Assura plc ("Assura" or "the Company"), the UK's leading primary care property investor and developer, today announces that the next quarterly interim dividend of 0.74 pence per share will be paid on 13 October 2021 to shareholders on the register on 10 September 2021 (the "Record Date"). The Ex-dividend Date will be 9 September 2021.
Shareholders may choose for the dividend to be paid either as cash or to be settled in New Shares via the Scrip Dividend Alternative. The Scrip Dividend Alternative price is to be calculated using the average of the middle market quotations for an Ordinary Share, as derived from the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange, for the five consecutive business days commencing on the Ex-dividend Date and will be announced by the Company and detailed on the Company's website on 16 September 2021.
Any shareholders wishing to take up the Scrip Dividend Alternative, who have not already done so, will have until 4.30pm on 1 October 2021 either to return their completed mandate form to the Company registrars, Link Group at 10th Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL (in the case of shareholdings in certificated form) or to take the necessary action via the CREST system (in the case of shareholdings in uncertificated form).
