Exhibit 10(z)-4
AMENDMENT NO. 3
TO
PPL OFFICERS DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
WHEREAS, PPL Services Corporation ("PPL") has
adopted the PPL Officers Deferred Compensation Plan ("Plan")
effective July 1, 2000; and
WHEREAS, the Plan was amended and restated
effective November 1, 2003, and subsequently amended by Amendment
No. 1 and 2; and
WHEREAS, PPL desires to further amend the
Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as
follows:
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Effective June
1, 2008, the following sections of Articles 2, 4, 6 and 9 are
amended to read:
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Article II
Definitions
2.1. "Account"
means the account of Deferred Cash Compensation and Deferred Cash
Awards established solely as a bookkeeping entry and maintained
under Article V of this Plan. This account includes the
balance of any account from the PPL Global Officers Deferred
Compensation Plan and/or the PPL Montana Officers Deferred
Compensation Plan as of the date those Plans were terminated and
merged into this Plan. Each Account shall have two
sub-accounts: a sub-account for "Pre-2005 Amounts" and a
sub-account for "Post-2004 Amounts" (each defined in Section
6.1).
2.17 "Section
409A" means Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and the final Treasury Regulations issued
thereunder.
2.18 "Separation
from Service" means a "separation from service" as defined in
Section 409A.
2.19 "SERP"
means the PPL Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.
2.20 "Total
Amount Payable" means the amount credited to a Participant's
Account plus the calculated rate of return pursuant to Section
5.1(e).
The masculine pronoun shall be deemed to include
the feminine and the singular to include the plural unless a
different meaning is plainly required by the context.
2.21 "Unforeseeable
Emergency" means an "unforeseeable emergency" as defined in Section
409A.
Article IV
Deferred Cash Compensation
and Deferred Cash Awards
4.4 Any
election to defer or change the amount of Cash Compensation and/or
Cash Awards to be deferred for any subsequent calendar year after
the first calendar year of eligibility may be made by Participant
not later than June 30 of the year preceding the year Cash
Compensation is earned and Cash Awards are granted, with the
exception of the deferral of salary, by filing with the CLC or its
designee an election form; provided, however, that an election once
made will be presumed to continue for future years unless timely
changed or revoked by Participant in accordance with Section
4.5. Deferral of salary or changes in salary deferral
elections for any subsequent calendar year may be made not later
than December 31 of the year preceding the year salary would
otherwise be paid.
4.8 Such
an election, once made, will be irrevocable except as provided in
Section 4.5.
4.10 The
Account of any Participant with Deferred Cash Compensation and
Deferred Cash Awards for the calendar year shall be increased by a
matching contribution amount, equal to 100% of the aggregate
Deferred Cash Compensation and Deferred Cash Awards that do not
exceed 3% of Cash Compensation, minus the maximum amount of
Matching Contributions that could have been made to Participant's
Accounts in the PPL Deferred Savings Plan and/or PPL Subsidiary
Savings Plan for that calendar year if the Participant had made the
maximum employee contributions permitted.
Article VI
Payment of Account - General
Provisions
6.1 The
Total Amount Payable shall be payable to Participant:
(a) When
the Participant's employment with PPL terminates for any reason,
including retirement, payments will commence immediately for the
amount of Participant's Account as of December 31, 2004, plus
applicable earnings under Section 5.4 to the date of payment,
("Pre-2005 Amount"). When the Participant has a
Separation from Service with PPL, payments will commence for the
amount of Participant's Account attributable to deferrals after
December 31, 2004, and appli