URANERZ ENERGY
CORPORATION
COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY,
N.A.
COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF
CANADA,
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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF
GENERAL APPLICATION
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Section 1.02 Compliance Certificates and
Opinions
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Section 1.03 Form of Documents Delivered to
Trustees
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Section 1.04 Acts of Holders
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Section 1.05 Notices, etc. to Trustees and
Company
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Section 1.06 Notice to Holders;
Waiver
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Section 1.07 Effect of Headings and Table
of Contents
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Section 1.08 Successors and
Assigns
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Section 1.09 Severability Clause
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Section 1.10 Benefits of
Indenture
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Section 1.11 Governing Law
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Section 1.12 Legal Holidays
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Section 1.13 Agent for Service; Submission
to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Immunities
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Section 1.14 Conversion of
Currency
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Section 1.15 Currency Equivalent
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Section 1.16 Conflict with Trust Indenture
Legislation
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Section 1.17 Incorporators, Shareholders,
Officers and Directors of the Company Exempt from Individual
Liability
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ARTICLE TWO SECURITIES FORMS
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Section 2.01 Forms Generally
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Section 2.02 Form of Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication
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Section 2.03 Securities Issuable in Global
Form
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ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES
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Section 3.01 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in
Series
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Section 3.02 Denominations
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Section 3.03 Execution, Authentication,
Delivery and Dating
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Section 3.04 Temporary
Securities
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Section 3.05 Registration, Registration of
Transfer and Exchange
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Section 3.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities
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Section 3.07 Payment of Principal; Premium;
Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest
Reset
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Section 3.08 Optional Extension of Stated
Maturity
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Section 3.09 Persons Deemed
Owners
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Section 3.10 Cancellation
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Section 3.11 Computation of
Interest
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Section 3.12 Currency and Manner of
Payments in Respect of Securities
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Section 3.13 Appointment and Resignation of
Successor Exchange Rate Agent
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ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE
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Section 4.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture
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Section 4.02 Application of Trust
Money
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ARTICLE FIVE SUBORDINATION OF THE
SECURITIES
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Section 5.01 Agreement to
Subordinate
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Section 5.02 Distribution on Insolvency or
Winding-Up
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Section 5.03 Subrogation of the
Securities
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Section 5.04 No Payment to Holders if
Senior Indebtedness Due or in Default or Commencement of
Proceedings
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Section 5.05 Payment of Securities
Permitted
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Section 5.06 Subordination Not to be
Impaired
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Section 5.07 Obligations Created by
Article 5
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Section 5.09 Amendments to
Article 5
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Section 5.10 Authorization to Trustees to
Effect Subordination
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Section 6.01 Events of Default
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Section 6.02 Acceleration of Maturity;
Rescission and Annulment
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Section 6.03 Collection of Debt and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustees
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Section 6.04 Trustees May File Proofs of
Claim
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Section 6.05 Trustees May Enforce Claims
Without Possession of Securities
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Section 6.06 Application of Money
Collected
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Section 6.07 Limitation on Suits
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Section 6.08 Unconditional Right of Holders
to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
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Section 6.09 Restoration of Rights and
Remedies
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Section 6.10 Rights and Remedies
Cumulative
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Section 6.11 Delay or Omission Not
Waiver
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Section 6.12 Control by Holders
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Section 6.13 Waiver of Past
Defaults
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Section 6.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension
Laws
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Section 6.15 Undertaking for
Costs
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ARTICLE SEVEN THE TRUSTEES
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Section 7.01 Notice of Defaults
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Section 7.02 Certain Duties and
Responsibilities of Trustees
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Section 7.03 Certain Rights of
Trustees
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Section 7.04 Trustees Not Responsible for
Recitals or Issuance of Securities
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Section 7.05 May Hold Securities
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Section 7.06 Money Held in Trust
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Section 7.07 Compensation and
Reimbursement
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Section 7.08 Corporate Trustees Required;
Eligibility
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Section 7.09 Resignation and Removal;
Appointment of Successor
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Section 7.10 Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor
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Section 7.11 Merger, Conversion,
Consolidation or Succession to Business
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Section 7.12 Appointment of Authenticating
Agent
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Section 7.13 Joint Trustees
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Section 7.14 Other Rights of
Trustees
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Section 7.15 Third Party
Interests
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ARTICLE EIGHT HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
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Section 8.01 Company to Furnish Trustee
Names and Addresses of Holders
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Section 8.02 Preservation of List of Names
and Addresses of Holders
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Section 8.03 Disclosure of Names and
Addresses of Holders
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Section 8.04 Reports by Trustees
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Section 8.05 Reports by the
Company
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ARTICLE NINE CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
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Section 9.01 Company May Consolidate, etc.,
only on Certain Terms
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Section 9.02 Successor Person
Substituted
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ARTICLE TEN SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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Section 10.01 Supplemental Indentures
Without Consent of Holders
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Section 10.02 Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Holders
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Section 10.03 Execution of Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 10.04 Effect of Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 10.05 Conformity with Trust
Indenture Legislation
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Section 10.06 Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures
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Section 10.07 Notice of Supplemental
Indentures
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Section 11.01 Payment of Principal,
Premium, if any, and Interest
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Section 11.02 Maintenance of Office or
Agency
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Section 11.03 Money for Securities Payments
to Be Held in Trust
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Section 11.04 Statement as to
Compliance
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Section 11.05 Additional Amounts
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Section 11.06 Payment of Taxes and Other
Claims
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Section 11.07 Corporate
Existence
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Section 11.08 Waiver of Certain
Covenants
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ARTICLE TWELVE REDEMPTION OF
SECURITIES
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Section 12.01 Applicability of
Article
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Section 12.02 Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustees
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Section 12.03 Selection by Trustees of
Securities to Be Redeemed
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Section 12.04 Notice of
Redemption
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Section 12.05 Deposit of Redemption
Price
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Section 12.06 Securities Payable on
Redemption Date
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Section 12.07 Securities Redeemed in
Part
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Section 12.08 Tax Redemption
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN SINKING FUNDS
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Section 13.01 Applicability of
Article
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Section 13.02 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund
Payments with Securities
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Section 13.03 Redemption of Securities for
Sinking Fund
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ARTICLE FOURTEEN REPAYMENT AT OPTION OF
HOLDERS
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Section 14.01 Applicability of
Article
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Section 14.02 Repayment of
Securities
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Section 14.03 Exercise of Option
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Section 14.04 When Securities Presented for
Repayment Become Due and Payable
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Section 14.05 Securities Repaid in
Part
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ARTICLE FIFTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT
DEFEASANCE
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Section 15.01 Company’s Option to
Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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Section 15.02 Defeasance and
Discharge
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Section 15.03 Covenant
Defeasance
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Section 15.04 Conditions to Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance
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Section 15.05 Deposited Money and
Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous
Provisions
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Section 15.06 Reinstatement
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ARTICLE SIXTEEN MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF
SECURITIES
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Section 16.01 Purposes for Which Meetings
May Be Called
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Section 16.02 Call, Notice and Place of
Meetings
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Section 16.03 Persons Entitled to Vote at
Meetings
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Section 16.04 Quorum; Action
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Section 16.05 Determination of Voting
Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings
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Section 16.06 Counting Votes and Recording
Action of Meetings
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Section 16.07 Waiver of Jury
Trial
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Section 16.08 Counterparts
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TIA
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Indenture
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Note: This
Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of this Indenture.
v
URANERZ ENERGY
CORPORATION
INDENTURE, dated
as of
, between URANERZ ENERGY CORPORATION, a corporation duly existing
under the laws of Nevada (herein called the “Company”),
having its principal office at 1701 East “E” Street, PO
Box 50850, Casper, Wyoming 82605-0850 and Computershare Trust
Company, N.A., a trust company, organized under the laws of the
United States, as U.S. trustee (herein called the “U.S.
Trustee”), and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, a trust
company duly organized and existing under the laws of Canada, as
Canadian trustee (the “Canadian Trustee” and, together
with the U.S. Trustee, the “Trustees”).
The Company has
duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to
provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called
the “Securities”), which may be convertible into or
exchangeable for any securities of any person (including the
Company), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided.
This Indenture is
subject to the provisions of Trust Indenture Legislation (as
defined below) that are required to be part of this Indenture and
shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such
provisions.
All things
necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company,
in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE,
THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in
consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by
the Holders (as defined below) thereof, it is mutually covenanted
and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders
of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
For all purposes
of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless
the context otherwise requires:
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the
terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in
this Article and include the plural as well as the
singular;
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all
other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein, and the terms “cash
transaction” and “self-liquidating paper”, as
used in Section 311
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of
the Trust Indenture Act, shall have the meanings assigned to them
in the rules of the Commission adopted under the Trust Indenture
Act;
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all
accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with United States generally
accepted accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein
expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting
principles” with respect to any computation required or
permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are
generally accepted in the United States at the date of such
computation;
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the
words “herein”, “hereof” and
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision;
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“or” is not
exclusive;
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words implying any gender shall
apply to all genders; and
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the
words Subsection, Section and Article refer to the Subsections,
Sections and Articles, respectively, of this Indenture unless
otherwise noted.
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(8) “include”,
“includes” or “including” means include,
includes or including, in each case, without limitation.
Certain terms,
used principally in Article Three, are defined in that
Article.
“accelerated
indebtedness” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.01.
“Act”,
when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.04.
“Additional
Amounts” has the meaning specified in
Section 11.05.
“Affiliate”
of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, “control” when used with respect to any
specified Person means the power to direct the management and
policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and
the terms “controlling” and “controlled”
have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Appropriate
Trustee” means, with respect to the Canadian Securities, the
Canadian Trustee, and with respect to the U.S. Securities, the U.S.
Trustee.
“Authenticating
Agent” means any Person authorized by either Trustee pursuant
to Section 7.12 to act on behalf of such Trustee to
authenticate Securities.
“Authorized
Newspaper” means a newspaper, in the English language or in
an official language of the country of publication, customarily
published on each Business Day, and of general circulation in each
place in connection with which the term is used or in the
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community of
each such place. Where successive publications are required to be
made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be
made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city
meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business
Day.
“Base
Currency” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.14.
“Bearer
Security” means any Security except a Registered
Security.
“Board of
Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company
or any duly authorized committee of such board.
“Board
Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Chief Financial Officer or the Corporate Secretary of the Company
to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in
full force and effect on the date of such certification, and
delivered to the Trustees.
“Branch
Register” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.05.
“Branch
Security Registrar” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.05.
“Business
Day”, when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any
other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the
Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, any day other than
Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which the offices of the
Trustees are closed.
“calculation
period” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.11.
“Canadian
Securities Authorities” means the securities commissions or
similar authorities in Canada.
“Canadian
Taxes” has the meaning specified in
Section 11.05.
“Canadian
Trustee” means the Person named as the “Canadian
Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a
successor Canadian Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Canadian Trustee” shall mean or include each Person
who is then a Canadian Trustee hereunder; provided ,
however , that if at any time there is more than one such
Person, “Canadian Trustee” as used with respect to the
Securities of any series shall mean only the Canadian Trustee with
respect to Securities of that series.
“Capital
Lease Obligation” means the obligation of a Person, as
lessee, to pay rent or other amounts to the lessor under a lease of
real or personal property which is required to be classified and
accounted for as a capital lease on a consolidated balance sheet of
such person in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital
Stock” in any Person means any and all shares, interests,
partnership interests, participations or other equivalents however
designated in the equity interest in such Person and
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any rights
(other than debt securities convertible into an equity interest),
warrants or options to acquire any equity interest in such
Person.
“Central
Register” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.05.
“Central
Security Registrar” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.05.
“Commission”
means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any
time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the
Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such
time.
“Common
Depositary” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.04.
“Company”
means the Person named as the “Company” in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have
become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such
successor Person.
“Company
Request” or “Company Order” means a written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Executive
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President, the Chief
Executive Officer, or the Chief Operating Officer, or if two or
more persons share such office any one of such persons, and by the
Chief Financial Officer or the Corporate Secretary of the Company,
or if two or more persons share such office any one of such
persons, and delivered to the Trustees.
“Component
Currency” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.12(h).
“Conversion
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.12(d).
“Conversion
Event” means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign
Currency (other than the Euro or other currency unit both by the
government of the country which issued such Currency and by a
central bank or other public institution of or within the
international banking community for the settlement of transactions,
(ii) the Euro or (iii) any currency unit (or composite
currency) other than the Euro for the purposes for which it was
established.
“Corporate
Trust Office” means the principal corporate trust office of
the U.S. Trustee or the Canadian Trustee, as applicable, or the
principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee, at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business may be
administered, such an office on the date of execution of this
Indenture of the U.S. Trustee is located at 350 Indiana St., Suite
750, Golden, CO, 80401, Attention: Corporate Trust Department,
Facsimile No. • and of the Canadian Trustee is located at 510
Burrard Street, 3 rd Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3B9,
Attention: General Manager, Corporate Trust, Facsimile No. •,
except that with respect to presentation of Securities for payment
or for registration of transfer or exchange, such term shall mean
the office or agency of the U.S. Trustee or the Canadian Trustee,
as applicable, designated in writing to the Company at which, at
any particular time, its corporate agency business shall be
conducted.
“corporation”
includes corporations, associations, companies and business
trusts.
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“coupon”
means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer
Security.
“covenant
defeasance” has the meaning specified in
Section 15.03.
“Currency”
means any currency or currencies, composite currency or currency
unit or currency units, including, without limitation, the Euro,
issued by the government of one or more countries or by any
recognized confederation or association of such
governments.
“Default”
means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or
both would be, an Event of Default.
“Defaulted
Interest” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.07.
“defeasance”
has the meaning specified in Section 15.02.
“Depositary
“ means, with respect to the Securities of any series
issuable or issued in the form of one or more Registered
Securities, the Depositary Trust Company, or any successor thereto,
or any other Person designated as Depositary by the Company
pursuant to Section 3.05 until a successor Depositary shall
have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and, if at
any time there is more than one such Person,
“Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of
any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the
Registered Securities of that series.
“Dollar”
or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time
shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
“Dollar
Equivalent of the Currency Unit” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.12(g).
“Dollar
Equivalent of the Foreign Currency” has the meaning specified
in Section 3.12(f).
“Election
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.12(h).
“Euro”
means the single currency of the participating member states from
time to time of the European Union described in legislation of the
European Counsel for the operation of a single unified European
currency (whether known as the Euro or otherwise).
“Event of
Default” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.01.
“Exchange
Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
“Exchange
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.04.
“Exchange
Rate Agent” means, with respect to Securities of or within
any series, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, a New York clearing house
bank, designated pursuant to Section 3.01 or
Section 3.13.
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“Exchange
Rate Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate setting
forth (i) the applicable Market Exchange Rate and
(ii) the Dollar or Foreign Currency amounts of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any (on an aggregate basis and on
the basis of a Security having the lowest denomination principal
amount determined in accordance with Section 3.02 below in the
relevant Currency), payable with respect to a Security of any
series on the basis of such Market Exchange Rate, signed by the
Chief Executive Officer, President or Chief Financial Officer of
the Company.
“Exchanges”
means the NYSE Amex, the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange and any other securities exchange or automated
quotation system upon which the Securities are or become listed or
quoted.
“Excluded
Holder” has the meaning specified in
Section 11.05.
“Extension
Notice” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.08.
“Extension
Period” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.08.
“Final
Maturity” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.08.
“First
Currency” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.15.
“Foreign
Currency” means any Currency other than Currency of the
United States.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
in effect from time to time.
“Government
Obligations” means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 3.01,
securities which are (i) direct obligations of the government
which issued the Currency in which the Securities of a particular
series are payable or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the
government which issued the Currency in which the Securities of
such series are payable, the payment of which is unconditionally
guaranteed by such government, which, in either case, are full
faith and credit obligations of such government payable in such
Currency and are not callable or redeemable at the option of the
issuer thereof and shall also include a depositary receipt issued
by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such
Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or
principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian
for the account of the holder of a depositary receipt;
provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is
not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the
holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific
payment of interest or principal of the Government Obligation
evidenced by such depositary receipt.
“Holder”
means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in whose
name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the
case of a Bearer Security, the bearer thereof and, when used with
respect to any coupon, shall mean the bearer thereof.
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“Indenture”
means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable
provisions hereof, and shall include the terms of particular series
of Securities established as contemplated by Section 3.01;
provided , however , that, if at any time more than
one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument,
“Indenture” shall mean, with respect to any one or more
series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee, this
instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of the particular series of Securities
for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by
Section 3.01, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms
which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such
Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions
were adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by
means of one or more indentures supplemental hereto executed and
delivered after such Person had become such Trustee but to which
such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.
“Indexed
Security” means a Security the terms of which provide that
the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more
or less than the principal face amount thereof at original
issuance.
“interest”,
when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which
by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity at the rate prescribed in such Original
Issue Discount Security.
“Interest
Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such
Security.
“Judgment
Currency” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.14.
“Lien”
means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, charge, assignment,
deposit arrangement, encumbrance, security interest, lien
(statutory or other), or preference, priority or other security or
similar agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature
whatsoever (including, without limitation, any agreement to give or
grant a Lien or any lease, conditional sale or other title
retention agreement having substantially the same economic effect
as any of the foregoing) but not including any security interest in
respect of a lease which is not a Capital Lease Obligation and
provided that such term shall not include any encumbrance that may
be deemed to arise solely as a result of entering into an
agreement, not in violation of the terms of this Indenture, to sell
or otherwise transfer assets or Property.
“mandatory
sinking fund payment” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.01.
“Market
Exchange Rate” means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, (i) for any
conversion involving a currency unit on the one hand and Dollars or
any Foreign Currency on the other, the exchange rate between the
relevant currency unit and Dollars or such Foreign Currency
calculated by the method specified pursuant to Section 3.01
for the Securities of the relevant series, (ii) for any
conversion of Dollars into any Foreign Currency, buying rate for
such Foreign Currency for cable transfers quoted in New York City
as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York and (iii) for
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any conversion
of one Foreign Currency into Dollars or another Foreign Currency,
the spot rate at noon local time in the relevant market at which,
in accordance with normal banking procedures, the Dollars or
Foreign Currency into which conversion is being made could be
purchased with the Foreign Currency from which conversion is being
made from major banks located in New York City, Toronto, London or
any other principal market for Dollars or such purchased Foreign
Currency, in each case determined by the Exchange Rate Agent.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant
to Section 3.01, in the event of the unavailability of any of
the exchange rates provided for in the foregoing clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii), the Exchange Rate Agent shall use, in its sole
discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available
date, or quotations from one or more major banks in New York City,
Toronto or another principal market for the Currency in question,
or such other quotations as the Exchange Rate Agent shall deem
appropriate. Unless otherwise specified by the Exchange Rate Agent,
if there is more than one market for dealing in any Currency by
reason of foreign exchange regulations or otherwise, the market to
be used in respect of such Currency shall be that upon which a
non-resident issuer of securities designated in such Currency would
purchase such Currency in order to make payments in respect of such
securities.
“Maturity”,
when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the
principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes
due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the
Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of
redemption, notice of option to elect repayment or
otherwise.
“Non-Recourse
Debt” means indebtedness to finance the creation,
development, construction or acquisition of assets and any
increases in or extensions, renewals or refinancings of such
indebtedness, provided that the recourse of the lender thereof
(including any agent, trustee, receiver or other Person acting on
behalf of such entity) in respect of such indebtedness is limited
in all circumstances to the assets created, developed, constructed
or acquired in respect of which such indebtedness has been incurred
and to the receivables, inventory, equipment, chattels payable,
contracts, intangibles and other assets, rights or collateral
connected with the assets created, developed, constructed or
acquired and to which such lender has recourse.
“Notice of
Default” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.01.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate, which shall comply with
this Indenture, signed by the Executive Chairman of the Board of
Directors, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Chief
Operating Officer, or if two or more persons share such office any
one of such persons, and by the Chief Financial Officer or the
Corporate Secretary of the Company, or if two or more persons share
such office any one of such persons, and delivered to the
Trustees.
“Opinion of
Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company, including an employee of the
Company.
“Optional
Reset Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.07.
“optional
sinking fund payment” has the meaning specified in
Section 13.01.
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“Original
Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 6.02.
“Original
Stated Maturity” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.08.
“Other
Currency” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.15.
“Outstanding”,
when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
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a Trustee or delivered to a Trustee for cancellation;
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Securities, or portions thereof, for
whose payment or redemption or repayment at the option of the
Holder, money in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with a Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the
Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto;
provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of
such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or
provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustees has been
made;
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(iii)
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Securities, except to the extent
provided in Section 15.02 and Section 15.03, with respect
to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant
defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen; and
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(iv)
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Securities which have been paid
pursuant to Section 3.06 or in exchange for or in lieu of
which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered
pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustees
proof satisfactory to them that such Securities are held by a
protected purchaser (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC) in
whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the
Company;
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provided , however , that in determining whether
the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at a
meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of
making the calculations required by TIA Section 313,
(i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount
Security that may be counted in making such determination or
calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that
would be (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at
the time of such determination, upon a declaration of acceleration
of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.02,
(ii) the principal amount of any Security denominated in a
Foreign Currency that may be counted in making such determination
or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined as of
the date such Security is originally issued by the Company as set
forth in an Exchange Rate Officers’ Certificate delivered to
the Trustees, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an
Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of such
date of original issuance of the
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amount
determined as provided in clause (i) above) of such Security,
(iii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be
counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall
be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the
principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original
issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to such Security
pursuant to Section 3.01, and (iv) Securities owned by
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Trustees shall be protected in making such
calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which the Trustees know to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good
faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to
the satisfaction of the Trustees the pledgee’s right so to
act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or such other obligor.
“Paying
Agent” means any Person (including the Company acting as
Paying Agent) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Securities on behalf
of the Company. Such Person, at the responsibility of the Company,
must be able to make payment in the currency of the issued
Security.
“Person”
means any individual, corporation, body corporate, partnership,
joint venture, limited liability company, association, joint-stock
company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Place of
Payment” means, when used with respect to the Securities of
or within any series, each place where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities are
payable in the United States and Canada as specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 and
Section 11.02.
“Predecessor
Security” of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of
this definition, any security authenticated and delivered under
Section 3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security or a Security to which a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains shall be
deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Security or the Security to which the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, as the case may
be.
“rate(s) of
exchange” has the meaning specified in
Section 1.14.
“Redemption
Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or
pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption
Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, in whole or in part, means the price at which it is to be
redeemed pursuant to this Indenture, plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon to the Redemption Date.
“Registered
Security” means any Security registered in the Security
Register.
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“Regular
Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the
date specified for that purpose as contemplated by
Section 3.01.
“Repayment
Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such
repayment pursuant to this Indenture.
“Repayment
Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be
repaid pursuant to this Indenture.
“Reset
Notice” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.07.
“Responsible
Officer”, when used with respect to a Trustee, means any vice
president, secretary, any assistant secretary, treasurer, any
assistant treasurer, any senior trust officer, any trust officer,
the controller within the corporate trust administration division
of a Trustee or any other officer of a Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above-designated officers, and also means, with respect to a
particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
“Securities”
has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and
more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture; provided , however , that if at
any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this
Indenture, “Securities” with respect to the Indenture
as to which such Person is Trustee shall have the meaning stated in
the first recital of this Indenture and shall more particularly
mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such
Person is not Trustee.
“Security
Register” and “Security Registrar” have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.05.
“Senior
Default” means (i) any default or event of default under
any instrument creating any Senior Indebtedness, or (ii) any
event which would, with giving of notice, lapse of time, or both,
or subject to any other condition subsequent to such event,
constitute such a default or event of default.
“Senior
Indebtedness” means:
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all
indebtedness of the Company in respect of borrowed money, other
than:
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indebtedness evidenced by the
Securities; and
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indebtedness which, by the terms of
the instrument creating or evidencing the same, is expressed to
rank in right of payment equally with or subordinate to the
indebtedness evidenced by the Securities;
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all
obligations of the Company for the reimbursement of amounts paid
pursuant to any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or
similar credit transaction; and
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all
obligations of the type referred to in paragraphs (a) through
(b) above of other Persons for the payment of which the
Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or
otherwise,
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and, for
greater certainty, “Senior Indebtedness” will include
all indebtedness of the Company for borrowed money which is
outstanding as at the date hereof.
“Shareholders’
Equity” means the aggregate amount of shareholders’
equity of the Company as shown on the most recent audited annual
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and computed in
accordance with GAAP.
“Special
Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of or within any series means a date fixed by
the Trustees pursuant to Section 3.07.
“Specified
Amount” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.12(h).
“Stated
Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the
date specified in such Security or a coupon representing such
installment of interest as the fixed date on which the principal of
such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due
and payable, as such date may be extended pursuant to the
provisions of Section 3.08.
“Subsequent
Interest Period” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.07.
“Subsidiary”
means, any corporation of which at the time of determination the
Company, directly and/or indirectly through one or more
Subsidiaries, owns more than 50% of the shares of Voting Stock or
partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, association,
company or business trust interests.
“Trust
Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the United States
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 , as amended, as in force at the
date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in
Section 10.05.
“Trust
Indenture Legislation” means, at any time, the provisions of
(i) the provisions of any applicable statute of Canada or any
province or territory thereof and the regulations thereunder as
amended or re-enacted from time to time, but only to the extent
applicable, or (ii) the Trust Indenture Act and regulations
thereunder, in each case, relating to trust indentures and to the
rights, duties and obligations of trustees under trust indentures
and of corporations issuing debt obligations under trust
indentures, to the extent that such provisions are at such time in
force and applicable to this Indenture or the Company or the
Trustees.
“Trustee”
or “Trustees” means the U.S. Trustee and the Canadian
Trustee. Except to the extent otherwise indicated,
“Trustees” shall refer to the Canadian Trustee and the
U.S. Trustee, both jointly and individually.
“UCC”
means the New York uniform commercial code in effect from time to
time.
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“U.S.
Federal Bankruptcy Code” means the Bankruptcy Act of Title
11 of the United States Code , as amended from time to
time.
“U.S.
Trustee” means the Person named as the “U.S.
Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a
successor U.S. Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “U.S.
Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a U.S.
Trustee hereunder; provided , however , that if at
any time there is more than one such Person, “U.S.
Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series
shall mean only the U.S. Trustee with respect to Securities of that
series.
“United
States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, the United States of
America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its
territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its
jurisdiction.
“United
States person” means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, an individual who
is a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation,
partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the
laws of the United States, an estate the income of which is subject
to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source,
or a trust if (A) it is subject to the primary supervision of
a court within the United States and one or more United States
persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of
the trust or (B) it has a valid election in effect under
applicable Treasury Regulations to be treated as a United States
person.
“Valuation
Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.12(c).
“Vice
President”, when used with respect to the Trustees, means any
vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title “vice
president”.
“Voting
Stock” means with respect to any Person, securities of any
class or classes of Capital Stock in such Person entitling the
holder thereof (whether at all times or at the time that such class
of Capital Stock has voting power by reason of the happening of any
contingency) to vote in the election of members of the board of
directors or comparable body of such Person.
“Writing”
has the meaning specified in Section 7.13.
“Yield to
Maturity” means the yield to maturity, computed at the time
of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent
redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set forth in
such Security in accordance with generally accepted United States
bond yield computation principles.
Section 1.02 Compliance Certificates and
Opinions
Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustees to take any
action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustees, to the extent required by the Trust
Indenture Act, an Officers’ Certificate stating that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture
(including any covenant compliance with which constitutes a
condition precedent) relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and, if requested
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by the Trustee,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel
all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or request as to
which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by
any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular
application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need
be furnished.
Every certificate
or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition
provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to
Section 11.04) shall include:
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statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
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a
brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
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a
statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
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a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such covenant or condition has been complied with.
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Section 1.03 Form of Documents Delivered to
Trustees
In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such
matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one
such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one
document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with
respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons may
certify or give an opinion as to other matters, and any such Person
may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several
documents.
Any certificate or
opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it
relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, a certificate
of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or
in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the
matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company stating that the information with respect to such factual
matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Any certificate or
opinion of an officer of the Company or of counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such officer or
counsel, as the case may be, knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the
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certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters
upon which such certificate or opinion may be based are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with the Trustees shall contain a statement that
such firm is independent.
Where any Person
is required to make, give or execute two or more applications,
requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be
consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 1.04 Acts of Holders
(a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one or more
series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one
or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such
Holders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing. If
Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders of such series may, alternatively, be embodied in and
evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of such series
voting in favor thereof, either in person or by proxies duly
appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of
such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions
of Article Sixteen, or a combination of such instruments and
any such record. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustees and,
where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such
instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof
of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any
such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in
favor of the Trustees and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in
Section 16.06.
(b) The fact
and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or
writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that
the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to
him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer
acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of
authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such
instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustees
deem sufficient.
(c) The
principal amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by
the Security Register.
(d) The
principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by
any Person, and the date of holding the same, may be proved by the
production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed,
as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other
depositary,
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wherever
situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustees to be
satisfactory, showing that at the date therein mentioned such
Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the
Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved by
the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer
Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the
Trustees to be satisfactory. The Trustees and the Company may
assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until
(1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date
issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or
(2) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustees by some
other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in
exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer
Security is no longer Outstanding. The principal amount and serial
numbers of Bearer Securities held by any Person, and the date of
holding the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the
Trustees deem sufficient.
(e) If the
Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act, the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but
the Company shall have no obligation to do so. Notwithstanding
Trust Indenture Legislation, including TIA Section 316(c),
such record date shall be the record date specified in or pursuant
to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not earlier than
the date 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders
generally in connection therewith and not later than the date such
solicitation is completed. If such a record date is fixed, such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but
only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record
date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining
whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding
Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be
computed as of such record date; provided that no such
authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such record
date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than eleven
months after the record date.
(f) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued
upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor
or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered
to be done by the Trustees or the Company in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
Section 1.05 Notices, etc. to Trustees and
Company
Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Holders or other documents provided or permitted by this Indenture
to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
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U.S. Trustee, by the Canadian Trustee, any Holder or by the Company
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing
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to or with the
U.S. Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Department, Facsimile No. • , or
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the
Canadian Trustee, by the U.S. Trustee, any Holder or by the Company
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing to or with the Canadian Trustee at
its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: General Manager, Corporate
Trust, Facsimile No. • , or
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the
Company, by either Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and faxed or mailed, first-class postage
prepaid or personally delivered, to the Company, Attention: Chief
Financial Officer, Facsimile No: • or such other
officer or facsimile number as the Company may designate on written
notice to the Trustees, addressed to it at the address of its
principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Trustees by the Company.
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Section 1.06 Notice to Holders;
Waiver
Where this
Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered
Securities by the Company or the Trustees, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each such
Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the
Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier
than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.
In any case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is
given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders
of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to
Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided. Any notice mailed
to a Holder in the manner herein prescribed shall be conclusively
deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or not such
Holder actually receives such notice.
In case, by reason
of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service or
by reason of any other cause, it shall be impractical to mail
notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities when such
notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this
Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustees shall be deemed to be sufficient
giving of such notice for every purpose hereunder.
Except as
otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, where this
Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of
any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of
Bearer Securities if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The
City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be
specified in such Securities on a Business Day at least twice, the
first such publication to be not earlier than the earliest date,
and not later than the latest date, prescribed for the giving of
such notice. Any such notice shall be deemed to have been given on
the date of the first such publication.
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In case, by reason
of the suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspaper or
Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause, it shall be
impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities
as provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer
Securities as shall be given with the approval of the Trustees
shall constitute sufficient notice to such Holders for every
purpose hereunder. Neither the failure to give notice by
publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor
any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency
of such notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities
or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Registered
Securities given as provided herein.
Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official
language of the country of publication.
Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be
waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be
filed with the Trustees, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
Section 1.07 Effect of Headings and Table
of Contents
The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction
hereof.
Section 1.08 Successors and
Assigns
All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company and the Trustees shall
bind their successors and assigns, whether so expressed or
not.
Section 1.09 Severability
Clause
In case any
provision in this Indenture or in any Security or coupon shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.10 Benefits of
Indenture
Nothing in this
Indenture or in the Securities or coupons, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any
Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar
and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities or
coupons, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture. Subject to Section 1.16, at all times
in relation to this Indenture and any action to be taken hereunder,
the Company and the Trustees each shall observe and comply with
Trust Indenture Legislation and the Company, the Trustees and each
Holder of a Security shall be entitled to the benefits of Trust
Indenture Legislation.
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Section 1.11 Governing Law
This Indenture and
the Securities and coupons shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the law of the State of New York, but without
giving effect to applicable principles of conflicts of law to the
extent that the application of the law of another jurisdiction
would be required thereby. Each Trustee and the Company agrees to
comply with all provisions of Trust Indenture Legislation
applicable to or binding upon it in connection with this Indenture
and any action to be taken hereunder. This Indenture is subject to
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be
part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be
governed by such provisions. Notwithstanding the preceding
sentence, the exercise, performance or discharge by the Canadian
Trustee of any of its rights, powers, duties or responsibilities
hereunder shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the
Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable
thereto.
Section 1.12 Legal Holidays
In any case where
any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment
date or Stated Maturity or Maturity of any Security shall not be a
Business Day at any Place of Payment or other location contemplated
hereunder, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or of any Security or coupon other than a provision in
the Securities of any series which specifically states that such
provision shall apply in lieu of this Section), payment of
principal (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, need not be
made at such Place of Payment or other location contemplated
hereunder on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day at such Place of Payment or other location
contemplated hereunder with the same force and effect as if made on
the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or sinking fund
payment date, or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity; provided that
no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date,
Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be.
Section 1.13 Agent for Service; Submission
to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Immunities
By the execution
and delivery of this Indenture, the Company (i) acknowledges
that it has irrevocably designated and appointed CT Corporation
System, 111 8 th Avenue, 13 th Floor, New York, New York, 1001 as its
authorized agent upon which process may be served in any suit or
proceeding arising out of or relating to the Securities or this
Indenture that may be instituted in any federal or New York State
court located in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or
brought by the Trustees (whether in their individual capacity or in
their capacity as Trustees hereunder), (ii) submits to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit or
proceeding, and (iii) agrees that service of process upon CT
Corporation System and written notice of said service to the
Company (mailed or delivered to the Company, attention: Chief
Financial Officer, at its principal office at 1701 East
“E” Street, PO Box 50850, Casper, Wyoming 82605-0850.,
as specified in Section 1.05 hereof), shall be deemed in every
respect effective service of process upon the Company in any such
suit or proceeding. The Company further agrees to take any and all
action, including the execution and filing of any and all such
documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such
designation and appointment of CT Corporation System in full force
and effect so long as this Indenture shall be in full force and
effect.
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To the extent that
the Company has or hereafter may acquire any immunity from
jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process (whether
through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment
in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) with respect to itself
or its property, the Company hereby irrevocably waives such
immunity in respect of its obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities, to the extent permitted by law.
The Company
irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have
to the laying of venue of any such action, suit or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this Indenture or the Securities in
any federal or state court in the State of New York, The Borough of
Manhattan. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to
the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient
forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such
court.
Section 1.14 Conversion of
Currency
(a) The
Company covenants and agrees that the following provisions shall
apply to conversion of currency in the case of the Securities and
this Indenture:
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If
for the purposes of obtaining judgment in, or enforcing the
judgment of, any court in any country, it becomes necessary to
convert into a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) an
amount due or contingently due in any other currency under the
Securities of any series and this Indenture (the “Base
Currency”), then the conversion shall be made at the rate of
exchange prevailing on the Business Day before the day on which a
final judgment is given or the order of enforcement is made, as the
case may be (unless a court shall otherwise determine).
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If
there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the
Business Day before the day on which the judgment referred to in
(i) above is given or an order of enforcement is made, as the
case may be (or such other date as a court shall determine), and
the date of receipt of the amount due, the Company shall pay such
additional (or, as the case may be, such lesser) amount, if any, as
may be necessary so that the amount paid in the Judgment Currency
when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of
receipt will produce the amount in the Base Currency originally
due.
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(b) In the
event of the winding-up of the Company at any time while any amount
or damages owing under the Securities and this Indenture, or any
judgment or order rendered in respect thereof, shall remain
outstanding, the Company shall indemnify and hold the Holders and
the Trustees harmless against any deficiency arising or resulting
from any variation in rates of exchange between (1) the date
as of which the equivalent of the amount in the Base Currency due
or contingently due under the Securities and this Indenture (other
than under this Subsection (b)) is calculated for the purposes of
such winding-up, and (2) the final date for the filing of
proofs of claim in such winding-up. For the purpose of this
Subsection (b) the final date for the filing of proofs of
claim in the winding-up of the Company shall be the date fixed by
the liquidator or otherwise in accordance with the relevant
provisions of applicable law as being the
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latest
practicable date as at which liabilities of the Company may be
ascertained for such winding-up prior to payment by the liquidator
or otherwise in respect thereto.
(c) The
obligations contained in Subsections (a)(ii) and (b) of this
Section shall constitute separate and independent obligations of
the Company from its other obligations under the Securities and
this Indenture, shall give rise to separate and independent causes
of action against the Company, shall apply irrespective of any
waiver or extension granted by any Holder or the Trustees or either
of them from time to time and shall continue in full force and
effect notwithstanding any judgment or order or the filing of any
proof of claim in the winding-up of the Company for a liquidated
sum in respect of amounts due hereunder (other than under
Subsection (b) above) or under any such judgment or order. Any
such deficiency as aforesaid shall be deemed to constitute a loss
suffered by the Holders or the Trustees, as the case may be, and no
proof or evidence of any actual loss shall be required by the
Company or its liquidator. In the case of Subsection
(b) above, the amount of such deficiency shall not be deemed
to be increased or reduced by any variation in rates of exchange
occurring between the said final date and the date of any
liquidating distribution.
The term
“rate(s) of exchange” shall mean the rate of exchange
quoted by a Canadian chartered bank as may be designated in writing
by the Company to the Trustees from time to time, at its central
foreign exchange desk in its main office in Toronto at 12:00 noon
(Toronto time) on the relevant date for purchases of the Base
Currency with the Judgment Currency and includes any premiums and
costs of exchange payable. The Trustees shall have no duty or
liability with respect to monitoring or enforcing this
Section.
Section 1.15 Currency
Equivalent
Except as
otherwise provided in this Indenture, for purposes of the
construction of the terms of this Indenture or of the Securities,
in the event that any amount is stated herein in the Currency of
one nation (the “First Currency”), as of any date such
amount shall also be deemed to represent the amount in the Currency
of any other relevant nation (the “Other Currency”)
which is required to purchase such amount in the First Currency at
the Bank of Canada noon rate as reported by Telerate on screen 3194
(or such other means of reporting the Bank of Canada noon rate as
may be agreed upon by each of the parties to this Indenture) on the
date of determination.
Section 1.16 Conflict with Trust Indenture
Legislation
If and to the
extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or
conflicts with any mandatory requirement of Trust Indenture
Legislation, such mandatory requirement shall control. If and to
the extent that any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts
with the duties imposed by any of Sections 310 to 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, through operation of Section
318(c) thereof, such duties shall control.
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Section 1.17 Incorporators, Shareholders,
Officers and Directors of the Company Exempt from Individual
Liability
No recourse under
or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this
Indenture, or in any Security, or because of any indebtedness
evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such,
or against any past, present or future shareholder, officer or
director, as such, of the Company or of any successor, either
directly or through the Company or any successor, under any rule of
law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of
any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or
otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released
by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders and as part of
the consideration for the issue of the Securities.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITIES FORMS
Section 2.01 Forms Generally
The Registered
Securities, if any, of each series and the Bearer Securities, if
any, of each series and related coupons shall be in substantially
the forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in
each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon
as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities
exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Securities or coupons, as evidenced by
their execution of the Securities or coupons. If the forms of
Securities or coupons of any series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of
such action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or the
Chief Financial Officer of the Company and delivered to the
Trustees at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order
contemplated by Section 3.03 for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities or coupons. Any portion of the text of
any Security may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an
appropriate reference thereto on the face of the
Security.
Unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, Bearer Securities
shall have interest coupons attached.
Either
Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities
shall be in substantially the form set forth in this
Article.
The definitive
Securities and coupons shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
on steel-engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner,
all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or
coupons.
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Section 2.02 Form of Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication
Subject to
Section 7.12, either Trustee’s certificate of
authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION
(Certificate of
Authentication may be executed by either Trustee)
Computershare
Trust Company, N.A., as U.S. Trustee, certifies that this is one of
the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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Computershare
Trust Company, N.A.,
as U.S. Trustee
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Computershare
Trust Company of Canada, as Canadian Trustee, certifies that this
is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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Computershare
Trust Company of Canada, as
Canadian Trustee
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Section 2.03 Securities Issuable in Global
Form
If Securities of
or within a series are issuable in global form, as specified and
contemplated by Section 3.01, then, notwithstanding clause
(10) of Section 3.01, any such Security shall represent
such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be
specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the
aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series from time
to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of
Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby may from
time to time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any
endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or
any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities
represented thereby shall be made by the Trustees in such manner
and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be
specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the
Trustees pursuant to Section 3.03 or Section 3.04.
Subject to the provisions of Section 3.03 and, if applicable,
Section 3.04, the Trustees shall deliver and redeliver any
Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon
instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in
the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to
Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 has been, or simultaneously
is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to
endorsement or delivery or
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redelivery of a
Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply
with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel.
The provisions of
the last sentence of Section 3.03 shall apply to any Security
represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never
issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the
Trustees the Security in global form together with written
instructions (which need not comply with Section 1.02 and need
not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the
reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented
thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the
last sentence of Section 3.03.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 3.07, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01, payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on any Security in permanent
global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified
therein.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 3.09 and except as provided in the
preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustees and any agent of the
Company and the Trustees shall treat as the Holder of such
principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a
permanent global Security (i) in the case of a permanent
global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent
global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the case of a
permanent global Security in bearer form, the
Depositary.
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.01 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in
Series
The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may
be issued in one or more series and may be denominated and payable
in Dollars or any Foreign Currency. The principal amount of any
series of Securities may be increased and issued under this
Indenture. There shall be established in one or more Board
Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board
Resolutions and, subject to Section 3.03, set forth in, or
determined in the manner provided in, an Officers’
Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or
all of the following, as applicable (each of which (except for the
matters set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (19) below), if
so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company
with respect to unissued Securities of the series and set forth in
such Securities of the series when issued from time to
time):
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title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the
Securities of the series from all other series of
Securities);
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the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that may
be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or
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in
lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to
Section 3.04, Section 3.05, Section 3.06,
Section 10.06, Section 12.07 or
Section 14.05);
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the
extent and manner, if any, to which payment on or in respect of the
Securities of the series will be senior or will be subordinated to
the prior payment of other liabilities and obligations of the
Company, and whether the payment of principal, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, will be guaranteed by any other Person and the
nature and priority of any security;
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the
percentage or percentages of principal amount at which the
Securities of the series will be issued;
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the
date or dates, or the method by which such date or dates will be
determined or extended, on which the Securities of the series may
be issued and the date, or dates, or the method by which such date
or dates will be determined or extended, on which the principal of
the Securities of the series is payable;
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the
rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear
interest (whether fixed or variable), if any, or the method by
which such rate or rates shall be determined, the date or dates
from which such interest shall accrue, or the method by which such
date or dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on
which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date,
if any, for the interest payable on any Registered Security on any
Interest Payment Date, or the method by which such date or dates
shall be determined, and the basis upon which interest shall be
calculated if other than on the basis of a 360-day year of 12
30-day months;
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the
place or places, if any, other than or in addition to The Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on Securities of the series
shall be payable, where any Registered Securities of the series may
be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of
the series may be surrendered for exchange, where Securities of the
series that are convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for
conversion or exchange, as applicable and, if different than the
location specified in Section 1.05, the place or places where
notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of the series and this Indenture may be
served;
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the
period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the
Currency in which, and other terms and conditions upon which
Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at
the option of the Company, if the Company is to have that
option;
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the
obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or
periods within which, the price or prices at which, the Currency in
which, and other terms and conditions upon which
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Securities of
the series shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in
part, pursuant to such obligation;
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if
other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, the denomination or denominations in which any Registered
Securities of the series shall be issuable and, if other than
denominations of $5,000, the denomination or denominations in which
any Bearer Securities of the series shall be issuable;
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if
other than the Trustees, the identity of each Security Registrar
and/or Paying Agent, as satisfactory to the Trustees;
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if
other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant
to Section 6.02 or the method by which such portion shall be
determined;
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if
other than Dollars, the Currency in which payment of the principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of
the series shall be payable or in which the Securities of the
series shall be denominated and the particular provisions
applicable thereto in accordance with, in addition to or in lieu of
any of the provisions of Section 3.12;
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whether the amount of payments of
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the
Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an
index, formula or other method (which index, formula or method may
be based, without limitation, on one or more Currencies,
commodities, equity indices or other indices), and the manner in
which such amounts shall be determined;
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whether the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the
series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a
Holder thereof, in a Currency other than that in which such
Securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the period or
periods within which (including the Election Date), and the terms
and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time
and manner of determining the exchange rate between the Currency in
which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and
the Currency in which such Securities are to be so payable, in each
case in accordance with, in addition to or in lieu of any of the
provisions of Section 3.12;
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the
designation of the initial Exchange Rate Agent, if any;
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the
applicability, if any, of Section 15.02 and/or
Section 15.03 to the Securities of the series and any
provisions in modification of, in addition to or in lieu of any of
the provisions of Article Fifteen that shall be applicable to
the Securities of the series;
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provisions, if any, granting special
rights to the Holders of Securities of the series upon the
occurrence of such events as may be specified;
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any
deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of
Default or covenants (including any deletions from, modifications
of or additions to Section 11.08) of the Company with respect to
Securities of the series, whether or not such Events of Default or
covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants
set forth herein;
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whether Securities of the series are
to be issuable as Registered Securities, Bearer Securities (with or
without coupons) or both, any restrictions applicable to the offer,
sale or delivery of Bearer Securities, whether any Securities of
the series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form
and whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable in
permanent global form with or without coupons and, if so, whether
beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global
Security may exchange such interests for Securities of such series
and of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the
circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other
than in the manner provided in Section 3.05, whether
Registered Securities of the series may be exchanged for Bearer
Securities of the series (if permitted by applicable laws and
regulations), whether Bearer Securities of the series may be
exchanged for Registered Securities of such series, and the
circumstances under which and the place or places where any such
exchanges may be made and, if Securities of the series are to be
issuable in global form, the identity of any initial depositary
therefor;
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the
date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and any
temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of
the series shall be dated if other than the date of original
issuance of the first Security of the series to be
issued;
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the
Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of the
series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name
that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, the manner in which, or the Person to whom, any interest
on any Bearer Security of the series shall be payable, if otherwise
than upon presentation and surrender of the coupons appertaining
thereto as they severally mature, and the extent to which, or the
manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary global
Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in
the manner provided in Section 3.04;
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if
Securities of the series are to be issuable in definitive form
(whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary
Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates
or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, the form
and/or terms of such certificates, documents or
conditions;
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if
the Securities of the series are to be issued upon the exercise of
warrants or subscription receipts, the time, manner and place for
such Securities to be authenticated and delivered;
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whether, under what circumstances
and the Currency in which the Company will pay Additional Amounts
as contemplated by Section 11.05 on the Securities of the
series to any Holder which is not a United States person (including
any modification to the definition of such term) in respect of any
tax, assessment or governmental charge and, if so, whether the
Company will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than
pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such
option);
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if
the Securities of the series are to be convertible into or
exchangeable for any securities of any Person (including the
Company), the terms and conditions upon which such Securities will
be so convertible or exchangeable;
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the
applicability, if any, of Section 11.05 and Section 12.08
to such Securities;
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if
other than The Depositary Trust Company, the Person designated as
the Depositary with respect to the Securities of such
series;
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provisions as to modification,
amendment or variation of any rights or terms attaching to the
Securities; and
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any
other terms, conditions, rights and preferences (or limitations on
such rights and preferences) relating to the series (which terms
shall not be inconsistent with the requirements of Trust Indenture
Legislation or the provisions of this Indenture).
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any one series and the coupons appertaining to any Bearer
Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except,
in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except
as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board
Resolution (subject to Section 3.03) and set forth in such
Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. Not all Securities of any one series need be issued at the
same time, and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened
for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
If any of the
terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to one
or more Board Resolutions, such Board Resolutions shall be
delivered to the Trustees at or prior to the delivery of the
Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the
series.
Section 3.02 Denominations
The Securities of
each series shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01. With respect to
Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in the absence of
any such provisions, the Registered Securities of such series,
other than Registered Securities issued in global form (which may
be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and the Bearer Securities
of such series, other than the Bearer Securities issued in global
form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in a
denomination of $5,000 and any integral multiples
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Section 3.03 Execution, Authentication,
Delivery and Dating
The Securities and
any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf of the
Company by its President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating
Officer, Chief Financial Officer together with the Corporate
Secretary of the Company. If two or more persons share such office
any one of such persons may. The signature of any of these officers
on the Securities or coupons may be the manual or facsimile
signatures of the present or any future such authorized officer and
may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the
Securities.
Securities or
coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them
have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and
delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the
date of such Securities or coupons.
At any time and
from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series
together with any coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the
Company to the applicable Trustee for authentication, together with
a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities, and the applicable Trustee in accordance with such
Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities;
provided , however , that, in connection with its
original issuance, no Bearer Security shall be mailed or otherwise
delivered to any location in the United States; and provided
further that, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
series of Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, a Bearer
Security may be delivered in connection with its original issuance
only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer Security shall
have furnished a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1
to this Indenture, dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the
earlier of the date on which such Bearer Security is delivered and
the date on which any temporary Security first becomes exchangeable
for such Bearer Security in accordance with the terms of such
temporary Security and this Indenture. If any Security shall be
represented by a permanent global Bearer Security, then, for
purposes of this Section and Section 3.04, the notation of a
beneficial owner’s interest therein upon original issuance of
such Security or upon exchange of a portion of a temporary global
Security shall be deemed to be delivery in connection with its
original issuance of such beneficial owner’s interest in such
permanent global Security. Except as permitted by
Section 3.06, the Trustees shall not authenticate and deliver
any Bearer Security unless all appurtenant coupons for interest
then matured have been detached and cancelled. If not all the
Securities of any series are to be issued at one time and if the
Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series
shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures
acceptable to the Trustees for the issuance of such Securities and
determining terms of particular Securities of such series such as
interest rate, stated maturity, date of issuance and date from
which interest shall accrue.
In authenticating
such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustees
shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Trust Indenture
Legislation and TIA Sections 315(a) through 315(d)) shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating:
(a) that the
form or forms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
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(b) that the
terms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(c) that such
Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, when
completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by
the Company to the Trustees for authentication in accordance with
this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustees, or
either of them, in accordance with this Indenture and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in
such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute the legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization and other similar laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
and to general equitable principles and to such other
qualifications as such counsel shall conclude do not materially
affect the rights of Holders of such Securities and any
coupons;
(d) that all
laws and requirements in respect of the execution and delivery by
the Company of such Securities, any coupons and of the supplemental
indentures, if any, have been complied with and that authentication
and delivery of such Securities and any coupons and the execution
and delivery of the supplemental indentures, if any, by the
Trustees will not violate the terms of the Indenture;
(e) that the
Company has the corporate power to issue such Securities and any
coupons, and has duly taken all necessary corporate action with
respect to such issuance; and
(f) that the
issuance of such Securities and any coupons will not contravene the
articles of incorporation or continuance, or such other constating
documents then in effect, if any, or by-laws of the Company or
result in any violation of any of the terms or provisions of any
law or regulation or of any indenture, mortgage or other agreement
known to such Counsel by which the Company is bound.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the preceding two
paragraphs, if not all the Securities of any series are to be
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the
Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to
Section 3.01 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel
otherwise required pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs prior
to or at the time of issuance of each Security, but such documents
shall be delivered prior to or at the time of issuance of the first
Security of such series.
The Trustees shall
not be required to authenticate and deliver any such Securities if
the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect
the Trustees’ own rights, duties or immunities under the
Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not
reasonably acceptable to the Trustees.
Each Registered
Security shall be dated the date of its authentication and each
Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
No Security or
coupon shall entitle a Holder to any benefit under this Indenture
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on
such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form provided for herein duly executed by the U.S. Trustee or by
the Canadian Trustee by manual signature of an authorized officer,
and such certificate upon
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any Security
shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and
the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustees for
cancellation as provided in Section 3.10 together with a
written statement (which need not comply with Section 1.02 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such
Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all
purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never
entitle a Holder to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.04 Temporary
Securities
Pending the
preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may
execute, and upon Company Order, the Trustees, or either of them,
shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are
issued, in registered form or, if authorized, in bearer form with
one or more coupons or without coupons, and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively
evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Such temporary
Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case
of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be exchanged in
accordance with the provisions of the following paragraphs), if
temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities
of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon
surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office
or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series,
without charge to the Holder. Notwithstanding that procedure,
Canadian Securities issued in temporary form must be returned to
the Canadian Trustee for cancellation. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series
(accompanied by any unmatured coupons appertaining thereto), the
Company shall execute and either Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive
Securities of the same series of authorized denominations;
provided , however , that no definitive Bearer
Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered
Security; and provided further that a definitive Bearer Security
shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security only
in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 3.03.
Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture
as definitive Securities of such series.
If temporary
Securities of any series are issued in global form, any such
temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein,
be delivered to the office of a depositary or common depositary
(the “Common Depositary”) or the Depositary, as
applicable, for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial
owners of such Securities (or to such other accounts as they may
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Without
unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such
temporary global Security (the “Exchange Date”), the
Company shall deliver to the Trustees definitive Securities, in
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the
Exchange Date such temporary global Security shall be surrendered
by the Common Depositary to the Trustees, as the Company’s
agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to
time in part, for definitive Securities without charge and either
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each
portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of
authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such
temporary global Security to be exchanged. The definitive
Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such temporary
global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any
combination thereof, as specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01, and, if any combination thereof is so specified,
as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided ,
however , that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary
global Security, upon such presentation by the Common Depositary,
such temporary global Security is accompanied by a certificate
dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by the
Depositary as to the portion of such temporary global Security held
for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the
Exchange Date or a subsequent date, each in the form set forth in
Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be
established pursuant to Section 3.01); and provided further
that definitive Bearer Securities shall be delivered in exchange
for a portion of a temporary global Security only in compliance
with the requirements of Section 3.03.
Unless otherwise
specified in such temporary global Security, the interest of a
beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global
Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same
series and of like tenor following the Exchange Date when the
account holder instructs the Depositary to request such exchange on
his behalf and delivers to the Depositary a certificate in the form
set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other
form as may be established pursuant to Section 3.01), dated no
earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of
which certificate shall be available from the offices of the
Depositary, the Trustees, any Authenticating Agent appointed for
such series of Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless otherwise
specified in such temporary global Security, any such exchange
shall be made free of charge to the beneficial owners of such
temporary global Security, except that a Person receiving
definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like in the event that such Person does not
take delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the
offices of the Depositary. Definitive Securities in bearer form to
be delivered in exchange for any portion of a temporary global
Security shall be delivered only outside the United
States.
Until exchanged in
full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities of any
series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of
like tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that,
unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01,
interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest
Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring prior to the
applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to the Depositary on such
Interest Payment Date upon delivery by the Depositary to the
Trustees of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in
Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be
established pursuant to Section
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credit without further interest thereon on or after such Interest
Payment Date to the respective accounts of the Persons who are the
beneficial owners of such temporary global Security on such
Interest Payment Date and who have each delivered to the Depositary
a certificate dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the
Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such Exchange Date in the
form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such
other form as may be established pursuant to Section 3.01).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the
certifications made pursuant to this paragraph shall satisfy the
certification requirements of the preceding two paragraphs of this
Section and of the third paragraph of Section 3.03 of this
Indenture and the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial
owners of the temporary global Security with respect to which such
certification was made will be exchanged for definitive Securities
of the same series and of like tenor on the Exchange Date or the
date of certification if such date occurs after the Exchange Date,
without further act or deed by such beneficial owners. Except as
otherwise provided in this paragraph, no payments of principal (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, owing with respect to a
beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be made
unless and until such interest in such temporary global Security
shall have been exchanged for an interest in a definitive Security.
Any interest so received by the Depositary and not paid as herein
provided shall be returned to the Trustees immediately prior to the
expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order
to be repaid to the Company in accordance with
Section 11.03.
Section 3.05 Registration, Registration of
Transfer and Exchange
So long as
required by Trust Indenture Legislation, the Company shall cause to
be kept at the Corporate Trust Offices of the Trustees a register
for each series of Securities(the registers maintained in the
Corporate Trust Offices of the Trustees and in any other office or
agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the “Central Register”) in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
the Company shall provide for the registration of the Holders of
Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities.
The Central Register shall be in written form or any other form
capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable
time. At all reasonable times, the Central Register shall be open
to inspection by the Trustee. The Company will cause the
particulars of each such issue, exchange or transfer of Securities
to be recorded in the Central Register. The Company hereby appoints
the Canadian Trustee as the Central Registrar and Transfer Agent
for the Canadian Securities and the U.S. Trustee as the Central
Registrar and Transfer Agent for the U.S. Securities (collectively,
the “Central Securities Registrars”). There shall be
two such Central Registers, one for U.S. Securities and one for
Canadian Securities. If permitted by Trust Indenture Legislation,
the Company may appoint a Person other than the Company or a trust
corporation registered under the Trust and Loan Companies
Act , S.C. 1991, c. 45 as the Central Securities Registrar;
provided that, no such removal or replacement shall be effective
until a successor Central Security Registrar with respect to such
series of Registered Securities shall have been appointed by the
Company and shall have accepted such appointment by the Company. In
the event that the Trustees shall not be or shall cease to be the
Central Securities Registrar with respect to a series of
Securities, it shall have the right to examine the Central Register
for such series at all reasonable times. There shall be only one
Central Securities Register for such series of
Securities.
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The Company may,
subject to the consent of the Appropriate Trustee, also cause to be
maintained a branch register (a “Branch Register”) or
Branch Registers of Holders of Securities in accordance with
Section 11.02 in the same manner and containing the same
information with respect to each entry contained therein as
contained in the Central Register. A copy of every entry in a
Branch Register shall, promptly after the entry is made, be
transmitted to the Central Security Registrar. If there is a
conflict between the information contained in the Central Register
and the information contained in the Branch Register, the
information contained in the Central Register shall prevail. The
Central Register together with each Branch Register are
collectively referred to herein as the “Security
Register”. At all reasonable times, the Security Register
shall be open to inspection by the Trustees. The Company may
appoint from time to time one or more branch security registrars
(“Branch Security Registrars”) and may from time to
time rescind any such appointment. The Central Security Registrar
together with each Branch Security Registrar are collectively
referred to herein as the “Security
Registrar”.
Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series
at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for that series, the
Company shall execute, and the Appropriate Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee,
one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount
and tenor.
For Canadian
Securities, the Security must be duly endorsed for transfer or in a
duly endorsed transferable form as applicable and must comply with
the current industry practice in accordance with the Securities
Transfer Association of Canada.
At the option of
the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged
for other Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at such
office or agency. Whenever any Registered Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Appropriate Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of
Securities as contemplated by Section 3.01, Bearer Securities
may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities. The
Appropriate Trustee shall update the Register, or, if the
Appropriate Trustee is not the Authenticating Agent, the
Appropriate Trustee shall immediately provide a copy of the newly
Authenticated Security to the Central Registrar so that the
Register may be updated.
If (but only if)
expressly permitted in or pursuant to the applicable Board
Resolution and (subject to Section 3.03) set forth in the
applicable Officers’ Certificate, or in any indenture
supplemental hereto, delivered as contemplated by
Section 3.01, at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities
of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the
same series of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate
principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities
to be exchanged at the office of the Appropriate Trustee, with all
unmatured coupons and all matured coupons in default thereto
appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to
produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons or matured coupon or
coupons in default, any such permitted exchange may be effected if
the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds
acceptable to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of
such missing coupon or coupons, or the surrender of such missing
coupon or coupons
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may be waived
by the Company and the Trustees if there is furnished to them such
security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and
any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such
Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made,
such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such
payment; provided , however , that, except as
otherwise provided in Section 11.02, interest represented by
coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United
States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of
any series is surrendered at any such office or agency in a
permitted exchange for a Registered Security of the same series and
like tenor after the close of business at such office or agency on
(i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business
at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or
(ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for
payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be
surrendered without the coupon relating to such Interest Payment
Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, and interest
or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on
such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the
case may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in
exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the
Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture.
Whenever any
Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Appropriate Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01, any permanent global Security shall be
exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If any beneficial
owner of an interest in a permanent global Security is entitled to
exchange such interest for Securities of such series and of like
tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and
denomination, as contemplated by Section 3.01 and provided
that any applicable notice provided in the permanent global
Security shall have been given to the Company, the Appropriate
Trustee and the Common Depositary, then without unnecessary delay
but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such
interest may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the
Appropriate Trustee definitive Securities in aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of such beneficial
owner’s interest in such permanent global Security, executed
by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such
interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Security shall
be surrendered by the Common Depositary or such other depositary as
shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the
Appropriate Trustee, as the Company’s agent for such purpose,
to be exchanged in whole or from time to time in part, for
definitive Securities without charge, and the Appropriate Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of
such permanent global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount
of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such permanent
global Security to be exchanged which, unless the Securities of the
series are not issuable both as Bearer Securities and as Registered
Securities, as specified as contemplated by Section 3.01,
shall be in the form of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities,
or any combination thereof, as shall be specified by the beneficial
owner thereof. The Appropriate Trustee shall promptly provide to
the Common Depositary (or other applicable Depositary) a
replacement global Security in the aggregate
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principal
amount of the global Security not being so exchanged. The
Appropriate Trustee shall note the exchange on the register for
such Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such exchanges
may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business
15 days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and
ending on the relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which
exchange is requested may be among those selected for redemption;
and provided, further, that no Bearer Security delivered in
exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security shall be
mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States.
If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a
permanent global Security after the close of business at the office
or agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record
Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on
the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record
Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on
the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest,
interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment,
as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but
will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for
payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in
respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is
payable in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
Transfers of
global Securities shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not
in part, to the Depositary, its successors or their respective
nominees. If at any time the Depositary of a series notifies the
Company that it is unwilling, unable or no longer qualifies to
continue as Depositary of such series or if at any time the
Depositary for such series shall no longer be registered or in good
standing under the Exchange Act, or other applicable statute or
regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor depositary with
respect to the Securities for such series. If a successor to the
Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days
after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such
condition, as the case may be, the Company’s election
pursuant to Section 3.01 shall no longer be effective with
respect to the Securities for such series and the Company will
execute, and the Appropriate Trustee, upon receipt of a Company
Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities
of such series, will authenticate and deliver Securities of such
series in definitive, registered form, in authorized denominations,
and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount
of the global Security or Securities representing such series in
exchange for such global Security or Securities.
The Company may at
any time and in its sole discretion determine that the Securities
of any series issued in the form of one or more global Securities
shall no longer be represented by such global Security or
Securities. In such event the Company will execute, and the
Appropriate Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such
series, will authenticate and deliver Securities of such series in
definitive, registered form, in authorized denominations, and in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the
global Security or Securities representing such series in exchange
for such global Security or Securities.
Interests of a
beneficial owner in global Securities may also be transferred or
exchanged for definitive Securities if, after the occurrence of an
Event of Default with respect to such Securities, and while such
Event of Default is continuing, such owner notifies the Trustees in
writing that it wishes to receive a Security in definitive,
registered form and provides to the Trustees evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustees of its ownership interest in
such
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Securities. In
such event the Company will execute, and the Appropriate Trustee,
upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery
of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and
deliver Securities of such series in definitive, registered form,
in authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the principal amount of the global Security or Securities
representing such series in exchange for such global Security or
Securities.
Upon the exchange
of a global Security for Securities in definitive registered form,
such global Security shall be cancelled by the Appropriate Trustee.
Securities issued in exchange for a global Security pursuant to
this Section shall be registered in such names and in such
authorized denominations as the Depositary for such global
Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect
participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Appropriate Trustee
in writing. The Appropriate Trustee shall deliver such Securities
to the persons in whose names such Securities are so
registered.
All Securities
issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities
shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as
the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
Every Registered
Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Security
Registrar or applicable securities transfer industry practices) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security
Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing.
Any registration
of transfer or exchange of Securities may be subject to service
charges by the Central Securities Registrar and the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, Section 10.06,
Section 12.07 or Section 14.05 not involving any
transfer.
The Company shall
not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange Securities of any series in definitive form during a
period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day
of the selection for redemption of Securities of that series under
Section 12.03 or Section 13.03 and ending at the close of
business on (A) if Securities of the series are issuable only
as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of the relevant
notice of redemption and (B) if Securities of the series are
issuable as Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of
the relevant notice of redemption or, (C) if Securities of the
series are also issuable as Registered Securities and there is no
publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or
(ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered
Security in definitive form so selected for redemption in whole or
in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being
redeemed in part, or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so
selected for redemption except that such a Bearer Security may be
exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and like tenor;
provided that such Registered Security shall be
simultaneously surrendered for redemption, or (iv) to issue,
register the transfer of or exchange any Security in definitive
form which has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the
Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so
repaid.
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Section 3.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities
If any mutilated
Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to it
is surrendered to either Trustee, the Company shall execute and
either Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor
a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with
coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to the
surrendered Security, or, in case any such mutilated Security or
coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the
Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security,
with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to
the surrendered Security, pay such Security or coupon. If there
shall be delivered to the Company and to either Trustee
(i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Security or coupon and (ii) such security (or
surety in the case of the Canadian Trustee) or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of
them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the
Trustees that such Security or coupon has been acquired by a
protected purchaser (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC), the
Company shall execute and upon Company Order either Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or
stolen Security or in exchange for the Security for which a
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains (with all appurtenant
coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen), a new Security of the same
series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding, with coupons corresponding to
the coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of the previous paragraph, in case any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or coupon has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, with coupons
corresponding to the coupons, if any, appertaining to such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security to
which such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains,
pay such Security or coupon; provided , however ,
that payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if
any, on Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in
Section 11.02, be payable only at an office or agency located
outside the United States and, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01, any interest on Bearer
Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
the coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance
of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustees)
connected therewith.
Every new Security
of any series with its coupons, if any, issued pursuant to this
Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or in exchange for a Security to which a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen coupon appertains, shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether
or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its
coupons, if any, or the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and the Holders of such
Security shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture
equally and proportionately with the Holders of any and all other
Securities of that series and their coupons, if any, duly issued
hereunder.
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The provisions of
this Section as amended or supplemented pursuant to this Indenture
with respect to particular securities or generally are exclusive
and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons.
Section 3.07 Payment of Principal; Premium;
Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest
Reset
(a) Unless
otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with
respect to any series of Securities, principal of, and premium, if
any, and interest, if any, on any Registered Security which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date or other date in which the principal of, and
premium, if any, is payable shall be paid by the Paying Agent to
the Person in whose name such Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such principal, premium or interest, as the case
may be, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such
purpose pursuant to Section 11.02; provided ,
however , that each installment of principal of, and
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on any Registered Security
may at the Company’s option be paid by (i) mailing a
check for such interest, payable to or upon the written order of
the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 3.09, to the
address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register or
(ii) transfer to an account located in the United States
maintained by the payee of a Holder of $2.0 million or more in
aggregate principal amount of such Securities (with wire transfer
instructions provided to the Trustee not less than 15 days
prior to payment of interest by wire transfer). The Paying Agent
shall confirm in writing to the Canadian Trustee upon payment
having been made to Holders of Canadian Securities within five
days.
Unless otherwise
provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the
Securities of any series, payment of interest, if any, may be made,
in the case of a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account located
outside the United States maintained by the payee.
Unless otherwise
provided as contemplated by Section 3.01, every permanent
global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on any
Interest Payment Date will be paid to the Depositary with respect
to that portion of such permanent global Security held for its
account by the Common Depositary, for the purpose of permitting the
Depositary to credit the interest, if any, received by it in
respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the
beneficial owners thereof.
Any interest on
any Registered Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant
Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
defaulted interest and, if applicable, interest on such defaulted
interest (to the extent lawful) at the rate specified in the
Securities of such series (such defaulted interest and, if
applicable, interest thereon herein collectively called
“Defaulted Interest”) must be paid by the Company as
provided for in either clause (1) or (2), at the
Company’s election:
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Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the
Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on a
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Special Record Date for the payment
of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner. The Company shall notify the Trustees in writing of the
amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Registered
Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with either Trustee an
amount of money in the Currency in which the Securities of such
series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series and except, if
applicable, as provided in Section 3.12(b),
Section 3.12(d) and Section 3.12(e)) equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustees
for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment,
such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause
provided. Thereupon the Trustees shall fix a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more
than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the
receipt by the Trustees of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustees shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record
Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall
cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor to be given in the manner provided
in Section 1.06, not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been
so given, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
whose name the Registered Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause (2).
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The
Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on
which such Securities may be listed, and, upon such notice as may
be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company
to the Trustees of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustees.
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(b) The
provisions of this Subsection may be made applicable to any series
of Securities pursuant to Section 3.01 (with such
modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified
pursuant to such Section 3.01). The interest rate (or the
spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate,
if applicable) on any Security of such series may be reset by the
Company on the date or dates specified on the face of such Security
(each an “Optional Reset Date”). The Company may
exercise such option with respect to such Security by notifying the
Trustees of such exercise at least 50 but not more than
60 days prior to an Optional Reset Date for such Security. Not
later than 40 days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the
Trustees shall transmit, in the manner provided for in
Section 1.06, to the Holder of any such Security a notice (the
“Reset Notice”) indicating whether the Company has
elected to reset the interest rate (or the spread or spread
multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable),
and if so (i) such new interest rate (or such new spread or spread
multiplier, if applicable) and (ii) the provisions, if any,
for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset Date to
the next Optional Reset
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Date or if
there is no such next Optional Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity
Date of such Security (each such period a “Subsequent
Interest Period”), including the date or dates on which or
the period or periods during which and the price or prices at which
such redemption may occur during the Subsequent Interest
Period.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to the Optional
Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest
rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such
interest rate, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice and
establish an interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier, if
applicable) that is higher than the interest rate (or the spread or
spread multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice,
for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustees to
transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 1.06, notice
of such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread
multiplier, if applicable) to the Holder of such Security. Such
notice shall be irrevocable. All Securities with respect to which
the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to
calculate such interest rate, if applicable) is reset on an
Optional Reset Date, and with respect to which the Holders of such
Securities have not tendered such Securities for repayment (or have
validly revoked any such tender) pursuant to the next succeeding
paragraph, will bear such higher interest rate (or such higher
spread or spread multiplier, if applicable).
The Holder of any
such Security will have the option to elect repayment by the
Company of the principal of such Security on each Optional Reset
Date at a price equal to the principal amount thereof plus interest
accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In order to obtain repayment
on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the procedures
set forth in Article Fourteen for repayment at the option of
Holders except that the period for delivery or notification to the
Trustees shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior
to such Optional Reset Date and except that, if the Holder has
tendered any Security for repayment pursuant to the Reset Notice,
the Holder may, by written notice to the Trustees, revoke such
tender or repayment until the close of business on the tenth day
before such Optional Reset Date.
Subject to the
foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 3.05, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 3.08 Optional Extension of Stated
Maturity
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