Common use of CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT Clause in Contracts

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 9 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereofof the money; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon on the money; and (c) monies held by it need not be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers each Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any . 18.3 Each Paying Agent undertakes to each Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the any Paying Agents Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesfaith. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (6) 18.6 The Paying Agent is entitled to do nothing, without liability, if conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions are received. 18.7 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers any Issuer as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) 18.8 Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly as soon as reasonably practicable in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such the person has been so authorised. 18.9 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, each Issuer and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note, Receipt or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 18.10 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and 18.11 Each Issuer shall provide the Paying Agents with sufficient information so as to enable each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s determine whether or not that Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA Agent is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to changeobliged, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount respect of any payment payments to be made by such Issuer pursuant it hereunder, to this Agreement and the Conditionsaccount for any FATCA Withholding. 18.12 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to determine whether any law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to the European Union, the United States of America or , in each case, any jurisdiction forming a part of it and in what amount the Agent England & Wales) or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make directive or regulation of any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent agency of any such loss of grandfathered status prior state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441any such law, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9directive or regulation. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 6 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it hold all sums receives from Issuer or the Guarantor, as applicable, in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall not exercise any right be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of set-off, lien or similar claim as provided in respect thereof; this Agreement and the Indenture; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer or the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Notes in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer and the Guarantor, were not appointed hereunderin writing, shall result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 5 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (W. P. Carey Inc.), Agency Agreement (W. P. Carey Inc.), Agency Agreement (W. P. Carey Inc.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 22.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer or the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer or the Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer and the Agentmoney. (2) 22.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers relevant Issuer and the Guarantor (and, in the circumstances referred to in clause 2.5, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The 22.3 Each Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers and the Guarantor to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 4 in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 4 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) The 22.4 Each Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 22.5 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers or the Guarantor or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties on Written Instructions from the Issuers or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersGuarantor. (6) 22.6 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers or the Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers or the Guarantor as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) 22.7 Each Issuer of the Issuers and the Guarantor shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar that such the person has been so authorised. 22.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed and the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuers, the Guarantor, the Trustee and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Note or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Note as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 22.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers and Guarantor in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantor and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Coupons). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 11 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the Guarantor or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties on Written Instructions from the Issuer, the Guarantor or upon written instructions from the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantor as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 23.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor (as the case may be) for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereofof the money; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowthat it shall not be liable to account to the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor for any interest on the money; and (c) that it shall not be liable required to account to segregate any Issuer for any interest thereon money held by it except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 23.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the NotesCovered Bonds, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantors (and, in the circumstances referred to in Clauses 2.7 and 2.8, the Bond Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the NotesCovered Bonds, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer . 23.3 Each Agent undertakes to the Agent for Issuer and the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and Guarantors and, in the manner set forth circumstances referred to in Clauses 2.7 and 2.8, the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Bond Trustee to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent ) and the Paying Agents as applicableTerms and Conditions, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) 23.4 The Principal Paying Agent may and the Registrar may, at the Issuer's expense, consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 23.5 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Guarantors or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer or the relevant Guarantor. (6) 23.6 Any of the Agent Agent, its affiliated companies and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any NotesCovered Bonds, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Issuer or any of the Issuers Guarantors and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Covered Bonds or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or any of the Guarantors as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each 23.7 The Issuer and the Guarantors shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar that such the person has been so authorised. 23.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed and the Terms and Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, in the case of Bearer Covered Bonds, the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Bond Trustee and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Covered Bond, Receipt or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Covered Bond as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 23.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Supplemental Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that monies paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 24.1 The Fiscal Agent, the Registrar, each Paying Agent and each Transfer Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) Clause 24.2 below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) 24.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the NotesCovered Bonds, the Agent Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the NotesCovered Bonds, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds amounts held by the Agent or Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents or the Registrar for payment to the Covered Bondholders and Couponholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, amounts except as required by law. (3) The Agent 24.3 Each of the Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Paying Agents Registrar hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 5 in the case of the Fiscal Agent), ) and in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Covered Bonds against the Agent and Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents or the Registrar other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Fiscal Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Fiscal Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 5 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Fiscal Agent. (4) 24.4 The Agent Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 24.5 Each of the Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agent and the Registrar undertakes to immediately notify the Issuer, as soon as reasonably practicable (such notification may be in the format of a general notification to the market), if it fails to become or ceases to be a Participating FFI or otherwise eligible to receive payments without FATCA Withholding Tax. 24.6 Each of the Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Registrar shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, facsimile transmission or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 24.7 Any of the Agent and Fiscal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents or the Registrar and their respective officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any NotesCovered Bonds, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or Fiscal Agent, the relevant Paying AgentAgent or Transfer Agent concerned or the Registrar, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Covered Bonds or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Fiscal Agent, the relevant Paying Agent or Transfer Agent or the relevant Paying AgentRegistrar, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each 24.8 The Issuer shall provide the Fiscal Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Fiscal Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Fiscal Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out 24.9 Except as otherwise permitted in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount Conditions or as ordered by a court of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s competent jurisdiction or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made as required by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which eventlaw or applicable regulations, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for may deem and treat holders of any Bearer Covered Bonds or Coupon as the purposes absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning ownership or any writing thereon or notice of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5any previous loss or theft thereof), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture provided that it shall not exercise any right the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Medtronic PLC), Agency Agreement (Medtronic PLC), Agency Agreement (Medtronic Inc)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) 5.1 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will shall not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by coupons (if any) appertaining thereto (the Coupons). 5.2 At any Issuer to time after an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 9 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), and in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with reputable legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or the Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent, and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees employees, may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he or she they would have if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons (if any) or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 19.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Parent or the Issuer (as the case may be) for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) subclause 19.2 below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Parent or the Issuer (as the case may be) for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) 19.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agent(s) shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and the Parent (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.4 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the other Paying Agents Agent(s) for payment to the Noteholders and Couponholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3) 19.3 The Agent and the other Paying Agents Agent(s) hereby undertake to each of the Issuers Parent, the Issuer and the Trustee to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agent(s), other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 19.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 19.5 Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agent(s) shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Parent or the Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersParent or the Issuer. 19.6 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, the Agent, having consulted with the Issuer (6to the extent practicable and permissible to do so), may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its reasonable opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction applicable to it (including but not limited to the United States of America or any jurisdiction forming a part of it and England and Wales) or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction applicable to it and may without liability do anything which is, in its reasonable opinion and having consulted with the Issuer (to the extent practicable and permissible to do so), necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 19.7 Any of the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agent(s) and their affiliates, officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Parent or the Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Parent or the Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) 19.8 Each of the Parent and the Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) 19.9 The amount Parent shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Trustee. 19.10 Where any additional or successor agent or paying agent (a Successor Agent) is appointed in accordance with the procedure terms of this Agreement, and that Successor Agent is not a related entity to the Agent, then the liabilities and obligations of the Successor Agent and each other paying agent, shall be several. 19.11 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Issuer, the Parent, the Trustee and any Paying Agent may deem and treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or any writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof) for all purposes, but in the case of any global Note, without prejudice to the provisions set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amountConditions. (9) 19.12 The Agent and each Paying Agent shall Agent, in each case to the extent it is an FFI, undertakes as soon as reasonably practicable to inform the Issuer and the Parent if it fails to become or ceases to be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentParticipating FFI. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon on the money. Money held by the Agent need not be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any . 18.3 Each Paying Agent undertakes to the Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the any Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgent. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 18.6 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors directors, affiliates and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each 18.7 The Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such the person has been so authorised. 18.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 18.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each 18.10 No Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time liable for consequential loss (being loss of such Agent’s business, goodwill, opportunity or Paying Agent’s appointmentprofit) of any kind whatsoever. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant 18.11 The Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will shall promptly inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss issuance of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxVPS Notes. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Issuer Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Master Issuer, and, in the circumstances described in sub clause 5.2, the Note Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Relevant Issuer Notes, Coupons . 5.2 At any time after an Issuer Event of Default or Talons. Moneys paid by Potential Issuer Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing or the Note Trustee shall have received any money from the Master Issuer which it proposes to pay under the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid Issuer Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders, the Note Trustee may: (a) by notice in writing to the Master Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Note Trustee in relation to payments of such moneys to be made by or on behalf of the Note Trustee under the terms of these presents mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Note Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Note Trustee on the trusts of these presents relating to the Issuer Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all Issuer Notes and all sums, documents and records held by it in respect of Issuer Notes on behalf of the Note Trustee; or (b) by notice in writing to the Master Issuer require it to make all subsequent payments in respect of the Issuer Notes to or to the order of the Note Trustee and not to the Principal Paying Agent or and with effect from the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawissue of any such notice to the Master Issuer and the Group Guarantors. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Issuer Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent this Agreement and the Paying Agents as applicable, Issuer Conditions and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Master Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Note Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Note Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons Issuer Notes (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Master Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Issuer Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Master Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Issuer Paying Agent and Agent Bank Agreement (Granite Finance Trustees LTD), Issuer Paying Agent and Agent Bank Agreement (Granite Finance Funding 2 LTD), Issuer Paying Agent and Agent Bank Agreement (Granite Finance Trustees LTD)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any an Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof;; and (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2sub-clause (2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Terms and Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentfaith. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, in any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction transactions with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Noteholders or Coupons Couponholders or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each The relevant Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised authorized to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised authorized or if any additional person becomes so authorised authorized together, in the case of an additional authorised authorized person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of authorized, provided, however, that the Programme may be increased by Agent shall not incur any liability for any losses, claims or damages resulting from the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement relevant Issuer’s failure to provide such notification to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amountAgent. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/), Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer or the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2sub-clause (2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer or the Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and the Guarantor and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers and the Guarantor to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the written opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of Issuer or the Issuers Guarantor or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer or the Guarantor. (6) Any of the Agent and the other Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of Issuer or the Issuers Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of any Issuer or the Issuers Guarantor as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer and the Guarantor shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc /Fi/), Agency Agreement (Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc /Fi/), Agency Agreement (Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc /Fi/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Principal Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof;; and (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2sub-clause (2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent Principal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Registrar and the Paying Agents Transfer Agent shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent Principal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Registrar and the Paying Agents Transfer Agent hereby undertake to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Terms and Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent Principal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Registrar and the Paying Agents Transfer Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent Agents may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent Principal Agent, the Paying Agents, the Registrar and the Paying Agents Transfer Agent, shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) Any of the Principal Agent, Paying Agents, Registrar and Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, in any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Principal Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, Registrar or Transfer Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction transactions with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, safekeeper, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Noteholders or Coupons Couponholders or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Principal Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, Registrar and Transfer Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each The Issuer shall provide the Agent Agents with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised authorized to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly Agents immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised authorized or if any additional person becomes so authorised authorized together, in the case of an additional authorised authorized person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of authorized, provided, however, that the Programme may be increased by Agents shall not incur any liability for any losses, claims or damages resulting from the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement Issuer’s failure to provide such notification to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amountAgents. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/), Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/), Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1. The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal (a) hold all sums received by it in accordance with money this Agreement and the Indenture for the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or by any Issuer other obligor on the Notes) for the purpose benefit of the holders of the Notes or of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement in and the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; Indenture; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and and (c) that it shall not at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by the Paying Agent in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2. No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3. In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4. The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which any party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5. Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Emerson Electric Co), Agency Agreement (Emerson Electric Co), Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(21T(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(51T(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(21T(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii1T(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal (a) hold all sums received by it in accordance with money this Agreement and the Indenture for the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or by any Issuer other obligor on the Notes) in trust for the purpose benefit of the holders of the Notes or of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture; provided that the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and and (c) that it shall not at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by the Paying Agent in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which any party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Emerson Electric Co), Agency Agreement (Emerson Electric Co)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Receipts and the Coupons, respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Receiptholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. 5.3 The Calculation Agent agrees to act as such for any Successor in Business (3as defined in the Conditions), or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer (in each case, the Substituted Issuer) The Agent which for the time being is substituted as principal debtor in place of the Issuer pursuant to the Conditions and the Paying Agents hereby undertake Trust Deed and to enter into any agreement supplemental to this Agreement which in the opinion of the Trustee is necessary or desirable in connection with such substitution subject only to: (a) the Calculation Agent being satisfied that the Substituted Issuer has been accepted as such by the Trustee; and (b) the Substituted Issuer being bound by all the provisions of this Agreement in place of or in addition to the Issuers Issuer or any predecessor Substituted Issuer. 5.4 In relation to perform such obligations and dutieseach issue of Relevant Notes, and the Calculation Agent shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.5 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.6 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.7 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture; provided that it shall not exercise any right the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated, except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents Transfer Agent shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of the Paying Agent’s obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards towards, or relationship of agency or trust for or with with, any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Transfer Agent shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the such document. The Paying Agent and Transfer Agent shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the date hereof to any relevant documents (including, without limitation, the Indenture), unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agents other than Agent and Transfer Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the duty Issuer in writing, will result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent or Transfer Agent, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence it. 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust, or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Booking Holdings Inc.), Agency Agreement (Booking Holdings Inc.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it hold all sums received from Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall not exercise any right be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of set-off, lien or similar claim as provided in respect thereof; this Agreement and the Indenture; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Moodys Corp /De/), Agency Agreement (Moodys Corp /De/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer [, the Guarantor] and, in circumstances described in sub- clause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer coupons (if any) appertaining to the Relevant Notes (the Coupons). The Principal Paying Agent for reserves the payment right to refuse appointment as Calculation Agent in respect of principal Notes. 5.2 At any time after an Event of Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer[, the Guarantor] and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer[, request the Guarantor] or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer[, the Guarantor] or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer [or the Guarantor] and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer [or the Guarantor] as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1. The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal (a) hold all sums received by it in accordance with money this Agreement and the Indenture for the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer or by any Issuer other obligor on the Notes) for the purpose benefit of the holders of the Notes or of the Series Trustee until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement in and the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; Indenture; (b) as provided give the Series Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and and (c) that it shall not at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Series Trustee, forthwith pay to the Series Trustee all sums held by the Paying Agent in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2. No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3. In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawSeries Trustee. (3) 11.4. The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which any party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5. Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Emerson Electric Co), Agency Agreement (Emerson Electric Co)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) 5.1 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will shall not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by coupons (if any) appertaining thereto (the Coupons). 5.2 At any Issuer to time after an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 9 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), and in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with reputable legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or the Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent, and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees employees, may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons (if any) or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F E hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F E hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantor[s] and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee, will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Coupons). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantor[s] and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the Guarantor[s] or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer, the Guarantor[s] or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Issuer or any of the Issuers Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or any Guarantor as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 5.7 If the Calculation Agent with a certified copy of fails to perform the list of persons authorised to execute documents duties as are herein and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure Conditions specifically set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent it is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e)perform, the relevant Calculation Agent shall promptly notify the Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Guarantor[s] of such failure. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 19.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers and shall not be liable to account to the Issuer for any interest thereon except: (a) that it shall may not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereofof money paid to it by the Issuer; (b) moneys held by any Paying Agent need not be segregated except as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowrequired by law; and (c) that it as provided in subclause 19.2 below. 19.2 Notwithstanding 19.1 above: (a) any sums paid to the Agent in respect of any payment of principal and/or interest under the Notes which are received by the Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement prior to the due date therefor shall not (provided prior notice of such payment is given to the Agent) be liable placed on deposit by the Agent from the date of receipt to such due date at the rate of interest offered by Citibank, N.A., London Branch, at its London office for overnight deposits and the Agent shall account to any the Issuer for in respect of any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between earned thereon; and (b) where any payment of principal is made to the relevant Issuer Agent after the due date therefor or on or after accelerated maturity following an Event of Default, the Agent shall (provided prior notice of such payment is given to the Agent) place the amount of such payment on deposit from the date of such payment to the date on and after which payment is to be made to the Noteholders in respect thereof pursuant to proviso (b) to clause 2.2 of the Trust Deed at the rate of interest offered by Citibank, N.A., London Branch, at its London office for overnight deposits and the AgentAgent shall account to the Issuer (or, if so required by the Trustee pursuant to clause 2.3(a) of the Trust Deed, to the Trustee) in respect of any interest earned thereon. (2) 19.3 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.3 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) 19.4 The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. The obligations of the Paying Agents are several and not joint. (4) 19.5 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisersadvisers save for manifest error and negligence. (5) 19.6 Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or the Trustee, or any Note or Coupon, notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties and which is not manifestly wrong or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer or the Trustee. (6) 19.7 Any of the Agent and the other Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each 19.8 The Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount 19.9 Except as ordered by a court of the Programme may be increased competent jurisdiction or as required by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out law and subject as provided in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which eventnext sentence, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e)Issuer, the relevant Issuer will inform Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent may deem and treat the bearer of any Note, Coupon or Talon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not such Note, Coupon or Talon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof) for the purpose of grandfathered status prior making payment thereon and for all other purposes but, in the case of a Global Note, without prejudice to the date provisions as set out in the next sentence. For so long as any of the Notes is represented by a Global Note held on which any payments on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person (other than Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes would become subject (each an Accountholder) (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) The shall be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent that is as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for the all purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments other than with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441payment of principal and interest on such Notes, 1442for which purpose the bearer of the relevant Global Note shall be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act other Paying Agents as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and (iii) agrees subject to the terms of the relevant Global Note and the expressions Noteholder, holder of Notes and related expressions shall be construed accordingly. Notes which are represented by a Global Note will be transferable only in accordance with the rules and procedures for the time being of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be. In order to exercise any rights in their capacity as Noteholders, Accountholders must exercise such rights through Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, either against presentation of the Global Note to or to the order of the Agent and against its endorsement by or on behalf of the Agent to reflect the exercise of such rights or, at the option of the Agent, by the production to the Agent of an undertaking from Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg that upon its appointment it they will provide not debit or transfer Notes from the Issuers with account of that Accountholder until a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9certain time or date or before the occurrence of an identified condition precedent. 19.10 The Issuer shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Trustee. 19.11 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, the Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its reasonable opinion be contrary to any applicable law of any state or jurisdiction (12including but not limited to the United States of America or any jurisdiction forming a part of it and England & Wales) The Agent or any applicable directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its reasonable opinion, necessary to comply with any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii)such applicable law, will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingdirective or regulation.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantors and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Coupons). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 9 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter, until instructed otherwise by the Trustee, as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the Guarantors or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer, any Guarantor or, as the case may be, the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Issuer or any of the Issuers Guarantors and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or any of the Guarantors as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantors and in circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes. 5.2 At any time after an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 (Application of Moneys) of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee’s liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the Guarantors or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer, the Guarantors or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantors or the Trustee and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantors as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Luxottica Group Spa), Agency Agreement (Luxottica Group Spa)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 25.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer or the LLP (as the case may be) for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker and not subject to the FCA Client Money Rules by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereofof the money; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowthat it shall not be liable to account to the Issuer or the LLP for any interest on the money; and (c) that it shall not be liable required to account to segregate any Issuer for any interest thereon money held by it except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 25.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the NotesCovered Bonds, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer, the LLP (and, in the circumstances referred to in Clauses 2.5 and 2.6 (Conditions of Appointment), the Bond Trustee) and will not thereby assume fiduciary duty or any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the NotesCovered Bonds, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by Talons or any Issuer other person. 25.3 Each Agent undertakes to the Agent for Issuer and the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and LLP and, in the manner set forth circumstances referred to in Clauses 2.5 and 2.6 (Conditions of Appointment), the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Bond Trustee to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 (Principal Paying Agents' Additional Duties) in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent ) and the Paying Agents as applicableTerms and Conditions, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesany Agent. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 (Principal Paying Agents' Additional Duties) becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) 25.4 The Principal Paying Agent may and the Registrar may, at the Issuer's expense and having first notified the Issuer in writing, consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 25.5 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or (a) in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers LLP or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the LLP or (b) in respect of refraining from taking any of action if instructions from the IssuersIssuer or the LLP are, in its opinion, conflicting, unclear or equivocal. (6) 25.6 Any of the Agent Agent, its affiliated companies and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any NotesCovered Bonds, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer or the LLP and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Covered Bonds or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the LLP as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each 25.7 The Issuer and the LLP shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar that such the person has been so authorised. 25.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed and the Terms and Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, in the case of Bearer Covered Bonds, the Issuer, the LLP, the Bond Trustee and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Covered Bond, Receipt or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Covered Bond as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 25.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. 25.10 The Issuer and the LLP accept that some methods of communication, such as, without limitation, by facsimile, telephone or e-mail, are not secure and none of the Agents shall incur any liability for any losses, liabilities, costs or expenses incurred or sustained by the Issuer or by the LLP as a result of any of the Agents relying on or complying with instructions, communications, notices or directions (9whether in writing or given orally) The received via any such non-secure method. Each Agent is authorised to comply with and each Paying Agent shall be rely upon any instruction, direction, notice or other communication (whether in writing or given orally) given or sent by any such non-secure method by a person payments reasonably believed by it to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of be authorised to give such Agent’s instructions, notices, directions or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) other communications on behalf of the Code. Each of TMFIssuer or, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within as the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which eventcase may be, the relevant LLP. The Issuer will provide or, as the case may be, the LLP shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that instructions, directions, notices or other communications transmitted or otherwise sent to any Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement are completed and correct. Any instructions, directions, notices or other communications (in writing or given orally) received from any person whom the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within Issuer or the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as LLP has confirmed to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying such Agent is obliged authorised to make any withholding give instructions, directions, notices or deduction other communications on behalf of applicable FATCA Withholding Taxthe Issuer or the LLP (as the case may be) shall be conclusively deemed to be valid instructions, directions, notices or other communications from the Issuer or, as the case may be, the LLP to the relevant Agent for the purpose of this Agreement. In no event, shall any of the event that Agents or the Bond Trustee or the Security Trustee be liable for any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, expenses or judgments (including legal fees and expenses) arising as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within receiving or transmitting any data from the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e)Issuer (or from any person reasonably believed by the Agents, the relevant Bond Trustee or the Security Trustee to be a person authorised by the Issuer will inform the Agent and to give or transmit such data) via any other Paying Agent non- secure method of any transmission or communication, such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxas, but without limitation, by facsimile or email. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for 25.11 In the purposes performance of receiving payments its obligations under this Agreement not and under the Terms and Conditions, each Agent shall use reasonable endeavours to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1a) The Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Bank for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (aA) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (bB) as provided in Subclause 19(2Section 25(b) below; and; (cC) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Bank for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer Bank and the an Agent; and (D) no monies held by any Agent need be segregated from other funds except as may be required by law. (2b) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Bank and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held for the benefit of such holders or owners and applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3c) The No Agent (which for purposes of this Section 25(c) includes its officers and the Paying Agents hereby undertake employees) shall be liable to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Bank for any act or omission hereunder except in the case of negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The duties and obligations of the Agent)Agents and their respective officers and employees shall be determined by the express provisions of this Agreement, in and such Agents, officers or employees shall not be liable except for the Conditions negligent performance of such duties and in the Procedures Memorandum obligations as are specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth herein and no implied duties or obligations covenants shall be read into this Agreement against them. No Agent or its officers or employees shall be required to ascertain whether any issuance or sale of Notes (or any amendment or termination of this Agreement) is in compliance with any other agreement to which the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of Bank is a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each party (whether or not any of the Paying Agents (is also a party to such other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentagreement). (4d) The THE AGENTS’ DUTIES ARE MINISTERIAL IN NATURE AND IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY AGENT BE LIABLE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY (i) LOSS, LIABILITY, DAMAGES OR EXPENSES (OTHER THAN, IN THE CASE OF THE BANK ONLY, THOSE WHICH RESULT DIRECTLY FROM SUCH AGENT’S NEGLIGENCE, BAD FAITH OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT) OR (ii) SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS), EVEN IF SUCH AGENT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY WILL APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR BREACH OF THIS CONTRACT OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE). (e) Each Agent may shall be entitled to consult with legal counsel of its choosing and other professional advisers and shall have no liability to the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection Bank in respect of any action taken, taken or omitted or suffered hereunder by such Agent in good faith and in accordance with the reliance on an opinion of such adviserscounsel (including in-house counsel) or an Officer’s Certificate. (5f) Each of Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability responsible for any misconduct or in respect negligence on the part of any action takenagent, omitted correspondent, attorney or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which receiver appointed with due care by it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuershereunder. (6g) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and any of their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Coupons Talons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Bank as freely surely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Global Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/), Global Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in sub-clause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Relevant Notes, Coupons . 5.2 At any time after an Event of Default (as defined in the Conditions) or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to a Potential Event of Default (as defined in the Agent for Conditions) shall have occurred and be continuing or the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 9 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders (as provided and defined in the manner set forth Conditions), the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Notes whereupon all liability Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as Calculation Agent of the Trustee in relation to payments to be made by or on behalf of the Trustee under the terms of the Trust Deed mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee’s liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with and, at the cost of the Issuer, employ legal and other professional advisers (provided such terms are agreed with the Issuer and any such costs are properly incurred and documented and invoices are provided) and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of the advisers. The Calculation Agent will, where reasonably practicable, notify the Issuer prior to engaging such legal or professional advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons Notes with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement, Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 19.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer or the Guarantors for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Issuer, the Trustee or the Guarantors for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer and the Agentmoney. (2) 19.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantors (and, in the circumstances referred to in subclause 2.4, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer . 19.3 Each Paying Agent undertakes to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Guarantors to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions Conditions, the Trust Deed and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the any Paying Agents Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 19.4 The Agent may consult where necessary, at the cost of the Issuer or failing the Issuer the Guarantors (such costs to be duly documented), with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 19.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable Guarantor or other paper or any document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or any of the IssuersGuarantor. (6) 19.6 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Issuer or any of the Issuers Guarantors and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantors as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each 19.7 The Issuer and each of the Guarantors shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such the person has been so authorised. 19.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed, the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 19.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) 19.10 The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a shall, upon request from the Issuer, the Trustee or any Dealer, inform such person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax of the aggregate nominal amount of the Notes, or Notes of any particular Series, then outstanding at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentrequest. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within 19.11 Each Paying Agent shall, forthwith on demand, upon the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount Guarantors being discharged from their respective obligations to make payments in respect of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement Notes under the Conditions (and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether provided there is no outstanding bona fide and proper claim in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent respect of any such loss of grandfathered status prior payments) pay to the date on which Issuer or the Guarantors, as the case may be, sums equivalent to any payments on outstanding amounts paid to it by the Issuer or the Guarantors, as the case may be, in respect of such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxNotes. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Luxottica Group Spa), Agency Agreement (Luxottica Group Spa)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 13.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture provided that it shall not exercise any right the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 13.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 13.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 13.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 13.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 13.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Medtronic Global Holdings S.C.A.), Agency Agreement (Medtronic Global Holdings S.C.A.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp), Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 19.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer for any interest on the money; and (c) nothing in this Agreement shall require any Agent to segregate money held pursuant to this Agreement except as required by law. 19.2 Each of the Agents may, in connection with its services hereunder: (a) (in the case of Bearer Notes) except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any memorandum thereon, treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof and make payments thereon accordingly; (b) except as otherwise agreed between permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required by law, REN and the Portuguese Paying Agent and the other Paying Agents may deem and treat the person or entity registered in the securities accounts of the relevant Affiliate Member of Interbolsa as the holder of any Book-Entry Notes and the absolute owner for all purposes (whether or not such Book-Entry Notes shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or otherwise). Proof of such registration is made by means of a certificate issued by the relevant Affiliate Member of Interbolsa pursuant to article 78 of the Portuguese Securities Code; (c) assume that the terms of each Note, Receipt or Coupon as issued are correct; (d) refer any question relating to the ownership of any Note, Receipt or Coupon or the adequacy or sufficiency of any evidence supplied in connection with the replacement of any Note, Receipt or Coupon to the relevant Issuer for determination by the relevant Issuer and rely upon any determination so made; (e) rely upon, and be protected against liability for acting on, the Agentterms of any notice, communication or other document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and from the proper party; and (f) treat itself as being released from any obligation to take any action hereunder which it reasonably expects will result in any expense or liability to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 19.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied herein, none of the Agents shall, in connection with their or its services hereunder, be under any fiduciary duty towards any person other than the Issuers, and for the purposes of subclause 2.3, the Trustee, be responsible for or liable in respect of the authorisation, validity or legality of any Note, Receipt or Coupon issued or paid by it hereunder or any act or omission of any other person (2including, without limitation, any other party hereto and, in the case of the Issue and Paying Agent or the Portuguese Paying Agent, as the case may be, any bank from whom any quote may have been obtained) or be under any obligation towards any person other than the Issuers and for the purposes of subclause 2.3, the Trustee and, in the case of the Paying Agents, the other Paying Agents. 19.4 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers relevant Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the . 19.5 Each Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid undertakes to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto specifically stated in this Agreement, the case of Conditions, the Agent), in the Conditions Trust Deed and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each . 19.6 Further to consultation with the Issuers prior to an Event of Default (including the agreement of fees to be paid) the Agents, at the expense of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to itIssuers, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. For the avoidance of doubt, no consultation with the Issuer (including the agreement of fees to be paid) shall be required following the occurrence of an Event of Default. (5) 19.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (6) 19.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons Notes with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee common representative or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) 19.9 Each Issuer shall provide the Issue and Paying Agent and the Portuguese Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Issue and Paying Agent promptly and the Portuguese Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Issue and Paying Agent and the Portuguese Paying Agent that such the person has been so authorised. (8) 19.10 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The 19.11 No Agent is required to do anything which would be illegal or contrary to the laws and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time regulations of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentany relevant jurisdiction. 19.12 If: (10a) Payments the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within after the meaning date of Section 1473(1this Agreement; or (b) any change in the status of the Code. Each relevant Issuer of TMFthe composition of the shareholders of the relevant Issuer after the date of this Agreement, TCCI and TFA obliges the Agents to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were not already available to change, in which eventit, the relevant Issuer will provide shall promptly upon the Agent with sufficient information to determine if request of the Agents supply or procure the supply of such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and Agents in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is order for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents Agents to carry out and be satisfied that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply has complied with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes necessary “know your customer” or similar checks under Sections 1441, 1442, all applicable laws and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9regulations. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer [, the [Group] Guarantor[s]] and, in the circumstances described in clause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment "Coupons"). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 (Application of Moneys) of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer [,the [Group Guarantor[s]] and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer [, request the [Group] Guarantor[s]] or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer [, the [Group] Guarantor[s]] or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer [or the [Group] Guarantor[s]] and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer [or [the Group/any] Guarantor] as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Subject as provided in subclause 18.3, the Fiscal Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon or other amounts in respect of the money other than pursuant to Clause 17. No money held by any Paying Agent needs to be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Agent Notes and the Paying Coupons the Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders Noteholders. 18.3 No Paying Agent shall exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim against the Notes, Coupons Issuer or Talons. Moneys paid any Noteholders in respect of any moneys payable to or by any Issuer to it under the Agent for the payment terms of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer this Agreement. 18.4 Except as provided and otherwise permitted in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Conditions, as ordered by a court of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held competent jurisdiction, as required by law or otherwise instructed by the Agent or Issuer, each of the Paying Agents need shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner for all purposes (whether or not the Note or Coupon shall be segregated from overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other funds, except as required by lawwriting on the Note or Coupon or any notice of previous loss or theft of the Note or Coupon). (3) 18.5 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto set out in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent this Agreement and the Paying Agents as applicable, Notes and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each . 18.6 The Fiscal Agent and the Calculation Agent, at the expense of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to itIssuer, it will promptly provide provided such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent expenses are properly incurred, may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any the Issuer. Each of the IssuersAgents is entitled to do nothing, without liability, if conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions are received or in order to comply with any applicable law. (6) 18.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and Agents, their officers, directors and or employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons with the same rights (but without prejudice to any limitations which might apply in any other capacity) that it, he it or he/she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were was not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested (subject as aforesaid) in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer, and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer, as freely as if the relevant Agent was not appointed under this Agreement. 18.9 The Fiscal Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which it reasonably expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 18.10 No Paying Agent shall be responsible to anyone with respect to the validity of this Agreement or the relevant Notes or Coupons or for any act or omission by it in connection with this Agreement or any Note or Coupon except for its own negligence, wilful default, bad faith or fraud, including that of its officers and employees. 18.11 No Paying Agent, as Agent shall have any duty or responsibility in the case may be, were not appointed hereunderof any default by the Issuer in the performance of its obligations under the Conditions. (7) Each 18.12 The Issuer shall provide the Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons the authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement signatories and shall notify the Paying Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so an authorised signatory or if any additional person becomes so an authorised togethersignatory and, unless and until notified of any such change, the Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any notice, communication or other document by an authorised signatory. 18.13 Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, the Fiscal Agent may refrain without liability from taking any action that it is required to take under the terms of this Agreement that, would or might, in its reasonable opinion (having consulted with legal counsel to the extent practicable and/or permissible), would be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to the United States of America or any jurisdiction forming a part of it, and the EU or any Member State of the EU) or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction or which would or might otherwise render it liable to any person and may without liability take any action or refrain from taking any such action that, in its reasonable opinion (having consulted with legal counsel to the extent practicable and/or permissible) is necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 18.14 Whenever, in the case performance of an additional authorised personits duties under this Agreement, with evidence satisfactory to the a Paying Agent shall deem it desirable that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may any matter be increased established by the Issuers in accordance with Issuer prior to taking or suffering any action under this Agreement, the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall matter may be deemed to be references conclusively established by a certificate signed by the Issuer and delivered to the increased amount. (9) The Paying Agent and each Paying Agent the certificate shall be a person payments full authorisation to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time Paying Agent for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it under the provisions of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentthis Agreement in reliance upon the certificate. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax.18.15 If: (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning introduction of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5)or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement; or (ii) confirms any change in the status of the Issuer of the composition of the shareholders of the Issuer after the date of this Agreement, obliges the Paying Agent or the Registar to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Issuer shall as soon as reasonably possible upon the request of the Paying Agent or the Registrar supply or procure the supply of such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Paying Agent or the Registrar in order for the Paying Agent or Registrar to carry out and be satisfied that it will comply has complied with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes necessary “know your customer” or similar checks under Sections 1441, 1442, all applicable laws and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9regulations. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Trustee until such sums shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture provided that the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer in trust for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between payment in respect of the relevant Issuer and the AgentNotes. (2) 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be segregated. 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Amcor PLC)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 12.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall not exercise any right be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of set-off, lien or similar claim as provided in respect thereof; this Agreement and the Indenture; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 12.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 12.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 3.1 (solely with respect to the Trustee) and will clause 12.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 12.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which any party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 12.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Coupons, respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers approved by the Issuer and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 5.7 Under no circumstances will the Calculation Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory liable to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon Issuer or any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant other party to this Agreement and the Conditionsfor any consequential loss (being loss of business, if anygoodwill, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent opportunity or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(eprofit), even if advised of the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent possibility of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxloss. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Save as provided in subclause 2(3) and in subclause (3) of this Clause, each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2subclause (2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer for any interest thereon except thereon, and as otherwise agreed between a result, such money will not be held in accordance with the relevant Issuer and the AgentClient Money Rules. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers relevant Issuer (or in the circumstances described in subclause 2(3) above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by a Paying Agent for payment to the Agent or the Paying Agents Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3) None of the Programme Agents shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against an Issuer in respect of any moneys payable to or by it under the terms of this Agreement. (4) The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to each Issuer and the Issuers Trustee to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto 3 in the case of the AgentAgent and the Registrar), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent and the Registrar to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentAgent and the Registrar. (45) The Agent and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers with the prior consent of the relevant Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisersadvisers Provided always however that in the event that the Agent requires to consult with legal or other professional advisers at a time when the relevant Issuer cannot be contacted for the purposes of obtaining its prior consent, the Agent shall as soon as practicable following such consultation inform the relevant Issuer thereof. (56) Each of the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (67) Any of the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would they have if the relevant Programme Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Coupons Talons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer as freely as if the relevant Programme Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (78) For so long as any of the Notes is represented by a Global Note held on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person (other than Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg) Each who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal or interest on such Notes for which purpose the bearer of the Global Note (or the Trustee in accordance with the Trust Deed) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and subject to its terms (and the expressions “Noteholder”, “holder of Notes” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly). Notes which are represented by a Global Note will be transferable only in accordance with the rules and procedures for the time being of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be. (9) The relevant Issuer shall provide the Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and their specimen signatures and shall notify the Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. (8) 10) The amount relevant Issuer shall, forthwith upon becoming aware of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effectedsame, all references in this Agreement give notice to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss change of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxTrustee. (11) The Agent and None of the Programme Agents shall be under any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments obligation to take any action under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), which may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation or (ii) confirms that which it expects will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect result in any expense, loss, charge or liability accruing to it, the Notes under Sections 1441payment of which or adequate indemnity against which within a reasonable time is not, 1442in its opinion, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9assured to it. (12) The Agent None of the Programme Agents shall have any obligation or duty (i) to monitor or inquire as to the performance of the relevant Issuer of its obligations under the Notes, this Agreement or any other relevant documents or (ii) to determine or take any steps to ascertain whether any relevant event under the Notes has occurred. (13) Each party to this Agreement shall, within ten business days of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations or any Paying Agent Notes as that is other party reasonably requests for the purposes of receiving payments under that other party's compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the relevant other party reasonably promptly in the event that it becomes aware that any of the forms, documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Agreement a “foreign person” within subclause 21(13) to the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): extent that: (i) represents that it any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, not reasonably available to such party and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or (ii) agrees doing so would or might in the reasonable opinion of such party constitute a breach of any: (a) Applicable Law; (b) fiduciary duty; or (c) duty of confidentiality. For the purposes of this subclause 21(13), “Applicable Law” shall be deemed to include (i) any rule or practice of any Authority by which any party to this Agreement is bound or with which it is accustomed to comply; (ii) any agreement between any Authorities; and (iii) any agreement between any Authority and any party to this Agreement that upon its appointment it will provide is customarily entered into by institutions of a similar nature. In this subclause 21(13) “Applicable Law” and “Authority” shall have the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingmeanings set out in subclause 6(10) above.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 13.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture provided that it shall not exercise any right the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 13.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 13.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 13.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 13.4 The Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the such document. The Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the date hereof to any relevant documents (including, without limitation, the Indenture), unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the Issuer in writing, will result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 13.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Paying Agents other than Agent shall be entitled to treat the duty holder of any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to act honestly the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) and in good faith and shall not be required to exercise obtain any proof thereof or as to the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each identity of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentbearer or holder. (4) 13.6 The Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and Registrar may consult with any legal and or other professional advisers (who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer) selected by it, at the cost of the Issuer, provided that the fees of any such counsel shall be agreed to by the Issuer (acting reasonably) in advance, and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the written opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 13.7 The Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted or suffered by it in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or upon any of the Issuers or any Note, notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable telex, facsimile transmission or other paper document or document which information from any electronic or other source reasonably believed by it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent otherwise given or disseminated by the proper party or parties parties, even if it is subsequently found not to be genuine or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersto be incorrect. (6) Any of the 13.8 The Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents and their officersRegistrar, directors and employees may become whether acting for itself or in any other capacity, will not be precluded from becoming the owner of, or acquire acquiring any interest in, holding or disposing of any NotesNote or any shares or other securities of the Issuer or any of its subsidiaries, Coupons holding or Talons associated companies (each a “Connected Company”), with the same rights that it, he or she as it would have had if the it were not acting as Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage from entering into or be being interested in any financial contracts or other transaction transactions with any of the Issuers and may act Connected Company or from acting on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes any securities of any Connected Company and will not be liable to account for any profit. 13.9 The Paying Agent shall not be required to make any payments to any holder of a Note if under any laws or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of regulations affecting the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, such payment is not permitted. In the event of any such laws or regulations affecting the Paying Agent coming to the attention of the Paying Agent it shall forthwith notify the Issuer and the Trustee. 13.10 The Issuer shall do or cause to be done all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all such documents as shall be necessary or desirable to enable the case may bePaying Agent, were not appointed Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and Registrar to fully comply with and carry out its respective duties and obligations hereunder. 13.11 In no event shall the Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar or any of its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or representatives (7collectively, “Agent Parties”) Each Issuer shall provide have any liability for damages of any kind, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise), except to the Agent with a certified copy extent the liability of the list Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar is found in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of persons authorised competent jurisdiction to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify have resulted primarily from the gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud of the Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Registrar or their Agent that such person has been so authorisedParties. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references 13.12 Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the amount contrary, the Paying Agent, Calculation Agent, Transfer Agent and the Registrar shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any obligation hereunder by reason of any occurrence beyond its control including, without limitation, (i) any governmental activity (whether de jure or de facto), act of authority (whether lawful or unlawful), compliance with any governmental or regulatory order, rule, regulation or direction, curfew restriction, expropriation, compulsory acquisition, seizure, requisition, nationalisation or the imposition of currency or currency control restrictions; (ii) any failure of or the effect of rules or operations of any funds transfer, settlement or clearing system, interruption, loss or malfunction of utilities, communications or computer services or the payment or repayment of any cash or sums arising from the application of any law or regulation in effect now or in the future, or from the occurrence of any event in the country in which such cash is held which may affect, limit, prohibit or prevent the transferability, convertibility, availability, payment or repayment of any cash or sums until such time as such law, regulation or event shall no longer affect, limit, prohibit or prevent such transferability, convertibility, availability, payment or repayment (and in no event, other than as provided in the Notes, shall the Paying Agent be obliged to substitute another currency for a currency whose transferability, convertibility or availability has been affected, limited, prohibited or prevented by such law, regulation or event or be obliged to pay any penalty interest); (iii) any strike or work stoppage, go slow, occupation of premises, other industrial action or dispute or any breach of contract by any essential personnel; (iv) any equipment or transmission failure or failure of applicable banking or financial systems; (v) any war, armed conflict including but not limited to hostile attack, hostilities, or acts of a foreign enemy; (vi) any riot, insurrection, civil commotion or disorder, mob violence or act of civil disobedience; (vii) any act of terrorism or sabotage; (viii) any explosion, fire, destruction of machines, equipment or any kind of installation, prolonged breakdown of transport, radioactive contamination, nuclear fusion or fission or electric current; (ix) any epidemic, natural disaster (such as but not limited to violent storm, hurricane, blizzard, earthquake, landslide, tidal wave, flood, damage or destruction by lightning, or drought); or (x) any other act of God. 13.13 Pursuant to and in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article 13 of the Programme shall be deemed Base Indenture (i) the Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture or for any other purpose, direct the Paying Agent to pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Paying Agent, such sums to be references held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Paying Agent to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Trustee, the Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free released from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments further liability with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting such money and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide any money deposited with the Issuers Paying Agent in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer on the Issuer’s request and all liability of the Paying Agent with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingrespect to such trust money shall thereupon cease.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Medtronic PLC)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) 5.1 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantor and in the circumstances described in Clause 5.2, the Trustee, and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the NotesRelevant Notes or the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining thereto (the Coupons, Coupons respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of Default or Talons. Moneys paid by a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred or the Trustee shall have received any Issuer money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 of the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), and in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action reasonably taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantor or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable statement or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from the Issuer or the Guarantor. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantor as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer 5.7 If the Calculation Agent fails to perform the duties as are herein and in the Conditions specifically set forth which it obliged to perform, the Calculation Agent shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall promptly notify the Agent promptly in writing if any Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorisedfailure. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture provided that it shall not exercise any right the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated, except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Booking Holdings Inc.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 21.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon on the money. Monies held by it need not be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 21.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any . 21.3 Each Agent undertakes to the Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 5 in the case of the AgentPrincipal Paying Agent and the Registrar), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations (including, without limitation, duties or obligations of a fiduciary or equitable nature) shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 5 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentPrincipal Paying Agent and the Registrar. (4) The 21.4 No Agent shall be obliged to perform additional duties set out in any Pricing Supplement and thereby incorporated into the Conditions unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. If the Conditions are amended on or after a date on which the Agent accepts any appointment in a way that affects the duties expressed to be performed by such Agent, it shall not be obliged to perform such duties as so amended unless it has first approved the relevant amendment. No Agent shall be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement that it expects will result in any expense to or liability of such Agent, the payment of which is not, in its opinion, assured to it within a reasonable time, provided that the relevant Agent shall notify the Issuer in writing as soon as reasonably practicable after the decision not to take such action has been made. 21.5 Each Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 21.6 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party, such party having acted or parties acting on instructions of the Issuer, or upon on written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 21.7 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each 21.8 The Issuer shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar that such the person has been so authorised. 21.9 Except as otherwise permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Note or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Note as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 21.10 None of the Agents shall be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation.. 21.11 None of the Agents shall have any obligation or duty (i) to monitor or inquire as to the performance of the Issuer of its obligations under the Notes, this Agreement or any other relevant documents or (ii) to determine or take any steps to ascertain whether any relevant event under the Notes has occurred. 21.12 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. 21.13 Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant party to this Agreement shall, within ten business days (in the place of the requesting party) of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and the Conditionsother information relating to it, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent its operations or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not (subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose any non-disclosure agreements relating to such grandfathered status information or documentation) as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any that other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is party reasonably requests for the purposes of receiving payments under that other party's compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the relevant other party as soon as reasonably practicable in the event that it becomes aware that any of the forms, documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Agreement not a “foreign person” within subclause 21.13 to the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): extent that: (i) represents that it any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect not reasonably available to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, such party and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) ‌ 19.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer or the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) 19.1.1 that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) 19.1.2 as provided in Subclause 19(2) Clause 19.2 below; and (c) 19.1.3 that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer or the Guarantor for any interest thereon thereon, except as otherwise specifically agreed between the relevant Issuer Issuer, the Guarantor and the Agent. (2) 19.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and the Guarantor and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders, and Couponholders shall be held on behalf of the Noteholders and Couponholders, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law.law.‌ (3) 19.3 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers and the Guarantor to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to forth (including Schedule 3 in writing by the relevant Issuer, case of the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableAgent), and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. 19.4 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required by law or otherwise instructed by the Issuer or the Guarantor, each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the holder of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (4) The whether or not the Note or Coupon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other writing on the Note or Coupon or any notice of previous loss or theft of the Note or Coupon). 19.5 With the approval of the relevant Issuer or the Guarantor (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), the Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 19.6 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or the Guarantor or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuers or the Guarantor. (6) 19.7 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons the Guarantor or in connection with any other obligations of any of the Issuers or the Guarantor as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) 19.8 Each Issuer and the Guarantor shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly as soon as is practicable in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised.authorised.‌ (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected19.9 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its status as an NFFE were reasonable opinion be contrary to changeany applicable law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to, the European Union, the United States of America, in which eventeach case, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if or any jurisdiction forming a part of it and the amount England & Wales) or any applicable directive or regulation of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent agency of any such loss state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its reasonable opinion, necessary to comply with any such applicable law, directive or regulation. A copy of grandfathered status prior all communications relating to the date on which subject matter of this Agreement between any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent Issuer or the Guarantor and any Noteholders or Couponholders and any of the Paying Agent that is for Agents (other than the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (iAgent) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect shall be sent to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and Agent by the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9relevant Paying Agent. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 21.1 Each of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Registrar shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between thereon. 21.2 Notwithstanding the relevant Issuer and deposit of any notes with the Agent. (2) In , in acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, each of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer (or, in the circumstances described in subclause 2.6 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability . 21.3 Each of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by Paying Agents, the Agent or Transfer Agents, the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Exchange Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such obligations and duties and only such obligations and duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied obligations or duties (including without limitation duties or obligations of a fiduciary or equitable nature) shall be read into this Agreement any such document against any Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, the Exchange Agent or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) ), the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Registrar agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 21.4 The Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which it expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 21.5 The Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 21.6 Each of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer (howsoever received) or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 21.7 Any of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and or the Paying Agents Registrar and their respective officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the relevant Paying Agent or Transfer Agent concerned, the Exchange Agent or the relevant Paying AgentRegistrar, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the relevant Paying Agent or Transfer Agent, the Exchange Agent or the relevant Paying AgentRegistrar, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderhereunder without regard to the interests of the Issuer and shall be entitled to retain and shall not in anyway be liable to account for any profit made or share of brokerage or remuneration or other amount or benefit received thereby or in connection therewith. (7) Each 21.8 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 2 of Part I of Appendix A of the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. 21.9 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer or registered owner of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (8) whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof). 21.10 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any such increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the such increased amount. 21.11 The Issuer shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Trustee. 21.12 Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Agent to assume an obligation of the Issuer arising under any provision of the listing, prospectus, disclosure or transparency rules (9) or equivalent rules of any other competent authority besides FCA). 21.13 The Agent shall be entitled to take any action or to refuse to take any action which the Agent regards as necessary for the Agent to comply with any applicable law, regulation or fiscal requirement, or the rules, operating procedures or market practice of any relevant stock exchange or other market or clearing system. 21.14 Each of the Agent and each Paying Agent shall undertakes to inform the Issuer immediately if it ceases to be a person payments to whom are free exempt from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentWithholding. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 19.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) subclause 19.2 below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon thereon. No monies held by any Paying Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) In 19.2 Without prejudice to the provisions of clauses 7 and 27, in acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Receipts or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawCoupons. (3) 19.3 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions and in Conditions, the Procedures Memorandum and the applicable Final Terms specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Agents. 19.4 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers approved by the Issuer, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 19.5 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 19.6 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts or Coupons or Talons with the same rights (but without prejudice to any limitations which might apply in any other capacity) that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in (subject as aforesaid) any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each 19.7 The Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount 19.8 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), Issuer and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were Paying Agents shall be entitled to change, in which event, treat the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount bearer of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement Note, Receipt or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning notwithstanding any notice of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent ownership or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding writing thereon or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent notice of any such previous loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxor theft thereof). (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Royal Ahold)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will shall not thereby assume be under any fiduciary duty or other obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Coupons). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 9 (Application of Moneys) of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 22.1 Save as provided in Clauses 22.2 and 22.3 below, the Principal Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall and not exercise any right of set-offsubject to the Client Money Rules, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon thereon. No money held by any Paying Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 22.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Agent Notes and the Paying Agents Coupons, each Agent shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners Noteholders, Receiptholders or holders of Couponholders, except that funds received by the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the relevant Agent for the payment of principal or interest on any sums due in respect of any Series of the Notes remaining unclaimed at and the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable Coupons relating thereto shall be repaid to held by it in trust for the relevant Issuer Noteholders and Couponholders (as provided and in the manner set forth in case may be) until the Notes whereupon all liability expiration of the relevant period under Condition 8. 22.3 No Agent with shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against the Issuer or any Noteholders or Couponholders in respect thereto shall cease. All funds held of any moneys payable to or by it under the Agent terms of this Agreement. 22.4 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law, each Agent shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Note, Receipt or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Note as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not such Note, Receipt or Coupon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other writing thereon or any notice of previous loss or theft thereof) and shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the identity of the bearer or registered holder, subject, in relation to any Global Note, as provided in the Conditions. (3) The 22.5 Each Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum Notes specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the AgentPrincipal Paying Agent and the Registrar) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent or the Registrar to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentPrincipal Paying Agent or the Registrar (as applicable). (4) 22.6 The Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar may consult on any legal matter in relation to the Notes or this Agreement any legal adviser selected by it, after consultation if practicable with the Issuer, who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer, and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers it shall be full protected and complete protection in respect of any shall incur no liability for action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder to be taken, with respect to such matter in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such adviserslegal adviser. (5) 22.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or any of the Issuers other Agent, or any Note or Coupon, or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, e-mail or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 22.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Noteholders or Coupons Couponholders or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the such Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement and will not be liable to account for any profit. (7) Each 22.9 The Issuer shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar and each other Paying Agent with a certified copy of the certified list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 3 of Appendix A to the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the Registrar and each Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. (8) 22.10 The Issuer shall do or cause to be done all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all such documents as shall be necessary to enable each Agent to fully comply with and carry out its duties and obligations hereunder. 22.11 The Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar may call for and shall rely on any records, certificate or other document of or to be issued by Euroclear or Clearstream in relation to any determination of the principal amount of (i) Bearer Notes represented by a NGN (ii) or Registered Notes which are held under the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme AgreementNSS. Upon Except for manifest error, any increase being effectedsuch records, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme certificate or other document shall be deemed conclusive and binding for all purposes. The Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar shall not be liable to any person by reason of having acquired as valid or not having rejected any such records, certificate or other document to such effect purporting to be references issued by Euroclear or Clearstream and subsequently found to the increased amountbe forged or not authentic, except where such forgery or non authenticity is manifest. (9) The 22.12 In the event that an Agent and each Paying receives conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions, such Agent shall be a entitled not to take any action until such instructions have been resolved or clarified to its satisfaction and such Agent shall not be or become liable in any way to any person payments for any failure to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of comply with any such Agent’s conflicting, unclear or Paying Agent’s appointmentequivocal instructions. 22.13 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, any party to this Agreement may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (10including but not limited to English law) Payments made or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 22.14 The Issuer undertakes to each Agent that: 22.14.1 it will provide to each Agent all documentation and other information required by TMCC are each Agent from U.S. source time to time for U.S. federal each Agent to comply with any Applicable Law forthwith upon request by each Agent; and 22.14.2 it will notify each Agent in writing within 30 days of any change of which it is or becomes aware that affects the Issuer’s tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within status pursuant to any Applicable Law to the meaning of Section 1473(1) extent that it relates to the Issuer’s obligations under this Agreement and/or the Notes. It shall be the sole responsibility of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of whether a deduction or withholding is or will be required from any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to in respect of the Notes or otherwise in connection with this Agreement and to procure that such deduction or withholding is made in a timely manner to the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning appropriate Authorities and shall promptly notify each Agent upon determining or becoming aware of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the such requirement. The Issuer shall provide such Agent with all information required for such Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged be able to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxpayment. (11) 22.15 The relevant Agent and any Paying shall notify the Issuer if it becomes aware that the Issuer can no longer pay that Agent that is for without FATCA withholding. 22.16 If the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms Issuer determines in its sole discretion that it will comply be required to withhold or deduct any FATCA withholding in connection with all withholding requirements imposed any payment due on payments with respect any Notes, then the Issuer shall be entitled to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and re-direct or reorganise any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents such payment in any way that it sees fit in order that the payment may be made without FATCA withholding, provided that any such re- direction or reorganisation of any payment is made through a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning recognised institution of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, international standing and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers such payment is otherwise made in accordance with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingthis Agreement.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The ‌ 21.1 Each of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Registrar shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between thereon. 21.2 Notwithstanding the relevant Issuer and deposit of any notes with the Agent. (2) In , in acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, each of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer (or, in the circumstances described in subclause 2.6 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability . 21.3 Each of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by Paying Agents, the Agent or Transfer Agents, the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Exchange Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such obligations and duties and only such obligations and duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 in the case of the Agent), in the relevant Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied obligations or duties (including without limitation duties or obligations of a fiduciary or equitable nature) shall be read into this Agreement any such document against any Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, the Exchange Agent or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) ), the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Registrar agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 21.4 The Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which it expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 21.5 The Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 21.6 Each of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer (howsoever received) or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 21.7 Any of the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents, the Exchange Agent and or the Paying Agents Registrar and their respective officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the relevant Paying Agent or Transfer Agent concerned, the Exchange Agent or the relevant Paying AgentRegistrar, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the relevant Paying Agent or Transfer Agent, the Exchange Agent or the relevant Paying AgentRegistrar, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderhereunder without regard to the interests of the Issuer and shall be entitled to retain and shall not in anyway be liable to account for any profit made or share of brokerage or remuneration or other amount or benefit received thereby or in connection therewith. (7) Each 21.8 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 2 of Part I of Appendix 1 of the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorisedauthorised.‌ 21.9 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer or registered owner of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof). (8) 21.10 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any such increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the such increased amount. 21.11 The Issuer shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Trustee. 21.12 Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Agent to assume an obligation of the Issuer arising under any provision of the listing, prospectus, disclosure or transparency rules (9) or equivalent rules of any other competent authority besides FCA). 21.13 The Agent shall be entitled to take any action or to refuse to take any action which the Agent regards as necessary for the Agent to comply with any applicable law, regulation or fiscal requirement, or the rules, operating procedures or market practice of any relevant stock exchange or other market or clearing system. 21.14 Each of the Agent and each Paying Agent shall undertakes to inform the Issuer immediately if it ceases to be a person payments to whom are free exempt from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentWithholding. 21.15 In relation to any issue of Subordinated Notes, the Issuer shall notify the Agent, the Registrar and the Trustee if at any time the Issuer gives (10i) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1a Deferral Notice pursuant to Condition 5(a) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Subordinated Notes that were it will not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason be making a payment of being “grandfathered” lose interest in respect of such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and Subordinated Notes on any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), Interest Payment Date or (ii) confirms a notice to the Noteholders pursuant to Condition 5(a) of the Subordinated Notes that all outstanding Arrears of Interest will be satisfied, such notice to state the Optional Deferred Interest Settlement Date. 21.16 Notwithstanding the flexibility contained in the relevant Conditions, the Issuer agrees that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9not give notice of more than one Optional Deferred Interest Settlement Date in any calendar month. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 6.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the NotesRelevant Bonds, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer, the CBC and/or the Security Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Bonds or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Relevant Bonds (the 'Coupons'). 6.2 At any time after an Issuer Event of Default and/or a CBC Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Calculation Agent shall be required upon receipt of a notice in writing from the Security Trustee: to act thereafter as Calculation Agent of the Security Trustee respectively, in relation to the calculations or payments to be made by or on behalf of the Security Trustee under the provisions of the Trust Deed, mutatis mutandis, on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Security Trustee's liability under any provision hereof for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability indemnification of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake Registrar shall be limited to the Issuers amount for the time being received or recovered by the Security Trustee under the Security and the Parallel Debt Agreement subject to perform the Post CBC Acceleration Notice Priority of Payments) and therefore to hold all Covered Bonds and Coupons and all sums, documents and records held by it in respect of the Covered Bonds and the Coupons on behalf of the Security Trustee; or to deliver all Covered Bonds and Coupons and all sums, documents and records held by it in respect of Covered Bonds and Coupons to the Security Trustee or as the Security Trustee shall direct in such obligations and dutiesnotice, and provided that such notice shall be deemed not to apply to any documents or records which the Calculation Agents is obliged not to release pursuant to any applicable law or regulation. 6.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Bonds, the Calculation Agent shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith accordance with standards of reasonableness and fairness and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 6.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 6.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the CBC or order from any of the Issuers Security Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer, the CBC or the Security Trustee. 6.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Covered Bonds or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer or the CBC and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Covered Bonds or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the CBC as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Relevant Issuer and (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.5 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations or responsibility towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by Talons or any Issuer other third party. 18.3 Each Paying Agent hereby undertakes to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due Relevant Issuer and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and (in the manner set forth in case of Guaranteed Notes) the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Guarantor to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such obligations and duties and only such obligations and duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied obligations or duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any such document against the Agent and the any Paying Agents Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent.Agent.‌ (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Issuers Guarantor or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable statement or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersRelevant Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be. (6) 18.6 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers or the Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers or the Guarantor as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder.hereunder.‌ (7) 18.7 Each Issuer of the Issuers and the Guarantor shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 3 of Part I of Appendix I of the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. 18.8 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Relevant Issuer, (8) in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor, the Trustee and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof). 18.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers and the Guarantor in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any such increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the such increased amount. (9) 18.10 The Issuers and the Guarantor shall forthwith give notice to the Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at of any change of the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentTrustee. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within 18.11 The Paying Agents will only be liable to the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which eventIssuers, the relevant Issuer will provide Guarantor and/or the Agent with sufficient information Trustee for losses, liabilities, costs, expenses and demands arising directly from the performance of its obligations under this Agreement suffered by or occasioned to determine if and the amount Issuers, the Guarantor and/or the Trustee (Liabilities) to the extent that the Paying Agents have been negligent, fraudulent or in wilful default in respect of its obligations under this Agreement. The Paying Agents shall not otherwise be liable or responsible for any payment Liabilities or inconvenience which may result from anything done or omitted to be made done by such Issuer pursuant to it in connection with this Agreement and Agreement. For the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within avoidance of doubt the meaning failure of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether make a claim for payment of interest and principal on the Relevant Issuer or (in what amount the Agent case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor, or to inform any other Paying Agent is obliged or clearing system of a failure on the part of the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor to meet any such claim or to make any withholding a payment by the stipulated date, shall not be deemed to constitute negligence, fraud or deduction wilful default on the part of applicable FATCA Withholding Taxthe Agent.‌ 18.12 Liabilities arising under paragraph 18.11 shall be limited to the amount of the Issuers, the Guarantor and/or the Trustee’s actual loss. In Such actual loss shall be determined (i) as at the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason date of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status default of the relevant Paying Agent or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.default and

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 18.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Issuers for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) 18.2 below; and; (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Issuers for any interest thereon thereon; and (d) no moneys held by the Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) 18.3 The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents Agents, (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. The reasonable and properly documented expenses by any such advisers actually and properly incurred by the Agent shall be for the account of Piraeus Bank or Piraeus Financial Holdings, as the case may be, but Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank, as the case may be, will only pay the fees of one external legal counsel (if appointed) for each relevant jurisdiction, unless otherwise agreed between the parties, and in each case up to an amount that has or will have been agreed between Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank, as the case may be, and the Agent. (5) 18.5 Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable statement or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersPiraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank. (6) 18.6 Any of the Agent and the other Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) 18.7 Each Issuer of Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly as soon as is practicable in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount 18.8 To the extent permitted by law, each of the Programme may Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be increased entitled to deem and treat the bearer of any Note as the absolute owner thereof. 18.9 If: (a) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement; or (b) any change in the status of Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank or of the composition of the shareholders of Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank after the date of this Agreement, obliges the Agent to comply with "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, Piraeus Financial Holdings or Piraeus Bank (as applicable) shall promptly upon the request of the Agent supply or procure the supply of such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Issuers Agent in order for the Agent to carry out and be satisfied that it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations. 18.10 Neither Piraeus Bank, Piraeus Financial Holdings, any of their respective subsidiaries nor, to the best of the knowledge of Piraeus Bank or Piraeus Financial Holdings, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of Piraeus Bank, Piraeus Financial Holdings or any of their respective subsidiaries is currently a target of any economic sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (OFAC) or any other US, EU, United Nations or UK economic sanctions (a Sanctions Target) and will not lend, invest, contribute or otherwise make available the proceeds of the offering of the Notes to or for the benefit of any then-current Sanctions Target. 18.11 Each Agent and Paying Agent and each of Piraeus Financial Holdings and Piraeus Bank agrees and confirms that it is not entitled to the benefit of, or does not make or repeat, as appropriate, the representation and warranty contained in this Subclause 18.10 to the extent that it would result in a violation of, or conflict with, Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 including as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the Blocking Regulations) (as amended from time to time) and/or any associated and applicable national law, instrument or regulation implementing the Blocking Regulations in any member state of the European Union or any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the United Kingdom. 18.12 The following representations and warranties shall be made by each Issuer (each in respect of itself only) at the date of this Agreement: (a) that it is duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, lawfully qualified to do business in those jurisdictions in which business is conducted by it and has full power and capacity to execute this Agreement and to undertake and perform the obligations expressed to be assumed by it herein, and has taken all necessary action to approve and authorise the same; (b) that this Agreement constitutes legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of it in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effectedits respective terms, all references in this Agreement subject to the amount laws of recovery, resolution, bankruptcy and other laws affecting the Programme shall be deemed rights of creditors generally; (c) that no other action or thing is required to be references to taken, fulfilled or done (including without limitation the increased amount.obtaining of any consent or licence or the making of any filing or registration) in Greece for the compliance by it with the terms of this Agreement; (9d) The Agent that the execution and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time delivery of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes undertaking and performance by it of the respective obligations expressed to be assumed by it herein do not conflict with or result in a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and breach in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent material respect of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not terms or provisions of, or constitute a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): default under, either (i) represents that the documents constituting it or (ii) any instrument to which it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.party or

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Fiscal Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantor and, in the circumstances described in clause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment "Coupons"). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the Guarantor or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer or Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer or the Guarantor as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer[, the Guarantor] and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will shall not thereby assume be under any fiduciary duty or other obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Coupons). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 (Application of Moneys) of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer[, the Guarantor] and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer[, request the Guarantor] or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer[, the Guarantor] or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer [or the Guarantor] and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer [or the Guarantor] as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1a) The Global Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Bank for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (ai) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (bii) as provided in Subclause 19(2Section 25(b) below; and (ciii) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Bank for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer Bank and the Global Agent. (2b) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Bank and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Global Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders and deposited by the Bank for payment of specific Notes, Receipts, Talons or Coupons shall be held for the benefit of such holders or owners and applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3c) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Bank to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged obligated to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions Notes and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes or the Procedures Memorandum against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each any of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentAgents. (4d) The Global Agent may consult with reputable legal and other professional advisers of its selection and the written opinion of such advisers advisers, rendered in good faith, shall be full and complete protection in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5e) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered in good faith reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Bank or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, facsimile or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersan Authorized Representative. (6f) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and any of their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Bank as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) were not appointed hereunder. (7g) Each Issuer No Agent shall provide be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the Agent with a certified copy performance of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of its duties hereunder if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such persons ceases funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorisedit. (8) The amount h) Any Agent may execute any of the Programme may be increased duties or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effectedor through its agents, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amountattorneys or custodian. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Mbna Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Relevant Issuer and (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.5 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations or responsibility towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by Talons or any Issuer other third party. 18.3 Each Paying Agent hereby undertakes to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due Relevant Issuer and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and (in the manner set forth in case of Guaranteed Notes) the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Guarantor to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such obligations and duties and only such obligations and duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied obligations or duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any such document against the Agent and the any Paying Agents Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Issuers Guarantor or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable statement or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersRelevant Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be. (6) 18.6 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers or the Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers or the Guarantor as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) 18.7 Each Issuer of the Issuers and the Guarantor shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 3 of Part I of Appendix I of the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. 18.8 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Relevant Issuer, (8) in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor, the Trustee and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof). 18.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers and the Guarantor in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any such increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the such increased amount. (9) 18.10 The Issuers and the Guarantor shall forthwith give notice to the Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at of any change of the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentTrustee. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within 18.11 The Paying Agents will only be liable to the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which eventIssuers, the relevant Issuer will provide Guarantor and/or the Agent with sufficient information Trustee for losses, liabilities, costs, expenses and demands arising directly from the performance of its obligations under this Agreement suffered by or occasioned to determine if and the amount Issuers, the Guarantor and/or the Trustee (Liabilities) to the extent that the Paying Agents have been negligent, fraudulent or in wilful default in respect of its obligations under this Agreement. The Paying Agents shall not otherwise be liable or responsible for any payment Liabilities or inconvenience which may result from anything done or omitted to be made done by such Issuer pursuant to it in connection with this Agreement and Agreement. For the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within avoidance of doubt the meaning failure of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether make a claim for payment of interest and principal on the Relevant Issuer or (in what amount the Agent case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor, or to inform any other Paying Agent is obliged or clearing system of a failure on the part of the Relevant Issuer or (in the case of Guaranteed Notes) the Guarantor to meet any such claim or to make any withholding a payment by the stipulated date, shall not be deemed to constitute negligence, fraud or deduction wilful default on the part of applicable FATCA Withholding Taxthe Agent. 18.12 Liabilities arising under paragraph 18.11 shall be limited to the amount of the Issuers, the Guarantor and/or the Trustee’s actual loss. In Such actual loss shall be determined (i) as at the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason date of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status default of the relevant Paying Agent or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.default and

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Receipts and the Coupons, respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 9 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Receiptholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter, until instructed otherwise by the Trustee, as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of . 5.4 If the Paying Agents Conditions are amended on or after a date on which the Calculation Agent accepts any appointment in a way that affects the duties expressed to be performed by the Calculation Agent (other than the Agent) agrees that including, without limitation, if any information that is required by Successor Rate, Alternative Rate, Adjustment Spread and/or Benchmark Amendments are determined pursuant to Condition 5.2(c)), the Calculation Agent shall not be obliged to perform such duties as so amended if, in its reasonable opinion, such amended duties would become unlawful or unduly onerous. If the duties set out Calculation Agent makes any determination required of it in Appendix F hereto becomes known respect of any Notes on the basis of any Successor Rate, Alternative Rate, Adjustment Spread and/or Benchmark Amendment which has been notified to itit pursuant to Condition 5.2(c), it will promptly provide shall not be liable in respect of such information determination as a result of such Successor Rate, Alternative Rate, Adjustment Spread and/or any Benchmark Amendment as notified to the Agentit subsequently being found to be incorrect or ineffective. (4) 5.5 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.6 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.7 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with under this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly not in writing if any way be liable to account for any profit made or share of such persons ceases to be so authorised brokerage or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, commission or remuneration or other amount or benefit received thereby or in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorisedconnection therewith. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. 10.1 The Paying Agent shall (1a) The hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement, the Base Indenture and Supplemental Indentures for payment of principal or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to it or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement, the Base Indenture and applicable Supplemental Indenture; provided that the Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with under no liability for interest on any money paid to received by it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon hereunder except as otherwise agreed between in writing with the relevant Issuer; (b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and (c) at any time during the Agentcontinuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. (2) 10.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be segregated except to the extent required by law. 10.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 10.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders Holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 10.4 The Paying Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement such document. The Paying Agent shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the Notes against date hereof to any relevant documents (including, without limitation, the Base Indenture or any Supplemental Indenture), unless it shall have previously agreed or subsequently agrees to perform such duties. The Paying Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which such party reasonably expects, and has thus notified the Issuer in writing, will result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 10.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Paying Agents other than Agent shall be entitled to treat the duty Holder of any Note (as evidenced by the applicable Security Register) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to act honestly the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) and in good faith and shall not be required to exercise obtain any proof thereof or as to the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each identity of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentbearer or Holder. (4) 10.6 The Paying Agent may consult with any qualified legal and or other professional advisers (who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer) selected by it, at the reasonable cost of the Issuer, and the reasonable opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the written opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 10.7 The Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted or suffered by it in good faith in reliance upon any written instruction, request or order from any signed in the name of the Issuers Issuer by its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (each such officer of the Issuer, an “Authorized Officer”), and delivered to the Paying Agent, or upon any Note, notice, resolution, written direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable telex, facsimile transmission or other paper document or document which information from any electronic or other source, evidenced in writing and reasonably believed by it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent otherwise given or disseminated by an Authorized Officer in the proper party manner required, even if it is subsequently found not to be genuine or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersto be incorrect. (6) Any of the Agent and the 10.8 The Paying Agents and their officersAgent, directors and employees may become whether acting for itself or in any other capacity, will not be precluded from becoming the owner of, or acquire acquiring any interest in, holding or disposing of any NotesNote or any shares or other securities of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, Coupons holding or Talons associated companies (each a “Connected Company”), with the same rights that it, he or she as it would have had if the it were not acting as Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage from entering into or be being interested in any financial contracts or other transaction transactions with any of the Issuers and may act Connected Company or from acting on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes any securities of any Connected Company and will not be liable to account for any profit. 10.9 The Paying Agent shall not be required to make any payments to any Holder of a Note if under any laws or Coupons regulations affecting the Paying Agent, such payment is not permitted. In the event of any such laws or in connection with any other obligations regulations affecting the Paying Agent coming to the attention of the Issuers Paying Agent it shall forthwith notify the Issuer and the Trustee. 10.10 The Issuer shall do or cause to be done all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all such documents as freely as if shall be reasonably necessary to enable the Paying Agent to fully comply with and carry out its respective duties and obligations hereunder. 10.11 In no event shall the Paying Agent or any of its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or representatives (collectively, “Agent Parties”), have any liability for damages of any kind, except to the relevant extent such liability is found in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from the gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud of the Paying AgentAgent or its Agent Parties. In no event shall the Paying Agent or any Agent Parties on the one hand, or the Issuer or any of its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agent, advisors or representatives (collectively, “Issuer Parties”), on the other hand,have any liability for punitive, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or losses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) and regardless of whether the Paying Agent or Agent Party or Issuer or Issuer Party, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderhas been notified of the likelihood of such damages. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references 10.12 Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the amount contrary, the Paying Agent shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any obligation hereunder by reason of any event or circumstance beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation, (i) any governmental activity (whether de jure or de facto), act of governmental authority (whether lawful or unlawful), compliance with any governmental or regulatory order, rule, regulation or direction, curfew restriction, expropriation, compulsory acquisition, seizure, requisition, nationalisation or the imposition of currency or currency control restrictions; (ii) any failure of or the effect of rules or operations of any funds transfer, settlement or clearing system, interruption, loss or malfunction of utilities, communications or computer services or the payment or repayment of any cash or sums arising from the application of any law or regulation in effect now or in the future, or from the occurrence of any event in the country in which such cash is held which may affect, limit, prohibit or prevent the transferability, convertibility, availability, payment or repayment of any cash or sums until such time as such law, regulation or event shall no longer affect, limit, prohibit or prevent such transferability, convertibility, availability, payment or repayment (and in no event, other than as provided in the Notes, shall the Paying Agent be obliged to substitute another currency for a currency whose transferability, convertibility or availability has been affected, limited, prohibited or prevented by such law, regulation or event or be obliged to pay any penalty interest); (iii) any strike or work stoppage, go slow, occupation of premises, other industrial action or dispute or any breach of contract by any essential personnel; (iv) any equipment or transmission failure or failure of applicable banking or financial systems; (v) any war, armed conflict including but not limited to hostile attack, hostilities, or acts of a foreign enemy; (vi) any riot, insurrection, civil commotion or disorder, mob violence or act of civil disobedience; (vii) any act of terrorism or sabotage; (viii) any explosion, fire, destruction of machines, equipment or any kind of installation, prolonged breakdown of transport, radioactive contamination, nuclear fusion or fission or electric current; (ix) any epidemic, natural disaster (such as but not limited to violent storm, hurricane, blizzard, earthquake, landslide, tidal wave, flood, damage or destruction by lightning, or drought); or (x) any other act of God. 10.13 The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of the Programme shall be deemed Base Indenture, any Supplemental Indenture or for any other purpose, direct the Paying Agent to be references pay to the increased amount. (9) The Trustee any or all sums held in trust by the Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Paying Agent and each to the Trustee, the Paying Agent shall be a person payments released from all further liability with respect to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at such money. Any money deposited with the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source Agent in trust for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) payment of the Code. Each principal of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent premium or interest on the Notes remaining unclaimed for a period ending on the earlier of the date that is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status ten Business Days prior to the date such money would escheat to the state or two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent the Issuer’s request and any all liability of the Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9such trust money shall thereupon cease. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Fiserv Inc)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 24.1 The Agent, the Registrar and each Paying Agent and Transfer Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers and not subject to the FCA Client Money Rules except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-set off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) Clause 24.2 below; and; (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon thereon; and (d) no money held by the Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents or the Registrar need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent.required by law (2) 24.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations fiduciary duty or other obligation towards or have any relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid , except that all amounts received by any Issuer the Agent, the Paying Agents or the Registrar for payment to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due Noteholders and payable Couponholders shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or Agent, the Paying Agents or the Registrar, as the case may be, for that purpose, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, amounts except as required by law. (3) The Agent 24.3 Each of the Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Paying Agents Registrar hereby undertake to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 12 (Additional Duties of the Agent) in the case of the Agent), ) and in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents or the Registrar other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 12 (Additional Duties of the Agent) becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 24.4 The Agent Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 24.5 Each of the Agent Agent, the Paying Agents, the Transfer Agents and the Paying Agents shall be protected Registrar undertakes to inform the Issuer as soon as reasonably practicable if it is an FFI and shall incur no liability for fails to become or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreementa Participating FFI. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.Issuer

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s Agent or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and and, with respect to Notes issued after 30 June 2014 (or such later date as withholding under Section 1471(a) of the Code is first applicable), are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(801(b)(74), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(951(b)(89) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 6.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in sub-clause 6.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Relevant Notes, Coupons . 6.2 At any time after an Event of Default (as defined in the Conditions) or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to a Potential Event of Default (as defined in the Agent for Conditions) shall have occurred and be continuing or the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 9 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders (as provided and defined in the manner set forth Conditions), the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Notes whereupon all liability Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as Calculation Agent of the Trustee in relation to payments to be made by or on behalf of the Trustee under the terms of the Trust Deed mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 6.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 6.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with and, at the cost of the Issuer, employ legal and other professional advisers (provided such terms are agreed with the Issuer and any such costs are reasonably and properly incurred and documented and invoices are provided) and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of the advisers. The Calculation Agent will, where reasonably practicable, notify the Issuer prior to engaging such legal or professional advisers. (5) Each of the 6.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 6.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors directors, employees and employees affiliates may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons Notes with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment Receipts and the Coupons, respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Receiptholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. 5.3 The Calculation Agent agrees to act as such for any Successor in Business (3as defined in the Conditions), or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer (in each case, the Substituted Issuer) The Agent which for the time being is substituted as principal debtor in place of the Issuer pursuant to the Conditions and the Paying Agents hereby undertake Trust Deed and to enter into any agreement supplemental to this Agreement which in the opinion of the Trustee is necessary or desirable in connection with such substitution subject only to: (a) the Calculation Agent being satisfied that the Substituted Issuer has been accepted as such by the Trustee; and (b) the Substituted Issuer being bound by all the provisions of this Agreement in place of or in addition to the Issuers Issuer or any predecessor Substituted Issuer. 5.4 In relation to perform such obligations and dutieseach issue of Relevant Notes, and the Calculation Agent shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.5 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.6 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.7 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with under this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references [Consider whether it is appropriate to include contractual recognition of bail-in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA where there is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxEU 27 bank party. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.]

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 19.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers and shall not be liable to account to the Issuer for any interest thereon except: (a) that it shall may not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereofof money paid to it by the Issuer; (b) moneys held by any Paying Agent need not be segregated except as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowrequired by law; and (c) that it as provided in subclause 19.2 below. 19.2 Notwithstanding Clause 19.1 above: (a) any sums paid to the Agent in respect of any payment of principal and/or interest under the Notes which are received by the Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement prior to the due date therefor shall not (provided prior notice of such payment is given to the Agent) be liable placed on deposit by the Agent from the date of receipt to such due date at the rate of interest offered by Citibank, N.A., London Branch, at its London office for overnight deposits and the Agent shall account to any the Issuer for in respect of any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between earned thereon; and (b) where any payment of principal is made to the relevant Issuer Agent after the due date therefor or on or after accelerated maturity following an Event of Default, the Agent shall (provided prior notice of such payment is given to the Agent) place the amount of such payment on deposit from the date of such payment to the date on and after which payment is to be made to the Noteholders in respect thereof pursuant to proviso (b) to clause 2.2 of the Trust Deed at the rate of interest offered by Citibank, N.A., London Branch, at its London office for overnight deposits and the AgentAgent shall account to the Issuer (or, if so required by the Trustee pursuant to clause 2.3(a) of the Trust Deed, to the Trustee) in respect of any interest earned thereon. (2) 19.3 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.4 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) 19.4 The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. The obligations of the Paying Agents are several and not joint. (4) 19.5 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisersadvisers save for manifest error and negligence. (5) 19.6 Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or the Trustee, or any Note or Coupon, notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties and which is not manifestly wrong or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer or the Trustee. (6) 19.7 Any of the Agent and the other Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each 19.8 The Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount 19.9 Except as ordered by a court of the Programme may be increased competent jurisdiction or as required by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out law and subject as provided in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which eventnext sentence, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e)Issuer, the relevant Issuer will inform Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent may deem and treat the bearer of any Note, Coupon or Talon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not such Note, Coupon or Talon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof) for the purpose of making payment thereon and for all other purposes but, in the case of a Global Note, without prejudice to the provisions as set out in the next sentence. For so long as any of the Notes is represented by a Global Note held on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person (other than Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (each an Accountholder) (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) shall be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal and interest on such Notes, for which purpose the bearer of the relevant Global Note shall be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and the other Paying Agents as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and subject to the terms of the relevant Global Note and the expressions Noteholder, holder of Notes and related expressions shall be construed accordingly. Notes which are represented by a Global Note will be transferable only in accordance with the rules and procedures for the time being of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be. In order to exercise any rights in their capacity as Noteholders, Accountholders must exercise such rights through Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, either against presentation of the Global Note to or to the order of the Agent and against its endorsement by or on behalf of the Agent to reflect the exercise of such rights or, at the option of the Agent, by the production to the Agent of an undertaking from Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg that they will not debit or transfer Notes from the account of that Accountholder until a certain time or date or before the occurrence of an identified condition precedent. 19.10 The Issuer shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Trustee. 19.11 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, the Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its reasonable opinion be contrary to any applicable law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to the European Union, United States of America or any jurisdiction forming a part of it and England & Wales) or any applicable directive or regulation of any agency of any such loss state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its reasonable opinion, necessary to comply with any such applicable law, directive or regulation. 19.12 In relation to any issue of grandfathered status prior Subordinated Notes, the Issuer shall notify the Agent and the Trustee if at any time the Issuer gives (i) a Deferral Notice pursuant to Condition 6 of the Subordinated Notes that it will not be making a payment of interest in respect of such Subordinated Notes on any Interest Payment Date or (ii) a notice to the date on which any payments on Noteholders pursuant to Condition 17 of the Subordinated Notes that all outstanding Deferred Interest will be satisfied, such Notes would become subject notice to FATCA Withholding Taxstate the Deferred Interest Settlement Date. 19.13 Each party to this Agreement (11other than the Trustee) The Agent shall, within ten Business Days of a written request by another party to this Agreement, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations, or any Paying Agent Notes as that is other party to this Agreement reasonably requests for the purposes of receiving payments that other party’s compliance with Applicable Law (including any reporting obligations under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (iFATCA) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is or for the purposes of receiving payments under obtaining an exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, deduction or withholding of any taxes) and shall notify the relevant other party reasonably promptly in the event that it becomes aware that any of the forms, documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party to this Agreement a “foreign person” within shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this subclause 19.13 to the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): extent that: (i) represents that it any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, not reasonably available to such party and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide doing so would or might in the Issuers with reasonable opinion of such party constitute a properly completedbreach of any: (a) Applicable Law; (b) fiduciary duty; or (c) duty of confidentiality. For the purposes of this subclause 19.13: of whatever nature imposed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMYlevied, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingcollected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of any Authority having power to tax.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1a) The Global Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Bank or the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (ai) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (bii) as provided in Subclause 19(2Section 25(b) below; and (ciii) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Bank for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer Bank and the Global Agent. (2b) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Bank and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Global Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders and deposited by the Bank for payment of specific Notes, Receipts, Talons or Coupons shall be held for the benefit of such holders or owners and applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3c) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Bank to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged obligated to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions Notes and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes or the Procedures Memorandum against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each any of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentAgents. (4d) The Global Agent may consult with reputable legal and other professional advisers of its selection and the written opinion of such advisers advisers, rendered in good faith, shall be full and complete protection in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5e) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered in good faith reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Bank or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, facsimile or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersan Authorized Representative. (6f) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and any of their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Bank as freely as if such Agent(s) were not appointed hercunder. (g) No Agent shall be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hcreunder if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. (h) Any Agent may execute any of the duties or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents, attorneys or custodian. (i) In no event shall the Bank or the relevant Paying AgentAgents be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits) even if the Agents or the Bank, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy have been advised of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any likelihood of such persons ceases to be so authorised loss or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount damage and regardless of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount form of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amountaction. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Bank of America Corp /De/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 21.1 Save as provided in sub-clauses 21.2 and 21.3 below, the Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon thereon. No money held by any Paying Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 21.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the NotesNotes and the Coupons, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners Noteholders or holders of the NotesCouponholders, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid except that funds received by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on any sums due in respect of any Series of the Notes remaining unclaimed at and the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable Coupons relating thereto shall be repaid held by it in trust for the relevant Noteholders and Couponholders (as the case may be) until the expiration of the relevant period under Condition 9. 21.3 No Paying Agent shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against the Issuer or any Noteholders or Couponholders in respect of any moneys payable to or by it under the terms of this Agreement. 21.4 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required by law or otherwise instructed by the Issuer, each of the Note Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Note or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Note as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not such Note or Coupon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other writing thereon or any notice of previous loss or theft thereof) and shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the relevant Issuer identity of the bearer, subject, in relation to any Global Note, as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Conditions. 21.5 The Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum Notes specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Paying Agents. 21.6 The Agent and the Paying Agents other than Registrar may consult on any legal matter in relation to the duty to act honestly Notes or this Agreement any legal adviser selected by it and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required approved by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to itIssuer, it will promptly provide such information who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal Issuer, and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers it shall be full protected and complete protection in respect of any shall incur no liability for action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder to be taken, with respect to such matter in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such adviserslegal adviser. 21.7 If a Paying Agent has elected to be exempt from FATCA Withholding and subsequently becomes aware that on the date of the next payment being made to it under clause 5 such payment will be for any reason, subject to FATCA Withholding, it shall promptly notify the Issuer and (5in the case of a Paying Agent other than the Principal Paying Agent) the Principal Paying Agent. 21.8 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or any of the Issuers other Paying Agent, or any Note or Coupon, or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, telefax or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 21.9 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Noteholders or Coupons Couponholders or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the such Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement and will not be liable to account for any profit. (7) Each 21.10 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and each other Paying Agent with a certified copy of the certified list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf of the Issuer in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly and each Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. (8) 21.11 The amount of the Programme may Issuer shall do or cause to be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effecteddone all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme such documents as shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as necessary to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any each other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will fully comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act carry out its duties and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9obligations hereunder. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to such persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement and the Indenture; provided that it shall not exercise any right the Paying Agent may use such money as a banker in the ordinary course of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; business and without accounting for profits; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated, except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Agent Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency agency, or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and dutiesAgent, Transfer Agent, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement such document. The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the Notes against date hereof to any relevant documents (including, without limitation, the Agent Indenture), unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which either party expects, and has thus notified the Issuer in writing, will result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Paying Agents other than Agent shall be entitled to treat the duty holder of any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to act honestly the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust, or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) and in good faith and shall not be required to exercise obtain any proof thereof or as to the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each identity of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentbearer or holder. (4) 11.6 The Agent Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and Registrar may consult with any legal and or other professional advisers (who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer) selected by it, at the cost of the Issuer, provided that the fees of any such counsel shall be agreed to by the Issuer (acting reasonably) in advance, and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted omitted, or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the written opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent 11.7 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and the Paying Agents Registrar shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered, or omitted or suffered by it in reliance upon any instruction, request request, or order from the Issuer or upon any of the Issuers or any Note, notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable telex, facsimile transmission, or other paper document or document which information from any electronic or other source reasonably believed by it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent otherwise given or disseminated by the proper party or parties parties, even if it is subsequently found not to be genuine or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersto be incorrect. (6) Any of the Agent 11.8 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and the Paying Agents and their officersRegistrar, directors and employees may become whether acting for itself or in any other capacity, will not be precluded from becoming the owner of, or acquire acquiring any interest in, holding, or disposing of any NotesNote or any shares or other securities of the Issuer or any of its subsidiaries, Coupons holding, or Talons associated companies (each a “Connected Company”), with the same rights that it, he or she as it would have had if the Agent or the relevant it were not acting as Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, or Registrar, as the case may beapplicable, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be from entering into or being interested in any financial contracts or other transaction transactions with any of the Issuers and may act Connected Company or from acting on, or as depositary, trustee trustee, or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes any securities of any Connected Company and will not be liable to account for any profit. 11.9 The Paying Agent shall not be required to make any payments to any holder of a Note if under any laws or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of regulations affecting the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, such payment is not permitted. In the event of any such laws or regulations affecting the Paying Agent coming to the attention of the Paying Agent it shall forthwith notify the Issuer and the Trustee. 11.10 The Issuer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to do or cause to be done all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all such documents as shall be necessary or desirable to enable the case may bePaying Agent, were not appointed Transfer Agent, and Registrar to fully comply with and carry out its respective duties and obligations hereunder. 11.11 In no event shall the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, or Registrar or any of its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, or representatives (7collectively, “Agent Parties”) Each Issuer shall provide have any liability for damages of any kind, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, losses, or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise), except to the Agent with a certified copy extent the liability of the list Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, or Registrar is found in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of persons authorised competent jurisdiction to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify have resulted from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud of the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, or Registrar or their Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorisedParties. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references 11.12 Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the amount contrary, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and the Registrar shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any obligation hereunder by reason of any occurrence beyond its control including, without limitation, (i) any governmental activity (whether de jure or de facto), act of authority (whether lawful or unlawful), compliance with any governmental or regulatory order, rule, regulation or direction, curfew restriction, expropriation, compulsory acquisition, seizure, requisition, nationalization, or the imposition of currency or currency control restrictions; (ii) any failure of or the effect of rules or operations of any funds transfer, settlement or clearing system, interruption, loss or malfunction of utilities, communications, or computer services or the payment or repayment of any cash or sums arising from the application of any law or regulation in effect now or in the future, or from the occurrence of any event in the country in which such cash is held which may affect, limit, prohibit, or prevent the transferability, convertibility, availability, payment, or repayment of any cash or sums until such time as such law, regulation, or event shall no longer affect, limit, prohibit, or prevent such transferability, convertibility, availability, payment, or repayment (and in no event, other than as provided in the Notes, shall the Paying Agent be obliged to substitute another currency for a currency whose transferability, convertibility, or availability has been affected, limited, prohibited, or prevented by such law, regulation, or event or be obliged to pay any penalty interest); (iii) any strike or work stoppage, go slow, occupation of premises, other industrial action, or dispute or any breach of contract by any essential personnel; (iv) any equipment or transmission failure or failure of applicable banking or financial systems; (v) any war, armed conflict including but not limited to hostile attack, hostilities, or acts of a foreign enemy; (vi) any riot, insurrection, civil commotion or disorder, mob violence, or act of civil disobedience; (vii) any act of terrorism or sabotage; (viii) any explosion, fire, destruction of machines, equipment or any kind of installation, prolonged breakdown of transport, radioactive contamination, nuclear fusion or fission, or electric current; (ix) any epidemic, natural disaster (such as but not limited to violent storm, hurricane, blizzard, earthquake, landslide, tidal wave, flood, damage or destruction by lightning, or drought); or (x) any other act of God, it being understood that Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, and Registrar shall use reasonable efforts to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances. 11.13 Pursuant to and in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article VIII of the Programme shall be deemed Indenture (i) the Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture or for any other purpose, direct the Paying Agent to pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Paying Agent, such sums to be references held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Paying Agent to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Trustee, the Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free released from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments further liability with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441such money, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide any money deposited with the Issuers Paying Agent in trust for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium, or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer on the Issuer’s request and all liability of the Paying Agent with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingrespect to such trust money shall thereupon cease.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Booking Holdings Inc.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(21T(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(51T(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(21T(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii1T(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent 15.1 Except as provided in Clause 13.2 above, none of the Paying Agents in acting hereunder shall inc ur any liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered to be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement taken in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers exceptgood faith in reliance upon: (a) that it shall not exercise the advice of any right of set-off, lien lawyer or similar claim in respect thereofother professional adviser; (b) as provided any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or (in Subclause 19(2) belowthe circumstances described in Clause 2.3 above the Trustee; andor (c) that any Note, Coupon or Talon, notice, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, endorsement, assignment, statement, resolution, letter, telex, facsimile transmission or other paper or document reasonably believed by it shall not to be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between genuine or signed by the relevant Issuer and the Agentproper party or parties. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and 15.2 Each of the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents be responsible only for the performance of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent duties and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein expressly conferred upon it under this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions ) and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableNotes, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Procedures Memorandum, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgent(s). Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will w ill promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 15.3 No sums paid by or by arrangement with the Issuer to the Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be required to be repaid to the Issuer unless and until claims in respect of such sums become void under the Conditions of the relevant Notes. In the event that claims in respect of suc h sums shall become void, the Agent shall forthwith, subject to any fiscal or other laws and regulations applicable thereto and subject to Clause 2.3 above, repay such sums to the Issuer on demand. 15.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection entitled to deal with moneys paid to it by the Issuer for the purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other moneys paid to it as a banker by its customers except that it shall not be liable to account to the Issuer for any interest thereon, except in relation to sums due in respect of any Notes, Coupons or Talons after the expiration of the relevant prescription period under the relevant Conditions or, in any case, as otherwise agreed. No money held by the Agent need be segregated except as required by law. 15.5 The Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action takenunder this Agreement which it expects will result in any expense or liability of the Agent, omitted or suffered the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 15.6 Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 13 and subclause 13.2 above, in acting hereunder in good faith and in accordance connection with the opinion Notes, Coupons and Talons, the Paying Agent(s) shall act solely as paying agents of such advisersthe Issuer (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.3 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or as bankers to any of the owners or holders of the Notes or the Coupons or Talons appertaining thereto and shall only be obliged to perform the duties set out specifically in this Agreement, the Procedures Memorandum or the Notes, and any duties necessarily incidental thereto except that funds received by any Paying Agent for the payment of any sums due in respect of any Notes or Coupons shall be held by it in trust for the relevant holders of any Notes or Coupons until the expiration of the relevant prescription period under the relevant Conditions. (5) Each 15.7 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law and subject as provided in the Agent and next sentence, each of the Paying Agents shall be protected entitled to deem and treat the bearer of any Note, Coupon or Talon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notation of ownership or writing on it or notic e of any previous loss or theft thereof) and shall incur no liability not be required to obtain any proof of ownership or as to the identity or residence of the bearer and shall not be liable for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from so treating the bearer. For so long as any of the Issuers Notes is represented by a Global Note held on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (in which regard any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable certificate or other paper document issued by Euroclear or document which it reasonably believes Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be genuine conclusive and to have been delivered, signed or sent binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) shall be treated by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agents as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal and interest on such Notes, the right to which shall be vested, as against the Issuer, solely in the bearer of the IssuersGlobal Note in accordance with and subject to its terms (or the Trustee in accordance with the Trust Deed) (and the expressions Noteholder, holder of Notes and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.) (6a) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officersrespective directors, directors officers and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have if the Agent it or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned they were not appointed hereunder, hereunder and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act ac t on, or as a depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Notes, Coupons or in connection with any Talons or other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, it were not appointed hereunderhereunder and without accounting to any person therefor. (7b) Each No Paying Agent shall exercise any lien, right of set off or similar claim against the Issuer, the Trustee, any Noteholder, Couponholder or Talonholder in respect of moneys payable to or by it under this Agreement. 15.9 The Issuer shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Trustee. 15.10 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and any other Paying Agents with a certified copy of the certified list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf of the Issuer in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent and any other Paying Agents promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. 15.11 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, any Paying Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdic tion (8) The amount including but not limited to England and Wales, the European Union, the United States of America or, in each case, any jurisdiction forming a part of it) or any directive or regulation of any agenc y of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 15.12 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, if any Paying Agent is rendered unable to carry out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of the Programme may occurrence of a Force Majeure Event, such Paying Agent shall not be increased liable for any failure to carry out such obligations for so long as it is so prevented. For the purposes of this subclause 15.12, Force Majeure Event means any event due to any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Paying Agent(s), such as restrictions on the convertibility or transferability of currencies, requisitions, unavailability of communications systems, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind (other than any such actions or strikes undertaken by the Issuers in accordance Paying Agent(s) themselves or their employees), riots, insurrection, war or acts of government.‌ 15.13 Each party to this Agreement shall, within ten business days of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations or any Notes as that other party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other party' s compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the procedure set out relevant other party reasonably promptly in the Programme Agreement. Upon event that it becomes aware that any increase being effectedof the forms, all references documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Agreement subclause 15.13 to the amount extent that: (i) any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is not reasonably available to such party and cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or (ii) doing so would or might in the reasonable opinion of such party constitute a breach of any: (a) Applicable Law; (b) fiduciary duty; or (c) duty of confidentiality. For the Programme purposes of this subclause 15.13, Applicable Law shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. include (9i) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s any rule or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount practice of any payment to be made Authority by such Issuer pursuant which any party to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent is bound or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on with which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), accustomed to comply; (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.agreement between any Authorities; and

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer Stellantis for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer Stellantis for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer money. No Agent shall be required to segregate any such money unless required by applicable law and no such money shall be held subject to the AgentFinancial Conduct Authority’s Client Money Rules. (2) In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely for the purposes of this Agreement as agents an agent of the Issuers Stellantis and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Each Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers Stellantis to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such dutiesthe duties (including, in the case of any Notes issued as are herein (including Appendix F hereto NGN, Schedule 9 in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), specifically stated in this Agreement, the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 9 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) The Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each Agent shall, in the absence of wilful default, negligence or bad faith on the part of such Agent and the Paying Agents shall or its officers, employees or any of them be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers Stellantis or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the IssuersStellantis. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Stellantis and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Stellantis as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each Issuer Stellantis shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent that such the person has been so authorised. (8) Except as otherwise permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). (9) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (910) The Agent and each Paying Agent Notwithstanding any other term or provision of this Agreement to the contrary, none of Stellantis nor the Agents shall be a person payments liable for special, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including but not limited to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at loss of profits, business, goodwill or opportunity, whether or not foreseeable, even if Stellantis or the time Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage, except that the limitation in respect of punitive damages shall not apply to the extent a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction has decided that such punitive damages are as a sole result of Stellantis’ or the Agent’s fraud or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within wilful misconduct. The provisions of this clause 19 shall survive the meaning termination or expiry of Section 1473(1) of this Agreement or the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount resignation or removal of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxAgents. (11) The Agents will treat information relating to Stellantis as confidential. Unless consent is prohibited by law, Stellantis consents to the transfer and disclosure by the Agents only of any necessary information relating to Stellantis to and between branches, subsidiaries, representative offices, affiliates and agents of the Agents and third parties selected by any of them, wherever situated, for confidential use, provided such transfer and disclosure is required in connection with each Agent’s appointment as an Agent and the provision of any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments service under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within and such Agents take necessary measures to ensure that each of such branches, subsidiaries, representative offices, affiliates, agents and third parties complies with the meaning confidentiality obligations set forth herein. The Agents and any of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5)their respective branches, (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect subsidiaries, representative offices, affiliates, agents or third parties may transfer and disclose any such information as required by any law, court, regulator or legal process with, to the Notes under Sections 1441extent permitted by applicable law and regulation and to the extent reasonably practicable, 1442, and prior written notice to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Issuer. (12) The Agent Issuer undertakes that: (a) it will provide to the Agents all documentation and other information (in each case, relating solely to the Issuer) reasonably required by the Agents from time to time to comply with ▇▇▇▇▇ as soon as reasonably practicable following request by the Agents; and (b) it will notify the Agents in writing as soon as reasonably practicable upon becoming aware of any Paying Agent change that is affects the Issuer’s tax status for the purposes of receiving payments FATCA where such change would have a material effect on the Agents' performance of their duties under this Agreement. (13) Any payment by the Agents under this Agreement shall be made without any deduction or withholding for or on account of any taxes unless such deduction or withholding is required by any Applicable Law. If an Agent is required to make a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): deduction or withholding referred to above, (i) represents it shall not be liable for any additional amounts to be paid in respect of that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and deduction or withholding; (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide shall account to the Issuers with a properly completed, signed relevant authorities for such deduction or withholding within any applicable time limit; and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 (iii) it shall inform the Issuer of such deduction or withholding and 1099 reportingwithin three days of making such deduction or withholding.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 20.1 The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Issuers and/or the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) Clause 20.2 below; and; (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Issuers or the Guarantor for any interest thereon thereon; and (d) no moneys held by the Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 20.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and the Guarantor and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) 20.3 The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers and the Guarantor to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of The Agent also undertakes to comply with the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties provisions set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to B (Duties under the AgentIssuer-ICSDs Agreement). (4) 20.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 20.5 Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Alpha PLC or Alpha Bank or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersAlpha PLC or Alpha Bank. (6) 20.6 Any of the Agent and the other Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Alpha PLC or Alpha Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Alpha PLC or Alpha Bank as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) 20.7 Each Issuer of Alpha PLC or Alpha Bank shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly as soon as is practicable in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of 20.8 To the Programme may be increased extent permitted by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effectedlaw, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any the other Paying Agent Agents shall be entitled to deem and treat the bearer of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to Note as the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxabsolute owner thereof. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Fiscal Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Company for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2subclause (2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Company for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer Company and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Company and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that monies paid by any Issuer the Company to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years one year after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer Company as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon where upon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Company to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)herein, in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentAgents. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Company or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersCompany. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Company and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Company as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer The Company shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised authorized to execute documents and take action on its behalf of the Company in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised authorized or if any additional person becomes so authorised authorized together, in the case of an additional authorised authorized person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount a certified copy of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement revised list of persons authorized to the amount execute documents and take action on behalf of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amountCompany. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Bankamerica Corp/De/)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by either Issuer or any Issuer Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to either Issuer or any Issuer Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer and the Agentmoney. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers and the Guarantors (and, in the circumstances referred to in subclause 2.4, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The 18.3 Each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers and the Guarantors (and, in the circumstances referred to in subclause 2.4, the Trustee) to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 2 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the any Paying Agents Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 2 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and at the cost of the Issuers (failing which the Guarantors). The opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from either Issuer, request any Guarantor or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from either Issuer, any of Guarantor or the IssuersTrustee. (6) 18.6 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with either Issuer, any of Guarantor or the Issuers Trustee and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers either Issuer or any Guarantor as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) 18.7 Each Issuer and each Guarantor shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly as soon as reasonably practicable in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such the person has been so authorised. 18.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed and Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Relevant Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 18.9 Each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to take any action or to refuse to take any action which such Paying Agent reasonably regards as necessary for the Paying Agent to comply with any applicable law, regulation or fiscal requirement, internal anti-money laundering or ‘know your customer’ policies, or the rules, operating procedures or market practice of any relevant stock exchange or other market or clearing system. 18.10 Each of the Paying Agents shall not be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which it reasonably expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 18.11 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers and the Guarantors in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each 18.12 No Paying Agent shall be a person payments have any duty or responsibility in monitoring the performance by any Issuer or Guarantor of its obligations under the Conditions or this Agreement. No Paying Agent shall have any duty or responsibility in case of any default by any Issuer or Guarantor in the performance of its obligations under the Conditions or this Agreement (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any duty or responsibility to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time accelerate all or any of such Agent’s Notes or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information initiate or to determine if and the amount of attempt to initiate any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent proceedings at law or any other Paying Agent is obliged otherwise or to make any withholding demand for the payment thereof upon any Issuer or deduction Guarantor). 18.13 The Issuers (failing which the Guarantors) shall immediately give notice to the Agent of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In any change of the event Trustee. 18.14 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, the Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its good faith opinion be contrary to any Notes that were law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not subject limited to FATCA Withholding Tax the United States of America, the European Union or, in each case, any jurisdiction forming a part of it, and England & Wales) or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its good faith opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 18.15 None of the Paying Agents shall incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent occurrence beyond its control (including but not limited to any act or provision of any such loss present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of grandfathered status prior to God or war, civil unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, any act of terrorism, or the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxunavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or other wire or communication facility). (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2sub-clause (2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 7 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. The obligation of the Paying Agents hereunder are several and not joint. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the other Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) Any of the Agent (or its affiliates) and the other Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant other Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each The Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) Except as otherwise permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (whether or not it is overdue and not withstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). (9) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within Nothing in this Agreement shall require the meaning of Section 1473(1) Paying Agents to assume an obligation of the Code. Each Issuer arising under any provision of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Prospectus Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise (or the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount listing rules of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and other competent authority except the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(eCSSF), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any No Paying Agent that is for shall have any duty or responsibility in the purposes case of receiving payments any default by the Issuer in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement not the Conditions or, in the case of receipt of a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is written demand from a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5)Noteholder or Couponholder, (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to such default, provided however that immediately on receiving any notice given by a Noteholder in accordance with Condition 9, the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, Agent notifies the Issuer of the fact and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment furnishes it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9copy of the notice. (12) The Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, the Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to the European Union, the United States or, in each case, any jurisdiction forming a part of it and England and Wales) or any Paying Agent that is for the purposes directive or regulation of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning any agency of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii)any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, will remain soin its opinion, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers necessary to comply with a properly completedany such law, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingdirective or regulation.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) 5.1 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer[, the Guarantor] and, in the circumstances described in subclause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the NotesRelevant Notes or the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining thereto (the Receipts and the Coupons, Coupons respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of Default or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clause 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Issuer Noteholders and/or Receiptholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer[, the Guarantor] and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), and in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer[, the Guarantor] or the Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from the Issuer[, the Guarantor] or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer [or the Guarantor] and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer [or the Guarantor] as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys , except that all funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds except as required by law; provided, however, that moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s Agent or Paying Agent’s appointment. The Agent and the other Paying Agents shall, before the first Payment Date, provide the Issuer with all forms or other documentation necessary to establish their entitlement to receive payments on the Notes free of FATCA Withholding Tax together with their Global Intermediary Identification Numbers. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) 11.1 The Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture for payment of principal of or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall not exercise any right be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of set-off, lien or similar claim as provided in respect thereof; this Agreement and the Indenture; (b) as provided give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in Subclause 19(2) belowthe making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and and (c) that at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it shall not in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. 11.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 11.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents Registrar shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 11.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 11.4 The Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and Registrar shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancessuch document. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the case may bedate hereof to any relevant documents (including, concerned were not appointed hereunderwithout limitation, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onIndenture), or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant unless it shall have previously agreed to perform such duties. The Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and Registrar shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which any party expects, and has thus notified the case may beIssuer in writing, were not appointed hereunderwill result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, Transfer Agent or Registrar, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (7) Each Issuer shall provide 11.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments entitled to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at treat the time holder of such Agent’s any Note (as evidenced by the register of Notes maintained by the Registrar) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within shall not be required to obtain any proof thereof or as to the meaning of Section 1473(1) identity of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent bearer or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxholder. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Save as provided in subclause 2(3) and in subclause (3) of this Clause, each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2subclause (2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer for any interest thereon except thereon, and as otherwise agreed between a result, such money will not be held in accordance with the relevant Issuer and the AgentClient Money Rules. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers relevant Issuer (or in the circumstances described in subclause 2(3) above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by a Paying Agent for payment to the Agent or the Paying Agents Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3) None of the Programme Agents shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against an Issuer in respect of any moneys payable to or by it under the terms of this Agreement. (4) The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to each Issuer and the Issuers Trustee to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto 3 in the case of the AgentAgent and the Registrar), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent and the Registrar to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentAgent and the Registrar. (45) The Agent and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers with the prior consent of the relevant Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisersadvisers Provided always however that in the event that the Agent requires to consult with legal or other professional advisers at a time when the relevant Issuer cannot be contacted for the purposes of obtaining its prior consent, the Agent shall as soon as practicable following such consultation inform the relevant Issuer thereof. (56) Each of the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (67) Any of the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the relevant Programme Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Coupons Talons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer as freely as if the relevant Programme Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (78) For so long as any of the Notes is represented by a Global Note held on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person (other than Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg) Each who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal or interest on such Notes for which purpose the bearer of the Global Note (or the Trustee in accordance with the Trust Deed) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and subject to its terms (and the expressions “Noteholder”, “holder of Notes” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly). Notes which are represented by a Global Note will be transferable only in accordance with the rules and procedures for the time being of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be. (9) The relevant Issuer shall provide the Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and their specimen signatures and shall notify the Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. (8) 10) The amount relevant Issuer shall, forthwith upon becoming aware of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effectedsame, all references in this Agreement give notice to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss change of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxTrustee. (11) The Agent and None of the Programme Agents shall be under any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments obligation to take any action under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), which may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation or (ii) confirms that which it expects will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect result in any expense, loss, charge or liability accruing to it, the Notes under Sections 1441payment of which or adequate indemnity against which within a reasonable time is not, 1442in its opinion, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9assured to it. (12) The Agent None of the Programme Agents shall have any obligation or duty (i) to monitor or inquire as to the performance of the relevant Issuer of its obligations under the Notes, this Agreement or any other relevant documents or (ii) to determine or take any steps to ascertain whether any relevant event under the Notes has occurred. (13) Each party to this Agreement shall, within ten business days of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations or any Paying Agent Notes as that is other party reasonably requests for the purposes of receiving payments under that other party's compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the relevant other party reasonably promptly in the event that it becomes aware that any of the forms, documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Agreement a “foreign person” within subclause 21(13) to the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): extent that: (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Subject as provided in subclause 18.3, the Fiscal Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon or other amounts in respect of the money other than pursuant to Clause 17. No money held by any Paying Agent needs to be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Agent Notes and the Paying Coupons the Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders Noteholders. 18.3 No Paying Agent shall exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim against the Notes, Coupons Issuer or Talons. Moneys paid any Noteholders in respect of any moneys payable to or by any Issuer to it under the Agent for the payment terms of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer this Agreement. 18.4 Except as provided and otherwise permitted in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Conditions, as ordered by a court of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held competent jurisdiction, as required by law or otherwise instructed by the Agent or Issuer, each of the Paying Agents need shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner for all purposes (whether or not the Note or Coupon shall be segregated from overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other funds, except as required by lawwriting on the Note or Coupon or any notice of previous loss or theft of the Note or Coupon). (3) 18.5 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto set out in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent this Agreement and the Paying Agents as applicable, Notes and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each . 18.6 The Fiscal Agent and the Calculation Agent, at the expense of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to itIssuer, it will promptly provide provided such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent expenses are properly incurred, may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any the Issuer. Each of the IssuersAgents is entitled to do nothing, without liability, if conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions are received or in order to comply with any applicable law. (6) 18.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and Agents, their officers, directors and or employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons with the same rights (but without prejudice to any limitations which might apply in any other capacity) that it, he it or he/she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were was not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested (subject as aforesaid) in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer, and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer, as freely as if the relevant Agent was not appointed under this Agreement. 18.9 The Fiscal Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which it reasonably expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 18.10 No Paying Agent shall be responsible to anyone with respect to the validity of this Agreement or the relevant Notes or Coupons or for any act or omission by it in connection with this Agreement or any Note or Coupon except for its own negligence, wilful default, bad faith or fraud, including that of its officers and employees. 18.11 No Paying Agent, as Agent shall have any duty or responsibility in the case may be, were not appointed hereunderof any default by the Issuer in the performance of its obligations under the Conditions. (7) Each 18.12 The Issuer shall provide the Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons the authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement signatories and shall notify the Paying Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so an authorised signatory or if any additional person becomes so an authorised togethersignatory and, unless and until notified of any such change, the Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any notice, communication or other document by an authorised signatory. 18.13 Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, the Fiscal Agent may refrain without liability from taking any action that it is required to take under the terms of this Agreement that, would or might, in its reasonable opinion (having consulted with legal counsel to the extent practicable and/or permissible), would be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not limited to the United States of America or any jurisdiction forming a part of it, and the EU or any Member State of the EU) or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction or which would or might otherwise render it liable to any person and may without liability take any action or refrain from taking any such action that, in its reasonable opinion (having consulted with legal counsel to the extent practicable and/or permissible) is necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 18.14 Whenever, in the case performance of an additional authorised personits duties under this Agreement, with evidence satisfactory to the a Paying Agent shall deem it desirable that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may any matter be increased established by the Issuers in accordance with Issuer prior to taking or suffering any action under this Agreement, the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall matter may be deemed to be references conclusively established by a certificate signed by the Issuer and delivered to the increased amount. (9) The Paying Agent and each Paying Agent the certificate shall be a person payments full authorisation to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time Paying Agent for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it under the provisions of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and in reliance upon the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxcertificate. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 23.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer or the Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer or the Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentthereon. (2) 23.2 In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantor (or, in the circumstances described in sub-clause 2.8 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer . 23.3 Each Agent hereby undertakes to the Agent for Issuer, the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent Guarantor and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Trustee to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein herein, (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 5 in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), in the Terms and Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement any such document or the Notes Trust Deed against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 5 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) 23.4 The Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar may consult with reputable legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 23.5 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee. (6) 23.6 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and Issuer and/or the Guarantor may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer and/or the Guarantor as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) 23.7 Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement Agreement, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the execution of any Notes on behalf of the Issuer, and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. 23.8 Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Deed and the Terms and Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Note, Receipt or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Note as the absolute owner thereof, or in the case of Book Entry Notes, the person or entity registered in the securities accounts of the relevant Affiliate Member of Interbolsa (8) whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof). 23.9 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantor in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any such increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the such increased amount. (9) 23.10 The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment Guarantor shall forthwith give notice to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Principal Paying Agent of any such loss change of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxTrustee. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Second Supplemental Agency Agreement (PT Portugal, SGPS, S.A.)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 5.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and, in the circumstances described in sub-clause 5.2, the Trustee and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the receipts or coupons (if any) appertaining to the Agent for Relevant Notes (the payment "Receipts" and the "Coupons", respectively). 5.2 At any time after an Event of principal Default or interest on a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall otherwise have become due and payable repayable or the Trustee shall be repaid have received any money which it proposes to pay under clauses 7 or 10 of the Trust Deed to the relevant Noteholders and/or Receiptholders and/or Couponholders, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (save that the Trustee's liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Calculation Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds be limited to the amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes, Receipts and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 5.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 5.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers approved by the Issuer and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 5.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer or the Trustee. 5.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Agreement. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1a) The Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Bank for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (ai) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (bii) as provided in Subclause 19(2Section 25(b) below; and (ciii) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Bank for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer Bank and the an Agent. (2b) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Bank and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held for the benefit of such holders or owners and applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3c) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Bank to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged obligated to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent)expressly stated herein, in the Conditions and in Notes, the Procedures Memorandum and any Pricing Supplement or Final Terms specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Notes, the Procedures Memorandum or the Notes any Pricing Supplement or Final Terms against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each any of the Paying Agents. In no event shall the Agents be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damages of any kind (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to itincluding, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentbut not limited to, lost profits). (4d) The Agent Agents may consult with legal and other professional advisers of its selection and the opinion of such advisers advisers, rendered in good faith, shall be full and complete protection in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5e) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Bank or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, facsimile or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersan Authorized Representative. (6f) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and any of their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Coupons Talons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Bank as freely surely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) were not appointed hereunder. (7g) Each Issuer shall provide To the Agent with a certified copy extent permitted by law, each of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme Agents shall be deemed entitled to be references to deem and treat the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount bearer of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and Bearer Note as the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxabsolute owner thereof. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Global Agency Agreement (Suntrust Banks Inc)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer Stellantis for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer Stellantis for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer money. No Agent shall be required to segregate any such money unless required by applicable law and no such money shall be held subject to the AgentFinancial Conduct Authority’s Client Money Rules. (2) In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely for the purposes of this Agreement as agents an agent of the Issuers Stellantis and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Each Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers Stellantis to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such dutiesthe duties (including, in the case of any Notes issued as are herein (including Appendix F hereto NGN, Schedule 9 in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), specifically stated in this Agreement, the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 9 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) The Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each Agent shall, in the absence of wilful default, negligence or bad faith on the part of such Agent and the Paying Agents shall or its officers, employees or any of them be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers Stellantis or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the IssuersStellantis. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Stellantis and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Stellantis as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each Issuer Stellantis shall provide the Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent and the CMU Lodging and Paying Agent that such the person has been so authorised. (8) Except as otherwise permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Issuer and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). (9) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (910) The Agent and each Paying Agent Notwithstanding any other term or provision of this Agreement to the contrary, none of Stellantis nor the Agents shall be a person payments liable for special, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including but not limited to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at loss of profits, business, goodwill or opportunity, whether or not foreseeable, even if Stellantis or the time Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage, except that the limitation in respect of punitive damages shall not apply to the extent a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction has decided that such punitive damages are as a sole result of Stellantis’ or the Agent’s fraud or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within wilful misconduct. The provisions of this clause 19 shall survive the meaning termination or expiry of Section 1473(1) of this Agreement or the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount resignation or removal of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxAgents. (11) The Agents will treat information relating to Stellantis as confidential. Unless consent is prohibited by law, Stellantis consents to the transfer and disclosure by the Agents only of any necessary information relating to Stellantis to and between branches, subsidiaries, representative offices, affiliates and agents of the Agents and third parties selected by any of them, wherever situated, for confidential use, provided such transfer and disclosure is required in connection with each Agent’s appointment as an Agent and the provision of any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments service under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within and such Agents take necessary measures to ensure that each of such branches, subsidiaries, representative offices, affiliates, agents and third parties complies with the meaning confidentiality obligations set forth herein. The Agents and any of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5)their respective branches, (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect subsidiaries, representative offices, affiliates, agents or third parties may transfer and disclose any such information as required by any law, court, regulator or legal process with, to the Notes under Sections 1441extent permitted by applicable law and regulation and to the extent reasonably practicable, 1442, and prior written notice to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9Issuer. (12) The Agent Issuer undertakes that: (a) it will provide to the Agents all documentation and other information (in each case, relating solely to the Issuer) reasonably required by the Agents from time to time to comply with FATCA as soon as reasonably practicable following request by the Agents; and (b) it will notify the Agents in writing as soon as reasonably practicable upon becoming aware of any Paying Agent change that is affects the Issuer’s tax status for the purposes of receiving payments FATCA where such change would have a material effect on the Agents' performance of their duties under this Agreement. (13) Any payment by the Agents under this Agreement shall be made without any deduction or withholding for or on account of any taxes unless such deduction or withholding is required by any Applicable Law. If an Agent is required to make a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): deduction or withholding referred to above, (i) represents it shall not be liable for any additional amounts to be paid in respect of that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and deduction or withholding; (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide shall account to the Issuers with a properly completed, signed relevant authorities for such deduction or withholding within any applicable time limit; and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 (iii) it shall inform the Issuer of such deduction or withholding and 1099 reportingwithin three days of making such deduction or withholding.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of 6.1 In acting under this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and the Guarantor (and, in the circumstances described in subclause 6.2, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons Relevant Notes or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer the coupons (if any) appertaining to the Relevant Notes (the Coupons). 6.2 At any time after an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred, the Trustee may by notice in writing to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Calculation Agent require the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Agreement: (a) to act thereafter as Calculation Agent of the Trustee mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in this Agreement (with such consequential amendments as the Trustee shall deem necessary and save that the Trustee’s liability under any provisions of this Agreement for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at out-of-pocket expenses of the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable Calculation Agent shall be repaid limited to the relevant Issuer as provided and in amounts for the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of the relevant Series and available for the purpose) and thereafter to hold all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons on behalf of the Trustee; or (b) to deliver up all documents and records held by it in respect of Notes and Coupons 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 Calculation Agent is obliged not to release by any law or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawregulation. (3) The 6.3 In relation to each issue of Relevant Notes, the Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto the duties specifically stated in the case of the Agent), in this Agreement and the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Conditions against the Agent and the Paying Agents Calculation Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent expert in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 6.4 The Calculation Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) Each of the 6.5 The Calculation Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from the Issuer, request the Guarantor or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee. 6.6 The Calculation Agent and any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons (if any) with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantor and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer, the Guarantor as freely as if the Calculation Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) Each Issuer 6.7 The Calculation Agent shall provide be obliged to perform only the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf duties set out specifically in connection with this Agreement and shall notify any duties necessarily incidental to them. If the Conditions are amended on or after a date on which the Calculation Agent promptly accepts any appointment in writing a way that affects the duties expressed to be performed by the Calculation Agent (including, without limitation, if any Successor Rate, Alternative Rate, Adjustment Spread and/or Benchmark Amendments are determined pursuant to Condition 5.4, the Calculation Agent shall not be obliged to perform such duties as so amended if, in its reasonable opinion, such amended duties would become unlawful or unduly onerous. If the Calculation Agent makes any determination required of it in respect of any Notes on the basis of any Successor Rate, Alternative Rate, Adjustment Spread and/or Benchmark Amendment which has been notified to it pursuant to Condition 5.4, it shall not be liable in respect of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status determination as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e)such Successor Rate, the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and Alternative Rate, Adjustment Spread and/or any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior Benchmark Amendment as notified to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject it subsequently being found to FATCA Withholding Taxbe incorrect or ineffective. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer or the Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance) for the purpose of this Agreement Agreement, which does not need to be segregated by the relevant Agent except as may be required by law, in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer or the Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance) for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer and the Agentmoney. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers and, the Guarantor (in the case of Notes issued by TI Finance) (and, in the circumstances described in sub-clause 2.3 above, of the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer . 18.3 Each Agent undertakes to the Agent for Issuers, the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and Guarantor (in the manner set forth in the case of Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held issued by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3TI Finance) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Trustee to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Principal Paying Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Principal Paying Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Principal Paying Agent. (4) 18.4 The Principal Paying Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request instruction from the relevant Issuer or order from any of the Issuers Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance) or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer or the Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance). (6) 18.6 Each Agent shall not be liable for any loss caused by events beyond their reasonable control including any malfunction, interruption or error in the transmission of information caused by any machine or systems or interception of communication facilities, abnormal operating conditions or events of force majeure. 18.7 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or the Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance) and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer or the Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance) as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. 18.8 Notwithstanding any other provision of Condition 5 (7Interest), if in the Calculation Agent’s or the Principal Paying Agent’s (as applicable) Each opinion there is any uncertainty between two or more alternative courses of action in making any determination or calculation under Condition 5 (Interest), the Calculation Agent or the Principal Paying Agent (as applicable) shall promptly notify the relevant Issuer thereof and the relevant Issuer shall direct the Calculation Agent or the Principal Paying Agent (as applicable) in writing as to which alternative course of action to adopt. If the Calculation Agent or the Principal Paying Agent (as applicable) is not promptly provided with such direction it shall notify the relevant Issuer thereof and the Calculation Agent or the Principal Paying Agent (as applicable) shall be under no obligation to make such calculation or determination. 18.9 The Issuers and the Guarantor shall provide the Principal Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Principal Paying Agent promptly immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Principal Paying Agent that such the person has been so authorised. 18.10 At the request of the relevant Issuer, but subject to receipt by the Trustee, the Agents and the Calculation Agent of a certificate signed by two duly authorised representatives of the relevant Issuer pursuant to Condition 5.3(e) (8) Benchmark Discontinuation - Notices), the Trustee, the Agents and the Calculation Agent shall each (at the expense of the relevant Issuer), without any requirement for the consent or approval of the Noteholders or Couponholders, be obliged to concur with the relevant Issuer in using its reasonable endeavours to effect any Benchmark Amendments (including, inter alia, by the execution of a deed supplemental to or amending the Trust Deed and/or the Agency Agreement), provided that (i) the Trustee shall not be obliged to agree to any Benchmark Amendments which, in the sole opinion of the Trustee, would have the effect of (i) exposing the Trustee to any liability against which it has not been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction; or (ii) the Trustee shall not be obliged to agree to any Benchmark Amendments which, in their sole opinion, would have the effect of increasing the obligations, responsibilities or duties, or decreasing the protections, of the Trustee under the Trust Deed and/or the Conditions in any way; and (iii) the Agents and the Calculation Agent shall not be obliged to agree to any Benchmark Amendments which, in each of their sole opinion, would have the effect of increasing the obligations, responsibilities or duties, or decreasing the protections, of the Agents and/or the Calculation Agent under the Agency Agreement and/or the Conditions in any way. 18.11 Pursuant to Condition 5.3 (Benchmark Discontinuation), if (i) the relevant Issuer is unable to appoint an Independent Adviser; or (ii) the Independent Adviser appointed by it fails to determine a Successor Rate or, failing which, an Alternative Rate in accordance with Condition 5.3(a) (Benchmark Discontinuation - Independent Adviser) and notify the Agents and the Calculation Agent of such determinations prior to the date which is ten Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Determination Date, the Rate of Interest applicable to the next succeeding Interest Period shall be equal to the Rate of Interest last determined in relation to the Notes in respect of the immediately preceding Interest Period. If there has not been a first Interest Payment Date, the Rate of Interest shall be the initial Rate of Interest. Where a different Margin or Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest is to be applied to the relevant Interest Period from that which applied to the last preceding Interest Period, the Margin or Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest relating to the relevant Interest Period shall be substituted in place of the Margin or Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest relating to that last preceding Interest Period. For the avoidance of doubt, Condition 5.3(a) (Benchmark Discontinuation - Independent Adviser) shall apply to the relevant next succeeding Interest Period only and any subsequent Interest Periods are subject to the subsequent operation of, and to adjustment as provided in, Condition 5.3(a) (Benchmark Discontinuation - Independent Adviser).‌ 18.12 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed and the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulation, the relevant Issuer, the Guarantor (where the relevant Issuer is TI Finance), the Trustee and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). 18.13 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers and the Guarantor in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. 18.14 Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant party to this Agreement and the Conditionsshall, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether soon as practicable and in what amount the Agent any event within 2 calendar months of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations or any Notes as that other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is party reasonably requests for the purposes of receiving payments under that other party's compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the relevant other party reasonably promptly in the event that it becomes aware that any of the forms, documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Agreement not a “foreign person” within sub-clause 18.14 to the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): extent that: (i) represents that it any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect not reasonably available to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, such party and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by either Issuer or any Issuer Guarantor for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to either Issuer or any Issuer Guarantor for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between on the relevant Issuer and the Agentmoney. (2) 18.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers and the Guarantors (and, in the circumstances referred to in subclause 2.4, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The 18.3 Each Paying Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake undertakes to the Issuers and the Guarantors (and, in the circumstances referred to in subclause 2.4, the Trustee) to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein specifically stated in this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 2 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the any Paying Agents Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 2 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 18.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and at the cost of the Issuers (failing which the Guarantors). The opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.5 Each of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instructioninstruction from either Issuer, request any Guarantor or order from any of the Issuers Trustee or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from either Issuer, any of Guarantor or the IssuersTrustee. (6) 18.6 Any of the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she they would have had if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with either Issuer, any of Guarantor or the Issuers Trustee and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers either Issuer or any Guarantor as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder.under this Agreement.‌ (7) 18.7 Each Issuer and each Guarantor shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly as soon as reasonably practicable in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such the person has been so authorised. 18.8 Except as otherwise permitted in the Trust Deed and Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations, the Relevant Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner of it (8) whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft of it).‌ 18.9 Each of the Paying Agents shall be entitled to take any action or to refuse to take any action which such Paying Agent reasonably regards as necessary for the Paying Agent to comply with any applicable law, regulation or fiscal requirement, internal anti-money laundering or ‘know your customer’ policies, or the rules, operating procedures or market practice of any relevant stock exchange or other market or clearing system. 18.10 Each of the Paying Agents shall not be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement which it reasonably expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 18.11 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers and the Guarantors in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each 18.12 No Paying Agent shall be a person payments have any duty or responsibility in monitoring the performance by any Issuer or Guarantor of its obligations under the Conditions or this Agreement. No Paying Agent shall have any duty or responsibility in case of any default by any Issuer or Guarantor in the performance of its obligations under the Conditions or this Agreement (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any duty or responsibility to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time accelerate all or any of such Agent’s Notes or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information initiate or to determine if and the amount of attempt to initiate any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent proceedings at law or any other Paying Agent is obliged otherwise or to make any withholding demand for the payment thereof upon any Issuer or deduction Guarantor). 18.13 The Issuers (failing which the Guarantors) shall immediately give notice to the Agent of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In any change of the event Trustee. 18.14 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, the Agent may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its good faith opinion be contrary to any Notes that were law of any state or jurisdiction (including but not subject limited to FATCA Withholding Tax the United States of America, the European Union or, in each case, any jurisdiction forming a part of it, and England & Wales) or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its good faith opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 18.15 None of the Paying Agents shall incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent occurrence beyond its control (including but not limited to any act or provision of any such loss present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of grandfathered status prior to God or war, civil unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, any act of terrorism, or the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxunavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or other wire or communication facility). (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 19.1 Save as provided in sub-clauses 19.2 and 19.3 below, the Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall and not exercise any right of set-offsubject to the Client Money Rules, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon thereon. No money held by any Paying Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 19.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the NotesNotes and the Coupons, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners Noteholders, Receiptholders or holders of the NotesCouponholders, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid except that funds received by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on any sums due in respect of any Series of the Notes remaining unclaimed at and the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable Coupons relating thereto shall be repaid to held by it in trust for the relevant Issuer Noteholders and Couponholders (as provided and in the manner set forth in case may be) until the Notes whereupon all liability expiration of the relevant period under Condition 8. 19.3 No Paying Agent with shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against the Issuer or any Noteholders or Couponholders in respect thereto shall cease. All funds held of any moneys payable to or by it under the Agent terms of this Agreement. 19.4 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required by law, each of the Paying Agents need shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note, Receipt or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not such Note, Receipt or Coupon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other writing thereon or any notice of previous loss or theft thereof) and shall not be segregated from other fundsrequired to obtain any proof thereof or as to the identity of the bearer, except subject, in relation to any Global Note, as required by lawprovided in the Conditions. (3) 19.5 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum Notes specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 19.6 The Agent may consult on any legal matter in relation to the Notes or this Agreement any legal adviser selected by it, after consultation if practicable with the Issuer, who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer, and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers it shall be full protected and complete protection in respect of any shall incur no liability for action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder to be taken, with respect to such matter in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such adviserslegal adviser. (5) 19.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or any of the Issuers other Paying Agent, or any Note or Coupon, or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, email, telefax or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 19.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Noteholders or Coupons Couponholders or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the such Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement and will not be liable to account for any profit. (7) Each 19.9 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and each other Paying Agent with a certified copy of the certified list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 3 of Appendix A to the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Agent promptly and each Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) 19.10 The amount of the Programme may Issuer shall do or cause to be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effecteddone all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme such documents as shall be deemed necessary to be references to enable the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each other Paying Agent to fully comply with and carry out its duties and obligations hereunder. 19.11 The Agent may call for and shall rely on any records, certificate or other document of or to be issued by Euroclear or Clearstream in relation to any determination of the principal amount of Notes represented by a NGN. Except for manifest error, any such records, certificate or other document shall be a conclusive and binding for all purposes. The Agent shall not be liable to any person payments by reason of having acquired as valid or not having rejected any such records, certificate or other document to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s effect purporting to be issued by Euroclear or Paying Agent’s appointmentClearstream and subsequently found to be forged or not authentic, except where such forgery or non authenticity is manifest. 19.12 In the event that the Agent receives conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions, the Agent as the case may be shall be entitled not to take any action until such instructions have been resolved or clarified to its satisfaction and the Agent shall not be or become liable in any way to any person for any failure to comply with any such conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions. 19.13 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, any party to this Agreement may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (10including but not limited to English law) Payments made or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 19.14 The Issuer undertakes to the Agent that: (a) it will provide to the Agent all documentation and other information required by TMCC are the Agent from U.S. source time to time for U.S. federal the Agent to comply with any Applicable Law forthwith upon request by the Agent; and (b) it will notify the Agent in writing within 30 days of any change of which it is or becomes aware that affects the Issuer’s tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within status pursuant to any Applicable Law to the meaning of Section 1473(1) extent that it relates to the Issuer’s obligations under this Agreement and/or the Notes. It shall be the sole responsibility of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of whether a deduction or withholding is or will be required from any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to in respect of the Notes or otherwise in connection with this Agreement and to procure that such deduction or withholding is made in a timely manner to the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning appropriate Authorities and shall promptly notify each Paying Agent upon determining or becoming aware of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the such requirement. The Issuer shall provide such Paying Agent with all information required for such Paying Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged be able to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In such payment. 19.15 The Paying Agent shall notify the event Issuer if it becomes aware that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform can no longer pay the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to without FATCA Withholding Taxwithholding. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for 19.16 If the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms Issuer determines in its sole discretion that it will comply be required to withhold or deduct any FATCA withholding in connection with all withholding requirements imposed any payment due on payments with respect any Notes, then the Issuer shall be entitled to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and re-direct or reorganise any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents such payment in any way that it sees fit in order that the payment may be made without FATCA withholding, provided that any such re-direction or reorganisation of any payment is made through a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning recognised institution of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, international standing and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers such payment is otherwise made in accordance with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingthis Agreement.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1a) The Save as provided in Clause 21(c) or as may be agreed separately between the Issuer and the relevant Agent, each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any profit, interest thereon or other amounts in respect of such money. No money held by any Agent need be segregated or held in trust except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2b) In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3c) The No Agent and shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against the Paying Agents hereby undertake Issuer or any Noteholder in respect of the moneys payable to or by it under the terms of this Agreement. (d) Each Agent undertakes to the Issuers Issuer to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto specifically stated in the case of the Agent)this Agreement, in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the any Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Fiscal Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Fiscal Agent or, as the case may be, the Registrar to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 11 (Additional duties of the Fiscal Agent and the Registrar) becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentFiscal Agent or, if applicable, the Registrar. (4e) The An Agent shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason of any occurrence beyond the control of such Agent (including but not limited to any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of God or war, civil unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, any act of terrorism, or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or facsimile or other wire or communication facility). (f) Each of the Agents may consult with legal any expert or legal, financial and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5g) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Issuer or any noticedocument that it believes, resolutionacting in good faith, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions Instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6h) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and Agents, their officers, directors and employees directors, employees, agents, delegate or controlling persons may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she such Agent would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Notes, Receipts, Coupons or in connection Talons or with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the such Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7i) Each The Issuer shall provide the Agent Agents with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement officers or authorised representatives and shall notify the Agent Agents promptly in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised personofficers or authorised representatives, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent Agents that such that person has been so authorised. (8) j) Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law or applicable regulations or as otherwise prescribed by the Conditions, the Issuer and each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Bearer Note, Receipt or Coupon and the registered holder of any Registered Note as the absolute owner for all purposes (whether or not any payment is overdue and regardless of any notice of ownership, trust or any interest or writing on it, or notice of any previous loss or theft of it). (k) None of the Agents shall be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement that it expects will result in any expense or liability accruing to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. (l) None of the Agents will be required to undertake any act which may be illegal or contrary to any law or regulation to which it is subject. In particular, no Paying Agent shall be obliged at any time to calculate the Rate of Interest for an Interest Period in relation to a Tranche of Notes, the applicable Final Terms for which indicates a Reference Rate that does not comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of 8 June 2016 and the Paying Agent shall incur no liability for its decision to not calculate the Rate of Interest in respect of such Tranche of Notes until such time as the Issuer has identified an acceptable Successor Rate or, as the case may be, Alternative Rate for such Tranche of Notes in accordance with Condition 6.8 and has notified the Paying Agent in writing accordingly. (m) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Issuer in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Save as provided in subclause 2(3) and in subclause (3) of this Clause, each Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2subclause (2) below; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer for any interest thereon except thereon, and as otherwise agreed between a result, such money will not be held in accordance with the relevant Issuer and the AgentClient Money Rules. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers relevant Issuer (or in the circumstances described in subclause 2(3) above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by a Paying Agent for payment to the Agent or the Paying Agents Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders shall be held in trust, to be applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3) None of the Programme Agents shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against an Issuer in respect of any moneys payable to or by it under the terms of this Agreement. (4) The Agent and the other Paying Agents hereby undertake to each Issuer and the Issuers Trustee to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto 3 in the case of the AgentAgent and the Registrar), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the other Paying Agents Agents, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent and the Registrar to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the AgentAgent and the Registrar. (45) The Agent and the Registrar may consult with legal and other professional advisers with the prior consent of the relevant Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisersadvisers Provided always however that in the event that the Agent requires to consult with legal or other professional advisers at a time when the relevant Issuer cannot be contacted for the purposes of obtaining its prior consent, the Agent shall as soon as practicable following such consultation inform the relevant Issuer thereof. (56) Each of the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (67) Any of the Agent and the Paying Programme Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would they have if the relevant Programme Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Coupons Talons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer as freely as if the relevant Programme Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (78) For so long as any of the Notes is represented by a Global Note held on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person (other than Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg) Each who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal or interest on such Notes for which purpose the bearer of the Global Note (or the Trustee in accordance with the Trust Deed) shall be treated by the relevant Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and subject to its terms (and the expressions “Noteholder”, “holder of Notes” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly). Notes which are represented by a Global Note will be transferable only in accordance with the rules and procedures for the time being of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be. (9) The relevant Issuer shall provide the Agent and the Registrar with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and their specimen signatures and shall notify the Agent promptly and the Registrar immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Registrar that such person has been so authorised. (8) 10) The amount relevant Issuer shall, forthwith upon becoming aware of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effectedsame, all references in this Agreement give notice to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss change of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding TaxTrustee. (11) The Agent and None of the Programme Agents shall be under any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments obligation to take any action under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), which may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation or (ii) confirms that which it expects will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect result in any expense, loss, charge or liability accruing to it, the Notes under Sections 1441payment of which or adequate indemnity against which within a reasonable time is not, 1442in its opinion, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9assured to it. (12) The Agent None of the Programme Agents shall have any obligation or duty (i) to monitor or inquire as to the performance of the relevant Issuer of its obligations under the Notes, this Agreement or any other relevant documents or (ii) to determine or take any steps to ascertain whether any relevant event under the Notes has occurred. (13) Each party to this Agreement shall, within ten business days of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations or any Paying Agent Notes as that is other party reasonably requests for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within that other party's compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents relevant other party reasonably promptly in the event that it is a “qualified intermediary” within becomes aware that any of the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii)forms, will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.documentation

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers. (6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441Section 1. 1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Toyota Motor Credit Corp)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1a) The Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Bank for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (ai) that it shall not exercise any right of set-set off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (bii) as provided in Subclause 19(2Section 25(b) below; and (ciii) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer the Bank for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer Bank and the an Agent. (2b) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Bank and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon , except that all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents for payment to the Noteholders shall be held for the benefit of such holders or owners and applied as set forth herein, but need not be segregated from other funds, funds except as required by law. (3c) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers Bank to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged obligated to perform such duties and only such duties, as are expressly stated herein (including Appendix F hereto A hereto, in the case of the London Issuing Agent), in the Conditions and in Notes, the Procedures Memorandum and any Pricing Supplement or Final Terms specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Notes, the Procedures Memorandum or any Pricing Supplement or Final Terms against any of the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the London Issuing Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the London Issuing Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F A hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the London Issuing Agent. In no event shall the Agents be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damages of any kind (including, but not limited to, lost profits). (4d) The Agent Agents may consult with legal and other professional advisers of their selection and the opinion of such advisers advisers, rendered in good faith, shall be full and complete protection in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5e) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in with respect of to any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Bank or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, telex, facsimile or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersan Authorized Representative. (6f) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and any of their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Bank and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Coupons Talons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Bank as freely surely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, such Agent(s) were not appointed hereunder. (7g) Each Issuer shall provide To the Agent with a certified copy extent permitted by law, each of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme Agents shall be deemed entitled to be references to deem and treat the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount bearer of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and Bearer Note as the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Taxabsolute owner thereof. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Global Agency Agreement (Suntrust Banks Inc)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 18.1 Each Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the relevant Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) belowof the money; and (cb) that it shall not be liable to account to any the relevant Issuer for any interest on the money; and (c) nothing in this Agreement shall require any Agent to segregate money held pursuant to this Agreement except as required by law. 18.2 Each of the Agents may, in connection with its services hereunder: (a) (in the case of Bearer Notes) except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any memorandum thereon, treat the bearer of any Note or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof and make payments thereon accordingly; (b) except as otherwise agreed between permitted in the Conditions or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required by law, REN and the Portuguese Paying Agent and the other Paying Agents may deem and treat the person or entity registered in the securities accounts of the relevant Affiliate Member of Interbolsa as the holder of any Book-Entry Notes and the absolute owner for all purposes (whether or not such Book-Entry Notes shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or otherwise). Proof of such registration is made by means of a certificate issued by the relevant Affiliate Member of Interbolsa pursuant to article 78 of the Portuguese Securities Code; (c) assume that the terms of each Note, Receipt or Coupon as issued are correct; (d) refer any question relating to the ownership of any Note, Receipt or Coupon or the adequacy or sufficiency of any evidence supplied in connection with the replacement of any Note, Receipt or Coupon to the relevant Issuer for determination by the relevant Issuer and rely upon any determination so made; (e) rely upon, and be protected against liability for acting on, the Agentterms of any notice, communication or other document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and from the proper party; and (f) treat itself as being released from any obligation to take any action hereunder which it reasonably expects will result in any expense or liability to it, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 18.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied herein, none of the Agents shall, in connection with their or its services hereunder, be under any fiduciary duty towards any person other than the Issuers, and for the purposes of subclause 2.3, the Trustee, be responsible for or liable in respect of the authorisation, validity or legality of any Note, Receipt or Coupon issued or paid by it hereunder or any act or omission of any other person (2including, without limitation, any other party hereto and, in the case of the Issue and Paying Agent or the Portuguese Paying Agent, as the case may be, any bank from whom any quote may have been obtained) or be under any obligation towards any person other than the Issuers and for the purposes of subclause 2.3, the Trustee and, in the case of the Paying Agents, the other Paying Agents. 18.4 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the each Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents an agent of the Issuers relevant Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the . 18.5 Each Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid undertakes to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and its duties, and shall be obliged to perform such the duties and only such the duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto specifically stated in this Agreement, the case of Conditions, the Agent), in the Conditions Trust Deed and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableMemorandum, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes any of those documents against the Agent and the Paying Agents any Agent, other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each . 18.6 Further to consultation with the Issuers (including the agreement of fees to be paid) the Agents, at the expense of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to itIssuers, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such the advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such the advisers. (5) 18.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon on any instruction, request or order instruction from any of the Issuers relevant Issuer or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent delivered by the proper party or parties or upon on written instructions from any of the Issuersrelevant Issuer. (6) 18.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their its officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or and/or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons Notes with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have had if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers relevant Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee common representative or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers relevant Issuer as freely as if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement. (7) 18.9 Each Issuer shall provide the Issue and Paying Agent and the Portuguese Paying Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Issue and Paying Agent promptly and the Portuguese Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Issue and Paying Agent and the Portuguese Paying Agent that such the person has been so authorised. (8) 18.10 The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) The 18.11 No Agent is required to do anything which would be illegal or contrary to the laws and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time regulations of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointmentany relevant jurisdiction. 18.12 If: (10a) Payments the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within after the meaning date of Section 1473(1this Agreement; or (b) any change in the status of the Code. Each relevant Issuer of TMFthe composition of the shareholders of the relevant Issuer after the date of this Agreement, TCCI and TFA obliges the Agents to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were not already available to change, in which eventit, the relevant Issuer will provide shall promptly upon the Agent with sufficient information to determine if request of the Agents supply or procure the supply of such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and Agents in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is order for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents Agents to carry out and be satisfied that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply has complied with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes necessary “know your customer” or similar checks under Sections 1441, 1442, all applicable laws and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9regulations. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 22.1 Save as provided in Clause 2.4 and in this Clause 22, the Principal Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer the Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan, or otherwise for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to the Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan or any Issuer other person for any interest thereon profit or other amounts in respect of such money. No money held by any Agent (i) will be held in accordance with the client money rules of the UK Financial Conduct Authority and (ii) need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) In 22.2 Save as provided in Clause 2.4, in acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the NotesCertificates, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Trustee or, in the circumstances set out in Clause 2.4, the Delegate and will not thereby be under any fiduciary duties or assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners Certificateholders. 22.3 No Agent shall exercise any right of set-off or holders lien against the Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan, the Delegate or any Certificateholders in respect of any moneys payable to or by it under the Notes, Coupons terms of this Agreement. 22.4 Except as otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law, each of the Agents shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any Certificate as the absolute owner for all purposes (whether or not any payment in respect of the relevant Certificate shall be overdue and regardless of any notice of ownership, trust or any interest or any writing on, or the previous theft or loss of, the relevant Certificate). (3) The Agent and 22.5 Each of the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto set out in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent this Agreement and the Paying Agents as applicable, Certificates and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes Certificates against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each . 22.6 No Agent shall be responsible for or liable in respect of the legality, validity or enforceability of any Certificate or any act or omission of any other person (including, without limitation, any other Agent or Registrar). 22.7 None of the Agents shall have any liability for any stamp duty, tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. 22.8 The Principal Paying Agents Agent accepts its appointment as Calculation Agent in relation to each Series in respect of which it agrees to be named as such in the relevant Final Terms and shall perform all matters expressed to be performed by it in, and otherwise comply with, the Conditions and the provisions of this Agreement and, in connection therewith, shall take all such action as may be incidental thereto. The Principal Paying Agent shall be treated as having agreed to act as Calculation Agent in respect of a Series if it shall have received the applicable Final Terms (in draft or final forms) naming it as Calculation Agent no later than five Business Days before the relevant Issue Date and shall not have notified the Trustee that it does not wish to be so appointed within two Business Days of such receipt. The Trustee may appoint the relevant Dealer (or one of the relevant Dealers) through whom such Series are issued or another institution as calculation agent for such Series; provided, however, that the Principal Paying Agent does not object in writing to such appointment. The Principal Paying Agent shall be treated as having not objected to such appointment if it shall have received the applicable Final Terms (in draft or final forms) naming a Calculation Agent (other than the Principal Paying Agent) agrees no later than two Business Days before the relevant Issue Date and shall not have notified the Trustee in writing that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information objects to the Agentappointment of such Calculation Agent within one Business Day of such receipt. 22.9 The Calculation Agent shall not be responsible to the Trustee or to any third party (4except in the event of its wilful default, fraud or gross negligence ) The as a result of the Calculation Agent having acted on any quotation given by any bank in accordance with the Conditions and which subsequently may be found to be incorrect. 22.10 None of the Agents shall have any obligation or duty (i) to monitor or inquire as to the performance of the Trustee of its obligations under the Certificates, this Agreement or any other relevant documents or (ii) to determine or take any steps to ascertain whether any relevant event under the Certificates has occurred. 22.11 Each of the Agents may (at the expense of the Trustee) consult with legal any expert or legal, financial and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder under this Agreement in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers. (5) 22.12 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any information, reports, certificates, instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan or the Delegate, or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes in good faith to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersTrustee, Dar Al-Arkan or the Delegate. (6) 22.13 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and Agents, their officers, directors and employees directors, employees, agents, delegates or controlling persons may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons Certificates with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act onTrustee, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent Dar Al-Arkan or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderDelegate. (7) Each Issuer 22.14 The Trustee shall provide the Agent Agents with a certified copy of the list authorised signatures and names of the persons authorised to execute documents and take action actions on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly Agents immediately in writing if any of such those persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent Agents that such the person has been so authorised. 22.15 None of the Agents shall be under any obligation to take any action under this Agreement (8) i) which may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation or (ii) which it expects will result in any expense, loss, charge or liability accruing to it, the payment of which or adequate indemnity against which within a reasonable time is not, in its opinion, assured to it. 22.16 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, any Agent may; (a) refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. In the event that any Agent shall be uncertain as to its duties or rights hereunder or shall receive instructions, claims or demands from the Trustee which, in its opinion, are unclear or which conflict with any of the provisions of this Agreement and/or the Conditions, it shall be entitled to refrain without liability from taking any action until it is directed in writing by a final order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; and (b) take any action which such Agent regards as necessary for such Agent to comply with any applicable law, regulation or fiscal requirement, or the rules, operating procedures or market practice of any relevant stock exchange or other market or clearing system. 22.17 None of the Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan nor any Subsidiary of Dar Al-Arkan will, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the issue and offering of the Certificates, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person (i) for the purposes of funding or facilitating any activities or business of or with any individual or entity or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions or (ii) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any person (including any person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise). 22.18 None of the Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan, any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the best of their knowledge, any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates or representatives is an individual or entity that is, or is owned or controlled by an individual or entity that is (i) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control or any other U.S. agencies, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty's Treasury or the Cayman Islands (collectively, the Sanctions), nor (ii) located, organised or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Afghanistan, Burma/Myanmar, the Crimea region, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, South Sudan and Syria and the occupied territories in the so-called People's Republic of Donetsk and the so-called People's Republic of Luhansk of Ukraine). 22.19 The Trustee, Dar Al-Arkan and its Subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in, any dealings or transactions with any individual or entity, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions where such dealings or transactions (i) would be in violation of such Sanctions and/or (ii) would otherwise cause the Delegate or any Agent to be in breach of such Sanctions. 22.20 None of the Agents shall have any obligation or duty (i) to monitor or inquire as to the performance of the Trustee of its obligations under the Certificates, this Agreement or any other relevant documents or (ii) to determine or take any steps to ascertain whether any relevant event under the Certificates has occurred. 22.21 The face amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers Trustee and Dar Al-Arkan in accordance with the procedure procedures set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the face amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. (9) 22.22 The Agent Delegate and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes agrees and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents confirms that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect not entitled to the Notes under Sections 1441benefit of the provisions contained in Clauses 22.17, 1442, 22.18 and 22.19 to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and extent that those provisions would result in a violation of Council Regulation (iiiEC) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide No. 2271/96 of 22 November 1996 (or any law or regulation implementing such Regulation in any member state of the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12European Economic Area) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.or

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. 10.1 The Paying Agent shall (1a) The hold all sums received from the Issuer in accordance with this Agreement, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture for payment of principal or any premium or interest on the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Trustee until such sums shall be paid to it or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Agreement, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture; provided that the Paying Agent shall be entitled to deal with under no liability for interest on any money paid to received by it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon hereunder except as otherwise agreed between in writing with the relevant Issuer; (b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment of principal of or premium or interest on the Notes; and (c) at any time during the Agentcontinuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it in trust for payment in respect of the Notes. (2) 10.2 No monies held by the Paying Agent need be segregated except to the extent required by law. 10.3 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents agent of the Issuers and will Issuer and, save solely in respect of its obligations under clause 10.1 hereof, shall not thereby assume have any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders Holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by lawTrustee. (3) 10.4 The Paying Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to out in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no this Agreement. No implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement such document. The Paying Agent shall not be obliged to perform any duties additional to or different from such duties resulting from any modification or supplement after the date hereof to any relevant documents (including, without limitation, the Base Indenture or the Notes against Supplemental Indenture), unless it shall have previously agreed or subsequently agrees to perform such duties. The Paying Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which such party reasonably expects, and has thus notified the Agent and Issuer in writing, will result in any expense or liability of such Paying Agent, the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 10.5 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the Paying Agents other than Agent shall be entitled to treat the duty Holder of any Note (as evidenced by the applicable Security Register) as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to act honestly the contrary or any notice of ownership, trust or any interest in it, any writing on it, or its theft or loss) and in good faith and shall not be required to exercise obtain any proof thereof or as to the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each identity of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agentbearer or Holder. (4) 10.6 The Paying Agent may consult with any qualified legal and or other professional advisers (who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer) selected by it, at the reasonable cost of the Issuer, and the reasonable opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the written opinion of such advisers. (5) Each of the 10.7 The Paying Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted or suffered by it in good faith in reliance upon any written instruction, request or order from any signed in the name of the Issuers Issuer by its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, its Chief Financial Officer, its Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer, its General Counsel and Secretary, and its SVP, Treasurer (each such officer of the Issuer, an “Authorized Officer”), and delivered to the Paying Agent, or upon any Note, notice, resolution, written direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable e-mail, facsimile transmission or other paper document or document which information from any electronic or other source, evidenced in writing and reasonably believed by it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent otherwise given or disseminated by an Authorized Officer in the proper party manner required, even if it is subsequently found not to be genuine or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuersto be incorrect. (6) Any of the Agent and the 10.8 The Paying Agents and their officersAgent, directors and employees may become whether acting for itself or in any other capacity, will not be precluded from becoming the owner of, or acquire acquiring any interest in, holding or disposing of any NotesNote or any shares or other securities of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, Coupons holding or Talons associated companies (each a “Connected Company”), with the same rights that it, he or she as it would have had if the it were not acting as Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage from entering into or be being interested in any financial contracts or other transaction transactions with any of the Issuers and may act Connected Company or from acting on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes any securities of any Connected Company and will not be liable to account for any profit. 10.9 The Paying Agent shall not be required to make any payments to any Holder of a Note if under any laws or Coupons regulations affecting the Paying Agent, such payment is not permitted. In the event of any such laws or in connection with any other obligations regulations affecting the Paying Agent coming to the attention of the Issuers Paying Agent it shall forthwith notify the Issuer and the Trustee. 10.10 The Issuer shall do or cause to be done all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all such documents as freely as if shall be reasonably necessary to enable the Paying Agent to fully comply with and carry out its respective duties and obligations hereunder. 10.11 In no event shall the Paying Agent or any of its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or representatives (collectively, “Agent Parties”), have any liability for damages of any kind, except to the relevant extent such liability is found in a final non- appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from the gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud of the Paying AgentAgent or its Agent Parties. In no event shall the Paying Agent or any Agent Parties on the one hand, or the Issuer or any of its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agent, advisors or representatives (collectively, “Issuer Parties”), on the other hand, have any liability for punitive, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or losses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) and regardless of whether the Paying Agent or Agent Party or Issuer or Issuer Party, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderhas been notified of the likelihood of such damages. (7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references 10.12 Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the amount contrary, the Paying Agent shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any obligation hereunder by reason of any event or circumstance beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation, (a) any governmental activity (whether de jure or de facto), act of governmental authority (whether lawful or unlawful), compliance with any governmental or regulatory order, rule, regulation or direction, curfew restriction, expropriation, compulsory acquisition, seizure, requisition, nationalisation or the imposition of currency or currency control restrictions; (b) any failure of or the effect of rules or operations of any funds transfer, settlement or clearing system, interruption, loss or malfunction of utilities, communications or computer services or the payment or repayment of any cash or sums arising from the application of any law or regulation in effect now or in the future, or from the occurrence of any event in the country in which such cash is held which may affect, limit, prohibit or prevent the transferability, convertibility, availability, payment or repayment of any cash or sums until such time as such law, regulation or event shall no longer affect, limit, prohibit or prevent such transferability, convertibility, availability, payment or repayment (and in no event, other than as provided in the Notes, shall the Paying Agent be obliged to substitute another currency for a currency whose transferability, convertibility or availability has been affected, limited, prohibited or prevented by such law, regulation or event or be obliged to pay any penalty interest); (c) any strike or work stoppage, go slow, occupation of premises, other industrial action or dispute or any breach of contract by any essential personnel; (d) any equipment or transmission failure or failure of applicable banking or financial systems; (e) any war, armed conflict including but not limited to hostile attack, hostilities, or acts of a foreign enemy; (f) any riot, insurrection, civil commotion or disorder, mob violence or act of civil disobedience; (g) any act of terrorism or sabotage; (h) any explosion, fire, destruction of machines, equipment or any kind of installation, prolonged breakdown of transport, radioactive contamination, nuclear fusion or fission or electric current; (i) any epidemic, natural disaster (such as but not limited to violent storm, hurricane, blizzard, earthquake, landslide, tidal wave, flood, damage or destruction by lightning, or drought); or (j) any other act of God. 10.13 The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of the Programme shall be deemed Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture or for any other purpose, direct the Paying Agent to be references pay to the increased amount. (9) The Trustee any or all sums held in trust by the Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Paying Agent and each to the Trustee, the Paying Agent shall be a person payments released from all further liability with respect to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at such money. Any money deposited with the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source Agent in trust for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) payment of the Code. Each principal of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent premium or interest on the Notes remaining unclaimed for a period ending on the earlier of the date that is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status ten Business Days prior to the date such money would escheat to the state or two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent the Issuer’s request and any all liability of the Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9such trust money shall thereupon cease. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Agency Agreement (Fiserv Inc)

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The 19.1 Save as provided in sub-clauses 19.2 and 19.3 below, the Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any the Issuer for the purpose purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except: (a) that it shall and not exercise any right of set-offsubject to the Client Money Rules, lien or similar claim in respect thereof; (b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and (c) that it and shall not be liable to account to any the Issuer for any interest thereon thereon. No money held by any Paying Agent need be segregated except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agentrequired by law. (2) 19.2 In acting hereunder under this Agreement and in connection with the NotesNotes and the Coupons, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers Issuer and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners Noteholders, Receiptholders or holders of the NotesCouponholders, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid except that funds received by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on any sums due in respect of any Series of the Notes remaining unclaimed at and the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable Coupons relating thereto shall be repaid to held by it in trust for the relevant Issuer Noteholders and Couponholders (as provided and in the manner set forth in case may be) until the Notes whereupon all liability expiration of the relevant period under Condition 8. 19.3 No Paying Agent with shall exercise any right of set-off or lien against the Issuer or any Noteholders or Couponholders in respect thereto shall cease. All funds held of any moneys payable to or by it under the Agent terms of this Agreement. 19.4 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required by law, each of the Paying Agents need shall be entitled to treat the bearer of any Note, Receipt or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not such Note, Receipt or Coupon shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or other writing thereon or any notice of previous loss or theft thereof) and shall not be segregated from other fundsrequired to obtain any proof thereof or as to the identity of the bearer, except subject, in relation to any Global Note, as required by lawprovided in the Conditions. (3) 19.5 The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, duties as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum Notes specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 6 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 19.6 The Agent may consult on any legal matter in relation to the Notes or this Agreement any legal adviser selected by it, after consultation if practicable with the Issuer, who may be an employee of or legal adviser to the Issuer, and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers it shall be full protected and complete protection in respect of any shall incur no liability for action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder to be taken, with respect to such matter in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such adviserslegal adviser. (5) 19.7 Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or any of the Issuers other Paying Agent, or any Note or Coupon, or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable cable, email, telefax or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the IssuersIssuer. (6) 19.8 Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Notes or Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, it or he or she would have if the Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes Noteholders or Coupons Couponholders or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the such Paying Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunderunder this Agreement and will not be liable to account for any profit. (7) Each 19.9 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and each other Paying Agent with a certified copy of the certified list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement (as referred to in paragraph 3 of Appendix A to the Programme Agreement) and shall notify the Agent promptly and each Paying Agent immediately in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. (8) 19.10 The amount of the Programme may Issuer shall do or cause to be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effecteddone all such acts, matters and things and shall make available all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme such documents as shall be deemed necessary to be references to enable the increased amount. (9) The Agent and each other Paying Agent to fully comply with and carry out its duties and obligations hereunder. 19.11 The Agent may call for and shall rely on any records, certificate or other document of or to be issued by Euroclear or Clearstream in relation to any determination of the principal amount of Notes represented by a NGN. Except for manifest error, any such records, certificate or other document shall be a conclusive and binding for all purposes. The Agent shall not be liable to any person payments by reason of having acquired as valid or not having rejected any such records, certificate or other document to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s effect purporting to be issued by Euroclear or Paying Agent’s appointmentClearstream and subsequently found to be forged or not authentic, except where such forgery or non authenticity is manifest. 19.12 In the event that the Agent receives conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions, the Agent as the case may be shall be entitled not to take any action until such instructions have been resolved or clarified to its satisfaction and the Agent shall not be or become liable in any way to any person for any failure to comply with any such conflicting, unclear or equivocal instructions. 19.13 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, any party to this Agreement may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (10including but not limited to English law) Payments made or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 19.14 The Issuer undertakes to the Agent that: (a) it will provide to the Agent all documentation and other information required by TMCC are the Agent from U.S. source time to time for U.S. federal the Agent to comply with any Applicable Law forthwith upon request by the Agent; and (b) it will notify the Agent in writing within 30 days of any change of which it is or becomes aware that affects the Issuer’s tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within status pursuant to any Applicable Law to the meaning of Section 1473(1) extent that it relates to the Issuer’s obligations under this Agreement and/or the Notes. It shall be the sole responsibility of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of whether a deduction or withholding is or will be required from any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to in respect of the Notes or otherwise in connection with this Agreement and to procure that such deduction or withholding is made in a timely manner to the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning appropriate Authorities and shall promptly notify each Paying Agent upon determining or becoming aware of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the such requirement. The Issuer shall provide such Paying Agent with all information required for such Paying Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged be able to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In such payment. 19.15 The Paying Agent shall notify the event Issuer if it becomes aware that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform can no longer pay the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to without FATCA Withholding Taxwithholding. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for 19.16 If the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms Issuer determines in its sole discretion that it will comply be required to withhold or deduct any FATCA withholding in connection with all withholding requirements imposed any payment due on payments with respect any Notes, then the Issuer shall be entitled to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and re-direct or reorganise any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents such payment in any way that it sees fit in order that the payment may be made without FATCA withholding, provided that any such re-direction or reorganisation of any payment is made through a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning recognised institution of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, international standing and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers such payment is otherwise made in accordance with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reportingthis Agreement.

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Sources: Agency Agreement

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT. (1) The Agent 15.1 Except as provided in Clause 13.2 above, none of the Paying Agents in acting hereunder shall incur any liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered to be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement taken in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers exceptgood faith in reliance upon: (a) that it shall not exercise the advice of any right of set-off, lien lawyer or similar claim in respect thereofother professional adviser; (b) as provided any instruction, request or order from the Issuer or (in Subclause 19(2) belowthe circumstances described in Clause 2.3 above the Trustee; andor (c) that any Note, Coupon or Talon, notice, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, endorsement, assignment, statement, resolution, letter, telex, facsimile transmission or other paper or document reasonably believed by it shall not to be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between genuine or signed by the relevant Issuer and the Agentproper party or parties. (2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and 15.2 Each of the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents be responsible only for the performance of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law. (3) The Agent duties and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein expressly conferred upon it under this Agreement (including Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions ) and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicableNotes, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement Agreement, the Procedures Memorandum, the Trust Deed or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstancesAgents. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto Schedule 3 becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent. (4) 15.3 No sums paid by or by arrangement with the Issuer to the Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be required to be repaid to the Issuer unless and until claims in respect of such sums become void under the Conditions of the relevant Notes. In the event that claims in respect of such sums shall become void, the Agent shall forthwith, subject to any fiscal or other laws and regulations applicable thereto and subject to Clause 2.3 above, repay such sums to the Issuer on demand. 15.4 The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection entitled to deal with moneys paid to it by the Issuer for the purposes of this Agreement in the same manner as other moneys paid to it as a banker by its customers except that it shall not be liable to account to the Issuer for any interest thereon, except in relation to sums due in respect of any Notes, Coupons or Talons after the expiration of the relevant prescription period under the relevant Conditions or, in any case, as otherwise agreed. No money held by the Agent need be segregated except as required by law. 15.5 The Agent shall not be under any obligation to take any action takenunder this Agreement which it expects will result in any expense or liability of the Agent, omitted or suffered the payment of which within a reasonable time is not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. 15.6 Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 13 and subclause 13.2 above, in acting hereunder in good faith and in accordance connection with the opinion Notes, Coupons and Talons, the Paying Agents shall act solely as paying agents of such advisersthe Issuer (or, in the circumstances described in Clause 2.3 above, the Trustee) and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or as bankers to any of the owners or holders of the Notes or the Coupons or Talons appertaining thereto and shall only be obliged to perform the duties set out specifically in this Agreement, the Procedures Memorandum or the Notes, and any duties necessarily incidental thereto except that funds received by any Paying Agent for the payment of any sums due in respect of any Notes or Coupons shall be held by it in trust for the relevant holders of any Notes or Coupons until the expiration of the relevant prescription period under the relevant Conditions. (5) Each 15.7 Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law and subject as provided in the Agent and next sentence, each of the Paying Agents shall be protected entitled to deem and treat the bearer of any Note, Coupon or Talon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not it is overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary or any notation of ownership or writing on it or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof) and shall incur no liability not be required to obtain any proof of ownership or as to the identity or residence of the bearer and shall not be liable for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from so treating the bearer. For so long as any of the Issuers Notes is represented by a Global Note held on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, each person who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (in which regard any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable certificate or other paper document issued by Euroclear or document which it reasonably believes Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the nominal amount of such Notes standing to the account of any person shall be genuine conclusive and to have been delivered, signed or sent binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) shall be treated by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from Issuer, the Trustee, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal and interest on such Notes, the right to which shall be vested, as against the Issuer, solely in the bearer of the IssuersGlobal Note in accordance with and subject to its terms (or the Trustee in accordance with the Trust Deed) (and the expressions Noteholder, holder of Notes and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.) (6a) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officersrespective directors, directors officers and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he it or she they would have if the Agent it or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned they were not appointed hereunder, hereunder and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers Issuer and may act on, or as a depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Notes, Coupons or in connection with any Talons or other obligations of the Issuers Issuer as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, it were not appointed hereunderhereunder and without accounting to any person therefor. (7b) Each No Paying Agent shall exercise any lien, right of set off or similar claim against the Issuer, the Trustee, any Noteholder, Couponholder or Talonholder in respect of moneys payable to or by it under this Agreement. 15.9 The Issuer shall forthwith give notice to the Agent of any change of the Trustee. 15.10 The Issuer shall provide the Agent and any other Paying Agent with a certified copy of the certified list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf of the Issuer in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent and any other Paying Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised. 15.11 Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, any Paying Agents may refrain without liability from doing anything that would or might in its opinion be contrary to any law of any state or jurisdiction (8) The amount including but not limited to England and Wales, the European Union, the United States of America or, in each case, any jurisdiction forming a part of it) or any directive or regulation of any agency of any such state or jurisdiction and may without liability do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation. 15.12 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, if any Paying Agent is rendered unable to carry out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of the Programme may occurrence of a Force Majeure Event, such Paying Agent shall not be increased liable for any failure to carry out such obligations for so long as it is so prevented. For the purposes of this subclause 15.12, Force Majeure Event means any event due to any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Paying Agents, such as restrictions on the convertibility or transferability of currencies, requisitions, unavailability of communications systems, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind (other than any such actions or strikes undertaken by the Issuers in accordance Paying Agents themselves or their employees), riots, insurrection, war or acts of government. 15.13 Each party to this Agreement shall, within ten business days of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations or any Notes as that other party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other party's compliance with Applicable Law and shall notify the procedure set out relevant other party reasonably promptly in the Programme Agreement. Upon event that it becomes aware that any increase being effectedof the forms, all references documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect; provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Agreement subclause 15.13 to the amount extent that: (i) any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is not reasonably available to such party and cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or (ii) doing so would or might in the reasonable opinion of such party constitute a breach of any: (a) Applicable Law; (b) fiduciary duty; or (c) duty of confidentiality. For the Programme purposes of this subclause 15.13, Applicable Law shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount. include (9i) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s any rule or Paying Agent’s appointment. (10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount practice of any payment to be made Authority by such Issuer pursuant which any party to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent is bound or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on with which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax. (11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), accustomed to comply; (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9. (12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.agreement between any Authorities; and

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Sources: Agency Agreement