Bearer Notes. Payments of principal in respect of Definitive Bearer Notes not held in CMU will (subject as provided below) be made in the Specified Currency against surrender of Definitive Bearer Notes and payments of interest in respect of the Definitive Bearer Notes will (subject as provided below) be made in the Specified Currency against surrender of Coupons, in each case at the specified office of any Paying Agent outside the United States of America and its possessions. In the case of Definitive Bearer Notes not held in CMU, payments of principal with respect to instalments (if any), other than the final instalment, will (subject as provided below) be made against presentation and surrender of the relevant Receipt. Each Receipt must be presented for payment of the relevant instalment together with the relevant Definitive Bearer Note against which the amount will be payable with respect to that instalment. If any Definitive Bearer Note is redeemed or becomes repayable prior to the stated Maturity Date (in the case of a Note other than a Floating Rate Note) or prior to the Interest Payment Date falling in the Redemption Month (in the case of a Floating Rate Note) in respect thereof, principal will be payable on surrender of such Definitive Bearer Note together with all unmatured Receipts appertaining thereto. Receipts presented without the Definitive Bearer Note to which they appertain and unmatured Receipts do not constitute valid obligations of the Issuer. Upon the date on which any Definitive Bearer Note becomes due and repayable, unmatured Receipts (if any) relating thereto (whether or not attached) shall become void and no payment shall be made in respect thereof. Fixed Rate Notes in Definitive Bearer form not held in CMU (other than Dual Currency Notes or Index-Linked Notes) should be presented for payment together with all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto failing which the amount of any missing unmatured Coupon (or, in the case of payment not being made in full, the same proportion of the aggregate amount of such missing unmatured Coupon as the sum so paid bears to the sum due) will be deducted from the sum due for payment. Each amount of principal so deducted will be paid in the manner mentioned above against surrender of the relative missing Coupon at any time before the expiry of six years after the Relevant Date (as defined in Condition 14) in respect of such principal (whether or not such Coupon would otherwise have become void under Condition 14)....
Bearer Notes. Each Tranche of Bearer Notes will be initially issued in the form of either a temporary bearer global note (a “Temporary Bearer Global Note”) or a permanent bearer global note (a “
Bearer Notes. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, Bearer Notes, whether issued alone or as part of a Unit, will be issued only in denominations of $1,000 (or, in the case of Bearer Notes not denominated in U.S. dollars, the equivalent thereof in the Specified Currency, rounded to the nearest 1,000 units of the Specified Currency) or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000 (or, in the case of Bearer Notes not denominated in U.S. dollars, 1,000 units of the Specified Currency).
Bearer Notes. The Issuer has made applications to Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg for acceptance in their respective book-entry systems in respect of any Series of Bearer Notes. The Issuer may also apply to have Bearer Notes accepted for clearance through the CMU Service. In respect of Bearer Notes, a Temporary Bearer Global Note and/or a Permanent Bearer Global Note will be deposited with a common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg or a sub-custodian for the CMU Service. Transfers of interests in a Temporary Bearer Global Note or a Permanent Bearer Global Note will be made in accordance with the normal market debt securities operating procedures of the CMU Service, Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg. Application will be made to Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg on behalf of the Issuer in order to have Tranches of Notes represented by Registered Global Notes accepted in their respective book-entry settlement systems. Each Series of Registered Notes will have an International Securities Identification Number (“ISIN”) and a Common Code. Investors in Notes of such Series may hold their interests in a Registered Global Note through Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg. Registered Global Notes may also be deposited with a sub-custodian for the HKMA as operator of the CMU Service.
Bearer Notes. Bearer Notes having an original maturity of more than 365 days are subject to U.S. tax law requirements, and may not be offered, sold or delivered within the United States or its possessions or to a United States person, except in certain transactions permitted by U.S. tax regulations. Terms used in this paragraph have the meanings given to them by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the U.S. Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder. Each Tranche of Bearer Notes will be in bearer form and will initially be represented by either a temporary bearer global note (a “Temporary Bearer Global Note”) or a permanent bearer global note (a “Permanent Bearer Global Note” and, together with the Temporary Bearer Global Note, the “Bearer Global Notes”) as indicated in the applicable Final Terms, which, in either case, will:
Bearer Notes. Interest on each Bearer Note will accrue from and including the original issue date of such Note for the first interest period and from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid for all subsequent interest periods. Each payment of interest on a Bearer Note will include interest accrued from and including the next preceding Interest Payment Date in respect of which interest has been paid (or from and including the date of issue, if no interest has been paid) to but excluding the Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that in the case of Floating Rate Notes on which the interest rate is reset daily or weekly, each interest payment will include interest accrued from and including the date of issue or from but excluding the fifteenth calendar day preceding the next preceding Interest Payment Date (whether or not such fifteenth calendar day is a Business Day), unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms or Securities Note (as the case may be); and provided, further, that interest in respect of any Interest Payment Date on any interest in a Temporary Global Note for which Final Certification has not been made shall not be paid until the occurrence of the earlier of (1) Final Certification with respect to such interest in such Temporary Global Note and (2) in the case of an Interest Payment Date occurring between the original issue date and the Exchange Date, delivery by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be, to the Fiscal Agent of a Clearance System Certificate dated no earlier than such Interest Payment Date to the effect that Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be, has received Certificates of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership with respect to such interests in the Temporary Global Note, which Certificates of Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership shall have been dated no earlier than ten days before such Interest Payment Date and shall be signed by the account holders appearing on its records as entitled to such Notes.
Bearer Notes. Bearer Notes are in the Specified Denomination(s) with Coupons and, if specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, Talons attached at the time of issue. In the case of a Series of Bearer Notes with more than one Specified Denomination, Bearer Notes of one Specified Denomination will not be exchangeable for Bearer Notes of another Specified Denomination.
Bearer Notes. For so long as any of the Notes are represented by a global Note, each person who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular principal amount of Notes (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the principal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes except in the case of manifest error) shall be treated as the holder of such principal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal or interest on the Notes, the right to which shall be vested, as against the Issuers, the Fiscal Agent and any Paying Agent solely in the bearer of the relevant global Note in accordance with and subject to its terms. Transfers of interests in a Temporary or Permanent Global Note will be made by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg in accordance with its customary operating procedures. Title to definitive Bearer Notes and coupons will pass by physical delivery. The bearer of each coupon, whether or not attached to a definitive Bearer Note, shall be subject to and bound by all the provisions contained in the definitive Bearer Note to which such coupon relates. The bearer of any definitive Bearer Note and any coupon may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be treated at all times, by all persons and for all purposes as the absolute owner of such definitive Bearer Note or coupon, as the case may be, regardless of any notice of ownership, theft or loss or of any writing thereon. Bearer Notes may be exchanged, if so provided in the applicable Final Terms or Securities Note (as the case may be), for Registered Notes.
Bearer Notes. Subject to the detailed provisions below, payments in respect of Bearer Notes will be made against presentation and surrender of the relevant Notes (in the case of principal), Receipts (in the case of Instalment Amounts) or Coupons (in the case of Interest) at the specified office of any Paying Agent outside the United States by a cheque payable in the specified currency, or, on not less than three Business Days’ prior notice from the Noteholder, by transfer to a Designated Account.
Bearer Notes. Notices to Bearer Noteholders will be valid if published in a daily newspaper of general circulation in London and (in the case of Listed Notes) any other newspaper in which publication is required by the Stock Exchange’s rules. Notices will be deemed given on the first date on which publication is made.
