SENS Submissions Overview

SENS announcements are submitted, via assigned submitters, to the JSE for processing and dissemination to the market.

The objective of this process is to select which submission types the user would like to create. The submission types are:

• SENS - Creating new SENS Announcements

• Announcement Correction - Wrongly published announcements can be replaced with the corrected announcement.

Submitters create submissions on behalf of the companies they work for, or on behalf of other companies. As such, these details are predefined in IRS Issuer Regulation System and the user simply selects the details for the announcement.

When a submitter cannot use the online submission method then alternate submission facilities are available. The alternative is to do a physical submission to the JSE. Physical submissions include delivery to the JSE, or those sent via email.

The submitter may only view the SENS Submission Details submitted for review. Once the JSE has returned the submission to the submitter to be reworked, the submitter may then edit the Submission Details. The submitter can return a work item for rework, submitted by himself, if the submission was not yet touched by any JSE internal staff user.

All submissions have a unique reference number. These numbers are created for easy access, reference purposes, and as the unique identifier of each submission. Once a reference number has been allocated to an announcement, the announcement will retain this number for life, and the number will not be re-allocated to a different submission.

Group Announcements

External Users can make a group announcement by selecting one or more issuers that have no instruments attached.

Regulatory Announcements

Regulatory Announcements can be captured by JSE Internal Users, as well as Regulatory Institutions. Regulatory Announcements are announcements made by regulatory institutions or exchanges. The following table illustrates the various Regulatory announcements: