Annual General Meeting 2024

Proxy Form - South Africa ("PFSA")

Control Number: 918867

SRN

PIN

PLEASE REFER TO THE NOTES BELOW AND OVERLEAF BEFORE COMPLETING THIS PROXY FORM

I/We, the undersigned, being the registered shareholder(s) in British American Tobacco p.l.c., hereby appoint the Chair of the Meeting, or

*No. of shares (if applicable)

as my/our proxy to exercise all or any of my/our rights to attend, speak and vote in respect of my/our voting entitlement* on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held on Wednesday 24 April 2024 or at any adjournment thereof (the 'Meeting'). I/We wish my/our proxy to vote as indicated on this PFSA. I/We direct further that my/our proxy will vote (or withhold a vote) as he/she thinks fit on any of the resolutions on which I/we do not give a direction and on any other matter which may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

Please tick here if this proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments being made*. For the appointment of more than one proxy, please see note 3 overleaf.

Notes to the PFSA

  1. Please indicate with an 'X' in the appropriate box how your votes should be cast and sign in the space provided.
  2. Please note that a 'Vote withheld' has no legal effect and will count neither for nor against a resolution.
  3. Any alteration or correction to the PFSA must be initialled by the signatory.
  4. In the case of joint holders, any one holder may sign the PFSA.

Ordinary resolutions: numbers 1 to 15

Special resolutions: numbers 16 to 18

Vote

Vote

Resolution

For

Against withheld

Resolution

For

Against withheld

  1. Receipt of the 2023 Annual Report and Accounts
  2. Approval of the 2023 Directors' remuneration report
  3. Reappointment of the Auditors
  4. Authority for the Audit Committee to agree the Auditors' remuneration
  5. Re-electionof Luc Jobin as a Director (N)
  6. Re-electionof Tadeu Marroco as a Director
  7. Re-electionof Kandy Anand as a Director (N, R)
  8. Re-electionof Karen Guerra as a Director (A, N)
  9. Re-electionof Holly Keller Koeppel as a Director (A, N)
  10. Re-electionof Véronique Laury as a Director (A, N)
  1. Re-electionof Darrell Thomas as a Director (A, N)
  2. Election of Murray S. Kessler as a Director (N, R)
  3. Election of Serpil Timuray as a Director (N, R)
  4. Authority to make donations to political organisations and to incur political expenditure
  5. Renewal of the Directors' authority to allot shares
  6. Renewal of the Directors' authority to disapply pre-emption rights
  7. Authority for the Company to purchase its own shares
  8. Notice period for General Meetings

Board Committee memberships: (A) Audit (N) Nominations (R) Remuneration

Signature

Date

Shareholder Reference Number

Initials and

surnames of joint

holders if any

The ordinary shares of British American Tobacco p.l.c. have a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange (Share Code: BATS; ISIN: GB0002875804)

and a secondary listing on the JSE Limited (Share Code: BTI).

Notification of Availability of Shareholder Documents

The British American Tobacco p.l.c. Annual Report and Form 20-F 2023 is available online at www.bat.com/annualreport, together with the Combined Performance and Sustainability Summary 2023.

The British American Tobacco p.l.c. Notice of Annual General Meeting 2024 and its appendices are available online at www.bat.com/AGM. Alternatively, you may request a paper copy from Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited by calling 0861 100 634 or +27 11 870 8216 or emailing web.queries@computershare.co.za. You are advised to read the Notice of Meeting (and appendices) in its entirety.

Please note that this notification is not a full summary of those documents and should not be regarded as a substitute for reading them.

Electronic Communications

If you would prefer to receive an email notification when shareholder communications become available online, you can submit your email address to ecomms@computershare.co.za. By providing your email address you will no longer receive paper copies of shareholder communications that are available electronically. Instead, you will receive an email advising you when and how to access documents online.

Additional notes

Proxy appointment for the Annual General Meeting of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the 'Company') to be held at Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0UG on Wednesday 24 April 2024 at 11.30am (UK time).

Action required

  1. The resolutions proposed by the Board of Directors of the Company to be voted on are set out overleaf.
  2. If you are a certificated holder of ordinary shares whose own name(s) is/are listed in the Company's South Africa branch register and cannot attend the Meeting and wish to appoint some other person(s), who need not be a shareholder of the Company, as your proxy, please complete this Proxy Form - South Africa ('PFSA') by reference to the explanatory notes in the Notice of Meeting and return it to Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited, Rosebank Towers, 15 Biermann Avenue, Rosebank 2196 (Private Bag X9000, Saxonwold, 2132) no later than 12:30pm (South Africa time) on Monday 22 April 2024. You should insert in block letters the name of the person you wish to appoint in the space provided. If the proxy is being appointed in relation to less than your full voting entitlement, please enter in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which they are authorised to act as your proxy. If left blank, your proxy will be deemed to be authorised in respect of your full voting entitlement (or if this PFSA has been issued in respect of a designated account for a shareholder, the full voting entitlement for that designated account). A completed PFSA may also be faxed to Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited on +27 11 688 5238 or emailed to proxy@computershare.co.za. A proxy appointment may be made via the internet at www.eproxyappointment.com. Full details of the procedure are given on that website and your Control Number, Shareholder Reference Number (SRN) and PIN can be found overleaf. To be valid, electronic proxy appointments must be received by 12:30pm (South Africa time) on Monday 22 April 2024.
  3. To appoint more than one proxy, (an) additional PFSA(s) may be obtained by contacting Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited on 0861 100 634 or by fax on +27 11 688 5238 or by email to proxy@computershare.co.za or you may photocopy this PFSA. Please indicate in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which they are entitled to act as your proxy. Please also indicate by ticking the box provided if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. All PFSAs must be signed and should be returned together in the same envelope.
    If no name is entered, the return of the signed PFSA will authorise the Chair of the Meeting to act as your proxy.
  4. If you received more than one communication from us, then you may have more than one shareholding registered in your name. To merge your shareholdings, please contact Computershare using the details on this form, quoting the relevant Shareholder Reference Numbers (SRNs).

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