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WHEREAS:

1. The Parties hereto are desirous of agreeing a procedure whereby either one of them (the “Lender”) will make available to the other of them (the “Borrower”) from time to time Securities (as hereinafter defined) in order to enable the Borrower, subject to any Inland Revenue provisions then in force, to fulfil a contract to sell such Securities or to on lend such Securities to a third party to enable such party to fulfil a contract to sell such Securities, whether or not as part of a chain of arrangements to enable the final party in such chain to fulfil a contract to sell such Securities or to replace an existing loan of Securities to such third party, or for other purposes.
2. All transactions carried out under this Agreement will be effected in accordance with the Rules (as hereinafter defined) TOGETHER WITH current market practices, customs and conventions.

(a) in the case of conversion, subdivision or consolidation the securities into which the borrowed Securities have been converted, subdivided or consolidated PROVIDED THAT if appropriate, notice has been given in accordance with Clause 4(B)(vi);

(b) in the case of redemption, a sum of money equivalent to the proceeds of the redemption;

(c) in the case of takeover, a sum of money or securities, being the consideration or alternative consideration of which the Lender has given notice to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 4(B)(vi);

(d) in the case of a call on partly paid securities, the paid-up securities PROVIDED THAT the Lender shall have paid to the Borrower an amount of money equal to the sum due in respect of the call;

(e) in the case of a capitalisation issue, the borrowed Securities TOGETHER WITH the securities allotted by way of a bonus thereon;

(f) in the case of a rights issue, the borrowed Securities TOGETHER WITH the securities allotted thereon, PROVIDED THAT the Lender has given notice to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 4(B)(vi), and has paid to the Borrower all and any sums due in respect thereof;

(g) in the event that a payment or delivery of Income is made in respect of the borrowed Securities in the form of securities or a certificate which may at a future date be exchanged for securities or in the event of an option to take Income in the form of securities or a certificate which may at a future date be exchanged for securities, notice has been given to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 4(B)(vi) the borrowed Securities TOGETHER WITH securities or a certificate equivalent to those allotted;

(h) in the case of any event similar to any of the foregoing, the borrowed Securities TOGETHER WITH or replaced by a sum of money or securities equivalent to that received in respect of such borrowed Securities resulting from such event;

For the purposes of this definition, securities are equivalent to other securities where they are of an identical type, nominal value, description and amount and such term shall include the certificate and other documents of or evidencing title and transfer in respect of the foregoing (as appropriate);
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2(A) The Lender will lend Securities to the Borrower, and the Borrower will borrow Securities from the Lender in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and with the Rules PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT the Lender shall have received from the Borrower and accepted (by whatever means) a Borrowing Request.
2(B) The Borrower has the right to reduce the amount of Securities referred to in a Borrowing Request PROVIDED THAT the Borrower has notified the Lender of such reduction no later than midday London time on the day which is two Business Days prior to the Settlement Date unless otherwise agreed between the Parties and the Lender shall have accepted such reduction (by whatever means).
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Each of the following events occurring in relation to either Party (the “Defaulting Party”, the other Party being the “Non-Defaulting Party”) shall be an Event of Default for the purpose of Clause 8:

12(A) the Borrower or Lender failing to pay or repay Cash Collateral or deliver or redeliver Collateral or Equivalent Collateral upon the due date, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(B) the Lender or Borrower failing to comply with its obligations under Clause 6, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(C) the Borrower failing to comply with Clause 4(B)(i), (ii) or (iii) hereof, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(D) an Act of Insolvency occurring with respect to the Lender or the Borrower and (except in the case of an Act of Insolvency which is the presentation of a petition for winding up or any analogous proceeding or the appointment of a liquidator or analogous officer of the Defaulting Party in which case no such notice shall be required) the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(E) any representations or warranties made by the Lender or the Borrower being incorrect or untrue in any material respect when made or repeated or deemed to have been made or repeated, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(F) the Lender or the Borrower admitting to the other that it is unable to, or it intends not to, perform any of its obligations hereunder and/or in respect of any loan hereunder, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(G) the Lender (if appropriate) or the Borrower being declared in default by the appropriate authority under the Rules or being suspended or expelled from membership of or participation in any securities exchange or association or other self-regulatory organisation, or suspended from dealing in securities by any government agency, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party;

12(H) any of the assets of the Lender or the Borrower or the assets of investors held by or to the order of the Lender or the Borrower being transferred or ordered to be transferred to a trustee by a regulatory authority pursuant to any securities regulating legislation and the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice on the Defaulting Party, or

12(I) the Lender or the Borrower failing to perform any other of its obligations hereunder and not remedying such failure within 30 days after the Non-Defaulting Party serves written notice requiring it to remedy such failure, and the Non-Defaulting Party serves a further written notice on the Defaulting Party.

Each Party shall notify the other if an Event of Default occurs in relation to it.
Template:OSLA 1995 13 14. Transactions entered into as Agent

14(A) Subject to the following provisions of this Clause, the Lender may enter into loans as Agent (in such capacity, the “Agent”) for a third person (a “Principal”), whether as custodian or investment manager or otherwise (a loan so entered into being referred to in this clause as an “Agency Transaction”).

14(B) A Lender may enter into an Agency Transaction if, but only if:-

(i) if specifies that loan as an Agency Transaction at the time when it enters into it;

(ii) it enters into that loan on behalf of a single Principal whose identity is disclosed to the Borrower (whether by name or by reference to a code or identifier which the Parties have agreed will be used to refer to a specified Principal) at the time when it enters into the loan; and

(iii) it has at the time when the loan is entered into actual authority to enter into the loan and to perform on behalf of that Principal all of that Principal’s obligations under the agreement referred to in (D)(ii) below.

14(C) The Lender undertakes that, if it enters as agent into an Agency Transaction, forthwith upon becoming aware:-

(i) of any event which constitutes an Act of Insolvency with respect to the relevant Principal; or

(ii) of any breach of any of the warranties given in Clause 14(E) below or of any event or circumstance which has the result that any such warranty would be untrue if repeated by reference to the current facts;

it will inform the Borrower of that fact and will, if so required by the Borrower, furnish it with such additional information as it may reasonably request.

14(D)

(i) Each Agency Transaction shall be a transaction between the relevant Principal and the Borrower and no person other than the relevant Principal and the Borrower shall be a party to or have any rights or obligations under an Agency Transaction. Without limiting the foregoing, the Lender shall not be liable as Principal for the performance of an Agency Transaction or for breach of any warranty contained in Clause 10(D) or 11(E) of this Agreement, but this is without prejudice to any liability of the Lender under any other provision of this Clause.

(ii) All the provisions of the Agreement shall apply separately as between the Borrower and each Principal for whom the Agent has entered into an Agency Transaction or Agency Transactions as if each such Principal were a party to a separate agreement with the Borrower in all respects identical with this Agreement other than this paragraph and as if the Principal were Lender in respect of that agreement.

PROVIDED THAT

if there occurs in relation to the Agent an Event of Default or an event which would constitute an Event of Default if the Borrower served written notice under any sub-Clause of Clause 12, the Borrower shall be entitled by giving written notice to the Principal (which notice shall be validly given if given to the Lender in accordance with Clause 20) to declare that by reason of that event an Event of Default is to be treated as occurring in relation to the Principal. If the Borrower gives such a notice then an Event of Default shall be treated as occurring in relation to the Principal at the time when the notice is deemed to be given; and

if the Principal is neither incorporated nor has established a place of business in Great Britain, the Principal shall for the purposes of the agreement referred to in (D)(ii) be deemed to have appointed as its Agent to receive on its behalf service of process in the courts of England the Agent, or if the Agent is neither incorporated nor has established a place of business in the United Kingdom, the person appointed by the Agent for the purposes of this Agreement, or such other person as the Principal may from time to time specify in a written notice given to the other party.

(iii) The foregoing provisions of this Clause do not affect the operation of the Agreement as between the Borrower and the Lender in respect of any transactions into which the Lender may enter on its own account as Principal.

14(E) The Lender warrants to the Borrower that it will, on every occasion on which it enters or purports to enter into a transaction as an Agency Transaction, have been duly authorised to enter into that loan and perform the obligations arising thereunder on behalf of the person whom it specifies as the Principal in respect of that transaction and to perform on behalf of that person all the obligations of that person under the agreement referred to in (D)(ii). 15 Termination of course of dealings by notice

Each Party shall have the right to bring the course of dealing contemplated under this Agreement to an end by giving not less than 15 Business Days’ notice in writing to the other Party (which notice shall specify the date of termination) subject to an obligation to ensure that all loans and which have been entered into but not discharged at the time such notice is given are duly discharged in accordance with this Agreement and with the Rules.
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