PREMIER LEAGUE

PREMIER LEAGUE RULES: SECTION A
SECTION A: DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
A.1.30. “Club Shirt Sponsor Contract” means any contract between any Club and any
Person (not being the manufacturer, producer or distributor of that Club’s Strip)
providing for the exhibition upon that Club’s Strip of the agreed prime brand of
that Person in accordance with Rule M.28;
A.1.31. “Commercial Contract” means any contract entered into by the League relating
to sponsorship or like transactions or other matters materially affecting the
commercial interests of Clubs other than an Overseas Broadcasting Contract, a
UK Broadcasting Contract, a Radio Contract or a Title Sponsorship Contract;
A.1.32. “Commercial Contract Money” means money received by the League under
any Commercial Contract;
A.1.33. “Commission” means a commission appointed by the Board under the provisions
of Rule W.21;
A.1.34. “the Company Secretary” means the person whose particulars are registered
or registrable as the secretary of the League pursuant tp Section 276 of the Act,
and shall include any joint, assistant or deputy secretary;
A.1.35. “Compensation Fee” means any sum of money or other consideration (exclusive
of Value Added Tax) payable by a Transferee Club to a Transferor Club upon the
permanent transfer of the registration of a Contract Player or in respect of an
Out of Contract Player;
A.1.36. “Compensation Fee Account” means the account bearing that name at Barclays
Bank Plc into which Compensation Fees, Loan Fees (including in both cases
instalments thereof) and Contingent Sums are payable as set out in Rule V.29;
A.1.37. “Concert Party” means any person with which any relevant person is acting in
concert within the meaning of paragraphs (2) to (5) (inclusive) of the definition of
“acting in concert” in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, or would be so acting
in concert if the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers applied in the relevant case;
A.1.38. “Conditional Contract” means a playing contract between a Club and a Player
which is determinable by the Player at any time;
A.1.39. “Connected Person” means any Person who directly or indirectly possesses or is
entitled to acquire more than 30 per cent of:
(a) the issued ordinary share capital of the company; or
(b) the loan capital (save where loan capital was acquired in the ordinary course
of the business of lending money) and issued share capital of the company; or
(c) the assets of the company which would be available for distribution to equity
holders in the event of winding up of the company;
A.1.40. “Contingent Sum” means any sum of money (exclusive of Value Added Tax)
additional to a Compensation Fee payable upon the happening of a contingent
event by a Transferee Club to a Transferor Club consequent upon the transfer of
the registration of a player;
A.1.41. “Contract Player” means any player (other than an Academy Player) who has
entered into a written contract of employment with a Club;
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