of +securities that have ceased
ASX +security
codeSecurity description
Number of
+securities that
have ceased
The +securities have
ceased due to
Date of
cessation
MEZAJPERFORMANCE SHARE
RIGHTS
476,174Lapse of conditional right to
securities because the
conditions have not been, or
have become incapable of
being, satisfied
12/10/2023
Refer to next page for full details of the announcement

Notification of cessation of +securities
Notification of cessation of +securities
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Part 1 - Announcement Details
1.1 Name of +Entity
MERIDIAN ENERGY LIMITED
We (the entity named above) provide the following information about our issued capital.
1.2 Registered Number Type
ARBN
Registration Number
151800396
1.3 ASX issuer code
MEZ
1.4 The announcement is
1.5 Date of this announcement
12/10/2023
New announcement

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Part 2 - Details of +equity securities or +debt securities that have ceased
ASX +Security Code and Description
MEZAJ : PERFORMANCE SHARE RIGHTS
Unquoted +equity securities that have ceased
Number of securities that have ceased
476,174
Reason for cessation
Lapse of conditional right to securities because the conditions have not been, or have become incapable of being,
satisfied
Date of cessation
12/10/2023
Is the entity paying any consideration for the cessation?
Any other information the entity wishes to notify to ASX about the cessation?
No

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Part 3 - Issued capital following changes
Following the cessation of the +securities the subject of this notification, the issued capital of the entity will
comprise:
3.1 Quoted +equity securities and +debt securities (total number of each +class of +securities quoted on ASX)
ASX +security code and description
Total number of
+securities on issue
MEZ : ORDINARY FULLY PAID FOREIGN EXEMPT NZX1,266,374,569
3.2 Unquoted +equity securities (total number of each +class of +equity securities issued but not quoted on ASX)
ASX +security code and description
Total number of
+securities on issue
MEZAK : TREASURY STOCK1,565,008
MEZAI : ORDINARY FULLY PAID1,318,674,646
MEZAJ : PERFORMANCE SHARE RIGHTS1,360,159
Note: the figures stated in the tables above are used to calculate the total market capitalisation of the entity published by
ASX from time to time. The table will not include those classes of +securities that have ceased or lapsed in their entirety in
ASX records before the announcement date described in Q1.5, even if the entity has advised ASX of a change to that class
of +security in Part 2 of this form.