THIS FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL TRUST DEED is made on 9th September, 2005 BETWEEN:
(1) | CADBURY SCHWEPPES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (“Cadbury Schweppes”); | |
(2) | CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c., a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (“CSF”); | |
(3) | CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (“CSI” and, together with Cadbury Schweppes and CSF in their capacities as issuers, the “Issuers” and each an “Issuer”); and | |
(4) | THE LAW DEBENTURE TRUST CORPORATION p.l.c., a company incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales, whose registered office is at Xxxxx Xxxxx, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (the “Trustee”, which expression shall, wherever the context so admits, include such company and all other persons or companies for the time being the trustee or trustees of these presents) as trustee for the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders (each as defined in the Principal Trust Deed (as defined below)). |
(1) | This Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed is supplemental to: |
(A) | the Trust Deed dated 26th May, 1999 (the “Principal Trust Deed”) made between Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and the Trustee and relating to the £1,500,000,000 (now £5,000,000,000) Euro Medium Term Note Programme established by Cadbury Schweppes and CSF (the “Programme”); | ||
(B) | the First Supplemental Trust Deed dated 9th June, 2000 (the “First Supplemental Trust Deed”) made between Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and the Trustee and modifying the provisions of the Principal Trust Deed; | ||
(C) | the Second Supplemental Trust Deed dated 8th June, 2001 (the “Second Supplemental Trust Deed”) made between Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and the Trustee and modifying the provisions of the Principal Trust Deed and the First Supplemental Trust Deed; and | ||
(D) | the Third Supplemental Trust Deed dated 26th April, 2002 (the “Third Supplemental Trust Deed”) made between Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and the Trustee and modifying the provisions of the Principal Trust Deed, the First Supplemental Trust Deed and the Second Supplemental Trust Deed; and | ||
(E) | The Fourth Supplemental Trust Deed dated 27th May, 2004 (together with the Principal Trust Deed, the First Supplemental Trust Deed, the Second Supplemental Trust Deed and the Third Supplemental Trust Deed, the “Subsisting Trust Deeds”) made between Cadbury Schweppes, CSF, CSI and the Trustee and modifying the provisions of the Principal Trust Deed, the First Supplemental Trust Deed, the Second Supplemental Trust Deed and the Third Supplemental Trust Deed. |
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(2) | On 9th September, 2005 the Issuers published a Prospectus, superseding the Offering Circular dated 27th May, 2004, relating to the Programme. (the “Prospectus”). | |
(3) | Clause 19(B) of the Principal Trust Deed provides that the Trustee may without the consent or sanction of the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or Couponholders at any time and from time to time concur with the relevant Obligors in making any modification (inter alia) to these presents (other than as therein provided) which in the opinion of the Trustee it may be proper to make provided that the Trustee is of the opinion that such modification will not be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders. | |
(4) | Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI have requested the Trustee to concur in making the modifications to the Principal Trust Deed (as previously modified) hereinafter contained in order to reflect the relevant modifications to the Prospectus. | |
(5) | The Trustee, being of the opinion that it is proper to make the modifications referred to in Recital (4) above and contained in Clause 2 hereof and that such modifications are not materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders, has agreed to concur with Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI in making such modifications and has agreed that notice of such modifications need not be given to the Noteholders. |
1. | DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION | |
Subject as otherwise provided in this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed and unless there is anything in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith, all words and expressions defined in the Principal Trust Deed (as previously modified) shall have the same meanings in this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed. | ||
2. | MODIFICATIONS |
(A) | SAVE: | ||
(i) | in relation to all Series of Notes issued during the period up to and including the day last preceding the date of this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed and any Notes issued after the date hereof and forming a single Series with Notes issued prior to the date hereof; and | ||
(ii) | for the purpose (where necessary) of construing the provisions of this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed; |
with effect on and from the date of this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed: |
(a) | the Principal Trust Deed (as previously modified) is further modified in such manner as would result in the Principal Trust Deed as so modified being in the form set out in the Schedule hereto; and | ||
(b) | the provisions of the Principal Trust Deed (as previously modified) insofar as the same shall still have effect shall cease to have effect and in lieu thereof the provisions of the Principal Trust Deed as so modified (and being in the form set out in Schedule hereto) shall have effect. |
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3. | GENERAL | |
(A) | The Subsisting Trust Deeds shall henceforth be read and construed in conjunction with this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed as one document. |
(B) | A Memorandum of this Fifth Supplemental Trust Deed shall be endorsed by the Trustee on the Principal Trust Deed and by Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI on their respective duplicates thereof. |
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£5,000,000,000
Euro Medium Term Note Programme
XXXXX & XXXXX LLP
LONDON
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1. DEFINITIONS |
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2. AMOUNT AND ISSUE OF THE NOTES |
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3. FORMS OF THE NOTES |
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4. FEES, DUTIES AND TAXES |
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5. COVENANT OF COMPLICANCE |
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6. CANCELLATION OF NOTES AND RECORDS |
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7. GUARANTEE |
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8. ENFORCEMENT AND NON-PAYMENT |
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9. PROCEEDINGS, ACTION AND INDEMNIFICATION |
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10. APPLICATION OF MONEYS |
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11. NOTICE OF PAYMENTS |
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12. INVESTMENT BY TRUSTEE |
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13. PARTIAL PAYMENTS |
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14. COVENANTS |
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15. REMUNERATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE |
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16. SUPPLEMENT TO TRUSTEE ACTS |
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17. TRUSTEE’S LIABILITY |
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18. TRUSTEE CONTRACTING WITH CADBURY SCHWEPPES AND CSF |
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19. WAIVER, AUTHORISATION AND XXXXXXXXXXXXX |
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00. HOLDER OF DEFINITIVE NOTE ASSUMED TO BE RECEIPTHOLDER
AND COUPONHOLDER |
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21. CURRENCY INDEMNITY |
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22. NEW TRUSTEE |
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23. TRUSTEE’S RETIREMENT AND REMOVAL |
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24. TRUSTEE’S POWERS TO BE ADDITIONAL |
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25. SUBSTITUTION |
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26. NOTICES |
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27. GOVERNING LAW |
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28. COUNTERPARTS |
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29. CONTRACTS (RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) XXX 0000 |
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SCHEDULES |
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1. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES |
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2. FORMS OF GLOBAL AND DEFINITIVE NOTES, RECEIPTS, |
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COUPONS AND TALONS |
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FORM OF TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE |
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FORM OF PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE |
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FORM OF DEFINITIVE NOTE |
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FORM OF RECEIPT |
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FORM OF COUPON |
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FORM OF TALON |
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FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE PRESENTED BY EUROCLEAR OR |
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CLEARSTREAM, LUXEMBOURG |
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3. PROVISIONS FOR MEETINGS OF NOTEHOLDERS |
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(1) | CADBURY SCHWEPPES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (“Cadbury Schweppes”); |
(2) | CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c., a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (“CSF”); |
(3) | CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (“CSI” and, together with Cadbury Schweppes and CSF in their capacities as issuers, the “Issuers” and each an “Issuer”); and |
(4) | THE LAW DEBENTURE TRUST CORPORATION p.l.c., a company incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales, whose registered office is at Xxxxx Xxxxx, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx (the “Trustee”, which expression shall, wherever the context so admits, include such company and all other persons or companies for the time being the trustee or trustees of these presents) as trustee for the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders (each as defined below). |
(1) | By resolutions of the Board of Directors of Cadbury Schweppes passed on 7th May, 1999, 19th April, 2002, 20th May, 2004 and 31st August, 2005, by resolutions of the Board of Directors of CSF passed on 18th May, 1999, 19th April, 2002, 25th May, 2004 and 31st August, 2005 and by resolutions of the Board of Directors of CSI passed on 25th May, 2004 and 31st August, 2005, each of them has resolved to establish a single Euro Medium Term Note Programme pursuant to which each of them may from time to time issue Notes as set out therein and herein. Notes up to a maximum nominal amount (calculated in accordance with Clause 3(5) of the Programme Agreement (as defined below)) from time to time outstanding of £5,000,000,000 (subject to increase as provided in the Programme Agreement) (the “Programme Limit”) may be issued pursuant to the said Programme. |
(2) | By a resolution of the Board of Directors of Cadbury Schweppes passed on 0xx Xxx, 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx has resolved to guarantee all Notes issued under the said Programme by CSF or CSI and to enter into certain covenants as set out in this Trust Deed. |
(3) | By a resolution of the Board of Directors of CSF passed on 31st August, 2005 CSF has resolved to guarantee all Notes issued under the said Programme by CSI and to enter into certain covenants as set out in this Trust Deed. |
(4) | By a resolution of the Board of Directors of CSI passed on 31st August, 2005 CSI has resolved to guarantee all Notes issued under the said Programme by CSF and to enter into certain covenants as set out in this Trust Deed. |
(5) | The Trustee has agreed to act as trustee of these presents for the benefit of the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders upon and subject to the terms and conditions of these presents. |
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(A) | IN these presents unless there is anything in the subject or context inconsistent therewith the following expressions shall have the following meanings: | |
“Agent” means, in relation to all or any Series of the Notes, JPMorgan Chase Bank at its office at Trinity Tower, 9 Xxxxxx Xxxx Street, London E1W 1YT, England, or, if applicable, any Successor agent in relation thereto; | ||
“Agency Agreement” means the agreement dated 26th May, 1999, as amended and/or supplemented and/or restated from time to time, pursuant to which Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI have appointed the Agent and the other Paying Agents in relation to all or any Series of the Notes and any other agreement for the time being in force appointing further or other Paying Agents or another Agent in relation to all or any Series of the Notes, or in connection with their duties, the terms of which have previously been approved in writing by the Trustee, together with any agreement for the time being in force amending or modifying with the prior written approval of the Trustee any of the aforesaid agreements; | ||
“Appointee” means any attorney, manager, agent, delegate, nominee, custodian or other person appointed by the Trustee under these presents; | ||
“Auditors” means the auditors for the time being of the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, in the event of their being unable or unwilling promptly to carry out any action requested of them pursuant to the provisions of these presents, such other firm of accountants or such other financial advisers as may be nominated or approved by the Trustee for the purposes of these presents after consultation with the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI); | ||
“Calculation Agency Agreement” means in relation to all or any Series of the Notes an agreement in or substantially in the form of Schedule I to the Agency Agreement; | ||
“Calculation Agent” means, in relation to all or any Series of the Notes, the person appointed as such from time to time pursuant to the provisions of the Calculation Agency Agreement or any Successor calculation agent in relation thereto; | ||
“Clearstream, Luxembourg” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme; | ||
“Conditions” means, in relation to the Notes of any Series, the terms and conditions endorsed on or incorporated by reference into the Note or Notes constituting such Series, such terms and conditions being in or substantially in the form set out in the First Schedule or in such other form, having regard to the terms of issue of the Notes of the relevant Series, as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s) as modified and supplemented by the Final Terms applicable to the Notes of the relevant Series, in each case as from time to time modified in accordance with the provisions of these presents; | ||
“Coupon” means an interest coupon appertaining to a Definitive Note (other than a Zero Coupon Note), such coupon being: |
(i) | if appertaining to a Fixed Rate Note, in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part V A of the Second Schedule or in such other form, having regard to the terms of issue of the Notes of the relevant Series, as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s); or |
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(ii) | if appertaining to a Floating Rate Note or an Index Linked Interest Note, in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part V B of the Second Schedule or in such other form, having regard to the terms of issue of the Notes of the relevant Series, as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s); or | ||
(iii) | if appertaining to a Definitive Note which is neither a Fixed Rate Note nor a Floating Rate Note nor an Index Linked Interest Note, in such form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s), |
and includes, where applicable, the Talon(s) appertaining thereto and any replacements for Coupons and Talons issued pursuant to Condition 11; | ||
“Couponholders” means the several persons who are for the time being holders of the Coupons and includes, where applicable, the holders of the Talons; | ||
“Dealers” means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Banc of America Securities Limited, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., BNP Paribas, Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A., Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Dresdner Bank AG London Branch, HSBC Bank plc, X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Ltd., National Australia Bank Limited and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and any other entity which the relevant Issuer may appoint as a Dealer and notice of whose appointment has been given to the Agent and the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Programme Agreement but excluding any entity whose appointment has been terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Programme Agreement and notice of which termination has been given to the Agent and the Trustee by the relevant Issuer in accordance with the provisions of the Programme Agreement and references to a “relevant Dealer” or “relevant Dealer(s)” mean, in relation to any Tranche or Series of Notes, the Dealer or Dealers with whom the relevant Issuer has agreed the issue of the Notes of such Tranche or Series and “Dealer” means any one of them; | ||
“Definitive Note” means a Note in definitive form issued or, as the case may require, to be issued by the relevant Issuer in accordance with the provisions of the Programme Agreement or any other agreement between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s), the Agency Agreement and these presents in exchange for either a Temporary Global Note or part thereof or a Permanent Global Note (all as indicated in the applicable Final Terms), such Note in definitive form being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part III of the Second Schedule with such modifications (if any) as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s) and having the Conditions endorsed thereon or, if permitted by the relevant Stock Exchange, incorporating the Conditions by reference (where applicable to this Trust Deed) as indicated in the applicable Final Terms and having the relevant information supplementing, replacing or modifying the Conditions appearing in the applicable Final Terms endorsed thereon or attached thereto and (except in the case of a Zero Coupon Note in bearer form) having Coupons and, where appropriate, Receipts and/or Talons attached thereto on issue; | ||
“Dual Currency Note” means a Note in respect of which payments of principal and/or interest are made or to be made in such different currencies, and at rates of exchange calculated upon such basis or bases, as the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) may agree (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms); | ||
“Early Redemption Amount” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Condition 7(e); |
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“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. as operator of the Euroclear System; | ||
“Event of Default” means any of the conditions, events or acts provided in Condition 10 to be Events of Default (being events upon the happening of which the Notes of any Series would, subject only to notice by the Trustee as therein provided, become immediately due and repayable); | ||
“Extraordinary Resolution” has the meaning ascribed thereto in paragraph 20 of the Third Schedule; | ||
“Final Terms” has the meaning set out in the Programme Agreement; | ||
“Fixed Rate Note” means a Note on which interest is calculated at a fixed rate payable in arrear on a fixed date or fixed dates in each year and on redemption or on such other dates as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms); | ||
“Floating Rate Note” means a Note on which interest is calculated at a floating rate payable one-, two-, three-, six- or twelve-monthly or in respect of such other period or on such date(s) as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms); | ||
“Global Note” means a Temporary Global Note and/or a Permanent Global Note, as the context may require; | ||
“Holding Company” means any company which is for the time being a holding company (within the meaning of Section 736 of the Companies Xxx 0000 of Great Britain); | ||
“Index Linked Interest Note” means a Note in respect of which the amount payable in respect of interest is calculated by reference to such index and/or formula or to changes in the prices of securities or commodities or to such other factors as the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) may agree (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms); | ||
“Index Linked Note” means an Index Linked Interest Note and/or an Index Linked Redemption Amount Note, as applicable; | ||
“Index Linked Redemption Amount Note” means a Note in respect of which the amount payable in respect of principal is calculated by reference to such index and/or formula or to changes in the prices of securities or commodities or to such other factors as the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) may agree (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms); | ||
“Interest Commencement Date” means, in the case of interest-bearing Notes, the date specified in the applicable Final Terms from (and including) which such Notes bear interest, which may or may not be the Issue Date; | ||
“Interest Payment Date” means, in relation to any Floating Rate Note or Indexed Interest Note, either: |
(i) | the date which falls the number of months or other period specified as the “Specified Period” in the applicable Final Terms after the preceding Interest Payment Date or the Interest Commencement Date (in the case of the first Interest Payment Date); or |
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(ii) | such date or dates as are indicated in the applicable Final Terms; | ||
“Issue Date” means, in respect of any Note, the date of issue and purchase of such Note pursuant to and in accordance with the Programme Agreement or any other agreement between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s), being in the case of any Definitive Note represented initially by a Temporary Global Note or a Permanent Global Note, the same date as the date of issue of the Temporary Global Note or the Permanent Global Note which initially represented such Note; | ||
“Issue Price” means the price, generally expressed as a percentage of the nominal amount of the Notes, at which the Notes will be issued; | ||
“Liability” means any loss, damage, cost, charge, claim, demand, expense, judgment, action, proceeding or other liability whatsoever (including, without limitation, in respect of taxes, duties, levies, imposts and other charges) and including any amount in respect of value added tax or similar tax charged or chargeable in respect thereof and legal fees and expenses on a full indemnity basis; | ||
“loan”, “debt” and “indebtedness”, as at a particular date, shall be construed as a reference to any obligation (other than a contingent obligation) for or in respect of moneys borrowed or raised by whatever means (including by means of acceptances, the issue of loan stock, notes or debentures, and finance leases) or for the deferred purchase price of moveable or immovable assets but excluding any obligation in respect of such deferred purchase price which: |
(i) | has a maximum remaining maturity, as at such date, of one year (although its maturity may have originally exceeded one year); or | ||
(ii) | does not fall within paragraph (i) or (iii) of this definition, but which, when aggregated with all other obligations falling within this paragraph (ii), does not exceed £20,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies); or | ||
(iii) | is in respect of normal trade debts; or | ||
(iv) | the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Trustee was incurred other than primarily as a means of raising finance; |
“London Business Day” has the meaning set out in Condition 5(b)(v); | ||
“London Stock Exchange” means the London Stock Exchange plc or such other body to which its functions have been transferred; | ||
“Maturity Date” means the date on which a Note is expressed to be redeemable; | ||
“month” means calendar month; | ||
“Note” means a note in bearer form issued pursuant to the Programme and denominated in such currency or currencies as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) which: |
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(i) | has such maturity as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s), subject to such minimum or maximum maturity as may be allowed or required from time to time by the relevant central bank (or equivalent body) or any laws or regulations applicable to the relevant Issuer or the relevant currency; and | ||
(ii) | has such denomination as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s), subject to such minimum denomination as may be allowed or required from time to time by the relevant central bank (or equivalent body) or any laws or regulations applicable to the relevant currency, |
issued or to be issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to the Programme Agreement or any other agreement between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s), the Agency Agreement and these presents and which shall initially be represented by, and comprised in, either (a) a Temporary Global Note which may (in accordance with the terms of such Temporary Global Note) be exchanged for Definitive Notes or a Permanent Global Note, which Permanent Global Note may (in accordance with the terms of such Permanent Global Note) in turn be exchanged for Definitive Notes or (b) a Permanent Global Note which may (in accordance with the terms of such Permanent Global Note) be exchanged for Definitive Notes (all as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) and includes any replacements for a Note issued pursuant to Condition 11; | ||
“Noteholders” means the several persons who are for the time being holders of outstanding Notes save that, in respect of the Notes of any Series, for so long as such Notes or any part thereof are represented by a Global Note deposited with a common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg (other than Clearstream, Luxembourg, if Clearstream, Luxembourg shall be an accountholder of Euroclear and Euroclear, if Euroclear shall be an accountholder of Clearstream, Luxembourg) as the holder of a particular nominal amount of the Notes of such Series shall be deemed to be the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes (and the holder of the relevant Global Note shall be deemed not to be the holder) for all purposes of these presents other than with respect to the payment of principal or interest on such nominal amount of such Notes the rights to which shall be vested, as against the relevant Obligors and the Trustee, solely in such common depositary and for which purpose such common depositary shall be deemed to be the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes in accordance with and subject to its terms and the provisions of these presents and the expressions “Noteholder”, “holder” and “holder of Notes” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly; |
“notice” means, in respect of a notice to be given to Noteholders, a notice validly given pursuant to Condition 14; | ||
“Official List” means the official list maintained by the UK Listing Authority; | ||
“outstanding” means, in relation to the Notes of all or any Series, all the Notes of such Series issued other than: |
(a) | those Notes which have been redeemed pursuant to these presents; | ||
(b) | those Notes in respect of which the date for redemption in accordance with the Conditions has occurred and the redemption moneys (including all interest payable thereon) have been duly paid to the Trustee or to the Agent in the manner provided in the Agency Agreement (and where appropriate notice to that effect has been given to |
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the relative Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14) and remain available for payment against presentation of the relevant Notes and/or Receipts and/or Coupons; |
(c) | those Notes which have been purchased and cancelled in accordance with Conditions 7(h) and 7(i); | ||
(d) | those Notes which have become void under Condition 9; | ||
(e) | those mutilated or defaced Notes which have been surrendered and cancelled and in respect of which replacements have been issued pursuant to Condition 11; | ||
(f) | (for the purpose only of ascertaining the nominal amount of the Notes outstanding and without prejudice to the status for any other purpose of the relevant Notes) those Notes which are alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed and in respect of which replacement Notes have been issued pursuant to Condition 11; and | ||
(g) | any Temporary Global Note to the extent that it shall have been exchanged for Definitive Notes or a Permanent Global Note and any Permanent Global Note to the extent that it shall have been exchanged for Definitive Notes in each case pursuant to its provisions, the provisions of these presents and the Agency Agreement, |
PROVIDED THAT for each of the following purposes, namely: |
(i) | the right to attend and vote at any meeting of the holders of the Notes of any Series; | ||
(ii) | the determination of how many and which Notes of any Series are for the time being outstanding for the purposes of Clause 9(A), Conditions 10 and 15 and paragraphs 2, 5, 6 and 9 of the Third Schedule; | ||
(iii) | any discretion, power or authority (whether contained in these presents or vested by operation of law) which the Trustee is required, expressly or impliedly, to exercise in or by reference to the interests of the holders of the Notes of any Series; and | ||
(iv) | the determination by the Trustee whether any event, circumstance, matter or thing is, in its opinion, materially prejudicial to the interests of the holders of the Notes of any Series, |
those Notes of the relevant Series (if any) which are for the time being held by or on behalf of any of the relevant Obligors or any Subsidiary or Holding Company of any of the relevant Obligors, in each case as beneficial owner, shall (unless and until ceasing to be so held) be deemed not to remain outstanding; | ||
“Paying Agents” means, in relation to all or any Series of the Notes, the several institutions (including, where the context permits, the Agent) at their respective specified offices initially appointed as paying agents in relation to such Notes by Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI pursuant to the Agency Agreement and/or, if applicable, any Successor paying agents in relation thereto; | ||
“Permanent Global Note” means a global note in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part II of the Second Schedule with such modifications (if any) as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s), together with the copy of the applicable Final Terms annexed thereto, comprising some or all of the Notes of the same Series, issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to the Programme Agreement or any other agreement relating to the Programme between the relevant Issuer and the relevant |
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Dealer(s), the Agency Agreement and these presents either in exchange for the whole or part of any Temporary Global Note issued in respect of such Notes or on issue; | ||
“Potential Event of Default” means any condition, event or act which, with the lapse of time and/or the giving of notice and/or the issue of any certificate, would constitute an Event of Default; | ||
“Programme” means the Euro Medium Term Note Programme established by, or otherwise contemplated in, the Programme Agreement; | ||
“Programme Agreement” means the agreement of even date herewith between Cadbury Schweppes, CSF, CSI and the Dealers named therein concerning the purchase of Notes to be issued pursuant to the Programme together with any agreement for the time being in force amending, replacing, novating or modifying such agreement; | ||
“Receipt” means a receipt attached on issue to a Definitive Note redeemable in instalments for the payment of an instalment of principal, such receipt being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part IV of the Second Schedule or in such other form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s) and includes any replacements for Receipts issued pursuant to Condition 11; | ||
“Receiptholders” means the several persons who are for the time being holders of the Receipts; | ||
“Reference Banks” means, in relation to the Notes of any relevant Series, the several banks initially appointed as reference banks and/or, if applicable, any Successor reference banks in relation thereto; | ||
“Relevant Date” has the meaning set out in Condition 8; | ||
“relevant Issuer” means, with respect to any Note, the Issuer of such Note; | ||
“relevant Obligors” means, with respect to any Note, the relevant Issuer, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI), CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) and CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF), and “relevant Obligor” shall be construed accordingly; | ||
“repay”, “redeem” and “pay” shall each include both the others and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly; | ||
“Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended; | ||
“Security” has the meaning set out in Condition 4; | ||
“Series” means a Tranche of Notes together with any further Tranche or Tranches of Notes which are (i) expressed to be consolidated and form a single series and (ii) identical in all respects (including as to listing) except for their respective Issue Dates, Interest Commencement Dates and/or Issue Prices and the expressions “Notes of the relevant Series”, “holders of Notes of the relevant Series” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly; | ||
“Stock Exchange” means the London Stock Exchange or any other or further stock exchange(s) on which any Notes may from time to time be listed, and references in these |
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presents to the “relevant Stock Exchange” shall, in relation to any Notes, be references to the Stock Exchange on which such Notes are, from time to time, or are intended to be, listed; | ||
“Subsidiary” means any company which is for the time being a subsidiary (within the meaning of Section 736 of the Companies Xxx 0000 of Great Britain) or a subsidiary undertaking (within the meaning of Section 258 and Schedule 10A of the Companies Xxx 0000 of Great Britain); | ||
“Successor” means, in relation to the Agent, the other Paying Agents, the Reference Banks and the Calculation Agent, any successor to any one or more of them in relation to the Notes which shall become such pursuant to the provisions of these presents and/or the Agency Agreement (as the case may be) and/or such other or further agent, paying agents, reference banks and calculation agent (as the case may be) in relation to the Notes as may (with the prior approval of, and on terms previously approved by, the Trustee in writing) from time to time be appointed as such, and/or, if applicable, such other or further specified offices (in the former case being within the same city as those for which they are substituted) as may from time to time be nominated, in each case by Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI and (except in the case of the initial appointments and specified offices made under and specified in the Conditions and/or the Agency Agreement, as the case may be) notice of whose appointment or, as the case may be, nomination has been given to the Noteholders; | ||
“Successor in Business” means in relation to Cadbury Schweppes any company which, as a result of any amalgamation, merger or reconstruction the terms of which have previously been approved in writing by the Trustee: |
(i) | owns beneficially the whole or substantially the whole of the undertaking, property and assets owned by Cadbury Schweppes immediately prior thereto; and | ||
(ii) | carries on, as successor to Cadbury Schweppes, the whole or substantially the whole of the business carried on by Cadbury Schweppes immediately prior thereto; |
“Talons” means the talons (if any) appertaining to, and exchangeable in accordance with the provisions therein contained for further Coupons appertaining to, the Definitive Notes (other than the Zero Coupon Notes), such talons being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part VI of the Second Schedule or in such other form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s) and includes any replacements for Talons issued pursuant to Condition 11; | ||
“Temporary Global Note” means a temporary global note in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part I of the Second Schedule with such modifications (if any) as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent, the Trustee and the relevant Dealer(s), together with the copy of the applicable Final Terms annexed thereto, comprising some or all of the Notes of the same Series, issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to the Programme Agreement or any other agreement relating to the Programme between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s), the Agency Agreement and these presents; | ||
“these presents” means this Trust Deed and the Schedules and any trust deed supplemental hereto and the Schedules (if any) thereto and the Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons, the Talons, the Conditions and, unless the context otherwise requires, the Final Terms, all as from time to time modified in accordance with the provisions herein or therein contained; | ||
“Tranche” means all Notes which are identical in all respects (including as to listing); |
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“Trust Corporation” means a corporation entitled by rules made under the Public Trustee Xxx 0000 of Great Britain or entitled pursuant to any other comparable legislation applicable to a trustee in any other jurisdiction to carry out the functions of a custodian trustee; | ||
“Trustee Acts” means the Trustee Xxx 0000 and the Trustee Xxx 0000; | ||
“UK Listing Authority” means the Financial Services Authority in its capacity as competent authority under the Financial Services and Markets Xxx 0000; | ||
“Zero Coupon Note” means a Note on which no interest is payable; | ||
words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa; | ||
words denoting one gender only shall include the other genders; and | ||
words denoting persons only shall include firms and corporations and vice versa. |
(B) | (i) | All references in these presents to principal and/or principal amount and/or interest in respect of the Notes or to any moneys payable by the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) under these presents shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed in accordance with Condition 6(f). |
(ii) | All references in these presents to any statute or any provision of any statute shall be deemed also to refer to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof or any statutory instrument, order or regulation made thereunder or under any such modification or re-enactment. | ||
(iii) | All references in these presents to guarantees or to an obligation being guaranteed shall be deemed to include respectively references to indemnities or to an indemnity being given in respect thereof. | ||
(iv) | All references in these presents to any action, remedy or method of proceeding for the enforcement of the rights of creditors shall be deemed to include, in respect of any jurisdiction other than England, references to such action, remedy or method of proceeding for the enforcement of the rights of creditors available or appropriate in such jurisdiction as shall most nearly approximate to such action, remedy or method of proceeding described or referred to in these presents. | ||
(v) | All references in these presents to Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg shall, whenever the context so permits, be deemed to include references to any successor operator and/or successor clearing system and/or any additional or alternative clearing system as is specified in the applicable Final Terms and/or approved by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Trustee. All references in these presents to the common depositary shall, whenever the context so permits, be deemed to include references to any successor common depositary or any additional or alternative common depositary as is approved by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Trustee. | ||
(vi) | Unless the context otherwise requires words or expressions used in these presents shall bear the same meanings as in the Companies Xxx 0000 of Great Britain. | ||
(vii) | In this Trust Deed references to Schedules, Clauses, sub-clauses, paragraphs and sub-paragraphs shall be construed as references to the Schedules to this Trust Deed and to the Clauses, sub-clauses, paragraphs and sub-paragraphs of this Trust Deed respectively. |
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(viii) | In these presents tables of contents and Clause headings are included for ease of reference and shall not affect the construction of these presents. | ||
(ix) | All references in these presents to taking proceedings against the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) shall be deemed to include references to proving in the winding-up of the relevant Issuer, Cadbury Schweppes, CSF or CSI, as the case may be. | ||
(x) | All references in these presents to any approval or consent of the Trustee shall be deemed to include a reference to the requirement that such approval or consent shall be not unreasonably withheld or delayed. | ||
(xi) | All references in these presents involving compliance by the Trustee with a test of reasonableness (other than in Clause 14(iv) and the proviso to Clause 14) shall be deemed to include a reference to a requirement that such reasonableness shall be determined by reference solely to the interests of the Noteholders as a class. |
(C) | Words and expressions defined in these presents or the Agency Agreement or used in the applicable Final Terms shall have the same meanings where used herein unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise stated and provided that, in the event of inconsistency between the Agency Agreement and these presents, these presents shall prevail and, in the event of inconsistency between the Agency Agreement or these presents and the applicable Final Terms, the applicable Final Terms shall prevail. |
(D) | All references in these presents to the “relevant currency” shall be construed as references to the currency in which payments in respect of the Notes and/or Receipts and/or Coupons of the relevant Series are to be made as indicated in the applicable Final Terms. |
(E) | As used in these presents, in relation to any Notes which have a “listing” or are “listed” on the London Stock Exchange, “listing” and “listed” shall be construed to mean that such Notes have been admitted to the Official List by the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the Stock Exchange’s Gilt Edged and Fixed Interest Market. All references in these presents to “listing” and “listed” shall include references to “quotation” and “quoted” respectively. |
2. | AMOUNT AND ISSUE OF THE NOTES | |
(A) | Amount of the Notes, Final Terms and Legal Opinions: |
THE Notes will be issued in Series in an aggregate nominal amount from time to time outstanding not exceeding the Programme Limit from time to time and for the purpose of determining such aggregate nominal amount Clause 3(5) of the Programme Agreement shall apply. | ||
By not later than 3.00 p.m. (London time) on the third London Business Day preceding each proposed Issue Date, the relevant Issuer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee a draft of the applicable Final Terms and drafts of all legal opinions (if any) to be given in relation to the proposed issue and shall notify the Trustee in writing without delay of the relevant Issue Date and the nominal amount of the Notes to be issued and upon the issue of the relevant Notes shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee a copy of the final |
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form of the applicable Final Terms and signed copies of all such legal opinions. Upon the issue of the relevant Notes, such Notes shall become constituted by these presents without further formality. | ||
On such occasions as the Trustee so requests (on the basis that (i) the Trustee considers it necessary in view of a change (or proposed change) in applicable law affecting the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF), these presents, the Programme Agreement or the Agency Agreement, or (ii) the Trustee has other reasonable grounds for such request), the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) will procure that a further legal opinion or further legal opinions in such form and with such content as the Trustee may require from the legal advisers specified in the Programme Agreement or such other legal advisers as the Trustee may require is/are delivered to the Trustee. Whenever such a request is made with respect to any Notes to be issued, the receipt of such opinion(s) in a form satisfactory to the Trustee shall be a further condition precedent to the issue of those Notes. |
(B) | Covenant to repay principal and to pay interest: |
The relevant Issuer covenants with the Trustee that it will, as and when the Notes of any Series or any of them or any instalment of principal in respect thereof becomes due to be redeemed in accordance with the Conditions, unconditionally pay or procure to be paid to or to the order of the Trustee in the relevant currency in immediately available funds the principal amount in respect of the Notes of such Series or the amount of such instalment becoming due for redemption on that date and (except in the case of Zero Coupon Notes) shall (subject to the provisions of the Conditions) in the meantime and until redemption in full of the Notes of such Series (both before and after any judgment or other order of a court of competent jurisdiction) unconditionally pay or procure to be paid to or to the order of the Trustee as aforesaid interest (which shall accrue from day to day) on the nominal amount of the Notes outstanding of such Series at rates and/or in amounts calculated from time to time in accordance with, or specified in, and on the dates provided for in, the Conditions (subject to Clause 2(D)) PROVIDED THAT: |
(i) | every payment of principal or interest or other sum due in respect of the Notes made to or to the order of the Agent in the manner provided in the Agency Agreement shall be in satisfaction pro tanto of the relative covenant by the relevant Issuer in this Clause contained in relation to the Notes of such Series except to the extent that there is a default in the subsequent payment thereof in accordance with the Conditions to the relevant Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders (as the case may be); | ||
(ii) | in the case of any payment of principal made to the Trustee or the Agent after the due date or on or after accelerated maturity following an Event of Default interest shall continue to accrue on the nominal amount of the relevant Notes (except in the case of Zero Coupon Notes to which the provisions of Condition 7(j) shall apply) (both before and after any judgment or other order of a court of competent jurisdiction) at the rates aforesaid up to and including the date which the Trustee determines to be the date on and after which payment is to be made in respect thereof as stated in a notice given to the holders of such Notes (such date to be not later than 30 days after the day on which the whole of such principal amount, together with an amount equal |
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to the interest which has accrued and is to accrue pursuant to this proviso up to and including that date, has been received by the Trustee or the Agent); and |
(iii) | in any case where payment of the whole or any part of the principal amount of any Note is improperly withheld or refused upon due presentation thereof (other than in circumstances contemplated by (ii) above), interest shall accrue on the nominal amount of such Note (except in the case of Zero Coupon Notes to which the provisions of Condition 7(j) shall apply) payment of which has been so withheld or refused (both before and after any judgment or other order of a court of competent jurisdiction) at the rates aforesaid from the date of such withholding or refusal until the date on which, upon further presentation of the relevant Note, payment of the full amount (including interest as aforesaid) in the relevant currency payable in respect of such Note is made or (if earlier) the seventh day after notice is given to the relevant Noteholder(s) (whether individually or in accordance with Condition 14) that the full amount (including interest as aforesaid) in the relevant currency in respect of such Note is available for payment, provided that, upon further presentation thereof being duly made, such payment is made. |
The Trustee will hold the benefit of this covenant on trust for the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders and itself in accordance with these presents. |
(C) | Trustee’s requirements regarding Paying Agents etc: |
At any time after an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Trustee shall have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 10 to the relevant Noteholders, Receiptholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may: |
(i) | by notice in writing to the relevant Obligors, the Agent and the other Paying Agents require the Agent and the other Paying Agents pursuant to the Agency Agreement: |
(a) | to act thereafter as Agent and other Paying Agents respectively of the Trustee in relation to payments to be made by or on behalf of the Trustee under the terms of these presents mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in the Agency Agreement (save that the Trustee’s liability under any provisions thereof for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of these presents relating to the Notes of the relevant Series and the relative Receipts and Coupons and available for such purpose) and thereafter to hold all Notes, Receipts and Coupons and all sums, documents and records held by them in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or | ||
(b) | to deliver up all Notes, Receipts and Coupons and all sums, documents and records held by them in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons, in each case held by them in their capacity as Agent or, as the case may be, other Paying Agent, to the Trustee or as the Trustee shall direct in such notice provided that such notice shall be deemed not to apply to any documents or records which the Agent or other Paying Agent is obliged not to release by any law or regulation; and |
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(ii) | by notice in writing to the relevant Obligors require each of them to make all subsequent payments in respect of the Notes, Receipts and Coupons to or to the order of the Trustee and not to the Agent and, with effect from the issue of any such notice to the relevant Obligors and until such notice is withdrawn, proviso (i) to sub-clause (B) of this Clause relating to the Notes shall cease to have effect. |
(D) | If the Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes of any Series become immediately due and repayable under Condition 10 the rate and/or amount of interest payable in respect of them will be calculated by the Agent or, as the case may be, the Calculation Agent at the same intervals as if such Notes had not become due and repayable, the first of which will commence on the expiry of the Interest Period during which the Notes of the relevant Series become so due and repayable mutatis mutandis in accordance with the provisions of Condition 5 except that the rates of interest need not be published. | |
(E) | Currency of payments: | |
All payments in respect of, under and in connection with these presents and the Notes of any Series to the relevant Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders shall be made in the relevant currency. | ||
(F) | Further Notes: | |
The relevant Issuer shall be at liberty from time to time (but subject always to the provisions of these presents) without the consent of the Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders to create and issue further Notes ranking pari passu in all respects (or in all respects save for the date from which interest thereon accrues and the amount of the first payment of interest on such further Notes) and so that the same shall be consolidated and form a single series with the outstanding Notes of a particular Series. | ||
(G) | Separate Series: | |
The Notes of each Series shall form a separate Series of Notes and accordingly, unless for any purpose the Trustee in its absolute discretion shall otherwise determine, the provisions of this Clause and of Clauses 3 to 21 (both inclusive), 22(B) and 25 and the Third Schedule shall apply mutatis mutandis separately and independently to the Notes of each Series and in such Clauses and Schedule the expressions “Notes”, “Noteholders”, “Receipts”, “Receiptholders”, “Coupons”, “Couponholders” and “Talons” shall be construed accordingly. | ||
3. | FORMS OF THE NOTES | |
(A) | Global Notes: |
(i) | THE Notes of each Tranche will initially be represented by either: |
(a) | a single Temporary Global Note which shall be exchangeable for either Definitive Notes together with, where applicable, Receipts and (except in the case of Zero Coupon Notes) Coupons and, where applicable, Talons attached or a Permanent Global Note, in each case in accordance with the provisions of such Temporary Global Note. Each Permanent Global Note shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes together with, where applicable, Receipts and (except in the case of Zero Coupon Notes) Coupons and, where |
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applicable, Talons attached, in accordance with the provisions of such Permanent Global Note; or | |||
(b) | a single Permanent Global Note which shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes together with, where applicable, Receipts and (except in the case of Zero Coupon Notes) Coupons and, where applicable, Talons attached in accordance with provisions of such Permanent Global Note. |
All Global Notes shall be prepared, completed and delivered to a common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg in accordance with the provisions of the Programme Agreement or to another appropriate depositary in accordance with any other agreement between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Dealer(s) and, in each case, the Agency Agreement. | |||
(ii) | Each Temporary Global Note shall be printed or typed in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part I of the Second Schedule and may be a facsimile. Each Temporary Global Note shall have annexed thereto a copy of the applicable Final Terms and shall be signed manually or in facsimile by a person duly authorised by the relevant Issuer on behalf of the relevant Issuer and shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Agent. Each Temporary Global Note so executed and authenticated shall be a binding and valid obligation of the relevant Issuer and title thereto shall pass by delivery. | ||
(iii) | Each Permanent Global Note shall be printed or typed in the form or substantially in the form set out in Part II of the Second Schedule and may be a facsimile. Each Permanent Global Note shall have annexed thereto a copy of the applicable Final Terms and shall be signed manually or in facsimile by a person duly authorised by the relevant Issuer on behalf of the relevant Issuer and shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Agent. Each Permanent Global Note so executed and authenticated shall be a binding and valid obligation of the relevant Issuer and title thereto shall pass by delivery. |
(B) | Definitive Notes: |
(i) | The Definitive Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons and the Talons shall be to bearer in the respective forms or substantially in the respective forms set out in Parts III, IV, V and VI, respectively, of the Second Schedule. The Definitive Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons and the Talons shall be serially numbered and, if listed or quoted, shall be security printed in accordance with the requirements (if any) from time to time of the relevant Stock Exchange and the relevant Conditions shall be incorporated by reference (where applicable to these presents) into such Definitive Notes if permitted by the relevant Stock Exchange (if any), or, if not so permitted, the Definitive Notes shall be endorsed with or have attached thereto the relevant Conditions, and, in either such case, the Definitive Notes shall have endorsed thereon or attached thereto a copy of the applicable Final Terms (or the relevant provisions thereof). Title to the Definitive Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons and the Talons shall pass by delivery. | ||
(ii) | The Definitive Notes shall be signed manually or in facsimile by a person duly authorised by the relevant Issuer on behalf of the relevant Issuer and shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Agent. The Definitive Notes so executed and authenticated, and the Receipts, the Coupons and Talons, upon execution and authentication of the relevant Definitive Notes, shall be binding and valid obligations |
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of the relevant Issuer. The Receipts, the Coupons and the Talons shall not be signed. No Definitive Note and none of the Receipts, Coupons or Talons appertaining to such Definitive Note shall be binding or valid until such Definitive Note shall have been executed and authenticated as aforesaid. |
(C) | Facsimile signatures: |
The relevant Issuer may use the facsimile signature of any person who at the date such signature is affixed to a Global Note or a Definitive Note is duly authorised by the relevant Issuer notwithstanding that at the time of issue of such Note he may have ceased for any reason to be so authorised. |
(D) | Persons to be treated as Noteholders: |
Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the relevant Obligors, the Trustee, the Agent and the other Paying Agents (notwithstanding any notice to the contrary and whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof) may (i) for the purpose of making payment thereon or on account thereof deem and treat the bearer of any Global Note, Definitive Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon as the absolute owner thereof and of all rights thereunder free from all encumbrances, and shall not be required to obtain proof of such ownership or as to the identity of the bearer and (ii) for all other purposes deem and treat: |
(a) | the bearer of any Definitive Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon; and | ||
(b) | each person for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as having a particular nominal amount of Notes credited to his securities account, |
as the absolute owner thereof free from all encumbrances and shall not be required to obtain proof of such ownership (other than, in the case of any person for the time being so shown in such records, a certificate or letter of confirmation signed on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg or any other form of record made by either of them) or as to the identity of the bearer of any Global Note, Definitive Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon. |
(E) | Certificates of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg: |
The relevant Obligors and the Trustee may call for and, except in the case of manifest error, shall be at liberty to accept and place full reliance on as sufficient evidence thereof a certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg (including any form of statement or print out of electronic records provided by the relevant clearing system in accordance with its usual procedures and in which the holder of a particular nominal amount of the Notes is clearly identified together with the amount of such holding) or any other letter of confirmation, form of record, information and/or certification made by either of them as the Trustee shall, in its absolute discretion, think fit to the effect that at any particular time or throughout any particular period any particular person is, was, or will be, shown in its records as the holder of a particular nominal amount of Notes represented by a Global Note and if it does so rely, such letter of confirmation, form of record, evidence, information and/or certification shall be conclusive and binding on all concerned. |
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4. | FEES, DUTIES AND TAXES |
THE relevant Issuer will pay any stamp, issue, registration, documentary and other similar fees, duties or taxes (if any), including interest and penalties thereon, payable (i) in the United Kingdom, Belgium or Luxembourg on or in connection with (a) the execution and delivery of these presents and (b) the constitution and original issue of the Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons and (ii) in any jurisdiction on or in connection with any action taken by or on behalf of the Trustee or (where permitted under these presents so to do) any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder to enforce these presents. |
5. | COVENANT OF COMPLICANCE |
EACH of the relevant Obligors covenants with the Trustee that it will comply with and perform and observe all the provisions of these presents which are expressed to be binding on it. The Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons shall be held subject to the provisions contained in these presents and the Conditions shall be binding on the relevant Obligors, the Trustee, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders and all persons claiming through or under them. The Trustee shall be entitled to enforce the obligations of the relevant Obligors under the Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons and the Conditions in the manner therein provided as if the same were set out and contained in this Trust Deed, which shall be read and construed as one document with the Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons. The Trustee shall hold the benefit of this covenant upon trust for itself and the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders according to its and their respective interests. |
6. | CANCELLATION OF NOTES AND RECORDS |
(A) | THE relevant Issuer shall procure that all Notes issued by it (i) redeemed or (ii) purchased by or on behalf of any of the relevant Obligors or any Subsidiary of any of the relevant Obligors and surrendered for cancellation or (iii) which, being mutilated or defaced, have been surrendered and replaced pursuant to Condition 11 or (iv) exchanged as provided in these presents (together in each case, in the case of Definitive Notes, with all unmatured Receipts and Coupons attached thereto or delivered therewith) and, in the case of Definitive Notes, all relative Receipts and Coupons paid in accordance with the relevant Conditions or which, being mutilated or defaced, have been surrendered and replaced pursuant to Condition 11 shall forthwith be cancelled by or on behalf of the relevant Issuer and a certificate stating: |
(a) | the aggregate nominal amount of Notes which have been redeemed and the amounts paid in respect thereof and the aggregate amounts in respect of Receipts and Coupons which have been paid; | ||
(b) | the serial numbers of such Notes in definitive form and Receipts; | ||
(c) | the total numbers (where applicable, of each denomination) by maturity date of such Receipts and Coupons; | ||
(d) | the aggregate amount of interest paid (and the due dates of such payments) on Global Notes; | ||
(e) | the aggregate nominal amount of Notes (if any) which have been purchased by or on behalf of any of the relevant Obligors or any Subsidiary of any of the relevant Obligors and cancelled and the serial numbers of such Notes in definitive form and, in the case of Definitive Notes, the total number (where applicable, of each denomination) by maturity date of the Receipts, Coupons and Talons attached thereto or surrendered therewith; |
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(f) | the aggregate nominal amounts of Notes and Receipts and the aggregate amounts in respect of Coupons which have been so exchanged or surrendered and replaced and the serial numbers of such Notes in definitive form and the total number (where applicable, of each denomination) by maturity date of such Coupons and Talons; and | ||
(g) | the total number (where applicable, of each denomination) by maturity date of Talons which have been exchanged for further Coupons |
shall be given to the Trustee by or on behalf of the relevant Issuer as soon as possible and in any event within four months after the date of such redemption, purchase, payment, exchange or replacement (as the case may be). The Trustee may accept such certificate as conclusive evidence of redemption, purchase, exchange or replacement pro tanto of the Notes or payment of interest thereon or exchange of the relative Talons respectively and of cancellation of the relative Notes and Coupons. | ||
(B) | The relevant Issuer shall procure (i) that the Agent shall keep a full and complete record of all Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons issued by it (other than serial numbers of Receipts and Coupons) and of their redemption or purchase and cancellation and of all replacement notes, receipts, coupons or talons issued in substitution for lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or destroyed Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons (ii) that the Agent shall, in respect of the Coupons of each maturity where the relevant Note is redeemed prior to its maturity date, retain until the expiry of 10 years from the Relevant Date in respect of such Coupons a list of the Coupons of that maturity still remaining unpaid or unexchanged and (iii) that such records shall be made available to the Trustee at all reasonable times during normal business hours. |
7. | GUARANTEE |
(A) | Cadbury Schweppes and CSI hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee to the Trustee: |
(i) | the due and punctual payment in accordance with these presents of the principal of and interest on all Notes issued by CSF and of all other amounts payable by CSF (in its capacity as an Issuer) under these presents in relation to such Notes and the relative Receipts and the relative Coupons; and | ||
(ii) | the due and punctual performance and observance by CSF (in its capacity as an Issuer) of each of the other provisions of these presents on its part to be performed or observed in relation to all Notes, Receipts and Coupons issued by it. |
(B) | Cadbury Schweppes and CSF hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee to the Trustee: |
(i) | the due and punctual payment in accordance with these presents of the principal of and interest on all Notes issued by CSI and of all other amounts payable by CSI (in its capacity as an Issuer) under these presents in relation to such Notes and the relative Receipts and the relative Coupons; and | ||
(ii) | the due and punctual performance and observance by CSI (in its capacity as an Issuer) of each of the other provisions of these presents on its part to be performed or observed in relation to all Notes, Receipts and Coupons issued by it. |
(C) | If the Relevant Issuer fails for any reason whatsoever punctually to pay any such principal, interest or other amount, the Relevant Guarantors shall cause each and every such payment to |
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be made as if the Relevant Guarantors instead of the Relevant Issuer were expressed to be the primary obligor of the relevant Note, Receipt or Coupon and not merely as surety (but without affecting the obligations of the Relevant Issuer) to the intent that the holder thereof shall receive the same amounts in respect of principal, interest or such other amount as would have been receivable had such payments been made by the Relevant Issuer. |
(D) | If any payment received by the Trustee or any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder pursuant to the provisions of these presents in relation to the relative Notes, Receipts or Coupons shall (whether on the subsequent bankruptcy, insolvency or corporate reorganisation of the Relevant Issuer or, without limitation, on any other event) be avoided or set aside for any reason, such payment shall not be considered as discharging or diminishing the liability of the Relevant Guarantors and this guarantee shall continue to apply as if such payment had at all times remained owing by the Relevant Issuer and the Relevant Guarantors shall indemnify the Trustee and the relative Noteholders and/or Receiptholders and/or Couponholders (as the case may be) in respect thereof PROVIDED THAT the obligations of the Relevant Guarantors under this sub-clause shall, as regards each payment made to the Trustee or any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder which is avoided or set aside, be contingent upon such payment being reimbursed to the Relevant Issuer or other persons entitled through the Relevant Issuer. |
(E) | Each of Cadbury Schweppes, CSF and CSI (in their capacities as guarantors) hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional and that each of the Relevant Guarantors shall be fully liable irrespective of the validity, regularity, legality or enforceability against the Relevant Issuer of, or of any defence or counter-claim whatsoever available to the Relevant Issuer in relation to, its obligations under these presents, whether or not any action has been taken to enforce the same or any judgment obtained against the Relevant Issuer, whether or not any of the other provisions of these presents have been modified, whether or not any time, indulgence, waiver, authorisation or consent has been granted to the Relevant Issuer by or on behalf of the relative Noteholders or the relative Receiptholders or Couponholders or the Trustee, whether or not any determination has been made by the Trustee pursuant to Clause 19(A), whether or not there have been any dealings or transactions between the Relevant Issuer, any of the relative Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders or the Trustee, whether or not the Relevant Issuer has been dissolved, liquidated, merged, consolidated, bankrupted or has changed its status, functions, control or ownership, whether or not the Relevant Issuer has been prevented from making payment by foreign exchange provisions applicable at its place of registration or incorporation and whether or not any other circumstances have occurred which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defence to a guarantor. Accordingly, the validity of this guarantee shall not be affected by reason of any invalidity, irregularity, illegality or unenforceability of all or any of the obligations of the Relevant Issuer under these presents and this guarantee shall not be discharged nor shall the liability of each of the Relevant Guarantors under these presents be affected by any act, thing or omission or means whatever whereby its liability would not have been discharged if it had been the principal debtor. |
(F) | Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 9(A), the Trustee may determine from time to time whether or not it will enforce this guarantee which it may do without making any demand of or taking any proceedings against the Relevant Issuer and may from time to time make any arrangement or compromise with the Relevant Guarantor in relation to this guarantee which the Trustee may consider expedient in the interests of the relative Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders. |
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(G) | Each of the Relevant Guarantors hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of dissolution, liquidation, merger or bankruptcy of the Relevant Issuer, any right to require a proceeding first against the Relevant Issuer, protest or notice with respect to the relative Notes, Receipts or Coupons or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever and hereby covenants that this guarantee shall be a continuing guarantee, shall extend to the ultimate balance of all sums payable and obligations owed by the Relevant Issuer under these presents in relation to the relative Notes, Receipts and Coupons, shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in these presents in relation to the relative Notes, Receipts and Coupons and is additional to, and not instead of, any security or other guarantee or indemnity at any time existing in favour of any person, whether from the Relevant Guarantors or otherwise. |
(H) | If any moneys shall become payable by the Relevant Guarantors under this guarantee each of the Relevant Guarantors shall not, so long as the same remain unpaid, without the prior written consent of the Trustee: |
(a) | in respect of any amounts paid by it under this guarantee, exercise any rights of subrogation or contribution or, without limitation, any other right or remedy which may accrue to it in respect of or as a result of any such payment; or | ||
(b) | in respect of any other moneys for the time being due to the Relevant Guarantors by the Relevant Issuer, claim payment thereof or exercise any other right or remedy; |
(including in either case claiming the benefit of any security or right of set-off or, on the liquidation of the Relevant Issuer, proving in competition with the Trustee). If, notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Relevant Issuer any payment or distribution of assets of the Relevant Issuer of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, shall be received by the Relevant Guarantors before payment in full of all principal of, and interest on, the relative Notes, Receipts and Coupons shall have been made to the relative Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders, such payment or distribution shall be received by Relevant Guarantors on trust to pay the same over immediately to the Trustee for application in or towards the payment of all sums due and unpaid under these presents in accordance with Clause 10 on the basis that Clause 10 does not apply separately and independently to each Series of the Notes save that nothing in this sub-clause (H) shall operate so as to create any charge by the Relevant Guarantors over such payment or distribution. |
(I) | For the purposes of this Clause 7, |
(a) | “Relevant Issuer” means CSF or, as the case may be, CSI, each in its capacity as an Issuer; and | ||
(b) | “Relevant Guarantors” means, in relation to CSF (in its capacity as an Issuer), Cadbury Schweppes and CSI (in their capacities as guarantors under this Clause 7) and, in relation to CSI (in its capacity as an Issuer), Cadbury Schweppes and CSF (in their capacities as guarantors under this Clause 7). |
8. | ENFORCEMENT AND NON-PAYMENT |
(A) | AT any time after the Notes shall have become immediately due and repayable, the Trustee may at its discretion and without further notice take such proceedings as it may think fit |
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against the relevant Issuer and/or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) Cadbury Schweppes and/or (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) CSF and/or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) CSI to enforce repayment thereof together with accrued interest (if any) and any other moneys payable pursuant to these presents. |
(B) | Proof that as regards any specified Note, Receipt or Coupon the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) has made default in paying any amount due in respect of such Note, Receipt or Coupon shall (unless the contrary be proved) be sufficient evidence that the same default has been made as regards all other Notes, Receipts or Coupons (as the case may be) in respect of which the relevant amount is due and payable. |
9. | PROCEEDINGS, ACTION AND INDEMNIFICATION |
(A) | THE Trustee shall not be bound to take any proceedings mentioned in Clause 8(A) or any other action in relation to these presents unless respectively directed or requested to do so (i) by an Extraordinary Resolution or (ii) in writing by the holders of at least one-quarter in nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding and in either case then only if it shall be indemnified to its satisfaction against all Liabilities to which it may thereby render itself liable or which it may incur by so doing. |
(B) | Only the Trustee may enforce the provisions of these presents. No Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder shall be entitled to proceed directly against any of the relevant Obligors to enforce the performance of any of the provisions of these presents unless the Trustee having become bound as aforesaid to take proceedings fails to do so within a reasonable period and such failure is continuing. |
10. | APPLICATION OF MONEYS |
ALL moneys received by the Trustee under these presents from any of the relevant Obligors (including any moneys which represent principal or interest in respect of Notes, Receipts or Coupons which have become void under Condition 9) shall, unless and to the extent attributable, in the opinion of the Trustee, to a particular Series of the Notes issued by the relevant Issuer, be apportioned pari passu and rateably between each Series of the Notes issued by the relevant Issuer, and all moneys received by the Trustee under these presents from any of the relevant Obligors to the extent attributable in the opinion of the Trustee to a particular Series of the Notes issued by the relevant Issuer or which are apportioned to such Series as aforesaid, be held by the Trustee upon trust to apply them (subject to Clause 12): | ||
FIRST in payment or satisfaction of all amounts then due and unpaid under Clauses 15 and/or 16(J) to the Trustee and/or any Appointee; | ||
SECONDLY in or towards payment pari passu and rateably of all principal and interest then due and unpaid in respect of the Notes of that Series; | ||
THIRDLY in or towards payment pari passu and rateably of all principal and interest then due and unpaid in respect of the Notes of each other Series issued by the relevant Issuer; and | ||
FOURTHLY in payment of the balance (if any) to the relevant Issuer (without prejudice to, or liability in respect of, any question as to how such payment to the relevant Issuer shall be dealt with as between the relevant Issuer and any other person), | ||
PROVIDED ALWAYS that any payment required to be made by the Trustee pursuant to these presents shall only be made subject to any applicable laws and regulations. |
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Without prejudice to this Clause 10, if the Trustee holds any moneys which represent principal or interest in respect of Notes, Receipts or Coupons issued by the relevant Issuer which have become void or in respect of which claims have been prescribed under Condition 9, the Trustee will hold such moneys on the above trusts. |
11. | NOTICE OF PAYMENTS |
THE Trustee shall give notice to the relevant Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14 of the day fixed for any payment to them under Clause 10. Such payment may be made in accordance with Condition 6 and any payment so made shall be a good discharge to the Trustee. |
12. | INVESTMENT BY TRUSTEE |
(A) | IF the amount of the moneys at any time available for the payment of principal and interest in respect of the Notes issued by the relevant Issuer under Clause 10 shall be less than 10 per cent. of the nominal amount of the Notes issued by such Issuer then outstanding the Trustee may at its discretion invest such moneys in some or one of the investments authorised below. The Trustee at its discretion may vary such investments and may accumulate such investments and the resulting income until the accumulations, together with any other funds for the time being under the control of the Trustee and available for such purpose, amount to at least 10 per cent. of the nominal amount of the Notes issued by such Issuer then outstanding and then such accumulations and funds shall be applied under Clause 10. |
(B) | Any moneys which under the trusts of these presents ought to or may be invested by the Trustee may be invested in the name or under the control of the Trustee in any investments for the time being authorised by English law for the investment by trustees of trust moneys or in any other investments whether similar to the aforesaid or not which may be selected by the Trustee or by placing the same on deposit in the name or under the control of the Trustee at such bank or other financial institution and in such currency as the Trustee may think fit. If that bank or institution is the Trustee or a Subsidiary, holding or associated company of the Trustee, it need only account for an amount of interest equal to the amount of interest which would, at then current rates, be payable by it on such a deposit to an independent customer. The Trustee may at any time vary any such investments for or into other investments or convert any moneys so deposited into any other currency and shall not be responsible for any loss resulting from any such investments or deposits, whether due to depreciation in value, fluctuations in exchange rates or otherwise. |
13. | PARTIAL PAYMENTS |
UPON any payment under Clause 10 (other than payment in full against surrender of a Note, Receipt or Coupon) the Note, Receipt or Coupon in respect of which such payment is made shall be produced to the Trustee or the Paying Agent by or through whom such payment is made and the Trustee shall or shall cause such Paying Agent to enface thereon a memorandum of the amount and the date of payment but the Trustee may in any particular case dispense with such production and enfacement upon such indemnity being given as it shall think sufficient. |
14. | COVENANTS |
(A) | EACH of the relevant Obligors covenants with the Trustee that, so long as any of the Notes remains outstanding it shall: |
(i) | at all times carry on and conduct its affairs in a proper and efficient manner; |
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(ii) | so far as permitted by applicable law, give or procure to be given to the Trustee such opinions, certificates, information and evidence as it shall reasonably require and in such form as it shall reasonably require (including without limitation the procurement of all such certificates called for by the Trustee pursuant to Clause 16(C)) for the purpose of the discharge or exercise of the duties, trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in it under these presents or by operation of law; | ||
(iii) | cause to be prepared in respect of each financial accounting period audited accounts in such form as will comply with the Companies Xxx 0000 of Great Britain; | ||
(iv) | at all times keep proper books of account and allow the Trustee and any person appointed by the Trustee to whom the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) shall have no reasonable objection free access to such books of account at all reasonable times during normal business hours upon giving prior notice provided that an Event of Default has occurred or the Trustee certifies in writing to the relevant Issuer that it has reasonable grounds to believe that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default has occurred, might have occurred or is about to occur and such access is permitted by applicable law; | ||
(v) | send to the Trustee (in addition to any copies to which it may be entitled as a holder of any securities of any of the relevant Obligors) two copies in English of every balance sheet, profit and loss account, report, circular and notice of general meeting issued or sent to holders of its publicly held securities as soon as practicable after the issue or publication thereof; | ||
(vi) | upon becoming aware thereof forthwith give notice in writing to the Trustee of the happening of any Event of Default or any Potential Event of Default or of the coming into existence of any Security which would require any security to be given to the Notes pursuant to Condition 4; | ||
(vii) | give to the Trustee (a) within 14 days after demand by the Trustee therefor and (b) (without the necessity for any such demand) promptly after the publication of its audited accounts in respect of each financial year commencing with the financial year ending 1st January, 2000 and in any event not later than 180 days after the end of each such financial year a certificate signed by two Directors of the relevant Issuer and (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) two Directors of Cadbury Schweppes and (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) two Directors of CSF and (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) two Directors of CSI to the effect that as at a date not more than seven days before delivering such certificate (the “relevant certification date”) there did not exist and had not existed since the relevant certification date of the previous certificate (or in the case of the first such certificate the date hereof) any Event of Default or any Potential Event of Default (or if such exists or existed specifying the same); | ||
(viii) | so far as permitted by law, at all times execute all such further documents and do all such acts and things as may in the reasonable opinion of the Trustee be necessary at any time or times to give effect to the terms and conditions of these presents; | ||
(ix) | at all times maintain an Agent, other Paying Agents, a Calculation Agent and Reference Banks in accordance with the Conditions; | ||
(x) | use its best endeavours to maintain the listing on the relevant Stock Exchange of those of the Notes which are listed on the relevant Stock Exchange or, if it is unable |
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to do so having used its best endeavours or if the Trustee considers that the maintenance of such listing is unduly onerous whether as a result of the implementation of the EU Transparency Directive (directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Harmonisation of Transparency Requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market) or otherwise, the Relevant Issuer and (where applicable) the Guarantor may cease to maintain such listing provided that it shall use its best endeavours promptly to obtain and maintain a listing of such Notes on such other stock exchange or exchanges or securities market or markets on which it is then accepted in the sphere of international issues of debt securities to list securities such as the Notes as the Relevant Issuer and (where applicable) the Guarantor may (with the approval of the Trustee (which approval of the Trustee may only be given if the Trustee has received confirmation from the relevant Dealer(s) in respect of such Notes that such other stock exchange or exchanges or securities market or markets is so accepted)) decide. Upon obtaining a listing of such Notes issued by it on such other stock exchange or exchanges or securities market or markets enter into a trust deed supplemental to this Trust Deed to effect such consequential amendments to these presents as the Trustee may require or as shall be requisite to comply with the requirements of any such stock exchange or securities market; |
(xi) | procure that the Agent gives notice to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14 of any appointment, resignation or removal of any Agent, Calculation Agent, Reference Bank or other Paying Agent (other than the appointment of the initial Agent, Calculation Agent, Reference Banks and other Paying Agents) after having obtained the prior written approval of the Trustee thereto or any change of any Paying Agent’s or Reference Bank’s specified office; | ||
(xii) | obtain the prior written approval of the Trustee to, and, as soon as reasonably practicable after the giving thereof, give to the Trustee two copies of, the form of every notice given to the holders of any Notes issued by it in accordance with Condition 14 (such approval, unless so expressed, not to constitute approval for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Xxx 0000 (the “FSMA”) of a communication within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA); | ||
(xiii) | if payments of principal or interest in respect of the Notes or the relative Receipts or Coupons by any of the relevant Obligors shall become subject generally to the taxing jurisdiction of any territory or any political sub-division or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax other than or in addition to the United Kingdom or any political sub-division or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax, immediately upon becoming aware thereof notify the Trustee in writing of such event and (unless the Trustee otherwise agrees) enter forthwith into a trust deed supplemental to this Trust Deed, in form and manner satisfactory to the Trustee, such supplemental trust deed to modify both Condition 7(b) and Condition 8 so that, in substitution for (or, as the case may be, addition to) the references in those Conditions to the United Kingdom or any political sub-division or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax, such Conditions make reference to that other or additional territory or any political sub-division or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax to whose taxing jurisdiction such payments shall have become subject as aforesaid; | ||
(xiv) | comply with and perform all its obligations under the Agency Agreement and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the Agent and the other Paying Agents comply with and perform all their respective obligations thereunder and any notice given by the Trustee pursuant to Clause 2(C)(i) and that the Calculation Agent complies with and performs all its obligations under the Calculation Agency Agreement and not |
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make any amendment to the Agency Agreement or the Calculation Agency Agreement without the prior written approval of the Trustee; | |||
(xv) | in order to enable the Trustee to ascertain the nominal amount of the Notes of each Series for the time being outstanding for any of the purposes referred to in the proviso to the definition of “outstanding” in Clause 1, deliver to the Trustee as soon as practicable upon being so requested in writing by the Trustee a certificate in writing signed by two Directors of the relevant Issuer or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) two Directors of Cadbury Schweppes or (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) CSF or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) CSI (as appropriate), setting out the total number and aggregate nominal amount of the Notes of each Series issued by such Issuer which: (a) up to and including the date of such certificate have been purchased by the relevant Issuer, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI), CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI), CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) or any Subsidiary or Holding Company of the relevant Issuer or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) Cadbury Schweppes or (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) CSF or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) CSI and cancelled; and (b) are at the date of such certificate held by, for the benefit of, or on behalf of, the relevant Issuer, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI), CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI), CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) or any Subsidiary or Holding Company of the relevant Issuer or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) Cadbury Schweppes or (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) CSF or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) CSI; | ||
(xvi) | if, in accordance with the provisions of the Conditions, interest in respect of the Notes becomes payable at the specified office of any Paying Agent in the United States of America promptly give notice thereof to the relative Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14; | ||
(xvii) | use all reasonable endeavours to procure that Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg (as the case may be) issue(s) any certificate or other document requested by the Trustee under Clause 3(E) as soon as practicable after such request; and | ||
(xviii) | promptly provide the Trustee with copies of all supplements and/or amendments and/or restatements of the Programme Agreement; |
PROVIDED that neither the relevant Issuer nor Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) nor CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) nor CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) shall be under any obligation to supply any information to the Trustee the supply of which would, in the reasonable opinion of the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF), be contrary to any confidentiality obligation or law or regulation binding on the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) or any affiliate of the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) or inside information (within the meaning of the Part V of the Criminal Justice Act 1993) unless the Trustee shall have certified in writing to the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, |
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CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) that: |
(i) | it has reasonable grounds to believe that an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred, might have occurred or is about to occur; and | ||
(ii) | the disclosure of any such information is, in the reasonable opinion of the Trustee, necessary for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Noteholders under these presents, |
and provided that any such disclosure to the Trustee would not breach any law or regulation binding on the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) or any affiliate of the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF). | ||
15. | REMUNERATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE | |
(A) | THE relevant Issuer shall pay to the Trustee remuneration for its services as trustee of these presents such amount as shall be agreed from time to time between the relevant Issuer and the Trustee. Such remuneration shall accrue from day to day and be payable (in priority to payments to Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders) up to and including the date when, all the Notes having become due for redemption, the redemption moneys and interest thereon to the date of redemption have been paid to the Agent or the Trustee PROVIDED THAT if upon due presentation of any Note, Receipt or Coupon or any cheque payment of the moneys due in respect thereof is improperly withheld or refused, remuneration will commence again to accrue until payment to such Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder is duly made. | |
(B) | In the event of the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default or the Trustee considering it expedient or necessary or being requested by any of the relevant Obligors to undertake duties which the Trustee and the relevant Issuer agree to be of an exceptional nature or otherwise outside the scope of the normal duties of the Trustee under these presents the relevant Issuer shall pay to the Trustee such additional remuneration as shall be agreed between them. | |
(C) | The relevant Issuer shall in addition pay to the Trustee an amount equal to the amount of any value added tax or similar tax properly chargeable in respect of its remuneration under these presents. | |
(D) | In the event of the Trustee and the relevant Issuer failing to agree: |
(1) | (in a case to which sub-clause (A) above applies) upon the amount of the remuneration; or | ||
(2) | (in a case to which sub-clause (B) above applies) upon whether such duties shall be of an exceptional nature or otherwise outside the scope of the normal duties of the Trustee under these presents, or upon such additional remuneration, |
such matters shall be determined by a merchant or investment bank (acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator) selected by the Trustee and approved by the relevant Issuer or, failing such approval, nominated (on the application of the Trustee) by the President for the time being of The Law Society of England and Wales (the expenses involved in such nomination |
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and the fees of such merchant or investment bank being payable by the relevant Issuer and the Trustee in equal shares) and the determination of any such merchant or investment bank shall be final and binding upon the Trustee and the relevant Issuer. | ||
(E) | The relevant Issuer shall, on written request, also pay or discharge all Liabilities properly and reasonably incurred by the Trustee in relation to the preparation and execution of, the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties under, and in any other manner in relation to, these presents, including but not limited to travelling expenses and any stamp, issue, registration, documentary and other taxes or duties paid or payable by the Trustee in connection with any action properly and reasonably taken or contemplated by or on behalf of the Trustee for enforcing, or resolving any doubt concerning, or for any other purpose in relation to, these presents. | |
(F) | All amounts payable pursuant to sub-clause (E) above and/or Clause 16(J) shall be payable by the relevant Issuer on the date specified in a demand by the Trustee and in the case of payments actually made by the Trustee prior to such demand shall (if not paid within three days after such demand and the Trustee so requires) carry interest at the rate of one per cent. per annum above the Base Rate from time to time of National Westminster Bank Plc from the date specified in such demand, and in all other cases shall carry interest at such rate from the date 30 days after the date of the same being demanded or (where the demand specifies that payment be made on an earlier date) from such earlier date specified in such demand. All unpaid remuneration due and payable to the Trustee shall carry interest at such rate from the due date therefor. | |
(G) | Unless otherwise specifically stated in any discharge of these presents the provisions of this Clause and Clause 16(J) shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding such discharge. | |
(H) | The Trustee shall be entitled in its absolute discretion to determine in respect of which Series of Notes any Liabilities incurred under these presents have been incurred or to allocate any such Liabilities between the Notes of any Series. | |
(I) | The Trustee shall wherever practicable give prior notice to the relevant Issuer of any Liabilities properly and reasonably to be incurred and or payments to be made by the Trustee in the lawful exercise of the powers conferred on it by these presents so as to afford the relevant Issuer the reasonable opportunity of meeting such Liabilities itself or of itself putting the Trustee in funds to make payment of such Liabilities. Failure, however, by the Trustee to give any such prior notice shall not prejudice its rights to reimbursement of such Liabilities under this Clause 15. | |
(J) | In relation to any payment by the Trustee of any Liabilities incurred under these presents, the Trustee will, if so requested by the relevant Issuer, furnish the relevant Issuer with evidence of the date of such payment in the form of a receipted invoice or in such other form as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer. | |
16. | SUPPLEMENT TO TRUSTEE ACTS | |
SECTION 1 of the Trustee Act 2000 shall not apply to the duties of the Trustee in relation to the trusts constituted by these presents. Where there are any inconsistencies between the Trustee Acts and the provisions of these presents, the provisions of these presents shall, to the extent allowed by law, prevail and, in the case of any such inconsistency with the Trustee Xxx 0000, the provisions of these presents shall constitute a restriction or exclusion for the purposes of that Act. The Trustee shall have all the powers conferred upon trustees by the Trustee Acts and by way of supplement thereto it is expressly declared as follows: |
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(A) | The Trustee may in relation to these presents act on the advice or opinion of or any information obtained from any lawyer, valuer, accountant, surveyor, banker, broker, auctioneer or other expert whether obtained by any of the relevant Obligors, the Trustee or otherwise and shall not be responsible for any Liability occasioned by so acting. The Trustee may rely, without liability to the Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders, on any certificate or report prepared by the Auditors pursuant to these presents whether or not addressed to the Trustee. | |
(B) | Any such advice, opinion or information may be sent or obtained by letter, telex, telegram, facsimile transmission or cable and the Trustee shall not be liable for acting in good faith on any advice, opinion or information purporting to be conveyed by any such letter, telex, telegram, facsimile transmission or cable although the same shall contain some error or shall not be authentic provided that such error or lack of authenticity shall not be manifest. | |
(C) | The Trustee may call for and shall be at liberty to accept as sufficient evidence of any fact or matter or the expediency of any transaction or thing a certificate signed by any two Directors of the relevant Issuer or by any two Directors of Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or by any two Directors of CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or by any two Directors of CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF), and the Trustee shall not be bound in any such case to call for further evidence or be responsible for any Liability that may be occasioned by it or any other person acting on such certificate. | |
(D) | The Trustee shall be at liberty to hold or to place these presents and any other documents relating thereto or to deposit them in any part of the world with any banker or banking company or company whose business includes undertaking the safe custody of documents or lawyer or firm of lawyers considered by the Trustee to be of good repute and the Trustee shall not be responsible for or required to insure against any Liability incurred in connection with any such holding or deposit and may pay all sums required to be paid on account of or in respect of any such deposit. | |
(E) | The Trustee shall not be responsible for the receipt or application of the proceeds of the issue of any of the Notes by the relevant Issuer, the exchange of any Global Note for another Global Note or Definitive Notes or the delivery of any Global Note or Definitive Notes to the person(s) entitled to it or them. | |
(F) | The Trustee shall not be bound to give notice to any person of the execution of any documents comprised or referred to in these presents or to take any steps to ascertain whether any Event of Default or any Potential Event of Default has occurred and, until it shall have actual knowledge or express notice pursuant to these presents to the contrary, the Trustee shall be entitled to assume that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and that each of the relevant Obligors is observing and performing all its obligations under these presents. | |
(G) | Save as expressly otherwise provided in these presents, the Trustee shall have absolute and uncontrolled discretion as to the exercise or non-exercise of its trusts, powers, authorities and discretions under these presents (the exercise or non-exercise of which as between the Trustee and the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and Couponholders shall be conclusive and binding on the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and Couponholders) and shall not be responsible for any Liability which may result from their exercise or non-exercise. | |
(H) | The Trustee shall not be liable to any person by reason of having acted upon any Extraordinary Resolution in writing or any Extraordinary Resolution or other resolution purporting to have been passed at any meeting of the holders of Notes of |
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all or any Series in respect whereof minutes have been made and signed even though subsequent to its acting it may be found that there was some defect in the constitution of the meeting or the passing of the resolution, (in the case of an Extraordinary Resolution in writing) that not all such holders had signed the Extraordinary Resolution or that for any reason the resolution was not valid or binding upon such holders and the relative Receiptholders and Couponholders. | ||
(I) | The Trustee shall not be liable to any person by reason of having accepted as valid or not having rejected any Note, Receipt or Coupon purporting to be such and subsequently found to be forged or not authentic provided that such forgery or lack of authenticity shall not be manifest. | |
(J) | Without prejudice to the right of indemnity by law given to trustees, each of the relevant Obligors shall indemnify the Trustee and every Appointee and keep it or him indemnified against all Liabilities to which it or he may be or become subject or which may be properly and reasonably incurred by it or him in the execution or purported execution of any of its or his trusts, powers, authorities and discretions under these presents or its or his functions under any such appointment or in respect of any other matter or thing done or omitted in any way relating to these presents or any such appointment. | |
(K) | Any consent or approval given by the Trustee for the purposes of these presents may be given on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as the Trustee thinks fit and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these presents may be given retrospectively. | |
(L) | The Trustee shall not (unless and to the extent ordered so to do by a court of competent jurisdiction) disclose to any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder any information (including, without limitation, information of a confidential, financial or price sensitive nature) made available to the Trustee by any of the relevant Obligors or any other person in connection with the trusts of these presents unless, after prior consultation with the relevant Issuer if the Trustee considers this reasonably practicable, the Trustee shall certify that failure so to disclose would be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders and such disclosure is permitted by applicable law and (in the absence of such certification and permission) no Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder shall be entitled to take any action to obtain from the Trustee any such information. | |
(M) | Where it is necessary or desirable for any purpose in connection with these presents to convert any sum from one currency to another it shall (unless otherwise provided by these presents or required by law) be converted at such rate or rates, in accordance with such method and as at such date for the determination of such rate of exchange, as may be agreed by the Trustee in consultation with the relevant Issuer and any rate, method and date so agreed shall be binding on the relevant Obligors, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders. | |
(N) | The Trustee as between itself and the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders may determine all questions and doubts arising in relation to any of the provisions of these presents. Every such determination, whether or not relating in whole or in part to the acts or proceedings of the Trustee, shall be conclusive and shall bind the Trustee and the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders. | |
(O) | In connection with the exercise by it of any of its trusts, powers, authorities or discretions under these presents (including, without limitation, any modification, waiver, authorisation, determination or substitution), the Trustee shall have regard to |
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the general interests of the Noteholders as a class but shall not have regard to any interests arising from circumstances particular to individual Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders (whatever their number) and, in particular but without limitation, shall not have regard to the consequences of such exercise for individual Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders (whatever their number) resulting from their being for any purpose domiciled or resident in, or otherwise connected with, or subject to the jurisdiction of, any particular territory or any political sub-division thereof and the Trustee shall not be entitled to require, nor shall any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder be entitled to claim, from the relevant Obligors, the Trustee or any other person any indemnification or payment in respect of any tax consequence of any such exercise upon individual Noteholders, the Receiptholders or Couponholders except to the extent already provided for in Condition 8 and/or any undertaking given in addition thereto or in substitution therefor under these presents. | ||
(P) | Any trustee of these presents being a lawyer, accountant, broker or other person engaged in any profession or business shall be entitled to charge and be paid all usual and proper professional and other charges for business transacted and acts done by him or his firm in connection with the trusts of these presents and also his reasonable charges in addition to disbursements for all other work and business done and all time spent by him or his firm in connection with matters arising in connection with these presents. | |
(Q) | The Trustee may (upon prior notification to, and after prior consultation with, the relevant Issuer where the Trustee considers such consultation to be reasonably practicable) whenever it thinks fit delegate by power of attorney or otherwise to any person or persons or fluctuating body of persons (whether being a joint trustee of these presents or not) all or any of its trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Trustee by these presents. Such delegation may be made upon such terms (including power to sub-delegate) and subject to such conditions and regulations as the Trustee may in the interests of the Noteholders think fit. Provided that the Trustee shall have exercised reasonable care in the selection of any such delegate, the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to supervise the proceedings or acts of any such delegate or sub-delegate or be in any way responsible for any Liability incurred by reason of any misconduct or default on the part of any such delegate or sub-delegate. The Trustee shall within a reasonable time after any such delegation or any renewal, extension or termination thereof give notice thereof to the relevant Issuer. | |
(R) | The Trustee may in the conduct of the trusts of these presents (upon prior notification to, and after prior consultation with, the relevant Issuer where the Trustee considers such consultation to be reasonably practicable) instead of acting personally employ and pay an agent (whether being a lawyer or other professional person) to transact or conduct, or concur in transacting or conducting, any business and to do, or concur in doing, all acts required to be done in connection with these presents (including the receipt and payment of money). Provided that the Trustee shall have exercised reasonable care in the selection of any such agent, the Trustee shall not be in any way responsible for any Liability incurred by reason of any misconduct or default on the part of any such agent or be bound to supervise the proceedings or acts of any such agent. | |
(S) | The Trustee shall not be responsible to any person for failing to request, require or receive any legal opinion relating to any Notes or for checking or commenting upon the content of any such legal opinion. |
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(T) | The Trustee shall not be concerned, and need not enquire, as to whether or not any Notes are issued in breach of the Programme Limit. | |
(U) | The Trustee shall not be liable to any person by reason of having accepted as valid or not having rejected any document and/or evidence and/or information and/or certification purporting to be issued or given by Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg whether pursuant to Clause 3(E) or otherwise and subsequently found to be forged or not authentic. | |
(V) | Any certificate or report of the Auditors or any other person called for by or provided to the Trustee in accordance with or for the purposes of these presents may be relied upon by the Trustee as sufficient evidence of the facts stated therein whether or not such certificate or report and/or any engagement letter or other document entered into by the Trustee in connection therewith contains a monetary or other limit on the liability of the Auditors or such other person in respect thereof. | |
17. | TRUSTEE’S LIABILITY | |
NOTHING in these presents shall in any case in which the Trustee has failed to show the degree of care and diligence required of it as trustee having regard to the provisions of these presents conferring on it any trusts, powers, authorities or discretions exempt the Trustee from or indemnify it against any liability for breach of trust or any liability which by virtue of any rule of law would otherwise attach to it in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which it may be guilty in relation to its duties under these presents. | ||
18. | TRUSTEE CONTRACTING WITH CADBURY SCHWEPPES AND CSF | |
NEITHER the Trustee (which for the purpose of this Clause shall include the Holding Company of any corporation acting as trustee hereof or any Subsidiary of such Holding Company) nor any director or officer or Holding Company, Subsidiary or associated company of a corporation acting as a trustee under these presents shall by reason of its or his fiduciary position be in any way precluded from: |
(i) | entering into or being interested in any contract or financial or other transaction or arrangement with any of the relevant Obligors or any person or body corporate associated with any of the relevant Obligors (including without limitation any contract, transaction or arrangement of a banking or insurance nature or any contract, transaction or arrangement in relation to the making of loans or the provision of financial facilities or financial advice to, or the purchase, placing or underwriting of or the subscribing or procuring subscriptions for or otherwise acquiring, holding or dealing with, or acting as paying agent in respect of, the Notes or any other notes, bonds, stocks, shares, debenture stock, debentures or other securities of, any of the relevant Obligors or any person or body corporate associated as aforesaid); or | ||
(ii) | accepting or holding the trusteeship of any other trust deed constituting or securing any other securities issued by or relating to any of the relevant Obligors or any such person or body corporate so associated or any other office of profit under any of the relevant Obligors or any such person or body corporate so associated, |
and each shall be entitled to exercise and enforce its rights, comply with its obligations and perform its duties under or in relation to any such contract, transaction or arrangement as is referred to in (i) above or, as the case may be, any such trusteeship or office of profit as is referred to in (ii) above without regard to the interests of the Noteholders and notwithstanding that the same may be contrary or prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders and shall not be responsible for any Liability occasioned to the Noteholders thereby and shall be entitled to retain and shall not be in any way liable to account for any |
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profit made or share of brokerage or commission or remuneration or other amount or benefit received thereby or in connection therewith. | ||
Where any holding company, Subsidiary or associated company of the Trustee or any director or officer of the Trustee acting other than in his capacity as such a director or officer has any information, the Trustee shall not thereby be deemed also to have knowledge of such information and, unless it shall have actual knowledge of such information, shall not be responsible for any loss suffered by Noteholders resulting from the Trustee’s failing to take such information into account in acting or refraining from acting under or in relation to these presents. | ||
19. | WAIVER, AUTHORISATION AND DETERMINATION | |
(A) | THE Trustee may without the consent or sanction of the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or the Couponholders and without prejudice to its rights in respect of any subsequent breach, Event of Default or Potential Event of Default from time to time and at any time but only if and in so far as in its opinion the interests of the Noteholders shall not be materially prejudiced thereby waive or authorise any breach or proposed breach by any of the relevant Obligors of any of the covenants or provisions contained in these presents or determine that any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default shall not be treated as such for the purposes of these presents PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT the Trustee shall not exercise any powers conferred on it by this Clause in contravention of any express direction given by Extraordinary Resolution or by a request under Condition 10 but so that no such direction or request shall affect any waiver, authorisation or determination previously given or made. Any such waiver, authorisation or determination may be given or made on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as the Trustee may determine, shall be binding on the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders and, if, but only if, the Trustee shall so require, shall be notified by the relevant Issuer to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14 as soon as practicable thereafter. | |
MODIFICATION | ||
(B) | The Trustee may without the consent or sanction of the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or the Couponholders at any time and from time to time concur with the relevant Obligors in making any modification (i) to these presents (other than the proviso to paragraph 5 of the Third Schedule or any matters referred to in that proviso) which in the opinion of the Trustee it may be proper to make PROVIDED THAT the Trustee is of the opinion that such modification will not be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders or (ii) to these presents if in the opinion of the Trustee such modification is of a formal, minor or technical nature or to correct a manifest error or to comply with mandatory provisions of applicable law. Any such modification may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as the Trustee may determine, shall be binding upon the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders and, unless the Trustee agrees otherwise, shall be notified by the relevant Issuer to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14 as soon as practicable thereafter. | |
BREACH | ||
(C) | Any breach of or failure to comply with any such terms and conditions as are referred to in sub-clauses (A) and (B) of this Clause shall constitute a default by the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) in the performance or observance of a covenant or provision binding on it under or pursuant to these presents. |
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20. | HOLDER OF DEFINITIVE NOTE ASSUMED TO BE RECEIPTHOLDER AND COUPONHOLDER | |
(A) | WHEREVER in these presents the Trustee is required or entitled to exercise a power, trust, authority or discretion under these presents, except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by applicable law, the Trustee shall, notwithstanding that it may have express notice to the contrary, assume that each Noteholder is the holder of all Receipts and Coupons appertaining to each Definitive Note of which he is the holder. | |
NO NOTICE TO RECEIPTHOLDERS OR COUPONHOLDERS | ||
(B) | Neither the Trustee nor the relevant Issuer shall be required to give any notice to the Receiptholders or Couponholders for any purpose under these presents and the Receiptholders or Couponholders shall be deemed for all purposes to have notice of the contents of any notice given to the holders of Definitive Notes in accordance with Condition 14. | |
21. | CURRENCY INDEMNITY | |
EACH of the relevant Obligors shall severally indemnify the Trustee, every Appointee, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders and keep them indemnified against: |
(a) | any loss or damage incurred by any of them arising from the non-payment by any of the relevant Obligors of any amount due to the Trustee or the holders of the Notes issued by the relevant Issuer and the relative Receiptholders or Couponholders under these presents by reason of any variation in the rates of exchange between those used for the purposes of calculating the amount due under a judgment or order in respect thereof and those prevailing at the date of actual payment by such relevant Obligors; and | ||
(b) | any deficiency arising or resulting from any variation in rates of exchange between (i) the date as of which the local currency equivalent of the amounts due or contingently due under these presents (other than this Clause) is calculated for the purposes of any bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of any of the relevant Obligors and (ii) the final date for ascertaining the amount of claims in such bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation. The amount of such deficiency shall be deemed not to be reduced by any variation in rates of exchange occurring between the said final date and the date of any distribution of assets in connection with any such bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation. |
The above indemnities shall constitute obligations of the relevant Obligors separate and independent from their other obligations under the other provisions of these presents and shall apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by the Trustee or the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or the Couponholders from time to time and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding the judgment or filing of any proof or proofs in any bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of any of the relevant Obligors for a liquidated sum or sums in respect of amounts due under these presents (other than this Clause). Any such deficiency as aforesaid shall be deemed to constitute a loss suffered by the Noteholders, the Receiptholders and the Couponholders and no proof or evidence of any actual loss shall be required by such relevant Obligor or its liquidator or liquidators. | ||
If the amount receivable by the Trustee or the Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders if converted on the relevant date for payment into the relevant currency of payment would yield a sum in excess of that due in such relevant currency of payment, the Trustee shall hold |
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such excess to the order of the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, the other person making payment. | ||
22. | NEW TRUSTEE | |
(A) | THE power to appoint a new trustee of these presents shall be vested in the Issuers jointly but no person shall be appointed who shall not previously have been approved by an Extraordinary Resolution. One or more persons may hold office as trustee or trustees of these presents but such trustee or trustees shall be or include a Trust Corporation. Whenever there shall be more than two trustees of these presents the majority of such trustees shall be competent to execute and exercise all the duties, powers, trusts, authorities and discretions vested in the Trustee by these presents provided that a Trust Corporation shall be included in such majority. Any appointment of a new trustee of these presents shall as soon as practicable thereafter be notified by the Issuers to the Agent and the Noteholders. | |
SEPARATE AND CO-TRUSTEES | ||
(B) | Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-clause (A) above, the Trustee may, upon giving prior written notice to, and after prior consultation with, all the relevant Obligors where the Trustee considers such consultation to be reasonably practicable but without the consent of the relevant Obligors, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or the Couponholders), appoint any person established or resident in any jurisdiction (whether a Trust Corporation or not) to act either as a separate trustee or as a co-trustee jointly with the Trustee: |
(i) | if the Trustee considers such appointment to be in the interests of the Noteholders; | ||
(ii) | for the purposes of conforming to any legal requirements, restrictions or conditions in any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts is or are to be performed; or | ||
(iii) | for the purposes of obtaining a judgment in any jurisdiction or the enforcement in any jurisdiction of either a judgment already obtained or any of the provisions of these presents against any of the relevant Obligors. |
The relevant Issuer irrevocably appoints the Trustee to be its attorney in its name and on its behalf to execute any such instrument of appointment. Such a person shall (subject always to the provisions of these presents) have such trusts, powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those conferred on the Trustee by these presents) and such duties and obligations as shall be conferred or imposed by the instrument of appointment. The Trustee shall have power in like manner to remove any such person. Such reasonable remuneration as the Trustee may pay to any such person, together with any attributable costs, charges and expenses properly and reasonably incurred by it in performing its function as such separate trustee or co-trustee, shall for the purposes of these presents be treated as costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Trustee. | ||
23. | TRUSTEE’S RETIREMENT AND REMOVAL | |
A trustee of these presents may retire at any time on giving not less than three months’ prior written notice to the Issuers without giving any reason and without being responsible for any Liabilities incurred by reason of such retirement. The Noteholders shall have the power exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution to remove any trustee or trustees for the time being of these presents. The Issuers jointly undertake that in the event of the only trustee of these presents which is a Trust Corporation giving notice under this Clause or being removed by Extraordinary Resolution they will use all reasonable endeavours to procure that a new trustee of these presents being a Trust Corporation is appointed as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. The retirement or removal of any such trustee shall not become effective until a successor trustee being a Trust Corporation is appointed. |
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24. | TRUSTEE’S POWERS TO BE ADDITIONAL | |
THE powers conferred upon the Trustee by these presents shall be in addition to any powers which may from time to time be vested in the Trustee by the general law or as a holder of any of the Notes, Receipts or Coupons. | ||
25. | SUBSTITUTION |
(A) | (1) | THE Trustee may, without the consent of the Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders, at any time agree with CSF, CSI and Cadbury Schweppes to the substitution in place of CSF or CSI (or of the previous substitute under this Clause) as the principal debtor under these presents of (a) another Subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes, (b) any relevant Obligor or its Successor in Business (in which case the guarantee of such Obligor shall cease and determine), (c) a Subsidiary of a Holding Company of Cadbury Schweppes or its Successor in Business or (d) a Holding Company of Cadbury Schweppes or its Successor in Business (in each of which cases (c) and (d) the guarantee of Cadbury Schweppes shall cease and determine if the Trustee is satisfied that the interests of the Noteholders will not be materially prejudiced if they became holders of Notes of such Subsidiary or Holding Company without the benefit of the guarantee of Cadbury Schweppes rather than if they were to remain holders of Notes of CSF or, as the case may be, CSI with the benefit of the guarantee of Cadbury Schweppes (such substituted company being hereinafter called the “New Company”) provided that a trust deed is executed or some other form of undertaking is given by the New Company in form and manner satisfactory to the Trustee, agreeing to be bound by the provisions of these presents with any consequential amendments which the Trustee may deem appropriate as fully as if the New Company had been named in these presents as the principal debtor in place of CSF or, as the case may be, CSI (or of the previous substitute under this Clause) and provided further that, where the New Company is another Subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes, Cadbury Schweppes unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees all amounts payable under these presents to the satisfaction of the Trustee. |
(2) | The following further conditions shall apply to (1) above: |
(i) | CSF, CSI, Cadbury Schweppes and the New Company shall comply with such other requirements as the Trustee may direct in the interests of the Noteholders; | ||
(ii) | where the New Company is incorporated, domiciled or resident in, or subject generally to the taxing jurisdiction of, a territory other than or in addition to the United Kingdom or any political sub-division or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, both Condition 7(b) and Condition 8 shall be modified so that, in substitution for (or, as the case may be, addition to) the references to the United Kingdom or any political sub-division or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, such Conditions make reference to that other or additional territory or any political sub-division or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax in which the New Company is incorporated, domiciled or resident or to whose taxing jurisdiction it is subject; | ||
(iii) | without prejudice to the rights of reliance of the Trustee under the immediately following paragraph (iv), the Trustee is satisfied that the relevant transaction is not materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders; and |
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(iv) | if two Directors of the New Company (or other officers acceptable to the Trustee) shall certify that the New Company is solvent at the time at which the relevant transaction is proposed to be effected (which certificate the Trustee may rely upon absolutely) the Trustee shall not be under any duty to have regard to the financial condition, profits or prospects of the New Company or to compare the same with those of CSF or, as the case may be, CSI or the previous substitute under this Clause as applicable. |
(B) | (1) | The Trustee may, without the consent of the Noteholders, Receiptholders or Couponholders, at any time agree with Cadbury Schweppes to the substitution in place of Cadbury Schweppes (or of any previous substitute under this Clause) as a principal debtor or as the guarantor under these presents of (a) a Successor in Business to Cadbury Schweppes, (b) a Holding Company of Cadbury Schweppes or (c) a Subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes which is acceptable to the Trustee (such substituted company being hereinafter called the “New Company”) provided that a trust deed is executed or some other form of undertaking is given by the New Company in form and manner satisfactory to the Trustee, agreeing to be bound by the provisions of these presents with any consequential amendments which the Trustee may deem appropriate as fully as if the New Company had been named in these presents as the principal debtor or, as the case may be, the guarantor in place of Cadbury Schweppes (or of the previous substitute under this Clause) and provided further that, where the New Company is a Subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes, Cadbury Schweppes unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees all amounts payable under these presents to the satisfaction of the Trustee. |
(2) | The following further conditions shall apply to (1) above: |
(i) | CSF, CSI, Cadbury Schweppes and the New Company shall comply with such other requirements as the Trustee may direct in the interests of the Noteholders; | ||
(ii) | where the New Company is incorporated, domiciled or resident in, or subject generally to the taxing jurisdiction of, a territory other than or in addition to the United Kingdom or any political sub-division or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, both Condition 7(b) and Condition 8 shall be modified so that, in substitution for (or, as the case may be, addition to) the references to the United Kingdom or any political subdivision or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, such Conditions make reference to that other or additional territory or any political subdivision or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax in which the New Company is incorporated, domiciled or resident or to whose taxing jurisdiction it is subject; | ||
(iii) | without prejudice to the rights of reliance of the Trustee under the immediately following paragraph (iv), the Trustee is satisfied that the relevant transaction is not materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders; and | ||
(iv) | if two Directors of the New Company (or other officers acceptable to the Trustee) shall certify that the New Company is solvent at the time at which the relevant transaction is proposed to be effected (which certificate the Trustee may rely upon absolutely) the Trustee shall not be under any duty to have regard to the financial condition, profits or prospects of the New Company or to compare the same with those of Cadbury Schweppes or the previous substitute under this Clause, as applicable. |
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(C) | Any such trust deed or undertaking shall, if so expressed, operate to release the company being substituted or the previous substitute as aforesaid from all of its obligations as principal debtor or guarantor under these presents. As soon as reasonably practicable but in any event not later than 21 days after the execution of such documents and compliance with such requirements, the New Company shall give notice thereof in a form previously approved by the Trustee to the Noteholders in the manner provided in Condition 14. Upon the execution of such documents and compliance with such requirements, the New Company shall be deemed to be named in these presents as the principal debtor or, as the case may be, guarantor in place of the company being substituted (or in place of the previous substitute under this Clause) under these presents and these presents shall be deemed to be modified in such manner as shall be necessary to give effect to the above provisions and, without limitation, references in these presents to the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to be or include references to the New Company. | |
26. | NOTICES | |
ANY notice or demand to Cadbury Schweppes, CSF, CSI or the Trustee required to be given, made or served for any purposes under these presents shall be given, made or served by sending the same by pre-paid post (first class if inland, first class airmail if overseas) or facsimile transmission or by delivering it by hand as follows: |
to Cadbury Schweppes:
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00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx X0X 0XX Xxxxxxx |
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(Attention: the Company Secretary) Facsimile No. 020 7830 5200 |
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to CSF:
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00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx X0X 0XX Xxxxxxx |
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(Attention: the Company Secretary) Facsimile No. 020 7830 5200 |
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Copy to Cadbury Schweppes | ||
to CSI:
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00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx X0X 0XX Xxxxxxx |
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(Attention: the Company Secretary) Facsimile No. 020 7830 5200 |
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Copy to Cadbury Schweppes |
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to the Trustee:
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Xxxxx Xxxxx 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX England |
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(Attention: The Manager, Commercial Trusts) Facsimile No. 020 7696 5261 |
or to such other address or facsimile number as shall have been notified (in accordance with this Clause) to the other parties hereto and any notice or demand sent by post as aforesaid shall be deemed to have been given, made or served 48 hours in the case of inland post or five days in the case of overseas post after despatch and any notice or demand sent by facsimile transmission as aforesaid shall be deemed to have been given, made or served 24 hours after the time of despatch provided that in the case of a notice or demand given by facsimile transmission such notice or demand shall forthwith be confirmed by post. The failure of the addressee to receive such confirmation shall not invalidate the relevant notice or demand given by facsimile transmission. | ||
27. | GOVERNING LAW | |
THESE presents are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law. | ||
28. | COUNTERPARTS | |
THIS Trust Deed and any trust deed supplemental hereto may be executed and delivered in any number of counterparts, all of which, taken together, shall constitute one and the same deed and any party to this Trust Deed or any trust deed supplemental hereto may enter into the same by executing and delivering a counterpart. | ||
29. | CONTRACTS (RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) ACT 1999 | |
A person who is not a party to this Trust Deed or any trust deed supplemental hereto has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000 to enforce any term of this Trust Deed or any trust deed supplemental hereto, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act. | ||
IN WITNESS whereof this Trust Deed has been executed as a deed by Cadbury Schweppes, CSF, CSI and the Trustee and delivered on the date stated on page 1. |
(i) | in relation to any Notes represented by a global Note (a “Global Note”), units of the lowest Specified Denomination in the Specified Currency; | |
(ii) | any Global Note; and | |
(iii) | any definitive Notes issued in exchange for a Global Note. |
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(i) | any Security created by any relevant Obligor after the date of issue of the Notes in substitution for any Security created by a company which becomes a Subsidiary (as defined in the Trust Deed) of such Obligor after the date of issue of the Notes (if such last-mentioned Security shall have been created prior to the date of, and not in contemplation of, such company becoming a Subsidiary of such Obligor) the value of which does not materially exceed the then current value of the Security for which it is being substituted; | |
(ii) | any Security created by any relevant Obligor (whether prior to, simultaneously with or following the issue of the Relevant Indebtedness) upon an amount of assets with a value not exceeding the amount of the proceeds or the anticipated proceeds of, or upon the proceeds (or any part or parts of the proceeds) of, or upon any assets, returns, revenues or other benefits acquired or to be acquired with, or relating to, the proceeds (or any part or parts of the proceeds) of, any such Relevant Indebtedness; and | |
(iii) | any Security relating to any loan or other indebtedness which does not wholly come within the definition of Relevant Indebtedness set out below. |
(a) | has an initial maturity of over 12 months; | |
(b) | is in the form of, or represented by, any bonds, notes, loan stock or other securities issued otherwise than to constitute or represent advances made by banks and/or other lending institutions; | |
(c) | is denominated or payable (whether compulsorily or at the option of the holder) in any currency other than the currency of the country in which the issuer has its principal place of business or is denominated in the currency of the country in which the issuer has its principal place of business but is initially placed or offered for subscription or sale by or on behalf of, or by agreement with, the issuer as to more than 50 per cent. to persons resident outside such country and where any bonds, notes or other securities are agreed to be issued to any person (wherever resident) with a view to their being offered as to more than 50 per cent. to persons resident outside any country of the currency in which they are denominated or payable, they shall be deemed to have been so offered by or on behalf of the issuer; and | |
(d) | at the time of its initial distribution is, or is intended by the issuer to become, quoted or listed on any stock exchange, over-the-counter market or other securities market, | |
and, subject always as provided above, “Security” means any mortgage, pledge or charge (other than arising by operation of law) upon the whole or any part of the undertaking or assets, present or future (including any uncalled capital), of the grantor. |
(a) | Interest on Fixed Rate Notes |
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(a) | in the case of Notes where the number of days in the relevant period from (and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest Commencement Date) to (but excluding) the relevant payment date (the “Accrual Period”) is equal to or shorter than the Determination Period during which the Accrual Period ends, the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by the product of (1) the number of days in such Determination Period and (2) the number of Determination Dates (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) that would occur in one calendar year; or | ||
(b) | in the case of Notes where the Accrual Period is longer than the Determination Period during which the Accrual Period ends, the sum of: |
(1) | the number of days in such Accrual Period falling in the Determination Period in which the Accrual Period begins divided by the product of (x) the number of days in such Determination Period and (y) the number of Determination Dates that would occur in one calendar year; and | ||
(2) | the number of days in such Accrual Period falling in the next Determination Period divided by the product of (x) the number of days in such Determination Period and (y) the number of Determination Dates that would occur in one calendar year; and |
(ii) | if “30/360” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the period from (and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest Commencement Date) to (but excluding) the relevant payment date (such number of days being calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day months) divided by 360. |
(i) | Interest Payment Dates |
(A) | the Specified Interest Payment Date(s) in each year specified in the applicable Final Terms; or | |
(B) | if no Specified Interest Payment Date(s) is/are specified in the applicable Final Terms, each date (each such date, together with each Specified Interest Payment Date, an “Interest Payment Date”) which falls the number of months or other period specified as the Specified Period in the applicable Final Terms after the preceding Interest Payment Date or, in the case of the first Interest Payment Date, after the Interest Commencement Date. |
(1) | in any case where Specified Periods are specified in accordance with Condition 5(b)(i)(B) above, the Floating Rate Convention, such Interest Payment Date (i) in the case of (x) above, shall be the last day that is a Business Day in the relevant month and the provisions of (B) below shall apply mutatis mutandis or (ii) in the case of (y) above, shall be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day unless it would thereby fall into the next calendar month, in which event (A) such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day and (B) each subsequent Interest Payment Date shall be the last Business Day in the month which falls the Specified Period after the preceding applicable Interest Payment Date occurred; or | |
(2) | the Following Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day; or | |
(3) | the Modified Following Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day unless it would thereby fall into the next calendar month, in which event such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day; or | |
(4) | the Preceding Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day. |
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(A) | a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in London and any Additional Business Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms; and | |
(B) | either (1) in relation to any sum payable in a Specified Currency other than euro, a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in the principal financial centre of the country of the relevant Specified Currency (if other than London and any Additional Business Centre and which, if the Specified Currency is New Zealand dollars, shall be Auckland) or (2) in relation to any sum payable in euro, a day on which the TARGET System is open. In these Terms and Conditions, “TARGET system” means the Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) System. |
(ii) | Rate of Interest |
(A) | ISDA Determination for Floating Rate Notes |
Where ISDA Determination is specified in the applicable Final Terms as the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest Period will be the relevant ISDA Rate plus or minus (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any). For the purposes of this sub-paragraph (A), “ISDA Rate” for an Interest Period means a rate equal to the Floating Rate that would be determined by the Agent under an interest rate swap transaction if the Agent were acting as Calculation Agent for that swap transaction under the terms of an agreement incorporating the 2000 ISDA Definitions as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. and as amended and updated as at the Issue Date of the first Tranche of the Notes (the “ISDA Definitions”) and under which: |
(1) | the Floating Rate Option is as specified in the applicable Final Terms; | ||
(2) | the Designated Maturity is a period specified in the applicable Final Terms; and | ||
(3) | the relevant Reset Date is either (i) if the applicable Floating Rate Option is based on the London inter-bank offered rate (“LIBOR”) or on the Euro-zone interbank offered rate (“EURIBOR”), the first day of that Interest Period or (ii) in any other case, as specified in the applicable Final Terms. |
For the purposes of this sub-paragraph (A), “Floating Rate”, “Calculation Agent”, “Floating Rate Option”, “Designated Maturity” and “Reset Date” have the meanings given to those terms in the ISDA Definitions. |
(B) | Screen Rate Determination for Floating Rate Notes | |
Where Screen Rate Determination is specified in the applicable Final Terms as the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest Period will, subject as provided below, be either: |
(1) | the offered quotation; or | ||
(2) | the arithmetic mean (rounded if necessary to the fifth decimal place, with 0.000005 being rounded upwards) of the offered quotations, |
(expressed as a percentage rate per annum) for the Reference Rate which appears or appear, as the case may be, on the Relevant Screen Page as at 11.00 a.m. (London time, in the case of LIBOR, or Brussels time, in the case of EURIBOR) on the Interest Determination Date in question plus or minus (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any), all as determined by the Agent. If five or more of such offered quotations are available on the Relevant Screen Page, the highest (or, if there is more than one such highest quotation, one only of such quotations) and the lowest (or, if there is more than one such lowest quotation, one only of such quotations) shall be disregarded by the Agent for the purpose of determining the arithmetic mean (rounded as provided above) of such offered quotations. | ||
The Agency Agreement contains provisions for determining the Rate of Interest in the event that the Relevant Screen Page is not available or if, in the case of (1) above, no such offered quotation appears or, in the case of (2) above, fewer than three such offered quotations appear, in each case as at the time specified in the preceding paragraph. | ||
If the Reference Rate from time to time in respect of Floating Rate Notes is specified in the applicable Final Terms as being other than LIBOR or EURIBOR, the Rate of Interest in respect of such Notes will be determined as provided in the applicable Final Terms. | ||
(iii) | Minimum Rate of Interest and/or Maximum Rate of Interest |
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(A) | if “Actual/365” or “Actual/Actual” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 365 (or, if any portion of that Interest Period falls in a leap year, the sum of (A) the actual number of days in that portion of the Interest Period falling in a leap year divided by 366 and (B) the actual number of days in that portion of the Interest Period falling in a non-leap year divided by 365); | |
(B) | if “Actual/365 (Fixed)” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 365; | |
(C) | if “Actual/365 (Sterling)” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 365 or, in the case of an Interest Payment Date falling in a leap year, 366; | |
(D) | if “Actual/360” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360; | |
(E) | if “30/360”, “360/360” or “Bond Basis” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360 (the number of days to be calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day months (unless (a) the last day of the Interest Period is the 31st day of a month but the first day of the Interest Period is a day other than the 30th or 31st day of a month, in which case the month that includes that last day shall not be considered to be shortened to a 30-day month, or (b) the last day of the Interest Period is the last day of the month of February, in which case the month of February shall not be considered to be lengthened to a 30-day month)); and | |
(F) | if “30E/360” or “Eurobond Basis” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360 (the number of days to be calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day months, without regard to the date of the first day or last day of the Interest Period unless, in the case of the final Interest Period, the Maturity Date is the last day of the month of February, in which case the month of February shall not be considered to be lengthened to a 30-day month). |
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(vii) | Certificates to be final |
(a) | Method of payment |
(i) | payments in a Specified Currency other than euro will be made by credit or transfer to an account in the relevant Specified Currency (which, in the case of a payment in Japanese Yen to a non-resident of Japan, shall be a non-resident account) maintained by the payee with, or, at the option of the payee, by a cheque in such Specified Currency drawn on, a bank in the principal financial centre of the country of such Specified Currency (which, if the Specified Currency is New Zealand dollars, shall be Auckland); and |
(ii) | payments in euro will be made by credit or transfer to a euro account (or any other account to which euro may be credited or transferred) specified by the payee or, at the option of the payee, by a euro cheque. |
(b) | Presentation of definitive Notes, Receipts and Coupons |
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(c) | Payments in respect of Global Notes |
(d) | General provisions applicable to payments |
(i) | the relevant Issuer has appointed Paying Agents with specified offices outside the United States with the reasonable expectation that such Paying Agents would be able to make payment in U.S. dollars at such specified offices outside the United States of the full amount of principal and interest on the Notes in the manner provided above when due; |
(ii) | payment of the full amount of such principal and interest at all such specified offices outside the United States is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions on the full payment or receipt of principal and interest in U.S. dollars; and |
(iii) | such payment is then permitted under United States law without involving, in the opinion of each relevant Obligor, adverse tax consequences to any such Obligor. |
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(i) | a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in: |
(A) | the relevant place of presentation; | ||
(B) | London; | ||
(C) | any Additional Financial Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms; and |
(ii) | either (1) in relation to any sum payable in a Specified Currency other than euro, a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in the principal financial centre of the country of the relevant Specified Currency (if other than the place of presentation, London and any Additional Financial Centre and which, if the Specified Currency is New Zealand dollars, shall be Auckland) or (2) in relation to any sum payable in euro, a day on which the TARGET System is open. |
(f) | Interpretation of principal and interest |
(i) | any additional amounts which may be payable with respect to principal under Condition 8 or under any undertaking or covenant given in addition thereto, or in substitution therefor, pursuant to the Trust Deed; | |
(ii) | the Final Redemption Amount of the Notes; | |
(iii) | the Early Redemption Amount of the Notes; | |
(iv) | the Optional Redemption Amount(s) (if any) of the Notes; | |
(v) | in relation to Notes redeemable in instalments, the Instalment Amounts; | |
(vi) | in relation to Zero Coupon Notes, the Amortised Face Amount (as defined in Condition 7(e)); and | |
(vii) | any premium and any other amounts (other than interest) which may be payable by the relevant Issuer under or in respect of the Notes. |
(a) | Redemption at maturity |
(b) | Redemption for tax reasons |
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(i) | on the occasion of the next payment due under the Notes, the relevant Issuer has or will become obliged to pay additional amounts as provided or referred to in Condition 8 or any other Obligor in respect of such Note would be unable for reasons outside its control to procure payment by the relevant Issuer and in making payment itself would be required to pay such additional amounts, in each case as a result of any change in, or amendment to or interpretation of, the laws, published practice or regulations of a Tax Jurisdiction (as defined in Condition 8), or any change in the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations, which change or amendment becomes effective on or after the date on which agreement is reached to issue the first Tranche of the Notes; and | |
(ii) | such obligation cannot be avoided by any relevant Obligor taking reasonable measures available to it, |
(c) | Redemption at the option of the relevant Issuer (Issuer Call) |
(i) | not less than 15 nor more than 30 days’ notice to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14; and | |
(ii) | not less than 15 days before the giving of the notice referred to in (i), notice to the Trustee and the Agent; |
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(d) | Redemption at the option of the Noteholders (Investor Put) |
(i) | in the case of a Note with a Final Redemption Amount equal to the Issue Price, at the Final Redemption Amount thereof; | |
(ii) | in the case of a Note (other than a Zero Coupon Note but including an Instalment Note and Partly Paid Note) with a Final Redemption Amount which is or may be less or greater than the Issue Price or which is payable in a Specified Currency other than that in which the Notes are denominated, at the amount specified in, or determined in the manner specified in, the applicable Final Terms or, if no such amount or manner is so specified in the applicable Final Terms, at its nominal amount; or | |
(iii) | in the case of a Zero Coupon Note, at an amount (the “Amortised Face Amount”) calculated in accordance with the following formula: | |
Early Redemption Amount = RP 6 (1 + AY)y | ||
where: | ||
“RP” means the Reference Price; | ||
“AY” means the Accrual Yield expressed as a decimal; and |
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“y” | is a fraction the numerator of which is equal to the number of days (calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 months of 30 days each) from (and including) the Issue Date of the first Tranche of the Notes to (but excluding) the date fixed for redemption or (as the case may be) the date upon which such Note becomes due and repayable and the denominator of which is 360, |
(f) | Instalments |
(g) | Partly Paid Notes |
(h) | Purchases |
(i) | Cancellation |
(j) | Late payment on Zero Coupon Notes |
(i) | the date on which all amounts due in respect of such Zero Coupon Note have been paid; and |
(ii) | five days after the date on which the full amount of the moneys payable in respect of such Zero Coupon Notes has been received by the Agent or the Trustee and notice to that effect has been given to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14. |
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(i) | by or on behalf of a holder who is liable for such taxes or duties in respect of such Note, Receipt or Coupon by reason of his having some connection with a Tax Jurisdiction other than the mere holding of such Note, Receipt or Coupon; or |
(ii) | by or on behalf of a holder who would have been able to avoid such withholding or deduction (i) by presenting any form or certificate or (ii) by making a declaration of non-residence or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority; or |
(iii) | more than 30 days after the Relevant Date (as defined below) except to the extent that the holder thereof would have been entitled to an additional amount on presenting the same for payment on such thirtieth day assuming that day to have been a Payment Day (as defined in Condition 6(e)); or |
(iv) | where such withholding or deduction is imposed on a payment to an individual and is required to be made pursuant to any law implementing or complying with, or introduced in order to conform to, European Union Directive 2003/48/EC or any other directive on the taxation of savings income implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of 26th-27th November, 2000; or |
(v) | by or on behalf of a holder who would have been able to avoid such withholding or deduction by presenting such Note, Receipt or Coupon to another Paying Agent in a Member State of the European Union. |
(A) | “Tax Jurisdiction” means the United Kingdom or any political subdivision or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax; and |
(B) | the “Relevant Date” means the date on which such payment first becomes due, except that, if the full amount of the moneys payable has not been duly received by the Agent or the Trustee on or prior to such due date, it means the date on which, the full amount of such moneys having been so received, notice to that effect is duly given to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14. |
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(i) | there is failure by any relevant Obligor to pay any principal or interest payable on any of the Notes within 15 days of its due date; or |
(ii) | any relevant Obligor defaults in the performance or observance of any of its other obligations set out in the Notes or the Trust Deed which default is in the opinion of the Trustee incapable of remedy or, if in the opinion of the Trustee capable of remedy, is not in the opinion of the Trustee remedied within 30 days (or such longer period as the Trustee may permit) after notice of such default shall have been given to each relevant Obligor by the Trustee requiring the same to be remedied; or |
(iii) | any holder or trustee for the holders of any Capital Markets Indebtedness of any relevant Obligor amounting in aggregate to not less than £25,000,000 or its equivalent in any other currency shall demand premature repayment thereof following a default or enforces any security therefor or any relevant Obligor defaults (after whichever is the longer of any originally applicable grace period and 30 days after the due date) in the repayment of any such Capital Markets Indebtedness at the maturity thereof or any guarantee or indemnity given by any relevant Obligor in respect of any Capital Markets Indebtedness of any third party amounting in aggregate to not less than £25,000,000 or its equivalent in any other currency shall not be honoured (after whichever is the longer of any originally applicable grace period and 30 days after the due date) when due and called upon, unless, in any of the above cases, in the opinion of the Trustee, the Obligor is contesting in good faith and by appropriate proceedings that such amounts are due; or |
(iv) | any relevant Obligor becomes insolvent or is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123(1)(e) or section 123(2) of the Insolvency Xxx 0000 of the United Kingdom or applies for or consents to or suffers the appointment of an administrator, liquidator or administrative or other receiver of the whole or any material part of its undertaking, property, assets or revenues or takes any proceedings under any law for a readjustment or deferment of its obligations or any part of them or makes or enters into a general assignment or an arrangement or composition with or for the benefit of its creditors (otherwise than, with the prior consent of the Trustee, for the purposes of consolidation, amalgamation, merger or reconstruction or any other process the result of which will be that all or part of such Obligor’s assets and undertaking will be transferred to another solvent entity); or |
(v) | an order is made or an effective resolution passed for winding-up of any relevant Obligor (otherwise than, with the prior consent of the Trustee, for the purposes of consolidation, amalgamation, merger or reconstruction or any other process the result of which will be that all or part of such Obligor’s assets and undertaking will be transferred to another solvent entity); or |
(vi) | for any reason the applicable Guarantee ceases, or is claimed by the guarantor not, to be in full force and effect; or |
(vii) | Cadbury Schweppes ceases or threatens to cease to carry on the whole or substantially the whole of its business save for the purposes of reconstruction, union, transfer, merger or amalgamation which is effected with the prior written consent of the Trustee or which is approved by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Noteholders, |
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(i) | there will at all times be an Agent; | |
(ii) | so long as the Notes are listed on any stock exchange, or admitted to listing by any other relevant authority, there will at all times be a Paying Agent with a specified office in such place as may be required by the rules and regulations of the relevant stock exchange or other relevant authority; | |
(iii) | there will at all times be a Paying Agent with a specified office outside the United Kingdom; | |
(iv) | if the Trustee requests, there will be appointed by the relevant Issuer, a Paying Agent outside the European Union; and | |
(v) | for so long as any law implementing or complying with, or introduced in order to conform to, European Union Directive 2003/48/EC or any other directive implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of 26th-27th November, 2000 is in force, the relevant Issuer and (as the case may be) each other relevant Obligor will ensure that it maintains a Paying Agent in a Member State of the European Union that is not obliged to withhold or deduct tax pursuant to any such law or directive (if there is such a Member State). |
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(i) | any modification (except as mentioned above) of any of these Terms and Conditions, the Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons or the Trust Deed which is not in the opinion of the Trustee materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders; or |
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(ii) | any modification of any of these Terms and Conditions, the Notes, the Receipts, the Coupons or the Trust Deed which is of a formal, minor or technical nature or is made to correct a manifest error or to comply with mandatory provisions of the law. |
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Trinity Tower
9 Xxxxxx Xxxx Street
London E1W 1YT
0, xxx Xxxxxxx
X-0000 Xxxxxxxxxx
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(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 52457)/
(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 465012)/
(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 01135043)]2
CADBURY SCHWEPPES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
(“Cadbury Schweppes”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 52457)
(“CSF”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 465012)/
(“CSI”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 01135043)]3
1 | Include where the original maturity of the Notes is more than 365 days. | |
2 | Delete as applicable. | |
3 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. |
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1 | Include where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. | |
2 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. | |
3 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. |
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1 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. |
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]2
JPMorgan Chase Bank,
London office,
as Agent.
1 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. | |
2 | Delete as applicable. |
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Confirmation of | ||||||||||||||||
payment by or on | ||||||||||||||||
Interest Payment | Total amount of | Amount of | behalf of the | |||||||||||||
Date made | Date | interest payable | interest paid | Issuer | ||||||||||||
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Remaining nominal | ||||||||||||||||
amount of this | Confirmation of | |||||||||||||||
Total amount of | Amount of | Global Note | payment by or on | |||||||||||||
Instalment Amounts | Instalment Amounts | following such | behalf of the | |||||||||||||
Date made | payable | paid | payment * | Issuer | ||||||||||||
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Remaining nominal | ||||||||||||||||
amount of this | ||||||||||||||||
Total amount | Global Note | Confirmation of | ||||||||||||||
Date | of principal | Amount of | following such | redemption by or on | ||||||||||||
made | payable | principal paid | redemption* | behalf of the Issuer | ||||||||||||
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Remaining nominal | ||||||||||||
Part of nominal | amount of this | Confirmation of | ||||||||||
amount of this | Global Note | purchase and | ||||||||||
Global Note | following such | cancellation by or | ||||||||||
Date | purchased and | purchase and | on behalf of the | |||||||||
made | cancelled | cancellation* | Issuer | |||||||||
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Nominal amount of | ||||||||||||
this Global Note | ||||||||||||
exchanged for | Remaining nominal | |||||||||||
Definitive Notes or | amount of this | |||||||||||
a part of a | Global Note | Notation made by or | ||||||||||
Date | Permanent Global | following such | on behalf of the | |||||||||
made | Note | exchange* | Issuer | |||||||||
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(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 52457)/
(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 465012)
(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 01135043)]2
CADBURY SCHWEPPES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
(“Cadbury Schweppes”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 52457)
(“CSF”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 465012)
(“CSI”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 01135043)]3
1 | Include where the original maturity of the Notes is more than 365 days. | |
2 | Delete as applicable. | |
3 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. |
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(i) | upon not less than 60 days’ written notice being given to the Agent by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. as operator of the Euroclear System (“Euroclear”) and/or Clearstream Banking |
1 | Include where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. | |
2 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. | |
3 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. |
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société anonyme (“Clearstream, Luxembourg”), (acting on the instructions of any holder of an interest in this Global Note); or | ||
(ii) | only upon the occurrence of an Exchange Event. | |
An “Exchange Event” means: |
(1) | an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; | ||
(2) | the Issuer has been notified that both Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg have been closed for business for a continuous period of 14 days (other than by reason of holiday, statutory or otherwise) or have announced an intention permanently to cease business or have in fact done so and no alternative clearing system satisfactory to the Trustee is available; or | ||
(3) | the Issuer has or will become obliged to pay additional amounts as provided for or referred to in Condition 8 which would not be required were the Notes in definitive form. |
(i) | the Issuer will promptly give notice to Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14 of the occurrence of such Exchange Event; and | ||
(ii) | Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg (acting on the instructions of any holder of an interest in this Global Note) or the Trustee may give notice to the Agent requesting exchange and, in the event of the occurrence of an Exchange Event as described in (3) above, the Issuer may also give notice to the Agent requesting exchange. |
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]3
JPMorgan Chase Bank,
London office,
as Agent.
1 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. | |
2 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. | |
3 | Delete as applicable. |
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Confirmation of | ||||||||||||||||
payment by or on | ||||||||||||||||
Interest Payment | Total amount of | Amount of | behalf of the | |||||||||||||
Date made | Date | interest payable | interest paid | Issuer | ||||||||||||
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Nominal amount of | Confirmation of | |||||||||||||||
Total amount | Amount of | this Global Note | payment by or on | |||||||||||||
Date | of Instalment | Instalment Amounts | following such | behalf of the | ||||||||||||
made | Amounts payable | paid | payment * | Issuer | ||||||||||||
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Remaining nominal | ||||||||||||||||
amount of this | ||||||||||||||||
Total amount | Global Note | Confirmation of | ||||||||||||||
Date | of principal | Amount of | following such | redemption by or on | ||||||||||||
made | payable | principal paid | redemption* | behalf of the Issuer | ||||||||||||
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Remaining nominal | ||||||||||||
Part of nominal | amount of this | Confirmation of | ||||||||||
amount of this | Global Note | purchase and | ||||||||||
Global Note | following such | cancellation by or | ||||||||||
Date | purchased and | purchase and | on behalf of the | |||||||||
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(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 52457)/
(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 465012)/
(the “Issuer”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 01135043)]2
CADBURY SCHWEPPES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
(“Cadbury Schweppes”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 52457)
(“CSF”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 465012)/
(“CSI”)
(incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales with registered number 01135043)]3
NOTES DUE
[Year of Maturity]
1 | Include where the original maturity of the Notes is more than 365 days. | |
2 | Delete as applicable. | |
3 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. |
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]3
JPMorgan Chase Bank,
London office,
as Agent.
1 | Include where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. | |
2 | Delete where the relevant Issuer is Cadbury Schweppes. Where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI, delete as appropriate. | |
3 | Delete as applicable. |
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replacing or modifying the Conditions which appears in the Final Terms relating to the Notes]
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]1
NOTES DUE
[Year of Maturity]
1 | Delete as applicable. | |
2 | Include where the original maturity of the Notes is more than 365 days. |
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]1
NOTES DUE
[Year of Maturity]
negotiable and subject to the Terms and
Conditions of the said Notes.
[ ]
due on [ ], [ ]]
the Terms and Conditions endorsed on,
attached to or incorporated by reference
into the said Notes on [the Interest Payment
Date falling in [ ] [ ]/[ ]].
negotiable and subject to such Terms and
Conditions, under which it may become void
before its due date.]
1 | Delete as applicable. | |
2 | Delete where the Notes are all of the same denomination. | |
3 | Include where the original maturity of the Notes is more than 365 days. |
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]1
NOTES DUE
[Year of Maturity]
1 | Delete as applicable. | |
2 | Delete where the Notes are all of the same denomination. | |
3 | Not required on last Coupon sheet. | |
4 | Include where the original maturity of the Notes is more than 365 days. |
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Trinity Tower
9 Xxxxxx Xxxx Street
London E1W 1YT
0, xxx Xxxxxxx
X-0000 Xxxxxxxxxx
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EUROCLEAR OR CLEARSTREAM, LUXEMBOURG
CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c.)/
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]1
1 | Delete as applicable. |
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1 | To be dated no earlier than the date to which this certification relates, namely (a) the payment date or (b) the Exchange Date. |
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CADBURY SCHWEPPES FINANCE p.l.c./
CADBURY SCHWEPPES INVESTMENTS plc]1
1 | Delete as applicable. |
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1 | To be dated no earlier than the fifteenth day prior to the date to which this certification relates, namely (a) the payment date or (b) the Exchange Date. |
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1. | (A) | As used in this Schedule the following expressions shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires: |
(i) | “voting certificate” shall mean an English language certificate issued by a Paying Agent and dated in which it is stated: |
(a) | that on the date thereof Notes (whether in definitive form or represented by a Global Note and not being Notes in respect of which a block voting instruction has been issued and is outstanding in respect of the meeting specified in such voting certificate or any adjourned such meeting) were deposited with such Paying Agent or (to the satisfaction of such Paying Agent) were held to its order or under its control or blocked in an account with a clearing system and that no such Notes will cease to be so deposited or held or blocked until the first to occur of: |
(1) | the conclusion of the meeting specified in such certificate or, if later, of any adjourned such meeting; and | ||
(2) | the surrender of the certificate to the Paying Agent who issued the same; and |
(b) | that the bearer thereof is entitled to attend and vote at such meeting and any adjourned such meeting in respect of the Notes represented by such certificate; |
(ii) | “block voting instruction” shall mean an English language document issued by a Paying Agent and dated in which: |
(a) | it is certified that Notes (whether in definitive form or represented by a Global Note and not being Notes in respect of which a voting certificate has been issued and is outstanding in respect of the meeting specified in such block voting instruction and any adjourned such meeting) have been deposited with such Paying Agent or (to the satisfaction of such Paying Agent) were held to its order or under its control or blocked in an account with a clearing system and that no such Notes will cease to be so deposited or held or blocked until the first to occur of: |
(1) | the conclusion of the meeting specified in such document or, if later, of any adjourned such meeting; and | ||
(2) | the surrender to the Paying Agent not less than 48 hours before the time for which such meeting or any adjourned such meeting is convened of the receipt issued by such Paying Agent in respect of each such deposited Note which is to be released or (as the case may require) the Note or Notes ceasing with the agreement of the Paying Agent to be held to its order or under its control or so blocked and the giving of notice by the Paying Agent to the relevant Issuer in accordance with paragraph 17 hereof of the necessary amendment to the block voting instruction; |
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(b) | it is certified that each holder of such Notes or a duly authorised agent on his behalf has instructed such Paying Agent that the vote(s) attributable to the Note or Notes so deposited or held or blocked should be cast in a particular way in relation to the resolution or resolutions to be put to such meeting or any adjourned such meeting and that all such instructions are during the period commencing 48 hours prior to the time for which such meeting or any adjourned such meeting is convened and ending at the conclusion or adjournment thereof neither revocable nor capable of amendment; | ||
(c) | the aggregate nominal amount of the Notes so deposited or held or blocked are listed distinguishing with regard to each such resolution between those in respect of which instructions have been given as aforesaid that the votes attributable thereto should be cast in favour of the resolution and those in respect of which instructions have been so given that the votes attributable thereto should be cast against the resolution; and | ||
(d) | one or more persons named in such document (each hereinafter called a “proxy”) is or are authorised and instructed by such Paying Agent to cast the votes attributable to the Notes so listed in accordance with the instructions referred to in (c) above as set out in such document; |
(iii) | “24 hours” shall mean a period of 24 hours including all or part of a day upon which banks are open for business in both the place where the relevant meeting is to be held and in each of the places where the Paying Agents have their specified offices (disregarding for this purpose the day upon which such meeting is to be held) and such period shall be extended by one period or, to the extent necessary, more periods of 24 hours until there is included as aforesaid all or part of a day upon which banks are open for business in all of the places as aforesaid; and | ||
(iv) | “48 hours” shall mean a period of 48 hours including all or part of two days upon which banks are open for business both in the place where the relevant meeting is to be held and in each of the places where the Paying Agents have their specified offices (disregarding for this purpose the day upon which such meeting is to be held) and such period shall be extended by one period or, to the extent necessary, more periods of 24 hours until there is included as aforesaid all or part of two days upon which banks are open for business in all of the places as aforesaid. |
(B) | A holder of a Note (whether in definitive form or represented by a Global Note) may obtain a voting certificate in respect of such Note from a Paying Agent or require a Paying Agent to issue a block voting instruction in respect of such Note by depositing such Note with such Paying Agent or (to the satisfaction of such Paying Agent) by such Note being held to its order or under its control or being blocked in an account with a clearing system, in each case not less than 48 hours before the time fixed for the relevant meeting and on the terms set out in sub-paragraph (A)(i)(a) or (A)(ii)(a) above (as the case may be), and (in the case of a block voting instruction) instructing such Paying Agent to the effect set out in sub-paragraph (A)(ii)(b) above. The holder of any voting certificate or the proxies named in any block voting instruction shall for all purposes in connection with the relevant meeting or adjourned meeting of Noteholders be deemed to be the holder of the Notes to which such voting certificate or block voting instruction relates and the Paying Agent with |
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which such Notes have been deposited or the person holding the same to the order or under the control of such Paying Agent or the clearing system in which such Notes have been blocked shall be deemed for such purposes not to be the holder of those Notes. |
2. | The relevant Issuer, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI), CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI), CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) or the Trustee may at any time and the relevant Issuer shall upon a requisition in writing in the English language signed by the holders of not less than five per cent. in nominal amount of the Notes for the time being outstanding convene a meeting of the Noteholders and if the relevant Issuer makes default for a period of seven days in convening such a meeting the same may be convened by the Trustee or the requisitionists. Whenever the relevant Issuer or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) Cadbury Schweppes or (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) CSF or (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) CSI is about to convene any such meeting the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Trustee of the day, time and place thereof and of the nature of the business to be transacted thereat. Every such meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Trustee may appoint or approve. | |
3. | At least 21 days’ notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is given and the day on which the meeting is to be held) specifying the place, day and hour of meeting shall be given to the holders of the relevant Notes prior to any meeting of such holders in the manner provided by Condition 14. Such notice, which shall be in the English language, shall state generally the nature of the business to be transacted at the meeting thereby convened but (except for an Extraordinary Resolution) it shall not be necessary to specify in such notice the terms of any resolution to be proposed. Such notice shall include statements, if applicable, to the effect that Notes may, not less than 48 hours before the time fixed for the meeting, be deposited with Paying Agents or (to their satisfaction) held to their order or under their control or blocked in an account with a clearing system for the purpose of obtaining voting certificates or appointing proxies. A copy of the notice shall be sent by post to the Trustee (unless the meeting is convened by the Trustee), to the relevant Issuer (unless the meeting is convened by the relevant Issuer), (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) to Cadbury Schweppes (unless the meeting is convened by Cadbury Schweppes), (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) CSF (unless the meeting is convened by CSF) and (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) CSI (unless the meeting is convened by CSI). | |
4. | A person (who may but need not be a Noteholder) nominated in writing by the Trustee shall be entitled to take the chair at the relevant meeting or adjourned meeting but if no such nomination is made or if at any meeting or adjourned meeting the person nominated shall not be present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting the Noteholders present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman, failing which the relevant Issuer may appoint a Chairman. The Chairman of an adjourned meeting need not be the same person as was Chairman of the meeting from which the adjournment took place. | |
5. | At any such meeting one or more persons present holding Definitive Notes or voting certificates or being proxies and holding or representing in the aggregate not less than one-twentieth of the nominal amount of the Notes for the time being outstanding shall (except for the purpose of passing an Extraordinary Resolution) form a quorum for the transaction of business and no business (other than the choosing of a Chairman) shall be transacted at any meeting unless the requisite quorum be present at the commencement of the relevant business. The quorum at any such meeting for passing an Extraordinary Resolution shall (subject as provided below) be one or more persons present holding Definitive Notes or voting certificates or being proxies and holding or representing in the aggregate a clear majority in nominal amount of the Notes for the time being outstanding PROVIDED THAT |
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at any meeting the business of which includes any of the following matters (each of which shall, subject only to Clause 19(B)(ii), only be capable of being effected after having been approved by Extraordinary Resolution) namely: |
(i) | reduction or cancellation of the amount payable or, where applicable, modification, except where such modification is in the opinion of the Trustee bound to result in an increase, of the method of calculating the amount payable or modification of the date of payment or, where applicable, of the method of calculating the date of payment in respect of any principal or interest in respect of the Notes; | ||
(ii) | alteration of the currency in which payments under the Notes, Receipts and Coupons are to be made; | ||
(iii) | alteration of the majority required to pass an Extraordinary Resolution; | ||
(iv) | the sanctioning of any such scheme or proposal as is described in paragraph 18(I) below; and | ||
(v) | alteration of this proviso or the proviso to paragraph 6 below; |
the quorum shall be one or more persons present holding Definitive Notes or voting certificates or being proxies and holding or representing in the aggregate not less than two-thirds of the nominal amount of the Notes for the time being outstanding. | ||
6. | If within 15 minutes (or such longer period not exceeding 30 minutes as the Chairman may decide) after the time appointed for any such meeting a quorum is not present for the transaction of any particular business, then, subject and without prejudice to the transaction of the business (if any) for which a quorum is present, the meeting shall if convened upon the requisition of Noteholders be dissolved. In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week (or if such day is a public holiday the next succeeding business day) at the same time and place (except in the case of a meeting at which an Extraordinary Resolution is to be proposed in which case it shall stand adjourned for such period, being not less than 13 clear days nor more than 42 clear days, and to such place as may be appointed by the Chairman either at or subsequent to such meeting and approved by the Trustee). If within 15 minutes (or such longer period not exceeding 30 minutes as the Chairman may decide) after the time appointed for any adjourned meeting a quorum is not present for the transaction of any particular business, then, subject and without prejudice to the transaction of the business (if any) for which a quorum is present, the Chairman may either (with the approval of the Trustee) dissolve such meeting or adjourn the same for such period, being not less than 13 clear days (but without any maximum number of clear days), and to such place as may be appointed by the Chairman either at or subsequent to such adjourned meeting and approved by the Trustee, and the provisions of this sentence shall apply to all further adjourned such meetings. At any adjourned meeting one or more persons present holding Definitive Notes of the relevant one or more Series or voting certificates or being proxies (whatever the nominal amount of the Notes so held or represented by them) shall (subject as provided below) form a quorum and shall have power to pass any resolution and to decide upon all matters which could properly have been dealt with at the meeting from which the adjournment took place had the requisite quorum been present PROVIDED THAT at any adjourned meeting the quorum for the transaction of business comprising any of the matters specified in the proviso to paragraph 5 above shall be one or more persons present holding Definitive Notes or voting certificates or being proxies and holding or representing in the aggregate not less than one-third of the nominal amount of the Notes for the time being outstanding. | |
7. | Notice of any adjourned meeting at which an Extraordinary Resolution is to be submitted shall be given in the same manner as notice of an original meeting but as if 10 were |
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substituted for 21 in paragraph 3 above and such notice shall state the required quorum. Subject as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjourned meeting. | ||
8. | Every question submitted to a meeting shall be decided in the first instance by a show of hands and in case of equality of votes the Chairman shall both on a show of hands and on a poll have a casting vote in addition to the vote or votes (if any) to which he may be entitled as a Noteholder or as a holder of a voting certificate or as a proxy. | |
9. | At any meeting unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by the Chairman, any of the relevant Obligors, the Trustee or any person present holding a Definitive Note of the relevant Series or a voting certificate or being a proxy (whatever the nominal amount of the Notes so held or represented by him) a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has been carried or carried by a particular majority or lost or not carried by a particular majority shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution. | |
10. | Subject to paragraph 12 below, if at any such meeting a poll is so demanded it shall be taken in such manner and subject as hereinafter provided either at once or after an adjournment as the Chairman directs and the result of such poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded as at the date of the taking of the poll. The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of the meeting for the transaction of any business other than the motion on which the poll has been demanded. | |
11. | The Chairman may with the consent of (and shall if directed by) any such meeting adjourn the same from time to time and from place to place but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting except business which might lawfully (but for lack of required quorum) have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. | |
12. | Any poll demanded at any such meeting on the election of a Chairman or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting without adjournment. | |
13. | The Trustee and its lawyers and any director, officer or employee of a corporation being a trustee of these presents and any director or officer of the relevant Issuer or, as the case may be, Cadbury Schweppes (where the relevant Issuer is CSF or CSI) or, as the case may be, CSF (where the relevant Issuer is CSI) or, as the case may be, CSI (where the relevant Issuer is CSF) and its or their lawyers and any other person authorised so to do by the Trustee may attend and speak at any meeting. Save as aforesaid, but without prejudice to the proviso to the definition of “outstanding” in Clause 1, no person shall be entitled to attend and speak nor shall any person be entitled to vote at any meeting of Noteholders or join with others in requesting the convening of such a meeting or to exercise the rights conferred on Noteholders by Condition 10 unless he either produces the Definitive Note or Definitive Notes of which he is the holder or a voting certificate or is a proxy. No person shall be entitled to vote at any meeting in respect of Notes held by, for the benefit of, or on behalf of, any of the relevant Obligors or any Holding Company or other Subsidiary of any of the relevant Obligors. Nothing herein shall prevent any of the proxies named in any block voting instruction from being a director, officer or representative of or otherwise connected with any of the relevant Obligors. | |
14. | Subject as provided in paragraph 13 hereof at any meeting: |
(A) | on a show of hands every person who is present in person and produces a Definitive Note or voting certificate or is a proxy shall have one vote; and | ||
(B) | on a poll every person who is so present shall have one vote in respect of each £1.00 or such other pounds sterling amount as the Trustee may in its absolute discretion |
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stipulate (or, in the case of meetings of holders of Notes denominated in another currency, such amount in such other currency as the Trustee in its absolute discretion may stipulate) in nominal amount of the Definitive Notes so produced or represented by the voting certificate so produced or in respect of which he is a proxy. |
Without prejudice to the obligations of the proxies named in any block voting instruction any person entitled to more than one vote need not use all his votes or cast all the votes to which he is entitled in the same way. | ||
15. | The proxies named in any block voting instruction need not be Noteholders. | |
16. | Each block voting instruction together (if so requested by the Trustee) with proof satisfactory to the Trustee of its due execution on behalf of the relevant Paying Agent shall be deposited by the relevant Paying Agent at such place as the Trustee shall approve not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxies named in the block voting instruction propose to vote and in default the block voting instruction shall not be treated as valid unless the Chairman of the meeting decides otherwise before such meeting or adjourned meeting proceeds to business. A notarially certified copy of each block voting instruction shall be deposited with the Trustee before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting but the Trustee shall not thereby be obliged to investigate or be concerned with the validity of or the authority of the proxies named in any such block voting instruction. | |
17. | Any vote given in accordance with the terms of a block voting instruction shall be valid notwithstanding the previous revocation or amendment of the block voting instruction or of any of the relevant Noteholders’ instructions pursuant to which it was executed provided that no intimation in writing of such revocation or amendment shall have been received from the relevant Paying Agent by the relevant Issuer at its registered office (or such other place as may have been required or approved by the Trustee for the purpose) by the time being 24 hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the block voting instruction is to be used. | |
18. | A meeting of the Noteholders shall in addition to the powers hereinbefore given have the following powers exercisable only by Extraordinary Resolution (subject to the provisions relating to quorum contained in paragraphs 5 and 6 above) namely: |
(A) | Power to sanction any compromise or arrangement proposed to be made between the relevant Obligors, the Trustee, any Appointee and the Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders or any of them. | ||
(B) | Power to sanction any abrogation, modification, compromise or arrangement in respect of the rights of the Trustee, any Appointee, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders, the Couponholders or any of the relevant Obligors against any other or others of them or against any of their property whether such rights shall arise under these presents or otherwise. | ||
(C) | Power to assent to any modification of the provisions of these presents which shall be proposed by any of the relevant Obligors, the Trustee or any Noteholder. | ||
(D) | Power to give any authority or sanction which under the provisions of these presents is required to be given by Extraordinary Resolution. | ||
(E) | Power to appoint any persons (whether Noteholders or not) as a committee or committees to represent the interests of the Noteholders and to confer upon such committee or committees any powers or discretions which the Noteholders could themselves exercise by Extraordinary Resolution. |
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(F) | Power to approve of a person to be appointed a trustee and power to remove any trustee or trustees for the time being of these presents. | ||
(G) | Power to discharge or exonerate the Trustee and/or any Appointee from all liability in respect of any act or omission for which the Trustee and/or such Appointee may have become responsible under these presents. | ||
(H) | Power to authorise the Trustee and/or any Appointee to concur in and execute and do all such deeds, instruments, acts and things as may be necessary to carry out and give effect to any Extraordinary Resolution. | ||
(I) | Power to sanction any scheme or proposal for the exchange or sale of the Notes for or the conversion of the Notes into or the cancellation of the Notes in consideration of shares, stock, notes, bonds, debentures, debenture stock and/or other obligations and/or securities of any of the relevant Obligors or any other company formed or to be formed, or for or into or in consideration of cash, or partly for or into or in consideration of such shares, stock, notes, bonds, debentures, debenture stock and/or other obligations and/or securities as aforesaid and partly for or into or in consideration of cash. |
19. | Any resolution passed at a meeting of the Noteholders duly convened and held in accordance with these presents shall be binding upon all the Noteholders whether present or not present at such meeting and whether or not voting and upon all Receiptholders and Couponholders and each of them shall be bound to give effect thereto accordingly and the passing of any such resolution shall be conclusive evidence that the circumstances justify the passing thereof. Notice of the result of the voting on any resolution duly considered by the Noteholders shall be published in accordance with Condition 14 by the relevant Issuer within 14 days of such result being known PROVIDED THAT the non-publication of such notice shall not invalidate such result. | |
20. | The expression “Extraordinary Resolution” when used in these presents means (a) a resolution passed at a meeting of the Noteholders duly convened and held in accordance with these presents by a majority consisting of not less than three-fourths of the persons voting thereat upon a show of hands or if a poll is duly demanded by a majority consisting of not less than three-fourths of the votes cast on such poll; or (b) a resolution in writing signed by or on behalf of all the Noteholders, which resolution in writing may be contained in one document or in several documents in like form each signed by or on behalf of one or more of the Noteholders. | |
21. | Minutes of all resolutions and proceedings at every meeting of the Noteholders shall be made and entered in books to be from time to time provided for that purpose by the relevant Issuer and any such minutes as aforesaid if purporting to be signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which such resolutions were passed or proceedings transacted shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein contained and until the contrary is proved every such meeting in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been made shall be deemed to have been duly held and convened and all resolutions passed or proceedings transacted thereat to have been duly passed or transacted. |
22. | (A) | If and whenever the relevant Issuer shall have issued and have outstanding Notes of more than one Series the foregoing provisions of this Schedule shall have effect subject to the following modifications: |
(i) | a resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Notes of only one Series shall be deemed to have been duly passed if passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the Notes of that Series; |
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(ii) | a resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Notes of more than one Series but does not give rise to a conflict of interest between the holders of Notes of any of the Series so affected shall be deemed to have been duly passed if passed at a single meeting of the holders of the Notes of all the Series so affected; | ||
(iii) | a resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Notes of more than one Series and gives or may give rise to a conflict of interest between the holders of the Notes of one Series or group of Series so affected and the holders of the Notes of another Series or group of Series so affected shall be deemed to have been duly passed only if passed at separate meetings of the holders of the Notes of each Series or group of Series so affected; and | ||
(iv) | to all such meetings all the preceding provisions of this Schedule shall mutatis mutandis apply as though references therein to Notes and Noteholders were references to the Notes of the Series or group of Series in question or to the holders of such Notes, as the case may be. |
(B) | If the relevant Issuer shall have issued and have outstanding Notes which are not denominated in pounds sterling in the case of any meeting of holders of Notes of more than one currency the nominal amount of such Notes shall (i) for the purposes of paragraph 2 above be the equivalent in pounds sterling at the spot rate of a bank nominated by the Trustee for the conversion of the relevant currency or currencies into pounds sterling on the seventh dealing day prior to the day on which the requisition in writing is received by the relevant Issuer and (ii) for the purposes of paragraphs 5, 6 and 14 above (whether in respect of the meeting or any adjourned such meeting or any poll resulting therefrom) be the equivalent at such spot rate on the seventh dealing day prior to the day of such meeting. In such circumstances, on any poll each person present shall have one vote for each £1.00 (or such other pounds sterling amount as the Trustee may in its absolute discretion stipulate) in nominal amount of the Notes (converted as above) which he holds or represents. |
23. | Subject to all other provisions of these presents the Trustee may, without the consent of any of the relevant Obligors, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or the Couponholders, prescribe such further regulations regarding the requisitioning and/or the holding of meetings of Noteholders and attendance and voting thereat as the Trustee may in its sole discretion think fit. |
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THE COMMON SEAL of
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THE LAW DEBENTURE TRUST
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CORPORATION p.l.c.
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was affixed to this deed in
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the presence of:
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Authorised Signatory |
as an Issuer and as Guarantor
as an Issuer and as Guarantor
as an Issuer and as Guarantor
Trust Deed dated 26th May, 1999
relating to the
£5,000,000,000 (formerly £1,500,000,000)
Euro Medium Term Note Programme
XXXXX & OVERY LLP
LONDON