Business Arrangements Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has granted rights to develop, manufacture, produce, assemble, distribute, license, market or sell its products to any other person and is not bound by any agreement that affects the exclusive right of the Company or such subsidiary to develop, manufacture, produce, assemble, distribute, license, market or sell its products.
Financial Arrangements The Commonwealth will provide an estimated total financial contribution to the States of up to $9.5 billion (GST exclusive) in respect of this Agreement, as set out in Part 5 – Financial Arrangements.
Tax Arrangements 47.1 Where the Contractor is liable to be taxed in the UK in respect of consideration received under this contract, it shall at all times comply with the Income Tax (Earnings and Xxxxxxxx) Xxx 0000 (ITEPA) and all other statutes and regulations relating to income tax in respect of that consideration.
47.2 Where the Contractor is liable to National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in respect of consideration received under this Framework Agreement, it shall at all times comply with the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Xxx 0000 (SSCBA) and all other statutes and regulations relating to NICs in respect of that consideration.
47.3 The Authority may, at any time during the term of this Framework Agreement, request the Contractor to provide information which demonstrates how the Contractor complies with sub-clauses 47.1 and 47.2 above or why those clauses do not apply to it.
47.4 A request under sub-clause 47.3 above may specify the information which the Contractor must provide and the period within which that information must be provided.
Employee Arrangements Except as set forth on Section 8.2(h) of the UWWH Disclosure Schedules, pursuant to the terms of any collective bargaining agreements in effect as of the date hereof and disclosed on Section 6.15(a) of the UWWH Disclosure Schedules, as contemplated by this Agreement, as set forth in the Employee Matters Agreement or as otherwise required by applicable Law, UWWH shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to:
(i) grant any material increases in the compensation (including bonus and incentive compensation) or fringe benefits of any UWWH Employee except any increases that would not reasonably be expected to become a Liability of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries;
(ii) pay or agree to pay to any UWWH Employee any pension, retirement allowance, severance benefit or other material employee benefit not required by any of the existing UWWH Benefit Plans as in effect on the date hereof, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Liability of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries;
(iii) except in the ordinary course of business, enter into any new, or terminate or materially amend any existing collective bargaining agreement or relationship, employment, severance or termination Contract or other arrangement with any UWWH Employee or his or her representative, provided, that any such new collective bargaining agreement or any termination of or material amendment to any such existing collective bargaining agreement in the ordinary course of business shall be subject to review by xpedx senior management reasonably in advance of the conclusion of such negotiations, and xpedx senior management shall have been informed periodically of the status of negotiations with respect thereto;
(iv) (A) become obligated under any new pension plan, welfare plan, employee benefit plan (including any equity incentive plan), severance plan, benefit arrangement or similar plan or arrangement sponsored or maintained by UWWH or any of its Subsidiaries that was not in existence on the date hereof, or (B) amend any such plan or arrangement in existence on the date hereof, except in the case of (B) (x) as would not result in a material increase in the annual aggregate cost (based on UWWH’s historical annual aggregate cost) of maintaining such pension plan, welfare plan, employee benefit plan, severance plan, trust, fund, policy or arrangement or (y) as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Liability of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries;
(v) grant any equity-based compensation to any UWWH Employee or director or independent contractor of UWWH or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vi) make any offer for the employment or engagement of any UWWH Employee or other individual on a full-time, part-time, or consulting basis providing for an annual compensation in excess of $250,000;
(vii) implement any distribution center, facility, warehouse or business unit closing or mass layoff that could implicate WARN; or
(viii) make any loan to (x) any director, officer or member of senior management of UWWH or any of its Subsidiaries or (y) except in the ordinary course of business and in compliance with applicable Law, to any other UWWH Employee.
Implementation Arrangements Institutional Arrangements
SALARY SACRIFICE ARRANGEMENTS 34.1 Employees covered by this Agreement will have access to salary sacrifice arrangements in addition to the compulsory arrangement detailed above. The requirements of any such arrangements shall ensure that:
(a) Accessing a salary sacrifice arrangement is a voluntary decision to be made by the individual Employee.
(b) An Employee wishing to enter into a salary sacrifice arrangement will be required to notify their Employer in writing of the intention to do so and have sought expert advice in relation to entering into such an arrangement.
(c) The Employer shall meet the cost of implementing the administrative and payroll arrangements necessary for the introduction of salary sacrifice to the Employees under the Agreement.
(d) The co-contribution of superannuation payments referred to herein shall be made by way of salary sacrifice arrangements.
GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS Enforceability of the Agreement
Protective Arrangements In the event that a Party or any member of its Group either determines on the advice of its counsel that it is required to disclose any information pursuant to applicable Law or receives any request or demand under lawful process or from any Governmental Authority to disclose or provide information of the other Party (or any member of the other Party’s Group) that is subject to the confidentiality provisions hereof, such Party shall notify the other Party (to the extent legally permitted) as promptly as practicable under the circumstances prior to disclosing or providing such information and shall cooperate, at the expense of the other Party, in seeking any appropriate protective order requested by the other Party. In the event that such other Party fails to receive such appropriate protective order in a timely manner and the Party receiving the request or demand reasonably determines that its failure to disclose or provide such information shall actually prejudice the Party receiving the request or demand, then the Party that received such request or demand may thereafter disclose or provide information to the extent required by such Law (as so advised by its counsel) or by lawful process or such Governmental Authority, and the disclosing Party shall promptly provide the other Party with a copy of the information so disclosed, in the same form and format so disclosed, together with a list of all Persons to whom such information was disclosed, in each case to the extent legally permitted.
Budget Control Records of expenditures must be maintained for each Award by the cost categories of the approved Budget (including indirect costs that are charged to the Award), and actual expenditures are to be compared with Budgeted amounts at least quarterly.
Transitional Arrangements 1. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4, no Member shall be obliged to apply the provisions of this Agreement before the expiry of a general period of one year following the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement.
2. A developing country Member is entitled to delay for a further period of four years the date of application, as defined in paragraph 1, of the provisions of this Agreement other than Articles 3, 4 and 5.
3. Any other Member which is in the process of transformation from a centrally-planned into a market, free-enterprise economy and which is undertaking structural reform of its intellectual property system and facing special problems in the preparation and implementation of intellectual property laws and regulations, may also benefit from a period of delay as foreseen in paragraph 2.
4. To the extent that a developing country Member is obliged by this Agreement to extend product patent protection to areas of technology not so protectable in its territory on the general date of application of this Agreement for that Member, as defined in paragraph 2, it may delay the application of the provisions on product patents of Section 5 of Part II to such areas of technology for an additional period of five years.
5. A Member availing itself of a transitional period under paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 shall ensure that any changes in its laws, regulations and practice made during that period do not result in a lesser degree of consistency with the provisions of this Agreement.
