EXHIBIT 10.1
WMS INDUSTRIES
INC.
NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
(As Amended and Restated
Effective January 1, 2009)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I INTRODUCTION
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1.1.
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Name and Purpose
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1.2.
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Effective Date and Plan Year
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ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS
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2.1.
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“Account”
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2.2.
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“Accounting Date”
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2.3.
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“Base Salary”
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2.4.
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“Beneficiary”
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2.5.
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“Board”
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2.6.
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“Bonus”
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2.7.
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“Cause”
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2.8.
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“Change in Control”
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2.9.
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“Code”
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2.10.
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“Committee”
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2.11.
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“Company”
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2.12.
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“Company Matching
Credits”
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2.13.
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“Company Supplemental
Credits”
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2.14.
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“Compensation”
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2.15.
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“Deferral Credits”
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2.16.
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“Deferral Election”
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2.17.
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“Distribution Date”
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2.18.
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“Earnings”
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2.19.
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“Effective Date”
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2.20.
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“Eligible Employee”
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2.21.
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“Employee”
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2.22.
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“Employer”
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2.23.
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“ERISA”
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2.24.
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“Participant”
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2.25.
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“Participation
Agreement”
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2.26.
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“Plan Year”
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2.27.
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“Qualified Plan”
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2.28.
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“Related Employer”
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2.29.
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“Service Agreement”
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2.30.
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“Trust”
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2.31.
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“Trust Agreement”
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2.32.
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“Trust Fund”
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2.33.
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“Trustee”
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ARTICLE III ELIGIBILITY AND
PARTICIPATION
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3.1.
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Eligibility
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3.2.
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Participation and Cessation of
Participation
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ARTICLE IV DEFERRAL OF
COMPENSATION
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4.1.
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Deferral of Compensation.
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4.2.
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Deferral Elections.
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4.3.
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Additional Limitation on Deferral
Elections.
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ARTICLE V COMPANY CREDITS
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5.1.
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Company Matching Credits.
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5.2.
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Accounting for Company Matching
Credits.
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5.3.
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Company Supplemental Credits.
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5.4.
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Accounting for Company’s Supplemental
Credits.
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ARTICLE VI ACCOUNTS AND VESTING
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6.1.
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Accounts.
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6.2.
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Investment of Accounts.
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6.3.
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Adjustment of Participants’
Account.
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6.4.
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Vesting of Company Matching and Company
Supplemental Credits.
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6.5.
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Contributions to Trust Fund.
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ARTICLE VII TIMING AND FORM OF BENEFIT
PAYMENTS
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7.1.
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Timing of Distribution.
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7.2.
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Timing of Distribution of Company Supplemental
Credits.
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7.3.
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One-time Redeferral Election.
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7.4.
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Form of Distribution.
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7.5.
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Form of Distribution of Company Supplemental
Credits
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7.6.
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Delayed Distribution on Termination of
Employment.
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7.7.
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Beneficiaries.
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7.8.
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Unforeseeable Emergency Withdrawals.
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7.9.
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Prohibition on Acceleration of
Distribution.
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ARTICLE VIII ADMINISTRATION
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8.1.
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Committee.
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8.2.
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Committee’s Rights, Duties and
Powers.
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8.3.
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Interested Committee Member.
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8.4.
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Expenses.
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8.5.
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Claims.
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8.6.
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Reports.
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8.7.
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No Liability.
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ARTICLE IX AMENDMENT AND
TERMINATION
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ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS
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10.1.
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Unfunded Plan.
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10.2.
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Non-Assignability of Benefits.
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10.3.
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Impact on Other Benefits.
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10.4.
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Notices.
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10.5.
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Tax Withholding.
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10.6.
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Successors and Assigns.
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10.7.
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Governing Law.
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ARTICLE I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Name and Purpose
. WMS Industries Inc. (the “Company”) established
the WMS Industries Inc. Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan
(the “Plan”), effective December 1, 2003, for the
benefit of Eligible Employees. The Plan was amended and restated in
its entirety effective as of December 9, 2004, to incorporate
applicable provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 and
to clarify other administrative provisions. The Plan was further
amended and restated effective March 1, 2007. The Plan is
hereby further amended and restated effective January 1, 2009,
as set forth herein, to reflect the requirements of Code
Section 409A and the final regulations issued thereunder, and
to make certain changes in the design of the Plan.
The purpose of the Plan is to
provide Eligible Employees with the opportunity to defer
compensation on a pre-tax basis and to receive Company Matching
Credits. The Plan is intended to be a deferred compensation plan
for a select group of management and highly compensated employees,
as described in Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of ERISA.
The Company intends that the Plan (and any grantor trust described
in Article VI) shall be treated as unfunded for tax purposes and
for purposes of Title I of ERISA. An Employer’s obligations
hereunder, if any, to a Participant (or to a Participant’s
Beneficiary) shall be unsecured and shall be a mere promise by the
Company to make payments hereunder in the future. A Participant (or
the Participant’s Beneficiary) shall be treated as a general,
unsecured creditor of the Company. The Plan is not intended to be
qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code.
1.2. Effective Date and Plan
Year . The Effective Date of the amended and restated Plan
is January 1, 2009. The Plan will be administered on the basis
of a Plan Year, which is the calendar year.
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ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
2.1. “ Account
” means the recordkeeping account maintained by the
Committee to record a Participant’s accrued benefit under the
Plan.
2.2. “ Accounting
Date ” means each date that the New York Stock
Exchange is open for business.
2.3. “ Base Salary
” means the base salary payable to a Participant during a
calendar year.
2.4. “ Beneficiary
” means any person or entity, or any combination thereof,
who is named by the Participant in a Participation Agreement as his
or her beneficiary to receive benefits under this Plan in the event
of the Participant’s death, or in the absence of any such
designation, the Participant’s estate. A Participant may
amend his or her Participation Agreement to name a new Beneficiary
at any time.
2.5. “ Board
” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
2.6. “ Bonus
” means any cash compensation, other than Base Salary,
relating to services performed in a calendar year, whether or not
paid in such calendar year or included in the Participant’s
Federal Income Tax Form W-2 for such calendar year, payable to a
Participant under any Employer’s bonus or cash incentive
plan.
2.7. “ Cause
” means (i) conviction of the Participant (pursuant
to a final or non-appealable judgment) of a felony or any other
crime involving fraud, larceny or dishonesty; (ii) failure or
refusal to follow a reasonably direction of the Board of Directors
or other individuals to whom the Participant reports after notice
in writing of such failure to refusal and a cure period of ten days
thereafter; (iii) commission of any dishonest, willful or
grossly negligent act which has or is reasonably likely to have a
material adverse effect on the Employer or its customers or trade
relationships; (iv) failure or refusal to comply with the
Employer’s Code of Conduct or other policies of the Employer;
or (v) failure or refusal to provide accurate and reasonably
complete information with respect to participant’s personal
history to the Employer or to governmental agencies regulating the
business of the Participant, failure or refusal to reasonably
cooperate with such regulators or failure to obtain necessary
regulatory licensing approvals or clearances because of
intentionally inaccurate, intentionally incomplete or falsified
information provided by Participant.
2.8. “ Change in
Control ” means that any of the following have
occurred:
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a complete
dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or similar
occurrence;
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the
consummation of a merger, consolidation, acquisition, separation,
reorganization, or similar occurrence, where WMS Industries Inc. is
not the surviving entity;
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(iii)
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a transfer of
substantially all of the assets of the Company or more than 80% of
the outstanding common stock of WMS Industries Inc. in a single
transaction; or
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(iv)
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the individuals
who constitute the Board as of the effective date (as such term is
defined in the WMS Industries Inc. 2005 Incentive Plan) or who have
been recommended for election to the Board by two-thirds of the
Board consisting of individuals who are either on the Board as of
the effective date (as such term is defined in the WMS Industries
Inc. 2005 Incentive Plan) or such successors, cease for any reason
to constitute at least a majority of such Board.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing
definition of “Change in Control,” a Change in Control
shall be deemed to have occurred only if the event giving rise to
the Change in Control constitutes a “Change in Control
Event” within the meaning of final regulations issued by the
Department of the Treasury under Code Section 409A.
2.9. “ Code
” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
and the regulations issued thereunder.
2.10. “ Committee
” means the Plan Administration Committee.
2.11. “ Company
” means WMS Industries Inc., a Delaware corporation, and
its successors.
2.12. “ Company Matching
Credits ” means the matching credits credited to a
Participant’s Account pursuant to
Section 5.1.
2.13. “ Company
Supplemental Credits ” means the amounts credited to
a Participant’s Account pursuant to
Section 5.2.
2.14. “ Compensation
” shall mean a Participant’s Base Salary and
Bonus.
2.15. “ Deferral
Credits ” means the portion of an Eligible
Employee’s Base Salary and/or Bonus, if any, that he or she
elects to defer under Article IV.
2.16. “ Deferral
Election ” means an election by an Eligible Employee
to defer Bonus Salary and/or Bonus in accordance with the
provisions of Article IV.
2.17. “ Distribution
Date ” means the date elected by a Participant for
distribution of his or her Account (other than the portion
attributable to Company Supplemental Credits) pursuant to
Section 4.1.
2.18. “ Earnings
” means the amount of earnings or losses credited or
debited to each Participant’s Account pursuant to
Section 6.2 of the Plan.
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2.19. “ Effective
Date ” means January 1, 2009.
2.20. “ Eligible
Employee ” means an Employee who has been selected to
participate in the Plan in accordance with
Section 3.1.
2.21. “ Employee
” means a management or highly compensated employee of an
Employer who is scheduled to receive Compensation of at least
$200,000 during a Plan Year (assuming targeted bonuses are
earned).
2.22. “ Employer
” means the Company and any subsidiary or affiliate of
the Company that, with the consent of the Company, adopts the Plan
for the benefit of its Eligible Employees.
2.23. “ ERISA
” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended, and the regulations issued thereunder.
2.24. “ Participant
” means an Eligible Employee who has executed a
Participation Agreement.
2.25. “ Participation
Agreement ” means the agreement executed by an
Eligible Employee that includes provisions for the Eligible
Employee’s Deferral Election, the Eligible Employee’s
Beneficiary designation, and the Eligible Employee’s
investment designation.
2.26. “ Plan Year
” means the calendar year.
2.27. “ Qualified
Plan ” means the WMS Industries Inc. 401(k)
Retirement Savings Plan for Non-Union Employees, or its
successor.
2.28. “ Related
Employer ” means any employer other than the Employer
named in Section 102(a), if the Employer and such other
employer are members of a controlled group of corporations (as
defined in Section 414(b) of the Code) or an affiliated
service group (as defined in Section 414(m)), or are trades or
businesses (whether or not incorporated which are under common
control (as defined in Section 414(c)), or such other employer
is required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to
regulations issued under Section 414(o).
2.29. “ Service
Agreement ” means the agreement between the Employer
and Trustee regarding the arrangement between the parties for
recordkeeping services with respect to the Plan.
2.30. “ Trust
” means the trust created by the Company.
2.31. “ Trust
Agreement ” means the agreement between the Company
and the Trustee, as set forth in a separate agreement, under which
assets are held, administered, and managed subject to the claims of
the Company’s general creditors in the event of the
Company’s insolvency, until paid to Plan Participants and
their Beneficiaries as specified in the Plan.
2.32. “ Trust
Fund ” means the property held in the Trust by the
Trustee.
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2.33. “ Trustee
” means the corporation or individual(s) appointed by the
Company to administer the Trust in accordance with the Trust
Agreement.
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ARTICLE III
ELIGIBILITY AND
PARTICIPATION
3.1. Eligibility .
Members of the Company’s Executive Committee are
automatically eligible to participate in the Plan. In addition,
before the beginning of each Plan Year, the Committee may designate
other Employees as eligible to participate in the Plan during such
Plan Year. An Eligible Employee’s eligibility to make a
Deferral Election in any given Plan Year does not guarantee that
individual the right to make a Deferral Election in any subsequent
Plan Year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, only Employees who are
specifically designated by the Committee as eligible to receive
Company Supplemental Credits shall be entitled to have such Company
Supplemental Credits allocated to their Accounts.
3.2. Participation and
Cessation of Participation . An Eligible Employee for any
Plan Year may make a Deferral Election on a timely basis as
described in Section 4.1, and if the Eligible Employee makes
such a Deferral Election, he or she shall become a Participant and
shall remain a Participant until he or she has received a
distribution of his or her entire Account. A Participant in the
Plan who separates from service with the Company and all of its
subsidiaries and affiliates for any reason will cease to be
eligible to make Deferral Credits under this Plan and will become
entitled to distributions in accordance with Article
VII.
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ARTICLE IV
DEFERRAL OF
COMPENSATION
4.1. Deferral of
Compensation . An Eligible Employee may elect to defer not
less than 2% and not more than 50% of his or her Base Salary for a
Plan Year, and not less than 2% and not more than 100% of his or
her Bonus, by filing a Deferral Election in accordance with
Section 4.2. Deductions will be made pursuant to such Deferral
Election during any Plan Year following the first to occur of the
following events: (1) such Eligible Employee’s annual
additions (as defined in Code Section 415) under the Qualified
Plan reaching the Code Section 415 contribution limit, or
(2) such Eligible Employee’s Compensation exceeding
$245,000 (or such other limit as may be in effect for such Plan
Year under Code Section 401(a)(17)).
Each Deferral Election made by an
Eligible Employee shall include an election of the date on which
the amount of such deferral (together with Earnings thereon) will
be distributed. Such date shall be no earlier than January 15
of the third Plan Year following the Plan Year to which the
election to defer relates.
4.2. Deferral Elections
. A Participant’s Deferral Election shall be in writing
or electronic, and shall be filed with the Committee at such time
and in such manner as the Committee shall provide, subject to the
following:
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(a)
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Subject to
paragraph (b) below, a Deferral Election
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