Common use of National Securities Clearing Corporation Clause in Contracts

National Securities Clearing Corporation. NSCC"). (i) Accept and effectuate the registration and maintenance of accounts through the NSCC Networking programs ("Networking") and the purchase, redemption, transfer and exchange of Shares in such accounts through the NSCC's Fund/SERV program in accordance with instructions transmitted to and received by transmission from NSCC on behalf of authorized Dealers or other intermediaries on a Fund dealer file maintained by or on behalf of DTI. (ii) Issue instructions to a Fund's banks for the settlement of transactions between the Fund and NSCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants, defined to be "NSCC Participants"). (iii) Provide account and transaction information from a Fund's records on FSR to the NSCC for NSCC Participants in accordance with NSCC's Networking and Fund/SERV rules. (iv) Maintain shareholder accounts on FSR through Networking. (v) Support all NSCC services (e.g., Fund/SERV, Networking, Profile, TORA, Comm/SERV and Omni/SERV). (vi) Identify and resolve Fund/SERV, Networking, ACATS and Comm/SERV rejects, including manually. (vii) Support soft and hard reject processing. (viii) Communicate with Dealers regarding rejects. (ix) Support waiver processing. (x) Support all Matrix levels. (xi) Monitor and resolve open orders and paid & waiting trades. (xii) Process B00, X00, and B52 records via standard BNYM System processes. (xiii) Establish and maintain Fund profiles and DTCC Security Master for NSCC processing. (xiv) Support Profile I prices, rates, and distribution information. (xv) Take commercially reasonable measures to retrieve sharelot data for omnibus account transfers into non-omnibus accounts. (xvi) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, provide sharelot data for transfers into omnibus accounts. (xvii) Support trust and third party administrator processing via the NSCC. (xviii) Support TORA processing via standard BNYM System process. (xix) Provide reporting, including reports of raw data from NSCC files. (xx) Support price protection requests. (xxi) Communicate bad price information to Dealers and facilitate settlements due to bad price. (xxii) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, support broker to broker conversions and Networking to omnibus conversions.

National Securities Clearing Corporation. “NSCC"”). (i) Accept and effectuate the registration and maintenance of accounts through the NSCC Networking programs ("“Networking"”) and the purchase, redemption, transfer and exchange of Shares in such accounts through the NSCC's ’s Fund/SERV program in accordance with instructions transmitted to and received by BNYM by transmission from NSCC on behalf of authorized Dealers or other intermediaries on a Fund dealer file maintained by or on behalf of DTIBNYMTI. (ii) Issue instructions to a Fund's ’s banks for the settlement of transactions between the Fund and NSCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants, defined to be "“NSCC Participants"”). (iii) Provide account and transaction information from a Fund's ’s records on FSR to the NSCC for NSCC Participants in accordance with NSCC's ’s Networking and Fund/SERV rules. (iv) Maintain shareholder accounts on FSR (as defined in Schedule A) through Networking. (v) Support all NSCC services (e.g., Fund/SERV, Networking, Profile, TORA, Comm/SERV Payment aXis and Omni/SERV). (vi) Identify and resolve Fund/SERV, Networking, ACATS and Comm/SERV Payment aXis rejects, including manually. (vii) Support soft and hard reject processing. (viii) Communicate with Dealers regarding rejectsrejects and engage a Fund as necessary to provide assistance in resolving any disputes with Dealers that BNYMTI is unable to resolve. (ix) Support waiver processing. (x) Support all Matrix levels. (xi) Monitor and resolve open orders and paid & waiting trades. (xii) Process B00B50, X00B51, and B52 records via standard BNYM System processes. (xiii) Establish and maintain Fund profiles and DTCC Security Master for NSCC processing. (xiv) Support Profile I prices, rates, and distribution information. (xv) Take commercially reasonable measures to retrieve sharelot data for omnibus account transfers into non-omnibus accounts. (xvi) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, provide sharelot data for transfers into omnibus accounts. (xvii) Support trust and third party administrator processing via the NSCC. (xviii) Support TORA processing via standard BNYM System process. (xix) Provide reporting, including reports of raw data from NSCC files. (xx) Support price protection requests. (xxi) Communicate bad price information to Dealers and facilitate settlements due to bad price. (xxii) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, support broker to broker conversions and Networking to omnibus conversions.

National Securities Clearing Corporation. NSCC"). (i) Accept and effectuate the registration and maintenance of accounts through the NSCC Networking programs ("Networking") and the purchase, redemption, transfer and exchange of Shares in such accounts through the NSCC's Fund/SERV program in accordance with instructions transmitted to and received by transmission from NSCC on behalf of authorized Dealers or other intermediaries on a Fund dealer file maintained by or on behalf of DTI. (ii) Issue instructions to a Fund's banks for the settlement of transactions between the Fund and NSCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants, defined to be "NSCC Participants"). (iii) Provide account and transaction information from a Fund's records on FSR to the NSCC for NSCC Participants in accordance with NSCC's Networking and Fund/SERV rules. (iv) Maintain shareholder accounts on FSR through Networking... (v) Support all NSCC services (e.g., Fund/SERV, Networking, Profile, TORA, Comm/SERV and Omni/SERV). (vi) Identify and resolve Fund/SERV, Networking, ACATS and Comm/SERV rejects, including manually. (vii) Support soft and hard reject processing. (viii) Communicate with Dealers regarding rejects. (ix) Support waiver processing. (x) Support all Matrix levels. (xi) Monitor and resolve open orders and paid & waiting trades. (xii) Process B00X00, X00, and B52 records via standard BNYM System processes. (xiii) Establish and maintain Fund profiles and DTCC Security Master for NSCC processing. (xiv) Support Profile I prices, rates, and distribution information. (xv) Take commercially reasonable measures to retrieve sharelot data for omnibus account transfers into non-omnibus accounts. (xvi) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, provide sharelot data for transfers into omnibus accounts. (xvii) Support trust and third party administrator processing via the NSCC. (xviii) Support TORA processing via standard BNYM System process. (xix) Provide reporting, including reports of raw data from NSCC files. (xx) Support price protection requests. (xxi) Communicate bad price information to Dealers and facilitate settlements due to bad price... (xxii) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, support broker to broker conversions and Networking to omnibus conversions.

National Securities Clearing Corporation. NSCC"). (i) Accept and effectuate the registration and maintenance of accounts through the NSCC Networking programs ("Networking") and the purchase, redemption, transfer and exchange of Shares in such accounts through the NSCC's Fund/SERV program in accordance with instructions transmitted to and received by transmission from NSCC on behalf of authorized Dealers or other intermediaries on a Fund dealer file maintained by or on behalf of DTI.. NY 73868230v19 (ii) Issue instructions to a Fund's banks for the settlement of transactions between the Fund and NSCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants, defined to be "NSCC Participants"). (iii) Provide account and transaction information from a Fund's records on FSR to the NSCC for NSCC Participants in accordance with NSCC's Networking and Fund/SERV rules. (iv) Maintain shareholder accounts on FSR through Networking. (v) Support all NSCC services (e.g., Fund/SERV, Networking, Profile, TORA, Comm/SERV and Omni/SERV). (vi) Identify and resolve Fund/SERV, Networking, ACATS and Comm/SERV rejects, including manually. (vii) Support soft and hard reject processing. (viii) Communicate with Dealers regarding rejects. (ix) Support waiver processing. (x) Support all Matrix levels. (xi) Monitor and resolve open orders and paid & waiting trades. (xii) Process B00, X00, and B52 records via standard BNYM System processes. (xiii) Establish and maintain Fund profiles and DTCC Security Master for NSCC processing. (xiv) Support Profile I prices, rates, and distribution information. (xv) Take commercially reasonable measures to retrieve sharelot data for omnibus account transfers into non-omnibus accounts. (xvi) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, provide sharelot data for transfers into omnibus accounts. (xvii) Support trust and third party administrator processing via the NSCC. (xviii) Support TORA processing via standard BNYM System process. (xix) Provide reporting, including reports of raw data from NSCC files. (xx) Support price protection requests. (xxi) Communicate bad price information to Dealers and facilitate settlements due to bad price. (xxii) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, support broker to broker conversions and Networking to omnibus conversions.. NY 73868230v19

National Securities Clearing Corporation. NSCC"). (i) Accept and effectuate the registration and maintenance of accounts through the NSCC Networking programs ("Networking") and the purchase, redemption, transfer and exchange of Shares in such accounts through the NSCC's Fund/SERV program in accordance with instructions transmitted to and received by transmission from NSCC on behalf of authorized Dealers or other intermediaries on a Fund dealer file maintained by or on behalf of DTI. (ii) Issue instructions to a Fund's banks for the settlement of transactions between the Fund and NSCC (acting on behalf of its broker-dealer and bank participants, defined to be "NSCC Participants"). (iii) Provide account and transaction information from a Fund's records on FSR to the NSCC for NSCC Participants in accordance with NSCC's Networking and Fund/SERV rules. (iv) Maintain shareholder accounts on FSR through Networking. (v) Support all NSCC services (e.g., Fund/SERV, Networking, Profile, TORA, Comm/SERV and Omni/SERV). (vi) Identify and resolve Fund/SERV, Networking, ACATS and Comm/SERV rejects, including manually. (vii) Support soft and hard reject processing. (viii) Communicate with Dealers regarding rejects. (ix) Support waiver processing. (x) Support all Matrix levels. (xi) Monitor and resolve open orders and paid & waiting trades. (xii) Process B00X00, X00, and B52 records via standard BNYM System processes. (xiii) Establish and maintain Fund profiles and DTCC Security Master for NSCC processing. (xiv) Support Profile I prices, rates, and distribution information. (xv) Take commercially reasonable measures to retrieve sharelot data for omnibus account transfers into non-omnibus accounts. (xvi) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, provide sharelot data for transfers into omnibus accounts. (xvii) Support trust and third party administrator processing via the NSCC. (xviii) Support TORA processing via standard BNYM System process. (xix) Provide reporting, including reports of raw data from NSCC files. (xx) Support price protection requests. (xxi) Communicate bad price information to Dealers and facilitate settlements due to bad price. (xxii) Upon the reasonable request and sufficient advance notice of a Fund, support broker to broker conversions and Networking to omnibus conversions.