Exhibit 4.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT
TOYOTA MOTOR FINANCE
(NETHERLANDS) B.V.
TOYOTA CREDIT CANADA
INC.
TOYOTA FINANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED
(ABN 48 002 435 181)
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT
CORPORATION
as Issuers
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON
as Agent
in respect of a
€40,000,000,000
EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE
PROGRAMME
Dated 26 September
2008
CONTENTS
CLAUSE
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1.
Definitions And Interpretations
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2
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2.
Appointment of agent and Paying Agents
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9
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3.
Issue of Temporary Global Notes
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11
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4.
Issue of Permanent Global Notes
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12
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5.
Issue of Definitive bearer Notes
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13
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6.
Exchanges
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14
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7.
Terms of Issue
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15
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8.
Payments
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16
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9.
Determinations and Notifications in Respect of Notes
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19
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10. Notice
of Any Withholding or Deduction
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20
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11. Duties
of the Agent in Connection with Early Redemption
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20
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12. Publication
of Notices
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21
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13. Cancellation,
Resale and Reissuance of Notes, Receipts, Coupons and
Talons
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21
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14. Issue
of Replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons
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23
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15. Copies
of this Agreement and Each Final Terms Available for
Inspection
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24
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16. Commissions
and Expenses
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25
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17. Indemnity
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25
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18. Repayment
by the Agent
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25
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19. Conditions
of Appointment
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26
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20. Communication
Between the Parties
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27
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21. Changes
in Agent and Paying Agents
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27
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22. Merger
and Consolidation
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29
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23. Notifications
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30
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24. Change
of Specified Office
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30
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25. Notices
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30
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26. Taxes
and Stamp Duties
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31
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27. Currency
Indemnity
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31
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28. Amendments: Meetings
of Holders
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31
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29. Calculation
Agency Agreement
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34
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30. Redenomination
and Exchange
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34
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31. Deed
Poll
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37
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32. Descriptive
Headings
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38
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33. CONTRACTS
(RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) ACT 1999
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38
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34. Governing
Law
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38
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35. Counterparts
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Appendix A
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
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43
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Appendix B
FORMS OF GLOBAL AND DEFINITIVE NOTES,COUPONS, RECEIPTS AND
TALONS
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78
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APPENDIX
B-1 FORM OF TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE
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79
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SCHEDULE
ONE PART I INTEREST PAYMENTS
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86
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SCHEDULE
ONE PART II INSTALMENT PAYMENTS
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87
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SCHEDULE
TWO SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES FOR NOTES REPRESENTED BY A
PERMANENT
GLOBAL NOTE
OR DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTES OR REDEMPTIONS OR PURCHASES
AND
CANCELLATIONS
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APPENDIX
B-2 FORM OF PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE
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SCHEDULE
ONE PART I INTEREST PAYMENTS
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SCHEDULE
ONE PART II INSTALMENT PAYMENTS
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SCHEDULE
TWO SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF ATEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE AND
FOR
DEFINITIVE
BEARER NOTES OR REDEMPTIONS OR PURCHASES AND
CANCELLATIONS
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APPENDIX
B-3 FORM OF DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTE
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99
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APPENDIX
B-4 FORM OF COUPON
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102
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APPENDIX
B-5 FORM OF RECEIPT
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104
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APPENDIX
B-6 FORM OF TALON
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107
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Appendix C
FORM OF CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT
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109
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Appendix D
FORM OF OPERATING and ADMINISTRATIVEPROCEDURES
MEMORANDUM
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118
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ANNEX A TO
APPENDIX D SETTLEMENT PROCEDURES
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121
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ANNEX B TO
APPENDIX D FORM OF FINAL TERMS
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126
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ANNEX C TO
APPENDIX D FORM OF PURCHASER’SCONFIRMATION TO THE
ISSUER
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165
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ANNEX D TO
APPENDIX D FORM OF THE ISSUER’SCONFIRMATION TO
AGENT AND
PURCHASERS
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167
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ANNEX E TO
APPENDIX D TRADING DESK INFORMATION
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168
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Appendix E
FORM OF THE NOTES
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170
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Appendix F
Additional Duties of the Agent
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174
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Appendix G
FORM OF DEED POLL (sUBSTITUTION OF ISSUER)
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AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY
AGREEMENT
in respect of a
€40,000,000,000
EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE
PROGRAMME
THIS AMENDED
AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT is made on 26 September 2008
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TOYOTA MOTOR
FINANCE (NETHERLANDS) B.V. of Atrium, Strawinskylaan 3105, 1077 ZX
Amsterdam, the Netherlands ( TMF );
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TOYOTA
CREDIT CANADA INC. of 80
Micro Court, Suite 200, Markham, Ontario L3R 9Z5, Canada (
TCCI );
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TOYOTA
FINANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED (ABN 48 002 435 181) of Level 9, 207 Pacific
Highway, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia ( TFA
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TOYOTA MOTOR
CREDIT CORPORATION of
19001 South Western Avenue, EF12, Torrance, California 90501,
U.S.A. ( TMCC ); and
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THE BANK OF
NEW YORK MELLON of One
Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AL (the Agent ,
which expression shall include any successor agent appointed in
accordance with Clause 21, and the Paying Agent , which
expression shall include any additional or successor paying agent
appointed in accordance with Clause 21, and Paying Agent
shall mean any of the Agent or the Paying Agents so
appointed).
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WHEREAS :
(A) The
Issuers (as defined below) determined that a programme agreement
dated 30 September 1992 as amended and supplemented or restated by
the First Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 31 January 1994,
the Second Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 16 May 1996, the
Third Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 29 May 1998, the
Fourth Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 7 July 1999, the
Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 31 August 2000, the
Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 31 August 2001, the
Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 27 September 2002,
the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 26 September
2003, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 24
September 2004, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated
30 September 2005 and the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement
dated 28 September 2006, entered into with the Dealers named
therein pursuant to which any of TMF, TCCI or TFA may issue Euro
Medium Term Notes in an aggregate nominal amount of up to
€12,000,000,000, be amended and restated on 28 September 2007
by the Issuers and each of Merrill Lynch International, Barclays
Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, London
Branch, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Credit Suisse Securities
(Europe) Limited, Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited, Deutsche
Bank AG, London branch, Dresdner Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Goldman
Sachs International, HSBC Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd.,
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc, Mizuho International
plc, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Nomura
International plc, Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited, The
Toronto-Dominion Bank and UBS Limited (together, the
Programme
Dealers ) and that such
amendments include an increase in the aggregate nominal amount of
Euro Medium Term Notes that may be outstanding at any time under
the Programme (as defined below) (including Euro Medium Term Notes
issued previously under the Programme and Euro Medium Term Notes
issued prior to 28 September 2007 by TMCC under its
U.S.$30,000,000,000 Euro Medium-Term Note Program last updated on
28 September 2006 which remain outstanding) from
€12,000,000,000 to €40,000,000,000 (or its equivalent
in other currencies).
(B) The
Issuers have entered into an amended and restated programme
agreement dated 26 September 2008 with the Programme
Dealers.
(C) The
Issuers and the agents named therein entered into an agency
agreement dated 28 September 2007 (the Agency Agreement
). The parties hereto agree to make certain
modifications to the Agency Agreement. This Agreement
amends and restates the Agency Agreement.
1. DEFINITIONS
AND INTERPRETATIONS
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The following
expressions shall have the following meanings:
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Agreement
Date means, with respect
to any Note, the date on which agreement is reached for the issue
of such Note as contemplated in Clause 2 of the Programme
Agreement, which in the case of Notes issued on a syndicated basis
shall be the date the applicable Syndicate Purchase Agreement is
signed by all parties;
Arranger means Merrill Lynch International, or any other
company appointed to the position of arranger for the Programme;
and references in this Agreement to the Arranger shall be
references to all of them;
Bearer
Note means those of the
Notes in bearer form;
Canadian
Paying Agent means in
relation to any Series of Registered Notes, Royal Bank of Canada,
London branch as Canadian Paying Agent under the Note Agency
Agreement and any successor Canadian paying agent appointed by TCCI
in accordance with such Note Agency Agreement;
CGN means a Temporary Global Note being in the form
or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-1 hereto or a
Permanent Global Note being in the form or substantially in the
form set out in Appendix B-2 hereto and in either case in respect
of which the applicable Final Terms indicate it is not a New Global
Note;
Clearing
System means Clearstream,
Luxembourg and/or Euroclear and/or any other additional system or
systems as is specified in the applicable Final Terms;
Clearstream,
Luxembourg means
Clearstream Banking, société anonyme;
Conditions means, in respect of any Series of Notes, the
terms and conditions of the Notes of such Series, such terms and
conditions being in the form or substantially in the form set out
in Appendix A hereto or in such other form, having regard to the
terms of the relevant Series, as may be agreed between the relevant
Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser or Purchasers as from
time to time, as amended or supplemented by the applicable Final
Terms;
Coupon has the meaning ascribed thereto in the
Conditions;
Dealer means each of the Programme Dealers and any
other entities appointed as dealers from time to time pursuant to
the Programme Agreement;
Definitive
Bearer Note means a
Bearer Note in definitive form being in the form or substantially
in the form set out in Appendix B-3 hereto (or in such other form
as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the
relevant Purchaser or Purchasers) issued or to be issued by the
relevant Issuer pursuant to this Agreement in exchange for the
whole or (subject to the terms of the relevant Temporary Global
Note and/or Permanent Global Note) part of a Temporary Global
and/or Permanent Global Note;
Definitive
Note means a Definitive
Bearer Note and/or a Definitive Registered Note, as the context may
require;
Definitive
Registered Note means a
Registered Note in definitive form issued or, as the case may
require, to be issued by TCCI pursuant to the Note Agency Agreement
in exchange for a Registered Global Note, such Note being in the
form or substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 to the Note
Agency Agreement (or in such other form as may be agreed between
TCCI, the Registrar and the relevant Purchaser(s);
Dual
Currency Notes means
Notes in respect of which principal and/or interest is payable in
one or more Specified Currencies other than the Specified Currency
in which they are denominated;
Established
Rate means the rate for
the conversion of the Specified Currency (including compliance with
rules relating to roundings in accordance with applicable European
Community regulations) into euro established by the Council of the
European Union pursuant to Article 109 l (4) of the
Treaty;
EUR ,
Euro , euro and € mean the lawful
currency of the Member States of the European Union that adopt the
single currency in accordance with the Treaty;
Euroclear means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.;
European
Economic Area means the
European Economic Area consisting of the Member States of the
European Union and Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein;
Eurosystem-eligible New Global Note
means a New Global Note which is
intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem
eligibility, as stated in the applicable Final Terms;
Final
Terms means the final
terms issued in relation to each Tranche of Notes (substantially in
the form of either Part A or Part B of Annex B to the Procedures
Memorandum) as a supplement to the Prospectus and giving details of
that Tranche and, in relation to any particular Tranche of Notes,
applicable Final Terms means the Final Terms applicable to
that Tranche;
FSMA means the Financial Services and Markets Act
2000, as amended;
Global
Note means a Temporary
Global Note, a Permanent Global Note or a Registered Global Note
(or such other form of global note as may be agreed between the
relevant Issuer, the Agent (in the case of Bearer Notes), the
Registrar (in the case
of Registered
Notes) and the relevant Purchaser(s) as indicated in the applicable
Final Terms) representing a certain number of underlying Notes (the
Underlying Notes) ;
ISDA
Definitions means the
2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association, Inc., as amended, supplemented or updated
from time to time;
Issue
Date means, in respect of
any Note, the date of issue and purchase of such Note pursuant to
Clause 2 of the Programme Agreement, being in the case of any Note
in the form of a Permanent Global Note or a Definitive Note, the
same date as the date of issue of the Temporary Global Note which
initially represented such Note;
Issuer means each of TMF, TCCI, TFA and TMCC in its
capacity as issuer of Notes; and references in this Agreement to
the relevant Issuer shall, in relation to any issue of
Notes, be references to whichever of TMF, TCCI, TFA or TMCC is the
issuer of such Notes; and references to the Issuers shall be
to all of TMF, TCCI, TFA and TMCC;
Listing
Agent means, in relation
to any Notes which are, or are to be, listed on a Stock Exchange
other than the London Stock Exchange, such listing agent as the
relevant Issuer may from time to time appoint for purposes of
liaising with such Stock Exchange or other relevant
authority;
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in the case of
Notes which are, or are to be, admitted to the Official List, the
listing rules made under section 73A of the FSMA; and
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in the case of
Notes which are, or are to be, listed on a Stock Exchange other
than the London Stock Exchange, the listing rules and regulations
for the time being in force for such Stock Exchange;
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London Stock
Exchange means the London
Stock Exchange plc or such other body to which its functions have
been transferred;
Member
State means a member
state of the European Union;
New Global
Note means a Temporary
Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out
in Appendix B-1 hereto or a Permanent Global Note being in the form
or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-2 hereto and in
either case in respect of which the applicable Final Terms indicate
it is a New Global Note;
Note means a note issued or to be issued by the
relevant Issuer pursuant to the Programme Agreement, other than a
Note which will form a single Series with any Notes issued by any
Issuer prior to the date of this Agreement, which Note may be
represented by a Global Note or a Definitive Note;
Note Agency
Agreement means the
Amended and Restated Note Agency Agreement of even date herewith
between TCCI, Royal Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Canada, London
branch relating to Registered Notes;
Noteholders means the several persons who are for the time
being holders of outstanding Notes (being in the case of Bearer
Notes, the bearers thereof and, in the case of Registered Notes,
the several persons whose names are entered in the
register
of holders of
such Notes as the holders thereof) save that, in respect of Notes
of any Series, for so long as such Notes or any part thereof are
represented by a Global Note, each person who is for the time being
shown in the records of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or such
other applicable clearing agency as the holder of a particular
nominal amount of such Notes (other than a clearing agency
(including Clearstream, Luxembourg and Euroclear) that is itself an
account holder of Clearstream, Luxembourg, Euroclear or any other
applicable clearing agency for a Series of Notes) (in which regard
any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear, Clearstream,
Luxembourg or such other applicable clearing agency as to the
nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person
shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case
of manifest error) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the
Agent and any other Paying Agent or (in the case of Registered
Notes) by the Registrar and the Canadian Paying Agent as a holder
of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than
for the payment of principal (including premium (if any)) or
interest on such Notes, the right to which shall be vested, as
against the relevant Issuer, the Agent and any other Paying Agent
or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Canadian
Paying Agent, in the case of Bearer Notes, solely in the bearer of
the Global Note and, in the case of Registered Notes, solely in the
person whose name is entered in the register of holders of such
Notes as the holder of the Global Note in accordance with and
subject to its terms (and the expressions Noteholder ,
holder of Notes and related expressions shall be construed
accordingly);
Official
List has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 103 of the FSMA;
outstanding means, in relation to the Notes of all or any
Series, all the Notes (or all the Notes of that or those Series)
issued other than (a) those which have been redeemed in full in
accordance with this Agreement or the Note Agency Agreement or the
Conditions, (b) those in respect of which the date for redemption
(whether in respect of the whole principal amount or the final
instalment (when redeemable in instalments)) in accordance with the
Conditions has occurred and the redemption moneys therefor
(including all interest (if any) accrued thereon to the date for
such redemption and any interest (if any) payable under the
Conditions after such date) have been duly paid to the Agent as
provided herein or (in the case of Registered Notes) to the
Registrar or the Canadian Paying Agent (and, where appropriate,
notice has been given to the Noteholders in accordance with
Condition 16) and remain available for payment against presentation
of Notes, (c) those Notes which have become void under Condition 8,
(d) those Notes which have been purchased or otherwise acquired and
cancelled as provided in Condition 6 and those which have been
purchased or otherwise acquired and are being held by the relevant
Issuer for subsequent resale or reissuance as provided in Condition
6 during the time so held, (e) those mutilated or defaced Notes
which have been surrendered in exchange for replacement Notes
pursuant to Condition 10, (f) (for the purposes only of determining
how many Notes are outstanding and without prejudice to their
status for any other purpose) those Notes alleged to have been
lost, stolen or destroyed and in respect of which replacement Notes
have been issued pursuant to Condition 10 and (g) Temporary Global
Notes to the extent that they shall have been duly exchanged in
whole for Permanent Global Notes or Definitive Notes and Permanent
Global Notes or Registered Global Notes to the extent that they
shall have been duly exchanged in whole for Definitive Notes, in
each case pursuant to their respective provisions;
Permanent
Global Note means a
permanent global note in the form or substantially in the form set
out in Appendix B-2 hereto (or in such other form as may be
agreed
between the
relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser(s))
comprising some or all of the Notes of the same Series, issued or
to be issued by the relevant Issuer either in exchange for the
whole or part of a Temporary Global Note issued in respect of the
Notes of the same Tranche or initially representing the
Notes;
Procedures
Memorandum means the
non-binding Operating and Administrative Procedures Memorandum set
out in Appendix D hereto as amended or varied from time to time, in
respect of any Tranche, by agreement between the relevant Issuer
and the Purchaser of such Tranche with the approval in writing of
the Agent.
Programme means the Euro Medium Term Note Programme
provided for by the Programme Agreement;
Programme
Agreement means the
Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 26 September 2008
between the Issuers and the Programme Dealers concerning the
purchase of Notes to be issued by any Issuer;
Prospectus means the Prospectus relating to the Programme
as revised, supplemented, amended or updated from time to time in
accordance with Clause 5.2 of the Programme Agreement, including
any documents which are from time to time incorporated therein by
reference but excluding all information incorporated by reference
in any such documents and excluding any information or statement
otherwise included in any such documents which is or might be
considered to be forward looking and excluding any excluded
information as may be defined in the Prospectus, including, in
relation to each Tranche of Notes, the applicable Final Terms
relating to such Tranche;
Prospectus
Directive means Directive
2003/71/EC;
Prospectus
Rules means in the case
of Notes which are, or are to be, listed on the London Stock
Exchange, the prospectus rules made under the FSMA;
Purchaser means any Dealer or any third party other than a
dealer (as defined in Section 2(12) of the Securities Act), who
agrees to purchase Notes pursuant to the Programme Agreement and
references to a relevant Purchaser shall, in relation to any Note,
be references to the Purchaser with whom the relevant Issuer has
agreed the issue and purchase of such Note;
Receipt has the meaning ascribed thereto in the
Conditions;
Redenomination Date means in the case of interest bearing Notes, any
date for payment of interest under the Notes or in the case of Zero
Coupon Notes, any date, in each case specified by the relevant
Issuer in the notice given to Noteholders pursuant to Clause 30 and
which falls on or after the start of the third stage of European
economic and monetary union pursuant to the Treaty, or if the
country of the Specified Currency is not one of the countries then
participating in such third stage, which falls on or after such
later date as it does so participate and which falls before the
date on which the Specified Currency ceases to be a sub-division of
the euro;
Registered
Global Note means a
Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out
in Schedule 1 to the Note Agency Agreement (or in such other form
as may be agreed between TCCI, the Registrar and the relevant
Purchaser(s));
Registered
Note means a Note in
registered form issued or to be issued by TCCI;
Registrar means, in relation to any Series of Registered
Notes, Royal Bank of Canada as Registrar under the Note Agency
Agreement and any successor registrar appointed by TCCI in
accordance with such Note Agency Agreement;
Relevant
Account Holder means any
account holder with the Relevant Clearing System which has
Underlying Notes (as defined in the definition of “Global
Note”) credited to its securities account from time to
time;
Relevant
Clearing System means one
or more Clearing Systems;
Relevant
Time means the time at
which a Global Note becomes void in the circumstances which are
specified in that Global Note;
Securities
Act means the Securities
Act of 1933 of the United States, as amended;
Series means each original issue of Notes together with
any further issues expressed to form a single series with the
original issue and the terms of which (save for the Issue Date, the
amount and date of the first payment of interest thereon and/or the
Issue Price (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms)) are
identical (including Maturity Date, Interest Basis,
Redemption/Payment Basis and Interest Payment Dates (if any) (as
indicated in the applicable Final Terms) and whether or not the
Notes are admitted to trading); and the expressions Notes of the
relevant Series and related expressions shall be construed
accordingly;
Specified
Currency means the
currency (which expression shall include euro and other currency
units) in which Notes are denominated and, in the case of Dual
Currency Notes, the currency or currencies in which payment in
respect of the Notes is to be made;
Stock
Exchange means the London
Stock Exchange or any other or further stock
exchange(s) on which any Notes may from time to time be listed or
admitted to trading, as the case may be; and references in this
Agreement to the relevant Stock Exchange shall, in relation
to any Notes, be references to the Stock Exchange on which such
Notes are from time to time, or are intended to be, listed or
admitted to trading;
Talon has the meaning ascribed thereto in the
Conditions;
TARGET2
system means the
Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer (TARGET2) system or any successor thereto;
Temporary
Global Note means a
temporary global note being in the form or substantially in the
form set out in Appendix B-1 hereto (or in such other form as may
be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant
Purchaser(s)) comprising some or all of the Notes of the same
Series issued or to be issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to
the Programme Agreement or any other agreement between the relevant
Issuer and the relevant Purchaser(s);
Tranche means all Notes of the same Series with the same
Issue Date;
Treaty means the Treaty establishing the European
Community, as amended;
UK Listing
Authority means the name
by which the Financial Services Authority is known being the body
appointed under FSMA as “competent authority” to decide
on the admission of securities to the Official List; and
U.S.$ and U.S. dollar mean the lawful currency
for the time being of the United States.
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Terms and
expressions (including the definitions of currencies or composite
currencies) defined in the Conditions or Appendices hereto or used
in the applicable Final Terms shall have the same meanings in this
Agreement, except where the context requires otherwise.
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All references
in this Agreement to the provisions of any statute shall be deemed
to be references to that statute as from time to time modified,
extended, amended or re-enacted.
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Any references
to Notes shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include any
Temporary Global Notes, Permanent Global Notes, Registered Global
Notes and Definitive Notes.
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All references
in this Agreement to an agreement, instrument or other document
(including this Agreement, the Programme Agreement, the Note Agency
Agreement, any Series of Notes and any Conditions appertaining
thereto) shall be construed as a reference to that agreement,
instrument or document as may be amended, modified, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time.
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Words denoting
the singular number only shall include the plural number also and
vice versa ; words denoting the masculine gender only shall
include the feminine gender also; and words denoting persons only
shall include firms and corporations and vice versa
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Any references
herein to Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg shall, whenever
the context so permits, be deemed to include a reference to any
additional or alternative clearance system approved by the relevant
Issuer, the relevant Purchaser(s) and either (in respect of Bearer
Notes) the Agent or (in respect of Registered Notes) the
Registrar.
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All references
in this Agreement to a Directive include any relevant implementing
measure of each Member State which has implemented such
Directive.
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As used herein,
in relation to any Notes which are to have a “listing”
or be “listed” (i) on the London Stock Exchange,
listing or listed shall be construed to mean that
such Notes have been admitted to the Official List in accordance
with the listing rules of the UK Listing Authority and admitted to
trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market and
(ii) on any other Stock Exchange in a jurisdiction within the
European Economic Area, listing and listed shall be
construed to mean that the Notes have been admitted to trading on a
market within that jurisdiction which is a regulated market for the
purposes of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
(Directive 2004/39/EC).
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Unless the
contrary indication appears, a reference to the records of
Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg shall be to the records that
each of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg holds for its
customers which reflect the amount of such customer’s
interests in the Notes.
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In this
Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a
document is a reference to that document as amended from time to
time.
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For the
purposes of this Agreement, the Notes of each Series shall form a
separate series of Notes and accordingly, the provisions of this
Agreement shall apply mutatis mutandis separately and
independently to the Notes of each Series and in such provisions
the expressions Notes , Noteholders , Receipts
, Receiptholders , Coupons , Couponholders ,
Talons and Talonholders shall be construed
accordingly.
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2. APPOINTMENT
OF AGENT AND PAYING AGENTS
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The Agent is
hereby appointed in a several capacity as agent of each of the
Issuers, to act as issuing and principal paying agent, upon the
terms and subject to the conditions set out below, for the purposes
of, inter alia :
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completing,
authenticating and delivering Temporary Global Notes and Permanent
Global Notes and authenticating (if required) and delivering
Definitive Bearer Notes;
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giving
effectuation instructions in respect of each Global Note which is a
Eurosystem-eligible New Global Note;
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exchanging
Temporary Global Notes for Permanent Global Notes or Definitive
Bearer Notes, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of
the Temporary Global Notes and, in respect of any such exchange (i)
making all notations on Global Notes which are CGNs as required by
their terms and (ii) instructing Euroclear and Clearstream,
Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records in respect
of all Global Notes which are New Global Notes;
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exchanging
Permanent Global Notes for Definitive Bearer Notes in accordance
with the terms of the Permanent Global Notes and, in respect of any
such exchange (i) making all notations on Permanent Global Notes
which are CGNs as required by their terms and (ii) instructing
Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries
in their records in respect of all Permanent Global Notes which are
New Global Notes;
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paying sums due
on Temporary Global Notes, Permanent Global Notes and Definitive
Bearer Notes, Receipts and Coupons in accordance with the terms of
such Notes and (i) making all notations on Global Notes which are
CGNs as required by their terms and (ii) instructing Euroclear and
Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their
records in respect of all Global Notes which are New Global
Notes;
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unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, determining the
interest and/or other amounts payable in respect of the Notes in
accordance with the Conditions;
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arranging on
behalf of the relevant Issuer for notices to be communicated to the
Noteholders and the relevant Stock Exchanges;
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ensuring that
all necessary action is taken to comply with the periodic reporting
and notification requirements of the Ministry of Finance of Japan
(including any monthly reports or such other reports as may be
required) and other applicable Japanese authorities, or any other
competent authority of any relevant currency with respect to the
Notes to be issued under the Programme;
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receiving
notice from Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other
applicable clearing agency relating to the certificates of non-U.S.
beneficial ownership of the Notes;
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upon
certification by the participating Dealer or Dealers to the Agent
that the distribution with respect to a particular Tranche of Notes
has been completed, determining and certifying to Euroclear,
Clearstream, Luxembourg or such other applicable clearing agency
the applicable Exchange Date;
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performing all
other obligations and duties imposed upon it by the Conditions and
this Agreement.
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Any of the
duties and obligations of the Agent in its capacity of issuing and
principal paying agent set forth in Subclauses (a), (b), (c), (d),
(e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) may, with the consent of the relevant
Issuer, be delegated by the Agent with respect to a particular
Series of Notes to a third party, provided such third party’s
performance is subject to the overall supervision and control of
the Agent.
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Each Paying
Agent is hereby appointed in a several capacity as paying agent of
each of the Issuers, and each Paying Agent agrees to act in a
several capacity as paying agent of each of the Issuers, upon the
terms and subject to the conditions set out below, for the purposes
of paying sums due on Notes, Receipts and Coupons and performing
all other obligations and duties imposed upon it by the Conditions
and this Agreement.
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In relation to
each issue of Eurosystem-eligible New Global Notes, each relevant
Issuer hereby authorises and instructs the Agent to elect Euroclear
as common safekeeper. From time to time, each such
Issuer and the Agent may agree to vary this
election. Each such Issuer acknowledges that any such
election is subject to the right of Euroclear and Clearstream,
Luxembourg to jointly determine that the other shall act as common
safekeeper in relation to any such issue and agrees that no
liability shall attach to the Agent in respect of any such election
made by it.
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Where the Agent
delivers any authenticated Global Note to a common safekeeper for
effectuation using electronic means, it is authorised and
instructed to destroy the Global Note retained by it following its
receipt of
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confirmation
from the common safekeeper that the relevant Global Note has been
effectuated.
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3. ISSUE
OF TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTES
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Subject to
Subclause 3(2), following receipt of the applicable Final Terms
signed by the relevant Issuer with respect of an issue of Notes in
accordance with the provisions of the Procedures Memorandum set out
in Appendix D hereto (as from time to time varied, with the prior
approval of the Agent, by the relevant Issuer and the relevant
Purchaser or Purchasers of the Notes of such issue), the Agent will
take the steps required of the Agent in the Procedures
Memorandum. For this purpose the Agent is authorised on
behalf of the relevant Issuer:
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to prepare a
Temporary Global Note or Temporary Global Notes containing the
relevant Conditions and to complete, in accordance with such Final
Terms, the necessary details on such Temporary Global Note(s) and
attach a copy of the applicable Final Terms to such Temporary
Global Note;
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to authenticate
such Temporary Global Note(s);
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if the
Temporary Global Note(s) is/are a CGN, to deliver such Temporary
Global Note(s) (i) to the specified common depositary of Euroclear,
Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing
agency as is specified in the applicable Final Terms against
receipt from such common depositary of confirmation that such
common depositary is holding the Temporary Global Note(s) in safe
custody for the account of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or
such other applicable clearing agency and to instruct Euroclear,
Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing
agency (as the case may be) to credit the Notes represented by such
Temporary Global Notes(s), unless otherwise agreed in writing
between the Agent and the relevant Issuer, to the Agent’s
distribution account, or (ii) as otherwise agreed in writing
between the relevant Issuer and the Agent;
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if the
Temporary Global Note(s) is/are a New Global Note, to deliver such
Temporary Global Note(s) to the specified common safekeeper of
Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg against receipt from such
common safekeeper of confirmation that such common safekeeper is
holding the Temporary Global Note(s) in safe custody for the
account of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg and, in the case
of a Temporary Global Note which is a Eurosystem-eligible New
Global Note, to instruct the common safekeeper to effectuate the
same; and
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if the
Temporary Global Note(s) is/are a New Global Note, to instruct
Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make the appropriate
entries in their records to reflect the initial outstanding
aggregate nominal amount of the relevant Tranche of
Notes.
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The Agent shall
only be required to perform its obligations under Subclause 3(1) if
it holds a master Temporary Global Note duly executed by a person
or persons authorised to execute the same on behalf of the relevant
Issuer, which
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may be used by
the Agent for the purpose of preparing Temporary Global Note(s) in
accordance with Subclause 3(1)(a).
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The Agent shall
provide Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other
applicable clearing agency with the notifications, instructions or
other information to be given by the Agent to Euroclear,
Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing
agency.
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Any of the
duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 3 may,
with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent
with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party,
provided such third party’s performance is subject to the
overall supervision and control of the Agent.
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4. ISSUE
OF PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTES
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Subject to
Subclause 4(2), upon the occurrence of any event which pursuant to
the terms of a Temporary Global Note requires the issue of a
Permanent Global Note, the Agent shall issue a Permanent Global
Note in accordance with the terms of the Temporary Global
Note. For this purpose the Agent is authorised on behalf
of the relevant Issuer:
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in the case of
the first Tranche of any Series of Notes, to prepare a Permanent
Global Note containing the relevant Conditions and to complete, in
accordance with the terms of the Temporary Global Note, the
necessary details on such Permanent Global Note and attach a copy
of the applicable Final Terms to such Permanent Global
Note;
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in the case of
the first Tranche of any Series of Notes, to authenticate such
Permanent Global Note;
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in the case of
the first Tranche of any Series of Notes (i) where the Temporary
Global Note is a CGN and is being held by a common depositary as
aforesaid, to deliver such Permanent Global Note to the specified
common depositary that is holding the Temporary Global Note for the
time being on behalf of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or
such other applicable clearing agency as is specified in the
applicable Final Terms in exchange for such Temporary Global Note
or, in the case of a partial exchange, after noting the details of
such exchange in the appropriate spaces on both the Temporary
Global Note and the Permanent Global Note, and in either case
against receipt from the common depositary of confirmation that
such common depositary is holding the Permanent Global Note in safe
custody for the account of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg
and/or such other applicable clearing agency (as the case may be);
or (ii) where the Temporary Global Note is a CGN and is not being
held by a common depositary, as otherwise agreed in writing between
the relevant Issuer and the Agent;
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in the case of
the first Tranche of any Series of Notes where the Temporary Global
Note is a New Global Note, to deliver such Permanent Global Note to
the specified common safekeeper that is
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holding the
Temporary Global Note representing the Tranche for the time being
on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg in exchange
for such Temporary Global Note against receipt from the common
safekeeper of confirmation that such common safekeeper is holding
the Permanent Global Note in safe custody for the account of
Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, and, in the case of a
Permanent Global Note which is a Eurosystem-eligible New Global
Note, to instruct the common safekeeper to effectuate the same and
to hold it on behalf of the relevant Issuer pending its exchange
for the Temporary Global Note;
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in the case of
a subsequent Tranche of any Series of Notes if the Permanent Global
Note is a CGN, to attach a copy of the applicable Final Terms to
the Permanent Global Note applicable to the relevant Series and to
enter details of any exchange in whole or part as stated above;
and
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in the case of
a subsequent Tranche of any Series of Notes if the Permanent Global
Note is a New Global Note, to deliver the applicable Final Terms to
the specified common safekeeper for attachment to the Permanent
Global Note applicable to the relevant Series.
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The Agent shall
only be required to perform its obligations under Subclause 4(l) if
it holds a master Permanent Global Note duly executed by a person
or persons authorised to execute the same on behalf of the relevant
Issuer, which may be used by the Agent for the purpose of preparing
Permanent Global Notes in accordance with Subclause
4(1)(a).
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The Agent shall
provide Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other
applicable clearing agency with the notifications, instructions or
other information to be given by the Agent to Euroclear,
Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing
agency.
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Any of the
duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 4 may,
with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent
with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party,
provided such third party’s performance is subject to the
overall supervision and control of the Agent.
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5. ISSUE
OF DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTES
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The Agent shall
deliver the relevant Definitive Bearer Note(s) in accordance with
the terms of the relevant Temporary Global Note or the relevant
Permanent Global Note where such Temporary Global Note or Permanent
Global Note (as the case may be) is to be exchanged for one or more
Definitive Bearer Note(s). For this purpose, the Agent
is hereby authorised on behalf of the relevant Issuer:
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to authenticate
or arrange for authentication on its behalf (if so instructed by
the relevant Issuer) of such Definitive Bearer Note(s);
and
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to deliver such
Definitive Bearer Note(s) to or to the order of Euroclear,
Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing
agency as is specified in the applicable Final Terms either in
exchange for such Global Note or, in the case of a partial
exchange, if it is a CGN, on entering details of any partial
exchange of the Global Note in the relevant space in Schedule Two
of such Global Note, or, if it is a New Global Note, on Euroclear
and Clearstream, Luxembourg making the appropriate entries in their
records to reflect such exchange; provided that the Agent shall
only permit a partial exchange of Notes represented by a Permanent
Global Note for Definitive Bearer Notes if the Notes which continue
to be represented by such Permanent Global Note are regarded as
fungible by Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other
applicable clearing agency with the Definitive Bearer Notes issued
in partial exchange therefor.
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The Agent shall
notify the relevant Issuer forthwith upon receipt of a request for
issue of Definitive Bearer Note(s) in accordance with the
provisions of a Global Note (and the aggregate nominal amount of
such Temporary Global Note or Permanent Global Note, as the case
may be, to be exchanged in connection therewith).
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The relevant
Issuer undertakes to deliver to the Agent, pursuant to a request
for the issue of Definitive Bearer Notes under the terms of the
relevant Global Note, sufficient numbers of executed Definitive
Bearer Notes to enable the Agent to comply with its obligations
under this Clause 5.
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Any of the
duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 5 may,
with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent
with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party,
provided such third party’s performance is subject to the
overall supervision and control of the Agent.
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6. EXCHANGES
Upon any
exchange of all or a portion of an interest in a Temporary Global
Note for an interest in a Permanent Global Note or for Definitive
Bearer Notes or upon any exchange of all or a portion of an
interest in a Permanent Global Note for Definitive Bearer Notes,
the Agent shall (i) procure that the relevant Global Note shall, if
it is a CGN, be endorsed to reflect the reduction of, or increase
in (as the case may be), its nominal amount by the aggregate
nominal amount so exchanged and, where applicable, the Permanent
Global Note shall be endorsed by or on behalf of the Agent to
reflect the increase in its nominal amount as a result of any
exchange for an interest in the Temporary Global Note or (ii) in
the case of any Global Note which is a New Global Note, instruct
Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries
in their records to reflect such exchange. Until exchanged in full,
the holder of an interest in any Global Note shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits as the holder of Definitive Bearer
Notes, Receipts and Coupons authenticated and delivered hereunder,
subject as set out in the Conditions and the relevant Global
Note. The Agent is hereby authorised on behalf of the
relevant Issuer and instructed (a) in the case of any Global Note
which is a CGN, to endorse or to arrange for the endorsement of the
relevant Global Note to reflect the reduction in the nominal amount
represented thereby by the amount so exchanged and, if appropriate,
to endorse the Permanent Global Note to reflect any increase in the
nominal amount
represented by
it and, in either case, to sign in the relevant space on the
relevant Global Note recording such exchange and reduction or
increase; (b) in the case of any Global Note which is a New Global
Note, to instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make
appropriate entries in their records to reflect such exchange; and
(c) in the case of a total exchange, to cancel or arrange for the
cancellation of the relevant Global Note. Any of the
duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 6 may,
with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent
with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party,
provided such third party’s performance is subject to the
overall supervision and control of the Agent.
7. TERMS
OF ISSUE
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The Agent shall
cause all Temporary Global Notes, Permanent Global Notes and
Definitive Bearer Notes delivered to and held by it under this
Agreement to be maintained in safe custody and shall ensure that
such Notes are issued only in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement and the relevant Global Note and
Conditions.
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Subject to the
procedures set out in the Procedures Memorandum, for the purposes
of Subclause 7(1) the Agent is entitled to treat a telephone or
facsimile communication from a person purporting to be (and who the
Agent, after making reasonable investigation, believes in good
faith to be) the authorised representative of the relevant Issuer
named in the list referred to in, or notified pursuant to,
Subclause 19(7) as sufficient instructions and authority of the
relevant Issuer for the Agent to act in accordance with Subclause
7(1).
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In the event
that a person who has signed on behalf of any Issuer a master
Temporary Global Note, a master Permanent Global Note or Definitive
Bearer Notes not yet issued but held by the Agent in accordance
with Subclause 7(1) ceases to be authorised as described in
Subclause 19(7), the Agent shall (unless the relevant Issuer gives
notice to the Agent that Notes signed by that person do not
constitute valid and binding obligations of the relevant Issuer or
otherwise until replacements have been provided to the Agent)
continue to have authority to issue any such Notes, and the
relevant Issuer hereby warrants to the Agent that such Notes shall,
unless notified as aforesaid, be valid and binding obligations of
the relevant Issuer. Promptly upon such person ceasing
to be authorised, the relevant Issuer shall provide the Agent with
replacement master Temporary Global Notes, master Permanent Global
Notes and (if applicable) Definitive Bearer Notes and the Agent
shall cancel and destroy the master Temporary Global Notes, master
Permanent Global Notes and (if applicable) Definitive Bearer Notes
held by it which are signed by such person and shall provide to the
relevant Issuer a confirmation of destruction in respect thereof
specifying the Notes so cancelled and destroyed.
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Unless
otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the
Agent, each Note credited to the Agent’s distribution account
with Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg (or, in the case of
Notes in CGN form, such other applicable clearing agency) following
the delivery of a Temporary Global Note or Permanent Global Note,
as the case may be, to a common depositary or, as the case may be,
a common safekeeper pursuant to Subclause 3(1)(c), 3(1)(d), 4(1)(c)
or 4(1)(d), respectively, shall be held to the order of
the
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relevant
Issuer. The Agent shall procure that the nominal amount
of Notes which the relevant Purchaser has agreed to purchase
is:
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(a) debited
from the Agent’s distribution account; and
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credited to the
securities account of such Purchaser with Euroclear, Clearstream,
Luxembourg or, in the case of Notes in CGN form, such other
clearing agency (as specified in the Letter from Lead
Manager/Dealer as provided for in Annex C to the Procedures
Memorandum set forth in Appendix D hereto), in each case only upon
receipt by the Agent on behalf of the relevant Issuer of the
purchase price due from the relevant Purchaser in respect of such
Notes.
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Unless
otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the
Agent, if on the relevant Issue Date a Purchaser does not pay the
full purchase price due from it in respect of any Note (the
Defaulted Note ) and, as a result, the Defaulted Note
remains in the Agent’s distribution account with Euroclear
and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg (or, in the case of Notes in CGN
form, such other applicable clearing agency) after such Issue Date,
the Agent will continue to hold the Defaulted Note to the order of
the relevant Issuer. The Agent shall notify the relevant
Issuer forthwith of the failure of the Purchaser to pay the full
purchase price due from it in respect of any Defaulted Note and,
subsequently, shall notify the relevant Issuer forthwith upon
receipt from the Purchaser of the full purchase price in respect of
such Defaulted Note.
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Unless
otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the
Agent, if the Agent pays an amount (the Advance ) to the
relevant Issuer on the basis that a payment (the Payment )
will be received from a Purchaser and if the Payment is not
received by the Agent on the date the Agent pays the relevant
Issuer, the Agent shall notify the relevant Issuer by facsimile
that the Payment has not been received and the relevant Issuer
shall repay to the Agent the Advance and shall pay interest on the
Advance (or the unreimbursed portion thereof) from (and including)
the date such Advance is made to (but excluding) the earlier of
repayment of the Advance and receipt by the Agent of the Payment
(at a rate quoted at that time by the Agent as its cost of funding
the Advance provided that evidence of the basis of such rate is
given to the relevant Issuer).
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In the event of
an issue of Notes, the Agent will promptly, and in any event prior
to the Issue Date in respect of such issue, send the applicable
Final Terms to the relevant Stock Exchange.
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Execution in
facsimile of any Notes and any photostatic copying or other
duplication of the master Temporary Global Note or the master
Permanent Global Note (in unauthenticated form, but executed
manually on behalf of the relevant Issuer as stated above) shall be
binding upon the relevant Issuer in the same manner as if such
Notes were signed manually by such signatories.
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8. PAYMENTS
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The Agent shall
advise the relevant Issuer, no later than ten Business Days (as
defined in Subclause 8(2)) immediately preceding the date on which
any payment is to be made to the Agent pursuant to this Subclause
8(1), of the
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payment amount,
value date and payment instructions and the relevant Issuer shall
on each date on which any payment in respect of any Bearer Notes
becomes due, transfer to an account specified by the Agent not
later than (unless otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and
the Agent) the Payment Time such amount in the relevant currency as
shall be sufficient for the purposes of such payment in funds
settled through such payment system as the Agent and the relevant
Issuer may agree. As used in this Subclause 8(1), the
term Payment Time means (unless otherwise agreed between the
relevant Issuer and the Agent) 2:00 p.m. local time in the
principal financial centre of the country of the currency in which
the payment falls is to be made (which in the case of payment of
euro is London). Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Final
Terms, the principal financial centre of any country for the
purposes of this Subclause 8(1) shall be as provided in the ISDA
Definitions on the Issue Date of such Series of Bearer Notes
(except if the Specified Currency is Australian dollars or New
Zealand dollars the principal financial centre shall be Sydney or
Auckland, respectively).
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The relevant
Issuer shall ensure that, no later than the third Business Day
immediately preceding the date on which any payment is to be made
to the Agent pursuant to Subclause 8(1), the Agent shall receive a
confirmation from the relevant Issuer that such payment will be
made. For the purposes of this Clause 8,
Business Day has the meaning given to it in Condition
4(b).
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The Agent shall
ensure that payments of both principal and interest in respect of
Temporary Global Notes will be made only to the extent that
certificates of non-U.S. beneficial ownership as required by U.S.
Treasury regulations have been received from Euroclear and/or
Clearstream, Luxembourg in accordance with the terms thereof. The
Agent shall retain each such certification on behalf of the
relevant Issuer, for four calendar years following the year in
which the certification is received.
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The Agent shall
pay interest on the Notes only outside the United States and its
possessions, within the meaning of United States Treasury
regulation section 1.163-5(c)(1)(ii)(A). No interest on
Notes issued by TMCC shall be paid into an account maintained by
the payee in the United States or mailed to an address in the
United States unless the payee is described in United States
Treasury regulation sections 1.163-5(c)(2)(v)(B)(1) or
(2).
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Subject to the
Agent being satisfied in its sole discretion that payment will be
duly made as provided in Subclause 8(1), the Agent or the relevant
Paying Agent shall pay or cause to be paid all amounts due in
respect of the Bearer Notes on behalf of the relevant Issuer in the
manner provided in the Conditions. If any payment
provided for in Subclause 8(1) is made late but otherwise in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent and
each Paying Agent shall nevertheless make payments in respect of
the Bearer Notes as aforesaid following receipt by it of such
payment.
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If for any
reason the Agent considers in its sole discretion that the amounts
to be received by the Agent pursuant to Subclause 8(1) will be, or
the amounts actually received by it pursuant thereto are,
insufficient to satisfy all claims in respect of all payments then
falling due in respect of the Bearer Notes, the Agent shall then
forthwith notify the relevant Issuer of such insufficiency and,
until such time as the Agent has received the full amount of all
such
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payments,
neither the Agent nor any Paying Agent shall be obliged to pay any
such claims.
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Without
prejudice to Subclauses 8(5) and 8(6), if the Agent pays any
amounts to the holders of Bearer Notes, Receipts or Coupons or to
any Paying Agent at a time when it has not received payment in full
in respect of the relevant Bearer Notes in accordance with
Subclause 8(1) (the excess of the amounts so paid over the amounts
so received being the Shortfall ), the relevant Issuer
shall, in addition to paying amounts due under Subclause 8(1), pay
to the Agent on demand interest (at a rate which represents the
Agent’s actual overnight cost of funding the Shortfall as
evidenced to the relevant Issuer by the provision of details of the
calculation of the cost of funding) on the Shortfall (or the
unreimbursed portion thereof) from (and including) the date such
Shortfall is paid by the Agent to the holders of the Bearer Notes,
Receipts or Coupons or to any Paying Agent to (but excluding) the
date of receipt in full by the Agent of the
Shortfall. The Agent shall notify the relevant Issuer by
facsimile as soon as practicable, it being understood that the
relevant Issuer shall have the right to make such payment
subsequently with good value as of such Business Day.
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The Agent shall
on demand promptly reimburse each Paying Agent for payments in
respect of Bearer Notes properly made by such Paying Agent in
accordance with this Agreement and the Conditions unless the Agent
has notified the Paying Agent, prior to the opening of business in
the location of the office of the Paying Agent through which
payment in respect of the Bearer Notes can be made on the due date
of a payment in respect of the Bearer Notes, that the Agent does
not expect to receive sufficient funds to make payment of all
amounts falling due in respect of such Bearer Notes.
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Whilst any
Bearer Notes are represented by Temporary Global Notes or Permanent
Global Notes, all payments due in respect of such Notes shall be
made to, or to the order of, the holder of the Global Notes,
subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Global
Notes. On the occasion of any such payment, (i) in the
case of a CGN, the Paying Agent to which the Global Note was
presented for the purpose of making such payment shall cause the
relevant Schedule to the Global Notes to be annotated so as to
evidence the amounts and dates of such payments of principal and/or
interest as applicable or (ii) in the case of any Global Note which
is a New Global Note, the Agent shall instruct Euroclear and
Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their
records to reflect such payment.
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If the amount
of principal and/or interest then due for payment is not paid in
full (otherwise than by reason of a deduction required by law to be
made therefrom), (i) the Paying Agent to which a Temporary Global
Note or Permanent Global Note is presented for the purpose of
making such payment shall, unless the Note is a New Global Note,
make a record of such shortfall on the relevant Schedule to the
Global Note and such record shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be prima facie evidence that the payment in question has not
to that extent been made or (ii) in the case of any Global Note
which is a New Global Note, the Agent shall instruct Euroclear and
Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their
records to reflect such shortfall in payment.
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Determinations and Notifications in Respect
of Notes
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The Agent shall
make all such determinations and calculations (howsoever described)
as it is required to do under the Conditions, all subject to and in
accordance with the Conditions provided that certain calculations
with respect to any Series of Notes may be made by an agent (the
Calculation Agent ) appointed by the relevant Issuer and
acceptable to the Agent. The Agent may decline to act in
the capacity described above in relation to a particular Series of
Notes if (i) the Agent does not have the capacity to determine the
rate of interest or redemption amount or any other calculation to
be made in relation to such Series of Notes and (ii) such decision
to decline is notified to the relevant Issuer by the Agent as soon
as reasonably practicable after receipt by the Agent of the terms
of such Series of Notes and, in any event, prior to the issue of
such Series of Notes.
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The Agent shall
not be responsible to any Issuer or to any third party (except in
the event of negligence, wilful default or bad faith) as a result
of the Agent having acted on any quotation given by any Reference
Bank (as referred to in Condition 4(b)(iv)(E)) which subsequently
may be found to be incorrect.
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The Agent shall
promptly notify (and confirm in writing to) the relevant Issuer,
the other Paying Agents, (in the case of Registered Notes) the
Registrar and the Canadian Paying Agent and (in respect of a Series
of Notes listed on a Stock Exchange) the relevant Stock Exchange
(or other relevant authority) of, inter alia , each Rate of
Interest, Interest Amount and Interest Payment Date and all other
amounts, rates and dates which it is obliged to determine or
calculate under the Conditions as soon as practicable after the
determination thereof (and in any event no later than the tenth
Business Day (as defined in Clause 8) immediately preceding the
date on which any payment is to be made to the Agent pursuant to
Subclause 8(1)) and of any subsequent amendment thereto pursuant to
the Conditions.
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The Agent shall
use its best endeavours to cause each Rate of Interest, Interest
Amount and Interest Payment Date and all other amounts, rates and
dates which it is obliged to determine or calculate under the
Conditions (or which is provided to the Agent by any other
Calculation Agent appointed by the relevant Issuer as provided in
Subclause 9(1)) to be published as required in accordance with the
Conditions as soon as possible after their determination or
calculation.
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If the Agent
does not at any material time for any reason determine and/or
calculate and/or publish the Rate of Interest, Interest Amount
and/or Interest Payment Date in respect of any Interest Period or
any other amount, rate or date as provided in this Clause 9, it
shall forthwith notify the relevant Issuer, the other Paying
Agents, (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the
Canadian Paying Agent of such fact.
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The Agent shall
provide to the Dealer or Dealers with respect to any Series of
Notes certification as to the completion of distribution of such
Series of Notes.
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For purposes of
monitoring the aggregate nominal amount of Notes (as
“Notes” is defined in the Programme Agreement) issued
and outstanding (as “outstanding” is defined in the
Programme Agreement) under the
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Programme, the
Agent shall determine the euro equivalent of the nominal amount of
each issue of Notes (as “Notes” is defined in the
Programme Agreement) denominated in a Specified Currency, other
than euros as follows:
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the EUR
equivalent of Notes denominated in a Specified Currency other than
EUR shall be determined by the Agent as of 2:30 p.m. London time on
the Issue Date for such Notes (save in the case of Notes issued
prior to 28 September 2007 by TMCC under its U.S.$30,000,000,000
Euro Medium-Term Note Program which remain outstanding where the
EUR equivalent of such Notes denominated in a Specified Currency
other than EUR was determined by the Agent as of 2.30 p.m. London
time on 28 September 2007) by reference to the spot rate displayed
on a page on the relevant Reuters service or Dow Jones Markets
Limited or such other service as is agreed between the Agent and
the relevant Issuer from time to time;
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the EUR
equivalent of Dual Currency Notes and Index Linked Notes shall be
determined in the manner specified above in paragraph (a) by
reference to the original nominal amount of such Notes;
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the EUR
equivalent of Zero Coupon Notes and other Notes issued at a
discount shall be determined in the manner specified above in
paragraph (a) by reference to the net proceeds received by the
relevant Issuer for the particular issue; and
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the EUR
equivalent of Partly Paid Notes shall be the nominal amount of such
Notes regardless of the amount of purchase moneys paid up on such
Notes.
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The Agent shall
promptly notify the relevant Issuer of each determination made as
aforesaid.
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Without
prejudice to Subclause 9(7), determinations with regard to Index
Linked Notes and Dual Currency Notes shall otherwise be made by the
Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms in the
manner specified in the applicable Final Terms. Unless
otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant
Purchaser or Purchasers of such Notes, such determinations shall be
made on the basis of a Calculation Agency Agreement substantially
in the form of Appendix C hereto.
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10. NOTICE
OF ANY WITHHOLDING OR DEDUCTION
If any Issuer
is, in respect of any payments, compelled to withhold or deduct any
amount for or on account of taxes, duties, assessments or
governmental charges as specifically contemplated under the
Conditions, such Issuer shall give notice thereof to the Agent as
soon as it becomes aware of the requirement to make such
withholding or deduction and shall give to the Agent such
information as it shall require to enable it to comply with such
requirement.
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DUTIES OF
THE AGENT IN CONNECTION WITH EARLY REDEMPTION
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If the relevant
Issuer decides to redeem any Notes for the time being outstanding
prior to their Maturity Date in accordance with the Conditions, the
relevant Issuer shall give notice of such decision to the Agent not
less
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than five days
before the date of the notice required to be given to the holders
of the Notes under the Conditions or such shorter period that is
acceptable to the Agent.
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If only some of
the Notes of the same Series are to be redeemed on such date the
Agent shall make the required drawing in accordance with the
Conditions but shall give the relevant Issuer reasonable notice of
the time and place proposed for such drawing and the relevant
Issuer shall be entitled to send representatives to attend such
drawing.
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The Agent shall
publish the notice required in connection with any such redemption
and shall at the same time also publish a separate list of serial
numbers of any Notes previously drawn and not presented for
redemption. Such notice shall specify the date fixed for
redemption, the redemption amount, the manner in which redemption
will be effected and, in the case of a partial redemption, the
serial numbers of the Notes to be redeemed. Such notice
will be published in accordance with the Conditions.
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12. PUBLICATION
OF NOTICES
On behalf of
and at the request and expense of the relevant Issuer, the Agent
shall cause to be published all notices required to be given by the
relevant Issuer in accordance with the
Conditions. Forthwith upon the receipt by the Agent of a
demand or notice from any Noteholder in accordance with the
Conditions, the Agent shall forward a copy thereof to the relevant
Issuer.
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CANCELLATION, RESALE AND REISSUANCE OF NOTES,
RECEIPTS, COUPONS AND TALONS
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All Notes which
are redeemed, all Global Notes which are exchanged in full, all
Receipts or Coupons which are paid and all Talons which are
exchanged shall be cancelled by the Agent or Paying Agent by which
they are redeemed, paid or exchanged. In addition, all
Notes which are purchased or otherwise acquired pursuant to the
Conditions by the relevant Issuer, together (in the case of
Definitive Bearer Notes) with all unmatured Receipts, Coupons or
Talons (if any) attached thereto or purchased therewith, may, at
the option of the relevant Issuer where the Issuer is TMF, TFA or
TMCC, either be (i) resold or reissued, or held by the relevant
Issuer for subsequent resale or reissuance, or (ii) cancelled in
which event such Notes, Receipts and Coupons may not be resold or
reissued. Where the Issuer is TCCI, unless otherwise
specified in the applicable Final Terms, such Notes shall be
surrendered (in the case of Bearer Notes) to any Paying Agent or in
the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar or Canadian Paying
Agent for cancellation. Where any Notes, Receipts,
Coupons or Talons are purchased and cancelled, resold or reissued,
or held by the relevant Issuer for subsequent resale or reissuance,
as aforesaid, the relevant Issuer shall procure that all relevant
details are promptly given to the Agent and that all Notes,
Receipts, Coupons or Talons so cancelled are delivered to the
Agent.
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Upon the
written request of the relevant Issuer, a certificate
stating:
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the aggregate
nominal amount of Notes which have been redeemed and the aggregate
amount paid in respect thereof;
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the number of
Notes cancelled together (in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes)
with details of all unmatured Receipts, Coupons or Talons (if any)
attached thereto or delivered therewith;
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the aggregate
amount paid in respect of interest on the Notes;
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the total
number by maturity date of Receipts, Coupons and Talons so
cancelled; and
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in the case of
Definitive Bearer Notes, the serial numbers of such
Notes,
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shall be given
to the relevant Issuer by the Agent as soon as reasonably
practicable and in any event within 30 days after the date of such
repayment or, as the case may be, payment or exchange.
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Subject to
being duly notified in due time, the Agent shall give a certificate
to the relevant Issuer, within three months of the date of purchase
and cancellation or purchase and subsequent resale or reissuance of
Notes as aforesaid, stating:
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the nominal
amount of Notes so purchased and cancelled, resold or
reissued;
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in the case of
Definitive Bearer Notes, the serial numbers of such Notes;
and
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the total
number by maturity date of the Receipts, Coupons and Talons (if
any) appertaining thereto and surrendered therewith or attached
thereto.
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The Agent shall
destroy all cancelled Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons (unless
otherwise instructed by the relevant Issuer) and, forthwith upon
destruction and following the written request of the relevant
Issuer, furnish the relevant Issuer with a certificate of the
serial numbers of the Notes (in the case of Definitive Bearer
Notes) and the number by maturity date of Receipts, Coupons and
Talons so destroyed.
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Without
prejudice to the obligations of the Agent pursuant to Subclause
13(2), the Agent shall keep a full and complete record of all
Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons (other than serial numbers of
Coupons, except those which have been replaced pursuant to
Condition 10) and of all redeemed, cancelled or replacement Notes,
Receipts, Coupons or Talons (in the case of Definitive Bearer
Notes, with details of all unmatured Receipts, Coupons or Talons
(if any) attached thereto or delivered therewith) including those
issued in substitution for mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or
stolen Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons and of all Notes,
Receipts, Coupons or Talons which have been resold or
reissued. The Agent shall at all reasonable times make
such record available to the relevant Issuer and any person
authorised by the relevant Issuer for inspection and for the taking
of copies thereof or extracts therefrom.
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All records and
certificates made or given pursuant to this Clause 13 and Clause 14
shall make a distinction between Notes, Receipts, Coupons and
Talons of each Series.
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The Agent is
authorised by the relevant Issuer and instructed (a) in the case of
any Global Note which is a CGN, to endorse or to arrange for the
endorsement of the relevant Global Note to reflect the reduction in
the nominal amount represented by it by the amount so redeemed or
purchased and cancelled and (b) in the case of any Global Note
which is a New Global Note, to instruct Euroclear and Clearstream,
Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records to reflect
such redemption or purchase and cancellation, as the case may be;
provided, that, in the case of a purchase or cancellation, the
relevant Issuer has notified the Agent of the same in accordance
with Subclause 13(1).
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ISSUE OF
REPLACEMENT NOTES, RECEIPTS, COUPONS AND TALONS
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The Issuers
will cause a sufficient quantity of additional forms of Notes,
Receipts, Coupons and Talons to be available, upon request, to the
Agent at its specified office for the purpose of issuing
replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons as provided
below.
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The Agent will,
subject to and in accordance with the Conditions and the following
provisions of this Clause 14, cause to be delivered any replacement
Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons which the relevant Issuer may
determine to issue in place of Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons
which have been lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or
destroyed.
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In the case of
a mutilated or defaced Note, the Agent shall ensure that (unless
otherwise covered by such indemnity as the relevant Issuer may
require) any replacement Note will only have attached to it
Receipts, Coupons and Talons corresponding to those (if any)
attached to the mutilated or defaced Note which is presented for
replacement.
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The Agent shall
not issue any replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon unless and
until the applicant therefor shall have:
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paid such
reasonable costs as may be incurred in connection
therewith;
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furnished it
with such evidence (including evidence as to the serial number of
such Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon) and indemnity or other
security (which may include a bank guarantee and/or security) or
otherwise as the relevant Issuer and the Agent may reasonably
require; and
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in the case of
any mutilated or defaced Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon,
surrendered the same to the Agent.
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The Agent shall
cancel any mutilated or defaced Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons
in respect of which replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons
have been issued pursuant to this Clause 14 and shall furnish the
relevant Issuer with a certificate stating the serial numbers of
the Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons so cancelled and, unless
otherwise instructed
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by the relevant
Issuer in writing, shall destroy such cancelled Notes, Receipts,
Coupons and Talons and furnish the relevant Issuer with a
destruction certificate containing the information specified in
Subclause 13(4).
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The Agent
shall, on issuing any replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon,
forthwith inform the relevant Issuer and the Paying Agents of the
serial number of such replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon
issued and (if known) of the serial number of the Note, Receipt,
Coupon or Talon in place of which such replacement Note, Receipt,
Coupon or Talon has been issued. Whenever replacement
Receipts, Coupons or Talons are issued pursuant to the provisions
of this Clause 14, the Agent shall also notify the Paying Agents of
the maturity dates of the lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or
destroyed Receipts, Coupons or Talons and of the replacement
Receipts, Coupons or Talons issued.
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The Agent shall
keep a full and complete record of all replacement Notes, Receipts,
Coupons and Talons issued and shall make such record available all
at reasonable times to the relevant Issuer and any persons
authorised by the relevant Issuer for inspection and for the taking
of copies thereof or extracts therefrom.
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Whenever any
Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon for which a replacement Note,
Receipt, Coupon or Talon has been issued and in respect of which
the serial number is known is presented to the Agent or any of the
Paying Agents for payment, the Agent or, as the case may be, the
relevant Paying Agent shall immediately send notice thereof to the
relevant Issuer and the Agent.
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Notwithstanding
any of the foregoing in this Clause 14, no issue of replacement
Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons shall be made or delivered in
the United States.
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COPIES OF
THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH FINAL TERMS AVAILABLE FOR
INSPECTION
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The Agent and
the Paying Agents shall, for as long as any Note remains
outstanding, hold copies of this Agreement, the Credit Support
Agreements, the constitutional documents of each Issuer, TFS and
the Parent, the Prospectus dated the date hereof and any supplement
to or replacement thereof produced from time to time, the forms of
the temporary global, permanent global and definitive Notes and
each applicable Final Terms in relation to a Series of listed Notes
or Notes offered to the public in the European Economic Area,
available for inspection. In addition, the Agent and the
Paying Agents shall hold and shall make available, free of charge,
at their specified offices copies of the latest annual and any
interim reports of the relevant Issuer and the Parent; provided,
however, that if a Paying Agent acts as a Paying Agent for only
some of the Series of Notes issued under the Programme, such Paying
Agent need only hold the applicable Final Terms for the Series of
Notes for which it acts as Paying Agent (and any documents
specified in the applicable Final Terms) and the other documents
referenced in this Clause 15 shall be obtained by Noteholders from
the Agent or from Paying Agents that act as Paying Agents for all
Series of Notes issued under the Programme. For this
purpose, the Issuers shall furnish the Agent and the Paying Agents
with sufficient copies of the documents they are required to
hold.
16. COMMISSIONS
AND EXPENSES
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The Issuers
severally agree to pay to the Agent such fees and commissions as
the Issuers and the Agent may separately agree in respect of the
services of the Agent and the Paying Agents hereunder together with
any out-of-pocket expenses (including legal, printing, postage,
tax, cable and advertising expenses required in connection with the
Notes issued hereunder) properly incurred by the Agent and the
Paying Agents in connection with their said services.
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The Agent shall
make payment of the fees and commissions due hereunder to the
Paying Agents and shall reimburse their expenses promptly after the
receipt of the relevant moneys from the Issuers. None of
the Issuers shall be responsible for any such payment or
reimbursement by the Agent to the Paying Agents.
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17. INDEMNITY
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The Issuers
shall severally indemnify the Agent and each of the Paying Agents
against any direct losses, liabilities, costs, claims, actions,
demands or expenses (including, but not limited to, all reasonable
costs, charges and expenses paid or incurred in disputing or
defending any of the foregoing but excluding loss of profits) which
it may incur or which may be made against the Agent or any Paying
Agent as a result of or in connection with its appointment by the
Issuers or the exercise of its powers and duties hereunder except
such as may result from its own wilful default, negligence or bad
faith or that of its officers, directors or employers or the breach
by it of the terms of this Agreement. Such indemnity
shall survive the termination or expiry of this
Agreement.
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The Agent and
the Paying Agents shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted hereunder except for their own wilful default, negligence
or bad faith or that of their respective officers, directors or
employees or the breach by any of them of the terms of this
Agreement. Neither the Agent nor any Paying Agent shall be liable
for any consequential loss (being loss of business, goodwill,
opportunity or profit) suffered by any Issuer.
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Neither the
Agent nor any of the Paying Agents shall be responsible for the
acts or failure to act of any other of them and each of the Agent
and the Paying Agents shall severally indemnify each Issuer against
any loss, liability, cost, claim, action, demand or expense
(including, but not limited to, all reasonable costs, legal fees,
charges and expenses paid or incurred in disputing or defending any
of the foregoing) which any Issuer may incur or which may be made
against it as a result of the breach by the Agent or such Paying
Agents of the terms of this Agreement or its wilful default,
negligence or bad faith or that of its officers, directors or
employees. Such indemnity shall survive the termination
or expiry of this Agreement.
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18. REPAYMENT
BY THE AGENT
The Agent
shall, forthwith on demand, upon the relevant Issuer being
discharged from its obligation to make payments in respect of any
Notes under the relevant Conditions, and provided that there is no
outstanding, bona fide and proper claim in
respect of any
such payments, pay to the relevant Issuer sums equivalent to any
amounts paid to it by the relevant Issuer in respect of such
Notes.
19. CONDITIONS
OF APPOINTMENT
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The Agent shall
be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the
purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to
a banker by its customers except:
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that it shall
not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect
thereof;
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as provided in
Subclause 19(2) below; and
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that it shall
not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon
except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the
Agent.
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In acting
hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the
Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will
not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of
agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the
Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons, except that all funds held by
the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall
be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not
be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided,
however, that monies paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the
payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at
the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become
due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided
and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of
the Agent with respect thereto shall cease.
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The Agent and
the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such
obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties
and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in
the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures
Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in
writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as
applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into
this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents
other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to
exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable
circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the
Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent
to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to
it, it will promptly provide such information to the
Agent.
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The Agent may
consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion
of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect
of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers.
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Each of the
Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no
liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or
suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from
any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent,
certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other
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paper or
document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have
been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or
upon written instructions from any of the Issuers.
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Any of the
Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and
employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any
Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he
or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the
case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage
or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of
the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for,
any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in
connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as
if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were
not appointed hereunder.
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Each Issuer
shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of
persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its
behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent
promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so
authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised
together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with
evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so
authorised.
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The amount of
the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with
the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon
any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to
the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the
increased amount.
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20. COMMUNICATION
BETWEEN THE PARTIES
A copy of all
communications relating to the subject matter of this Agreement
between any Issuer and any holders of Notes, Receipts or Coupons
and any of the Paying Agents shall be sent to the Agent by the
relevant Paying Agent and the Agent shall forthwith promptly
deliver a copy of any such communication to the relevant
Issuer.
21. CHANGES
IN AGENT AND PAYING AGENTS
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Each Issuer
agrees that, until no Note is outstanding or until moneys for the
payment of all amounts in respect of all outstanding Notes have
been made available to the Agent and have been returned to the
relevant Issuer as provided herein (whichever is the
later):
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so long as any
Notes are admitted to trading or listed on any Stock Exchange or
other relevant authority, there will at all times be a Paying Agent
with a specified office in such place as may be required by the
rules and regulations of the relevant Stock Exchange or other
relevant authority;
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there will at
all times be an Agent; and
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there will at
all times be a Paying Agent in a Member State of the European Union
that will not be obliged to withhold or deduct tax pursuant to the
European Council Directive 2003/48/EC or any law
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implementing or
complying with or introduced to conform to, such
Directive.
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In addition,
the Issuers shall appoint a Paying Agent having a specified office
in the United States only in the circumstances described in the
final paragraph of Condition 5(d). Any variation,
termination, appointment or change shall only take effect (other
than in the case of insolvency, when it shall be of immediate
effect) after not less than 30 nor more than 45 days prior notice
thereof shall have been given to the Noteholders in accordance with
Condition 16.
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The Agent may
(subject as provided in Subclause 21(4)) at any time resign as
Agent by giving written notice to the Issuers of such intention on
its part, specifying the date on which its desired resignation
shall become effective; provided that such date shall never be less
than three months after the receipt of such notice by the Issuers
unless the Issuers agree to accept less notice.
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The Agent may
(subject as provided in Subclause 21(4)) be removed at any time by
the filing with it of an instrument in writing signed on behalf of
the Issuers specifying such removal and the date when it shall
become effective.
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Any resignation
under Subclause 21(2) or removal under Subclause 21(3) shall only
take effect upon the appointment by the Issuers of a successor
Agent and (other than in cases of insolvency of the Agent) on the
expiry of the notice to be given under Clause 23. If, by
the day falling 10 days before the expiry of any notice under
Subclause 21(2), the Issuers have not appointed a successor Agent,
then the Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of the Issuers, to
appoint as a successor Agent in its place such reputable financial
institution of good standing as it may reasonably determine to be
capable of performing the duties of the Agent hereunder.
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In case at any
time the Agent and/or any Paying Agent resigns, or is removed, or
becomes incapable of action or is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent,
or files a voluntary petition in bankruptcy or makes an assignment
for the benefit of its creditors or consents to the appointment of
an administrator, liquidator or administrative or other receiver of
all or a substantial part of its property, or if an administrator,
liquidator or administrative or other receiver of it or all or a
substantial part of its property is appointed, or it admits in
writing its inability to pay or meet its debts as they become due,
or if an order of any court is entered approving any petition filed
by or against it under the provisions of any applicable bankruptcy
or insolvency law or if any officer takes charge or control of it
or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
administration or liquidation, a successor Agent and/or Paying
Agent may be appointed by the Issuers by an instrument in writing
filed with the successor Agent and/or Paying Agent. Upon
the appointment as aforesaid of a successor Agent and/or Paying
Agent and acceptance by the latter of such appointment and (other
than in the case of insolvency of the Agent and/or Paying Agent
when it shall be of immediate effect) upon expiry of the notice to
be given under Clause 23, the Agent and/or Paying Agent so
superseded shall cease to be an Agent and/or a Paying Agent
hereunder.
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Subject to
Subclause 21(1), the Issuers may, after prior consultation with the
Agent, terminate the appointment of any of the other Paying Agents
at any time and/or appoint one or more further Paying Agents
located outside the United States (either for all Notes issued
under the Programme or with
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respect to a
particular Series of Notes) by giving to the Agent, and to the
relevant Paying Agent, at least 45 days’ notice in writing to
that effect, or such lesser notice as is agreed to by the Agent,
the Issuers and the relevant Paying Agent; and any Issuer may, in
respect of a particular Series of Notes only, appoint one or more
further Paying Agents which appointment shall take effect on the
date of such appointment.
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Subject to
Subclause 21(1), all or any of the Paying Agents (other than the
Agent) may resign their respective appointments hereunder at any
time by giving the Issuers and the Agent at least 45 days’
written notice to that effect.
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Upon its
resignation or removal becoming effective, the Agent or the
relevant Paying Agent:
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shall, in the
case of the Agent, forthwith transfer all moneys held by it
hereunder and the records referred to in Subclauses 13(5) and 14(7)
to the successor Agent hereunder; and
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shall be
entitled to the payment by the Issuers of its commissions and fees
for the services theretofore rendered hereunder in accordance with
the terms of Clause 16 and to the reimbursement of all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees and together with any
applicable value added tax or similar tax thereon) incurred in
connection therewith.
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Upon its
appointment becoming effective, a successor Agent and any new
Paying Agent shall, without further act, deed or conveyance, become
vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trust, immunities,
duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if
originally named as Agent or (as the case may be) a Paying Agent
hereunder.
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In the case of
any Series of Notes to be issued by TCCI in registered form TCCI
has appointed a registrar, transfer agent and Canadian paying agent
pursuant to the Note Agency Agreement.
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22. MERGER
AND CONSOLIDATION
Any corporation
into which the Agent or any Paying Agent may be merged, or any
corporation with which the Agent or any of the Paying Agents may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or
consolidation to which the Agent or any of the Paying Agents shall
be a party, or any corporation to which the Agent or any of the
Paying Agents shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially
all the assets of the Agent or any Paying Agent shall, on the date
when such merger, consolidation or transfer becomes effective and
to the extent permitted by any applicable laws, become the
successor Agent or, as the case may be, Paying Agent under this
Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the parties hereto, unless otherwise
required by the Issuers, and after the said effective date all
references in this Agreement to the Agent or, as the case may be,
such Paying Agent shall be deemed to be references to such
corporation. Written notice of any such merger,
consolidation or transfer shall forthwith be given to the Issuers
by the relevant Agent or Paying Agent.
Following
receipt of notice of resignation from the Agent or any Paying Agent
and forthwith upon appointing a successor Agent or, as the case may
be, further or other Paying Agents for any Series of Notes
outstanding prior to the date of such appointment or on giving
notice to terminate the appointment of any Agent or, as the case
may be, Paying Agent, the relevant Issuer shall give or cause to be
given not more than 45 days’ nor less than 30 days’
notice thereof to any Noteholders affected by such termination or
appointment in accordance with the Conditions.
24. CHANGE
OF SPECIFIED OFFICE
The specified
office of the Agent shall be One Canada Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 5AL. If the Agent or any Paying Agent
determines to change its specified office, it shall give to the
Issuers and (if applicable) the Agent written notice of such
determination giving the address of the new specified office which
shall be in the same city and stating the date on which such change
is to take effect, which shall not be less than 45 days
thereafter. The Agent (on behalf of the Issuers) shall
within 15 days of receipt of such notice (unless the appointment of
the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, is to
terminate pursuant to Clause 21 on or prior to the date of such
change) give or cause to be given not more than 45 days’ nor
less than 30 days’ notice thereof to the Noteholders in
accordance with the Conditions; provided, however, that if a Paying
Agent acts as Paying Agent for only some of the Series of Notes
under the Programme, notice need be given only to holders of the
Notes of those Series in relation to which the Paying Agent acts as
Paying Agent.
25. NOTICES
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Any notice or
communication given hereunder shall be sufficiently given or
served:
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if delivered in
person to the relevant address specified on the signature pages
hereof (or to such other address as is specified in writing and
delivered to the relevant parties to this Agreement) and, if so
delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered at time of
receipt; or
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if sent by
facsimile to the relevant number specified on the signature pages
hereof (or to such other facsimile number as is specified in
writing and delivered to the relevant parties to this Agreement)
and, if so sent, shall be deemed to have been delivered upon
transmission provided such transmission is confirmed when an
acknowledgment of receipt is received.
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A copy of any
notice served in accordance with Subclause 25(1) shall be given to
the Parent and TFS at:
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Aichi
Prefecture 450-8711
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Group Manager
of Affiliated Companies Finance Division
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Toyota
Financial Services Corporation
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Aichi
Prefecture 451-6015
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Group Vice
President of Risk Management
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26. TAXES
AND STAMP DUTIES
The Issuers
agree to pay any and all stamp and other documentary taxes or
duties (other than any interest or penalties arising as a result of
a failure by any other person to account promptly to the relevant
authorities for any such duties or taxes after such person shall
have received from the relevant Issuer the full amount payable in
respect thereof) which may be payable in connection with the
execution, delivery, performance and enforcement of this
Agreement.
27. CURRENCY
INDEMNITY
If, under any
applicable law and whether pursuant to a judgment being made or
registered against any Issuer or in the liquidation, insolvency or
analogous process of any Issuer or for any other reason, any
payment under or in connection with this Agreement is made or is to
be satisfied in a currency (the other currency ) other than
that in which the relevant payment is expressed to be due (the
required currency ) under this Agreement, then, to the
extent that the payment (when converted into the required currency
at the rate of exchange on the date of payment or, if it is not
practicable for the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent to purchase
the required currency with the other currency on the date of
payment, at the rate of exchange as soon thereafter as it is
practicable for it to do so or, in the case of a liquidation,
insolvency or analogous process at the rate of exchange on the
latest date permitted by applicable law for the determination of
liabilities in such liquidation, insolvency or analogous process)
actually received by the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent falls
short of the amount due under the terms of this Agreement, such
Issuer undertakes that it shall, as a separate and independent
obligation, indemnify and hold harmless the Agent and the relevant
Paying Agent against the amount of such shortfall. For
the purpose of this Clause 27, rate of exchange means the
rate at which the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent is able on the
London foreign exchange market on the relevant date to purchase the
required currency with the other currency and shall take into
account any premium and other costs of exchange.
28. AMENDMENTS: MEETINGS
OF HOLDERS
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This Agreement,
(in the case of Registered Notes) the Note Agency Agreement, the
Notes and any Receipts and Coupons attached to the Notes may be
amended by the Issuers or the relevant Issuer, as the case may be,
and
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(in the case of
this Agreement) the Agent and (in the case of the Note Agency
Agreement) the Registrar and the Canadian Paying Agent, without the
consent of the holder of any Note, Receipt or Coupon (a) for the
purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing, correcting or
supplementing any defective provision contained herein or therein,
or to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
relevant Issuer as provided in Condition 13 or provide for
substitution of the relevant Issuer as provided in Condition 14,
(b) to make any further modifications of the terms of this
Agreement or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Note Agency
Agreement necessary or desirable to allow for the issuance of any
additional Notes (which modifications shall not be materially
adverse to holders of outstanding Notes), or (c) in any manner
which the Issuers or the relevant Issuer, as the case may be, and
(in the case of this Agreement) the Agent and (in the case of the
Note Agency Agreement) the Registrar and the Canadian Paying Agent,
may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not materially
adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Notes,
Receipts and Coupons. In addition, with the written
consent of holders of a majority in aggregate nominal amount of the
Notes then outstanding affected thereby, or by resolution adopted
by the holders of a majority in aggregate nominal amount of Notes
then outstanding present or represented at a meeting of the holders
of the Notes affected thereby at which a quorum is present
(provided that such resolution shall be approved by the holders of
not less than 25 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of Notes
then outstanding affected thereby), this Agreement, (in the case of
Registered Notes) the Note Agency Agreement or the terms and
conditions of the Notes, Receipts and Coupons may be modified or
amended by the parties hereto or thereto, and future compliance and
past defaults waived, in each case as provided in Conditions 9 and
15 and subject to the limitations therein provided (including that
no such agreement shall, without the consent or the affirmative
vote of the holder of each Note affected thereby, (i) change
the stated maturity of the principal of or any instalment of
interest on any Note, (ii) reduce the nominal amount of or
interest on any Note, (iii) change the obligation of the
Issuer to pay Additional Amounts as provided in Condition 7,
(iv) reduce the percentage in nominal amount of outstanding
Notes the consent of the holders of which is necessary to modify or
amend the Agency Agreement or (in the case of Registered Notes) the
Note Agency Agreement or the terms and conditions of the Notes or
to waive any future compliance or past default, or (v) reduce
the percentage in nominal amount of outstanding Notes the consent
of the holders of which is required at any meeting of holders of
Notes at which a resolution is adopted).
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A meeting of
holders of Notes may be called by the holders of at least 10 per
cent. in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes of the relevant
Series at any time and from time to time to make, give or take any
request, demand, authorisation, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Agreement or the Notes to be made,
given or taken by holders of Notes.
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The Agent may
at any time call a meeting of holders of Notes of any Series for
any purpose specified in Subclause 28(1) to be held at such time
and at such place in the City of New York or in London, as the
Agent and the relevant Issuer shall determine. Notice of
every meeting of holders of Notes, setting forth the time and the
place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to
be taken at such meeting, shall be given by the Agent to the
relevant Issuer and to the holders of the Notes, in the same manner
as
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provided in
Condition 16, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the
date fixed for the meeting. In the case at any time the
relevant Issuer or the holders of at least 10 per cent. in nominal
amount of the outstanding Notes shall have requested the Agent to
call a meeting of the holders to take any action authorised in
Subclause 28(1), by written request setting forth in reasonable
detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Agent shall not have given notice of such meeting within 21 days
after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to
cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the relevant
Issuer, or the holders of Notes in the amount above-specified, as
the case may be, may determine the time and the place in the City
of New York or London for such meeting and may call such meeting by
giving notice thereof as provided in this Subclause
28(3).
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To be entitled
to vote at any meeting of holders of Notes, a person shall be a
holder of outstanding Notes at the time of such meeting, or a
person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for such
holder.
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The quorum at
any meeting called to adopt a resolution will be persons holding or
representing a majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes
then outstanding affected thereby. In the absence of a quorum,
within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the
meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as
determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment
of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such
adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned
for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman
of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned
meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned
meeting shall be given as provided in Subclause 28(3) except that
such notice need be given not less than five days prior to the date
on which the meeting is scheduled to be
reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned
meeting shall state expressly the percentage of the nominal amount
of the outstanding Notes which shall constitute a
quorum.
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The quorum at
any adjourned meeting will be one or more persons holding or
representing 25 per cent. in aggregate nominal amount of such
Notes then outstanding affected thereby. Any meeting of holders of
Notes at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to
time by vote of a majority in nominal amount of the outstanding
Notes represented at the meeting, and the meeting may be held as so
adjourned without further notice. At a meeting or an
adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present
as aforesaid, any resolution and all matters shall be effectively
passed and decided if passed or decided by the persons entitled to
vote a majority in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes
represented and voting at such meeting, provided that such amount
approving such resolution shall be not less than 25 per cent. in
nominal amount of the outstanding Notes.
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Any
modifications, amendments or waivers under this Clause 28 to this
Agreement or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Note Agency
Agreement or to the terms and conditions of the Notes, Receipts and
Coupons will be conclusive and binding on all holders of Notes,
Receipts and Coupons, whether or not they have given such consent
or were present at any meeting, and whether or not notation of such
modifications, amendments or waivers is made upon the Notes,
Receipts and Coupons. It shall not be necessary for
the
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consent of the
holders of Notes under Condition 15 to approve the particular form
of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such
consent shall approve the substance thereof.
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Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any amendment
under this Clause 28 to this Agreement, or (in the case of
Registered Notes) to the Note Agency Agreement, the Notes, Receipts
or Coupons may bear a notation in form approved by the Agent or (in
the case of Registered Notes) Registrar as to any matter provided
for in such amendment to this Agreement or (in the case of
Registered Notes) to the Note Agency Agreement. New Notes so
modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Agent or (in the case
of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the relevant Issuer, to any
modification contained in any such amendment may be prepared by the
relevant Issuer, authenticated by the Agent or (in the case of
Registered Notes) the Registrar and delivered in exchange for the
Notes then outstanding affected thereby.
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The Agent may
make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any
meeting of holders of Notes in regard to proof of the holding of
Notes and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and
examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the
right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the
meeting as it shall deem appropriate. The Agent shall,
by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the
meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the relevant
Issuer or holders of Notes as provided above, in which case the
relevant Issuer or the holders of Notes calling the meeting, as the
case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary
chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary
of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the persons entitled to
vote a majority in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes
represented at the meeting. The chairman of the meeting
shall have no right to vote, except as a holder of Notes or
proxy. A record, at least in triplicate, of the
proceedings of each meeting of holders of Notes shall be prepared,
and one such copy shall be delivered to the relevant Issuer and
another to the Agent to be preserved by the Agent.
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29. CALCULATION
AGENCY AGREEMENT
A form of
calculation agency agreement is set out in Appendix C
hereto. Where the Conditions require functions to be
carried out by a Calculation Agent other than the Agent, the
relevant Issuer may execute such an agreement or an agreement in
such other form as such Issuer and the Calculation Agent may
agree.
30. REDENOMINATION
AND EXCHANGE
Where
redenomination ( Redenomination ) is specified in the
applicable Final Terms as being applicable, and unless otherwise
specified in the applicable Final Terms, the relevant Issuer may,
without the consent of any Noteholder, Receiptholder or
Couponholder, on giving prior notice to Euroclear, Clearstream,
Luxembourg and the Agent and at least 30 days’ prior notice
to Noteholders as provided in Condition 16, designate a
Redenomination Date.
With effect
from the Redenomination Date, notwithstanding the other provisions
of the Conditions:
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the Notes and
Receipts shall (unless already so provided by mandatory provisions
of applicable law) be deemed to be redenominated in euro in the
denomination of euro 0.01 with a nominal amount for each Note and
Receipt equal to the nominal amount of the Note or Receipt in the
original Specified Currency, converted into euro at the Established
Rate, and the Specified Currency shall be deemed to be Euro;
provided that, if the relevant Issuer determines, after
consultation with the Agent, that the then market practice in
respect of the redenomination into euro of internationally offered
securities is different from the provisions specified above in this
Subclause 30(1)(a) or in the applicable Final Terms, such
provisions shall be deemed to be amended so as to comply with such
market practice and the relevant Issuer shall promptly notify the
Noteholders, the stock exchange (if any) on which the Notes may be
listed and the Agent and Paying Agent(s) of such deemed
amendments;
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if Definitive
Notes are required to be issued after the Redenomination Date, they
shall be issued at the expense of the relevant Issuer in the
denominations of euro 1,000, euro 10,000 and euro 100,000 and (but
only to the extent of any remaining amounts less than euro 1,000 or
such smaller denominations as the Agent may approve) euro 0.01 and
such other denominations as the relevant Issuer, after consultation
with the Agent, shall determine and notify to
Noteholders;
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if Definitive
Notes have been issued, all unmatured Coupons and Receipts
denominated in the original Specified Currency (whether or not
attached to the Notes) will become void and no payments will be
made in respect of them with effect from the date on which the
relevant Issuer gives notice (the Exchange Notice ) that
Euro-denominated Notes, Receipts and Coupons are available for
exchange (provided that such securities are so
available). New certificates in respect of
Euro-denominated Notes, Receipts and Coupons will be issued in
exchange for Notes, Receipts and Coupons in the original Specified
Currency in such manner as the relevant Issuer, after consultation
with the Agent, may specify and shall be notified to Noteholders in
the Exchange Notice. No Exchange Notice may be given
less than 15 days prior to any date for payment of principal or
interest on the Notes;
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after the
Redenomination Date, all payments in respect of the Notes, the
Receipts and the Coupons (other than, unless the Redenomination
Date is on or after such date as the original Specified Currency
ceases to be a subdivision of the euro, payments of interest in
respect of periods commencing before the Redenomination Date) will
be made solely in euro as though references in the Notes, the
Receipts and the Coupons to the Specified Currency were to
euro. Such payments will be made in euro by credit or
transfer to a euro account (or any other account to which euro may
be credited or transferred) specified by the payee or by cheque;
provided, however, that a cheque may not be
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delivered to an
address in, and an amount may not be transferred to an account at a
bank located in, the United States of America or its possessions
except as provided in Condition 5(d);
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after the
Redenomination Date, Business Day in relation to any sum
payable in euro shall mean a day on which commercial banks and
foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general
business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign
currency deposits) in London and a day on which the TARGET2 system
is open. After the Redenomination Date, Payment
Day shall mean (A) a Business Day as defined herein and
(B) a day on which commercial banks are open for general business
(including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency
deposits) in the relevant place of presentation;
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if Definitive
Notes have been issued, after the Redenomination Date, the amount
of interest due in respect of Notes will be calculated by reference
to the aggregate nominal amount of Notes presented (or, as the case
may be, in respect of which Receipts or Coupons are presented) for
payment by the relevant holder and the amount of such payment shall
be rounded down to the nearest euro 0.01. If the Notes
are in global form, after the Redenomination Date, the amount of
interest due in respect of Notes represented by the Global Note
will be calculated by reference to the aggregate nominal amount of
such Notes and the amount of such payment shall be rounded down to
the nearest euro 0.01; and
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the applicable
Final Terms will specify any relevant changes to the provisions
relating to interest, including without limitation, any change to
the applicable Day Count Fraction and Business Day
Convention.
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Where exchange
( Exchange ) is specified in the applicable Final Terms as
being applicable, and unless otherwise specified in the applicable
Final Terms, the relevant Issuer may, without the consent of any
Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder, on giving prior notice
to Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and the Agent and at least 30
days’ prior notice to the Noteholders as provided in
Condition 16, elect that, with effect from the Redenomination Date
specified in the notice, the Notes shall be exchangeable for Notes
expressed to be denominated in euro in accordance with such
arrangements as the relevant Issuer may decide, after consultation
with the Agent, and as may be specified in the notice, including
arrangements under which Receipts and Coupons (which expression
shall for this purpose include Coupons to be issued on an exchange
of matured Talons) unmatured at the date so specified become
void.
(3) Amendments
and Modifications
The applicable
Final Terms in relation to any Notes may specify other terms and
conditions which shall, to the extent so specified or to the extent
inconsistent with the provisions herein, replace or modify the
provisions for the purpose of such Notes. In addition,
the relevant Issuer and the Agent may
make any
changes, without the consent of, but with notification to (in
accordance with Condition 16 and this Clause 30), any Noteholder,
Receiptholder or Couponholder, to this Agreement necessary to
implement the provisions of Condition 18 and this Clause
30.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Clause 30, if the
relevant Issuer determines, after consultation with the Agent, that
the then market practice in respect of the redenomination into euro
of internationally offered securities or euro-denominated
internationally offered securities is different from that specified
in this Clause 30, the relevant Issuer may (but shall not be
required to) amend the provisions of this Clause 30 and any
provision of the Conditions, as applicable, so as to comply with
such market practice, and the relevant Issuer shall promptly notify
Noteholders, the stock exchange (if any) on which the Notes may be
listed, the Paying Agents and the Agent of such deemed
amendments. Such changes will not take effect until
after they have been notified to Noteholders in accordance with
Condition 16 and this Clause 30.
31. DEED
POLL
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If any Global
Note becomes void in accordance with its terms, the relevant Issuer
covenants with each Relevant Account Holder (other than any
Relevant Account Holder which is an account holder of any other
Relevant Clearing System) that each Relevant Account Holder shall
automatically acquire at the Relevant Time, without the need for
any further action on behalf of any person, against the relevant
Issuer all those rights which the Relevant Account Holder would
have had if at the Relevant Time it held and beneficially owned
executed and authenticated Definitive Bearer Notes in respect of
each Underlying Note (as defined in the definition of “Global
Note”) represented by the Global Note which the Relevant
Account Holder has credited to its securities account with the
Relevant Clearing System at the Relevant Time. The
relevant Issuer’s obligation under this Clause 31 shall be a
separate and independent obligation by reference to each Underlying
Note which a Relevant Account Holder has credited to its securities
account with the Relevant Clearing System and the relevant Issuer
agrees that a Relevant Account Holder may assign its rights under
this Clause 31 in whole or in part.
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The records of
the Relevant Clearing System shall be conclusive evidence of the
identity of the Relevant Account Holders and the number of
Underlying Notes credited to the securities account of each
Relevant Account Holder. For these purposes a statement issued by
the Relevant Clearing System stating:
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the name of the
Relevant Account Holder to which the statement is issued;
and
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the aggregate
nominal amount of Underlying Notes credited to the securities
account of the Relevant Account Holder as at the opening of
business on the first day following the Relevant Time on which the
Relevant Clearing System is open for business,
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shall be
conclusive evidence of the records of the Relevant Clearing System
at the Relevant Time.
(3) In
the event of a dispute, the determination of the Relevant Time by
the Relevant Clearing System shall (in the absence of
manifest
error) be final and conclusive for all purposes in connection with
the Relevant Account Holders with securities
accounts
with the Relevant Clearing System.
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The relevant
Issuer undertakes in favour of each Relevant Account Holder that,
in relation to any payment to be made by it under this Clause 31,
it will comply with the provisions of Condition 7 to the extent
that they apply to any payments in respect of Underlying Notes as
if those provisions had been set out in full in this Clause
31.
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The relevant
Issuer will pay any stamp and other duties and taxes, including
interest and penalties, payable on or in connection with the
execution of this Agreement and any action taken by any Relevant
Account Holder to enforce the provisions of this Clause
31.
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This Clause 31
and Clause 34 shall take effect as a Deed Poll for the benefit of
the Relevant Account Holders from time to time. This
Agreement shall be deposited with and held by the common depositary
for Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg (being at that date of
this Agreement the Agent) until all the obligations of each Issuer
under this Clause 31 have been discharged in full.
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Each Issuer
acknowledges the right of every Relevant Account Holder to the
production of, and the right of every Relevant Account Holder to
obtain (upon payment of a reasonable charge) a copy of, this
Agreement, and further acknowledges and covenants that the
obligations binding upon it contained in this Clause 31 are owed
to, and shall be for the account of, each and every Relevant
Account Holder, and that each Relevant Account Holder shall be
entitled severally to enforce those obligations against the
relevant Issuer.
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32. DESCRIPTIVE
HEADINGS
The descriptive
headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only
and shall not define or limit the provisions hereof.
33. CONTRACTS
(RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) ACT 1999
Save for Clause
31, this Agreement confers no right on a person who is not a party
to this Agreement by virtue of the Contract (Rights of Third
Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this Agreement, but this
does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists
or is available apart from that Act.
34. GOVERNING
LAW
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This Agreement
and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of England.
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Each Issuer
hereby irrevocably agrees for the exclusive benefit of the Agent,
the Paying Agents and the Relevant Account Holders that the courts
of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which
may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a
dispute relating to any non-contractual obligations arising out of
or in connection with this Agreement)
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and that
accordingly any suit, action or proceedings (together referred to
as Proceedings ) arising out of or in connection with this
Agreement (including any Proceedings relating to any
non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with
this Agreement) may be brought in such courts. Each
Issuer hereby irrevocably waives any objection which it may have to
the laying of the venue of any Proceedings in any such courts and
any claim that any such Proceedings have been brought in an
inconvenient forum and hereby further irrevocably agrees that a
judgment in any Proceedings brought in the English courts shall be
conclusive and binding upon each Issuer and may be enforced in the
courts of any other jurisdiction. Nothing contained
herein shall limit any right to take Proceedings against any Issuer
in any other court of competent jurisdiction, nor shall the taking
of Proceedings in one or more jurisdictions preclude the taking of
Proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or
not. Each Issuer hereby appoints Toyota Financial
Services (UK) PLC of Great Burgh, Burgh Heath, Epsom, Surrey KT18
5UZ as its agent for service of process and agrees that, in the
event of Toyota Financial Services (UK) PLC ceasing so to act or
ceasing to be registered in England, it will appoint another person
as its agent for service of process in England in respect of any
Proceedings.
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If TMF is
represented by an attorney or attorneys in connection with the
signing and/or execution and/or delivery of this Agreement or any
agreement, deed or document referred to herein or made pursuant
hereto and the relevant power or powers of attorney is or are
expressed to be governed by the laws of the Netherlands, it is
hereby expressly acknowledged and accepted by the other parties
hereto that such laws shall govern the existence and extent of such
attorney's or attorneys' authority and the effects of the exercise
thereof.
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35. COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement
may be executed in one or more counterparts all of which shall
constitute one and the same agreement.
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF , TMF, TCCI, TFA
and TMCC have executed this Agreement as a deed, and the Agent has
executed this Agreement, as of the date first above
written.
The
Issuers
SIGNED,
SEALED AND DELIVERED
by /s/ Takahisa
Iizuka
being duly
authorised attorney
of
TOYOTA MOTOR
FINANCE
(NETHERLANDS) B.V. with
the
intention that
this instrument takes
effect
as TMF’s
deed in the presence
of:
/s/ W.G.
Kilpatrick
TOYOTA MOTOR
FINANCE (NETHERLANDS) B.V.
Atrium,
Strawinskylaan 3105
1077 ZX
Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
Telephone: 31
20 502 5312
Telefax: 31
20 502 5419
Attention: Managing
Director
SIGNED,
SEALED AND DELIVERED
by /s/ Richard
Nelson
being duly
authorised attorney
of
TOYOTA
CREDIT CANADA INC.
with the
intention that this instrument
takes
effect as
TCCI’s deed in the presence
of:
/s/ Richard
Garry
TOYOTA
CREDIT CANADA INC.
80 Micro Court,
Suite 200
Markham
Ontario L3R
9Z5
Canada
Telephone: 905
513 8200
Telefax:
905 513 8335
Attention: Executive
Vice-President
SIGNED,
SEALED AND DELIVERED
by /s/ Richard
Nelson
being duly
authorised attorney
of
TOYOTA
FINANCE AUSTRALIA
LIMITED with the intention that
this
instrument
takes effect as TFA’s
deed
in the presence
of:
/s/ Richard
Garry
TOYOTA
FINANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED
Level 9, 207
Pacific Highway
St Leonards NSW
2065
Australia
Telephone: 61 2 9430 0000
Telefax: 61 2 9430
0913
Attention: Treasurer
SIGNED,
SEALED AND DELIVERED
by the
undersigned being
duly
authorised on
behalf
of
TOYOTA MOTOR
CREDIT
CORPORATION with the intention
that
this instrument
takes effect as
TMCC’s
deed
By:
/s/ Wei Shi
Name: Wei Shi
Title: Corporate Treasury
Manager
TOYOTA MOTOR
CREDIT CORPORATION
19001 South
Western Avenue, EF12
Torrance
California
90501
USA
Telephone: (310)
468-4001
Telefax:
(310) 468-6194
Attention: Group
Vice President, Treasury
THE BANK OF
NEW YORK MELLON
One Canada
Square
Canary
Wharf
London E14
5AL
Telephone: +44
(0) 207 964 4786/8803
Telefax: +44
(0) 207 964 2536
Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration
By: /s/
Paul Bashford
Paul
Bashford
Vice
President
APPENDIX A
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
NOTES
This Note is one of a Series (as defined below)
of Notes issued subject to, and with the benefit of, an amended and
restated Agency Agreement dated 26 September 2008
(the “ Agency Agreement ”) and made
between Toyota Motor Finance (Netherlands) B.V., Toyota Credit
Canada Inc., Toyota Finance Australia Limited and Toyota Motor
Credit Corporation as Issuers and The Bank of New York Mellon, as
the issuing agent and (unless specified otherwise in the applicable
Final Terms) principal paying agent and (unless specified otherwise
in the applicable Final Terms) as calculation agent (the “
Agent ”, which expression shall include any successor
agent or other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final
Terms and the “ Paying Agent ”, which expression
shall include any additional or successor paying
agents). Notes in registered form issued by Toyota
Credit Canada Inc. (“ Registered Notes ”) are
also issued subject to, and with the benefit of, an amended and
restated Note Agency Agreement dated 26 September 2008 (the
“ Note Agency Agreement ”) and made between
Toyota Credit Canada Inc. as Issuer, Royal Bank of Canada as the
registrar (the “ Registrar ”, which expression
shall include any successor registrar) and Royal Bank of Canada,
London branch as paying agent (the “ Canadian Paying
Agent ”, which expression shall include any additional or
successor paying agent appointed for Registered Notes).
References in these Terms and Conditions to the
“ Notes ” shall be references to the Notes of
this Series and shall mean (i) in relation to any Notes represented
by a global Note, units of the lowest Specified Denomination in the
Specified Currency of the relevant Notes, (ii) definitive Notes
issued in exchange (or part exchange) for a temporary or permanent
global Note or global registered Note and (iii) any global
Note.
Interest bearing definitive Notes in bearer form
will (unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms)
have interest coupons (“ Coupons ”) and, if
indicated in the applicable Final Terms, talons for further Coupons
(“ Talons ”) attached on issue. Any reference
herein to Coupons or coupons shall, unless the context otherwise
requires, be deemed to include a reference to Talons. Definitive
Notes repayable in instalments have receipts (“
Receipts ”) for the payment of the instalments of
principal (other than the final instalment) attached on
issue.
The Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons have the
benefit of certain Credit Support Agreements governed by Japanese
law, one between Toyota Motor Corporation (the “
Parent ”) and Toyota Financial Services Corporation
(“ TFS ”) dated 14 July 2000 as supplemented by
a Supplemental Credit Support Agreement dated 14 July 2000 and a
Supplemental Credit Support Agreement No. 2 dated 2 October 2000
(collectively, the “ Basic Agreement ”) and
others between TFS and each of Toyota Motor Finance (Netherlands)
B.V., Toyota Credit Canada Inc. and Toyota Finance Australia
Limited dated 7 August 2000 and Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
dated 1 October 2000 (each a “ Credit Support
Agreement ” and together with the Basic
Agreement the “ Credit Support Agreements
”). However, the Credit Support Agreements do not
constitute a direct or indirect guarantee by the Parent or TFS of
the Notes.
The Final Terms applicable to the Notes is
attached hereto or endorsed hereon and supplements these Terms and
Conditions and may specify other terms and conditions which shall,
to the extent so specified or to the extent inconsistent with these
Terms and Conditions, replace or modify these Terms and Conditions
for the purposes of the Notes. References herein to the “
applicable Final Terms ” shall mean the Final Terms
attached hereto or endorsed hereon.
As used herein, “ Series ”
means each original issue of Notes together with any further issues
expressed to form a single series with the original issue and the
terms of which (save for the Issue Date, the amount and the date of
the first payment of interest thereon and/or the Issue Price (as
indicated in the applicable Final Terms)) are identical (including
the Maturity Date, Interest Basis, Redemption/Payment Basis and
Interest Payment Dates (if any) and whether or not the Notes are
admitted to trading) and expressions “ Notes of the
relevant Series ” and related expressions
shall
be construed accordingly. As used herein,
“ Tranche ” means all Notes of the same Series
with the same Issue Date and Interest Commencement Date (if
applicable).
Copies of the Agency Agreement (which contains
the form of the Final Terms), the Prospectus dated 26 September
2008, the Credit Support Agreements and (if the Note is offered to
the public in a Member State of the European Union, Iceland, Norway
or Liechtenstein or admitted to trading on a regulated market
within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive) the Final Terms
applicable to the Note are available free of charge and available
for inspection at the specified offices of the
Agent. Copies of the Note Agency Agreement (if the Note
is a Registered Note) are available free of charge and available
for inspection by the holders of Registered Notes at the specified
offices of the Registrar and the Canadian Paying Agent. The holders
of the Notes (the “ Noteholders ”), which
expression shall, in relation to any Notes represented by a global
Note, be construed as provided in Condition 1, the holder of the
Coupons (the “ Couponholders ”) and holders of
Receipts (the “ Receiptholders ”) are deemed to
have notice of the Agency Agreement and the applicable Final Terms,
which are binding on them. The holders of Registered
Notes are deemed to have notice of the Note Agency Agreement, which
is binding on them.
Words and expressions defined in the Agency
Agreement or (if the Note is a Registered Note) in the Note Agency
Agreement or used in the applicable Final Terms shall have the same
meanings where used in these Terms and Conditions unless the
context otherwise requires or unless otherwise stated. In the event
of inconsistency between the Agency Agreement, (if the Note is a
Registered Note) the Note Agency Agreement or the applicable Final
Terms, the applicable Final Terms will prevail.
1. Form,
Denomination and Title
The Notes may be issued in bearer form (“
Bearer Notes ”) or, in respect of Notes issued by
Toyota Credit Canada Inc., in bearer or registered form as set out
in the applicable Final Terms and, in the case of definitive Bearer
Notes, serially numbered, in the Specified Currency (or Specified
Currencies in the case of Dual Currency Notes) and in the Specified
Denomination(s), all as specified in the applicable Final
Terms.
Bearer Notes may not be exchanged for Registered
Notes and vice versa .
The Note may be a Note bearing interest on a
fixed rate basis (“ Fixed Rate Note ”), a Note
bearing interest on a floating rate basis (“ Floating Rate
Note ”), a Note issued on a non-interest bearing basis
(“ Zero Coupon Note ”), a Note with respect to
which interest is calculated by reference to an index, index basket
and/or a formula (“ Index Linked Interest Note
”), a Note with respect to which interest is calculated by
reference to certain parameters (“ Range Accrual Note
”) or any combination of the foregoing, depending upon the
interest basis specified in the applicable Final Terms. The Note
may be a Note with respect to which principal is calculated by
reference to an index or index basket and/or a formula (“
Index Linked Redemption Note ”), a Note redeemable in
instalments (“ Instalment Note ”), a Note with
respect to which principal and/or interest is payable in one or
more Specified Currencies other than the Specified Currency in
which it is denominated (“ Dual Currency Note
”), a Note which is issued on a partly paid basis (“
Partly Paid Note ”) or a combination of any of the
foregoing, depending upon the redemption or payment basis shown in
the applicable Final Terms (and where appropriate in the context,
“ Index Linked Interest Notes ” and “
Index Linked Redemption Notes ” are referred to
collectively as “ Index Linked Notes
”).
Bearer Notes in definitive form are issued with
Coupons attached, unless they are Zero Coupon Notes in which case
references to interest (other than interest due after the Maturity
Date), Coupons and Couponholders in these Terms and Conditions are
not applicable. Wherever Dual Currency Notes or Index
Linked Notes are issued to bear interest on a fixed or floating
rate basis or on a non-interest bearing basis, the provisions in
these Terms and Conditions relating to Fixed Rate Notes, Floating
Rate Notes and Zero Coupon Notes, respectively, shall, where the
context so permits, apply to such Dual Currency Notes or Index
Linked Notes.
Subject as set
out below, title to Bearer Notes, Receipts and Coupons will pass by
delivery. The holder of each Coupon or Receipt, whether or not such
Coupon or Receipt is attached to a Note, in his capacity as such,
shall be subject to and bound by all the provisions contained in
the relevant Note. Subject as set out below, the Issuer and any
Paying Agent may deem and treat the bearer of any Bearer Note,
Receipt or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not
overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, including
any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any
previous loss or theft thereof) for all purposes but, in the case
of any global Bearer Note, without prejudice to the provisions set
out in the next succeeding paragraph.
For so long as any of the Notes is represented
by a global Note, each person who is for the time being shown in
the records of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“ Euroclear
”) or of Clearstream Banking, société anonyme
(“ Clearstream, Luxembourg ”) as the holder of a
particular nominal amount of such Notes (other than a clearing
agency (including Clearstream, Luxembourg and Euroclear) that is
itself an account holder of Clearstream, Luxembourg or Euroclear
(in which regard any certificate or other document issued by
Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of
Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and
binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error or
proven error)) shall be treated by the Issuer, the Agent and any
other Paying Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the
Registrar and the Canadian Paying Agent as the holder of such
nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with
respect to the payment of principal (including premium (if any)) or
interest on the Notes, for which purpose the bearer of the relevant
global Bearer Note or registered holder of the registered global
Note shall be treated by the Issuer, the Agent and any other Paying
Agent as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and subject to
the terms of the relevant global Note (and the expressions “
Noteholder ” and “ holder of Notes
” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly).
Notes which are represented by a global Note will be transferable
only in accordance with the rules and procedures for the time being
of Euroclear or of Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may
be.
Title to Registered Notes issued by Toyota
Credit Canada Inc. passes on due endorsement in the relevant
register which Toyota Credit Canada Inc. shall procure to be kept
by the Registrar. Subject as set out above, except as ordered by a
court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the
registered holder of any Registered Note shall be deemed to be and
may be treated as the absolute owner of such Registered Note for
all purposes, whether or not such Registered Note shall be
overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership, theft or loss
thereof or any writing thereon made by anyone and no person shall
be liable for so treating such registered holder (and the
expressions “ Noteholder ” and “ holder
of Notes ” and related expressions shall be construed
accordingly).
Provisions relating to the transfer of
Registered Notes are set out in the relevant Registered Note and
the Note Agency Agreement.
Any reference herein to Euroclear and/or
Clearstream, Luxembourg shall, whenever the context so permits,
except in relation to Notes in new global note (“ NGN
”) form, be deemed to include a reference to any additional
or alternative clearing system approved by the Issuer, the Agent or
(in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Canadian
Paying Agent and, in the case of Notes admitted to the Official
List and admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s
Regulated Market, the UK Listing Authority.
If the Specified Currency of the Note is a
currency of one of the Member States of the European Union which
has not adopted the euro, and if specified in the applicable Final
Terms, the Note shall permit redenomination and exchange (as
referred to in Condition 18 below or in such other manner as set
forth in the applicable Final Terms) at the option of the
Issuer.
2. Status
of the Notes and the Credit Support Agreements
The Notes and any relevant Receipts and Coupons
are direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and (subject to the
provisions of Condition 3) unsecured obligations of the Issuer and
rank pari passu and rateably without any preference among
themselves and (save for certain obligations required to be
preferred by law) equally with all other unsecured obligations
(other
than subordinated obligations, if any) of the
Issuer from time to time outstanding. The Notes, the Receipts and
the Coupons have the benefit of the Credit Support
Agreements.
The Notes will be subject to this Condition 3
only if this Condition 3 is specified to be applicable in the
applicable Final Terms. So long as any of the Notes
remains outstanding (as defined in the Agency Agreement) the Issuer
will not create or permit to be outstanding any mortgage, pledge,
lien, security interest or other charge (each a “ Security
Interest ”) (other than a Permitted Security Interest (as
defined below)) for the benefit of the holders of any Relevant
Indebtedness (as defined below) on the whole or any part of its
property or assets, present or future, to secure any Relevant
Indebtedness issued or expressly guaranteed by the Issuer or in
respect of which the Issuer has given any indemnity without in any
such case at the same time according to the Notes the same security
as is granted or is outstanding in respect of such Relevant
Indebtedness or such guarantee or indemnity or such other security
as shall be approved by the written consent of holders of a
majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding
affected thereby, or by resolution adopted by the holders of a
majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding
present or represented at a meeting of the holders of the Notes
affected thereby at which a quorum is present, as provided in the
Agency Agreement; provided, however, that such covenant will not
apply to Security Interests securing outstanding Relevant
Indebtedness which does not in the aggregate at any one time exceed
20 per cent. of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets (as defined below)
of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries (if any). For the
purposes of this Condition 3:
“ Consolidated Net Tangible Assets
” means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable
reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting
therefrom all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents,
unamortised debt discount and expense and other like intangibles of
the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries (or, where the Issuer
has no consolidated subsidiaries, of the Issuer), all as set forth
on the most recent balance sheet of the Issuer and its consolidated
subsidiaries (or, where the Issuer has no consolidated
subsidiaries, the most recent balance sheet of the Issuer) prepared
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as
practised in the jurisdiction of the Issuer’s
incorporation;
“ Relevant Indebtedness ”
shall mean any indebtedness in the form of or represented by bonds,
notes, debentures or other securities which have a final maturity
of more than a year from the date of their creation and which are
admitted to trading on one or more stock exchanges;
“ Permitted Security Interest
” shall mean:
(i) any
Security Interest arising by operation of law or any right of
set-off;
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any Security
Interest granted by the Parent in favour of a TMC subsidiary (as
defined below) (while such beneficiary remains a TMC subsidiary) or
by one TMC subsidiary in favour of another TMC subsidiary (while
such beneficiary remains a TMC subsidiary);
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any Security
Interest created in connection with, or pursuant to, a
limited-recourse financing, securitisation or other like
arrangement where the payment obligations in respect of the
indebtedness secured by the relevant Security Interest are to be
discharged from the revenues generated by assets over which such
Security Interest is created (including, without limitation,
receivables); and
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“ TMC subsidiary ” means any
of the Parent’s subsidiaries consolidated in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States.
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Interest
on Fixed Rate Notes and Business Day Convention for Notes other
than Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Notes
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Each Fixed Rate Note bears interest from (and
including) the Interest Commencement Date which is specified in the
applicable Final Terms (or the Issue Date, if no Interest
Commencement Date is separately specified) to (but excluding) the
Maturity Date specified in the applicable Final Terms at the
rate(s) per annum equal to the Fixed Rate(s) of Interest so
specified payable in arrear on the Interest Payment Date(s) in each
year and on the Maturity Date so specified if it does
not fall on an Interest Payment Date.
If the Notes are in definitive form, except as
provided in the applicable Final Terms, or if the applicable Final
Terms specify that a Fixed Coupon Amount or Broken Amount(s) shall
apply in the case of Notes represented by a global Note, the amount
of interest payable on each Interest Payment Date in respect of the
Fixed Interest Period ending on (but excluding) such date will
amount to the Fixed Coupon Amount as specified in
the applicable Final Terms. Payments of interest on any
Interest Payment Date will, if so specified in the applicable Final
Terms, amount to the Broken Amount(s) so specified.
As used in these Terms and Conditions, “
Fixed Interest Period ” means the period from (and
including) an Interest Payment Date (or the Interest Commencement
Date or the Issue Date, as the case may be) to (but excluding) the
next (or first) Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date.
Unless specified otherwise in the applicable
Final Terms, the “ Following Business Day Convention
” will apply to the payment of all Fixed Rate Notes, meaning
that if the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date would otherwise
fall on a day which is not a Business Day (as defined in Condition
4(b)(i) below), the related payment of principal or interest
will be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the
date such payment was due. If the “ Modified Following
Business Day Convention ” is specified in the applicable
Final Terms for any Fixed Rate Note, it shall mean that if the
Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date would otherwise fall on a
day which is not a Business Day (as defined in Condition
4(b)(i) below), the related payment of principal or interest
will be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the
date such payment was due unless it would thereby fall into the
next calendar month in which event the full amount of payment shall
be made on the immediately preceding Business Day as if made on the
day such payment was due. Unless specified otherwise in the
applicable Final Terms, the amount of interest due shall not be
changed if payment is made on a day other than an Interest Payment
Date or the Maturity Date as a result of the application of a
Business Day Convention specified above or other Business Day
Convention specified in the applicable Final Terms.
Except in the case of (i) Notes in definitive
form where a Fixed Coupon Amount or a Broken Amount is specified in
the applicable Final Terms or (ii) Notes represented by a global
Note where the applicable Final Terms specify that a Fixed Coupon
Amount or Broken Amount(s) shall apply, interest shall be
calculated in respect of any period (including any period ending
other than on an Interest Payment Date (which for this purpose
shall not include a period where a payment is made on a day other
than an Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date as a result of
the application of a Business Day Convention as provided in the
immediately preceding paragraph, unless specified otherwise in the
applicable Final Terms)) by applying the Fixed Rate of Interest
to:
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in the case of
Fixed Rate Notes which are represented by a global Note, the
aggregate outstanding nominal amount of the Fixed Rate Notes
represented by such global Note (or, if they are Partly Paid Notes,
the aggregate of the amount paid up); or
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in the case of
Fixed Rate Notes in definitive form, the Calculation
Amount,
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and, in each
case, multiplying such sum by the applicable Fixed Day Count
Fraction or other Day Count Fraction specified in the applicable
Final Terms, and rounding the resultant figure to the nearest
sub-unit of the relevant Specified Currency, half of any such
sub-unit being rounded
upwards or
otherwise in accordance with applicable market
convention. Where the Specified Denomination of a Fixed
Rate Note in definitive form is a multiple of the Calculation
Amount, the amount of interest payable in respect of such Fixed
Rate Note shall be the product of the amount (determined in the
manner provided above) for the Calculation Amount and the amount by
which the Calculation Amount is multiplied to reach the Specified
Denomination, without any further rounding.
In these Terms and Conditions, “ Fixed
Day Count Fraction ” means (unless specified otherwise in
the applicable Final Terms):
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if “
Actual/Actual (ICMA) ” is specified in the applicable
Final Terms:
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in the case of
Notes where the number of days in the relevant period from (and
including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the
Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but
excluding) the relevant payment date (the “ Accrual
Period ”) is equal to or shorter than the Determination
Period (as defined below) during which the Accrual Period ends, the
number of days in such Accrual Period divided by the product of (1)
the number of days in such Determination Period and (2) the number
of Determination Dates (as specified in the applicable Final Terms)
that would occur in one calendar year assuming interest was to be
payable in respect of the whole of that year; or
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in the case of
Notes where the Accrual Period is longer than the Determination
Period during which the Accrual Period ends, the sum of:
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the number of
days in such Accrual Period falling in the Determination Period in
which the Accrual Period begins divided by the product of (x) the
number of days in such Determination Period and (y) the number of
Determination Dates (as specified in the applicable Final Terms)
that would occur in one calendar year assuming interest was to be
payable in respect of the whole of that year; and
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the number of
days in such Accrual Period falling in the next Determination
Period divided by the product of (x) the number of days in such
Determination Period and (y) the number of Determination Dates (as
specified in the applicable Final Terms) that would occur in one
calendar year assuming interest was to be payable in respect of the
whole of that year; and
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if “
Actual/Actual (ISDA) ” is specified in the applicable
Final Terms, the actual number of days in the relevant period from
(and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none,
the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to
(but excluding) the next scheduled Interest Payment Date divided by
365 (or, if any portion of that period falls in a leap year, the
sum of (x) the actual number of days in that portion of the
period falling in a leap year divided by 366; and (y) the
actual number of days in that portion of the period falling in a
non-leap year divided by 365); and
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if “
30/360 ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms,
the number of days in the relevant period from (and including) the
most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest
Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but excluding)
the next scheduled Interest Payment Date (such number of days being
calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day
months) divided by 360 and, in the case of an incomplete month, the
number of days elapsed; and
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if “
Actual/360 ” is specified in the applicable Final
Terms, the actual number of days in the relevant period from (and
including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the
Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but
excluding) the next scheduled Interest Payment Date divided by
360.
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In these Terms
and Conditions:
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“ Determination Period ”
means the period from (and including) a Determination Date (as
specified in the applicable Final Terms) to (but excluding) the
next Determination Date (including, where either the Interest
Commencement Date or the final Interest Payment Date is not a
Determination Date, the period commencing on the first
Determination Date prior to, and ending on the first Determination
Date falling after, such date); and
“ sub-unit ” means, with
respect to any currency other than euro, the lowest amount of such
currency that is available as legal tender in the country of such
currency and, with respect to euro, means one cent.
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Interest
on Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Interest
Notes
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Each Floating Rate Note and Index Linked
Interest Note bears interest from (and including) the Interest
Commencement Date specified in the applicable Final Terms (or the
Issue Date, if no Interest Commencement Date is separately
specified) and, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final
Terms, at the rate equal to the Rate of Interest payable in arrear
on the Maturity Date and on either: (1) the Specified Interest
Payment Date(s) (each, together with the Maturity Date, an “
Interest Payment Date ”) in each year specified in the
applicable Final Terms; or (2) if no Specified Interest Payment
Date(s) is/are specified in the applicable Final Terms, each date
(each such date, together with the Maturity Date, an “
Interest Payment Date ”) which falls the number of
months or other period specified as the Specified Period in the
applicable Final Terms after the preceding Interest Payment Date
or, in the case of the first Interest Payment Date, after the
Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable. Such
interest will be payable in respect of each Interest
Period. As used in these Terms and Conditions, “
Interest Period ” means the period from (and
including) an Interest Payment Date (or the Interest Commencement
Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but excluding) the next (or
first) Interest Payment Date).
If a Business Day Convention is specified in the
applicable Final Terms and (x) if there is no numerically
corresponding day in the calendar month in which an Interest
Payment Date should occur or (y) if any Interest Payment Date would
otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day (as defined
below), then, if the Business Day Convention specified
is:
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in any case
where Specified Periods are specified in accordance with Condition
4(b)(i)(2) above, the Floating Rate Convention, such Interest
Payment Date (i) in the case of (x) above, shall be the last day
that is a Business Day in the relevant month and the provisions of
(2) below in this sub-paragraph (A) shall apply mutatis
mutandis or (ii) in the case of (y) above, shall be postponed
to the next day which is a Business Day unless it would thereby
fall into the next calendar month, in which event (1) such Interest
Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding
Business Day and (2) each subsequent Interest Payment Date shall be
the last Business Day in the month which falls in the Specified
Period after the preceding applicable Interest Payment Date
occurred; or
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the Following
Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be
postponed to the next day which is a Business Day; or
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the Modified
Following Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall
be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day unless it
would thereby fall into the next calendar month, in which event
such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the
immediately preceding Business Day; or
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the Preceding
Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be
brought forward to the immediately preceding Business
Day.
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In these Terms
and Conditions, “ Business Day ” means (unless
otherwise stated in the applicable Final Terms) a day which is
both:
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a day on which
commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and
are open for general business (including dealing in foreign
exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London and any other
Applicable Business Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms;
and
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either (1) in
relation to any sum payable in a Specified Currency other than
euro, a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets
settle payments and are open for general business (including
dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in the
principal financial centre of the country of the relevant Specified
Currency (if other than London and any other Applicable Business
Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms), or (2) in relation
to any sum payable in euro, a day on which the TARGET2 System is
open. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Final Terms, the
principal financial centre of any country for the purpose of these
Terms and Conditions shall be as provided in the 2006 ISDA
Definitions (as published by the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association, Inc.) as
supplemented, amended and updated as of the
first Issue Date of the Notes of the relevant Series (the “
ISDA Definitions ”) (except if the Specified Currency
is Australian dollars or New Zealand dollars the principal
financial centre shall be Sydney or Auckland, respectively). In
these Terms and Conditions, “ TARGET2 System ”
means the Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement
Express Transfer (TARGET2) System or any successor
thereto.
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The Rate of Interest payable from time to time
in respect of the Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Interest
Notes will be determined in the manner specified in the applicable
Final Terms.
(A) Unless
specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, where ISDA
Determination is specified in the applicable Final Terms as the
manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate
of Interest for each Interest Period will be the relevant ISDA Rate
plus or minus (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) the
Margin (if any) as determined by the Agent (or such other
Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms). For the
purposes of this sub-paragraph (iii) unless specified otherwise in
the applicable Final Terms, “ ISDA Rate plus or minus (as
indicated in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any)
” for an Interest Period means a rate equal to the Floating
Rate that would be determined under an interest rate swap
transaction under the terms of an agreement (regardless of any
event of default or termination event thereunder) incorporating the
ISDA Definitions with the holder of the relevant Note and under
which:
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the manner in
which the Rate of Interest is to be determined is the “
Floating Rate Option ” as specified in the applicable
Final Terms;
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the Issuer is
the “ Floating Rate Payer ”;
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the Agent or
other person specified in the applicable Final Terms is the “
Calculation Agent ”;
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the Interest
Commencement Date is the “ Effective Date
”;
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the Aggregate
Nominal Amount of Notes is the “ Notional Amount
”;
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the relevant
Interest Period is the “ Designated Maturity ”
as specified in the applicable Final Terms;
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the Interest
Payment Dates are the “ Floating Rate Payer Payment
Dates ”;
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the Margin is
the “ Spread ”;
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the relevant
Reset Date is either (i) if the applicable Floating Rate Option is
based on the London inter-bank offered rate (“ LIBOR
”) or on the Euro-zone inter-bank offered rate (“
EURIBOR ”) for a currency, the first day of that
Interest Period or (ii) in any other case, as specified in the
applicable Final Terms; and
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all other terms
are as specified in the applicable Final Terms.
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(B) When
Condition 4(b)(iii)(A) applies, unless specified otherwise in the
applicable Final Terms with respect to each relevant Interest
Payment Date:
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the amount of
interest determined for such Interest Payment Date shall be the
Interest Amount for the relevant Interest Period for the purposes
of these Terms and Conditions as though calculated under Condition
4(b)(vi) below; and
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(i) “ Floating Rate ”,
“ Floating Rate Option ”, “ Floating
Rate Payer ”, “ Effective Date ”,
“ Notional Amount ”, “ Floating Rate
Payer Payment Dates ”, “ Spread ”,
“ Calculation Agent ”, “ Designated
Maturity ” and “ Reset Date ” have the
meanings given to those terms in the ISDA Definitions; and (ii)
“ Euro-zone ” means the region comprised of
Member States of the European Union that adopt the single currency
in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community,
as amended (the “ Treaty ”).
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Screen Rate
Determination
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Unless specified otherwise in the applicable
Final Terms, where Screen Rate Determination is specified in the
applicable Final Terms as the manner in which the Rate of Interest
is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest Period
will, subject as provided below, be either:
(x) the offered quotation;
or
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the arithmetic
mean (rounded, if necessary, to the fifth decimal place with
0.000005 being rounded upwards) of the offered
quotations,
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(expressed as a
percentage rate per annum), for the Reference Rate (as specified in
the applicable Final Terms) for deposits in the Specified Currency
for that Interest Period which appears or appear, as the case may
be, on the Relevant Screen Page (as specified in the applicable
Final Terms) as at 11:00 a.m. (London time, in the case of
LIBOR, or Brussels time, in the case of EURIBOR) on the Interest
Determination Date (as defined below) in question plus or minus (as
specified in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any), all
as determined by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent
specified in the applicable Final Terms). Unless specified
otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, if five or more of such
offered quotations are available on the Relevant Screen Page, the
highest (or, if there is more than one such highest quotation, one
only of such quotations) and the lowest (or, if there is more than
one such lowest quotation, one only of such quotations) shall be
disregarded by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified
in the applicable Final Terms) for the purpose of determining the
arithmetic mean (rounded as provided above) of such offered
quotations. In addition:
(A) unless
specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms if, in the case
of (x) above, no such rate appears or, in the case of
(y) above, fewer than two of such offered rates appear at such
time or if the offered rate or rates which appears or appear, as
the case may be, as at such time do not apply to a period of a
duration equal to the relevant Interest Period, the Rate of
Interest for such Interest Period shall, subject as provided below
and except as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, be
the arithmetic mean (rounded, if necessary, to the fifth decimal
place with 0.000005 being rounded upwards) of the offered
quotations (expressed as a percentage rate per annum), of which the
Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable
Final Terms) is advised by all Reference Banks (as defined below)
as at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Interest
Determination
Date plus or
minus (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if
any), all as determined by the Agent (or such other Calculation
Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms);
(B) except
as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, if on any
Interest Determination Date to which Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) applies
two or three only of the Reference Banks advise the Agent (or such
other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) of
such offered quotations, the Rate of Interest for the next Interest
Period shall, subject as provided below, be determined as in
Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) on the basis of the rates of those Reference
Banks advising such offered quotations;
(C) except
as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, if on any
Interest Determination Date to which Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) applies
one only or none of the Reference Banks advises the Agent (or such
other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) of
such rates, the Rate of Interest for the next Interest Period
shall, subject as provided below and except as otherwise indicated
in the applicable Final Terms, be whichever is the higher
of:
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the Rate of
Interest in effect for the last preceding Interest Period to which
Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) shall have applied (plus or minus (as
specified in the applicable Final Terms), where a different Margin
is to be applied to the next Interest Period than | |