Exhibit 4.3
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SCOTTISH ANNUITY & LIFE HOLDINGS, LTD.,
as Issuer
AND
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
FORM OF
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Dated as of _______ , 2003
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET(*)
Provisions of Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Indenture to be dated as of
_______, 2003 between Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings, Ltd. and The Bank of New
York, Trustee:
Section of the Act Section of Indenture
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310(a)(1) and (2)...............................................................................................6.9
310(a)(3) and (4)......................................................................................Inapplicable
310(b).................................................................................6.8 and 6.10(a), (b) and (d)
310(c).................................................................................................Inapplicable
311(a).........................................................................................................6.13
311(b).........................................................................................................6.13
311(c).................................................................................................Inapplicable
312(a)..................................................................................................4.1 and 4.2
312(b)..........................................................................................................4.2
312(c)..........................................................................................................4.2
313(a)..........................................................................................................4.3
313(b)(1)..............................................................................................Inapplicable
313(b)(2).......................................................................................................4.3
313(c)..........................................................................4.3, 5.11, 6.10, 6.11, 8.2 and 12.2
313(d)..........................................................................................................4.3
314(a).................................................................................................3.4 and 3.10
314(b).................................................................................................Inapplicable
314(c)(1) and (2)..............................................................................................11.5
314(c)(3)..............................................................................................Inapplicable
314(d).................................................................................................Inapplicable
314(e).........................................................................................................11.5
314(f).................................................................................................Inapplicable
315(a), (c) and (d).............................................................................................6.1
315(b).........................................................................................................5.11
315(e).........................................................................................................5.12
316(a)(1)..............................................................................................5.9 and 5.10
316(a)(2)..............................................................................................Not required
316(a) (last sentence)..........................................................................................7.4
316(b)..........................................................................................................5.7
317(a)..........................................................................................................5.2
317(b)..........................................................................................................3.3
318(a).........................................................................................................11.7
(*) This Cross Reference Sheet is not part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS.................................................................................1
Section 1.1 Certain Terms Defined.......................................................................1
ARTICLE II SECURITIES.................................................................................10
Section 2.1 Forms Generally............................................................................10
Section 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication............................................10
Section 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.......................................................11
Section 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities..................................................14
Section 2.5 Execution of Securities....................................................................16
Section 2.6 Certificate of Authentication..............................................................17
Section 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest..................................17
Section 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange........................................................18
Section 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities..................................21
Section 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Disposition Thereof............................................22
Section 2.11 Temporary Securities.......................................................................23
Section 2.12 Extension of Interest Payment Period.......................................................23
Section 2.13 Right of Set-Off...........................................................................24
Section 2.14 Agreed Tax Treatment.......................................................................24
Section 2.15 Extension of Stated Maturity; Adjustment of Stated Maturity Upon an Exchange...............24
Section 2.16 CUSIP Numbers..............................................................................25
ARTICLE III COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER....................................................................25
Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest..........................................................25
Section 3.2 Offices for Payments, Etc..................................................................25
Section 3.3 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust; Unclaimed Money...........................26
Section 3.4 Statements of Officers of Issuer as to Default; Notice of Default..........................28
Section 3.5 Existence..................................................................................28
Section 3.6 Maintenance of Properties..................................................................28
Section 3.7 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims..........................................................28
Section 3.8 Further Instruments and Acts...............................................................29
Section 3.9 Commission Reports.........................................................................29
Section 3.10 Additional Sums............................................................................29
Section 3.11 Prohibition Against Dividends, etc.........................................................29
Section 3.12 Payment of Expenses of Each Scottish Holdings Trust........................................30
Section 3.13 Ownership of Common Securities.............................................................30
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ARTICLE IV SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE............................30
Section 4.1 Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and Addresses of Securityholders.........30
Section 4.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.....................................31
Section 4.3 Reports by the Trustee.....................................................................31
ARTICLE V REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT............................31
Section 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Default......................31
Section 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt..............................34
Section 5.3 Application of Proceeds....................................................................36
Section 5.4 Suits for Enforcement......................................................................37
Section 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings........................................37
Section 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders....................................................37
Section 5.7 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits..........................38
Section 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default....................38
Section 5.9 Control by Holders of Securities...........................................................39
Section 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults....................................................................39
Section 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, but May Withhold in Certain Circumstances...............40
Section 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay Costs...............................40
ARTICLE VI CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE.....................................................................41
Section 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior to Default...............41
Section 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee..............................................................42
Section 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of
Proceeds Thereof...........................................................................43
Section 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons; Collections, Etc........................43
Section 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee.....................................................................44
Section 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and its Prior Claim............................44
Section 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's Certificate, Etc.....................................44
Section 6.8 Indentures Not Creating Potential Conflicting Interests for the Trustee....................44
Section 6.9 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee................................................44
Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee..................................45
Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee.............................................46
Section 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee.....................47
Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer.......................................48
Section 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent........................................................48
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ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS.............................................................49
Section 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders................................................49
Section 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities.............................49
Section 7.3 Holders to Be Treated as Owners............................................................50
Section 7.4 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding..........................................50
Section 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken........................................................51
ARTICLE VIII SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES....................................................................51
Section 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders.................................51
Section 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders....................................52
Section 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture...........................................................54
Section 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee...........................................................54
Section 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures...............................54
Section 8.6 Subordination Unimpaired...................................................................54
Section 8.7 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act of 1939................................................55
ARTICLE IX CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE..................................................55
Section 9.1 Issuer May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms........................................55
Section 9.2 Successor Substituted for the Issuer.......................................................55
Section 9.3 Restrictions on Certain Dispositions.......................................................55
ARTICLE X SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS..................................56
Section 10.1 Termination of Issuer's Obligations Under the Indenture....................................56
Section 10.2 Application of Trust Funds.................................................................57
Section 10.3 Applicability of Defeasance Provisions; Issuer's Option to Effect Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance........................................................................57
Section 10.4 Defeasance and Discharge...................................................................57
Section 10.5 Covenant Defeasance........................................................................58
Section 10.6 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance............................................58
Section 10.7 Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust........................60
Section 10.8 Repayment to Issuer........................................................................60
Section 10.9 Indemnity For U.S. Government Obligations..................................................60
Section 10.10 Reimbursement..............................................................................60
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS...................................................................61
Section 11.1 Incorporators, Shareholders, Officers and Directors of Issuer Exempt from Individual
Liability..................................................................................61
Section 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders of Securities and
Coupons....................................................................................61
Section 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture........................................61
Section 11.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Holders of Securities and Coupons...............61
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Section 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to Be Contained Therein.........62
Section 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays............................................63
Section 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939....................63
Section 11.8 New York Law to Govern.....................................................................63
Section 11.9 Counterparts...............................................................................63
Section 11.10 Effect of Headings.........................................................................63
Section 11.11 Securities in a Foreign Currency...........................................................63
Section 11.12 Judgment Currency..........................................................................64
Section 11.13 Separability Clause........................................................................64
Section 11.14 Holders of Preferred Securities as Third Party Beneficiaries...............................65
Section 11.15 Waiver of Jury Trial.......................................................................65
Section 11.16 Immunity...................................................................................65
ARTICLE XII REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS.................................................65
Section 12.1 Applicability of Article...................................................................65
Section 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions..................................................65
Section 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption................................................67
Section 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for Redemption..............67
Section 12.5 Right of Redemption of Securities Issued to a Scottish HoldingsTrust.......................68
Section 12.6 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds.......................................................68
ARTICLE XIII SUBORDINATION..............................................................................70
Section 13.1 Agreement to Subordinate...................................................................70
Section 13.2 Rights of Senior Indebtedness in the Event of Insolvency, Etc., of the Issuer..............70
Section 13.3 Payment Over of Proceeds Received on Securities............................................71
Section 13.4 Payments to Holders........................................................................72
Section 13.5 Holders of Securities Authorize Trustee to Effectuate Subordination of Securities..........73
Section 13.6 Notice to Trustee..........................................................................73
Section 13.7 Trustee May Hold Senior Indebtedness.......................................................73
Section 13.8 Applicability of Article XIII to Paying Agents.............................................73
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of _______, 2003 between SCOTTISH ANNUITY &
LIFE HOLDINGS, LTD., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the "Issuer"), and THE
BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the "Trustee"),
W I T N E S S E T H :
The Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture
to provide for the issuance from time to time of its junior subordinated
unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (hereinafter
called the "Securities"), including, without limitation, Securities issued to
evidence loans made to the Issuer of the proceeds from the issuance from time to
time by one or more Scottish Holdings Trusts (as defined herein) of preferred
beneficial interests in the assets of such Trusts (the "Preferred Securities")
and common beneficial interests in the assets of such Trusts (the "Common
Securities" and, collectively with the Preferred Securities, the "Trust
Securities"), unlimited as to principal amount, to bear such rates of interest,
to mature at such time or times, to be issued in one or more series and to have
such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture.
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of
the Issuer, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by the
holders thereof, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the
equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of
the Securities and of the coupons, if any, appertaining thereto as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. The following terms (except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires)
for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto
shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms
used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or
the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933 are referred to in the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including terms defined therein by reference to the
Securities Act of 1933 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless
the context otherwise requires), shall have the meanings assigned to such terms
in said Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and in said Securities Act as in force at
the date of this Indenture. All accounting terms used herein and not expressly
defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, and the term "Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles" means such accounting principles as are generally
accepted at the time of any computation. 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. The terms
defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and
include the plural as well as the singular.
"Additional Interest" means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any
interest on the Securities of any series the payment of which has not been made
on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at the rate per
annum specified or determined as specified in such Security.
"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 3.10.
"Additional Taxes" means the sum of any additional taxes, duties and other
governmental charges to which a Scottish Holdings Trust has become subject from
time to time as a result of a Tax Event.
"Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.14.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper of general circulation, in the
official language of the country of publication or in the English language
customarily published on each Business Day whether or not published on
Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. Whenever successive publications in an
Authorized Newspaper are required hereunder they may be made (unless otherwise
expressly provided herein) on the same or different days of the week and in the
same or different Authorized Newspapers.
"Board Of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Issuer or
any committee of such Board duly authorized to act on its behalf.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of one or more resolutions, certified by
the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer to have been duly adopted
or consented to by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect,
and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means, with respect to any Security, a day that in the City
of New York and in the city (or in any of the cities, if more than one) in which
amounts are payable, as specified in the form of such Security, is not a day on
which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, executive order or
regulation to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or if at
any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is
not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
"Consolidated Total Assets" means, in respect of the Issuer as of any date
of determination, the amount of total assets shown on the consolidated balance
sheet of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries contained in the most
recent annual or quarterly report filed with the Commission, or if the Issuer is
not then subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the most recent annual
or quarterly report to stockholders and, in respect of any Subsidiary as of any
date of determination, the amount of total assets of such Subsidiary and its
consolidated subsidiaries from which such consolidated balance sheet of the
Issuer and its consolidated Subsidiaries was derived.
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"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which the
corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be
principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this
Indenture is dated, located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
"Corporation" includes corporations, limited liability companies,
incorporated associations, companies and business trusts.
"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to an Unregistered
Security.
"Covenant Defeasance" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.5.
"Defeasance" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.4
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable
or issued in global form, the Person designated as Depositary by the Issuer
pursuant to Section 2.3 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 in global form of that
series.
"Direct Action" has the meaning specified in Section 5.7.
"Distributions," with respect to any Scottish Holdings Trust, has the
meaning specified in the applicable Trust Agreement of such Scottish Holdings
Trust.
"Dollar" means the coin or currency of the United States of America as at
the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"Euro" means the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the
European economic and monetary union pursuant to the treaty establishing the
European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union..
"Event Of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in
Section 5.1.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.
"Fair Value" when used with respect to any Voting Stock means the fair
value as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Issuer.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government of a country
other than the United States.
"Guarantee Agreement" means the Guarantee Agreement with respect to the
Preferred Securities of a Scottish Holdings Trust, substantially in such form as
may be specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 with respect to the Securities
of any series, in each case as amended from time to time.
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"Guarantor" means Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings, Ltd., a Cayman Islands
exempted company and, subject to Article IX, its successors and assigns.
"Holder", "Holder of Securities", "Securityholder" or other similar terms
mean (a) in the case of any Registered Security, the person in whose name such
Security is registered in the security register kept by the Issuer for that
purpose in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) in the case of any
Unregistered Security, the bearer of such Security, or any Coupon appertaining
thereto, as the case may be.
"Indebtedness" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and delivered or,
if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented or
both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated hereunder.
"Interest", with respect to any Original Issue Discount Security which by
its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after
Maturity.
"Issuer" means (except as otherwise provided in Article VI) Scottish
Annuity & Life Holdings, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company and, subject to
Article IX, its successors and assigns.
"Issuer Order" means a written statement, request or order of the Issuer
signed in its name by the chairman or vice chairman of the Board of Directors,
the president, any executive, senior or other vice president or the treasurer of
the Issuer.
"Interest Payment Date," with respect to any Security, means the Stated
Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Investment Company Event" means, in respect of a Scottish Holdings Trust,
the receipt by such Scottish Holdings Trust of an Opinion of Counsel, rendered
by an independent law firm experienced in such matters, to the effect that, as a
result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a change in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority (a "Change in 1940 Act Law"),
such Scottish Holdings Trust is or will be considered an investment company that
is required to be registered under the 1940 Act, which Change in 1940 Act Law
becomes effective on or after the date of original issuance of the Preferred
Securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust.
"Judgment Currency" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11.12.
"Maturity", 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 provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption or repurchase,
notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise, and includes any Redemption
Date and the date of any required repurchase or repayment.
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"Ordinary Shares" in respect of any Corporation means Share Capital of any
class or classes (however designated) which has no preference as to the payment
of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or
involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Corporation, and which is not
subject to redemption by such Corporation.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the chairman or vice
chairman of the Board of Directors, the president or any executive, senior or
other vice president or the treasurer of the Issuer and delivered to the
Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 and include the statements provided for in Section 11.5.
"Opinion Of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by the General
Counsel of the Issuer or by such other legal counsel who may be an employee of
or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such
opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and
include the statements provided for in Section 11.5.
"Ordinary Shares" in respect of any Corporation means Share Capital of any
class or classes (however designated) which has no preference as to the payment
of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or
involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Corporation, and which is not
subject to redemption by such Corporation.
"Original Issue Date" of any Security (or portion thereof) means the
earlier of (1) the date of such Security or (2) the date of any Security (or
portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or indirectly) on
registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security that 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 5.1.
"Outstanding," (except as otherwise provided in Sections 7.4, 10.4 and
10.5), when used with reference to Securities, shall, subject to the provisions
of Sections 7.4, 10.4 and 10.5 mean, as of any particular time, all Securities
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except
(1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(2) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of
which moneys or U.S. Government Obligations (as provided for in Section 10.1) in
the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with
any Paying Agent (other than the Issuer or the Guarantor) or shall have been set
aside, segregated and held in trust by the Issuer or the Guarantor for the
Holders of such Securities (if the Issuer shall act as its own or authorize the
Guarantor to act as, Paying Agent), provided that if such Securities, or
portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to the Maturity thereof, notice of
such redemption shall have been given as herein provided, or provision
satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and
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(3) Securities with respect to which the Issuer or the Guarantor has
effected defeasance pursuant to the terms hereof, except to the extent provided
in Section 10.4;
(4) Securities which shall have been paid or in substitution for which
other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the
terms of Section 2.9 (except with respect to any such Security as to which proof
satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a person
in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Issuer) or Securities not deemed outstanding pursuant to Section 12.2;
(5) Securities converted or exchanged as contemplated by this Indenture
into securities of the Issuer or the Guarantor or another issuer, if the terms
of such Security provide for such conversion or exchange pursuant to Section
2.3.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that
would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration
of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Issuer to pay the
principal of, or any premium or interest on any Security or any Coupon on behalf
of the Issuer.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series from time
to time, the specific terms of which Securities, including, without limitation,
the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the Stated Maturity or
Maturities thereof and the redemption provisions, if any, with respect thereto,
are to be determined by the Issuer or its agents upon the issuance of such
Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Preferred Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of
this Indenture.
"Preferred Securities Guarantee" means the guarantee by the Issuer, in its
capacity as guarantor with respect to the Preferred Securities of a Scottish
Holdings Trust, of distributions on such Preferred Securities to the extent
provided in the Guarantee Agreement.
"Preferred Shares" in respect of any Corporation means Share Capital of any
class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of
dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary
liquidation or dissolution of such Corporation, over shares of Share Capital of
any other class of such Corporation.
"Principal" whenever used with reference to the Securities or any Security
or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include "and premium, if any".
"Record Date" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.
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"Redemption Date," with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture or the related Series Authorization.
"Registered Security" means any Security registered on the Security
register of the Issuer.
"Required Currency" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11.12.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means when used
with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department
of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president,
assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of
the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the
Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any
corporate trust matter is referred because of such person's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility
for the administration of this Indenture.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means (1) any future or present Subsidiary the
Consolidated Total Assets of which constitute 20 percent or more of the
Consolidated Total Assets of the Issuer; and (2) any Subsidiary which is a
successor, by merger or otherwise, to substantially all of the business or
properties of any Subsidiary referred to or described in the foregoing clause
(1).
"Scottish Holdings Trust" means a statutory trust created by the Issuer for
the purpose of issuing Trust Securities and to use the proceeds of the sale
thereof to purchase one or more securities.
"Security" or "Securities" (except as otherwise provided in Section 7.4)
has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture, or, as the case
may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
"Senior Indebtedness" means with respect to the Securities of any
particular series, unless otherwise provided in the related Series
Authorization, the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on (1) all
indebtedness of the Issuer, whether outstanding on the date of this Indenture or
thereafter created, (a) for money borrowed by the Issuer, (b) for money borrowed
by, or obligations of, others and either assumed or guaranteed, directly or
indirectly, by the Issuer, (c) in respect of letters of credit and acceptances
issued or made by banks, or (d) constituting purchase money indebtedness, or
indebtedness secured by property included in the property, plant and equipment
accounts of the Issuer at the time of the acquisition of such property by the
Issuer, for the payment of which the Issuer is directly liable, and (2) all
deferrals, renewals, extensions and refundings of, and amendments, modifications
and supplements to, any such indebtedness. As used in the preceding sentence the
term "purchase money indebtedness" means indebtedness evidenced by a note,
debenture, bond or other instrument (whether or not secured by any lien or other
security interest) issued or assumed as all or a part of the consideration for
the acquisition of property, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or
otherwise, unless by its terms such indebtedness is subordinate to other
indebtedness of the Issuer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Indenture or the Securities, Senior
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Indebtedness shall not include (a) the Securities of such series, (b) any
indebtedness of the Issuer which, by its terms or the terms of the instrument
creating or evidencing it, is subordinate in right of payment to or pari passu
with the Securities, (c) any indebtedness of the Issuer to a Subsidiary and (d)
any indebtedness, including all other debt securities and guarantees in respect
of those debt securities, initially issued to (x) any Scottish Holdings Trust or
(y) any trust, partnership or other entity affiliated with the Issuer which is a
financing vehicle of the Issuer or any affiliate of the Issuer in connection
with the issuance by such entity of Preferred Securities or other securities
which are similar to Preferred Securities that are guaranteed by the Guarantor
pursuant to an instrument that ranks pari passu with or junior in right of
payment to the Preferred Securities Guarantees.
"Series Authorization" means, with respect to any series or class of
Securities, (i) a Board Resolution and Officer's Certificate or (ii) one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, establishing such series or class of Securities
and setting forth the terms thereof, including, in either case, a form of note
or notes representing such Securities.
"Share Capital" of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights
to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including Preferred
Shares, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.
"Special Event" means an Investment Company Event or a Tax Event.
"Stated Maturity," with respect to any Security or any installment of
principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date established by or pursuant
to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization as the fixed date on which
the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is
due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means any corporation, partnership or other entity of which at
the time of determination the Issuer owns or controls directly or indirectly
more than 50% of the shares of Voting Stock.
"Tax Event" means, in respect of a Scottish Holdings Trust, the receipt by
such Scottish Holdings Trust or the Issuer of an Opinion of Counsel, rendered by
an independent law firm experienced in such matters, to the effect that, as a
result of any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective
change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of
any official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
which pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the date of original
issuance of the Preferred Securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust, there is
more than an insubstantial risk that (i) such Scottish Holdings Trust is, or
will be within 90 days of the date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United
States Federal income tax with respect to income received or accrued on the
corresponding series of Securities, (ii) interest payable by the Issuer on the
corresponding series of Securities is not, or within 90 days of the date of such
Opinion of Counsel will not be, deductible by the Issuer, in whole or in part,
for United States Federal income tax purposes or (iii) such Scottish Holdings
Trust is, or
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will be within 90 days of the date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to more
than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges.
"Trust Agreement" means the Declaration of Trust dated April 11, 2003, as
amended by an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement substantially in such form as
may be specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 with respect to the Securities
of any series, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" (except as otherwise provided in Sections 8.1
and 8.2) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of
which this Indenture was originally executed.
"Trust Securities" with respect to any Scottish Holdings Trust, means,
collectively, the Common Securities and Preferred Securities issued by such
Scottish Holdings Trust.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first paragraph
hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article VI, shall also include any
successor trustee. "Trustee" shall also mean or include each Person who is then
a trustee hereunder and if at any time there is more than one such Person,
"Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the
trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
"Unregistered Security" means any Security other than a Registered
Security.
"United States Alien," except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or any Series Authorization, means any Person who, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual, a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a
foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means securities which are (1) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged or (2) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the full
faith and credit of the United States of America which, in either case, are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof or otherwise subject
to prepayment, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a New York
Clearing House bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S.
Government Obligation or a specific payment or interest on or principal of any
such U.S. 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 or from any amount held by the custodian in
respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on
or principal of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
"Voting Stock" means stock of any class or classes or other ownership
interest having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect a
majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of the entity in
question, provided that, for the purposes hereof, stock which
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carries only the right to vote conditionally on the happening of an event shall
not be considered voting stock whether or not such event shall have happened.
"Yield To Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of securities,
calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if applicable, at the
most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and calculated in
accordance with accepted financial practice.
ARTICLE II
SECURITIES
Section 2.1 Forms Generally. The Securities of each series and the
Coupons, if any, to be attached thereto shall be substantially in such form (not
inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant to one
or more Board Resolutions (as set forth in a Board Resolution or, to the extent
established pursuant to rather than set forth in a Board Resolution, an
Officer's Certificate detailing such establishment) 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 imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or
legends or endorsements, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture,
as may be required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations
pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to
general usage, all as may be determined by the officers executing such
Securities and Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities and Coupons. If temporary Securities of any series are issued as
permitted by Section 2.11, the form thereof also shall be established as
provided in the preceding sentence. If the forms of Securities and Coupons, if
any, of the series are established by, or by action taken pursuant to, a Board
Resolution, a copy of the Board Resolution together with an appropriate record
of any such action taken pursuant thereto, including a copy of the approved form
of Securities or coupons, if any, shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Issuer Order contemplated by Section 2.4 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities and Coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities and
Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons,
if any.
Section 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. The
Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in
substantially the following form:
"This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned
Subordinated Indenture.
Dated:
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as Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory"
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If at any time there shall be an Authenticating Agent appointed with
respect to any series of Securities, then the Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication to be borne by the Securities of each such series shall be
substantially as follows:
"This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned
Subordinated Indenture.
Dated:
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as Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signatory"
Section 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series and each such series
shall rank equally and pari passu with the Securities of each other series, but
all Securities issued hereunder and any Coupons and the payment of principal of
and interest on any Securities and of any Coupons shall be subordinate and
junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner set forth in Article
XIII, to all Senior Indebtedness. There shall be established in the related
Series Authorization, prior to the initial issuance of Securities of any series,
(1) the designation of the Securities of the series, which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from the Securities of all other
series;
(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
2.8, 2.9, 2.11, 8.5 or 12.3) upon surrender in part of any Registered Security
for conversion into other securities of the Issuer or exchange for securities of
the Guarantor or another issuer pursuant to its terms, or pursuant to or as
contemplated by the terms of such Securities;
(3) if other than Dollars, the coin or currency in which the Securities
of that series are denominated (including, but not limited to, any Foreign
Currency);
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the
series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear
interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, on
which such interest shall be payable and (in the case of Registered Securities)
on which a record shall be taken for the determination of Holders to whom
interest is payable and/or the method by which such rate or rates or date or
dates shall be determined;
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(6) the rate or rates and the extent to which Additional Interest, if
any, shall be payable in respect of the Securities, the date or dates, if any,
from which such interest shall accrue or the method or methods, if any, by which
such date or dates are to be determined, the Interest Payment Dates, if any, on
which such interest shall be payable on a cash basis (in the case of Registered
Securities) on which a record shall be taken for the determination of the Holder
to whom interest is payable and/or the method by which such rate or rates or
date or dates shall be determined;
(7) the right, pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof or as otherwise set
forth therein, of the Issuer to defer or extend an interest payment period and
the duration of any such Extension Period, including the maximum consecutive
period during which interest payment periods may be extended;
(8) the place or places where the principal of, any premium and any
interest on Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than as provided
in Section 3.2);
(9) the right, if any, of the Issuer to redeem Securities, in whole or
in part, at its option and the period or periods within which, the price or
prices at which and any terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
may be so redeemed, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;
(10) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase or repay
Securities of the series pursuant to any mandatory redemption, sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price or
prices at which and the period or periods within which and any terms and
conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed, purchased or
repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(11) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof in the case of Registered Securities, or $1,000 and $5,000 in the case
of Unregistered Securities, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(12) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof;
(13) if other than the coin or currency in which the Securities of that
series are denominated, the coin or currency in which payment of the principal
of or interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable;
(14) whether the Securities of the series will be convertible into
other securities of the Issuer and/or exchangeable for securities of the
Guarantor or another issuer, and if so, the terms and conditions upon which such
Securities will be so convertible or exchangeable, and any deletions from or
modifications or additions to this Indenture to permit or to facilitate the
issuance of such convertible or exchangeable Securities or the administration
thereof;
(15) if the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series
are to be payable, at the election of the Issuer or a Holder thereof, in a coin
or currency other than that in which the
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Securities are denominated, the period or periods within which, and the terms
and conditions upon which, such election may be made;
(16) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on the
Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index based on a
coin or currency other than that in which the Securities of the series are
denominated, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(17) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as
Registered Securities or Unregistered Securities (with or without Coupons), and
whether such Securities will be issuable in global form or any combination of
the foregoing, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of
Unregistered Securities or the payment of interest thereon and, if other than as
provided in Section 2.8, the terms upon and locations at which Unregistered
Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of such
series and vice versa;
(18) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a person who is not a
U.S. person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or
deducted and, if so, whether the Issuer will have the option to redeem such
Securities rather than pay such additional amounts;
(19) if the Securities of such 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 terms of such certificates,
documents or conditions;
(20) the relative degree, if any, to which Securities of such series
and the Preferred Securities Guarantee in respect thereof shall be senior to or
be subordinated to other series of Securities and the Preferred Securities
Guarantee in respect thereof or other Indebtedness of the Issuer or the
Guarantor, as the case may be, in right of payment, whether such other series of
Securities or other Indebtedness is outstanding or not;
(21) any Trustees, Depositaries, Authenticating Agents, paying or
transfer Agents or Registrars or any other Agents with respect to the Securities
of such series;
(22) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of
Default or covenants with respect to the Securities of such series;
(23) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of
Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;
(24) the date as of which any Unregistered Securities of the series and
any temporary Security in global form 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;
(25) the applicability, if any, to the Securities of or within the
series of Article X, or such other means of defeasance or covenant defeasance as
may be specified for the Securities and coupons, if any, of such series;
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(26) if the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in
part in global form (a) the Depositary for such global Securities, (b) the form
of any legend in addition to or in lieu of that in Section 2.4 which shall be
borne by such global security, (c) whether beneficial owners of interests in any
Securities of the series in global form may exchange such interests for
certificated Securities of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form
and denomination, and (d) if other than as provided in Section 2.8, the
circumstances under which any such exchange may occur;
(27) the right of the Issuer, if any, to defer payment of principal of
or interest on the Securities of the Series, or any Tranche thereof, and the
maximum length of any deferral period;
(28) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series and Coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto, shall be substantially identical, except in the case of Registered
Securities as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided by the
related Series Authorization. All Securities of any one series need not be
issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the
terms of this Indenture, if so provided by the related Series Authorization.
Section 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities. (1) The Issuer
may deliver Securities of any series having attached thereto appropriate
Coupons, if any, executed by the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication
together with the applicable documents referred to below in this Section, and
the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such Securities to or upon
the order of the Issuer (contained in the Issuer Order referred to below in this
Section) or pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the Trustee and to such
recipients as may be specified from time to time by an Issuer Order. The
maturity date, original issue date, interest rate and any other terms of the
Securities of such series and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto shall be
determined by or pursuant to such Issuer Order and procedures. If provided for
in such procedures, such Issuer Order may authorize authentication and delivery
pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the Issuer or its duly
authorized agent, which instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing. In
authenticating such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive (in the case of subparagraphs (2), (3) and (4) below only at
or before the time of the first request of the Issuer to the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series) and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, unless and until such documents have been
superseded or revoked:
(a) an Issuer Order requesting such authentication and setting forth
delivery instructions if the Securities and Coupons, if any, are not to be
delivered to the Issuer, provided that, with respect to Securities of a series
subject to a Periodic Offering, (i) such Issuer Order may be delivered by the
Issuer to the Trustee prior to the delivery to the Trustee of such Securities
for authentication and delivery, (ii) the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
Securities of such series for original issue from time to time, in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding the aggregate principal amount established for
such series, pursuant to an Issuer Order or pursuant to procedures acceptable to
the Trustee as may be specified from time to time by an Issuer Order, (iii) the
maturity date or dates, original issue date or dates, interest rate or
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rates and any other terms of Securities of such series shall be determined by an
Issuer Order or pursuant to such procedures and (iv) if provided for in such
procedures, such Issuer Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant
to oral or electronic instructions from the Issuer or its duly authorized agent
or agents, which oral instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing;
(b) any Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate and/or executed
supplemental indenture referred to in Sections 2.1 and 2.3 by or pursuant to
which the forms and terms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, were
established;
(c) an Officer's Certificate and a Guarantor's Officer's Certificate,
in each case setting forth the form or forms and terms of the Securities and
Coupons, if any, stating that the form or forms and terms of the Securities and
Coupons, if any, have been established pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and
comply with this Indenture, and covering such other matters as the Trustee may
reasonably request; and
(d) At the option of the Issuer, either one or more Opinions of
Counsel, or a letter addressed to the Trustee permitting it to rely on one or
more Opinions of Counsel, substantially to the effect that:
(i) the forms of the Securities and Coupons, if any, have been
duly authorized and established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(ii) in the case of an underwritten offering, the terms of the
Securities have been duly authorized and established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture, and, in the case of an offering that is not
underwritten, certain terms of the Securities have been established
pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officer's Certificate or a supplemental
indenture in accordance with this Indenture, and when such other terms as
are to be established pursuant to procedures set forth in an Issuer Order
shall have been established, all such terms will have been duly authorized
by the Issuer and will have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; and
(iii) when the Securities and Coupons, if any, have been executed
by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture and delivered to and duly paid for by the
purchasers thereof, they will have been duly issued under this Indenture,
will be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture including the Guarantee,
and will be valid and binding obligations of the Issuer, enforceable in
accordance with their respective terms except as (A) the enforceability
thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
creditors' rights generally and (B) rights of acceleration, if any, and the
availability of equitable remedies may be limited by equitable principles
of general applicability.
In rendering such opinions, any counsel may qualify any opinions as to
enforceability by stating that such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, liquidation, moratorium and other similar laws
affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and is subject to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law). Such counsel may rely upon
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opinions of other counsel (copies of which shall be delivered to the Trustee),
who shall be counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, in which case the
opinion shall state that such counsel believes he or she and the Trustee are
entitled so to rely. Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion
involves factual matters, he or she has relied, to the extent he or she deems
proper, upon certificates of officers of the Issuer and its subsidiaries and
certificates of public officials.
(2) The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and
deliver any Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised by
counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Issuer or
if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or board of trustees,
executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees or
Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee
to personal liability to existing Holders or would affect the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under the Securities, this Indenture or otherwise.
(3) If the Issuer shall establish pursuant to Section 2.3 that the
Securities of a series are to be issued in whole or in part in global form, then
the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section
and the Issuer Order with respect to such series, authenticate and deliver one
or more Securities in global form that (a) shall represent and shall be
denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all of the
Securities of such series issued and not yet cancelled, (b) if such Securities
are Registered Securities, shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for
such Security or Securities in global form or the nominee of such Depositary,
(c) if such Securities are Registered Securities, shall be delivered by the
Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary's instructions and (d)
shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect: "Unless and until it
is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive form, this
Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to the
nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or
another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary."
(4) Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.3 must, at the
time of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a
clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
other applicable statute or regulation.
Section 2.5 Execution of Securities. The Securities and, if applicable,
each Coupon appertaining thereto shall be signed on behalf of the Issuer by the
chairman or vice chairman of its Board of Directors or its president or any
executive, senior or other vice president or its treasurer. Such signatures may
be the manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such
officers. The seal of the Issuer may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and
may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.
Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any such reproduction of the
seal or any such signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of
any Security that has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.
In case any officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the
Securities or Coupons, if any, shall cease to be such officer before the
Security or Coupon so signed (or the Security to which the Coupon so signed
appertains) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or
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disposed of by the Issuer, such Security or Coupon nevertheless may be
authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such
Security or Coupon had not ceased to be such officer of the Issuer; and any
Security or Coupon may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such persons as, at
the actual date of the execution of such Security or Coupon, shall be the proper
officers of the Issuer, although at the date of the execution and delivery of
this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
Section 2.6 Certificate of Authentication. Only such Securities as
shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
herein before recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose. No Coupon shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture or shall be valid and obligatory for any purpose
until the certificate of authentication on the Security to which such Coupon
appertains shall have been duly executed by the Trustee. The execution of such
certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be
conclusive evidence that the Security so authenticated has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
Section 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable as Registered Securities or
Unregistered Securities in denominations established as contemplated by Section
2.3 or, with respect to the Registered Securities of any series, if not so
established, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. If
denominations of Unregistered Securities of any series are not so established,
such Securities shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and $5,000. The
Securities of each series shall be numbered, lettered or otherwise distinguished
in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the officers of the Issuer
executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee, as evidenced
by the execution and authentication thereof.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
Each Unregistered Security shall be dated as provided in the resolution or
resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Issuer referred to in Section 2.3.
The Securities of each series shall bear interest, if any, from the date, and
such interest shall be payable on the dates, established as contemplated by
Section 2.3.
The person in whose name any Registered Security of any series is
registered at the close of business on any record date applicable to a
particular series with respect to any Interest Payment Date for such series
shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any, payable on such Interest
Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Registered
Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such Interest Payment Date,
except if and to the extent the Issuer shall default in the payment of the
interest due on such Interest Payment Date for such series, in which case such
defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names Outstanding
Registered Securities for such series are registered at the close of business on
a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business Days prior
to the date of payment of such defaulted interest) established by notice given
by mail by or on behalf of the Issuer to the Holders of Registered Securities
not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record date. The term "record
date" as used with respect to any Interest Payment Date (except a date for
payment of defaulted interest) for the Securities of any series shall mean the
date
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specified as such in the terms of the Registered Securities of such series
established as contemplated by Section 2.3, or, if no such date is so
established, if such Interest Payment Date is the first day of a calendar month,
the fifteenth day of the next preceding calendar month or, if such Interest
Payment Date is the fifteenth day of a calendar month, the first day of such
calendar month, whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
Section 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. (1) The Issuer will
keep at each office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in
Section 3.2 for each series of Securities a register or registers in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will provide for
the registration of Registered Securities of such series and the registration of
transfer of Registered Securities of such series. Such register shall be in
written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being
converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times such
register or registers shall be open for inspection by the Trustee.
(2) Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any
Registered Security of any series at any such office or agency to be maintained
for the purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the Issuer shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or
transferees a new Registered Security or Registered Securities of the same
series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue date in authorized
denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.
Unregistered Securities (except for any temporary Unregistered Securities
in global form) and Coupons (except for Coupons attached to any temporary
Unregistered Securities in global form) shall be transferable by delivery.
(3) (a) At the option of the Holder thereof, Registered Securities
of any series (other than a Registered Security in global form, except as set
forth below) may be exchanged for a Registered Security or Registered Securities
of such series having authorized denominations and an equal aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of such Registered Securities to be exchanged at the
agency of the Issuer that shall be maintained for such purpose in accordance
with Section 3.2 and upon payment, if the Issuer shall so require, of the
charges hereinafter provided. Whenever any Registered Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.
(b) Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, at the
option of the Holder, Unregistered Securities of such series may be exchanged
for Registered Securities (if the Securities of such series are issuable in
registered form) or Unregistered Securities (if Unregistered Securities of such
series are issuable in more than one denomination and such exchanges are
permitted by such series) of the same series, of any authorized denominations
and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Unregistered Securities to be exchanged at the agency of the Issuer that shall
be maintained for such purpose in accordance with Section 3.2, with all
unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining. If
the Holder of an Unregistered Security is unable to produce any such unmatured
Coupon or Coupons or matured Coupon or Coupons in default, such exchange may be
effected if the Unregistered Securities are accompanied by payment in funds
acceptable to the Issuer, the
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Guarantor and the Trustee 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 Issuer, the Guarantor 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 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 as provided in Section 3.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case
any Unregistered Security of any series is surrendered at any such office or
agency in exchange for a Registered Security of the same series after the close
of business at such office or agency on (i) any 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 for payment of defaulted interest and
before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related date for
payment of defaulted interest, such Unregistered Security shall be surrendered
without the Coupon relating to such interest or defaulted Interest Payment Date
or proposed date of payment, as the case may be (or, if such Coupon is so
surrendered with such Unregistered Security, such Coupon shall be returned to
the person so surrendering the Unregistered Security), and interest or defaulted
interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such date or proposed date
for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in
exchange for such Unregistered Security, but will be payable only to the Holder
of such Coupon, when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
(c) Registered Securities of any series may not be exchanged for
Unregistered Securities of such series unless (i) otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 2.3 and (ii) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel that (A) the Issuer has received from the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling or (B) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that the inclusion of terms
permitting Registered Securities to be exchanged for Unregistered Securities
would result in no adverse Federal income tax effect to the Issuer or to any
Holder. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Securities and
Coupons surrendered upon any exchange or transfer provided for in this Indenture
shall be cancelled promptly and disposed of by the Trustee and the Trustee will
deliver a certificate of disposition thereof to the Issuer.
(4) All Registered Securities presented for registration of transfer,
exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the
Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or
instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee duly
executed by the Holder or his or her attorney duly authorized in writing.
The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or
registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for any
such transaction.
The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a)
any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next preceding the first
mailing of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be redeemed or
(b) any Securities selected, called or being called for
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redemption, in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be
redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.8, unless and
until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive
registered form, a Registered Security in global form representing all or a
portion of the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole
by the Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a
nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such
Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary
for such series or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for any Registered Securities of a series
represented by one or more Registered Securities in global form notifies the
Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such
Registered Securities or if at any time the Depositary for such Registered
Securities shall no longer be eligible under Section 2.4, the Issuer shall
appoint a successor Depositary eligible under Section 2.4 with respect to such
Registered Securities. If a successor Depositary eligible under Section 2.4 for
such Registered Securities is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days after
the Issuer receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the
Issuer's election pursuant to Section 2.3 that such Registered Securities be
represented by one or more Registered Securities in global form shall no longer
be effective and the Issuer will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officer's Certificate for the authentication and delivery of definitive
Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such
series in definitive registered form without coupons, in any authorized
denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Registered Security or Securities in global form representing such
Registered Securities in exchange for such Registered Security or Securities in
global form.
The Issuer may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that the
Registered Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more Registered
Securities in global form shall no longer be represented by a Registered
Security or Securities in global form. In such event the Issuer will execute,
and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer's Certificate for the authentication
and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and
deliver, Securities of such series in definitive registered form without
coupons, in any authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal
to the principal amount of the Registered Security or Securities in global form
representing such Registered Securities, in exchange for such Registered
Security or Securities in global form.
If specified by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.3 with respect to
Securities represented by a Registered Security in global form, the Depositary
for such Registered Security in global form may surrender such Registered
Security in global form in exchange in whole or in part for Registered
Securities of the same series in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable
to the Issuer and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Issuer shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(a) to the Person specified by such Depositary a new Registered
Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations as
requested by such Person, in an
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aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's beneficial
interest in the Registered Security in global form; and
(b) to such Depositary a new Registered Security in global form in a
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of
the surrendered Registered Security in global form and the aggregate principal
amount of Registered Securities authenticated and delivered pursuant to clause
(a) above.
Upon the exchange of a Registered Security in global form for Registered
Securities in definitive form without coupons, in authorized denominations, such
Registered Security in global form shall be cancelled by the Trustee or an agent
of the Issuer or the Trustee. Registered Securities in definitive form issued in
exchange for a Registered Security in global form pursuant to this Section 2.8
shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the
Depositary for such Registered Security in global form, pursuant to instructions
from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the
Trustee or an agent of the Issuer or the Trustee. The Trustee or such agent
shall deliver such Securities to or as directed by the Persons in whose names
such Securities are so registered.
(6) All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities
shall be valid obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantor, respectively,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
(7) Notwithstanding anything herein or in the terms of any series of
Securities to the contrary, none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of the
Issuer or the Trustee (any of which, other than the Issuer, shall rely on an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel) shall be required to exchange
any Unregistered Security for a Registered Security if such exchange would
result in adverse Federal income tax consequences to the Issuer (such as, for
example, the inability of the Issuer to deduct from its income, as computed for
Federal income tax purposes, the interest payable on the Unregistered
Securities) under then applicable United States Federal income tax laws.
Subject to Section 6.1(2), the Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to
monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer
imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any
transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or
among Depositary Participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Security
in global form) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other
documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when
expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to
determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements
hereof.
Subject to Section 6.1(2), neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the
Depositary.
Section 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
In case any Security or any Coupon appertaining to any Security shall become
mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion
may execute, and upon the written request of
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any officer of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a new
Security of the same series, maturity date, interest rate and original issue
date, bearing a number or other distinguishing symbol not contemporaneously
outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated or defaced Security,
or in lieu of and in substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen
with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons appertaining to the Securities so
mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen, or in exchange or substitution
for the Security to which such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen
Coupon appertained, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the
Coupons so mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the
applicant for a substitute Security or Coupon shall furnish to the Issuer, the
Guarantor and to the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such
security or indemnity as may be reasonably required by them to indemnify and
defend and to save each of them harmless and, in every case of destruction, loss
or theft, evidence to their reasonable satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of such Security or Coupon and of the ownership thereof and in the case of
mutilation or defacement shall surrender the Security and related Coupons to the
Trustee or such agent.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security or Coupon, the Issuer 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) or its agent connected therewith. In case
any Security or Coupon which has matured or is about to mature or has been
called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed,
lost or stolen, the Issuer may instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or
authorize the payment of the same or the relevant Coupon (without surrender
thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced Security or Coupon), if the
applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Trustee and
any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee such reasonable security or indemnity as
any of them may require to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of
destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer and
the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee evidence to their
reasonable satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security or
Coupon and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security or Coupon of any series issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security or
Coupon is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Issuer and the Guarantor, whether or not the destroyed, lost
or stolen Security or Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the
limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities or Coupons of such series duly authenticated
and delivered hereunder. All Securities and Coupons shall be held and owned upon
the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing
provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, defaced or destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and Coupons and shall
preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute
existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or
payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
Section 2.10 Cancellation of Securities; Disposition Thereof. All
Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking
or analogous fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Issuer or
the Trustee or any agent of the Trustee, shall be delivered to the Trustee or
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its agent for cancellation or, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be cancelled
by it; and no Securities or Coupons shall be issued in lieu thereof except as
expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee or
its agent shall dispose of cancelled Securities and Coupons held by it in
accordance with its procedures for the disposition of cancelled securities in
effect as of the date of such cancellation and deliver a certificate of
disposition to the Issuer. If the Issuer or its agent shall acquire any of the
Securities or Coupons, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities or Coupons
unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee or its agent for
cancellation.
Section 2.11 Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed,
lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form
satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any series shall be
issuable as Registered Securities without coupons, or as Unregistered Securities
with or without coupons attached thereto, of any authorized denomination, and
substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such series but with
such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary
Securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer with the concurrence of the
Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof. Temporary
Securities may contain such references to any provisions of this Indenture as
may be appropriate. Every temporary Security shall be executed by the Issuer and
be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially
the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive Securities. Without
unreasonable delay the Issuer shall execute and shall furnish definitive
Securities of such series and thereupon temporary Registered Securities of such
series may be surrendered in exchange therefor without charge at each office or
agency to be maintained by the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.2
and, in the case of Unregistered Securities, at any agency maintained by the
Issuer for such purpose as specified pursuant to Section 3.2, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities of such
series an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same
series having authorized denominations and, in the case of Unregistered
Securities, having attached thereto any appropriate Coupons. Until so exchanged,
the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series, unless otherwise
established pursuant to Section 2.3. The provisions of this Section are subject
to any restrictions or limitations on the issue and delivery of temporary
Unregistered Securities of any series that may be established pursuant to
Section 2.3 (including any provision that Unregistered Securities of such series
initially be issued in the form of a single Unregistered Security in global form
to be delivered to a Depositary or agency located outside the United States and
the procedures pursuant to which Unregistered Securities in definitive or global
form of such series would be issued in exchange for such temporary Unregistered
Security in global form).
Section 2.12 Extension of Interest Payment Period. If specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3 with respect to the Securities of a particular
series and subject to the terms, conditions and covenants, if any, so specified,
the Issuer shall have the right, at any time and from time to time during the
term of such series, to defer the payment of interest on such Securities for
such period or periods as may be specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 (each,
an "Extension Period"), during which Extension Periods the Issuer
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shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest
Payment Date. No Extension Period shall end on a day other than an Interest
Payment Date. At the end of any such Extension Period, the Issuer shall pay all
interest then accrued and unpaid on the Securities (together with Additional
Interest thereon, if any, at the rate specified for the Securities of such
series to the extent permitted by applicable law). Prior to the termination of
any such Extension Period, the Issuer may further extend the interest payment
period, provided that no Extension Period shall exceed the period or periods
specified in such Securities or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the
principal of such Securities. Upon termination of any Extension Period and upon
the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then
due on any Interest Payment Date, the Issuer may elect to begin a new Extension
Period, subject to the above requirements. No interest shall be due and payable
during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof.
The Issuer shall give the Holders of the Securities of such series and the
Trustee written notice of its election to begin any such Extension Period at
least one Business Day prior to the Interest Payment Date or, with respect to
the Securities of a series issued to a Scottish Holdings Trust, prior to the
earlier of (i) the date the Distributions on the Preferred Securities of such
Scottish Holdings Trust are payable or (ii) the date the trustees of such
Scottish Holdings Trust are required to give notice to any securities exchange
or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to holders of such Preferred
Securities of the record date or the date such Distributions are payable, but in
any event not less than one Business Day prior to such record date.
The Trustee shall promptly give notice of the Issuer's election to begin
any such Extension Period to the Holders of the outstanding Securities of such
series.
Section 2.13 Right of Set-Off. With respect to the Securities of a
series issued to a Scottish Holdings Trust, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Indenture, the Issuer shall have the right to set-off any
payment it is otherwise required to make thereunder in respect of any such
Security to the extent the Issuer, as applicable, has theretofore made, or is
concurrently on the date of such payment making, a payment under the Preferred
Securities Guarantee relating to such Security or under Section 5.7 hereof, as
applicable.
Section 2.14 Agreed Tax Treatment. Each Security issued hereunder shall
provide that the Issuer and by its acceptance of a Security or a beneficial
interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial
interest in, such Security agree that for United States Federal, state and local
tax purposes it is intended that such Security constitute indebtedness.
Section 2.15 Extension of Stated Maturity; Adjustment of Stated
Maturity Upon an Exchange. If specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 with
respect to the Securities of a particular series, the Issuer shall have the
right to (a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities of
such series upon the liquidation of the applicable Scottish Holdings Trust and
the exchange of such Securities for the Preferred Securities of such Scottish
Holdings Trust, or (b) extend the Stated Maturity of the principal of the
Securities of such series; provided that, at the time any election to extend
such Stated Maturity is made and at the time of such extension, (i) the Issuer
is not in bankruptcy, otherwise insolvent or in liquidation, (ii) the Issuer is
not in default in the payment of any interest or principal on the Securities of
such series and no deferred interest payments thereon have accrued, (iii) the
applicable Scottish Holdings Trust is not in arrears on payments of
Distributions on its Preferred Securities and no deferred Distributions thereon
have accumulated, (iv) the Securities of such series are rated not less than
BBB- by
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services or Baa3 by Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. or
the equivalent by any other nationally recognized statistical rating
organization and (v) the extended Stated Maturity is no later than the 49th
anniversary of the initial issuance of the Preferred Securities of the
applicable Scottish Holdings Trust; provided, further, that, if the Issuer
exercises its right to liquidate the applicable Scottish Holdings Trust and
exchange the Securities of such series for the Preferred Securities of such
Scottish Holdings Trust as specified in clause (a) above, any changed Stated
Maturity of the principal of the Securities of such series shall be no earlier
than the date that is five years after the initial issue date of the Preferred
Securities and no later than the date 30 years (plus an extended term of up to
an additional 19 years if the above-referenced conditions are satisfied) after
the initial issue date of the Preferred Securities of the applicable Scottish
Holdings Trust.
Section 2.16 CUSIP Numbers. The Issuer 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 Issuer will
promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER
Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer covenants and
agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of
the Securities of such series (together with any additional amounts payable
pursuant to the terms of such Securities) at the place or places, at the
respective times and in the manner provided in such Securities and in the
Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto and in this Indenture. The interest on
Securities with Coupons attached (together with any additional amounts payable
pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of the several Coupons for such interest installments
as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature. If any temporary Unregistered
Security provides that interest thereon may be paid while such Security is in
temporary form, the interest on any such temporary Unregistered Security
(together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such
Security) shall be paid, as to the installments of interest evidenced by Coupons
attached thereto, if any, only upon presentation and surrender thereof, and, as
to the other installments of interest, if any, only upon presentation of such
Securities for notation thereon of the payment of such interest, in each case
subject to any restrictions that may be established pursuant to Section 2.3. The
interest on Registered Securities (together with any additional amounts payable
pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be payable only to or upon the
written order of the Holders thereof and, at the option of the Issuer, may be
paid by wire transfer or by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon
the written order of such Holders at their last addresses as they appear on the
registry books of the Issuer.
Section 3.2 Offices for Payments, Etc. So long as any Securities are
issued as Registered Securities, the Issuer will maintain in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New
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York, an office or agency where the Registered Securities of each series may be
presented for payment, where the Securities of each series may be presented for
exchange as is provided in this Indenture and, if applicable, pursuant to
Section 2.3 and where the Registered Securities of each series may be presented
for registration of transfer as in this Indenture provided.
So long as any Securities are issued as Unregistered Securities, the Issuer
will maintain one or more offices or agencies in a city or cities located
outside the United States (including any city in which such an agency is
required to be maintained under the rules of any stock exchange on which the
Securities of such series are listed) where the Unregistered Securities, if any,
of each series and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto may be presented for
payment. No payment on any Unregistered Security or Coupon will be made upon
presentation of such Unregistered Security or Coupon at an agency of the Issuer
within the United States nor will any payment be made by transfer to an account
in, or by mail to an address in, the United States unless pursuant to applicable
United States laws and regulations then in effect such payment can be made
without adverse tax consequences to the Issuer. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
payments in Dollars of Unregistered Securities of any series and Coupons
appertaining thereto which are payable in Dollars may be made at an agency of
the Issuer maintained in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York if such
payment in Dollars at each agency maintained by the Issuer outside the United
States for payment on such Unregistered Securities is illegal or effectively
precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Issuer will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect
of the Securities of any series, the Coupons appertaining thereto or this
Indenture may be served.
The Issuer will give to the Trustee written notice of the location of each
such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. In case the Issuer
shall fail to maintain any agency required by this Section, or shall fail to
give such notice of the location or of any change in the location of any of the
above agencies, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served
at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
The Issuer may from time to time designate one or more additional offices
or agencies where the Securities of a series and any Coupons appertaining
thereto may be presented for payment, where the Securities of that series may be
presented for exchange as provided in this Indenture and pursuant to Section 2.3
and where the Registered Securities of that series may be presented for
registration of transfer as in this Indenture provided, and the Issuer may from
time to time rescind any such designation, as the Issuer may deem desirable or
expedient; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in
any manner relieve the Issuer of its obligation to maintain the agencies
provided for in this Section. The Issuer will give to the Trustee prompt written
notice of any such designation or rescission thereof.
Section 3.3 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust; Unclaimed
Money. If the Issuer shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, or if the
Guarantor shall act as Paying Agent it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any of the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit
of the Holders entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and
premium, if any)
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or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Holders or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of
its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Issuer shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, on or
prior to each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on
any Securities, deposit with the Paying Agent or Paying Agents a sum sufficient
to pay the principal, premium, if any, or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of
the Holders entitled to such principal, premium, if any, or interest, and,
unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee, the Issuer will promptly notify the
Trustee in writing of its action or failure so to act.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee 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, or interest (including any Additional Interest) on Securities
in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall
be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee written notice of any default by the Holders (or
any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of principal
and premium, if any, or interest; and
(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.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Issuer
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the Issuer or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Issuer 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 money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Issuer in trust for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal and premium, if any, or interest
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Order, or, if
then held by the Issuer, shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of
such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to
the Issuer for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Issuer 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 Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper customarily
published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not
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be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuer.
Section 3.4 Statements of Officers of Issuer as to Default; Notice of
Default. (1) The Issuer will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Issuer ending after the date hereof, a
certificate, signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer, or principal accounting officer, stating whether or not to the best
knowledge of the signers thereof the Issuer is in default (without regard to
periods of grace or requirements of notice) in the performance and observance of
any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, and if the Issuer shall be
in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge.
(2) The Issuer shall file with the Trustee written notice of the
occurrence of any default or Event of Default within five Business Days of its
becoming aware of any such default or Event of Default setting forth the details
of such Event of Default or default.
Section 3.5 Existence. Subject to Article IX, the Issuer will do or
cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and
effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises and those of
each of its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Issuer shall not be
required to preserve any such right or franchise if its Board of Directors shall
determine in good faith that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in
the conduct of the business of the Issuer or the business of any Subsidiary and
that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Holders.
Section 3.6 Maintenance of Properties. The Issuer will cause all
properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any
Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order
and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all
necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof,
all as in the good faith judgment of the Issuer may be necessary so that the
business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously
conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall
prevent the Issuer from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of
such properties if such discontinuance is, in the good faith judgment of the
Issuer, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any
Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 3.7 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The Issuer shall pay or
discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become
delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges (including
withholding taxes and any penalties, interest and additions to taxes) levied or
imposed upon the Issuer or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or
property of the Issuer or any Subsidiary, and (2) all material lawful claims for
labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon
the property of the Issuer or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Issuer
shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any
such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which disputed
amounts adequate reserves have been made.
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Section 3.8 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee,
the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and perform such
further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more
effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 3.9 Commission Reports. The Issuer shall file with the Trustee,
within 15 days after it files such annual and quarterly reports, information,
documents and other reports with the Commission, copies of its annual report and
of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of
any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe)
which the Issuer is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13
or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 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 Issuer's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers'
Certificates).
Section 3.10 Additional Sums. In the case of Securities of a series
issued to a Scottish Holdings Trust, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3, in the event that (i) such Scottish Holdings Trust
is the Holder of all of the Outstanding Securities of such series, (ii) a Tax
Event in respect of such Scottish Holdings Trust shall have occurred and be
continuing and (iii) the Issuer shall not have (i) redeemed the Securities of
such series pursuant to Section 12.5 or (ii) terminated such Scottish Holdings
Trust pursuant to Section 8.01 of the related Trust Agreement, the Issuer shall
pay to such Scottish Holdings Trust (and its permitted successors or assigns
under the related Trust Agreement), for so long as such Scottish Holdings Trust
(or its permitted successor or assignee) is the registered holder of any
Securities of such series, such additional amounts as may be necessary in order
that the amount of Distributions then due and payable by such Scottish Holdings
Trust on the related Preferred Securities and Common Securities that at any time
remain outstanding in accordance with the terms thereof shall not be reduced as
a result of any Additional Taxes (the "Additional Sums"). Whenever in this
Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of or
any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or any
Coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of
any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of
Additional Sums provided by the terms of such series established hereby or
pursuant hereto to the extent that, in such context, Additional Sums are, were
or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express
mention of the payment of Additional Sums (if applicable) in any provision
hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Sums in those provisions
hereof where such express mention is not made, provided, however, that the
extension of an interest payment period pursuant to Section 2.12 or the terms of
the applicable Securities shall not extend the payment of any Additional Sums
that may be due and payable during such interest payment period.
Section 3.11 Prohibition Against Dividends, etc. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, the Issuer covenants and agrees with
each Holder of Securities of a series issued to a Scottish Holdings Trust that
it will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) declare or pay
any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the outstanding Share Capital of the
Issuer or (b) make any payment of principal of, interest or premium, if any, on
or repay, repurchase or
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redeem any debt security of the Issuer that ranks junior in interest to the
Securities of such series or make any guarantee payments with respect to any
guarantee by the Issuer of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the Issuer
if such guarantee ranks junior in interest to the Securities of such series
(other than (i) dividends or distributions in Ordinary Shares of the Issuer,
(ii) redemptions or purchases of any rights outstanding under a shareholder
rights plan of the Issuer or the declaration of a dividend of such rights or the
issuance of stock under such plans in the future, (iii) payments under any
Preferred Securities Guarantee, and (iv) purchases of Ordinary Shares related to
the issuance of Ordinary Shares under any benefit plans of the Issuer for its
directors, officers or employees) if at such time (1) there shall have occurred
any event of which the Issuer has actual knowledge that (A) with the giving of
notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default
hereunder and (B) in respect of which the Issuer shall not have taken reasonable
steps to cure, (2) the Guarantor shall be in default with respect to its payment
of any obligations under the related Preferred Securities Guarantee or (3) the
Issuer shall have given notice of its election to begin an Extension Period as
provided herein with respect to the Securities of such series and shall not have
rescinded such notice, or such Extension Period, or any extension thereof, shall
be continuing.
Section 3.12 Payment of Expenses of Each Scottish Holdings Trust. The
Issuer covenants for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities to
pay or cause to be paid all of the obligations, costs and expenses of each
Scottish Holdings Trust (other than payments in respect of Trust Securities) in
accordance with the provisions of its Trust Agreement and to pay the taxes of
such Scottish Holdings Trust in accordance with the provisions of its Trust
Agreement in order to permit such Scottish Holdings Trust to make distributions
on and redemptions of its Preferred Securities in accordance with such Trust
Agreement.
Section 3.13 Ownership of Common Securities. The Issuer covenants, as
to each series of Securities issued to a Scottish Holdings Trust in connection
with the issuance of Preferred Securities and Common Securities by that Scottish
Holdings Trust, (a) to maintain directly or indirectly 100% ownership of the
Common Securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust; provided, however, that any
permitted successor of the Issuer hereunder may succeed to the Issuer's
ownership of such Common Securities, (b) not to voluntarily dissolve, wind-up or
liquidate such Scottish Holdings Trust, except in connection with (i) a
distribution of the Securities of such series to the holders of Preferred
Securities and Common Securities in liquidation of such Scottish Holdings Trust,
(ii) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities and Common Securities of
such Scottish Holdings Trust or (iii) certain mergers, consolidations or
amalgamations, each as permitted by the Trust Agreement of such Scottish
Holdings Trust and (c) to use its reasonable efforts, consistent with the terms
and provisions of the related Trust Agreement, to cause such Scottish Holdings
Trust to remain classified as a grantor trust and not an association taxable as
a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE IV
SECURITYHOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 4.1 Issuer to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and
Addresses of Securityholders. If and so long as the Trustee shall not be the
Security registrar for the Securities of any series, the Issuer and any other
obligor on the Securities will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a
list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names
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and addresses of the Holders of the Registered Securities of such series
pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (1) semi-annually not
more than 5 days after each record date for the payment of interest on such
Registered Securities, as hereinabove specified, as of such record date and on
dates to be determined pursuant to Section 2.3 for non-interest bearing
Registered Securities in each year, and (2) at such other times as the Trustee
may request in writing, within thirty days after receipt by the Issuer of any
such request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such
information is furnished.
Section 4.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders. (1)
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished
to the Trustee as provided in Section 4.1 and the names and addresses of Holders
received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar or Paying Agent.
The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1 upon
receipt of a new list so furnished.
(2) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
(3) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Issuer and the Trustee that neither the Issuer nor the Trustee
nor any agent of any of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2(2), regardless of the source from which
such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable
by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section
4.2(2).
Section 4.3 Reports by the Trustee. Any Trustee's report required under
Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be transmitted to
Holders at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto, so long as any
Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall be dated as of a date convenient
to the Trustee no more than 60 days prior to such transmission.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver
of Default. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Series Authorization
with respect to Securities of any series, "Event of Default" with respect to the
Securities of such series wherever used herein, means each one of the following
events which shall have occurred and be continuing (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 installment of interest upon any of
the Securities of such series, including any Additional Interest in respect
thereof, as and when the same shall
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become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days
(subject to any deferred of any due date in the case of an Extension Period); or
(2) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal of or
premium on any of the Securities of such series as and when the same shall
become due and payable either at Maturity, upon any redemption, by declaration
or otherwise; or
(3) default in the payment of any sinking fund installment as and when
the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the Securities of such
series; or
(4) failure on the part of the Issuer duly to observe or perform any
other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Issuer in the Securities
of such series (other than a covenant or agreement in respect of the Securities
of such series a default in the performance or breach of which is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with) or contained in this Indenture (other than
a covenant or agreement included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a
series of Securities other than such series) for a period of 60 days after the
date on which written notice specifying such failure, stating that such notice
is a "Notice of Default" hereunder and demanding that the Issuer remedy the
same, shall have been given by registered or certified mail, return receipt
requested, to the Issuer by the Trustee, or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the
holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of all series affected thereby or, if that series of Securities is
held by a Scottish Holdings Trust, the holders of at least 25% in liquidation
amount of the Preferred Securities of that Scottish Holdings Trust then
outstanding, 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) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or
order for relief in respect of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in an
involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, rehabilitator, sequestrator (or similar official) of the
Issuer or of any Restricted Subsidiary for any substantial part of its or their
property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its or their affairs, and
such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or
(6) the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary
case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or consent to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case under any such law, or consent to the appointment or taking
possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
rehabilitator, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Issuer or any
Restricted Subsidiary or for any substantial part of its or their property, or
make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(7) an event of default, as defined in any one or more mortgages,
indentures, instruments, bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments
under which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured or evidenced,
any indebtedness (other than the Securities of such series or nonrecourse
obligations) ("Indebtedness") in excess of $25,000,000 for money borrowed by the
Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary shall occur, if such event of default shall
result in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its expressed maturity
unless such
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Indebtedness is discharged or such acceleration is cured, waived, rescinded or
annulled within 30 days after written notice thereof shall have been given by
registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Issuer by the
Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series or, if
that series of Securities is held by a Scottish Holdings Trust, the holders of
at least 25% in liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of that Scottish
Holdings Trust then outstanding, a written notice specifying such event of
default and requiring the Issuer to cause such acceleration to be rescinded or
annulled or to cause such Indebtedness to be discharged and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture
under which such series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for
such series; provided that if any such default or acceleration referred to in
clause (7) above shall cease or be cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, then
the Event of Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to
have been thereupon cured.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding (other than an Event of Default described in clause (5) or (6))
occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, except for any
series of Securities the principal of which shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series by notice in
writing to the Issuer (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may
declare the entire principal (or, if any of the Securities of that series are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may
be specified in the terms of such series) of all Securities of that series, and
the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and
upon any such declaration, the same shall become immediately due and payable. If
an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) shall have occurred, the
principal amount on all of the Securities shall automatically, and without any
declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become
immediately due and payable provided that, in the case of Securities of a series
issued to a Scottish Holdings Trust, if, upon an Event of Default, the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series fail to declare the principal of all the Securities of
such series, to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust
then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Issuer, the
Trustee and the Property Trustee; and upon any such declaration such principal
or such lesser amount and all accrued and unpaid interest (including any
Additional Interest) thereon shall become immediately due and payable, provided
that the payment of principal and interest and all other amounts due with
respect to such Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in
Article 13.
The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that if, at
any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms
thereof) of the Securities of any series shall have been so declared due and
payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Issuer shall
pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest (including Additional Interest) on all the Securities
of such series and the principal of any and all Securities
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of each such series which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration
(with interest upon such principal and, to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of
interest, at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the
case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such
series to the date of such payment or deposit) and such amount as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and if any and all Events
of Default under the Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of
Securities which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured,
waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein, then and in every such case the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities of
each such series, any series of Securities held as assets of a Scottish Holdings
Trust, such consent of the holders of the Preferred Securities and the Ordinary
Shares of such Scottish Holdings Trust as may be required under the Trust
Agreement of such Scottish Holdings Trust, or of all the Outstanding Securities
of any series, by written notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor and to the
Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to that series and rescind and
annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission
and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall
impair any right consequent thereon.
For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal of any
Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and declared due
and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then, from and after such
declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and annulled, the
principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall be deemed, for
all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal thereof as shall be
due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and payment of such portion of
the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such
acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all other amounts
owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such Original Issue
Discount Securities.
Section 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove
Debt. (1) The Issuer covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the
payment of any installment of interest (including any Additional Interest) on
Securities of any series when such interest shall have become due and payable,
and such default shall have continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case
default shall be made in the payment of all or any part of the principal of the
Securities of any series when the same shall have become due and payable,
whether upon Maturity of the Securities of such series or upon any redemption or
by declaration or otherwise, then upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer will
pay to the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such
series the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on all
Securities of such series, and such Coupons, for principal or interest, as the
case may be (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue
principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable and, if the Securities are held by a Scottish Holdings Trust,
without duplication of any other amounts paid to such Scottish Holdings Trust in
respect thereof) on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the
rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities) specified in the Securities of such series); and in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
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collection, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and any
expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith.
Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Issuer may pay the principal
of and interest on the Securities of any series to the registered holders,
whether or not the Securities of such Series be overdue.
(2) In case the Issuer or the Guarantor shall fail forthwith to pay
such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or
proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final
decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Issuer or
other obligor upon the Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out
of the property of the Issuer or the Guarantor or other obligor upon the
Securities, wherever situated the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(3) In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Issuer
or any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States
Code or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, rehabilitator, sequestrator or similar official
shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property
or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings
relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors
or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, 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 pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest (including any Additional Interest) (or, if the
Securities of any series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of
the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and
unpaid in respect of the Securities of any series, 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 reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for
reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made,
by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence or
bad faith) and of the Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings
relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors
or property of the Issuer or such other obligor,
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the holders of the Securities of any series in any election of a
trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or
other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or person performing similar
functions in comparable proceedings, and
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(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with
respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on their behalf;
and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is
hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make payments to the
Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as
shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each
predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all
other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.
(4) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture,
or under any of the Securities of any series or Coupons appertaining to such
Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of such
Securities or Coupons or the production thereof in any trial or other
proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by
the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and
any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements
and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective
agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities in respect of which such
action was taken.
(5) In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the
Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders
of the Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities in respect to which
such action was taken, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such
Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities parties to any such
proceedings.
Section 5.3 Application of Proceeds. Any moneys collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall, subject to the
subordination provisions hereof, be applied in the following order at the date
or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such moneys on
account of principal or interest (including any Additional Interest), upon
presentation of the several Securities and Coupons appertaining to such
Securities in respect of which monies have been collected and stamping (or
otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing Securities of such series in
reduced principal amounts in exchange for the presented Securities of like
series if only partially paid, or upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such series in
respect of which monies have been collected, including reasonable compensation
to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and
attorneys and of all expenses and liabilities
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incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee
except as a result of negligence or bad faith;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect
of which moneys have been collected shall not have become and be then due and
payable, to the payment of interest on the Securities of such series in default
in the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest
(to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the
overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified
in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the persons entitled
thereto, without discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of
which moneys have been collected shall have become and shall be then due and
payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon all the
Securities of such series for principal and interest, with interest upon the
overdue principal, and (to the extent that such interest has been collected by
the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate
of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount
Securities) specified in the Securities of such series; and in case such moneys
shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the
Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal and interest or
Yield to Maturity, without preference or priority of principal over interest or
Yield to Maturity, or of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of any
installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any
Security of such series over any other Security of such series, ratably to the
aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest or Yield to
Maturity; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer or any other
person lawfully entitled thereto.
Section 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. In case an Event of Default has
occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or
equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
Section 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. In
case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture
and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason,
or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such
case the Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such
proceedings had been taken.
Section 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. No Holder of any
Security of any series or of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall have any
right by virtue or by availing of
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any provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or
in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian
or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the
continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
that series shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such
action or proceedings in its own name as trustee hereunder and shall have
offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the
costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the
Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or proceeding and no
direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the
Trustee pursuant to Section 5.9; it being understood and intended, and being
expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Security or Coupon with
every other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of
Securities of any series or Coupons appertaining to such Securities shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such
Holder of Securities or Coupons appertaining to such Securities, or to obtain or
seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and
for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of the
applicable series and Coupons appertaining to such Securities. For the
protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every
Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given
either at law or in equity.
Section 5.7 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain
Suits. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any provision
of any Security, the right of any Holder of any Security or Coupon to receive
payment of the principal of and interest (including any Additional Interest) on
such Security or Coupon on or after the respective due dates expressed in such
Security or Coupon, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment
on or after such respective dates shall not be impaired or affected without the
consent of such Holder. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture,
if the Securities of a series are then held by a Scottish Holdings Trust, each
holder of Preferred Securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust shall have the
right to bring suit directly against the Issuer for the enforcement of payment
to such holder in respect of Securities of such series in a principal amount
equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such
holder (a "Direct Action"). Notwithstanding any payments made to a holder of
Preferred Securities by the Issuer in connection with a Direct Action, the
Issuer shall remain obligated to pay the principal of and premium, if any, or
interest on the related Securities, and the Issuer shall be subrogated to the
rights of the holder of such Preferred Securities with respect to payments on
the Preferred Securities to the extent of any payments made by the Issuer to
such holder in any Direct Action.
Section 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not
Waiver of Default. Except as provided in Section 5.6, no right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee, the Holders of Securities or Coupons
or the holders of Preferred Securities 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
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employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of Securities or
Coupons or the holders of Preferred Securities to exercise any right or power
accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall
impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such
Event of Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 5.6, every
power and remedy given by this Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders of Securities or Coupons or the holders of Preferred Securities may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee, by the Holders of Securities or Coupons or by holders of Preferred
Securities as the case may be.
Section 5.9 Control by Holders of Securities. The Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
affected 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 with respect to the Securities of
such series by this Indenture; provided that such direction shall not be
otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture,
provided further that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee,
being advised by counsel, shall determine in good faith that the action or
proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith
by its board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of
directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee shall determine that the action
or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability or if
the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the actions or forbearances
specified in or pursuant to such direction would be unduly prejudicial to the
interests of Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series so affected
not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood that (subject
to Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether or not such
actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee in its
discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.
Section 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the acceleration of the
Maturity of any series of Securities as provided in Section 5.1, the Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series with respect to which an event of default shall have occurred and be
continuing (or, if the affected series of Securities is held by a Scottish
Holdings Trust, the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate liquidation
amount of the preferred securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust) may on
behalf of the Holders of all such Outstanding Securities of such series waive
any past default or Event of Default described in Section 5.1 and its
consequences, except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof
which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Security affected. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Trustee and
the Holders of all Outstanding Securities of such series shall be restored to
their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
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Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed to
have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred 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 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, but May Withhold in
Certain Circumstances. The Trustee shall, within ninety days after the
occurrence of a default with respect to the Securities of any series, give
notice of all defaults with respect to that series known to the Trustee (unless
such default shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice)
(1) if any Unregistered Securities of that series are then Outstanding, to the
Holders thereof, by publication at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and at least once in an Authorized
Newspaper in London and (2) to all Holders of Securities of such series in the
manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, unless in each case such defaults shall have been cured before the
mailing or publication of such notice (the term "defaults" for the purpose of
this Section being hereby defined to mean any event or condition which is, or
with notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default);
provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of
or interest on any of the Securities of such series, or in the payment of any
sinking fund installment on 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 or trustees and/or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such
notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such series.
Section 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security or
Coupon by his or her acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any
court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that
such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant;
but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or group of
Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series or, if a
series of Securities is held by a Scottish Holdings Trust, the holders of more
than 10% in liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of that Scottish
Holdings Trust then outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Holder or any
holder of Preferred Securities for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional
Interest), if any, on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date, and, in the case of repayment or repurchase, on or after the
date for repayment or repurchase) or for the enforcement of the right, if any,
to convert or exchange any Security into other securities in accordance with its
terms.
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ARTICLE VI
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default;
Prior to Default. (1) With respect to the Holders of any series of Securities
issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default
with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the curing or
waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to such
series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or
waived) the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series of Securities
such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same
degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise
or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(2) 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
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of
Default with respect to such series which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series shall be determined solely by the express
provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except
for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set
forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any statements,
certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements,
certificates or opinions which 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);
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee,
unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(c) 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 pursuant to Section 5.9 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.
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(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
(3) None of the provisions 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 shall be reasonable ground for believing that the
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it.
The provisions of this Section 6.1 are in furtherance of and subject to
Section 315 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
Section 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee. In furtherance of and
subject to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and subject to Section 6.1:
(1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate or any
other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties;
(2) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's Certificate (unless other
evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any
resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy
thereof certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer;
(3) the Trustee may consult with legal counsel of its choice or other
experts, and the advice of such experts within the scope of such expert's areas
of expertise or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters shall be full
and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance
with such advice or opinion;
(4) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee
security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses
and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;
(5) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by
it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion,
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(6) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder and after
the curing or waiving of all Events of Default, 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, consent,
order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other
paper or document unless requested in writing so to do by the Holders of not
less than a
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majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any series affected
by such Event of Default and then Outstanding; provided that, if the payment
within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities
likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the
opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security
afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to it against such expenses or liabilities as a
condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such investigation
shall be paid by the Issuer or, if paid by the Trustee or any predecessor
Trustee, shall be repaid by the Issuer upon demand;
(7) 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 such agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder;
(8) 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;
(9) 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;
and
(10) the Trustee may request that the Issuer deliver an Officers'
Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers
authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture,
which Officers' Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an
Officers' Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any
such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
Section 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of
Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained herein and
in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be
taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Trustee or any Authenticating
Agent assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee or
any Authenticating Agent makes no representation as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of any Securities or Coupons. The Trustee shall
not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of the
Securities or of the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities or Coupons;
Collections, Etc. The Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
or Coupons with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such
agent and may otherwise deal with the Issuer and receive, collect, hold and
retain collections from the Issuer with the same rights it would have if it were
not the Trustee or such agent.
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Section 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee. All moneys received by the Trustee
shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the
purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law. Neither the
Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability
for interest on any moneys received by it hereunder.
Section 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and its Prior
Claim. The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time,
and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation as the Issuer and the
Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing (which shall not be limited by
any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in accordance
with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents
and other persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith. The
Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
their agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or
in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the
trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability. The
obligations of the Issuer under this Section to compensate and indemnify the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall
constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture. Such additional indebtedness shall be a senior
claim to that of the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by
the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders
of particular Securities or Coupons, and the Securities are hereby subordinated
to such senior claim.
Section 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's Certificate, Etc.
Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the trusts of
this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be
proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action
hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on the
part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an
Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in the
absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full
warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the
provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
Section 6.8 Indentures Not Creating Potential Conflicting Interests for
the Trustee. The following indentures are hereby specifically described for the
purposes of Section 310(b)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939: this Indenture
with respect to the Securities of any series.
Section 6.9 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. The Trustee
for each series of Securities hereunder shall at all times be a corporation or
banking association organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America or of any State or the District of Columbia having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and which is authorized
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under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision
or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia authority. Such
corporation or banking association shall have a place of business in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York if there be such a corporation in such
location willing to act upon reasonable and customary terms and conditions. If
such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the aforesaid 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. In case at any time the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in Section 6.10.
The provisions of this Section 6.9 are in furtherance of and subject to
Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee.
(1) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any time
resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by giving written
notice of resignation to the Issuer and the Guarantor and (a) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by giving
notice of such resignation to the Holders thereof, by publication at least once
in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
and at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London, (b) if any Unregistered
Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, by mailing notice of such
resignation to the Holders thereof who have filed their names and addresses with
the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 at
such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and (c) by mailing notice of
such resignation to the Holders of then Outstanding Registered Securities of
each series affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry
books. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly
appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the applicable series by
written instrument in duplicate, executed by authority of the Board of
Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning
Trustee and one copy to the successor Trustee or Trustees. If no successor
Trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to any series and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee, or any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of the applicable
series for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section 5.12,
on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any
such court for the appointment of a successor Trustee. Such court may thereupon,
after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a
successor Trustee.
(2) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(a) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any series of
Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for
at least six months; or
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(b) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Section 6.9 and Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any
Securityholder; or
(c) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to any
series of Securities, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver
or liquidator 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, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to
the applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor Trustee for such
series by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of
Directors of the Issuer, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Trustee, or, subject to the
provisions of Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of
such series for at least six months may on behalf of himself or herself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may
deem proper, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee.
(3) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series at the time Outstanding may at any time
remove the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and appoint a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to
the Trustee so removed, to the successor Trustee so appointed and to the Issuer
the evidence provided for in Section 7.1 of the action in that regard taken by
such Securityholders.
(4) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any
series and any appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to such series
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall become effective
upon acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee as provided in Section
6.11.
Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. Any
successor Trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.10 shall execute and
deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor Trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become
effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations
with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as Trustee for such series hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the
written request of the Issuer or of the successor Trustee, upon payment of its
charges then unpaid, the Trustee ceasing to act shall pay over to the successor
trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and
deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all such rights,
powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the
Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and
certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights
and powers. Any Trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim
upon all
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property or funds held or collected by such Trustee to secure any amounts then
due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6.
If a successor Trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of one
or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the predecessor Trustee and each
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such
provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not retiring
shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and 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 under separate
indentures.
No successor Trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall accept
appointment as provided in this Section 6.11 unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified under Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor Trustee as provided in this
Section 6.11, the Issuer shall give notice thereof (1) if any Unregistered
Securities of a series affected are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, by
publication of such notice at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and at least once in an Authorized
Newspaper in London, (2) if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected are
then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof who have filed their names and
addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, by mailing such notice to such Holders at such addresses as were so
furnished to the Trustee (and the Trustee shall make such information available
to the Issuer for such purpose) and (3) if any Registered Securities of a series
affected are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof, by mailing such notice to
such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books. If
the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the
resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be
combined with the notice called for by Section 6.10. If the Issuer fails to give
such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such notice to be given at the
expense of the Issuer.
Section 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Trustee. 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 of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be qualified under Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and eligible under the provisions of
Section 6.9, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding.
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In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have
been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver
such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the
Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor
hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such
certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities of
such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee
shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication
of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any series in the
name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors
by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer. The
Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be
subject to Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 to the extent
indicated therein.
Section 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent. As long as any
Securities of a series remain Outstanding, the Trustee may, by an instrument in
writing, appoint with the approval of the Issuer an authenticating agent (the
"Authenticating Agent") which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities, including Securities issued upon exchange,
registration of transfer, partial redemption or pursuant to Section 2.9.
Securities of each such series authenticated by such Authenticating Agent shall
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory
for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee. Whenever reference is made
in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities of any series
by the Trustee or to 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 for such series and a Certificate of Authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by such Authenticating Agent. Such
Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States of America or of any State,
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 (determined as provided in Section
6.9 with respect to the Trustee) and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or State authority.
Any corporation into which any 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 any Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business
of any Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be the Authenticating Agent with
respect to all series of Securities for which it served as Authenticating Agent
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or such Authenticating Agent. Any Authenticating Agent may at any
time, and if it shall cease to be eligible shall, resign by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Issuer.
Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or
in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.14 with respect to one or more
series of Securities, the Trustee shall upon receipt of an
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Issuer Order appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and the Issuer shall
provide notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of such series
in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 11.4. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become
vested with all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Authenticating Agent. The
Issuer agrees to pay to the Authenticating Agent for such series from time to
time reasonable compensation. The Authenticating Agent for the Securities of any
series shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as
such at the direction of the Trustee.
Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6 and 7.3 shall be applicable to any
Authenticating Agent.
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
Section 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in
principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may be embodied in
and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed
by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing
any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the
Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Article.
Section 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of
Securities. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument by
a Securityholder or his or her agent or proxy may be proved in the following
manner:
(1) The fact and date of the execution by any Holder of any instrument
may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or other officer of any
jurisdiction authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds or administer oaths
that the person executing such instruments acknowledged to him or her the
execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness to such execution sworn to
before any such notary or other such officer. Where such execution is by or on
behalf of any legal entity other than an individual, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of the authority of the person
executing the same.
(2) The fact of the holding by any Holder of an Unregistered Security
of any series, and the identifying number of such Security and the date of his
or her holding the same, may be proved by the production of such Security or by
a certificate executed by any trust company, bank, banker or recognized
securities dealer wherever situated satisfactory to the Trustee, if such
certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. Each such
certificate shall be dated and shall state that on the date thereof a Security
of such series bearing a specified identifying number was deposited with or
exhibited to such trust company, bank, banker or recognized securities dealer by
the person named in such certificate. Any such certificate may be issued in
respect of one or more Unregistered Securities of one or more series specified
therein. The holding by the person named in any such certificate of any
Unregistered Securities of any series
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specified therein shall be presumed to continue for a period of one year from
the date of such certificate unless at the time of any determination of such
holding (a) another certificate bearing a later date issued in respect of the
same Securities shall be produced, or (b) the Securities of such series
specified in such certificate shall be produced by some other person, or (c) the
Securities of such series specified in such certificate shall have ceased to be
Outstanding. Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the fact and date of the execution
of any such instrument and the amount and numbers of Securities of any series
held by the person so executing such instrument and the amount and numbers of
any Security or Securities for such series may also be proven in accordance with
such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee for
such series or in any other manner which the Trustee for such series may deem
sufficient.
(3) In the case of Registered Securities, the ownership of such
Securities shall be proved by the Security register or by a certificate of the
Security registrar.
The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity
of Holders of Registered Securities of any series entitled to vote or consent to
any action referred to in Section 7.1, which record date may be set at any time
or from time to time by notice to the Trustee, for any date or dates not more
than 60 days nor less than five days prior to the proposed date of such vote or
consent, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, with
respect to Registered Securities of any series, only Holders of Registered
Securities of such series of record on such record date shall be entitled to so
vote or give such consent or revoke such vote or consent.
Section 7.3 Holders to Be Treated as Owners. The Issuer, the Trustee
and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in
whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register for such
series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security
shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing
thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal
of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest on such Security
and for all other purposes; and neither the Issuer nor the Trustee nor any agent
of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the
Holder of any Unregistered Security and the Holder of any Coupon as the absolute
owner of such Unregistered Security or Coupon (whether or not such Unregistered
Security or Coupon shall be overdue) for the purpose of receiving payment
thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes and neither the Issuer,
the Trustee, nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by any
notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such person, or upon
his or her order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid,
effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any
such Unregistered Security or Coupon.
Section 7.4 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding. In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction,
consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Issuer
or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination
is being made or by any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled
by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other
obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made
shall be disregarded and deemed not to
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be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the
purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any
such direction, consent or waiver only Securities which a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so
owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right
so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Issuer
or any other obligor upon the Securities or any person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities. In case of a dispute as to such
right, the advice of counsel shall be full protection in respect of any decision
made by the Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon request of the Trustee,
the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer's Certificate
listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned
or held by or for the account of any of the above-described Persons; and,
subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such
Officer's Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and
of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the
purpose of any such determination.
Section 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time prior to
(but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 7.1, of
the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Security the
serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial
numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of
holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such
Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in exchange or
substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of
whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon any such Security.
Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount
of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this
Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the
Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of all the Securities affected by such
action.
ARTICLE VIII
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders.
(1) The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors (which
resolution may provide general terms or parameters for such action and may
provide that the specific terms of such action may be determined in accordance
with or pursuant to an Issuer Order), and the Trustee may from time to time and
at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for one or
more of the following purposes:
(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as
security for the Securities of one or more series any property or assets;
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(b) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Issuer, or
successive successions, and the assumption by the successor corporation of the
covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer pursuant to Article IX;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer such further covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Issuer and the Trustee shall
consider to be for the protection of the Holders of Securities or Coupons, and
to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any
such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of
Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies
provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in respect of any
such additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such supplemental
indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which
period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults)
or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an Event of Default or may
limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may
limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of such series to waive such an Event of Default;
(d) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental
indenture, or to make any other provisions as the Issuer may deem necessary or
desirable, provided that no such action shall adversely affect the interests of
the Holders of the Securities or Coupons;
(e) to establish the forms or terms of Securities of any series or of
the Coupons appertaining to such Securities as permitted by Sections 2.1 and
2.3; and
(f) 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
6.11.
(2) The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder,
but the Trustee 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.
(3) Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this
Section may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Securities at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of
Section 8.2.
Section 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders.
(1) With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article VII) of the Holders of
not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, (or, if the
affected series of the Securities are held by a Scottish
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Holdings Trust, the holders of at least a majority in aggregate liquidation
amount of the preferred Securities of such Scottish Holdings Trust) the Issuer,
when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors (which resolution may
provide general terms or parameters for such action and may provide that the
specific terms of such action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant
to an Issuer Order), and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time,
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 any supplemental indenture or of modifying in
any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such series or of
the Coupons appertaining to such Securities; provided, that no such supplemental
indenture shall (a) change the Stated Maturity of any then issued Security, or
reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of
payment of interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon or reduce any
amount payable on redemption thereof, or make the principal thereof (including
any amount in respect of original issue discount), or interest thereon payable
in any coin or currency other than that provided in such Securities and any
Coupons thereon or in accordance with the terms thereof, or reduce the amount of
the principal of a then issued Original Issue Discount Security that would be
due and payable upon an acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
5.1 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.2, or
alter the provisions of Section 11.11 or 11.12 or impair or affect the right of
any Securityholder to institute suit for the payment thereof or, if such
Securities provide therefor, any right of repayment at the option of the
Securityholder, in each case without the consent of the Holder of each Security
so affected, (b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of then issued
Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required for
any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders of each
Security so affected, or (c) so long as any of the Preferred Securities of a
Scottish Holdings Trust remain outstanding, no amendment shall be made to
Section 5.7 without the prior consent of the Holder of each Preferred Security
then outstanding unless and until the principal of, any premium or, interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities of such series have been
paid in full.
(2) 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 Holders of Securities of such series, or of Coupons
appertaining to such Securities, with respect to such covenant or provision,
shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of
Securities of any other series or of the Coupons appertaining to such
Securities.
(3) Upon the request of the Issuer, accompanied by a copy of a
resolution of the Board of Directors (which resolution may provide general terms
or parameters for such action and may provide that the specific terms of such
action may be determined in accordance with or pursuant to an Issuer Order)
certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Issuer authorizing
the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the
Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Holders of the Securities as aforesaid
and other documents, if any, required by Section 7.1, the Trustee shall join
with the Issuer in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such
supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities
under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its
discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.
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(4) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders
under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
(5) Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee
shall give notice thereof (a) if any Registered Securities of a series affected
thereby are then Outstanding to the Holders thereof, by mailing a notice thereof
by first-class mail to such Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on
the Security register, (b) if any Unregistered Securities of a series affected
thereby are then Outstanding, to the Holders thereof who have filed their names
and addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, by mailing a notice thereof by first-class mail to such
Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to the Trustee and (c) if any
Unregistered Securities of a series affected thereby are then Outstanding, to
all Holders thereof, by publication of a notice thereof at least once in an
Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and at
least once in an Authorized Newspaper in London, and in each case such notice
shall set forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.
Any failure of the Issuer to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not,
however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental
indenture.
Section 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall
be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the
respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of Securities of
each series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments,
and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and
be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and
all purposes.
Section 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee, subject to
the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Officer's Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to this Article VIII complies with the applicable provisions
of this Indenture.
Section 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures. Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as
to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action
taken by Securityholders. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new
Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture
contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Issuer,
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of
such series then Outstanding.
Section 8.6 Subordination Unimpaired. This Indenture may not be amended
to alter the subordination of any of the Outstanding Securities without the
written consent of each holder of Senior Indebtedness then outstanding that
would be adversely affected thereby.
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Section 8.7 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act of 1939. Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect.
ARTICLE IX
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
Section 9.1 Issuer May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. The
Issuer shall not consolidate with or merge into another Person or sell other
than for cash or lease all or substantially all its assets to another Person, or
purchase all or substantially all the assets of another Person, unless:
(1) either the Issuer is the continuing Person, or
(2) the successor Person (if other than the Issuer) (i) is a
corporation, partnership or trust organized and validly existing under the laws
of the United States of America, any state thereof, the District of Columbia,
the Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx or Switzerland and (ii)
expressly assumes by supplemental indenture the obligations evidenced by the
Securities (in which case, except in the case of such a lease, the Issuer will
be discharged therefrom), and
(3) immediately thereafter, the Issuer or the successor Person (if
other than the Issuer) would not be in default in the performance of any
covenant or condition contained herein, and
(4) in the case of the Securities of a series issued to a Scottish
Holdings Trsut, such transaction is permitted under the related Trust Agreement
and does not give rise to any breach or violation of such Trust Agreement.
Section 9.2 Successor Substituted for the Issuer. Upon any
consolidation of the Issuer with, or merger of the Issuer into, any other Person
or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Issuer
substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 9.1, the successor
Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Issuer 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 Issuer under
this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named
as the Issuer herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the
predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this
Indenture and the Securities.
Section 9.3 Restrictions on Certain Dispositions. As long as any of the
Securities remain Outstanding, the Issuer will not, and will not permit any
Restricted Subsidiary to, issue, sell, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of,
directly or indirectly, any of the Voting Shares of any Restricted Subsidiary,
unless:
(1) the issuance, sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition is
required to comply with the order of a court or regulatory authority of
competent jurisdiction, other than an order issued at the request of the Issuer
or of one of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
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(2) the shares of Voting Shares issued, sold, assigned, transferred or
otherwise disposed of constitute directors' qualifying shares;
(3) all of the Voting Shares of a Restricted Subsidiary then owned by
the Issuer or by its Restricted Subsidiaries is disposed of in a single
transaction or in a series of related transactions, for a consideration
consisting of cash or other property the fair market value of which (as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) is at least equal to the
Fair Value of such Voting Shares; or
(4) after giving effect to the issuance sale, assignment, transfer or
other disposition, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries would own directly
or indirectly at least 70% of the issued and outstanding Voting Shares of such
Restricted Subsidiary and such issuance, sale, assignment, transfer or other
disposition is made for a consideration consisting of cash or other property
which is at least equal to the Fair Value of such Voting Shares.
ARTICLE X
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 10.1 Termination of Issuer's Obligations Under the Indenture.
(1) This Indenture shall upon an Issuer Order cease to be of further effect with
respect to Securities of or within any series and any coupons appertaining
thereto (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of such Securities and replacement of such Securities which may have
been lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated as herein expressly provided for) and
the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto when
(a) either
(i) all such Securities previously authenticated and delivered and
all Coupons appertaining thereto (other than (A) such Coupons appertaining
to Unregistered Securities surrendered in exchange for Registered
Securities and maturing after such exchange, surrender of which is not
required or has been waived as provided in Section 2.8, (B) such Securities
and coupons which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9, (C) such Coupons appertaining
to Unregistered Securities called for redemption and maturing after the
date fixed for redemption thereof, surrender of which has been waived as
provided in Section 12.3 and (D) such Securities and coupons for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and
held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or
discharged from such trust as provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (X) or (Y)
below, all Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation (X) have become due and payable, or (Y) will
become due and payable within one year, or (Z) if redeemable at the option
of the Issuer, are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption
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by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuer, and the
Issuer, in the case of (X), (Y) or (Z) above, has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the
purpose an amount in the currency or currencies or currency unit or units
in which the Securities of such series are payable, sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities and such Coupons not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal,
premium, if any, and interest (including any Additional Interest) on, and
any additional amounts, with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit
(in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or Maturity
date or Redemption date, as the case may be;
(b) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Issuer; and
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' 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.
(2) Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture,
the obligation of the Issuer to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under
Section 6.11, the obligations of the Issuer to any Authenticating Agent under
Section 6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant
to (1)(a)(ii) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 10.2
and the last paragraph of Section 3.3 shall survive.
Section 10.2 Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the revisions of
the last paragraph of Section 3.3, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant
to Section 10.1 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 Issuer acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto
of the principal, premium, if any and any interest (including any Additional
Interest) for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by
the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required by law.
Section 10.3 Applicability of Defeasance Provisions; Issuer's Option to
Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If pursuant to Section 2.3 provision
is made for either or both of (1) defeasance of the Securities of or within a
series under Section 10.4 or (2) covenant defeasance of the Securities of or
within a series under Section 10.5, then the provisions of such Section or
Sections, as the case may be, together with the provisions of Sections 10.6
through 10.10 inclusive, with such modifications thereto as may be specified
pursuant to Section 2.3 with respect to any Securities, shall be applicable to
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Issuer may at its
option by or pursuant to Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 10.4 (if
applicable) or Section 10.5 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article.
Section 10.4 Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Issuer's exercise of
the option specified in Section 10.3 applicable to this Section with respect to
the Securities of or within a
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series, the Issuer shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations
with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on and
after the date the conditions set forth in Section 10.6 are satisfied
(hereinafter "defeasance"). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the
Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness
represented by such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and under
the Preferred Securities Guarantee in respect thereof, which shall thereafter be
deemed to be "Outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 10.7, clause (i) of
this Section and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clause (2)
of this Section, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture insofar as
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are concerned (and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall on an Issuer Order execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), except the following which shall survive
until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely from the
trust funds described in Section 10.6(1) and as more fully set forth in such
Section, payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest,
if any, on such Securities or any Coupons appertaining thereto when such
payments are due; (2) the Issuer's obligations with respect to such Securities
under Sections 2.8, 2.9, 3.2 and 3.3 and with respect to the payment of
additional amounts, if any, payable with respect to such Securities as specified
pursuant to Section 2.3; (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article X. Subject to compliance with this
Article X, the Issuer may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding
the prior exercise of its option under Section 10.5 with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto. Following a defeasance, payment
of such Securities may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.
Section 10.5 Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Issuer's exercise of the
option specified in Section 10.3 applicable to this Section with respect to any
Securities of or within a series, the Issuer shall be released from its
obligations under Section 9.1 and 3.5 and, if specified pursuant to Section 2.3,
its obligations under any other covenant with respect to such Securities and any
Coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 10.6 are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"), and such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be
not "Outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or
declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in
connection with Sections 9.1 and 3.5 or such other covenant, but shall continue
to be deemed "Outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose,
such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities and any
Coupons appertaining thereto, the Issuer may omit to comply with and shall have
no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any
such Section or such other covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason
of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or such other covenant or
by reason of reference in any such Section or such other 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 5.1(1) or (8) or
otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of
this Indenture and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be
unaffected thereby.
Section 10.6 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
following shall be the conditions to application of Section 10.4 or Section 10.5
to any Securities of or within a series and any Coupons appertaining thereto:
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(1) The Issuer shall have deposited or caused to be deposited
irrevocably with the Trustee (or another Trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 6.9 who shall agree to comply with, and shall be entitled to the
benefits of, the provisions of Sections 10.3 through 10.10 inclusive and the
last paragraph of Section 3.3 applicable to the Trustee, for purposes of such
Sections also a "Trustee") as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
payments referred to in clauses (X) and (Y) of this Section 10.6(1),
specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of
the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, with
instructions to the Trustee as to the application thereof, (a) money in an
amount (in such currency, currencies or currency unit or units in which such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at
Maturity), or (b) if Securities of such Series are not subject to repayment at
the option of Holders, U.S. Government Obligations which through the payment of
interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment referred to
in clause (X) or (Y) of this Section 10.6(1), money in an amount or (c) a
combination thereof in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge,
and which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay and discharge, (X) the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest (including any Additional Interest),
if any, on Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the Maturity of
such principal or installment of principal or interest and (Y) any mandatory
sinking fund payments applicable to such Securities on the day on which such
payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and
such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto. Before such a deposit the
Issuer may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of
Securities at a future date or dates in accordance with Article XII which shall
be given effect in applying the foregoing.
(2) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach
or violation of, or constitute a default or Event of Default under, this
Indenture or result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under,
any other material agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by
which it is bound.
(3) In the case of an election under Section 10.4, the Issuer shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that (a) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published
by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (b) since the date of execution of
this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax
law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall
confirm that, the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining
thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes
as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the
same amount and in the same manner and at the same times, as would have been the
case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred.
(4) In the case of an election under Section 10.5, the Issuer shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of
such covenant defeasance and will be subject to 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.
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(5) The Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent to the defeasance under Section 10.4 or the covenant defeasance under
Section 10.5 (as the case may be), including those contained in this Section
10.6 other than the 90 day period specified in Section 10.6(7), have been
complied with.
(6) This Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities
of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted
as a result of such deposit.
(7) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other
Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or,
with regard to any such event specified in Sections 5.1(5) and (6), at any time
on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood
that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).
(8) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in the
trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 unless such trust shall be
registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(9) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in
compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations
which may be imposed on the Issuer in connection therewith as contemplated by
Section 2.3.
Section 10.7 Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held
in Trust. Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 3.3, all
money and U.S. Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided
pursuant to Section 2.3) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.6 in respect of any Securities of any series and
any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or
through any Paying Agent (including the Issuer acting as its own Paying Agent)
as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
Section 10.8 Repayment to Issuer. The Trustee (any Paying Agent) shall
promptly pay to the Issuer upon Issuer Order any excess money or securities held
by them at any time.
Section 10.9 Indemnity For U.S. Government Obligations. The Issuer
shall pay, and shall indemnify the Trustee against, any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to
this Article or the principal and interest and any other amount received on such
U.S. Government Obligations.
Section 10.10 Reimbursement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is
unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any
Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or government
authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
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such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities
from which the Issuer has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 10.4
or 10.5 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the
Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant
to Section 10.7 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article;
provided, however, that if the Issuer makes any payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its
obligations, the Issuer shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the
Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in
trust.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 11.1 Incorporators, Shareholders, Officers and Directors of
Issuer Exempt from Individual Liability. No recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in any
Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against
any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future shareholder,
officer or director, as such, of the Issuer or of any successor, either directly
or through the Issuer 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 and the Coupons appertaining
thereto by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of
the Securities and the Coupons appertaining thereto.
Section 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties
and Holders of Securities and Coupons. Nothing in this Indenture, in the
Securities or in the Coupons appertaining thereto, expressed or implied, shall
give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the
parties hereto and their successors and the holders of Senior Indebtedness and
the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any, any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein
contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the
parties hereto and their successors, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and
the Holders of the Securities or Coupons, if any.
Section 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer Bound by Indenture. All
the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained
by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
Section 11.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Holders of
Securities and Coupons. Any notice or demand which by any provision of this
Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by
the Holders of Securities or Coupons to or on the Issuer shall be in writing and
may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail
(except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another
address of the Issuer is filed by the Issuer with the Trustee) to Scottish
Annuity & Life Holdings, Ltd., Crown House, Third Floor, 0 Xxx-xx-Xxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxx XX00, Xxxxxxx. Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer
or any Holder of Securities or Coupons to or upon the Trustee shall be in
writing (which may be by facsimile) and shall be deemed to have been
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sufficiently given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class
mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another
address of the Trustee is filed by the Trustee with the Issuer) to The Bank of
New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Global
Finance Unit.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Registered
Securities, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
each Holder entitled thereto, at his or her last address as it appears in the
Security register. In any case where notice to such Holders 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. 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.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail
service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer 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 reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Section 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements
to Be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the Issuer to the
Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the
Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate stating that all
conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture 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 have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this
Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to
the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for
in this Indenture shall include (1) a statement that the person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, 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 (4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of
such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of
or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his or her
certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in
the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. Any
certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates
to factual matters, information
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with respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer, upon the certificate,
statement or opinion of or representations by an officer or officers of the
Issuer, unless such counsel actually knows that the certificate, statement or
opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his or her
certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in
the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Issuer or of
counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Issuer, unless such officer or counsel, as the
case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the accounting matters upon which his or her certificate, statement
or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants
filed with and directed to the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm
is independent.
Section 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. If the
Maturity date of the Securities of any series or any Coupons appertaining
thereto or the Redemption Date or the date of repayment of any such Security or
Coupon shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal need
not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day
with the same force and effect as if made on the Maturity date or Redemption
Date, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date.
Section 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture
limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by, or with another
provision (an "incorporated provision") included in this Indenture by operation
of, Sections 310 to 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, such
imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control.
Section 11.8 New York Law to Govern. This Indenture and each Security
and Coupon shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New
York (without regard to the conflicts of law provisions of such State), and for
all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State
(without regard to the conflicts of law provisions of such State), except as may
otherwise be required by mandatory provisions of law.
Section 11.9 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 11.10 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings
herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction hereof.
Section 11.11 Securities in a Foreign Currency. Unless otherwise
specified in an Officer's Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.3 of this
Indenture 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 Securities of all series or all
series affected by a particular action at the time Outstanding and, at such
time, there are
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Outstanding Securities of any series which are denominated in a coin or currency
other than Dollars, then the principal amount of Securities of such series which
shall be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be
that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market
Exchange Rate. For purposes of this Section 11.11, Market Exchange Rate shall
mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of that
currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. If such Market
Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the
Trustee 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 such other quotations as the Trustee shall deem appropriate.
The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent
principal amount in respect of Securities of a series denominated in a currency
other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities
pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
All decisions and determinations of the Trustee regarding the Market
Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding
paragraph shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all purposes and
irrevocably binding upon the Issuer and all Holders.
Section 11.12 Judgment Currency. The Issuer agrees, to the fullest
extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (1) if for the
purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum
due in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities of any series
(the "Required Currency") into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered
(the "Judgment Currency"), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which
in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The
City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on
which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a Business
Day, then, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the rate of exchange used
shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the
Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the
Judgment Currency on the Business Day preceding the day on which final
unappealable judgment is entered and (2) its obligations under this Indenture to
make payments in the Required Currency (a) shall not be discharged or satisfied
by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered
in accordance with subsection (1)), in any currency other than the Required
Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the
actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency
expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (b) shall be enforceable as
an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in
the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall
fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be
payable and (c) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other
sum due under this Indenture.
Section 11.13 Separability Clause. If any provision of this Indenture
or of the Securities, or the application of any such provision to any Person or
circumstance, shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
remainder of this Indenture or of the Securities, or the application of such
provision to Persons or circumstances other than those as to whom or which it is
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
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Section 11.14 Holders of Preferred Securities as Third Party
Beneficiaries. The Issuer hereby acknowledges that, to the extent specifically
set forth herein, the holders of the Preferred Securities of a Scottish Holdings
Trust shall expressly be third party beneficiaries of this Indenture. The Issuer
further acknowledges that, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
and is attributable to the failure of the Issuer to pay the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of the series held by such
Scottish Holdings Trust, any holder of the Preferred Securities of such Scottish
Holdings Trust may institute a Direct Action against the Issuer.
Section 11.15 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE ISSUER 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 TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED
HEREBY.
Section 11.16 Immunity. To the extent that the Issuer 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 Issuer hereby irrevocably waives such immunity in respect
of its obligations under this Agreement and, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, agrees that the waivers set forth in this Section 11.15 shall
have the fullest scope permitted under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of
1976 of the United States (the "Act") and are intended to be irrevocable for
purposes of such Act.
ARTICLE XII
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article
shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are redeemable before
their Maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a
series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3 for
Securities of such series.
Section 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions. Notice of
redemption to the Holders of Registered Securities of any series to be redeemed
as a whole or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by mailing
notice of such redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days
and not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to such Holders of
Securities of such series at their last addresses as they shall appear upon the
Security register. Notice of redemption to the Holders of Unregistered
Securities to be redeemed as a whole or in part, who have filed their names and
addresses with the Trustee pursuant to Section 313(c)(2) of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 shall be given by mailing notice of such redemption, by first class
mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days and not more than 60 prior to the date
fixed for redemption, to such Holders at such addresses as were so furnished to
the Trustee (and, in the case of any such notice given by the Issuer, the
Trustee shall make such information available to the Issuer for such purpose).
Notice of redemption to all Holders of Unregistered Securities shall be
published in an Authorized Newspaper in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York and in an Authorized Newspaper in London in each case, once in each of
three successive calendar weeks, the first publication to be not less than 30
nor more than 60 days prior to the date
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fixed for redemption. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided
shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the
Holder receives the notice. Failure to give notice by mail, or any defect in the
notice to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption as a
whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other Security of such series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify, the principal
amount of each Security of such series held by such Holder to be redeemed, the
date fixed for redemption, the redemption price, the place or places of payment,
that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Securities
and, in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto, of all Coupons
appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for redemption, that such
redemption is pursuant to the mandatory or optional sinking fund, or both, if
such be the case, that interest accrued to the Redemption Date will be paid as
specified in such notice, the CUSIP number (if any) and that on and after said
date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to
accrue. In case any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only the
notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to
be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption,
upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at the
option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer's written
request delivered at least 5 days prior to the date such notice is to be given
(unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in
the name and at the expense of the Issuer.
On or before the Redemption Date specified in the notice of redemption
given as provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the Trustee or
with one or more Paying Agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its own Paying
Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 3.3) an
amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the Securities
of such series so called for redemption at the appropriate redemption price,
together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. The Issuer will
deliver to the Trustee at least 70 days prior to the date fixed for redemption
an Officer's Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities to
be redeemed. In case of a redemption at the election of the Issuer prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption, the Issuer shall deliver to
the Trustee, prior to the giving of any notice of redemption to Holders pursuant
to this Section, an Officer's Certificate stating that such restriction has been
complied with.
If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee
shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair, Securities
of such Series to be redeemed in whole or in part. Securities may be redeemed in
part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of
such series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Issuer in writing of the Securities of such series selected for redemption and,
in the case of any Securities of such series selected for partial redemption,
the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture,
unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption
of Securities of any series 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.
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Section 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If notice of
redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of
Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the date and
at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price, together
with interest accrued to the Redemption Date, and on and after said date (unless
the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Securities at the redemption
price, together with interest accrued to said date) interest on the Securities
or portions of Securities so called for redemption shall cease to accrue, and
the unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto shall be void, and, except
as provided in Section 6.5, such Securities shall cease from and after the date
fixed for redemption to be entitled to any benefit or security under this
Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such
Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and unpaid
interest to the date fixed for redemption. On presentation and surrender of such
Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice, together with all
Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the date fixed for
redemption, said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and
redeemed by the Issuer at the applicable redemption price, together with
interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption; provided that payment
of interest becoming due on or prior to the Redemption Date redemption shall be
payable in the case of Securities with Coupons attached thereto, to the Holders
of the Coupons for such interest upon surrender thereof, and in the case of
Registered Securities, to the Holders of such Registered Securities registered
as such on the relevant record date subject to the terms and provisions of
Sections 2.3 and 2.7 hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly provided for,
bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security) borne by
such Security.
If any Security with Coupons attached thereto is surrendered for redemption
and is not accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the Redemption
Date such Security may be redeemed after deducting from the redemption price any
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 Issuer and the Trustee if
there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may reasonably
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 as provided in Section 2.9 and, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3, only upon presentation and surrender of those
Coupons.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or Securities of
such series, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
Section 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for
Selection for Redemption. Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for
selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate
number in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the
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Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on which notice of redemption
may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or
hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified
in such written statement as directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by
or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer.
Section 12.5 Right of Redemption of Securities Issued to a Scottish
HoldingsTrust. In the case of the Securities of a series issued to a Scottish
Holdings Trust, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, if
a Special Event in respect of such Scottish Holdings Trust shall occur and be
continuing, the Issuer may, at its option, redeem the Securities of such series
within 90 days of the occurrence of such Special Event, in whole but not in
part, subject to the provisions of this Section 12.5 and the other provisions of
this Article 12. Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or
the Securities of such series, the redemption price for any Security so redeemed
pursuant to this Section 12.5 shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of
such Securities then Outstanding plus accrued and unpaid interest, including any
Additional Interest, to the date fixed for redemption.
Section 12.6 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds. (1) The minimum
amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the 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 the
Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund
payment". The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein
referred to as the "sinking fund payment date".
(2) In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at its
option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore
purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the
mandatory sinking fund) by the Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such
series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired
(except as aforesaid) by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for optional sinking
fund payments (not previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section, or (c)
receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited)
redeemed by the Issuer through any optional redemption provision contained in
the terms of such series. Securities so delivered or credited shall be received
or credited by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption price specified in
such Securities.
(3) On or before the 60th day next preceding each sinking fund payment
date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate (which need not contain the statements required by Section 11.5) (a)
specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment to be satisfied by
payment of cash and the portion to be satisfied by credit of Securities of such
series and the basis for such credit, (b) stating that none of the Securities of
such series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in
the payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such series have
occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing and (d)
stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise its right to make an
optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so, specifying
the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Issuer intends to pay
on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any Securities of
such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the Trustee in order
for the Issuer to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid
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which have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such Officer's
Certificate (or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee).
Such Officer's Certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the
Trustee the Issuer shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash
payments or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Issuer, on or before any
such 60th day, to deliver such Officer's Certificate and Securities specified in
this paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on
and as of such date, the irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the
mandatory sinking fund payment for such series due on the next succeeding
sinking fund payment date shall be paid entirely in cash without the option to
deliver or credit Securities of such series in respect thereof and (ii) that the
Issuer will make no optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series as
provided in this Section.
(4) If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or
both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus
any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall
exceed $50,000 (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency) or a lesser
sum in Dollars (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency) if the Issuer
shall so request with respect to the Securities of any particular series, such
cash shall be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date to the
redemption of Securities of such series at the sinking fund redemption price
together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If such amount
shall be $50,000 (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency) or less and
the Issuer makes no such request then it shall be carried over until a sum in
excess of $50,000 (or the equivalent thereof in any Foreign Currency) is
available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in Section 12.2, for
redemption on such sinking fund payment date a sufficient principal amount of
Securities of such series to absorb said cash, as nearly as may be, and shall
(if requested in writing by the Issuer) inform the Issuer of the serial numbers
of the Securities of such series (or portions thereof) so selected. Securities
shall be excluded from eligibility for redemption under this Section if they are
identified by registration and certificate number in an Officer's Certificate
delivered to the Trustee at least 60 days prior to the sinking fund payment date
as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by
either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified in such Officer's
Certificate as directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with the Issuer. The Trustee, in the name and
at the expense of the Issuer (or the Issuer, if it shall so request the Trustee
in writing) shall cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series to
be given in substantially the manner provided in Section 12.2 (and with the
effect provided in Section 12.3) for the redemption of Securities of such series
in part at the option of the Issuer. The amount of any sinking fund payments not
so applied or allocated to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be
added to the next cash sinking fund payment for such series and, together with
such payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this
Section. Any and all sinking fund moneys held on the Stated Maturity date of the
Securities of any particular series (or earlier, if such Maturity is
accelerated), which are not held for the payment or redemption of particular
Securities of such series shall be applied, together with other moneys, if
necessary, sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of, and
interest on, the Securities of such series at Maturity.
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(5) On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall pay
to the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all
interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed
on the next following sinking fund payment date.
(6) The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities
of a series with sinking fund moneys or give any notice of redemption of
Securities for such series by operation of the sinking fund during the
continuance of a default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any
Event of Default except that, where the giving of notice of redemption of any
Securities shall theretofore have been made, the Trustee shall redeem or cause
to be redeemed such Securities, provided that it shall have received from the
Issuer a sum sufficient for such redemption. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in
the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event of
Default shall occur, and any moneys thereafter paid into the sinking fund,
shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of Default, be deemed to
have been collected under Article V and held for the payment of all such
Securities. In case such Event of Default shall have been waived as provided in
Section 5.10 or the default cured on or before the sixtieth day preceding the
sinking fund payment date in any year, such moneys shall thereafter be applied
on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date in accordance with this Section
to the redemption of such Securities.
ARTICLE XIII
SUBORDINATION
Section 13.1 Agreement to Subordinate. The Issuer, for itself, its
successors and assigns, covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security or
Coupon, by its acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that the
payment of the principal of and interest on, each and all of the Securities and
any Coupons is hereby expressly subordinated, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter in this Article XIII set forth, in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
Section 13.2 Rights of Senior Indebtedness in the Event of Insolvency,
Etc., of the Issuer.
(1) In the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, and any
receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceedings in
connection therewith, relative to the Issuer or to its creditors, as such, or to
its property, and in the event of any proceedings for voluntary liquidation,
dissolution or other winding up of the Issuer, whether or not involving
insolvency or bankruptcy, and in the event of any execution sale, then the
holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive payment in full of
principal thereof and interest due thereon (including, without limitation,
except to the extent, if any, prohibited by mandatory provisions of law,
post-petition interest in any such proceedings) in money or money's worth of all
Senior Indebtedness before the Holders are entitled to receive any payment on
account of the principal of or interest on the indebtedness evidenced by the
Securities or of the Coupons, and to that end the holders of Senior Indebtedness
shall be entitled to receive for application in payment thereof any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash or property or
securities, which may be payable or deliverable in connection with any such
proceedings or sale in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities
or Coupons other than securities of the Issuer as reorganized or readjusted or
securities of the Issuer or any other corporation provided
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for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is
subordinate, at least to the extent provided in this Article XIII with respect
to the Securities or Coupons, to the payment of all indebtedness of the nature
of Senior Indebtedness, provided that the rights of the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness are not altered by such reorganization or readjustment;
(2) In the event and during the continuation of any default in payment
of any Senior Indebtedness or if any event of default, as therein defined, shall
exist under any Senior Indebtedness or any agreement pursuant to which any
Senior Indebtedness is issued, no payment of the principal of or interest on the
Securities or Coupons shall be made and the Issuer covenants that it will, upon
ascertaining any such default or event of default, provide written notice to the
Trustee of such default or event of default;
(3) In the event that the Securities of any series are declared due and
payable before their expressed Maturity because of the occurrence of an Event of
Default (under circumstances when the provisions of Subsection (1) of this
Section 13.2 shall not be applicable), the holders of all Senior Indebtedness
shall be entitled to receive payment in full in money or money's worth of such
Senior Indebtedness before such Holders are entitled to receive any payment on
account of the principal of or interest on the Securities or Coupons; and
(4) No holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be prejudiced in his or her
right to enforce subordination of the Securities or Coupons by any act or
failure to act on the part of the Issuer.
Section 13.3 Payment Over of Proceeds Received on Securities. In the
event that, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 13.2, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Issuer of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities (other than securities of the Issuer as reorganized or
readjusted or securities of the Issuer or any other corporation provided for by
a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at
least to the extent provided in this Article XIII with respect to the Securities
or Coupons, to the payment of all indebtedness of the nature of Senior
Indebtedness, provided that the rights of the holders of the Senior Indebtedness
are not altered by such reorganization or readjustment) shall be received by the
Holders or by the Trustee for their benefit in connection with any proceedings
or sale referred to in Subsection (1) of Section 13.2 before all Senior
Indebtedness is paid in full in money or money's worth, such payment or
distribution shall be paid over to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or
their representative or representatives or to the Trustee or Trustees under any
indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, ratably according to the aggregate amounts remaining
unpaid on account of the Senior Indebtedness held or represented by each, for
application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid until all
such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full in money or money's worth,
after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness.
From and after the payment in full in money or money's worth of all Senior
Indebtedness, the Holders (together with the holders of any other indebtedness
of the Issuer which is subordinate in right of payment to the payment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness, which is not subordinate in right of payment to the
Securities or Coupons and which by its terms grants such right of subrogation to
the holder thereof) shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of assets or securities of the
Issuer
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applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the Securities and any Coupons shall
be paid in full, and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no such payments or
distributions to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of assets or securities,
which otherwise would have been payable or distributable to Holders, shall, as
between the Issuer, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness,
and the Holders, be deemed to be a payment by the Issuer to or on account of the
Senior Indebtedness, it being understood that the provisions of this Article
XIII are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights
of the Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on
the other hand, and nothing contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Securities or Coupons is intended to or shall impair as
between the Issuer, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness,
and the Holders, the obligation of the Issuer, which is unconditional and
absolute, to pay to the Holders the principal of and interest on the Securities
or Coupons as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms, or to affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of
the Issuer other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything
herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the holder of any Security or Coupon
from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default
under this Indenture subject to the rights of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, under Section 13.2, to receive cash, property or securities of the
Issuer otherwise payable or deliverable to the holders of the Securities or
Coupons.
Upon any distribution or payment in connection with any proceedings or sale
referred to in Subsection (1) of Section 13.2, the Trustee, subject as between
the Trustee and the Holders to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2 hereof,
shall be entitled to rely upon a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent
or other Person making any distribution or payment to the Trustee for the
purpose of ascertaining the holders of Senior Indebtedness entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution, the amount of such Senior
Indebtedness or the amount payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
XIII. In the event that the Trustee determines, in good faith, that further
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Section 13.3, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to
the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior
Indebtedness held by such Person, as to the extent to which such Person is
entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, and as to other facts
pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Section 13.3, and if such
evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment.
The Trustee, however, shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be liable to any such holders if
it shall in good faith pay over or distribute to Holders or the Issuer or any
other Person moneys or assets to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness shall
be entitled by virtue of Article XIII of this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 13.4 Payments to Holders. Nothing contained in this Article XIII or
elsewhere in this Indenture, or in any of the Securities or in any Coupon, shall
prevent at any time, (1) the Issuer from making payments at any time of
principal of or interest on the Securities or Coupons, except under the
conditions described in Section 13.2 or during the pendency of any proceedings
or sale therein referred to, provided, however, that payments of principal of or
interest on the
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Securities or Coupons shall only be made by the Issuer within three business
days of the due dates for such payments or (2) the application by the Trustee of
any moneys deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the
principal of or interest on the Securities or Coupons, if at the time of such
deposit the Trustee did not have written notice in accordance with Section 13.6
of any event prohibiting the making of such deposit by the Issuer or if in the
event of redemption, the Trustee did not have such written notice prior to the
time that the notice of redemption pursuant to Section 12.2 was given (which
notice of redemption shall in no event be given more than 60 days prior to the
date fixed for redemption).
Section 13.5 Holders of Securities Authorize Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination of Securities. Each Holder by his or her acceptance of a Security
or Coupon authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the
subordination as provided in this Article XIII and appoints the Trustee as
attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes, including, in the event of any
dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Issuer (whether in
bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the
benefit of creditors or otherwise) tending towards liquidation of the business
and assets of the Issuer, the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance
of such Holder's Securities or Coupons in the form required in said proceedings
and cause said claim to be approved.
Section 13.6 Notice to Trustee. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Article XIII or any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with the knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit
the making of any payment of moneys to the Trustee, unless and until the Trustee
shall have received written notice thereof from the Issuer or from the holder or
the representative of any class of Senior Indebtedness; provided, however, that
if at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof
any such monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without
limitation, the payment of either the cash amount payable at Maturity or
interest on any Security or Coupon), the Trustee shall not have received with
respect to such monies the notice provided for in this Section 13.6, then,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall
have full power and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same to
the purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any
notice to the contrary, which may be received by it on or after such two
Business Days prior to such date.
Section 13.7 Trustee May Hold Senior Indebtedness. Subject to the
provisions of Section 6.13, the Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set
forth in this Article XIII with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which may at
any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness.
Section 13.8 Applicability of Article XIII to Paying Agents. In case at
any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall be appointed by the
Issuer and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as used in this Article
XIII in such case (unless the context shall otherwise require) be construed as
extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all
intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article XIII in
place of the Trustee.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed as of _______, 2003.
SCOTTISH ANNUITY &
LIFE HOLDINGS, LTD.
By:
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Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By:
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