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FURTHER RESOLVED, that this authority may not be amended, waived or extended other than by written resolution of the Board.\n```\n\n## The artifact was hashed before the panel ran\n\nSHA-256 `8c6892584892fb54c38787d48bb40444bd97a52f51915b0fd3840f1ee324b099`.\n\n```\n{\n \"record_id\": \"SYN-2026-0728-BR2026-04\",\n \"record_type\": \"synthetic_demonstration_record\",\n \"not_a_real_company\": true,\n \"not_a_real_person\": true,\n \"governing_instrument_verbatim\": \"RESOLVED, that the Chief Executive Officer is authorised to acquire, in open-market transactions during the period 1 May 2026 through 31 July 2026 inclusive, up to two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) shares of the Company's common stock, PROVIDED THAT (a) no acquisition shall occur during a closed trading window as determined under the Company's Insider Trading Policy; (b) each acquisition shall be pre-cleared in writing by the General Counsel prior to entry; and (c) the Chief Financial Officer and the Chair of the Audit Committee shall be notified in writing within one (1) business day of any acquisition which, alone or together with prior acquisitions during the period, causes the aggregate acquired to exceed two hundred thousand (200,000) shares. 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