Exhibit 7.1
and
Dated as of December 8, 2009
TABLE
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ARTICLE 1 |
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DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION |
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SECTION 101. Definitions |
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SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions |
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SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee |
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SECTION 104. Acts of Holders |
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SECTION 105. Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company |
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SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver |
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SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents |
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SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 109. Separability Clause |
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SECTION 111. Governing Law |
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SECTION 112. Legal Holidays |
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SECTION 113. Agent for Service; Submission to Jurisdiction;
Waiver of Immunities |
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SECTION 114. Conversion of Currency |
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SECTION 115. Currency Equivalent |
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SECTION 116. Securities in a Foreign Currency or in Euros |
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SECTION 117. Conflict with Trust Indenture Legislation |
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SECTION 118. Language Clause |
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SECTION 119. Shareholders, Officers and Directors Exempt from Individual
Liability |
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SECTION 120. Waiver of Jury Trial |
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SECTION 121. Force Majeure |
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ARTICLE 2 |
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SECURITIES FORMS |
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SECTION 201. Forms Generally |
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SECTION 202. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication |
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SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form |
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ARTICLE 3 |
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THE SECURITIES |
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SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series |
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SECTION 302. Denominations |
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SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating |
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SECTION 304. Temporary Securities |
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SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange |
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SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities |
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SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset |
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This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture. |
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SECTION 308. Optional Extension of Stated Maturity |
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SECTION 309. Persons Deemed Owners |
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SECTION 310. Cancellation |
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SECTION 311. Computation of Interest |
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SECTION 312. Currency and Manner of Payments in Respect of Securities |
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SECTION 313. Appointment and Resignation of Successor Exchange Rate Agent |
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SECTION 314. CUSIP Numbers |
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ARTICLE 4 |
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE |
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SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture |
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SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money |
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ARTICLE 5 |
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REMEDIES |
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SECTION 501. Events of Default |
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SECTION 502. Notice of Defaults |
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SECTION 503. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment |
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SECTION 504. Collection of Debt and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee |
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SECTION 505. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim |
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SECTION 506. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities |
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SECTION 507. Application of Money Collected |
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SECTION 508. Limitation on Suits |
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SECTION 509. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest |
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SECTION 510. Restoration of Rights and Remedies |
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SECTION 511. Rights and Remedies Cumulative |
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SECTION 512. Delay or Omission Not Waiver |
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SECTION 513. Control by Holders |
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SECTION 514. Waiver of Past Defaults |
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SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws |
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ARTICLE 6 |
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THE TRUSTEE |
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SECTION 601. Certain Duties, Rights and Responsibilities of Trustee |
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SECTION 602. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities |
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SECTION 603. May Hold Securities |
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SECTION 604. Money Held in Trust |
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SECTION 605. Compensation and Reimbursement |
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SECTION 606. Conflict of Interest |
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SECTION 607. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility |
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SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor |
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SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor |
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SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business |
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SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating Agent |
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SECTION 612. Acceptance of Trust |
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SECTION 613. Trustee Not Required to Give Security |
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SECTION 614. Trustee Not Required to Possess Securities |
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SECTION 615. Protection of Trustee |
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ARTICLE 7 |
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HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY |
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SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders |
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SECTION 702. Reports by the Company |
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ARTICLE 8 |
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CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE |
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SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms |
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SECTION 802. Successor Person Substituted |
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ARTICLE 9 |
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SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders |
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SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders |
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SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures |
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SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures |
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SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Legislation |
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SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures |
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SECTION 907. Notice of Supplemental Indentures |
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ARTICLE 10 |
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COVENANTS |
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SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest |
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SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency |
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SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust |
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SECTION 1004. Statement as to Compliance |
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SECTION 1005. Additional Amounts |
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SECTION 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants |
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ARTICLE 11 |
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REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES |
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SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article |
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SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee |
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SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed |
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SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption |
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SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price |
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SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date |
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SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part |
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SECTION 1108. Tax Redemption |
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ARTICLE 12 |
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SINKING FUNDS |
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SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article |
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SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities |
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SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund |
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ARTICLE 13 |
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REPAYMENT AT OPTION OF HOLDERS |
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SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article |
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SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities |
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SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option |
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SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and
Payable |
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SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part |
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ARTICLE 14 |
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DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE |
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SECTION 1401. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance |
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SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge |
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SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance |
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SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance |
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SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions |
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SECTION 1406. Reinstatement |
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ARTICLE 15 |
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MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES |
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SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called |
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SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings |
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SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings |
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SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action |
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SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of
Meetings |
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SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings |
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INDENTURE,
dated as of December 8, 2009 between
BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES CORPORATION, a corporation
duly organized and existing under the laws of Canada (herein called the “
Company”), having its
principal xxxxxx xx Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 000 Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0X0,
and The Bank of
New York Mellon, a
New York banking corporation, as trustee (herein called the
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Trustee”), having its principal office at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
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 and shall be governed by the applicable provisions of the Trust
Indenture Legislation.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid, legally binding agreement of the Company,
in accordance with its terms, have been done.
The foregoing recitals are made as representations and statements of fact by the Company and
not by the Trustee.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders
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 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this
Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) 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 TIA Section 311, shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the rules of the Commission adopted under the Trust Indenture
Act;
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(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them in accordance with 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 at the date of such computation; and
(4) 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.
Certain terms, used principally in Article 3, are defined in that Article.
“Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
“Additional Amounts” has the meaning specified in Section 1005.
“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.
“Authenticating Agent” means any Person appointed by the Trustee to act on behalf of the
Trustee pursuant to Section 611 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, whether or not published
on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and of general circulation in each place in connection with
which the term is used or in the financial 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.
“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 that board.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
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 Trustee.
“branch register” has the meaning specified in Section 305.
“Branch Security Registrar” has the meaning specified in Section 305.
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Business Day”, when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any other location referred
to in this Indenture, expressly or impliedly, which shall include Toronto, Ontario and
New York,
New York, hereunder, or in the Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 301, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is
not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or other such location are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
“Central Register” has the meaning specified in Section 305.
“Central Security Registrar” has the meaning specified in Section 305.
“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, or its successor.
“Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time
constituted, created under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 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 304.
“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 its Chairman, its Deputy Chairman, President or a Vice President, and by its
Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, Controller or Assistant Controller, General Counsel or Chief
Legal Officer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary and delivered to the Trustee.
“Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 312(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 Trustee, at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office on the date
of execution of this Indenture is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, 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 Trustee 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 1403.
“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 with respect to Securities of a certain series.
“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
“defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1402.
“Depositary” means with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in the form
of one or more Registered Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant
to Section 305 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 Foreign Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 312(f).
“Election Date” has the meaning specified in Section 312(g).
“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).
“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., or its successor securities clearing agency.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.
“Exchange Date” has the meaning specified in Section 304.
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Exchange Rate Agent” means, with respect to Securities of or within any series, unless
otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, a
New York Clearing
House bank, designated pursuant to Section 301 or Section 313.
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“Exchange Rate Officer’s Certificate” means a tested telex or 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 302 in the
relevant Currency), payable with respect to a Security of any series on the basis of such Market
Exchange Rate, sent (in the case of a telex) or signed (in the case of a certificate) by the
Treasurer, any Vice President or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
“Extension Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 308.
“Extension Period” has the meaning specified in Section 308.
“Final Maturity” has the meaning specified in Section 308.
“First Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 115.
“Foreign Currency” means any Currency other than Currency of the United States.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles which are in effect from time to time in
Canada (or, if the Company hereafter determines to prepare its principal consolidated financial
statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles which are in effect from
time to time in the United States, such principles); provided, however, if the Company is required
by the Commission or any securities regulatory authority in Canada to adopt (or is permitted to
adopt and so adopts) a different accounting framework, including but not limited to International
Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, “GAAP”
shall mean such new accounting framework as in effect from time to time, including, without
limitation, in each case, those accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements
of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and
statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession.
“Government Obligations” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of
Securities pursuant to Section 301, 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 depository 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 depository 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 depository receipt from any amount
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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 depository 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.
“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 301; 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 particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established
as contemplated by Section 301, 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 114.
“mandatory sinking fund payment” has the meaning specified in Section 1201.
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Market Exchange Rate” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 301, (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 301 for
the Securities of the relevant series, (ii) for any conversion of Dollars into any Foreign
Currency, the noon (
New York City time) 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 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
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is being made from major banks located in either
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
301, 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, London 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.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Treasurer, the Controller, the General Counsel or
Chief Compliance and Administrative Officer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion, reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, of counsel
containing the information specified in Section 102, who may be counsel for the Company, including
an employee of the Company (except in the case of an Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to
Section 1108 or Section 1404 or as otherwise provided), and which opinion shall be subject to
customary assumptions and qualifications.
“Optional Reset Date” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
“optional sinking fund payment” has the meaning specified in Section 1201.
“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 503.
“Original Stated Maturity” has the meaning specified in Section 308.
“Other Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 115.
“Outstanding”, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination,
all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
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(ii) 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 the 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 Trustee has been made;
(iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Section 1402 and Section 1403, with respect
to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article 14;
and
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 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 Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such
Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
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 Trust Indenture Legislation,
(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 503, (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 Officer’s
Certificate delivered to the Trustee, 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 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 301, 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 Trustee shall be protected in making such
calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent
or waiver, only Securities which are certified in an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee as so
owned shall be 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 Trustee 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.
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“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.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, 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,
the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such
Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301 and Section 1002.
“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 306 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 114.
“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, means the price at
which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
“Registered Security” means any Security registered in the Security Register.
“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Registered
Securities of or within any series means the date, if any, specified for that purpose as
contemplated by Section 301.
“Repayment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid in whole or in
part 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.
“Required Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 114.
“Reset Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
“Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means any vice president, any
trust officer or assistant trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above-designated officers, and
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also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom
such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
“Secretary”, when used with respect to the Company, shall include the Secretary to the Board
of Directors.
“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 Interest” means any mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, conditional sale or other
title retention agreement, or other similar security interest.
“Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section
305.
A “series” of Securities means all Securities denoted as part of the same series authorized by
or pursuant to a particular Board Resolution as the case may be.
“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 Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
“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 308.
“Subsequent Interest Period” has the meaning specified in Section 307.
“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 1005.
“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date
as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 905.
“Trust Indenture Legislation” means, at any time, statutory provisions relating to trust
indentures and 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, and at the date of this Indenture means (i)
the applicable provisions of the Canada Business Corporations Act and the regulations thereunder as
amended or re-enacted from time to time and (ii) the Trust Indenture Act and
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regulations thereunder, but only to the extent applicable under Rule 4d-9 under the Trust
Indenture Act.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture
until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee
hereunder; provided, however, that if at any time there is more than one such
Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean only the Trustee
with respect to Securities of that series.
“United States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Xxxxxxx 000, xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx xx Xxxxxxx (including the states and the District of Columbia), its
territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
“Valuation Date” has the meaning specified in Section 312(c).
“Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice
president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title
“vice president”.
“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 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any
provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s 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 an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all
such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided
for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to Section 1004) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such
covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) 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;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed
opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
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(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such covenant or
condition has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
(a) 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 as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it
relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion 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.
(c) 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 104. 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 15, 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
Trustee 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
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Trustee 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 1506.
(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 Trustee deems 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,
wherever situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee 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 Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee 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 Trustee 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 Trustee deems sufficient.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of Holders, 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 of Holders, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.
Notwithstanding Trust Indenture Legislation, 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 of Holders 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 of Holders, and for that
purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that
no such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of Holders
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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 Trustee or the Company
in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
SECTION 105. Notices, etc. to Trustee 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,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder if delivered to an officer of the Trustee at The Bank of New York Mellon, 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, or if sent by facsimile transmission or other electronic communication (with
receipt confirmed) to The Bank of New York Mellon, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
at (000) 000-0000, shall be deemed to be validly given at the time of delivery or transmission if
it is received prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, failing which it
shall be deemed to have been given on the next Business Day. The Trustee may from time to
time notify the Company of a change in address, facsimile number or email address which
thereafter, until changed by like notice, shall be the address, facsimile number or email
address of the Trustee for the purposes of this Indenture.
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder if delivered to the Company at Three World Financial Center, 200 Xxxxx Street,
00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Attention: General Counsel, or,
if sent by facsimile transmission or other electronic communication (with receipt confirmed)
to
Brookfield Properties Corporation, Attention: General Counsel at (000) 000-0000,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx shall be deemed to be validly given at the time of
delivery or transmission if it is received prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a
Business Day, failing which it shall be deemed to have been given on the next Business Day.
The Company may from time to time notify the Trustee of a change in address, facsimile
number or email address which thereafter, until changed by like notice, shall be the
address, facsimile number or email address of the Company for the purposes of this
Indenture.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver
(a) Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities
by the Company or the Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid,
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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.
(b) 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 Trustee shall be
deemed to be sufficient giving of such notice for every purpose hereunder.
(c) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 301, 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.
(d) 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 Trustee 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.
(e) 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.
(f) 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 Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken
in reliance upon such waiver.
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SECTION 107. 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 108. Successors and Assigns
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 109. Separability 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 110. 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.
SECTION 111. 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. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Legislation and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions, but
without giving effect to the applicable principles of conflict of law to the extent that the
application of the law of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.
SECTION 112. 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.
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SECTION 113. Agent for Service; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Immunities
(a) By the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company (i) acknowledges that it has
irrevocably designated and appointed Corporation Service Company, 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 state court in the City of New York or
brought under federal or state securities laws or brought by the Trustee (whether in its individual
capacity or in its capacity as Trustee 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
Corporation Service Company and written notice of said service to the Company (mailed or delivered
to the Company, attention: General Counsel, at its principal office specified in the first
paragraph of this Indenture and in the manner specified in Section 105 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 Corporation Service Company in full force and effect so long as any of the
Securities shall be outstanding.
(b) 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.
(c) The Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the extent it may legally
and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of
any suit, action 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, 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 114. 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:
(i) If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in, or enforcing the judgment of,
any court in any country, it becomes necessary to convert into any other Currency
(the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due or contingently due under the Securities of
any series and this Indenture (the “Required 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 which is not appealable or is not appealed is given or the
order of enforcement is made, as the case may be (unless a court shall otherwise
determine).
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(ii) 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 endorsement 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
Required Currency originally due.
(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 of Securities
and the Trustee 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 Required 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 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 Trustee 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 Trustee, as the case may be, and no proof or evidence of any actual loss shall be
required by the Company or the applicable liquidator. In the case of Subsection (b) above, the
amount of such deficiency shall not be deemed to be 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 Bank of Canada noon rate for purchases on the
relevant date of the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency, 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) and includes any premiums and costs of exchange payable.
SECTION 115. 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 (or in Euros) (the “First Currency”), as of any date such amount shall
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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 116. Securities in a Foreign Currency or in Euros
Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or
an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a particular series of
Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a
specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of one or more series at the
time Outstanding and, at such time, there are Outstanding Securities of any such affected series
which are denominated in a Foreign Currency (including Euros), then the principal amount of the
Securities of such series which shall be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such
action shall be the amount of Dollars which could be obtained for such principal amount at the
Market Exchange Rate on the applicable record date, or if no such record date shall have been
established, on the date that the taking of such action shall be authorized by Act of the Holders
of all such affected series. The provisions of this paragraph shall also apply in connection with
any other action taken by the Holders pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, including without
limitation any action under Section 503.
SECTION 117. Conflict with Trust Indenture Legislation
Each of the Company and the Trustee agrees to comply with all provisions of the Trust
Indenture Legislation applicable to or binding upon it in connection with this Indenture and any
action to be taken hereunder. 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 requirements shall prevail.
SECTION 118. Language Clause
Les parties aux présentes ont exigé que la présente convention ainsi que tous les documents et
avis qui s’y rattachent et/ou qui en découleront soient rédigés en langue anglaise. The parties
hereto have required that this Indenture and all documents and notices related thereto be drawn up
in English.
SECTION 119. Shareholders, Officers and Directors 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
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 thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the
Securities.
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SECTION 120. Waiver of Jury Trial
EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
SECTION 121. Force Majeure
In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the
performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly,
forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts
of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of
God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and
hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are
consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as
practicable under the circumstances.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally
(a) 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 any law, with any
rule or regulation made pursuant thereto, with the rules of any securities exchange or to conform
to usage 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 Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order
contemplated by Section 303(c) for the authentication and delivery of such Securities or coupons.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued in global form as permitted by Section 304, the
form thereof shall be established as provided in the preceding sentence. 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.
(b) Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Securities in bearer form shall
have interest coupons attached.
(c) The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially
the form set forth in this Article.
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(d) The definitive Securities and coupons shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods 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.
SECTION 202. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
Subject to Section 609 and Section 611, the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be
in substantially the following form:
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
Dated:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated, and issued under the Indenture as
described herein.
THE CERTIFICATE OF THE TRUSTEE SIGNED ON THE SECURITIES WILL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A REPRESENTATION
OR WARRANTY BY THE TRUSTEE AS TO THE VALIDITY OF THE INDENTURE OR OF THE SECURITIES OR OF THEIR
ISSUANCE AND THE TRUSTEE WILL IN NO RESPECT BE LIABLE OR ANSWERABLE FOR THE USE MADE OF SUCH
SECURITIES OR ANY OF THEM OR THE PROCEEDS THEREOF. THE CERTIFICATE OF THE TRUSTEE SIGNED ON THE
SECURITIES WILL, HOWEVER, BE A REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTY BY THE TRUSTEE THAT THE SECURITIES HAVE
BEEN DULY CERTIFIED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.
SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form
(a) If Securities of or within a series are issuable in global form, as specified and
contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (10) of Section 301(b), 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 Trustee 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 Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or Section 304. Subject
to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and
redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and
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upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable
Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or Section 304 has been, or
simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or
delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with
Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
(b) The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 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 Trustee the Security in global form together with written instructions
(which need not comply with Section 102 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 303.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, unless otherwise specified as contemplated
by Section 301, 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.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 309 and except as provided in the preceding
paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company and the Trustee 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, Euroclear or Clearstream.
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series
(a) The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture is unlimited.
(b) The Securities may be issued in one or more series. 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 303, set forth in, or determined in the manner provided in, an Officer’s
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 (23) 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):
(1) the 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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(2) any limit upon 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 in lieu of, other
Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, Section 305, Section 306, Section 906,
Section 1107 or Section 1305);
(3) the extent and manner, if any, to which payment on or in respect of Securities of
that series will be senior or will be subordinated to the prior payment or other liabilities
and obligations of the Company;
(4) the percentage or percentages of principal amount at which the Securities of a
series will be issued;
(5) 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;
(6) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, 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 twelve 30-day months;
(7) 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 105, 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;
(8) 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;
(9) 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 Securities of the series shall be
redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
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(10) 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;
(11) if other than the Company or the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar
and/or Paying Agent;
(12) 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 503 or the method by which such portion shall be
determined;
(13) if the Securities may be converted into or exercised or exchanged for common stock
or preferred stock or other securities of the Company or debt or equity securities of one or
more third parties, the terms on which conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, including
whether conversion, exercise or exchange is mandatory, at the option of the Holder or at the
Company’s option, the period during which conversion, exercise or exchange may occur, the
initial conversion, exercise or exchange price or rate and the circumstances or manner in
which the amount of common stock or preferred stock or other securities issuable upon
conversion, exercise or exchange may be adjusted;
(14) any subordination provisions applicable to the Securities;
(15) the issue price at which the Securities will originally be issued, expressed as a
percentage of the principal amount, and the original issue date;
(16) if the Security is also an Original Issue Discount Security, the Yield to
Maturity;
(17) 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 312;
(18) 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;
(19) 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
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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 312;
(20) the designation of the initial Exchange Rate Agent, if any;
(21) the applicability, if any, of Section 1402 and/or Section 1403 to the Securities
of the series and any deletion from, modification of, in addition to or in lieu of any of
the provisions of Article 14 with respect to Securities of that series whether or not
consistent with the provisions of Article 14 set forth herein;
(22) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of Securities of the
series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;
(23) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or
covenants (including any deletions from, modifications of or additions to Section 1006) 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;
(24) 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 305, 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
depository therefor;
(25) 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;
(26) 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
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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 304;
(27) 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;
(28) if the Securities of the series are to be issued upon the exercise of warrants,
the time, manner and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered;
(29) whether, under what circumstances and the Currency in which the Company will pay
Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1005 on the Securities of the series to any
Holder (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);
(30) 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;
(31) the form of the face and reverse of the Securities of such series;
(32) CUSIP numbers, if any;
(33) the application, if any, of Section 1005 and Section 1108 to the Securities of
that series; and
(34) 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 the Trust Indenture Legislation or the provisions of this Indenture).
(c) All Securities of 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 303) and set forth in such Officer’s 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.
(d) 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 Trustee at or prior to the
delivery of the Officer’s Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
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SECTION 302. Denominations
The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 301. 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.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
(a) The Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf of the
Company by its Chairman, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President, and
attested by a Vice President, its Controller, its General Counsel or Chief Compliance and
Administrative Officer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary. The signature of any of these
officers on the Securities or coupons may be the manual, facsimile or other electronic signatures
of the present or any future such authorized officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced
on the Securities.
(b) Securities or coupons bearing the manual, facsimile or other electronic 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.
(c) 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 Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the 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 301, 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 304, 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 306, the Trustee 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
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indenture establishing such series shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures
acceptable to the Trustee 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.
(d) In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under
this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be provided with, and (subject to
Trust Indenture Legislation) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
(i) an Opinion of Counsel stating:
(A) that such Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, when
completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the Company to the
Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee 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, 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;
(B) 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
(C) that the issuance of such Securities and any coupons will not contravene
the articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Company, and
(ii) an Officer’s Certificate stating:
(A) that the form or forms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(B) that the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.
(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 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 Officer’s Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 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.
(f) The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate and deliver any such Securities if the
issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own
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rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner
which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
(g) 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 301.
(h) No Security or coupon shall be entitled 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 Trustee by manual signature of
an authorized officer, and such certificate upon 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 Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 310
together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 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 be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities
(a) Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute,
and upon Company Order the Trustee 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
conclusively the officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by
their execution of such Securities. Such temporary Securities may be in global form.
(b) 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. 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 the 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 303. Until so exchanged the
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temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
(c) 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 London office of a
depositary or common depositary (the “Common Depositary”), for the benefit of Euroclear and
Clearstream, for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or
to such other accounts as they may direct).
(d) 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 Trustee 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
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 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 301, 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 Euroclear 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 and signed by Clearstream as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its
account then to be exchanged, 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 301); 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 303.
(e) 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 Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his behalf and
delivers to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, 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
301), dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall
be available from the offices of Euroclear and Clearstream, the Trustee, 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
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of Euroclear or Clearstream. 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.
(f) 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 301, 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 Euroclear and Clearstream on such Interest Payment
Date upon delivery by Euroclear and Clearstream to the Trustee 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 301), for 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 Euroclear or
Clearstream, as the case may be, 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 301). 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 303 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 Euroclear and Clearstream and not paid as herein provided shall be returned
to the Trustee 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 1003.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
(a) So long as required by Trust Indenture Legislation, the Company shall keep at its
principal office in the Province of Ontario, or shall cause to be kept at the office or agency of a
trust corporation registered under the Loan and Trust Corporations Act (Ontario), a securities
register (the “Central Register”) of Holders of each series of Securities maintained in compliance
with the laws of the Province of Ontario. The Company will cause the particulars of each such
issue, exchange or transfer of Securities to be recorded in the Central Register. The Trustee
shall initially be the central security registrar (the “Central Security Registrar”) for the
purpose of registering Securities and transfers and exchanges of Securities in the Central Register
as provided herein; provided, however, the Company may appoint from time to time
one or more successor Central Security Registrars and may from time to time rescind any such
appointment. If no longer required by Trust Indenture Legislation, the Company may appoint a
Person other than the Company or a trust corporation registered under the Loan and Trust
Corporations Act (Ontario) as the Central Securities Registrar.
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(b) The Company shall also cause to be maintained a branch register (a “branch register”) or
branch registers of Holders of Securities in accordance with Section 1002 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 Trustee. The Trustee is
hereby initially appointed as branch security registrar (the “Branch Security Registrar”) for the
purpose of maintaining a branch register at its Corporate Trust Office; provided,
however, the Company may appoint from time to time one or more successor or additional
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”.
(c) 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
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.
(d) 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 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 301, Bearer Securities may not be issued in
exchange for Registered Securities.
(e) If (but only if) expressly permitted in or pursuant to the applicable Board Resolution and
(subject to Section 303) set forth in the applicable Officer’s Certificate, or in any indenture
supplemental hereto, delivered as contemplated by Section 301, 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 any such office or agency, 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 may be waived by the Company and the Trustee 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
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Section 1002, 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.
(f) Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
301, 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 specified as contemplated by Section 301 and provided that any applicable
notice provided in the permanent global Security shall have been given, 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 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 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 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 301, shall be in the form of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or
any combination thereof, as shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof; provided,
however, that 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
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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.
(h) 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 Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, 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 301 shall no longer be effective with respect to the Securities for such series and the
Company will execute, and the 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.
(i) 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 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.
(j) Upon the exchange of a global Security for Securities in definitive registered form, such
global Security shall be cancelled by the 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 Trustee in writing. The Trustee shall
deliver such Securities to the persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
(k) 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.
(l) Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar) be duly
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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.
(m) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, but 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 304, Section 906, Section 1107 or Section
1305 not involving any transfer.
(n) The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange
Securities of any series 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 1103 or Section 1203
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, 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 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 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.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
(a) If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to it is
surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the 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.
(b) If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i) evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security or coupon and (ii) such security 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 Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a good faith purchaser (as defined under the Canada Business Corporations Act) or a
protected purchaser (as defined in Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code), as applicable, the
Company shall execute and upon Company Order the 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
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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.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, 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 1002, be
payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States and, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301, any interest on Bearer Securities shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of the coupons appertaining thereto.
(d) 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 Trustee) connected
therewith.
(e) 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 shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally
and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series and their coupons, if any,
duly issued hereunder.
(f) The provisions of this Section 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 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset
(a) Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of
Securities, interest, if any, on any Registered Security which is payable, and is punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid 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 interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such
purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each installment of
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 309, to the address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register or
(ii) wire transfer to an account located in the United States or Canada maintained by the payee.
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(b) Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 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.
(c) Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, every permanent global Security
will provide that interest, if any, payable on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to each of
Euroclear and Clearstream with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held for
its account by the Common Depositary, for the purpose of permitting each of Euroclear and
Clearstream to credit the interest, if any, received by it in respect of such permanent global
Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof.
(d) 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”) may be paid by the
Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The 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 Special Record Date for the payment
of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall
notify the Trustee 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 the Trustee an amount of money in the Currency in
which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for the Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in
Section 312(b), Section 312(d) and Section 312(e)) equal to the aggregate amount proposed to
be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee 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 Trustee 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 Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee 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 106, 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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(2) 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 Trustee of the
proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable
by the Trustee.
(e) The provisions of this Section 307(e) may be made applicable to any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301 (with such modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified
pursuant to such Section 301). 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
Trustee of such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to an Optional Reset Date for
such Security, which notice shall set forth the specific information to be contained in the Reset
Notice (as defined below). Not later than 40 days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee
shall transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, 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) or method of
determining such rate (or 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 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.
(f) 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 spread or spread multiplier used to
calculate such interest rate, if applicable) or method of determining such interest rate (or spread
or spread multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice and establish an interest
rate (or a spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) or
method of determining such interest rate (or spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) that is
higher than the interest rate (or spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) or method of
determining such interest rate (or spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the
Reset Notice, for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the manner
provided for in Section 106, notice of such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread
multiplier, if applicable) or method of determining such interest rate (or 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).
(g) 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
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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 13 for repayment at the option of Holders except that the period for delivery or
notification to the Trustee 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 Trustee, revoke such tender or repayment
until the close of business on the tenth day before such Optional Reset Date.
(h) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 305, 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 308. Optional Extension of Stated Maturity
(a) The provisions of this Section 308 may be made applicable to any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 301 (with such modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified
pursuant to such Section 301). The Stated Maturity of any Security of such series may be extended
at the option of the Company for the period or periods specified on the face of such Security (each
an “Extension Period”) up to but not beyond the date (the “Final Maturity”) set forth on the face
of such Security. The Company may exercise such option with respect to any Security by notifying
the Trustee of such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to the Stated Maturity of
such Security in effect prior to the exercise of such option (the “Original Stated Maturity”),
which notice shall set forth the specific information to be contained in the Extension Notice (as
defined below). If the Company exercises such option, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner
provided for in Section 106, to the Holder of such Security not later than 40 days prior to the
Original Stated Maturity a notice (the “Extension Notice”) indicating (i) the election of the
Company to extend the Stated Maturity, (ii) the new Stated Maturity, (iii) the interest rate, if
any, applicable to the Extension Period and (iv) the provisions, if any, for redemption during such
Extension Period. Upon the Trustee’s transmittal of the Extension Notice, the Stated Maturity of
such Security shall be extended automatically and, except as modified by the Extension Notice and
as described in the next paragraph, such Security will have the same terms as prior to the
transmittal of such Extension Notice.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days before the Original Stated Maturity
of such Security, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest rate provided for in the
Extension Notice and establish a higher interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the
Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, notice of such higher interest rate
to the Holder of such Security. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Securities with respect to
which the Stated Maturity is extended will bear such higher interest rate.
(c) If the Company extends the Maturity of any Security, the Holder will have the option to
elect repayment of such Security by the Company on the Original Stated Maturity at a price equal to
the principal amount thereof, plus interest accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on
the Original Stated Maturity once the Company has extended the Maturity thereof, the Holder must
follow the procedures set forth in Article 13 for repayment at the option
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of Holders, except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at
least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity and except that, if the
Holder has tendered any Security for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder may by
written notice to the Trustee revoke such tender for repayment until the close of business on the
tenth day before the Original Stated Maturity.
SECTION 309. Persons Deemed Owners
(a) Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
such Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 305 and Section
307) interest, if any, on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
(b) Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall pass by delivery.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the bearer of any
Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or coupon for
the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupons be overdue, and none of the Company, the
Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
(c) None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any
responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account
of beneficial ownership interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global Security, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to
any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any depositary, as a Holder,
with respect to such global Security or impair, as between such depositary and owners of beneficial
interests in such global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of
the rights of such depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such global Security.
SECTION 310. Cancellation
All Securities and coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the
Holder, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any current or future sinking
fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the
Trustee. All Securities and coupons so delivered to the Trustee shall be promptly cancelled by it.
The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever,
and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which
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the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
cancelled by the Trustee. If the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such
acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by
such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No
Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as
provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary
procedures and certification of their disposal delivered to the Company upon its written request
therefor unless by Company Order the Company shall direct that cancelled Securities be returned to
it.
SECTION 311. Computation of Interest
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any Securities,
interest, if any, on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 312. Currency and Manner of Payments in Respect of Securities
(a) With respect to Registered Securities of any series not permitting the election provided
for in paragraph (b) below or the Holders of which have not made the election provided for in
paragraph (b) below, and with respect to Bearer Securities of any series, except as provided in
paragraph (d) below, payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on any
Registered or Bearer Security of such series will be made in the Currency in which such Registered
Security or Bearer Security, as the case may be, is payable. The provisions of this Section 312
may be modified or superseded with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301.
(b) It may be provided pursuant to Section 301 with respect to Registered Securities of any
series that Holders shall have the option, subject to paragraphs (d) and (e) below, to receive
payments of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on such Registered Securities in
any of the Currencies which may be designated for such election by delivering to the Trustee a
written election with signature guarantees and in the applicable form established pursuant to
Section 301, not later than the close of business on the Election Date immediately preceding the
applicable payment date. If a Holder so elects to receive such payments in any such Currency, such
election will remain in effect for such Holder or any transferee of such Holder until changed by
such Holder or such transferee by written notice to the Trustee (but any such change must be made
not later than the close of business on the Election Date immediately preceding the next payment
date to be effective for the payment to be made on such payment date and no such change of election
may be made with respect to payments to be made on any Registered Security of such series with
respect to which an Event of Default has occurred or with respect to which the Company has
deposited funds pursuant to Article 4 or Article 14 or with respect to which a notice of redemption
has been given by the Company or a notice of option to elect repayment has been sent by such Holder
or such transferee). In the event any Holder makes any such election pursuant to the preceding
sentence, such election will not be effective on any transferee of such Holder and such transferee
shall be
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paid in the Currency indicated pursuant to paragraph (a) above unless such transferee makes an
election pursuant to the preceding sentence; provided, however, that such election,
if in effect at the time funds are deposited with respect to the Securities of such series as
described in Section 401(a)(2), will be effective on any transferee of such Holder unless otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series. Any Holder of any such
Registered Security who shall not have delivered any such election to the Trustee not later than
the close of business on the applicable Election Date will be paid the amount due on the applicable
payment date in the relevant Currency as provided in Section 312(a). In no case may a Holder of
Securities of any series elect to receive payments in any Currency as described in this Section
312(b) following a deposit of funds with respect to the Securities of such series as described in
Section 401(a)(2). The Trustee shall notify the Exchange Rate Agent as soon as practicable after
the Election Date of the aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities for which Holders have
made such written election.
(c) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if the election referred to in
paragraph (b) above has been provided for pursuant to Section 301, then, unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 301, not later than the fourth Business Day after the Election Date for each
payment date for Registered Securities of any series, the Exchange Rate Agent will deliver to the
Company a written notice specifying, in the Currency in which Registered Securities of such series
are payable, the respective aggregate amounts of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest,
if any, on the Registered Securities to be paid on such payment date, specifying the amounts in
such Currency so payable in respect of the Registered Securities as to which the Holders of
Registered Securities of such series shall have elected to be paid in another Currency as provided
in paragraph (b) above. If the election referred to in paragraph (b) above has been provided for
pursuant to Section 301 and if at least one Holder has made such election, then, unless otherwise
specified pursuant to Section 301, on the second Business Day preceding such payment date the
Company will deliver to the Trustee for such series of Registered Securities an Exchange Rate
Officer’s Certificate in respect of the Dollar or Foreign Currency payments to be made on such
payment date. Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, the Dollar or Foreign Currency
amount receivable by Holders of Registered Securities who have elected payment in a Currency as
provided in paragraph (b) above shall be determined by the Company on the basis of the applicable
Market Exchange Rate in effect on the third Business Day (the “Valuation Date”) immediately
preceding each payment date, and such determination shall be conclusive and binding for all
purposes, absent manifest error.
(d) If a Conversion Event occurs with respect to a Foreign Currency in which any of the
Securities are denominated or payable other than pursuant to an election provided for pursuant to
paragraph (b) above, then with respect to each date for the payment of principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, on the applicable Securities denominated or payable in such Foreign
Currency occurring after the last date on which such Foreign Currency was used (the “Conversion
Date”), the Dollar shall be the Currency of payment for use on each such payment date. Unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, the Dollar amount to be paid by the Company to the
Trustee and by the Trustee or any Paying Agent to the Holders of such Securities with respect to
such payment date shall be, in the case of a Foreign Currency, the Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign
Currency as determined by the Exchange Rate Agent in the manner provided in paragraph (f) below.
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(e) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if the Holder of a Registered Security
denominated in any Currency shall have elected to be paid in another Currency as provided in
paragraph (b) above, and a Conversion Event occurs with respect to such elected Currency, such
Holder shall receive payment in the Currency in which payment would have been made in the absence
of such election; and if a Conversion Event occurs with respect to the Currency in which payment
would have been made in the absence of such election, such Holder shall receive payment in Dollars
as provided in paragraph (d) above.
(f) The “Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency” shall be determined by the Exchange Rate
Agent and shall be obtained for each subsequent payment date after the Conversion Date by
converting the specified Foreign Currency into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate on the
Conversion Date.
(g) For purposes of this Section 312 the following term shall have the following meaning:
“Election Date” shall mean the date for any series of Registered Securities as
specified pursuant to clause (19) of Section 301(b) by which the written election referred
to in paragraph (b) above may be made.
(h) All decisions and determinations of the Exchange Rate Agent regarding the Dollar
Equivalent of the Foreign Currency and the Market Exchange Rate as specified above shall be in its
sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and
irrevocably binding upon the Company, the Trustee and all Holders of such Securities denominated or
payable in the relevant Currency. The Exchange Rate Agent shall promptly give written notice to
the Company and the Trustee of any such decision or determination.
(i) In the event that the Company determines in good faith that a Conversion Event has
occurred with respect to a Foreign Currency, the Company will immediately give written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Exchange Rate Agent (and the Trustee will promptly thereafter
give notice in the manner provided for in Section 106 to the affected Holders) specifying the
Conversion Date.
(j) The Trustee shall be fully justified and protected in relying and acting upon information
received by it from the Company and the Exchange Rate Agent and shall not otherwise have any duty
or obligation to determine the accuracy or validity of such information independent of the Company
or the Exchange Rate Agent.
SECTION 313. Appointment and Resignation of Successor Exchange Rate Agent
(a) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of
any series (i) are denominated in a Currency other than Dollars or (ii) may be payable in a
Currency other than Dollars, or so long as it is required under any other provision of this
Indenture, then the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so
required, at least one Exchange Rate Agent. The Company will cause the Exchange Rate Agent to make
the necessary foreign exchange determinations at the time and in the manner
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specified pursuant to Section 301 for the purpose of determining the applicable rate of
exchange and, if applicable, for the purpose of converting the issued Currency into the applicable
payment Currency for the payment of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, pursuant
to Section 312.
(b) No resignation of the Exchange Rate Agent and no appointment of a successor Exchange Rate
Agent pursuant to this Section shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Exchange Rate Agent as evidenced by a written instrument delivered to the Company and the
Trustee accepting such appointment executed by the successor Exchange Rate Agent.
(c) If the Exchange Rate Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a
vacancy shall occur in the office of the Exchange Rate Agent for any cause with respect to the
Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly
appoint a successor Exchange Rate Agent or Exchange Rate Agents with respect to the Securities of
that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Exchange Rate Agent may be
appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, at any time there shall only be one Exchange Rate
Agent with respect to the Securities of any particular series that are originally issued by the
Company on the same date and that are initially denominated and/or payable in the same Currency).
SECTION 314. CUSIP Numbers
The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and,
if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders;
provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such
numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP”
numbers.
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
(a) This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to
any series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any surviving rights of
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series expressly provided for herein or
pursuant hereto and any right to receive Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1005) and
the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when
(1) either
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(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and
all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (i) coupons appertaining to
Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for Registered Securities and maturing
after such exchange, whose surrender is not required or has been waived as provided
in Xxxxxxx 000, (xx) Securities and coupons of such series which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) coupons appertaining to Securities called for redemption and
maturing after the relevant Redemption Date, whose surrender has been waived as
provided in Section 1106, and (iv) Securities and coupons of such series for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the
Company, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or (ii) below, any
coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one
year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be called for
redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee
for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at
the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably deposited
or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose
an amount in the Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable,
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities
which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as
the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable with respect to
the Securities of such series hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been complied with.
(b) Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the
Company to the Trustee under Section 605, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating
Agent under Section 611 and, if money shall have been deposited with the
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Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the
Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities, the coupons and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or
through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if
any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default
“Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest due on any Security of that series, or any
related coupon, when such interest or coupon becomes due and payable, and continuance of
such default for a period of 30 consecutive days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of
that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund or analogous payment when due by the
terms of any Security of that series and Article 12; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement of the Company
in this Indenture, and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 consecutive
days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the
Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of all Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or
breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default”
hereunder; or
(5) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises
adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the
Company under or subject to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the
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Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or other analogous bankruptcy or
insolvency laws in the United States, or the issuance of a sequestration order or the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Company or in receipt of any substantial part of the property of the
Company, and any such decree, order or appointment continues unstayed and in effect for a
period of 90 consecutive days; or
(6) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings
against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or
relief from creditors in respect of it or its property under or subject to the Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or other
analogous bankruptcy or insolvency laws in the United States or the consent by it to the
filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part
of its property, or the making by it of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors,
or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become
due or the taking by it of corporate action in furtherance of any of the aforesaid purposes;
or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
SECTION 502. Notice of Defaults
(a) If an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any series shall occur and be
continuing, the Trustee shall, within 90 days after the Trustee becomes aware of the occurrence of
such Event of Default, give notice of such Event of Default to the Holders of that series, and may,
notwithstanding that no Default has occurred with respect to the Securities of any other series,
give notice to the Holders of the Securities of such other series in the manner and to the extent
provided in Trust Indenture Legislation, unless such Default shall have been cured of waived;
provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Security of such series or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee
shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the
executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in
good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the best interest of the Holders of
such series and any related coupons; and provided further that in the case of any
Default of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no
such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the expiry of the 90 day period
referred to in Section 501(4).
(b) If notice of an Event of Default has been given to Holders of any series of Securities and
such Event of Default is thereafter remedied or cured prior to the acceleration of the indebtedness
of the Company hereunder pursuant to Section 503, notice that such Event of Default is no longer
continuing with respect to such series shall be given by the Trustee to the Persons to whom notice
of such Event of Default was given pursuant to this Section, such notice
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to be given within a reasonable time, not to exceed 30 days, after the Trustee becomes aware
that such Event of Default has been remedied or cured during such period of time.
SECTION 503. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
(a) If an Event of Default described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501 with
respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every
such case the Trustee, acting on written direction of Holders of not less than 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if the
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such
portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of all of the
Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company
(and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or
specified portion thereof) shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default
described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501 occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the
Trustee, acting on written direction of Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of all the
Securities of any series then Outstanding may declare the principal amount (or, if any such
Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the
principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of all of the Outstanding
Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by the Holders) and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
portion thereof) shall become immediately due and payable.
(b) The sole remedy for any breach of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture
(including without limitation under Section 702) to file periodic or other reports (including
pursuant to section 314(a)(1) of the TIA) shall, except as provided in the final sentence of this
Section 5.03(b) be the payment of liquidated damages in the form of additional interest, and
Holders of any series of Securities will not have any right hereunder to accelerate the maturity of
such Securities as a result of any such breach. If a breach of the obligations under this
Indenture to file periodic or other reports (including pursuant to section 314(a)(1) of the TIA)
continues for 90 days after notice thereof is given in accordance with Section 503(a), the Company
will pay additional interest to all Holders of Securities of a series at a rate per annum to be
specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series. Following the expiration of a
time period to be specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series, such
additional interest will cease to accrue, and the Securities will be subject to acceleration as
provided above if the Event of Default is continuing.
(c) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any
series (or of all series, as the case may be) has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article,
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series (or of
all series, as the case may be), by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and
annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay in the
Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as
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otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series and
except, if applicable, as provided in Section 312(b), Section 312(d) and Section 312(e)),
(A) all overdue interest, if any, on all Outstanding Securities of that series
(or of all series, as the case may be) and any related coupons,
(B) all unpaid principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding
Securities of that series (or of all series, as the case may be) which has become
due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, and interest on such unpaid
principal at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon
overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series (or of all series,
as the case may be), other than the non-payment of amounts of principal of (or premium, if
any, on) or interest on Securities of that series (or of all series, as the case may be)
which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived
as provided in Section 514.
(d) No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 504. Collection of Debt and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
(a) The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Security and
any related coupon when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for
a period of 30 consecutive days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Security at the Maturity thereof,
then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and coupons, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities
and coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, and interest on any overdue
principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable, on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
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(b) If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, upon
receipt of a notice in writing to the Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series and upon being sufficiently indemnified to its
reasonable satisfaction against all costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred, may, in its
name as Trustee hereunder institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against
the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to
be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor
upon such Securities, wherever situated.
(c) If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series (or of all series, as the
case may be) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series (or of all series, as
the case may be) by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual
to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce
any other proper remedy.
SECTION 505. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
(a) In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other
obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective
of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue
principal, premium, if any, or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise,
(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any),
or such portion of the principal amount of any series of Original Issue Discount Securities
or Indexed Securities as may be specified in the terms of such series, and interest, if any,
owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(2) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official
in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to
the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 605.
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(b) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent
to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment
or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding except as aforesaid,
for the electing of a trustee in bankruptcy or other person performing similar functions.
SECTION 506. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or with respect to the Securities or
coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or coupons or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such
proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for
the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities and coupons in respect of which such judgment
has been recovered.
SECTION 507. Application of Money Collected
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article with respect to the Securities
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of
the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, if any,
upon presentation of the Securities or coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation
thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 605;
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities and coupons in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference
or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities and
coupons for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, respectively; and
Third: The balance, if any, to the Company or as directed in writing by a
court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 508. Limitation on Suits
No Holder of any Security of any series or any related coupons shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) an Event of Default with respect to that series shall have occurred and be
continuing and such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series in the case of any Event of Default described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or
(7) of Section 501, or, in the case of any Event of Default described in clause (5) or (6)
of Section 501, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of all Outstanding
Securities, shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in
respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee
during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority or more in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series in the case of any Event of Default described in
clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501, or, in the case of any Event of Default
described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501, by the Holders of a majority or more in
principal amount of all Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb
or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Securities of the same series, in the case of any
Event of Default described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501, or of Holders of all
Securities in the case of any Event of Default described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501, or to
obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any
right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable
benefit of all Holders of Securities of the same series, in the case of any Event of Default
described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501, or of Holders of all Securities in
the case of any Event of Default described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501.
SECTION 509. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have
the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment, as provided herein (including,
if applicable, Article 14) and in such Security, of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 307) interest, if any, on such Security or payment of such coupon on the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security or coupon (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the case may be) and to institute suit for
the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of
such Holder.
SECTION 510. Restoration of Rights and Remedies
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
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reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every
such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders of Securities and coupons shall be restored severally and respectively to their former
positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 511. Rights and Remedies Cumulative
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or coupons in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or coupons
is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the
extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given
hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 512. Delay or Omission Not Waiver
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security of any series or coupon
to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of such series shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of
Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Indenture or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 513. Control by Holders
With respect to the Securities of any series, the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, relating to or arising under clause (1),
(2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501, and, with respect to all Securities, the Holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, not relating to or arising under clause
(1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501, provided that in each case
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this
Indenture,
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not
inconsistent with such direction, and
(3) the Trustee need not take any action which might involve it in personal liability
or be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such series not taking part in
such direction.
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SECTION 514. Waiver of Past Defaults
(a) Subject to Section 503, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such
series waive any past default described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501 (or, in
the case of a default described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 501, the Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities may waive any such past default), and
its consequences, except a default
(1) in respect of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if
any, on any Security or any related coupon, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 9 cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such
series affected.
(b) Upon any such waiver, any such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time
insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any
stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully
do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will
not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties, Rights and Responsibilities of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee shall undertake to perform such duties and only such duties, as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee.
(b) In the exercise of the rights, powers, and duties prescribed or conferred by the terms
hereunder, the Trustee shall honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the
Holders and exercise that degree of care, diligence and skill of a reasonably prudent trustee
acting in such capacity.
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(c) In the absence of willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may
conclusively rely and act, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be
under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or
other facts stated therein).
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability
for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct,
except that:
(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of Section
601(a), (b) or (c);
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the
Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee under this Indenture; and
(iv) no provision contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers,
if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or
liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Indenture or
adequate indemnity against such risk is not reasonably assured to it.
(e) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from its duties,
except to the extent permitted by Trust Indenture Legislation and provided that:
(i) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of
the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(ii) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it
desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or
omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an
Officer’s Certificate;
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(iii) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in
good faith and in reliance thereon;
(iv) subject to Section 601(c), the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation
into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to
make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at
the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of
such inquiry or investigation;
(v) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform
any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(vi) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(vii) the Trustee will disburse monies according to this Indenture only to the
extent that monies have been deposited with it; and
(viii) in the event that Bearer Securities are issued, the Trustee, upon the
occurrence or at any time during the continuance of any act, action or proceeding,
may require the Holders at whose instance it is acting to deposit with it Bearer
Securities held by them, for which the Trustee shall issue receipts.
(ix) the Trustee may, in the absence of its willful misconduct, conclusively
rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper
or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the
proper party or parties.
(x) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the
Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the
Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction.
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(xi) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special,
indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not
limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of
the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
(xii) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of
Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or
unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by
the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references
the Securities and this Indenture.
(xiii) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to
the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are
extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities
hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
(f) Whether or not therein and expressly so provided, except to the extent expressly provided
herein to the contrary, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or effecting the
liability or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section
601.
SECTION 602. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except for the Trustee’s certificates of
authentication, and in any coupons shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee
makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities
or coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver
this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder. Neither the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company
of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 603. May Hold Securities
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other
agent of the Company or of the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Securities and coupons and, subject to Trust Indenture Legislation, may
otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 604. Money Held in Trust
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
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SECTION 605. Compensation and Reimbursement
(a) The Company agrees, both before any default hereunder and thereafter until all the duties
of the Trustee shall be firmly and fully performed, except any such expense, disbursement, or
advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its own negligence or willful misconduct:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in
regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its
request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and the reasonable
expenses related to the calling of any meeting of Holders by the Company), except any such
expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its own
negligence or willful misconduct; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability
or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or
in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
(b) The obligations of the Company under this Section to compensate the Trustee, to pay or
reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances and to indemnify and hold harmless
the Trustee shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture. As security for the performance of such obligations of the
Company, the Trustee shall have a claim prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or
collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on particular Securities or any coupons.
(c) When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of
Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6), the expenses (including reasonable charges and expense
of its counsel) of and the compensation for such services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable U.S. or Canadian federal, state or provincial bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.
(d) The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture. Any
amount due under this Section 605 and unpaid 30 days after request for such payment shall bear
interest at the then current rate for overdue amounts charged by the Trustee.
(e) The remuneration of the Trustee hereunder shall continue to be payable until the trusts
hereof shall be finally wound up, whether or not the trusts of this Indenture shall be in course of
administration by or under the direction of any court.
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SECTION 606. Conflict of Interest
(a) The Trustee represents to the Company that at the time of the execution and delivery
hereof no material conflict of interest exists between the Trustee’s role as a fiduciary hereunder
and the Trustee’s role in any other capacity and agrees that in the event of a material conflict of
interest arising hereafter it will, within 90 days after becoming aware that a material conflict of
interest exists, either eliminate the same or resign its trust hereunder.
(b) If, notwithstanding Section 606(a), the Trustee has a material conflict of interest, the
validity and enforceability of this Indenture, of the Security Interest (if any) constituted by or
under this Indenture and of the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall not be affected in
any manner whatsoever by reason only of the existence of such material conflict of interest.
(c) If the Trustee contravenes Section 606(a), the Company or the Holders of not less than 25%
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any series affected thereby may apply to the
Ontario Court (General Division) or U.S. federal or New York State court for an order that the
Trustee be replaced, and such court may make an order on such terms as it thinks fit.
SECTION 607. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
For as long as required by Trust Indenture Legislation, there shall be at all times a Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series which may be the Trustee hereunder for
Securities of one or more series. Each Trustee shall be a Person which shall be eligible to act as
Trustee under Trust Indenture Legislation and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least
$35,000,000. For so long as required by the Trust Indenture Legislation, there shall be a Canadian
Trustee under this Indenture. The Canadian Trustee shall at all times be a corporation organized
under the laws of Canada or province thereof and authorized under such laws and the laws of the
Province of Ontario to carry on trust business therein and be subject to supervision or examination
pursuant to the Trust Companies Act (Canada) or the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act. If
at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 609.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by
giving written notice thereof to the Company upon three months notice or such shorter period as
agreed to by the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 609 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition at the expense of the
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Company any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act
of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a
successor Trustee required by Section 609 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30
days after the delivery of such Act, the Trustee being removed may petition at the expense of the
Company any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Trust Indenture Legislation
or Section 606 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 607 and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company, by a Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect
to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Trust Indenture Legislation, any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more
series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees
with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and
that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series). If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of
such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed
by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall,
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter
provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of
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such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series to the Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided for
in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of all amounts due to it under Section 605,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1)
shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee
with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those
series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring
Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute
such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust
or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other
such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or
those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the
Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall upon payment of all amounts due to it
under Section 605 duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to
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the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee
relates. Whenever there is a successor Trustee with respect to one or more (but less than all)
series of securities issued pursuant to this Indenture, the terms “Indenture” and “Securities”
shall have the meanings specified in the provisos to the respective definitions of those terms in
Section 101 which contemplate such situation.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all
rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which
the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided
such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In
case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such
authenticating Trustee or any successor Authentication Agent, as the case may be, may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such
successor Trustee or successor Authenticating Agent, as the case may be, had itself authenticated
such Securities. In case any of the Securities shall not have been authenticated by such
predecessor Trustee, any successor Trustee or any successor Authenticating Agent, as the case may
be, may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name
of the successor Trustee. In all such cases such certificates shall have the full force and effect
which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities in the name of any
predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation.
SECTION 611. Appointment of Authenticating Agent
(a) At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an
Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series and the
Trustee shall give written notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series
with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, in the manner provided for in Section
106. Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Any such
appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Responsible Officer
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of the Trustee, and a copy of such instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Company.
Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by
the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a
certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia or the laws of Canada or any province thereof, authorized under such laws
to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $35,000,000
and subject to supervision or examination by U.S. federal or state or Canadian federal or
provincial authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to
be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
(b) Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to
the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be
an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent.
(c) An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the
Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating
Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company
and shall give written notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with
respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, in the manner provided for in Section 106.
Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested
with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed
unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
(d) The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be
reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section 605.
(e) If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the
Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:
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SECTION 612. Acceptance of Trust
The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided for and agrees
to perform the same upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture and in trust for the
Holders from time to time, subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.
SECTION 613. Trustee Not Required to Give Security
The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or security in respect of the execution of
the trusts and powers of this Indenture or otherwise in respect of this Indenture.
SECTION 614. Trustee Not Required to Possess Securities
All rights of action under this Indenture may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof on any trial or other proceedings
relative thereto.
SECTION 615. Protection of Trustee
(a) The Trustee shall not incur any liability or responsibility whatsoever or in any way be
responsible for the consequence of any breach on the part of the Company of any of the covenants
contained in this Indenture or in any Securities or of any acts of the agents or employees of the
Company.
(b) Neither the Trustee nor any affiliate of the Trustee shall be appointed a receiver or
receiver and manager or liquidator of all or any part of the assets or undertaking of the Company.
(c) Nothing in this Indenture shall impose on the Trustee any obligation to see to, or to
require evidence of, the registration or filing (or renewal thereof) of this Indenture or any
instrument ancillary or supplemental to this Indenture in any jurisdiction.
(d) The Trustee shall incur no liability with respect to the delivery or non-delivery of any
certificate or certificates whether delivered by hand, mail or any other means.
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ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders
(a) A Holder may, upon payment to either Trustee of a reasonable fee and subject to compliance
with any applicable requirement of Trust Indenture Legislation, require such Trustee to furnish
within 15 days after receiving the statutory declaration referred to below, a list setting out (i)
the name and address of every registered Holder, (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Securities
owned by each registered Holder, and (iii) the aggregate principal amount of Outstanding
Securities, each as shown on the records of such Trustee on the day that the statutory declaration
is delivered to such Trustee. The statutory declaration shall contain (i) the name and address of
the Holder, (ii) where the Holder is a corporation, its name and address for service, and (iii) a
statement that the list will not be used except in connection with an effort to influence the
voting of the Holders, an offer to acquire Securities, or any other matter relating to the
Securities or the affairs of the Company. Where the Holder is a corporation, the affidavit or
statutory declaration shall be made by a director or officer of the corporation.
(b) Every Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee or any agent of either of them
shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of such list of the names and addresses of
the Holders, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the
Trustees shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made
under Trust Indenture Legislation.
SECTION 702. Reports by the Company
(a) The Company shall file with the Trustee such information, documents and other reports, and
such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Legislation at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant to Trust Indenture Legislation. Any such information,
documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 shall be filed with the Trustee, within 15 days after the
Company is required to file the same with the Commission. Any such information filed by the
Company with the Commission through the Commission’s XXXXX database shall be deemed to have been
filed with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 702 at the time of such filing through the
XXXXX database.
(b) Notwithstanding that the Company may not be required to remain subject to the reporting
requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or otherwise report on
an annual and quarterly basis on forms provided for such annual and quarterly reporting pursuant to
rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission, the Company shall provide the Trustee:
(i) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the information required
to be contained in the Company’s annual information form required to be provided
under the laws of Canada or any province thereof to security holders of a
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company with securities listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange whether or not the
Company has securities so listed; and
(ii) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of
each fiscal year, the information required to be contained in reports in the
Company’s quarterly reports required to be provided under the laws of Canada or any
province thereof to security holders of a company with securities listed on The
Toronto Stock Exchange, whether or not the Company has any of its securities so
listed.
Any such information filed by the Company with the Commission through the Commission’s XXXXX
database shall be deemed to have been provided to the Trustee for purposes of this Section 702 at
the time of such filing through the XXXXX database. Such information will be prepared in
accordance with U.S. or Canadian disclosure requirements, as applicable, and GAAP. Delivery of such
reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the
Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained
therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with
any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on
Officers’ Certificates).
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
(a) The Company shall not amalgamate or consolidate with or merge into any other Person or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person,
unless:
(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation or into which the Company
is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation,
partnership or trust organized and existing under the laws of Canada or any province
thereof, United States, the United Kingdom, or other country that is in the European
Community jurisdiction and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the Company’s
obligation for the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any),
including Redemption Price and Repayment Price, and interest on all the Securities and the
performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed
or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no
event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall
have happened and be continuing; and
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(3) the Company or such Person shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such amalgamation, consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this
Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
have been complied with.
(b) This Section shall only apply to a merger, amalgamation or consolidation in which the
Company is not the surviving corporation and to conveyances, leases and transfers by the Company as
transferor or lessor.
SECTION 802. Successor Person Substituted
Upon any amalgamation or consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company into any
other corporation or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company
substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person
formed by such amalgamation or consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such
conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and in the event of any such conveyance or
transfer, the Company (which term shall for this purpose mean the Person named as the “Company” in
the first paragraph of this Indenture or any successor Person which shall theretofore become such
in the manner described in Section 801), except in the case of a lease, shall be discharged of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and the coupons and may be
dissolved and liquidated.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following
purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession (or successive successors) of another Person to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company contained
herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any
series of Securities and any related coupons (and if such covenants are to be for the
benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are being
included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Company; or
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(3) to add any additional Events of Default (and if such Events of Default are to be
for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events of Default
are being included solely for the benefit of such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide that Bearer
Securities may be registrable as to principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on
the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on Bearer Securities, to permit
Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to permit Bearer
Securities to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations
or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form;
provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material respect; or
(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture with respect
to one or more series; provided that any such addition or change or elimination
shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created
prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of
such provision; or
(6) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by
Section 201 and Section 301; or
(7) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of
the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the
requirements of Section 609(b); or
(8) to close this Indenture with respect to the issuance, authentication and delivery
of additional series of Securities, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or
to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture; or
(9) to add to the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount,
form, terms or purposes of issue, authentication and delivery of Securities, as herein set
forth, other conditions, limitations and restrictions thereafter to be observed,
provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of Holders of
Securities of such series and any related coupons or any other series of Securities in any
material respect; or
(10) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be
necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities
pursuant to Section 401, Section 1402 and Section 1403; provided that any such
action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series
and any related coupons or any other series of Securities in any material respect; or
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(11) to make any other changes in the provisions of this Indenture which the Company
and the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable provided such amendment does not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; or
(12) to add any Security Interests or guarantors in respect of any series of
Securities; or
(13) to add to or change or eliminate the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to comply with Trust Indenture Legislation, provided that any such action
shall not adversely affect the interests of Holders of Securities of such series and any
related coupons or any other series of Securities in any material respect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders
(a) With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all
Outstanding Securities affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to
the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and
the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture
or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of (or premium, if any) or any
installment of interest on any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof (or premium,
if any) or the rate of interest, if any, thereon, or change any obligation of the Company to
pay Additional Amounts contemplated by Section 1005 (except as contemplated by
Section 801(a) and permitted by Section 901(a)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an
Original Issue Discount Security of such series that would be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 503 or the amount
thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 505, or adversely affect any right of
repayment at the option of any Holder of any Security, or change any Place of Payment where,
or the Currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or
impair the right to institute a suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the
Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment at the option of the
Holder, on or after the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the case may be), or adversely
affect any right to convert or exchange any Security as may be provided pursuant to
Section 301 herein, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, for
any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture, or reduce the requirements
of Section 1504 for quorum or voting, or
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(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 514 or Section 1006, except
to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this
Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security of such series affected thereby provided, however, that this clause
shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder of a Security of such series with
respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this
Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
requirements of Section 609(b) and Section 901(7).
(b) A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of
this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular
series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with
respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series. Any such supplemental indenture adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture,
or modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series, shall not affect
the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
(c) It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the
Trustee shall be provided with, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this
Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated
and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Legislation
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Legislation as then in effect.
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SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in
form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion
of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by
the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities
of such series.
SECTION 907. Notice of Supplemental Indentures
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to the provisions of Section 902, the Company shall give notice thereof to the Holders of
each Outstanding Security affected, in the manner provided for in Section 106, setting forth in
general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities
and any related coupons that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest, if any, on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the
Securities, any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. Unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, any interest installments due
on Bearer Securities on or before Maturity shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
the several coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally
mature.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency
If the Securities of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the Company will
maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities
of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities of that series that are
convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for conversion or exchange, as applicable and where
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this
Indenture may be served.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to a series of Securities, if Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the
Company will maintain (A) in The City of New York, an office or agency where any Registered
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where any Registered
Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that
series may be surrendered for exchange, where Securities of that series that are
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convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for conversion or exchange, as applicable,
where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and
this Indenture may be served and where Bearer Securities of that series and related coupons may be
presented or surrendered for payment in the circumstances described in the following paragraph (and
not otherwise) (B) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for
that series which is located outside the United States, an office or agency where Securities of
that series and related coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment; provided,
however, that, if the Securities of that series are listed on any stock exchange located
outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a
Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in any required city located outside the United
States so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such exchange, and (C) subject to any
laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series located outside the
United States an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange,
where Securities of that series that are convertible and exchangeable may be surrendered for
conversion or exchange, as applicable and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in
the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office
of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of any series and the related coupons may be
presented and surrendered for payment at the offices specified in the Security, and the Company
hereby appoints the same as its agents to receive such respective presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, no payment
of principal, premium or interest on Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the
Company in the United States or by check mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer
to an account maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided,
however, that, if the Securities of a series are payable in Dollars, payment of principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on any Bearer Security shall be made at the office
of the Company’s Paying Agent in The City of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the
full amount of such principal, premium or interest, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies
outside the United States maintained for such purpose by the Company in accordance with this
Indenture is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where
the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes
and may from time to time rescind any such designation; provided, however, that no
such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to
maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of
any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities as contemplated by Section 301
with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby designates as a Place of
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Payment for each series of Securities the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office
as Paying Agent in such city and as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, if and so
long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a Currency other than Dollars or
(ii) may be payable in a Currency other than Dollars, or so long as it is required under any other
provision of the Indenture, then the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of
Securities, or as so required, at least one Exchange Rate Agent.
SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust
(a) If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of
Securities and any related coupons, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the Currency in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for
the Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in Section 312(b),
Section 312(d) and Section 312(e)) sufficient to pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest, if any, on Securities of such series so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of
its action or failure so to act.
(b) Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities and
any related coupons, it will, prior to or on each due date of the principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest, if any, on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum (in the
Currency described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal (or premium, if any)
or interest, if any, so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the
Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
(c) The Company will cause each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) for any series of
Securities to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall
agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest, if any, on Securities of such series in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon
the Securities of such series) in the making of any payment of principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of such series; and
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(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of
the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
(d) The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to
pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be
held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such sums.
(e) Except as provided in the Securities of any series, any money deposited with the Trustee
or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Security of any series, or any coupon appertaining
thereto, and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become
due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request subject to applicable abandoned
property or escheat law, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and
the Holder of such Security or coupon shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only
to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once,
in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Statement as to Compliance
So long as any of the Securities are Outstanding, the Company will deliver to the Trustee,
within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a brief certificate from the principal executive
officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or treasurer as to his or her
knowledge of the Company’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture. For
purposes of this Section 1004, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of
grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.
SECTION 1005. Additional Amounts
(a) If specified pursuant to Section 301, all payments made by the Company under or with
respect to the Securities of any series will be made free and clear of and without withholding or
deduction for or on account of any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other
governmental charge imposed or levied by or on behalf of the Government of Canada or of any
province or territory thereof or by any authority or agency therein or thereof having power to tax
(hereinafter “Taxes”), unless the Company is required to withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by the
interpretation or administration thereof. If the Company is so required to withhold or deduct any
amount for or on account of Taxes from any payment made under or with
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respect to the Securities, the Company will pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”)
as may be necessary so that the net amount received by each Holder (including Additional Amounts)
after such withholding or deduction will not be less than the amount the Holder would have received
if such Taxes had not been withheld or deducted; provided that no Additional Amounts will
be payable:
(1) to any Person in respect of whom such taxes are required to be withheld or deducted
as a result of such Person not dealing at arm’s length with the Company (within the meaning
of the Income Tax Act (Canada));
(2) to any Person by reason of such Person being connected with Canada (otherwise than
merely by holding or ownership of any series of Securities or receiving any payments or
exercising any rights thereunder), including without limitation a non-resident insurer who
carries on an insurance business in Canada and in a country other than Canada;
(3) which is subject to such Taxes by reason of its failure to comply with any
certification, identification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement if
compliance is required by law, regulation, administrative practice or an applicable treaty
as a precondition to exemption from, or a reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding
of, such Taxes; or
(4) for any combination of items (1), (2) and (3);
nor will Additional Amounts be paid with respect to any payment on a Security to a Holder who is a
fiduciary or partnership or other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent such
payment would be required by the laws of Canada (or any political subdivision thereof) to be
included in the income for Canadian federal income tax purposes of a beneficiary or settlor with
respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have
been entitled to payment of the additional amounts had such beneficiary, settlor, member or
beneficial owner been the Holder of such Security.
(b) At least 10 days prior to each date on which any payment under or with respect to the
Securities is due and payable, if the Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with
respect to such payment, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating
the fact that such Additional Amounts will be payable, the amounts so payable and will set forth
such other information necessary to enable the Trustee to pay such Additional Amounts to Holders on
the payment date. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of
principal (and premium, if any), Redemption Price, interest or any other amount payable under or
with respect to any Security such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of
Additional Amounts provided for in this Section to the extent that, in such context, Additional
Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section
and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof
shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made (if applicable).
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(c) The obligations of the Company under this Section 1005 shall survive the termination of
the Indenture.
(d) The Company will furnish to Holders, within 30 days after the date the payment of any
Taxes is due pursuant to applicable law, certified copies of tax receipts evidencing such payment
by the Company. The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Holder (other than an Excluded
Holder) and upon written request reimburse each such Holder for the amount of (i) any Taxes so
levied or imposed which have not been withheld or deducted and remitted by the Company and which
have been paid by such Holder as a result of payments made under or with respect to the Securities,
(ii) any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect
thereto or from the failure to make such payment, and (iii) any Taxes imposed with respect to any
reimbursement under clause (i) or (ii) above, but excluding any such Taxes on such Holder’s net
income.
SECTION 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants
The Company may, with respect to any series of Securities, omit in any particular instance to
comply with any term, provision or condition which affects such series set forth in Section 1005,
or, as specified pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of such series, in any covenants of the
Company added to Article 10 pursuant to Section 301 in connection with Securities of such series,
if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of
all Outstanding Securities of each series affected by the omission (which, in the case of a
covenant not set forth herein and specified pursuant to Section 301 to be applicable to the
Securities of any series, shall include only those series to which such covenant is so specified to
be applicable), shall in each case by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver
shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly
waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the
duties of the Trustee to Holders of Securities of such series in respect of any such term,
provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article
Redemption of Securities of any series (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise)
as permitted or required by any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made in
accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided, however, that if
any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with any provision of this Article, the
provision of such form of Security shall govern.
SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company, the Company shall, at
least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
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shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption
Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and shall deliver to
the Trustee such documentation and records as shall enable the Trustee to select the Securities to
be redeemed pursuant to Section 1103. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officer’s Certificate
evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
(a) If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by
the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption on
a pro rata basis, or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which
may provide for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal amount of Securities of
such series; provided, however, that no such partial redemption shall reduce the
portion of the principal amount of a Security not redeemed to less than the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of such series established pursuant to Section 301. The Trustee may
make regulations with regard to the manner in which Securities are selected for redemption, and
regulations so made shall be valid and binding upon all Holders.
(b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
(c) For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to
be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or
is to be redeemed.
SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption
(a) Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, notice of redemption shall
be given in the manner provided for in Section 106 not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to
the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed.
(b) All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price and the amount of accrued interest to the Redemption Date
payable as provided in Section 1106, if any,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of
the particular Securities to be redeemed,
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(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to
such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such
Security, the holder will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities of
authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,
(5) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, to
the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106 will become due and payable upon
each such Security, or the portion thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest
thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(6) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities, together in the case of
Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto, if any, maturing after the
Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest, if any,
(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case,
(8) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer Securities of any series,
if any, surrendered for redemption must be accompanied by all coupons maturing subsequent to
the Redemption Date or the amount of any such missing coupon or coupons will be deducted
from the Redemption Price unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Company, the
Trustee and any Paying Agent is furnished, and
(9) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and any Registered Securities
of such series are not to be redeemed, and if such Bearer Securities may be exchanged for
Registered Securities not subject to redemption on such Redemption Date pursuant to
Section 305 or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Company, on which such
exchanges may be made.
(c) Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be
given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of
the Company.
SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the Currency in which the Securities of such series
are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such
series and except, if applicable, as provided in Section 312(b), Section 312(d) and Section 312(e))
sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and accrued interest, if any, on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date
(a) Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified in
the Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as
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otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series and except, if
applicable, as provided in Section 312(b), Section 312(d) and Section 312(e)) (together with
accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Company
shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any) such Securities
shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the coupons for such interest
appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the extent provided below, shall
be void. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice,
together with all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Security or specified portions thereof shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price,
together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however,
that installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States
(except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of coupons for such interest; and
provided further that installments of interest on Registered Securities whose
Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on
the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
(b) If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be accompanied by all
appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security may be paid after deducting
from the Redemption Price an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the
surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there
be 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 the Trustee or
any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from
the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted;
provided, however, that interest represented by coupons shall be payable only at an
office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002)
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and
surrender of those coupons.
(c) If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for
redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the
Redemption Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue
Discount Securities) set forth in such Security.
SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article
or of Article 12) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the
Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory
to the Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, and
having the same terms and provisions and in an aggregate
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principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the
Security so surrendered.
SECTION 1108. Tax Redemption
If specified pursuant to Section 301, the Securities of a series will be subject to redemption
at any time, in whole but not in part, at a Redemption Price equal to the principal amount thereof
together with accrued and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption on the Redemption Date
specified pursuant to Section 301, upon the giving of a notice as described below, if (1) the
Company determines that (a) as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws (or any
regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of Canada or of any political subdivision or taxing
authority thereof or therein affecting taxation, or any change in official position regarding
application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings (including a holding by a court
of competent jurisdiction), which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after
a date specified in Section 301, if any date is so specified, the Company has or will become
obligated to pay, on the next succeeding date on which interest is due, Additional Amounts pursuant
to Section 1005 with respect to any Security of such series or (b) on or after a date specified
pursuant to Section 301 with respect to any Security of such series, any action has been taken by
any taxing authority of, or any decision has been rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction in,
Canada or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, including any of those
actions specified in (a) above, whether or not such action was taken or decision was rendered with
respect to the Company, or any change, amendment, application or interpretation shall be officially
proposed, which, in any such case, in the Opinion of Counsel to the Company, will result in the
Company becoming obligated to pay, on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, Additional Amounts
with respect to any Security of such series and (2) in any such case, the Company in its business
judgment determines that such obligation cannot be avoided by the use of reasonable measures
available to the Company; provided however, that (i) no such notice of redemption
may be given earlier than 90 or later than 30 days prior to the earliest date on which the Company
would be obligated to pay such Additional Amounts were a payment in respect of the Securities then
due, and (ii) at the time such notice of redemption is given, such obligation to pay such
Additional Amounts remains in effect.
ARTICLE 12
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 1201. Applicability of Article
(a) Redemption of Securities through operation of a sinking fund as permitted or required by
any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such form
of Security and this Article; provided, however, that if any provision of any such
form of Security shall conflict with any provision of this Article, the provision of such form of
Security shall govern.
(b) The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of
any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess
of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of
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any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be
subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to
the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such
series.
SECTION 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
Subject to Section 1203, in lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at its option
(1) deliver to the Trustee Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for
redemption) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company together in the case of any
Bearer Securities of such series with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto, and/or
(2) receive credit for the principal amount of Securities of such series which have been previously
delivered to the Trustee by the Company or for Securities of such series which have been redeemed
either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities,
in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect
to the Securities of the same series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities
as provided for by the terms of such series; provided, however, that such
Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited
for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption
through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund payment shall
be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
(a) Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount
of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the
portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the Currency in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for
the Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in Section 312(b),
Section 312(d) and Section 312(e)) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by
delivering or crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202 (which Securities will,
if not previously delivered, accompany such certificate) and whether the Company intends to
exercise its right to make a permitted optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series.
Such certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery the Company shall be obligated to make
the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next succeeding sinking
fund payment date. In the case of the failure of the Company to deliver such certificate, the
sinking fund payment due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date for that series shall be
paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem the principal amount of such Securities
subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment without the option to deliver or credit Securities as
provided in Section 1202 and without the right to make any optional sinking fund payment, if any,
with respect to such series.
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(b) Not more than 60 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select
the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in
Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the
expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given,
the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in
Section 1106 and Section 1107.
(c) On or prior to any sinking fund payment date, the Company shall pay to the Trustee or a
Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 1003) in cash a sum equal to any interest that will accrue to the date fixed
for redemption of Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date
pursuant to this Section 1203.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a sinking fund for any series of
Securities, if at any time the amount of cash to be paid into such sinking fund on the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date, together with any unused balance of any preceding sinking
fund payment or payments for such series, does not exceed in the aggregate $100,000, the Trustee,
unless requested by the Company, shall not give the next succeeding notice of the redemption of
Securities of such series through the operation of the sinking fund. Any such unused balance of
moneys deposited in such sinking fund shall be added to the sinking fund payment for such series to
be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date or, at the request of the Company,
shall be applied at any time or from time to time to the purchase of Securities of such series, by
public or private purchase, in the open market or otherwise, at a purchase price for such
Securities (excluding accrued interest and brokerage commissions, for which the Trustee or any
Paying Agent will be reimbursed by the Company) not in excess of the principal amount thereof.
ARTICLE 13
REPAYMENT AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article
Repayment of Securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders
thereof, as permitted by any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture, shall be made in
accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided, however, that if
any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with any provision of this Article, the
provision of such form of Security shall govern.
SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities
Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders
thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal
to the principal amount thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment
Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants that on or
before the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003)
an amount of money in the Currency in which the Securities of such
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series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities
of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in Section 312(b), Section 312(d) and
Section 312(e)) sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities
of any series, a percentage of the principal) of and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an
Interest Payment Date) accrued interest, if any, on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the
case may be, to be repaid on such date.
SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option
(a) Securities of any series subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will
contain an “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse of such Securities. To be repaid at the
option of the Holder, any Security so providing for such repayment, with the “Option to Elect
Repayment” form on the reverse of such Security duly completed by the Holder (or by the Holder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing), must be received by the Company at the Place of Payment
therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places or which the
Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 45 days nor
later than 30 days prior to the Repayment Date. If less than the entire principal amount of such
Security is to be repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of
such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for Securities of such
series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security or Securities to be issued to the
Holder for the portion of the principal amount of such Security surrendered that is not to be
repaid, must be specified. The principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the
option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment, the unpaid
principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of
Securities of the series of which such Security to be repaid is a part. Except as otherwise may be
provided by the terms of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof,
exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the Company.
(b) For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the repayment of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security, repaid or to be
repaid only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is
to be repaid.
SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable
(a) If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of the Holders thereof
shall have been surrendered as provided in this Article and as provided by or pursuant to the terms
of such Securities, such Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall
become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein specified,
and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such
Securities on such Repayment Date) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease
to bear interest and the coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be
repaid, except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such Security
for repayment in accordance with such provisions, together with all coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto maturing after the Repayment Date, the
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principal amount of such Security so to be repaid shall be paid by the Company, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date; provided, however, that coupons
whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable only at an office or
agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of such coupons;
and provided further that unless otherwise contemplated by Section 301, in the case
of Registered Securities, whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date, installments
of interest, if any, shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to
their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
(b) If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be accompanied by all
appurtenant coupons maturing after the Repayment Date, such Security may be paid after deducting
from the amount payable therefor as provided in Section 1302 an amount equal to the face amount of
all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the
Company and the Trustee if there be 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 the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of
which a deduction shall have been made as provided in the preceding sentence, such Holder shall be
entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United
States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons.
(c) If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall not be so repaid
upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to
such Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of
interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such
Security.
SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part.
Any Security which is to be repaid only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article)
shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so
requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the
same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, and having the same terms
and provisions and in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the portion of the
principal of the Security so surrendered which is not to be repaid.
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ARTICLE 14
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1401. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, the
provisions of this Article 14 shall apply to each series of Securities, and the Company may, at its
option, effect defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1402, or covenant
defeasance of or within a series under Section 1403 in accordance with the terms of such Securities
and in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge
Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any
Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its
obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any related coupons on the date the
conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “defeasance”). For this purpose,
such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness represented by such Outstanding Securities and any related coupons, which shall
thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other
Sections of this Indenture referred to in (A) and (B) below, and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Securities and any related coupons and this Indenture insofar as such
Securities and any related coupons are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of such
Outstanding Securities and any related coupons to receive, solely from the trust fund described in
Section 1404 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities and any related coupons when such
payments are due, (B) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Section 304,
Section 305, Section 306, Section 1002 and Section 1003 and with respect to the payment of
Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section 1005, (C) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article 14. Subject to
compliance with this Article 14, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1402
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities
and any related coupons.
SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance
Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any
Securities of or within a series, the Company shall, if specified pursuant to Section 301, its
obligations under any covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any related coupons
on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter,
“covenant defeasance”), and such Securities and any related coupons shall thereafter be deemed not
to be “Outstanding” for the purposes of any request, demand, authorization, notice, direction,
waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in
connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed
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“Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance
means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any related coupons, the Company may
omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set
forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere
herein to any such covenant or by reason of reference in any such covenant to any other provision
herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an
Event of Default under Section 501(4) or Section 501(7) or otherwise, as the case may be, but,
except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and any related
coupons shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
(a) The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 1402 or
Section 1403 to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series and any related coupons:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 607 who shall agree to
comply with the provisions of this Article 14 applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for
the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and
dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any related coupons,
(A) an amount (in such Currency in which such Securities and any related coupons are then
specified as payable at Stated Maturity), except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for the Securities of such series and except as provided in Section 312(b),
Section 312(d) and Section 312(e), or (B) Government Obligations applicable to such
Securities (determined on the basis of the Currency in which such Securities are then
specified as payable at Stated Maturity), except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 301 for the Securities of such series and except as provided in Section 312(b),
Section 312(d) and Section 312(e), which through the scheduled payment of principal and
interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one
day before the due date of any payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and interest,
if any, under such Securities and any related coupons, money in an amount, or (C) a
combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other
qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities and any related coupons on the Stated
Maturity (or Redemption Date, if applicable) of such principal (and premium, if any) or
installment of interest, if any, and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous
payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any related coupons on the day on
which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and
of such Securities and any related coupons; provided that the Trustee shall have
been irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the proceeds of such Government
Obligations to said payments with respect to such Securities and any related coupons.
Before such a deposit, the Company may give to the Trustee, in accordance with Section 1102
hereof, a notice of its election to redeem all or any portion of such Outstanding Securities
at a future date in accordance with the terms of the Securities of
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such series and Article 11 hereof, which notice shall be irrevocable. Such irrevocable
redemption notice, if given, shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.
(2) No Default or Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any related
coupons shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as
paragraphs (5) or (6) of Section 501 are concerned, at any time during the period ending on
the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall
not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(3) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(4) In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company shall have delivered to
the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel qualified to practice law in the United States stating
that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue
Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a
change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and
based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding Securities
and any related coupons will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax
purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on
the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if
such defeasance had not occurred.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, such defeasance or covenant
defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional or substitute terms,
conditions or limitations in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301.
(6) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to
either the defeasance under Section 1402 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1403 (as
the case may be) have been complied with.
(7) In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company shall have delivered to
the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel qualified to practice law in the United States to the
effect that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or
loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will
be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel qualified to
practice law in Canada or a ruling from Canada Revenue Agency to the effect that the Holders
of such Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Canadian federal,
provincial or territorial income tax or other tax purposes as a result of such defeasance or
covenant defeasance, as applicable, and will be subject to Canadian federal or provincial
income tax and other tax on the same amounts, in the same manner
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and at the same times as would have been the case had such defeasance or covenant
defeasance, as applicable, not occurred (and for the purposes of such opinion, such Canadian
counsel shall assume that Holders of the Securities include Holders who are not resident in
Canada).
(9) The Company is not an “insolvent person” within the meaning of the Bankruptcy and
Insolvency Act (Canada) on the date of such deposit or at any time during the period ending
on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition
shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(10) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
such deposit shall not cause the Trustee or the trust so created to be subject to the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or instrument to which
the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other
Miscellaneous Provisions
(a) Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and Government
Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 301) (including the proceeds
thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this
Section 1405, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1404 in respect of such Outstanding Securities and
any related coupons shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the
provisions of such Securities and any related coupons and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities and any related coupons of all sums due
and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, but
such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
(b) Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to Section 301, if, after
a deposit referred to in Section 1404(a)(1) has been made, (a) the Holder of a Security in respect
of which such deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 312(b) or the
terms of such Security to receive payment in a Currency other than that in which the deposit
pursuant to Section 1404(a)(1) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a Conversion Event
occurs as contemplated in Section 312(d) or 312(e) or by the terms of any Security in respect of
which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(a)(1) has been made, the indebtedness represented by
such Security and any related coupons shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged
and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any,
on such Security as they become due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as
specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in respect
of such Security into the Currency in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such
election or Conversion Event based on the applicable Market Exchange Rate for such Currency in
effect on the third Business Day prior to
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each payment date, except, with respect to a Conversion Event, for such Currency in effect (as
nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.
(c) The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1404 or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge
which by law is for the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any related
coupons.
(d) Anything in this Article 14 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or
pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or Government Obligations (or
other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 which, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would
then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance, as
applicable, in accordance with this Article.
SECTION 1406. Reinstatement
If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with
Section 1405 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this
Indenture and such Securities and any related coupons shall be revived and reinstated as though no
deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 1402 or Section 1403, as the case may be, until such time
as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with
Section 1405; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any such Security or any related coupon following
the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders
of such Securities and any related coupons to receive such payment from the money held by the
Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 15
MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1501. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called
If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, a meeting of Holders of
Securities of such series may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article
to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such
series.
SECTION 1502. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings
(a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, and the
Trustee shall convene a meeting upon receipt of a request of the Company or upon receipt of a
request in writing to the Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25% in principal
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amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, for any purpose specified in Section 1501,
to be held at such time and at such place in The City of New York, New York or Toronto, Ontario as
the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any series,
setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be
taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided for in Section 106, not less than 21
nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting. Holders shall reimburse the Trustee
for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses relating to the calling and holding of such meeting if called
by such Holders. The Holders shall indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or
in connection with the calling of such meeting on behalf of Holders, including the costs and
expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with such meeting.
(b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the
Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in
Section 1501, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken
at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such
meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the
meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series
in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place in The City
of New York, New York or Toronto, Ontario for such meeting and may call such meeting for such
purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.
SECTION 1503. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person shall
be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series, or (2) a Person appointed by
an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of
such series by such Holder of Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to
speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Person entitled to vote at
such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any
representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 1504. Quorum; Action
(a) The Persons entitled to vote 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a
series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series;
provided, however, that, if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect
to a consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not
less than a specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the
Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes
of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of
Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned
for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned
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meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days
as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.
Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1502(a),
except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which
the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting
shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series which shall constitute a quorum.
(b) Subject to the foregoing, at the reconvening of any meeting adjourned for lack of a quorum
the Persons entitled to vote 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series at
the time shall constitute a quorum for the taking of any action set forth in the notice of the
original meeting.
(c) Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution presented to a meeting or
adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the
affirmative vote of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series; provided, however, that, except as limited by the
proviso to Section 902, any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture expressly provides may be
made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an
adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative
vote of the Holders of not less than such specified percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series.
(d) Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of Securities
of such series and the related coupons, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1504, if any action is to be
taken at a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series with respect to any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action that this Indenture expressly
provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in principal amount
of all Outstanding Securities affected thereby, or of the Holders of such series and one or more
additional series:
(i) there shall be no minimum quorum requirement for such meeting; and
(ii) the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series that
vote in favor of such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action shall be taken into account in determining whether such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
has been made, given or taken under this Indenture.
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SECTION 1505. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings
(a) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable
regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of Securities of a series in regard
to proof of the holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in
regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning
the conduct of the meeting as its shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or
required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified
in Section 104 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in
Section 104 or by having the signature of the person executing the proxy witnessed or guaranteed by
any trust company, bank or banker authorized by Section 104 to certify to the holding of Bearer
Securities. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on
their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other
proof.
(b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing appoint a temporary chairman of the
meeting, which need not be a Holder of Securities, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1502(b), in which case the Company or
the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like
manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting
shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.
(c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy shall be entitled to one
vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented
by him (determined as specified in the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101);
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect
of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not
Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a
Security of such series or proxy.
(d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called pursuant to Section 1502 at
which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by the Chairman with consent of the
Holders entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series represented at the meeting and voting thereon; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned
without further notice.
SECTION 1506. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series
shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of
Securities of such series or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial
numbers of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The permanent
chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the
meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the
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secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the
meeting. A record, at least in duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of
Securities of any series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken
thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of
the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1502 and,
if applicable, Section 1504. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the
permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the
Company, and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached
thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive
evidence of the matters therein stated.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as
of the day and year first above written.
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EXHIBIT A
FORMS OF CERTIFICATION
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY
PERSON ENTITLED TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY
OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR
TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that as of the date hereof, and except as set forth below, the
above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i) are owned by any person(s) that is not a
citizen or resident of the United States; a corporation or partnership (including any entity
treated as a corporation or partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) created or
organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia
unless, in the case of a partnership, Treasury Regulations provide otherwise; any estate whose
income is subject to United States federal income tax regardless of its source or; a trust if (A) a
United States court can exercise primary supervision over the trust’s administration and one of
more United States persons are authorized to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (B)
a trust in existence on August 20, 1996, and treated as a United States person before this date
that timely elected to continue to be treated as a United States person (“
United States
persons(s)”), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United
States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury
Regulation Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(iv) are herein referred to as “
financial institutions”)
purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired the
Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the
Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case
(a) or (b), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or
through its agent, that you may advise
Brookfield Properties Corporation or its agent that such
financial institution will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or
(iii) are owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during
the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulation
Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, in addition, if the owner is a United States or foreign
financial institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i)
or (ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution has not acquired the
Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person
within the United States or its possessions.
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As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the states and
the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or prior to the date on which you
intend to submit your certification relating to the above-captioned Securities held by you for our
account in accordance with your operating procedures if any applicable statement herein is not
correct on such date, and in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this
certification applies as of such date.
This certificate excepts and does not relate to U.S.$n of such interest in the
above-captioned Securities in respect of which we are not able to certify and as to which we
understand an exchange for an interest in a permanent global security or an exchange for and
delivery of definitive Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be made
until we do so certify.
We understand that this certificate may be required in connection with certain tax legislation
in the United States. If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in
connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to
produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: n
[To be dated no earlier than the 15th
day prior to (i) the Exchange Date or (ii) the
relevant Interest Payment Date occurring
prior to the Exchange Date, applicable]
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FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CLEARSTREAM
IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF A PORTION OF A
TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST
PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that based solely on written certifications that we have received in
writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from each of the persons appearing in our
records as persons entitled to a portion of the principal amount set forth below (our “
Member
Organizations”) substantially in the form attached hereto, as of the date hereof, U.S.$
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principal amount of the above-captioned Securities (i) is owned by any person(s) that is not a
citizen or resident of the United States; a corporation or partnership (including any entity
treated as a corporation or partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) created or
organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia
unless, in the case of a partnership, Treasury Regulations provide otherwise; any estate whose
income is subject to United States federal income tax regardless of its source or; a trust if (A) a
United States court can exercise primary supervision over the trust’s administration and one of
more United States persons are authorized to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (B)
a trust in existence on August 20, 1996, and treated as a United States person before this date
that timely elected to continue to be treated as a United States person (“
United States
person(s)”), (ii) is owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United
States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulation
Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(iv) are herein referred to as “
financial institutions”) purchasing for their
own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through
foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such
United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such
financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that we may advise
Brookfield Properties Corporation or its agent that such financial institution will comply with the
requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) is owned by United States or foreign financial
institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States
Treasury Regulation Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)) and, to the further effect, that financial
institutions described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii))
have certified that they have not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or
indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.
As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the states and
the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.
We further certify that (i) we are not making available herewith for exchange (or, if
relevant, collection of any interest) any portion of the temporary global Security representing the
above-captioned Securities excepted in the above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations
and (ii) as of the date hereof we have not received any notification from any of our Member
Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member Organizations with respect to
any portion of the part submitted herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any
interest) are no longer true and cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.
We understand that this certification is required in connection with certain tax legislation
in the United States. If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in
connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to
produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.
Dated: n
[To be dated no earlier than the 15th
day prior to (i) the Exchange Date or (ii) the
relevant Interest Payment Date occurring
prior to the Exchange Date, applicable]
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[CLEARSTREAM BANKING] |
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