Exhibit 4.10
EXECUTION COPY
AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICING AGREEMENT
DATED 17 OCTOBER 2006
HALIFAX PLC
AS SERVICER
AND
PERMANENT MORTGAGES TRUSTEE LIMITED
AS MORTGAGES TRUSTEE
AND
HALIFAX PLC
AS SELLER
AND
PERMANENT FUNDING (NO. 1) LIMITED
AS FUNDING 1
AND
PERMANENT FUNDING (NO. 2) LIMITED
AS FUNDING 2
AND
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
AS FUNDING 1 SECURITY TRUSTEE AND FUNDING 2 SECURITY TRUSTEE
XXXXX & XXXXX
XXXXX & XXXXX LLP
CONTENTS
CLAUSE PAGE
1. Definitions and Interpretation.........................................2
2. Appointment of Servicer................................................3
3. The Administration Services............................................4
4. Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate/Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate....6
5. Administration of Mortgages............................................9
6. No Liability..........................................................13
7. New Loans.............................................................14
8. Product Switching and Further Advances................................14
9. Redemption of Mortgages...............................................14
10. Powers of Attorney....................................................15
11. Costs and Expenses....................................................15
12. Information...........................................................16
13. Remuneration..........................................................17
14. Insurances............................................................18
15. Halifax Insurance Policies............................................18
16. Buildings Policies....................................................18
17. Title Deeds and Customer Files........................................19
18. Data Protection.......................................................20
19. Covenants of Servicer.................................................21
20. Services Non-Exclusive................................................22
21. Termination...........................................................22
22. Further Assurance.....................................................25
23. Miscellaneous.........................................................25
24. Confidentiality.......................................................26
25. Notices...............................................................27
26. No Partnership........................................................28
27. Assignment............................................................28
28. Change of Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or
Funding 2 Security Trustee............................................28
29. Amendments, waivers and consents......................................29
30. Exclusion of Third Party Rights.......................................29
31. Counterparts and Severability.........................................29
32. Governing Law and Jurisdiction........................................29
33. Process Agent.........................................................30
SCHEDULE
1. The Services..........................................................31
2. Form of Investor Monthly Report.......................................32
3. Minimum Servicing Standards...........................................33
Signatories..................................................................35
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICING AGREEMENT (this AGREEMENT) is made as a
deed on 17 October 2006
BETWEEN:
(1) HALIFAX PLC (registered number 02367076), a public limited company
incorporated under the laws of England and Wales whose registered office
is at Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (in its capacity as
the SERVICER of the Loans and their Related Security);
(2) PERMANENT MORTGAGES TRUSTEE LIMITED (registered number 83116), a private
limited company incorporated under the laws of Jersey, Channel Islands
whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxxx, Xx. Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0 0XX,
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx (xx its capacity as the MORTGAGES TRUSTEE);
(3) HALIFAX PLC (registered number 02367076), a public limited company
incorporated under the laws of England and Wales whose registered office
is at Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (in its capacity as
the SELLER and as a Beneficiary);
(4) PERMANENT FUNDING (NO. 1) LIMITED (registered number 4267660), a private
limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales whose
registered office is at 00 Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx'x, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (xx its
capacity as FUNDING 1 and as a Beneficiary);
(5) PERMANENT FUNDING (NO. 2) LIMITED (registered number 04441772), a
private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales
whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx'x, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (xx
its capacity as FUNDING 2 and as a Beneficiary);
(6) THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation acting through its
office at 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X00 0XX (in its capacity
as the FUNDING 1 SECURITY TRUSTEE, which expression shall include such
company and all other persons or companies for the time being acting as
security trustee (or co-trustee) pursuant to the terms of the Funding 1
Deed of Charge); and
(7) THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation acting through its
office at 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X00 0XX (in its capacity
as the FUNDING 2 SECURITY TRUSTEE, which expression shall include such
company and all other persons or companies for the time being acting as
security trustee (or co-trustee) pursuant to the terms of the Funding 2
Deed of Charge).
WHEREAS:
(A) The Servicer carries on the business of, inter alia, administering
mortgage loans secured on residential properties within the United
Kingdom.
(B) By the Mortgage Sale Agreement, the Seller agreed to sell certain
mortgage loans it had originated to individual borrowers together with
their Related Security to the Mortgages Trustee. The Mortgages Trustee
holds those mortgage loans as bare trustee for Funding 1, Funding 2 and
the Seller pursuant to the terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed.
(C) The Servicer has agreed to provide administration and management
services to the Mortgages Trustee, the Seller, Funding 1 and, as of the
Programme Date, Funding 2 on the terms and subject to the conditions
contained in the Servicing Agreement dated 14 June 2002, as amended and
restated on 6 March 2003, 25 November 2003, 12 March 2004, 22 July 2004,
18 November 2004, 23 March 2005, 22 June 2005, 22 March 2006 and as
further amended and restated by this Agreement and from time to time
(the SERVICING AGREEMENT) in relation to, inter alia, the Loans and
their Related Security sold to the Mortgages Trustee by the Seller.
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(D) The parties to the Servicing Agreement have agreed to amend and restate
the terms of the Servicing Agreement as set out herein.
IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1 The amended and restated master definitions and construction schedule
signed by, amongst others, the parties to this Agreement and dated 17
October 2006 (as the same may be amended, varied or supplemented from
time to time with the consent of the parties to this Agreement) (the
MASTER DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE) is expressly and
specifically incorporated into this Agreement and, accordingly, the
expressions defined in the Master Definitions and Construction Schedule
(as so amended, varied or supplemented from time to time) shall, except
where the context otherwise requires and save where otherwise defined
herein, have the same meanings in this Agreement, including the Recitals
hereto, and this Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the
interpretation provisions set out in CLAUSE 2 of the Master Definitions
and Construction Schedule.
For the purposes of this Agreement:
COMMISSION means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission;
REGULATION AB means Subpart 229.1100 - Asset Backed Securities
(Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. [SECTION][SECTION]229.1100-229.1123, as such
may be amended from time to time, and subject to such clarification and
interpretation as have been provided by the Commission in the adopting
release (Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, 70
Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan. 7, 2005)) or by the staff of the
Commission, or as may be provided by the Commission or its staff from
time to time;
XXXXXXXX-XXXXX CERTIFICATION has the meaning specified in CLAUSE
5.6(A)(III);
SERVICING CRITERIA means the "servicing criteria" set forth in Item
1122(d) of Regulation AB; and
SUBCONTRACTOR means any vendor, subcontractor or other person that is
not responsible for the overall servicing (as "servicing" is commonly
understood by participants in the mortgage-backed securities market) of
the Loans and their Related Security but performs one or more discrete
functions identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB with respect to
the Loans and their Related Security under the direction or authority of
the Servicer.
1.2 Any reference in this Agreement to any discretion, power or right on the
part of the Mortgages Trustee shall be exercised by the Mortgages
Trustee only as directed by the Beneficiaries but subject in each case
to the provisions Clause 16 of the Mortgages Trust Deed.
1.3 Save as expressly provided herein, any warranties or undertakings
provided under this Agreement are made to each other party to this
Agreement.
1.4 This Agreement amends and restates the Servicing Agreement made on 14
June 2002 as amended and restated on 6 March 2003, 25 November 2003, 12
March 2004, 22 July 2004, 18 November 2004, 23 March 2005, 22 June 2005
and 22 March 2006 (the PRINCIPAL AGREEMENT). As of the date of this
Agreement, any future rights or obligations (excluding such obligations
accrued to the date of this Agreement) of a party under the Principal
Agreement shall be extinguished and shall instead be governed by this
Agreement. The parties agree that this amended and restated Agreement
shall have effect and be operational as from 14 June 2002.
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2. APPOINTMENT OF SERVICER
2.1 Subject to CLAUSES 2.4 and 4.3(E), and until termination pursuant to
CLAUSE 21, the Mortgages Trustee, the Seller and Funding 1 (according to
their respective estates and interests) each hereby appoints the
Servicer as its lawful agent on their respective behalf to administer
the Loans and their Related Security, to provide certain other
administration and management services and to exercise their respective
rights, powers and discretions, and to perform their respective duties,
under and in relation to the Loans and their Related Security. The
Servicer in each case hereby accepts such appointment on the terms and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement. The Funding 1 Security
Trustee consents to the appointment of the Servicer on the terms of and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement.
2.2 Subject to CLAUSES 2.5 and 4.3(E) and, and until termination pursuant to
CLAUSE 21, Funding 2 (according to its estates and interests) hereby
appoints the Servicer as its lawful agent on its behalf to administer
the Loans and their Related Security, to provide certain other
administration and management services and to exercise its rights,
powers and discretions, and to perform its duties, under and in relation
to the Loans and their Related Security. The Servicer hereby accepts
such appointment on the terms and subject to the conditions of this
Agreement. The Funding 2 Security Trustee consents to the appointment of
the Servicer on the terms of and subject to the conditions of this
Agreement.
2.3 For the avoidance of doubt and in connection with the rights, powers and
discretions conferred under CLAUSE 2.1 and CLAUSE 2.2, during the
continuance of its appointment hereunder, the Servicer shall, subject to
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Mortgage Conditions, the
Mortgage Sale Agreement and the Mortgages Trust Deed, have the full
power, authority and right to do or cause to be done any and all things
which it reasonably considers necessary, convenient or incidental to the
administration of the Loans and their Related Security or the exercise
of such rights, powers and discretions, provided however that neither
the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 nor Funding 2 nor their respective
directors shall be required or obliged at any time to enter into any
transaction or to comply with any directions which the Servicer may give
with respect to the operating and financial policies of the Mortgages
Trustee, Funding 1 or Funding 2 and the Servicer hereby acknowledges
that all powers to determine such policies (including the determination
of whether or not any particular policy is for the benefit of the
Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 or Funding 2) are, and shall at all times
remain, vested, as the case may be, in the Mortgages Trustee and/or
Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 (and their respective directors) and none of
the provisions of this Agreement shall be construed in a manner
inconsistent with this proviso.
2.4 The appointment pursuant to CLAUSE 2.1 is conditional upon the issue of
the First Issuer Notes having taken place and shall take effect upon and
from the Initial Closing Date automatically without any further action
on the part of any person PROVIDED THAT if the issue of the First Issuer
Notes has not occurred by 14 June 2002, or such later date as the First
Issuer and the Joint Lead Managers may agree, the appointment of the
Servicer as agent of Funding 1 under CLAUSE 2.1 shall not take effect.
2.5 The appointment pursuant to CLAUSE 2.2 is conditional upon the
acquisition by Funding 2 from the Seller of a portion of the Seller's
beneficial interest in the Mortgages Trust pursuant to the Seller
Mortgages Trust Assignment Agreement and shall take effect upon and from
the Programme Date automatically without any further action on the part
of any person PROVIDED THAT if Funding 2 has not acquired from the
Seller a portion of the Seller's beneficial interest in the Mortgages
Trust by 17 October 2006, or such later date as the Seller and Funding 2
may agree, the appointment of the Servicer as agent of Funding 2 under
CLAUSE 2.2 shall not take effect.
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3. THE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES
3.1 GENERAL
(a) The duty of the Servicer shall be to provide the services set out in
this Agreement including SCHEDULE 1 hereto (the SERVICES).
(b) If and when the Servicer is requested to confirm or state the capacity
in which it is administering and servicing the Loans, their Related
Security and related matters pursuant to this Agreement by any Borrower
or any third party not being a party to this Agreement and to whom the
Servicer is obliged by law to disclose such information, the Servicer
shall confirm or state that it is acting in its capacity as servicer of
the Loans, their Related Security and related matters as agent for and
on behalf of the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries and not on its
own behalf.
3.2 SUB-CONTRACTS
(a) The Servicer may sub-contract or delegate the performance of all or any
of its powers and obligations under this Agreement, provided that such
sub-contracting or delegation would not prevent the Servicer, the
Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 or Funding 2 from complying in all material
respects with any law, statute, judgment, decree, order, licence,
authorisation, rule, order and provided further that (subject to CLAUSE
3.2(B)):
(i) the prior written consent of Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1
Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee to the
proposed arrangement (including, if Funding 1, Funding 2, the
Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee
consider it necessary, approving any contract which sets out the
terms on which such arrangements are to be made) has been
obtained and written notification has been given to each of the
Rating Agencies;
(ii) where the arrangements involve the custody or control of any
Customer Files and/or Title Deeds relating to the Portfolio for
the purpose of performing any delegated Services the
sub-contractor or delegate has executed an acknowledgement in
form and substance acceptable to Funding 1, Funding 2, the
Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee to
the effect that any such Customer Files and/or Title Deeds are
and will be held to the order of the Mortgages Trustee (as
trustee for the Beneficiaries);
(iii) where the arrangements involve or may involve the receipt by the
sub-contractor or delegate of monies belonging to the
Beneficiaries which, in accordance with this Agreement, are to
be paid into the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account and/or the
Funding 1 GIC Account and/or the Funding 2 GIC Account, the
sub-contractor or delegate has executed a declaration in form
and substance acceptable to the Beneficiaries that any such
monies held by it or to its order are held on trust for the
Beneficiaries and will be paid forthwith into, as applicable,
the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account and/or the Funding 1 GIC
Account and/or the Funding 2 GIC Account in accordance with the
terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed;
(iv) any such sub-contractor or delegate has executed a written
waiver of any Security Interest arising in connection with such
delegated Services (to the extent that such Security Interest
relates to the Portfolio or any amount referred to in (iii)
above);
(v) neither the Funding 1 Security Trustee, the Funding 2 Security
Trustee, the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 nor Funding 2 shall
have any liability for any costs, charges or expenses payable to
or incurred by such sub-contractor or delegate or arising from
the entering into, the continuance or the termination of any
such arrangement; and
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(vi) any such sub-contractor or delegate shall have confirmed to the
Servicer, Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee
and the Funding 2 Security Trustee that it has, and shall
maintain, all requisite consents, authorisations, approvals,
licences, and orders, including without limitation all
authorisations under the FSMA, to enable it to fulfil its
obligations under or in connection with any such arrangement.
(b) The provisos to CLAUSE 3.2(A)(I), (II) and (III) shall not apply:
(i) to the engagement by the Servicer of:
(A) any receiver, solicitor, insurance broker, valuer,
surveyor, accountant, estate agent, insolvency
practitioner, auctioneer, bailiff, sheriff officer, debt
counsellor, tracing agent, property management agent,
licensed conveyancer, qualified conveyancer or other
professional adviser acting as such; or
(B) any locksmith, builder or other contractor acting as
such in relation to a Property,
in any such case being a person or persons whom the Servicer
would be willing to appoint in respect of its own mortgages in
connection with the performance by the Servicer of any of its
obligations or functions or in connection with the exercise of
its powers under this Agreement; or
(ii) to any delegation to any wholly-owned subsidiary of the Seller
or HBOS plc from time to time.
(c) The Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 and the Funding
1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee may by notice in
writing require the Servicer to assign to the Mortgages Trustee any
rights which the Servicer may have against any sub-contractor or
delegate arising from the performance of services by such person
relating to any matter contemplated by this Agreement and the Servicer
acknowledges that such rights assigned to the Mortgages Trustee will be
exercised by the Mortgages Trustee as trustee for the Beneficiaries
subject to the terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed.
(d) Notwithstanding any sub-contracting or delegation of the performance of
its obligations under this Agreement, the Servicer shall not thereby be
released or discharged from any liability hereunder and shall remain
responsible for the performance of all of the obligations of the
Servicer under this Agreement, and the performance or non-performance or
the manner of performance of any sub-contractor or delegate of any of
the Services shall not affect the Servicer's obligations under this
Agreement and any breach in the performance of the Services by such
sub-contractor or delegate shall, subject to the Servicer being entitled
for a period of 20 London Business Days from receipt of any notice of
the breach to remedy such breach by any sub-contractor or delegate, be
treated as a breach of this Agreement by the Servicer.
3.3 NOTICES ETC.
(a) Within 20 London Business Days of the Initial Closing Date, the Servicer
will give notice (or procure that notice is given) by courier or by
special delivery to HBOS Insurance (PCC) Guernsey Limited of the
assignment to the Mortgages Trustee by the Seller of its interests in
the Halifax Mortgage Re Limited MIG Policies pursuant to the Assignment
of Halifax Mortgage Re Limited MIG Policies, which shall be held by the
Mortgages Trustee absolutely as bare trustee for the Beneficiaries
pursuant to the Mortgages Trust Deed, and the Servicer shall take all
reasonable steps to ensure the return by the relevant recipient of the
duplicate notices of assignment by way of acknowledgement thereof.
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(b) Promptly upon request by Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security
Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee, the Servicer shall procure
that any notices permitted to be given by the Mortgages Trustee under
CLAUSE 6.4 of the Mortgage Sale Agreement are so given by the Servicer
on the Mortgages Trustee's behalf.
3.4 LIABILITY OF SERVICER
(a) The Servicer shall indemnify each of the Mortgages Trustee and the
Beneficiaries on demand on an after-tax basis for any loss, liability,
claim, expense or damage suffered or incurred by any of them in respect
of the negligence or wilful default of the Servicer in carrying out its
functions as Servicer under this Agreement or the other Transaction
Documents or as a result of a breach by the Servicer of the terms and
provisions of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents in
relation to such functions.
(b) For the avoidance of doubt, the Servicer shall not be liable in respect
of any loss, liability, claim, expense or damage suffered or incurred by
the Mortgages Trustee and/or the Beneficiaries and/or any other person
as a result of the proper performance of the Services by the Servicer
save where such loss, liability, claim, expense or damage is suffered or
incurred as a result of any negligence or wilful default of the Servicer
or as a result of a breach by the Servicer of the terms and provisions
of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents in relation to such
functions.
(c) Any indemnification under this CLAUSE 3.4 in respect of loss suffered by
the Beneficiaries while Halifax plc is Servicer shall be paid for by
reducing the Seller Share of the Trust Property by an amount equal to
the relevant loss incurred by the Beneficiaries in accordance with
CLAUSE 8.4 of the Mortgages Trust Deed and SCHEDULE 2 to the Cash
Management Agreement.
4. MORTGAGES TRUSTEE VARIABLE BASE RATE/MORTGAGES TRUSTEE TRACKER RATE
4.1 The Mortgages Trustee and each of the Beneficiaries each hereby grants
the Servicer full right, liberty and authority from time to time, in
accordance with the relevant Mortgage Terms, to determine and set the
Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate and any variable margin
incorporated within the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate above the Bank of
England repo rate applicable in relation to Tracker Rate Loans
chargeable to Borrowers from time to time. In exercising such right,
liberty and authority the Servicer undertakes to each of the other
parties to this Agreement that it shall not at any time, without the
prior consent of the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 and Funding 2, set or
maintain the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate at a rate which is
higher than (although it may be lower than or equal to) the then
prevailing Seller's Variable Base Rate, nor will it set or maintain a
margin incorporated within the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate above the
Bank of England repo rate in respect of any Tracker Rate Loan, which is
higher than the margin above the Bank of England repo rate then applying
to those Tracker Rate Loans beneficially owned by the Seller outside the
Portfolio except in the limited circumstances described in this
paragraph when the Mortgages Trustee will be entitled to do so. The
Servicer will not at any time, without the prior consent of the
Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 and Funding 2, set or maintain:
(a) the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate at a rate which is
higher than (although it may be lower than or equal to) the then
prevailing Seller's Variable Base Rate which applies to loans
beneficially owned by the Seller outside the Portfolio;
(b) the margin incorporated within the Mortgages Trustee Tracker
Rate in respect of any Tracker Rate Loan in the Portfolio which,
where the offer conditions for that Tracker Rate Loan provide
that the margin above the Bank of England repo rate shall be the
same as the margin above the Bank of England repo rate
applicable to all other loans having the same
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offer conditions in relation to interest rate setting as that
Tracker Rate Loan, is higher or lower than the margin above the
Bank of England repo rate then applying to those Tracker Rate
Loans beneficially owned by the Seller outside the Portfolio;
and
(c) the margin incorporated within the Mortgages Trustee Tracker
Rate above the Bank of England repo rate in respect of any other
Tracker Rate Loan which is higher than the margin above the Bank
of England repo rate which would then be set in accordance with
the Seller's Policy from time to time in relation to that
Tracker Rate Loan,
unless the Servicer is required to do so pursuant to CLAUSE 4.3, and,
subject to that requirement, that it shall not change the Mortgages
Trustee Variable Base Rate nor the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate save
for the same reasons as the Seller was entitled, under the Mortgage
Conditions, to change the Seller's Variable Base Rate and the Seller's
Tracker Rate prior to the sale to the Mortgages Trustee of the Loans
comprised in the Portfolio and their Related Security. Each of the
Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries shall be bound by the Mortgages
Trustee Variable Base Rate and the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate set in
accordance with this Agreement.
4.2 The Servicer shall take the steps rendered necessary by the relevant
Mortgage Terms and applicable law (including, without limitation, the
Guidance Note on Interest Variation Terms issued by the Office of Fair
Trading in February 2000 and any successor guideline or applicable
additional guidelines) to bring each change in such rate or rates of
interest to the attention of the relevant Borrowers, whether due to a
change in the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate or the Mortgages
Trustee Tracker Rate or as a consequence of any provisions of the
Mortgage Terms. All costs arising in relation to such a notification of
a change in such rate or rates of interest shall be borne by the
Servicer.
4.3 (a) On each Calculation Date, the Servicer shall determine, having
regard to the aggregate of:
(i) the revenue which each of Funding 1 and Funding 2 would
respectively expect to receive during the Interest
Period commencing on the next succeeding (in the case of
Funding 1) Funding 1 Interest Payment Date and (in the
case of Funding 2) Funding 2 Interest Payment Date;
(ii) the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate, any variable
margins applicable in relation to any Tracker Rate Loans
and the Variable Mortgage Rates in respect of the Loans
which the Servicer proposes to set under this CLAUSE 4;
and
(iii) the other resources available to Funding 1 and Funding 2
including:
(A) (in the case of Funding 1) the Funding 1 Swap
Agreement, the Funding 1 Liquidity Facility, the
General Reserve Fund and the Liquidity Reserve
Fund; and
(B) (in the case of Funding 2) the Funding 2 Swap
Agreement and the Funding 2 General Reserve Fund,
whether:
I. Funding 1 would receive an amount of revenue
during that Interest Period which when
aggregated with the funds otherwise available
to Funding 1 is less than the amount which is
the aggregate of (a) the amount of interest
which will be payable in respect of the Term
AAA Advances under the Intercompany Loan
Agreements and all amounts ranking higher in
priority to such amounts on the Funding
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1 Interest Payment Date falling at the end of
that Interest Period and (b) the other senior
expenses of Funding 1 which rank in priority
thereto (the amount (if any) by which it is
less being the FUNDING 1 INTEREST RATE
SHORTFALL); and
II. Funding 2 would receive an amount of revenue
during that Interest Period which when
aggregated with the funds otherwise available
to Funding 2 is less than the amount which is
the aggregate of (a) the amount of interest
which will be payable in respect of the AAA
Loan Tranches under the Master Intercompany
Loan Agreement and all amounts ranking higher
in priority to such amounts falling at the
end of that Interest Period and (b) the other
senior expenses of Funding 2 which rank in
priority thereto (the amount (if any) by
which it is less being the FUNDING 2 INTEREST
RATE SHORTFALL).
(b) If the Servicer determines that there will be either a Funding 1
Interest Rate Shortfall or a Funding 2 Interest Rate Shortfall,
it will within one London Business Day of such determination
give written notice thereof to the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1,
Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2
Security Trustee of such Funding 1 Interest Rate Shortfall
and/or Funding 2 Interest Rate Shortfall (as the case may be)
and of the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate and/or the
Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate which would (taking into account
the applicable Mortgage Conditions), in the Servicer's
reasonable opinion, need to be set in order for no Funding 1
Interest Rate Shortfall and/or Funding 2 Interest Rate Shortfall
(as the case may be) to arise, having regard to the date(s)
(which shall be specified in the notice) on which such change to
the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate and the Mortgages
Trustee Tracker Rate would take effect and at all times acting
in accordance with the standards of a Reasonable, Prudent
Mortgage Lender as regards the competing interests of Borrowers
with Mortgage Trustee Variable Base Rate Loans and Borrowers
with Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate Loans.
(c) If the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 and the Funding 1 Security
Trustee notify the Servicer that, having regard to the
obligations of Funding 1, the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base
Rate and/or the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate should be
increased but no notification is received by the Servicer under
CLAUSE 4.3(D), the Servicer, as agent for and on behalf of,
inter alios, the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries, shall
take all steps which are necessary, including publishing any
notice which is required in accordance with the Mortgage Terms,
to effect such change in the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base
Rate and/or the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate on the date(s)
specified in the notice referred to in CLAUSE 4.3(B).
(d) If the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 2 and the Funding 2 Security
Trustee notify the Servicer that, having regard to the
obligations of Funding 2, the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base
Rate and/or the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate should be
increased but no notification is received by the Servicer under
CLAUSE 4.3(C), the Servicer, as agent for and on behalf of,
inter alios, the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries, shall
take all steps which are necessary, including publishing any
notice which is required in accordance with the Mortgage Terms,
to effect such change in the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base
Rate and/or the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate on the date(s)
specified in the notice referred to in CLAUSE 4.3(B).
(e) If the Servicer receives notification from:
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(i) the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1 and the Funding 1
Security Trustee in accordance with CLAUSE 4.3(C); or
(ii) the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 2 and the Funding 2
Security Trustee in accordance with CLAUSE 4.3(D),
then the Servicer, as agent for and on behalf of the Mortgages
Trustee and the Beneficiaries, shall take all steps which are
necessary, including publishing any notice which is required in
accordance with the Mortgage Terms, to effect such change in the
Mortgages Trustee Variable Base Rate and/or the Mortgages
Trustee Tracker Rate on the date(s) specified in the notice
referred to in CLAUSE 4.3(B).
(f) The Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 and/or
the Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the Funding 2 Security
Trustee may terminate the authority of the Servicer under CLAUSE
4.1 and CLAUSE 4.3 to determine the Mortgages Trustee Variable
Base Rate and the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate on or after the
occurrence of a Servicer Termination Event, in which case the
Mortgages Trustee shall set the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base
Rate and the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate in accordance with
this CLAUSE 4.
5. ADMINISTRATION OF MORTGAGES
5.1 DIRECT DEBITING SCHEME
(a) For the purposes of collecting amounts due from Borrowers under the
Loans and their Related Security comprised in the Portfolio in
accordance with this Agreement the Servicer will unless otherwise agreed
in writing with the Beneficiaries:
(i) act, or procure that another person approved in writing by the
Beneficiaries (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld)
(the THIRD PARTY COLLECTION AGENT) acts, as collection agent for
the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries under the Direct
Debiting Scheme and remains a member of the Direct Debiting
Scheme or any scheme which replaces the Direct Debiting Scheme;
(ii) subject to Clauses 5.1(b) and 5.1(c), deliver to the Bankers
Automated Clearing System (BACS) or to the Account Bank such
instructions as may be necessary from time to time for the debit
of the account of each Borrower in respect of which there is a
direct debit mandate (the date of such delivery being the D.D.
Date) with the Monthly Payment due from such Borrower, and for
the amount of such Monthly Payment to be credited to the
Mortgages Trustee GIC Account on the day after the D.D. Date or,
if such day is not a London Business Day, the following London
Business Day unless the short-term ratings of the Account Bank
fall below A-1+ by S&P, P-1 by Xxxxx'x or F1+ by Fitch, in which
case all further instructions by the Servicer to debit the
accounts of Borrowers that are subject to direct debit bank
mandates shall be made to another bank which has a rating of at
least A-1+ by S&P, P?1 by Xxxxx'x or F1+ by Fitch, or directly
to the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account;
(iii) subject to Clauses 5.1(b) and 5.1(c), deliver to the Account
Bank or BACS (as appropriate) instructions for the debit of the
account of each Borrower in respect of which there is a direct
debit mandate and the Monthly Payment due and owing from such
Borrower on the D.D. Date immediately preceding the next
succeeding Monthly Payment Date remains outstanding to the
extent that, on the date of presentation of such instructions,
such Monthly Payment has not been received in full by the
Servicer on behalf of the Mortgages Trustee and where the
instructions for the debit of the account of the relevant
Borrower for the Monthly Payment due and owing from such
Borrower was returned to the Servicer marked
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"insufficient funds" within 10 London Business Days of receipt
by the Servicer of any such returned instructions;
(iv) subject to Clauses 5.1(b) and 5.1(c), deliver to the Account
Bank or BACS (as appropriate) such other instructions for the
debit of the account of each Borrower in respect of which there
is a direct debit mandate in accordance with the Direct Debiting
Scheme as may be appropriate for the recovery of sums due by
such Borrower; and
(v) comply in all material respects with the requirements from time
to time of the Direct Debiting Scheme including "The
Originator's Guide and Rules to the Direct Debiting Scheme" as
amended from time to time,
and take all such other steps as are reasonably appropriate, including
in particular the preparation and administration of appropriate computer
tapes in connection with BACS, to ensure that all monies received from
Borrowers during banking hours on any particular day are credited on the
next day to the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account.
(b) The Servicer may agree with a Borrower that the Direct Debiting Scheme
shall not apply to Monthly Payments to be made by such Borrower,
provided, subject to CLAUSE 5.1(D), that (i) alternative payment
arrangements are made which are intended to ensure timely payment of
Monthly Payments due from the Borrower to the Mortgages Trustee on
behalf of the Beneficiaries, and (ii) the change in arrangements was
made at the instigation of the Borrower or by the Servicer in accordance
with the procedures which would be adopted by a Reasonable, Prudent
Mortgage Lender.
(c) The Servicer may, notwithstanding the proviso to CLAUSE 5.1(B), agree
such procedures for the payment by a Borrower of (i) overdue amounts and
(ii) amounts payable on redemption of a Mortgage in whole or in part
other than through the Direct Debiting Scheme as would be agreed by a
Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender.
(d) The Servicer shall, notwithstanding the proviso to CLAUSE 5.1(B), use
its reasonable endeavours to credit Monthly Payments made by a Borrower
under a payment arrangement other than the Direct Debiting Scheme to the
Mortgages Trustee GIC Account as follows:
(i) where the Borrower pays by standing order, by close of business
on the second London Business Day following the day on which
such amount is received or credited by the Servicer;
(ii) where the Borrower pays by payment of cash, by transfer payment
from another account of the Seller or by cheque where reference
to the relevant Borrower is provided or payments are made by way
of paying-in book, by close of business on the London Business
Day which immediately follows the day on which such amount is
received or credited by the Servicer; and
(iii) where the Borrower pays by cheque where a reference to the
relevant Borrower is not provided, by close of business on the
next London Business Day after notification from the banks
operating the Seller Bank Accounts of the identity of the
Borrower.
(e) Where a Borrower permits a direct debit to be made to his bank account,
the Servicer will endeavour to procure that such Borrower maintains a
valid and effective mandate relating to such direct debit in relation to
each Monthly Payment due from that Borrower, provided that in any case
where a Borrower will not permit a direct debit to be made to his bank
account the Servicer will endeavour to make alternative arrangements
acceptable to a Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender so that such
Borrower nevertheless pays each Monthly Payment within the month in
which it falls due.
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(f) In the event that the BACS system ceases to operate for any reason the
Servicer will use reasonable endeavours to make alternative arrangements
for the use of the back up systems available to each Account Bank.
(g) If at any time the Servicer shall receive notice whether under the
Direct Debiting Scheme or otherwise that any amount (or part thereof),
which was paid in or credited pursuant to CLAUSE 5.1 and which has been
transferred to the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account has not been received
as cleared funds or has otherwise been recalled, the Servicer shall
notify the Cash Manager and instruct the Cash Manager forthwith to debit
the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account and credit the relevant collection
account for the whole or any part of such amount (such amount
hereinafter referred to as the SHORTFALL) and, an amount equal to any
costs which are irrecoverable by the Servicer from the relevant Borrower
incurred by the Servicer as a result of such shortfall; PROVIDED THAT no
debit from the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account for the credit of the
collection accounts in respect of any shortfall may be made on or after
a Calculation Date in respect of the relevant period between that
Calculation Date and the next Distribution Date unless sufficient funds
are available after providing or making provision for all payments to be
made on the next succeeding Distribution Date. After that following
Distribution Date the Mortgages Trustee shall transfer, or procure on
its behalf the transfer, from the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account to the
relevant collection account of an amount equal to such shortfall subject
to it having sufficient funds available to it or the Servicer shall
deduct an amount equal to such shortfall from payments otherwise due on
a daily basis from the Seller to the Mortgages Trustee in respect of
Principal Receipts and Interest Receipts received under the Loans.
5.2 ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF MORTGAGES
(a) The Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries hereby direct the Servicer
to administer the Loans comprised in the Portfolio and carry out its
specific obligations under this Agreement in accordance with the
Seller's Policy.
(b) The Servicer will, in relation to any default by a Borrower under or in
connection with a Loan or a Mortgage comprised in the Portfolio, comply
with the Enforcement Procedures or, to the extent that the Enforcement
Procedures are not applicable having regard to the nature of the default
in question, take such action as is not materially prejudicial to the
interests of the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries)
and the Beneficiaries under the relevant MIG Policy, provided that:
(i) the Servicer shall only become obliged to comply with the
Enforcement Procedures (to the extent applicable) or to take
action as aforesaid after it has become aware of the default;
(ii) it is acknowledged by the Beneficiaries that mortgage lenders
generally exercise discretion in pursuing their respective
enforcement procedures and that the Servicer may exercise such
discretion as would a Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender in
applying the Enforcement Procedures to any particular defaulting
Borrower or taking action as aforesaid, provided that in
exercising such discretion the interest of Funding 1 and/or
Funding 2 in the Portfolio is not materially prejudiced; and
(iii) in any case where any of the Insurance Policies requires exact
compliance with certain enforcement procedures the Servicer
shall procure the prior written consent of the relevant
insurance company for any deviation by it from such enforcement
procedures.
5.3 RECORDS
The Servicer shall keep and maintain records in relation to the
Portfolio, on a Loan by Loan basis, for the purposes of identifying
amounts paid by each Borrower, any amount due from a Borrower and the
principal balance (and, if different, the total balance) from time to
time outstanding on a
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Borrower's account and such other records as would
be kept by a Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender. The Servicer will
provide such information to the Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1
and/or Funding 2 and/or the Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the
Funding 2 Security Trustee or to their order at any time upon reasonable
notice subject to the Servicer being reasonably capable of providing
such information without significant additional cost and subject to the
provisions of the Data Protection Xxx 0000 and other applicable
legislation from time to time and provided that no duty of confidence
and no industry code of practice will or may be breached thereby.
5.4 TRUST
(a) If the Servicer in carrying out its functions as Servicer under this
Agreement receives (including in its capacity as agent for the Mortgages
Trustee and the Beneficiaries) any money whatsoever arising from the
Loans and their Related Security, which money belongs to the Mortgages
Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries) and is to be paid to the
Mortgages Trustee GIC Account pursuant to this Agreement or any of the
other Transaction Documents or otherwise, it will hold such monies on
trust for the Mortgages Trustee and shall, as soon as reasonably
practicable and in any event within the time limits referred to in
CLAUSE 5.1, pay the monies into the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account.
(b) All other sums received by the Servicer in respect of the Loans and
their Related Security shall be held by the Servicer for itself.
5.5 ANNUAL SERVICER COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
For so long as the Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding 2
and/or any Funding 1 Issuer and/or the Master Issuer is subject to the
reporting requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
the Servicer shall deliver to the Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1
and/or Funding 2 (as applicable) a statement of compliance in the form
and at a time sufficient to comply with the requirements of Item 1123 of
Regulation AB to the extent applicable; provided, however, that, with
regard to any issuance by a Funding 1 Issuer of securities registered
under the Securities Act with a Closing Date prior to 31 December 2005,
for so long as such Funding 1 Issuer is subject to the reporting
obligations of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Servicer
may, at the sole discretion of Funding 1, deliver to Funding 1 at a time
specified by Funding 1, in lieu of the foregoing, an officer's
certificate with respect to each such Funding 1 Issuer in the form
previously filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the annual report on Form 20-F of
such Funding 1 Issuer.
5.6 REPORT ON ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE AND ATTESTATION
(a) For as long as the Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding I and/or Funding 2
and/or any Funding 1 Issuer and/or the Master Issuer is subject to the
reporting requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
the Servicer shall:
(i) with respect to any securities issued after 31 December 2005,
deliver to the Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding
2 (as applicable) a report regarding the Servicer's assessment
of compliance with the Servicing Criteria during the immediately
preceding calendar year, in the form and at a time sufficient to
comply with the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or 15d-18 of the
Exchange Act and Item 1122(a) of Regulation AB, as applicable;
(ii) andcause each Subcontractor determined by the Servicer to be
"participating in the servicing function" within the meaning of
Item 1122 of Regulation AB, to deliver to the Mortgages Trustee
and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 (as applicable) a report on
assessment of compliance with applicable servicing criteria in
the form and at a time sufficient to comply with the
requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18 of the Exchange Act
and Item 1122(a) of Regulation AB; and
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(iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to any person that will be
responsible for signing the certification (a XXXXXXXX-XXXXX
CERTIFICATION) required by Rule 13a-14(d) or Rule 15d-14(d)
under the Exchange Act such certifications or information as
such person deems necessary to give the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification.
5.7 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' ATTESTATION REPORT
(a) The Servicer shall cause a registered public accounting firm to furnish
an attestation report on assessment of compliance with the Servicing
Criteria with respect to the Servicer or any affiliate thereof or any
party or Subcontractor determined by the Servicer to be "participating
in the servicing function" (within the meaning of Item 1122 of
Regulation AB) in the form and at a time sufficient to comply with the
requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item
1122(b) of Regulation AB, to the extent applicable; provided, however,
that with regard to any issuance by a Funding 1 Issuer of securities
registered under the Securities Act with a Closing Date prior to 31
December 2005, for so long as such Funding 1 Issuer is subject to the
reporting obligations of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the
Servicer may, at the sole discretion of Funding 1, deliver to Funding 1
at a time specified by Funding 1, in lieu of the foregoing, a report of
independent accountants with respect to each such Funding 1 Issuer in
the form previously filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the annual report on Form
20-F of such Funding 1 Issuer.
5.8 USE OF SUBCONTRACTORS
The Servicer shall promptly upon request provide the Mortgages Trustee
and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 (as applicable) a written description
(in form and substance satisfactory to the Mortgages Trustee and/or
Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 (as applicable)) of the role and function of
each Subcontractor utilised by the Servicer, specifying (i) the identity
of each such Subcontractor, (ii) which (if any) of such Subcontractors
are "participating in the servicing function" within the meaning of Item
1122 of Regulation AB, and (iii) which elements of the Servicing
Criteria will be addressed in assessments of compliance provided by each
Subcontractor identified pursuant to part (ii) of this Clause 5.8. As a
condition to the utilisation of any Subcontractor determined to be
"participating in the servicing function" within the meaning of Item
1122 of Regulation AB, the Servicer shall cause any such Subcontractor
used by the Servicer for the benefit of the Mortgages Trustee to comply
with the provisions of Clause 5.6 of this Agreement to the same extent
as if such Subcontractor were the Servicer. The Servicer shall be
responsible for obtaining from each Subcontractor and delivering to the
Mortgages Trustee any assessment of compliance and attestation required
to be delivered by such Subcontractor under Clause 5.6, in each case as
and when required to be delivered.
6. NO LIABILITY
6.1 The Servicer shall have no liability for any obligation of a Borrower
under any Loan comprised in the Portfolio or any Related Security and
nothing herein shall constitute a guarantee, or similar obligation, by
the Servicer of any Loan, Mortgage or any Borrower.
6.2 Save as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Servicer shall have no
liability for the obligations of the Mortgages Trustee or the
Beneficiaries under any of the Transaction Documents or otherwise and
nothing herein shall constitute a guarantee, or similar obligation, by
the Servicer of the Mortgages Trustee or the Beneficiaries in respect of
any of them.
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7. NEW LOANS
7.1 The Portfolio may be augmented from time to time by the sale to the
Mortgages Trustee on any Sale Date of a New Portfolio by the Seller.
7.2 The sale of each New Portfolio to the Mortgages Trustee will in all
cases be subject to the terms set out in the Mortgage Sale Agreement
including, without limitation, the conditions set out in CLAUSE 4 of the
Mortgage Sale Agreement and the representations and warranties set out
in CLAUSE 8 of the Mortgage Sale Agreement.
8. PRODUCT SWITCHING AND FURTHER ADVANCES
8.1 (a) The Servicer shall not send an offer of a Further Advance or a
Home Cash Reserve Advance without first having received
confirmation in writing from the Seller save where the Seller
and the Servicer are both Halifax that the Seller would, if so
offered by the Mortgages Trustee, purchase the relevant Loan and
its Related Security from the Mortgages Trustee.
(b) The Servicer shall not send an offer of a Product Switch without
first having received confirmation in writing from the Seller
save where the Seller and the Servicer are both Halifax that the
Seller would, if so offered by the Mortgages Trustee, purchase
the relevant Loan and its Related Security from the Mortgages
Trustee if on the immediately preceding Distribution Date, the
Seller is in breach of the conditions referred to in CLAUSES
4.2(A) TO (Q) inclusive of the Mortgage Sale Agreement as if
references therein to "NEW LOANS" and "NEW PORTFOLIO" were
references to the Loan which would result from the
implementation of such Product Switch and as if references to
"SALE DATE" were references to the date when the Seller and
relevant Borrower complete such Product Switch.
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Servicer nor the Seller
shall make an offer to a Borrower for a Further Advance, a Home
Cash Reserve Advance or a Product Switch if it would result in
any Funding 1 Issuer and/or the Master Issuer and/or Funding 1
and/or Funding 2 and/or the Mortgages Trustee arranging or
advising in respect of, administering (servicing) or entering
into a regulated mortgage contract or agreeing to carry on any
of these activities, if the relevant Funding 1 Issuer and/or the
Master Issuer and/or Funding 1, Funding 2 and/or the Mortgages
Trustee would be required to do so.
8.2 Subject to complying with the terms of CLAUSE 8.1, where the Servicer
sends an offer of a Product Switch, a Further Advance or a Home Cash
Reserve Advance, the Servicer shall then notify the Seller save where
the Seller and the Servicer are both Halifax and the Mortgages Trustee
in writing.
8.3 Notwithstanding CLAUSE 8.2, subject to complying with the terms of
CLAUSE 8.1, the Servicer, on behalf of and as agent for the Seller may
send an offer to Borrowers for Product Switches, Further Advances and
Home Cash Reserve Advances provided that the Servicer acts in accordance
with the then applicable procedure which would be acceptable to a
Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender.
8.4 For the avoidance of doubt, where the Servicer sends any offer
contemplated by this CLAUSE 8, it shall do so pursuant to its
appointment under this Agreement.
9. REDEMPTION OF MORTGAGES
9.1 Upon repayment in full of all sums secured by a Mortgage and/or other
Related Security comprised in the Portfolio, the Servicer shall, and is
hereby authorised by the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries to
execute a receipt or discharge or relevant Land Registry Form DS1 of the
Mortgage and any such other or further instrument or deed of
satisfaction regarding such Mortgage and/or the Related Security as it
considers to be necessary or advisable, to implement an Electronic
Notification
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of Discharge to the Land Registry and to release the relevant Title
Deeds to the person or persons entitled thereto.
9.2 The Servicer undertakes that prior to any actual release by it of the
relevant Title Deeds it will take reasonable and appropriate steps to
satisfy itself that the relevant Title Deeds are being released to the
person or persons entitled thereto.
9.3 The Servicer shall procure that if, upon completion of the Enforcement
Procedures, an amount in excess of all sums due by the relevant Borrower
is recovered or received, the balance, after discharge of all sums due
by the Borrower, is paid to the person or persons next entitled thereto.
10. POWERS OF ATTORNEY
10.1 For good and valuable consideration and as security for the interests of
the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries hereunder, each of the
Seller, the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries hereby appoints the
Servicer as its attorney on its behalf, and in its own or the attorney's
name, for the following purposes:
(a) executing all documents necessary for the purpose of discharging
a Mortgage comprised in the Portfolio which has been repaid in
full and any Related Security or for the sale of a Property as
Mortgagee;
(b) executing all documents and implementing all Electronic
Notifications of Discharge to the Land Registry necessary for
the purpose of releasing a Borrower in accordance with CLAUSE 9;
(c) executing all documents and doing all such acts and things which
in the reasonable opinion of the Servicer are necessary or
desirable for the efficient provision of the Services hereunder;
and
(d) exercising its rights, powers and discretion under the Mortgages
including the right to fix the Mortgages Trustee Variable Base
Rate and the Mortgages Trustee Tracker Rate or any related
rights,
provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, these Powers of Attorney
shall not authorise the Servicer to sell any of the Loans and/or their
Related Security comprised in the Portfolio except as specifically
authorised in the Transaction Documents. For the avoidance of doubt,
none of the Seller (where the Servicer is not Halifax), the Mortgages
Trustee, Funding 1 nor Funding 2 shall be liable or responsible for the
acts of the Servicer or any failure by the Servicer to act under or in
respect of these Powers of Attorney.
10.2 The appointments contained in CLAUSE 10.1 shall be irrevocable unless
and until following a Servicer Termination Event the Mortgages Trustee
and/or Funding 1 and/or Funding 2 and/or the Funding 1 Security Trustee
and/or the Funding 2 Security Trustee serve notice pursuant to CLAUSE 21
to terminate the Servicer's appointment under this Agreement upon which
the appointments contained in CLAUSE 10.1 shall be automatically
revoked.
11. COSTS AND EXPENSES
11.1 The Mortgages Trustee (on behalf of the Beneficiaries) will on each
Distribution Date reimburse, in accordance with CLAUSE 10.2 of the
Mortgages Trust Deed, the Servicer for all out-of-pocket costs, expenses
and charges (together with any amounts in respect of Irrecoverable VAT
due thereon) properly incurred by the Servicer in the performance of the
Services including any such costs, expenses or charges not reimbursed to
the Servicer on any previous Distribution Date and the
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Servicer shall supply the Mortgages Trustee with a copy of an
appropriate VAT invoice issued by the person making the supply.
11.2 The Servicer will use reasonable endeavours to recover from the relevant
Borrowers all costs and expenses incurred by the Servicer which are
properly recoverable from those Borrowers under the relevant Mortgage
Conditions.
12. INFORMATION
12.1 MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS
(a) Subject to CLAUSE 18, the Servicer shall keep the Customer Files
relating to the Portfolio in safe custody and shall take appropriate
technical and organisational measures against the unauthorised or
unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or
destruction of, or damage to, personal data. The Servicer shall maintain
in an adequate form such records as are necessary to enforce each
Mortgage comprised in the Portfolio and, where relevant, any other
Related Security.
(b) A duplicate of any computer records held by the Servicer which contains
information relating to the Loans and the Related Security shall be
lodged by the Servicer on a daily basis at the offices of the Seller at
the Pudsey Data Centre or at such other locations selected by the
Servicer, so long as such location is a location separate from that in
which the original computer records are stored and in an environment
conducive to the safe storage of electronic media, such records to be
held to the order of the Mortgages Trustee and to be replaced by a
revised duplicate as and when the original records are revised. The
Servicer shall keep the Mortgages Trustee informed of the location of
the Customer Files and duplicate computer records.
12.2 USE OF I.T. SYSTEMS
(a) The Servicer covenants that at the date hereof in respect of the
software which is used by the Servicer in providing the Services, it
shall for the duration of this Agreement:
(i) ensure that it has in place all necessary licences and/or
consents from the respective licensor or licensors (if any) of
such software; and
(ii) except in so far as it would breach any other of its legal
obligations, grant to any person to whom it may sub-contract or
delegate the performance of all or any of its powers and
obligations under this Agreement and/or to such person as the
Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries elect as a substitute
servicer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement a
licence to use any proprietary software together with any
updates which may be made thereto from time to time.
(b) The Servicer shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain in working
order the information technology systems used by the Servicer in
providing the Services.
(c) The Servicer shall pass to any person to whom it may sub-contract or
delegate the performance of all or any of its powers and obligations
under this Agreement and/or to such person as the Mortgages Trustee and
the Beneficiaries elect as a substitute servicer in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement the benefit of any warranties in relation to the
software insofar as the same are capable of assignment.
12.3 ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS
Subject to all applicable laws, the Servicer shall permit the Mortgages
Trustee and/or Funding 1 and Funding 2 (and their respective auditors)
and/or the Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the Funding 2
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Security Trustee and any other person nominated by the Beneficiaries (to
whom the Servicer has no reasonable objection) upon reasonable notice
during normal office hours to have access, or procure that such person
or persons are granted access, to all books of record and account
(including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Title Deeds and Customer
Files) relating to the administration of the Loans and their Related
Security comprised in the Portfolio and related matters in accordance
with this Agreement.
12.4 INFORMATION COVENANTS
(a) The Servicer shall, within ten (10) Business Days following each
Distribution Date, provide the Mortgages Trustee, the Beneficiaries,
each Manager and/or Dealer (if requested by such Manager or Dealer to do
so) and the Rating Agencies (on the terms agreed with each of the Rating
Agencies), monthly with a report in, or substantially in, the form set
out in SCHEDULE 2 and shall assist the Cash Manager in the production of
quarterly reports substantially in the forms set out in SCHEDULE 3 and
SCHEDULE 4 of the Cash Management Agreement.
(b) The Servicer shall notify the Rating Agencies in writing of the details
of (i) any material amendment to the Transaction Documents, (ii) any
proposed material change in the valuation procedures or policies applied
or to be applied in relation to Properties by it in connection with its
mortgage business (details of which change may be included in a report
provided under PARAGRAPH (A)) and (iii) any other information relating
to its mortgage business and financial condition as the Rating Agencies
may reasonably request in connection with the ratings of the Notes and
other matters contemplated by the Transaction Documents, provided that
such request does not adversely interfere with the Servicer's day to day
provision of the Services under the other terms of this Agreement.
(c) The Servicer shall, at the request of Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding
1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee (where the
Servicer is the Seller) or at the request of the Beneficiaries (where
the Servicer is no longer the Seller), furnish Funding 1, Funding 2, the
Funding 1 Security Trustee, the Funding 2 Security Trustee and/or the
Beneficiaries (as appropriate) and the Rating Agencies with such other
information relating to its business and financial condition as it may
be reasonable for Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee,
the Funding 2 Security Trustee and/or the Beneficiaries (as appropriate)
to request in connection with the ratings of the Notes and other matters
contemplated by the Transaction Documents, provided that Funding 1,
Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee, the Funding 2 Security
Trustee or the Beneficiaries (as appropriate) shall not make such a
request more than once every three months unless, in the belief of
Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee, the Funding 2
Security Trustee or the Beneficiaries (as appropriate) an Intercompany
Loan Event of Default or a Master Intercompany Loan Event of Default (as
appropriate) or a Servicer Termination Event shall have occurred and is
continuing or may reasonably be expected to occur.
(d) The Servicer shall make available to beneficial owners of the Notes, who
have provided beneficial ownership certification as described herein, on
a monthly basis a report containing information about the Loans in the
Mortgages Trust.
13. REMUNERATION
The Mortgages Trustee (on behalf of the Beneficiaries) shall pay to the
Servicer for its Services hereunder an administration fee (the
ADMINISTRATION FEE) (inclusive of VAT) which:
(a) shall be calculated in relation to each Calculation Period on
the basis of the number of days elapsed and a 365 day year at
the rate of 0.05 per cent. per annum, inclusive of VAT, on the
aggregate amount of the Trust Property as at open of business on
the preceding Calculation Date, provided that where the
appointment of the Servicer is terminated pursuant to
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CLAUSE 21 and a substitute servicer is to be appointed, the
Administration Fee may be calculated on different terms agreed
with such substitute servicer; and
(b) shall be paid to the Servicer in arrear on each Distribution
Date in the manner contemplated by and in accordance with the
provisions of CLAUSE 10.2 of the Mortgages Trust Deed.
14. INSURANCES
14.1 The Servicer will administer the arrangements for insurance to which the
Mortgages Trustee is a party or in which either the Seller or the
Mortgages Trustee (on behalf of the Beneficiaries) has an interest and
which relate to the Loans and the Mortgages comprised in the Portfolio
or the business of the Mortgages Trustee. In particular, but without
limitation, the Servicer shall promptly notify the Mortgages Trustee,
the Beneficiaries, the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2
Security Trustee of the existence of any insurance policies to which the
Seller is a party or in which it has an interest in addition to those
specifically referred to in the definition of "HALIFAX INSURANCE
POLICIES" in the Master Definitions and Construction Schedule.
14.2 The Servicer shall use its reasonable endeavours to credit to the
Mortgages Trustee GIC Account all proceeds received from any claim made
under any Insurance Policy in relation to any Loan or its Related
Security by close of business on the London Business Day which
immediately follows the day on which such amounts are received or
credited by the Servicer and which is to be applied either in whole or
in part in repayment of a Loan.
15. HALIFAX INSURANCE POLICIES
15.1 The Servicer shall not knowingly take or omit to take any action which
would:
(a) result in the avoidance or termination of any of the Halifax
Insurance Policies in relation to any Loans and Mortgages to
which any Halifax Insurance Policy applies; or
(b) reduce the amount payable on any claim made on behalf of the
Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries) under any
Halifax Insurance Policy; or
(c) invalidate any Halifax Insurance Policy.
15.2 The Servicer shall prepare and submit any claim under the Halifax
Insurance Policies in accordance with the requirements of the relevant
Halifax Insurance Policy and otherwise with the usual procedures
undertaken by a Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender on behalf of the
Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries and shall comply with the other
requirements of the insurer under the relevant Halifax Insurance Policy.
15.3 If the Seller's Policy requires the Servicer to make a claim under the
relevant MIG Policy and the Servicer has failed to make such a claim,
then the Beneficiaries may direct the Mortgages Trustee on their behalf
to direct the Servicer to make a claim or, in default thereof by the
Servicer, the Beneficiaries may direct the Mortgages Trustee to itself
make a claim under such policy and the Servicer shall, within 10 London
Business Days of receiving a written request from the Mortgages Trustee
(as trustee for the Beneficiaries), provide the Mortgages Trustee with
such information as the Mortgages Trustee may require to enable it to
make a claim under the relevant MIG Policy.
16. BUILDINGS POLICIES
16.1 The Servicer shall not knowingly take any action or omit to take any
action which would result in the avoidance or termination of any
applicable Buildings Policy or would reduce the amount payable on any
claim thereunder.
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16.2 Upon receipt of notice that any Borrower whose Loan is secured by a
mortgage of or a standard security over a leasehold Property including a
Property in Scotland held under a long lease has failed to make a
payment when due of any sums due under the relevant lease in respect of
the insurance of the property the Servicer may debit that Borrower's
account with the relevant amount which shall then be paid to the
landlord or to the relevant insurance company together with notice to
the landlord.
16.3 If the Servicer becomes aware that a Borrower has failed to pay premiums
due under any Buildings Policy, the Servicer shall take such action as
would a Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender with a view to ensuring that
the relevant Property continues to be insured in accordance with the
applicable Mortgage Terms or the Alternative Insurance Recommendations.
17. TITLE DEEDS AND CUSTOMER FILES
17.1 The Servicer shall keep the Title Deeds, Customer Files and (where
applicable) Insurance Policies and the receipt of notes of assignment
relating to the Portfolio in safe custody and shall not without the
prior written consent of the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries
part with possession, custody or control of them otherwise than to a
sub-contractor or delegate appointed pursuant to CLAUSE 3.2 or to a
solicitor, licensed conveyancer, qualified conveyancer or authorised
practitioner, subject to the usual undertaking to hold them to the order
of the Servicer (who in turn will hold them to the order of the
Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries) or in the case of
Scottish Loans, to the order of the Seller, in its capacity as trustee
for the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries) or to the
Land Registry or Registers of Scotland or, upon redemption of the
relevant Loan, to the order of the Borrower).
17.2 The Title Deeds and Customer Files relating to the Portfolio shall be
kept in such manner so that a computer record is maintained of their
location and they are identifiable and retrievable by reference to an
account number and pool identifier and identifiable and distinguishable
from the title deeds relating to other properties and mortgages and
standard securities in respect of which the Servicer is mortgagee or
heritable creditor or servicer. In the event of receipt by the Servicer
of notice that the short-term, unsecured, unsubordinated and
unguaranteed debt of the Servicer is rated less than A-1 by S&P and P-1
by Xxxxx'x and F1 by Fitch, the Servicer shall use reasonable endeavours
to ensure that the Title Deeds are identified as distinct from the title
deeds of other properties and mortgages and standard securities which do
not form part of the Portfolio.
17.3 The Servicer shall provide access or procure that access is provided to
the Title Deeds, Customer Files and other records relating to the
administration of the Loans and Mortgages in the Portfolio to the
Mortgages Trustee, the Beneficiaries, the Funding 1 Security Trustee,
the Funding 2 Security Trustee and their respective agents at all
reasonable times and upon reasonable written notice. The Servicer
acknowledges that the Title Deeds and Customer Files relating to the
Portfolio in its possession, custody or control will be held to the
order of the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries) or in
the case of Scottish Loans, to the order of the Seller, in its capacity
as trustee for the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries),
and that it has, in its capacity as Servicer, no beneficial interest
therein and the Servicer (in its capacity as such but not in its
capacity as a Beneficiary) irrevocably waives any rights or any Security
Interest which it might have therein or to which it might at any time be
entitled.
17.4 The Servicer shall, forthwith on the termination of the appointment of
the Servicer pursuant to CLAUSE 21, deliver the Title Deeds and Customer
Files in its possession, custody or control or that of its
sub-contractors or agents to or to the order of the Mortgages Trustee or
to such person as the Mortgages Trustee elects as a substitute servicer
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement upon written request by
the Mortgages Trustee made at any time on or after notice of, or on or
after, termination of the appointment of the Servicer pursuant to CLAUSE
21.
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17.5 The Servicer undertakes that it will use all reasonable efforts to
obtain as soon as reasonably practicable:
(a) the title number to each Property in respect of which a Mortgage
is registered at the Land Registry to the extent that such title
number does not appear in the Exhibit to the Mortgage Sale
Agreement (or, as the case may be, the Schedule to the relevant
New Portfolio Notice); and
(b) the title number to each Property in respect of which a Mortgage
is registered in the Land Register of Scotland to the extent
that such title number does not appear in the Schedule to the
relevant New Portfolio Notice.
18. DATA PROTECTION
18.1 The Servicer and the Mortgages Trustee each represents that as at the
date hereof it has and hereafter it will maintain all appropriate
registrations, licences, consents and authorities (if any) required
under the Data Protection Xxx 0000 together, with its ancillary
legislation (the DATA PROTECTION ACT) to enable it to perform its
respective obligations under this Agreement. In addition to the
foregoing and notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this
Agreement, each of the Servicer and the Mortgages Trustee hereby agree
and covenant as follows:
(a) that only data that is not "personal data" (as defined in the
Data Protection Act) may be transferred by the Servicer to the
Mortgages Trustee or any other entity located in Jersey (unless:
(i) Jersey is determined, on the basis of Article 25(b) of
Directive 95/46/EC, a third country which ensures an adequate
level of protection of "personal data" by the European
Commission or (ii) the Servicer and the Mortgages Trustee have
entered into a data transfer agreement in a form approved by the
EC Commission as meeting the requirements of Article 26(2) of
Directive 95/46/EC for the transfer of personal data to third
countries which do not ensure an adequate level of protection
(the STANDARD CONTRACTUAL CLAUSES) in which case, subject to
CLAUSE 18.1(E), the Servicer may transfer such personal data to
the Mortgages Trustee in Jersey);
(b) that if, at the date at which circumstances enable the Mortgages
Trustee to exercise its right to demand that the Servicer
transfer inter alia personal data to the Mortgages Trustee, (i)
Jersey has been determined, on the basis of Article 25(b) of
Directive 95/46/EC a third country which ensures an adequate
level of protection of personal data by the European Commission
or (ii) the Servicer and the Mortgages Trustee have entered into
the Standard Contractual Clauses then, subject to the CLAUSE
18.1(E), the Servicer shall transfer the relevant personal data
to the Mortgages Trustee or to its order;
(c) that the Servicer will, if the Mortgages Trustee requires the
Servicer to do so, take all reasonable steps to notify each
Borrower that the Mortgages Trustee is a "data controller" (as
defined in the Data Protection Act) and provide each such
Borrower with such details as the Mortgage Trustee shall
reasonably request including but not limited to the Mortgages
Trustee's contact details for the purposes of the Data
Protection Act;
(d) that the Servicer and the Mortgages Trustee will only use any
data in relation to the Loans and the related Borrowers for the
purposes of administering and/or managing the Portfolio, and
will not sell such data to any third party or allow any third
party to use such data other than in compliance with the Data
Protection Act, the conditions stated in this CLAUSE 18 and for
the sole purpose of administering and/or managing the Portfolio;
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(e) that the Mortgages Trustee will comply with the provisions of
the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 1987 (as amended) or any law
which supersedes or replaces the Data Protection (Jersey) Law
1987 and (so long as the provisions of the Data Protection Act
do not conflict with the provisions of the Data Protection
(Jersey) Law 1987 (as amended) or any law which supersedes or
replaces the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 1987) with the
provisions of the Data Protection Act; and
(f) that the Mortgages Trustee shall maintain a written record of
its reasons for applying the Data Protection Order 2000/185 (as
set forth under the Conditions under paragraph 3 of Part II of
Schedule I of the Data Protection Act).
18.2 The Servicer will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that, in the
event of the appointment of a sub-contractor in accordance with CLAUSE
3.2 such sub-contractor shall obtain and maintain all appropriate
registrations, licences, consents and authorities required (including,
without limitation, those required under the Data Protection Act), and
comply with obligations equivalent to those imposed on the Servicer in
this CLAUSE 18, to enable it to perform its obligations.
19. COVENANTS OF SERVICER
19.1 The Servicer hereby covenants with and undertakes to each of the
Mortgages Trustee, the Beneficiaries, the Funding 1 Security Trustee and
the Funding 2 Security Trustee that without prejudice to any of its
specific obligations hereunder it will:
(a) administer the Loans and their Related Security as if the same
had not been sold to the Mortgages Trustee but had remained on
the books of the Seller;
(b) provide the Services in such manner and with the same level of
skill, care and diligence as would a Reasonable, Prudent
Mortgage Lender;
(c) comply with any proper directions, orders and instructions which
the Mortgages Trustee or the Beneficiaries may from time to time
give to it in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement
and, in the event of any conflict, those of the Mortgages
Trustee shall prevail;
(d) keep in force all licences, approvals, authorisations,
permissions and consents which may be necessary in connection
with the performance of the Services and prepare and submit on a
timely basis all necessary applications and requests for any
further approval, authorisation, consent, registration or
licence required in connection with the performance of the
Services and in particular any necessary registrations under the
Data Protection Act;
(e) save as otherwise agreed with the Mortgages Trustee and each of
the Beneficiaries, provide free of charge to the Mortgages
Trustee and the Beneficiaries, office space, facilities,
equipment and staff sufficient to fulfil the obligations of the
Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries under this Agreement;
(f) not knowingly fail to comply with any legal requirements in the
performance of the Services, including without limitation any
rules of the FSA in MCOB, ICOB or otherwise;
(g) make all payments required to be made by it pursuant to this
Agreement on the due date for payment thereof in sterling (or as
otherwise required under the Transaction Documents) in
immediately available funds for value on such day without
set-off (including, without limitation, in respect of any fees
owed to it) or counterclaim but subject to any deductions
required by law;
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(h) not without the prior written consent of the Funding Security
Trustees amend or terminate any of the Transaction Documents
save in accordance with their terms; and
(i) forthwith upon becoming aware of any event which may reasonably
give rise to an obligation of the Seller to repurchase any Loan
pursuant to the Mortgage Sale Agreement, notify the Mortgages
Trustee and the Beneficiaries in writing of such event.
19.2 The covenants of the Servicer in CLAUSE 19.1 shall remain in force until
this Agreement is terminated but without prejudice to any right or
remedy of the Mortgages Trustee and/or the Seller and/or Funding 1
and/or Funding 2 and/or the Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the
Funding 2 Security Trustee arising from breach of any such covenant
prior to the date of termination of this Agreement.
20. SERVICES NON-EXCLUSIVE
Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent the Servicer from rendering or
performing services similar to those provided for in this Agreement to
or for itself or other persons, firms or companies or from carrying on
business similar to or in competition with the business of the Mortgages
Trustee and the Beneficiaries.
21. TERMINATION
21.1 If any of the following events (SERVICER TERMINATION EVENTS) shall
occur:
(a) default is made by the Servicer in the payment on the due date
of any payment due and payable by it under this Agreement and
such default continues unremedied for a period of five London
Business Days after the earlier of the Servicer becoming aware
of such default and receipt by the Servicer of written notice
from Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee, the
Funding 2 Security Trustee and/or the Mortgages Trustee
requiring the same to be remedied; or
(b) default is made by the Servicer in the performance or observance
of any of its other covenants and obligations under this
Agreement, which in the reasonable opinion of either:
(i) the Funding 1 Security Trustee is materially prejudicial
to the interests of Funding 1 and/or the Funding 1
Issuers under the Intercompany Loans and/or the
interests of the holders of the Notes issued by a
Funding 1 Issuer from time to time; and/or
(ii) the Funding 2 Security Trustee is materially prejudicial
to the interests of Funding 2 and/or the Master Issuer
under the Master Intercompany Loan and/or any other
Funding 2 Issuer under any New Intercompany Loan and/or
the interests of the holders of the Notes issued by the
Master Issuer or any other Funding 2 Issuer from time to
time,
and (in either case) such default continues unremedied for a
period of 20 London Business Days after becoming aware of such
default provided however that where the relevant default occurs
as a result of a default by any person to whom the Servicer has
sub-contracted or delegated part of its obligations hereunder,
such default shall not constitute a Servicer Termination Event
if, within such period of 10 London Business Days of receipt of
such notice from Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security
Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee, the Servicer
terminates the relevant sub-contracting or delegation
arrangements and takes such steps as Funding 1, Funding 2, the
Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee
may in their absolute discretion specify to remedy such default
or to indemnify the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries
against the consequences of such default; or
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(c) the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to the
Servicer; or
(d) Funding 1 and Funding 2 are of the opinion, after due
consideration and acting reasonably, that the appointment of the
Servicer should be terminated,
then the Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1
Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee may at once or at
any time thereafter while such default continues by notice in writing to
the Servicer terminate its appointment as Servicer under this Agreement
with effect from a date (not earlier than the date of the notice)
specified in the notice. Upon termination of the Servicer as servicer
under this Agreement, the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2
Security Trustee shall use their reasonable endeavours to appoint a
substitute servicer that satisfies the conditions set forth in CLAUSES
21.2(C), (D) and (E).
21.2 The appointment of the Servicer under this Agreement may be terminated
upon the expiry of not less than 12 months' notice of termination given
by the Servicer to the Mortgages Trustee, the Beneficiaries, the Funding
1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee provided that:
(a) the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries consent in writing
to such termination;
(b) a substitute servicer shall be appointed, such appointment to be
effective not later than the date of such termination and the
Servicer shall notify the Rating Agencies in writing of the
identity of such substitute servicer;
(c) such substitute servicer has experience of administering
mortgages of and standard securities over residential property
in the United Kingdom and is approved by the Mortgages Trustee
and the Beneficiaries;
(d) such substitute servicer enters into an agreement substantially
on the same terms as the relevant provisions of this Agreement
and the Servicer shall not be released from its obligations
under the relevant provisions of this Agreement until such
substitute servicer has entered into such new agreement; and
(e) the then current ratings (if any) of the Notes are not adversely
affected as a result thereof, unless otherwise agreed by an
Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the relevant series
and class of Notes.
21.3 On and after termination of the appointment of the Servicer under this
Agreement pursuant to this CLAUSE 21, all authority and power of the
Servicer under this Agreement shall be terminated and be of no further
effect and the Servicer shall not thereafter hold itself out in any way
as the agent of the Mortgages Trustee and/or the Beneficiaries pursuant
to this Agreement.
21.4 Upon termination of the appointment of the Servicer under this
Agreement pursuant to this CLAUSE 21 (but subject to CLAUSE 18.1(E)),
the Servicer shall:
(a) forthwith deliver (and in the meantime hold on trust for, and to
the order of, the Mortgages Trustee) to the Mortgages Trustee or
as it shall direct the Customer Files, the Title Deeds, all
books of account, papers, records, registers, correspondence and
documents in its possession or under its control relating to the
affairs of or belonging to the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for
the Beneficiaries) and the Mortgages in the Portfolio and any
other Related Security, (if practicable, on the date of receipt)
any monies then held by the Servicer on behalf of the Mortgages
Trustee and any other assets of the Mortgages Trustee and the
Beneficiaries;
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(b) take such further action as the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1,
Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2
Security Trustee may reasonably direct at the expense of the
Beneficiaries (including in relation to the appointment of a
substitute servicer) provided that the Mortgages Trustee shall
not be required to take or direct to be taken such further
action unless it has been indemnified to its satisfaction;
(c) provide all relevant information contained on computer records
in the form of magnetic tape, together with details of the
layout of the files encoded on such magnetic tapes;
(d) co-operate and consult with and assist the Mortgages Trustee,
Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee the Funding
2 Security Trustee and their respective nominees (which shall,
for the avoidance of doubt, include any new servicer appointed
by any of them) for the purposes of explaining the file layouts
and the format of the magnetic tapes generally containing such
computer records on the computer system of the Mortgages Trustee
or such nominee; and
(e) permit the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding
1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee upon
request to have access at reasonable times to the Halifax
Insurance Policies.
21.5 The Servicer shall deliver to the Mortgages Trustee and the
Beneficiaries as soon as reasonably practicable but in any event within
five days of becoming aware thereof a notice of any Servicer
Termination Event or any event which with the giving of notice or lapse
of time or certification would constitute the same. Such notification
shall specify which event in Clause 21 has occurred and was the cause
of such Servicer Termination Event (or any event which the giving of
notice or lapse of time or certification would constitute a Servicer
Termination Event), a description of the details of such Servicer
Termination Event, and, if relevant, a reference to the provision in
this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents which the Servicer
has breached.
21.6 Termination of this Agreement or the appointment of the Servicer under
this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the liabilities of the
Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries to the Servicer or vice versa
incurred before the date of such termination. The Servicer shall have no
right of set-off or any lien in respect of such amounts against amounts
held by it on behalf of the Mortgages Trustee.
21.7 This Agreement shall terminate at such time as Funding 1 and Funding 2
have no further interest in any of the Loans or the Mortgages which have
been comprised in the Portfolio.
21.8 On termination of the appointment of the Servicer under the provisions
of this CLAUSE 21, the Servicer shall be entitled to receive all fees
and other monies accrued up to the date of termination but shall not be
entitled to any other or further compensation. Such monies so receivable
by the Servicer shall be paid by the Mortgages Trustee on the dates on
which they would otherwise have fallen due hereunder. For the avoidance
of doubt, such termination shall not affect the Servicer's rights to
receive payment of all amounts (if any) due to it from the Mortgages
Trustee other than under this Agreement.
21.9 Prior to termination of this Agreement, the Servicer, the Seller, the
Mortgages Trustee, the Funding 1 Security Trustee, the Funding 2
Security Trustee, Funding 1 and Funding 2 shall each co-operate to
obtain the agreement of the Borrowers to a new bank mandate permitting
the Mortgages Trustee to operate the Direct Debiting Scheme.
21.10 Any provision of this Agreement which is stated to continue after
termination of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding termination.
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22. FURTHER ASSURANCE
22.1 The parties hereto agree that they will co-operate fully to do all such
further acts and things and execute any further documents as may be
necessary or desirable to give full effect to the arrangements
contemplated by this Agreement.
22.2 Without prejudice to the generality of CLAUSE 22.1, the Mortgages
Trustee and the Beneficiaries shall upon request by the Servicer
forthwith give to the Servicer such further powers of attorney or other
written authorisations, mandates or instruments as are necessary to
enable the Servicer to perform the Services.
22.3 In the event that there is any change in the identity of the Mortgages
Trustee or an additional Mortgages Trustee is appointed, the remaining
Mortgages Trustee and/or the retiring Mortgages Trustee, as the case may
be, shall execute such documents with any other parties to this
Agreement and take such actions as such new Mortgages Trustee may
reasonably require for the purposes of vesting in such new Mortgages
Trustee the rights of the Mortgages Trustee under this Agreement and
releasing the retiring Mortgages Trustee from further obligations
thereunder and while any Note remains outstanding shall give notice
thereof to the Rating Agencies.
22.4 Nothing herein contained shall impose any obligation or liability on the
Mortgages Trustee to assume or perform any of the obligations of the
Servicer hereunder or render it liable for any breach thereof.
23. MISCELLANEOUS
23.1 Subject to CLAUSE 23.2, in the event that the funds available to the
Mortgages Trustee on any Distribution Date are not sufficient to satisfy
in full the aggregate amount payable to the Servicer by the Mortgages
Trustee on such Distribution Date then the amount payable to the
Servicer on such Distribution Date shall be reduced by the amount of the
shortfall and such shortfall shall (subject always to the provisions of
this CLAUSE 23) be payable on the immediately succeeding Distribution
Date.
23.2 In the event that:
(a) after redemption in full of the Intercompany Loans and the
Master Intercompany Loan; or
(b) after service of an Intercompany Loan Acceleration Notice and/or
Master Intercompany Loan Acceleration Notice and payment of all
other prior claims,
the remaining sums available to the Mortgages Trustee or remaining
proceeds of enforcement are insufficient to satisfy in full the
outstanding fees or other claims of the Servicer, such fees shall be
reduced by the amount of the deficiency.
23.3 Each of the Seller and the Servicer agrees that it will not:
(a) set off or purport to set off any amount which the Mortgages
Trustee, Funding 1, Funding 2, any Funding 1 Issuer or the
Master Issuer is or will become obliged to pay to it under any
of the Transaction Documents against any amount from time to
time standing to the credit of or to be credited to the
Mortgages Trustee GIC Account, the Funding 1 GIC Account, the
Funding 1 Transaction Account, the Funding 2 GIC Account, the
Funding 2 Transaction Account, any Funding 1 Issuer Account or
any Master Issuer Account or in any other account prior to
transfer to the Mortgages Trustee GIC Account, the Funding 1 GIC
Account, the Funding 1 Transaction Account, the Funding 2 GIC
Account, the Funding 2
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Transaction Account, any Funding 1 Issuer Account or any Master
Issuer Account, as appropriate; or
(b) make or exercise any claims or demands, any rights of
counterclaim or any other equities against or withhold payment
of any and all sums of money which may at any time and from time
to time be standing to the credit of the Mortgages Trustee GIC
Account, the Funding 1 GIC Account, the Funding 1 Transaction
Account, the Funding 2 GIC Account, the Funding 2 Transaction
Account, any Funding 1 Issuer Account or any Master Issuer
Account.
23.4 The Servicer agrees that for so long as any Notes are outstanding it
will not petition nor commence proceedings for the administration or
winding up of the Mortgages Trustee, Funding 1, Funding 2, any Funding 1
Issuer or the Master Issuer nor participate in any ex parte proceedings
with regard thereto.
23.5 In relation to all sums due and payable by the Mortgages Trustee to the
Servicer, the Servicer agrees that it shall have recourse only to sums
paid to or received by (or on behalf of) the Mortgages Trustee pursuant
to the provisions of the Mortgage Sale Agreement, the other Transaction
Documents and in relation to the Mortgages.
23.6 For the avoidance of doubt, neither Beneficiary shall be liable to pay
any amounts due under CLAUSES 11 and 13 without prejudice to the
obligations of the Mortgages Trustee in respect of such amounts.
23.7 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, all obligations
to, and rights of (i) Funding 1 under or in connection with this
Agreement (other than its obligations under CLAUSE 24) shall
automatically terminate upon the discharge in full of all amounts owing
by it under any Intercompany Loan Agreement and (ii) Funding 2 under or
in connection with this Agreement (other than its obligations under
CLAUSE 24) shall automatically terminate upon the discharge in full of
all amounts owing by it under the Master Intercompany Loan Agreement
and, provided that this shall be without prejudice to any claims in
respect of such obligations and rights arising on or prior to such date.
24. CONFIDENTIALITY
During the continuance of this Agreement or after its termination, each
of the Mortgages Trustee and the Beneficiaries shall use its best
endeavours not to disclose to any person, firm or company whatsoever any
information relating to the business, finances or other matters of a
confidential nature of any other party hereto of which it may
exclusively by virtue of being party to the Transaction Documents have
become possessed and shall use all reasonable endeavours to prevent any
such disclosure as aforesaid, provided however that the provisions of
this CLAUSE 24 shall not apply:
(a) to any information already known to the Mortgages Trustee or the
Beneficiaries otherwise than as a result of entering into any of
the Transaction Documents;
(b) to any information subsequently received by the Mortgages
Trustee or the Beneficiaries which it would otherwise be free to
disclose;
(c) to any information which is or becomes public knowledge
otherwise than as a result of the conduct of the Mortgages
Trustee or the Beneficiaries;
(d) to any extent that the Mortgages Trustee or the Beneficiaries is
required to disclose the same pursuant to any law or order of
any court or pursuant to any direction, request or requirement
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(whether or not having the force of law) of any central bank or
any governmental or other authority (including, without
limitation, any official bank examiners or regulators);
(e) to the extent that the Mortgages Trustee or the Beneficiaries
needs to disclose the same for determining the existence of, or
declaring, an Intercompany Loan Event of Default, a Master
Intercompany Loan Event of Default or a Servicer Termination
Event, the protection or enforcement of any of its rights under
any of the Transaction Documents or in connection herewith or
therewith or for the purpose of discharging, in such manner as
it thinks fit, its duties under or in connection with such
agreements in each case to such persons as require to be
informed of such information for such purposes; or
(f) in relation to any information disclosed to the professional
advisers of the Mortgages Trustee or the Beneficiaries or (in
connection with the review of current ratings of the Notes or
with a prospective rating of any debt to be issued by any
Funding 1 Issuer or the Master Issuer) to any credit rating
agency or any prospective new Servicer or Mortgages Trustee.
25. NOTICES
Any notices to be given pursuant to this Agreement to any of the parties
hereto shall be sufficiently served if sent by prepaid first class post,
by hand or facsimile transmission and shall be deemed to be given (in
the case of facsimile transmission) when despatched, (where delivered by
hand) on the day of delivery if delivered before 5.00 p.m. on a London
Business Day or on the next London Business Day if delivered thereafter
or (in the case of first class post) when it would be received in the
ordinary course of the post and shall be sent:
(a) in the case of the Servicer: to Halifax plc (LP/3/3/SEC): to
Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (facsimile number
x00 (0) 000 000 0000) for the attention of Mortgage
Securitisation Manager with a copy to HBOS Treasury Services
plc, 00 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (facsimile number +44
(0)00 0000 0000) for the attention of Head of Mortgage
Securitisation and Covered Bonds;
(b) in the case of the Mortgages Trustee: to Permanent Mortgages
Trustee Limited, 00 Xxxxxxxxx, Xx. Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0 0XX
(facsimile number x00 (0) 0000 000000) for the attention of the
Secretary with a copy to HBOS Treasury Services plc, 00 Xxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (facsimile number +44 (0)20 7574
8303) for the attention of Head of Mortgage Securitisation and
Covered Bonds;
(c) in the case of the Seller: to Halifax plc (LP/3/3/SEC): to
Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (facsimile number
x00 (0) 000 000 0000) for the attention Mortgage Securitisation
Manager with a copy to HBOS Treasury Services PLC, 00 Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (facsimile number x00 (0)00 0000 0000)
for the attention of Head of Mortgage Securitisation and Covered
Bonds;
(d) in the case of Funding 1: to Permanent Funding (No. 1) Limited:
to 00 Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx'x, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (facsimile number +44
(0)00 0000 0000) for the attention of the Secretary with a copy
to HBOS Treasury Services plc, 00 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X
0XX (facsimile number x00 (0)00 0000 0000) for the attention of
Head of Mortgage Securitisation and Covered Bonds;
(e) in the case of Funding 2: to Permanent Funding (No. 2) Limited:
to 00 Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx'x, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (facsimile number +44
(0)00 0000 0000) for the attention of the Secretary with a copy
to HBOS Treasury Services plc, 00 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx
00
XX0X 0XX (facsimile number x00 (0)00 0000 0000) for the
attention of Head of Mortgage Securitisation and Covered Bonds;
and
(f) in the case of the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2
Security Trustee: to The Bank of New York, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X00 0XX (facsimile number + 44 (0)20 7964
6061 or + 00 (0)00 0000 0000, for the attention of Global
Structured Finance - Corporate Trust),
or to such other address or facsimile number or for the attention of
such other person or entity as may from time to time be notified by any
party to the others by written notice in accordance with the provisions
of this CLAUSE 25. All notices served under this Agreement shall be
simultaneously copied to the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding
2 Security Trustee by the person serving the same.
26. NO PARTNERSHIP
It is hereby acknowledged and agreed by the parties that nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed as giving rise to any partnership between
any of the parties.
27. ASSIGNMENT
27.1 The Mortgages Trustee may not assign or transfer any of its rights or
obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of
each of the Beneficiaries.
27.2 The Servicer may not assign or transfer any of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of
the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries) and each of the
Beneficiaries.
27.3 The Servicer acknowledges that Funding 1 has assigned its rights under
this Agreement to the Funding 1 Security Trustee pursuant to the Funding
1 Deed of Charge and acknowledges that pursuant to the terms of the
Funding 1 Deed of Charge, Funding 1 has, inter alia, authorised the
Funding 1 Security Trustee, prior to the Funding 1 Security becoming
enforceable, to exercise, or refrain from exercising, all rights,
powers, authorities, discretions and remedies under or in respect of the
Transaction Documents, including this Agreement, in such manner as in
its absolute discretion it shall think fit.
27.4 The Servicer acknowledges that Funding 2 has assigned its rights under
this Agreement to the Funding 2 Security Trustee pursuant to the Funding
2 Deed of Charge and acknowledges that pursuant to the terms of the
Funding 2 Deed of Charge, Funding 2 has, inter alia, authorised the
Funding 2 Security Trustee, prior to the Funding 2 Security becoming
enforceable, to exercise, or refrain from exercising, all rights,
powers, authorities, discretions and remedies under or in respect of the
Transaction Documents, including this Agreement, in such manner as in
its absolute discretion it shall think fit.
28. CHANGE OF FUNDING 1 SECURITY TRUSTEE AND/OR FUNDING 2 SECURITY TRUSTEE
28.1 If there is any change in the identity of the Funding 1 Security Trustee
and/or the Funding 2 Security Trustee in accordance with the Funding 1
Deed of Charge and/or the Funding 2 Deed of Charge, the Servicer, the
Seller, Funding 1, Funding 2 and the Mortgages Trustee shall execute
such documents and take such action as the successor Funding 1 Security
Trustee and/or the successor Funding 2 Security Trustee and the outgoing
Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the outgoing Funding 2 Security
Trustee may reasonably require for the purpose of vesting in the
successor Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the successor Funding 2
Security Trustee the rights and obligations of the
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outgoing Funding 1 Security Trustee and/or the outgoing Funding 2
Security Trustee under this Agreement and releasing the outgoing
Security Trustee from its future obligations under this Agreement.
28.2 It is hereby acknowledged and agreed that by its execution of this
Agreement neither the Funding 1 Security Trustee nor the Funding 2
Security Trustee shall assume or have any of the obligations or
liabilities of the Servicer, the Seller, Funding 1, Funding 2, the
Mortgages Trustee or each other under this Agreement.
29. AMENDMENTS, WAIVERS AND CONSENTS
29.1 Subject to CLAUSE 2, 3 and 4 of the Controlling Beneficiary Deed (as
applicable) and (in the case of Funding 1) Clause 25 of the Funding 1
Deed of Charge and (in the case of Funding 2) Clause 12 of the Funding 2
Deed of Charge , no amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and
signed by (or by some person duly authorised by) each of the parties to
this Agreement. In the case of a waiver, such waiver shall be effective
only in the specific instance and as against the party or parties giving
it for the specific purpose for which it is given. No single or partial
exercise of, or failure or delay in exercising, any right under this
Agreement shall constitute a waiver or preclude any other or further
exercise of that or any other right.
29.2 Funding 1, Funding 2, the Funding 1 Security Trustee and the Funding 2
Security Trustee will each exercise all rights, powers, benefits and/or
discretions conferred on it under this Agreement (including, without
limitation, in giving its consent, approval or authorisation to any
event, matter or thing requested hereunder) in accordance with CLAUSES
2, 3 and 4 of the Controlling Beneficiary Deed (as applicable) and (in
the case of Funding 1) CLAUSE 25 of the Funding 1 Deed of Charge and (in
the case of Funding 2) CLAUSE 12 of the Funding 2 Deed of Charge.
30. EXCLUSION OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
The parties to this Agreement do not intend that any term of this
Agreement should be enforced, by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of
Third Parties) Xxx 0000, by any person who is not a party to this
Agreement.
31. COUNTERPARTS AND SEVERABILITY
31.1 This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (manually
or by facsimile) and by different parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which when taken together shall constitute one and
the same instrument.
31.2 Where any provision in or obligation under this Agreement shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations
under this Agreement, or of such provision or obligation in any other
jurisdiction, shall not be affected or impaired thereby.
32. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
32.1 This Agreement is governed by the laws of England (provided that any
terms of this Agreement which are particular to Scots law shall be
construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland).
32.2 Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the English courts in any action or proceeding arising
out of or relating to this Agreement, and hereby irrevocably agrees that
all claims in respect of such action or proceeding may be heard and
determined by such courts. Each party to this Agreement hereby
irrevocably waives, to the fullest
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extent it may possibly do so, any defence or claim that the English
courts are an inconvenient forum for the maintenance or hearing of such
action or proceeding.
33. PROCESS AGENT
The Mortgages Trustee irrevocably and unconditionally appoints
Structured Finance Management Limited of 00 Xxxxx Xx. Xxxxx'x, Xxxxxx
XX0X 0XX for the time being as its agent for service of process in
England in respect of any proceedings in respect of this Agreement and
undertakes that in the event of Structured Finance Management Limited
ceasing so to act it will appoint another person with a registered
office in London as its agent for service of process.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed as a
deed the day and year first before written.
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SCHEDULE 1
THE SERVICES
In addition to the Services set out in the body of the Servicing Agreement, the
Servicer shall:
(a) keep records and books of account for the Mortgages Trustee in relation
to the Loans and their Related Security comprised in the Portfolio;
(b) keep records for all taxation purposes and Value Added Tax;
(c) notify relevant Borrowers of any change in their Monthly Payments;
(d) assist the auditors of the Mortgages Trustee and provide information to
them upon reasonable request;
(e) provide a redemption statement upon the request of a Borrower or the
Borrower's solicitor, licensed conveyancer or qualified conveyancer;
(f) notify relevant Borrowers of any other matter or thing which the
applicable Mortgage Conditions or Offer Conditions require them to be
notified of in the manner and at the time required by the relevant
Mortgage Terms;
(g) subject to the provisions of this Agreement (including without
limitation CLAUSE 5.2) take all reasonable steps to recover all sums due
to the Mortgages Trustee including without limitation by the institution
of proceedings and/or the enforcement of any Loan comprised in the
Portfolio or any Related Security;
(h) take all other action and do all other things which it would be
reasonable to expect a Reasonable, Prudent Mortgage Lender to do in
administering its loans and their related security; and
(i) act as collection agent for the Mortgages Trustee under the Direct
Debiting Scheme in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 2
FORM OF INVESTOR MONTHLY REPORT
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SCHEDULE 3
MINIMUM SERVICING STANDARDS
1. GENERAL SERVICING CONSIDERATIONS
Policies and procedures are instituted to monitor any performance or
other triggers and events of default in accordance with the transaction
agreements.
2. CASH COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATION
(a) Payments on pool assets are deposited into the appropriate
custodial bank accounts - the Permanent Mortgage Trustee GIC
control account - no more than two business days of receipt.
(b) Advances of funds or guarantees regarding collections, cash
flows or distributions, and any interest or other fees charged
for such advances, are made, reviewed and approved as specified
in the transaction agreements.
(c) The related accounts for the transaction, such as cash reserve
accounts or accounts established as a form of
overcollateralisation, are separately maintained (e.g. with
respect to commingling of cash) as set forth in the transaction
agreements.
(d) Reconciliations are prepared on a monthly basis for all
asset-backed securities related bank accounts, including
custodial accounts and related bank clearing accounts - namely,
the Permanent Mortgages Trustee GIC account, Permanent Funding
(No. 1) GIC account, Permanent Funding (No. 2) GIC account, each
Funding 1 Issuer's capital account, the Master Issuer's capital
account, each Funding 1 Issuer's transaction account and the
Master Issuer's transaction account. These reconciliations:
(i) Are mathematically accurate;
(ii) Are prepared within 30 calendar days after the bank
statement cut-off date;
(iii) Are reviewed and approved by someone other than the
person who prepared the reconciliation; and
(iv) Contain explanations for reconciling items. These
reconciling items are resolved within 90 calendar days
of their original identification.
3. INVESTOR REMITTANCES
Amounts due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with
timeframes, distribution priority and other terms set forth in the
transaction agreements.
4. POOL ASSET ADMINISTRATION
(a) The servicer has made reasonable endeavours to maintain collateral or
security on pool assets.
(b) Any additions, removals or substitutions to the asset pool are made,
reviewed and approved in accordance with any conditions or requirements
in the transaction agreements.
(c) The servicer's records regarding the pool assets agree with the lender's
records with respect to the unpaid principal balance.
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(d) Changes with respect to the terms or status of a pool asset (for example
loan modifications or re-ageings) are made, reviewed and approved by
authorised personnel in accordance with the transaction agreements and
related pool asset documents.
(e) Loss mitigation or recovery actions (e.g., foreclosures or
repossessions) are initiated, conducted and concluded in accordance with
the timeframes or other requirements established by the transaction
agreements. Such programs include a hierarchy of workout procedures
(e.g., forbearance plans, modifications and deeds in lieu of
foreclosure, as applicable).
(f) Records documenting collection efforts are maintained during the period
a pool asset is delinquent in accordance with the transaction
agreements. Such records are maintained on at least a monthly basis and
describe the entity's activities in monitoring delinquent pool assets
including, for example, phone calls, letters and payment rescheduling
plans in cases where delinquency is deemed temporary (e.g., illness or
unemployment).
(g) Adjustments to interest rates or rates of return for pool assets with
variable rates are computed based on the related pool asset documents.
(h) Delinquencies, charge-offs and uncollectible accounts are recognised and
recorded in accordance with the transaction agreements.
(i) Any external enhancement or other support is maintained as set forth in
the transaction agreements.
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SIGNATORIES
SERVICER
EXECUTED as a DEED by ) /s/ Xxx Xxxxxxx
HALIFAX PLC ) /s/ Xxxxxxx Takk
acting by its attorney )
in the presence of: )
Witness's signature:
Name:
Address:
MORTGAGES TRUSTEE
EXECUTED as a DEED on behalf of ) /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
PERMANENT MORTGAGES )
TRUSTEE LIMITED, )
a company incorporated in Jersey, )
Channel Islands, by )
being a person who, )
in accordance with the laws of that )
territory is acting under the authority of )
the company in the presence of: )
Witness's signature: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx
Name:
Address:
SELLER
EXECUTED as a DEED by ) /s/ Xxx Xxxxxxx
HALIFAX PLC ) /s/ Xxxxxxx Takk
acting by its attorney )
in the presence of )
Witness's signature:
Name:
Address:
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FUNDING 1
EXECUTED as a DEED by ) /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
PERMANENT FUNDING (NO. 1) ) /s/ XX Xxxxxxx
LIMITED acting by two directors )
FUNDING 2
EXECUTED as a DEED by ) /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
PERMANENT FUNDING (NO. 2) ) /s/ XX Xxxxxxx
LIMITED acting by two directors )
FUNDING 1 SECURITY TRUSTEE
EXECUTED as a DEED by an authorised ) /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
signatory for and on behalf of )
THE BANK OF NEW YORK )
Authorised signatory
Witness's signature: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx
Name:
Address:
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FUNDING 2 SECURITY TRUSTEE
EXECUTED as a DEED by an authorised ) /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
signatory for and on behalf of )
THE BANK OF NEW YORK )
Authorised signatory
Witness's signature:
Name:
Address:
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