Registration Statement; Prospectus The Seller has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-48141), including a preliminary prospectus and prospectus supplement for the registration of the Notes under the Securities Act, has filed such amendments thereto, and such amended preliminary prospectuses and prospectus supplements as may have been required to the date hereof, and will file such additional amendments thereto and such amended prospectuses and prospectus supplements as may hereafter be required. Such registration statement (as amended, if applicable) and the prospectus, together with the prospectus supplement relating to the Notes, constituting a part thereof (including in each case all documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein and the information, if any, deemed to be part thereof pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Securities Act (the "Rules and Regulations"), as from time to time amended or supplemented pursuant to the Securities Act or otherwise) are hereinafter referred to as the "Registration Statement" and the "Prospectus," respectively, except that if any revised prospectus or prospectus supplement shall be provided by the Seller for use in connection with the offering of the Notes which differs from the Prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations (whether or not such revised prospectus is required to be filed by the Seller pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations), the term "Prospectus" shall refer to such revised prospectus and prospectus supplement from and after the time it is first provided to the Underwriters for such use. The Registration Statement at the time they became effective complied, and at each time that the Prospectus is provided to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering or sale of any Note will comply, in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. The Registration Statement and the Prospectus at the time the Registration Statement became effective did not and on the date hereof does not, contain an untrue staement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and the Prospectus at the time it was first provided to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering of the Notes did not, and on the date hereof does not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein in light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, except that the representations and warranties in this subparagraph shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any preliminary prospectus made in reliance upon information furnished to the Seller in writing by Financial Security expressly for use therein or the financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of Financial Security.
