9.03
An issuer shall endeavour to avoid any trading halt or suspension of dealings in its securities.
Notes:
1 Recourse to a trading halt or suspension should only be made where necessary in the interests of all parties.
2 In many cases the appropriate course of action, which the Exchange expects all issuers to follow so far as reasonably practicable, will be for the issuer to publish an announcement to avoid the need for a trading halt or suspension.
3 Where a detailed announcement may take time to prepare, the issuer should, subject to rules 19.37 and 20.33 concerning announcements of Notifiable and connected transactions, consider making a short announcement to disclose information which is or may be inside information (and for the purpose of avoiding a suspension). This could be followed, at the soonest practicable opportunity thereafter, with a detailed announcement giving all information required by the GEM Listing Rules.