THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800NE2NCQ67M2M998

15 December 2017

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc ('the Company')

Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation

The Company announces that it is satisfied that all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have, in the period leading up to the announcement of the results in respect of the half-year ended 30 November 2017, has previously been published or notified via a regulatory information service. Therefore the Company is not prohibited from dealing in its own securities.

If, in the period leading up to the announcement of the half-year results, the Directors of the Company come into possession of any inside information, this will be notified to an RIS before any such transactions are undertaken. 

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