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AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT

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Title: AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT
Date: 9/23/2010

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CONFORMED COPY

 

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT

 

TOYOTA MOTOR FINANCE (NETHERLANDS) B.V.

TOYOTA CREDIT CANADA INC.

TOYOTA FINANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED (ABN 48 002 435 181)

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

as Issuers

 

and

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

as Agent

 

in respect of a

 

€50,000,000,000

EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE PROGRAMME

 

 

 

 

Dated 17 September 2010

 

 

 

 


 

 

CONTENTS

 

CLAUSE

 

PAGE

 

 

 

1.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

2

2.

APPOINTMENT OF AGENT AND PAYING AGENTS

9

3.

ISSUE OF TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTES

11

4.

ISSUE OF PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTES

12

5.

ISSUE OF DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTES

13

6.

EXCHANGES

14

7.

TERMS OF ISSUE

15

8.

PAYMENTS

17

9.

DETERMINATIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS IN RESPECT OF NOTES

19

10.

NOTICE OF ANY WITHHOLDING OR DEDUCTION

20

11.

DUTIES OF THE AGENT IN CONNECTION WITH EARLY REDEMPTION

21

12.

PUBLICATION OF NOTICES

21

13.

CANCELLATION, RESALE AND REISSUANCE OF NOTES, RECEIPTS, COUPONS AND TALONS

21

14.

ISSUE OF REPLACEMENT NOTES, RECEIPTS, COUPONS AND TALONS

23

15.

COPIES OF THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH FINAL TERMS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION

24

16.

COMMISSIONS AND EXPENSES

25

17.

INDEMNITY

25

18.

REPAYMENT BY THE AGENT

26

19.

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT

26

20.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES

27

21.

CHANGES IN AGENT AND PAYING AGENTS

27

22.

MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION

29

23.

NOTIFICATIONS

30

24.

CHANGE OF SPECIFIED OFFICE

30

25.

NOTICES

30

26.

TAXES AND STAMP DUTIES

31

27.

CURRENCY INDEMNITY

31

28.

AMENDMENTS: MEETINGS OF HOLDERS

32

29.

CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT

34

30.

REDENOMINATION AND EXCHANGE

34

31.

DEED POLL

37

32.

DESCRIPTIVE HEADINGS

38

 

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33.

CONTRACTS (RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) ACT 1999

38

34.

GOVERNING LAW

39

35.

COUNTERPARTS

39

APPENDIX A TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES

43

APPENDIX B FORMS OF GLOBAL AND DEFINITIVE NOTES, COUPONS, RECEIPTS AND TALONS

84

APPENDIX B-1  FORM OF TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE

85

SCHEDULE ONE  PART I  INTEREST PAYMENTS

92

SCHEDULE ONE  PART II  INSTALMENT PAYMENTS

93

SCHEDULE TWO  SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES FOR NOTES REPRESENTED BY A PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE OR DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTES OR REDEMPTIONS OR PURCHASES AND CANCELLATIONS

94

APPENDIX B-2  FORM OF PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTE

95

SCHEDULE ONE  PART I  INTEREST PAYMENTS

102

SCHEDULE ONE  PART II  INSTALMENT PAYMENTS

103

SCHEDULE TWO  SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF A TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE AND FOR DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTES OR REDEMPTIONS OR PURCHASES AND CANCELLATIONS

104

APPENDIX B-3  FORM OF DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTE

105

APPENDIX B-4  FORM OF COUPON

109

APPENDIX B-5  FORM OF RECEIPT

111

APPENDIX B-6  FORM OF TALON

114

APPENDIX C FORM OF CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT

116

APPENDIX D FORM OF OPERATING AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES MEMORANDUM

126

ANNEX A TO APPENDIX D  SETTLEMENT PROCEDURES

129

ANNEX B TO APPENDIX D  FORM OF FINAL TERMS

134

ANNEX C TO APPENDIX D  FORM OF PURCHASER’S CONFIRMATION TO THE ISSUER

174

ANNEX D TO APPENDIX D  FORM OF THE ISSUER’S CONFIRMATION TO AGENT AND PURCHASERS

177

 ANNEX E TO APPENDIX D  TRADING DESK INFORMATION

178

APPENDIX E FORM OF THE NOTES

181

APPENDIX F ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF THE AGENT

186

APPENDIX G FORM OF DEED POLL (SUBSTITUTION OF ISSUER)

187

 

 

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT

 

in respect of a

 

€50,000,000,000

EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE PROGRAMME

 

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGENCY AGREEMENT is made on 17 September 2010

 

BETWEEN :

 

(1)

TOYOTA MOTOR FINANCE (NETHERLANDS) B.V. of Atrium, Strawinskylaan 3105, 1077 ZX Amsterdam, the Netherlands ( TMF );

 

(2)

TOYOTA CREDIT CANADA INC. of 80 Micro Court, Suite 200, Markham, Ontario L3R 9Z5, Canada ( TCCI );

 

(3)

TOYOTA FINANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED (ABN 48 002 435 181) of Level 9, 207 Pacific Highway, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia ( TFA );

 

(4)

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION of 19001 South Western Avenue, EF12, Torrance, California 90501, U.S.A. ( TMCC ); and

 

(5)

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON of One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AL (the Agent , which expression shall include any successor agent appointed in accordance with Clause 21, and the Paying Agent , which expression shall include any additional or successor paying agent appointed in accordance with Clause 21, and Paying Agent shall mean any of the Agent or the Paying Agents so appointed).

 

WHEREAS :

 

(A)           The Issuers (as defined below) have determined that a programme agreement dated 30 September 1992 as amended and supplemented or restated by the First Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 31 January 1994, the Second Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 16 May 1996, the Third Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 29 May 1998, the Fourth Supplemental Programme Agreement dated 7 July 1999, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 31 August 2000, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 31 August 2001, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 27 September 2002, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 26 September 2003, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 24 September 2004, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 30 September 2005, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 28 September 2006, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 28 September 2007, the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 26 September 2008 and the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 18 September 2009 entered into with the Dealers named therein pursuant to which any of the Issuers may issue Euro Medium Term Notes in an aggregate nominal amount of up to €50,000,000,000, be amended and restated by the Issuers and each of Merrill Lynch International, Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, London Branch, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, London branch, Goldman Sachs International, HSBC Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd.,

 

 

 


 

 

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc, Mizuho International plc, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Nomura International plc, Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and UBS Limited (together, the Programme Dealers ).

 

(B)           The Issuers have entered into an amended and restated programme agreement dated 17 September 2010 with the Programme Dealers.

 

(C)           The Issuers and the agents named therein entered into an agency agreement dated 18 September 2009 (the Agency Agreement ).  The parties hereto agree to make certain modifications to the Agency Agreement.  This Agreement amends and restates the Agency Agreement.

 

1.           DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

 

 

(1)

The following expressions shall have the following meanings:

 

Agreement Date means, with respect to any Note, the date on which agreement is reached for the issue of such Note as contemplated in Clause 2 of the Programme Agreement, which in the case of Notes issued on a syndicated basis shall be the date the applicable Syndicate Purchase Agreement is signed by all parties;

 

Arranger means Merrill Lynch International, or any other company appointed to the position of arranger for the Programme; and references in this Agreement to the Arranger shall be references to all of them;

 

Bearer Note means those of the Notes in bearer form;

 

CGN means a Temporary Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-1 hereto or a Permanent Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-2 hereto and in either case in respect of which the applicable Final Terms indicate it is not a New Global Note;

 

Clearing System means Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or Euroclear and/or any other additional system or systems as is specified in the applicable Final Terms;

 

Clearstream, Luxembourg means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme;

 

Conditions means, in respect of any Series of Notes, the terms and conditions of the Notes of such Series, such terms and conditions being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix A hereto or in such other form, having regard to the terms of the relevant Series, as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser or Purchasers from time to time, as amended or supplemented by the applicable Final Terms;

 

Coupon has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Conditions;

 

Dealer means each of the Programme Dealers and any other entities appointed as dealers from time to time pursuant to the Programme Agreement;

 

Definitive Bearer Note means a Bearer Note in definitive form being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-3 hereto (or in such other form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser or Purchasers) issued or to be issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to this Agreement in

 

 

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exchange for the whole or (subject to the terms of the relevant Temporary Global Note and/or Permanent Global Note) part of a Temporary Global and/or Permanent Global Note;

 

Definitive Note means a Definitive Bearer Note and/or a Definitive Registered Note, as the context may require;

 

Definitive Registered Note means a Registered Note in definitive form issued or, as the case may require, to be issued by TCCI pursuant to the Note Agency Agreement in exchange for a Registered Global Note, such Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 to the Note Agency Agreement (or in such other form as may be agreed between TCCI, the Registrar and the relevant Purchaser(s));

 

Dual Currency Notes means Notes in respect of which principal and/or interest is payable in one or more Specified Currencies other than the Specified Currency in which they are denominated;

 

Established Rate means the rate for the conversion of the Specified Currency (including compliance with rules relating to roundings in accordance with applicable European Union regulations) into euro established by the Council of the European Union pursuant to Article 140 of the Treaty;

 

EUR , Euro , euro and mean the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of European economic and monetary union, and as defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of the euro, as amended;

 

Euroclear means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.;

 

European Economic Area means the European Economic Area consisting of the Member States of the European Union and Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein;

 

Eurosystem-eligible Note means a Note which is intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem eligibility, as stated in the applicable Final Terms;

 

Final Terms means the final terms issued in relation to each Tranche of Notes (substantially in the form of either Part A or Part B of Annex B to the Procedures Memorandum) as a supplement to the Prospectus and giving details of that Tranche and, in relation to any particular Tranche of Notes, applicable Final Terms means the Final Terms applicable to that Tranche;

 

FSMA means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended;

 

Global Bearer Note means a Temporary Global Note or a Permanent Global Note (or such other form of global note in bearer form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser(s) as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) representing a certain number of underlying Notes (the Underlying Notes) ;

 

Global Note means a Global Bearer Note or a Registered Global Note (or such other form of global note as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent (in the case of Bearer Notes), the Registrar (in the case of Registered Notes) and the relevant

 

 

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Purchaser(s) as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) representing a certain number of Underlying Notes;

 

ISDA Definitions means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., as amended, supplemented or updated from time to time;

 

Issue Date means, in respect of any Note, the date of issue and purchase of such Note pursuant to Clause 2 of the Programme Agreement, being in the case of any Note in the form of a Permanent Global Note or a Definitive Note, the same date as the date of issue of the Temporary Global Note which initially represented such Note;

 

Issuer means each of TMF, TCCI, TFA and TMCC in its capacity as issuer of Notes; and references in this Agreement to the relevant Issuer shall, in relation to any issue of Notes, be references to whichever of TMF, TCCI, TFA or TMCC is the issuer of such Notes; and references to the Issuers shall be to all of TMF, TCCI, TFA and TMCC;

 

Listing Agent means, in relation to any Notes which are, or are to be, listed on a Stock Exchange other than the London Stock Exchange, such listing agent as the relevant Issuer may from time to time appoint for purposes of liaising with such Stock Exchange or other relevant authority;

 

Listing Rules means:

 

 

(a)

in the case of Notes which are, or are to be, admitted to the Official List, the listing rules made under section 73A of the FSMA; and

 

 

(b)

in the case of Notes which are, or are to be, listed on a Stock Exchange other than the London Stock Exchange, the listing rules and regulations for the time being in force for such Stock Exchange;

 

London Stock Exchange means London Stock Exchange plc or such other body to which its functions have been transferred;

 

Member State means a member state of the European Union;

 

New Global Note means a Temporary Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-1 hereto or a Permanent Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-2 hereto and in either case in respect of which the applicable Final Terms indicate it is a New Global Note;

 

Note means a note issued or to be issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to the Programme Agreement, other than a Note which will form a single Series with any Notes issued by any Issuer prior to the date of this Agreement, which Note may be represented by a Global Note or a Definitive Note;

 

Note Agency Agreement means the Amended and Restated Note Agency Agreement of even date herewith between TCCI, Royal Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Canada, London branch relating to Registered Notes;

 

Noteholders means the several persons who are for the time being holders of outstanding Notes (being in the case of Bearer Notes, the bearers thereof and, in the case of Registered Notes, the several persons whose names are entered in the register

 

 

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of holders of such Notes as the holders thereof) save that, in respect of Notes of any Series, for so long as such Notes or any part thereof are represented by a Global Note, each person who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or such other applicable clearing agency as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (other than a clearing agency (including Clearstream, Luxembourg and Euroclear) that is itself an account holder of Clearstream, Luxembourg, Euroclear or any other applicable clearing agency for a Series of Notes) (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or such other applicable clearing agency 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 Agent and any other Paying Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) by the Registrar and the Transfer Agent as a holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than for the payment of principal (including premium (if any)) or interest on such Notes, the right to which shall be vested, as against the relevant Issuer, the Agent and any other Paying Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Transfer Agent, in the case of Bearer Notes, solely in the bearer of the Global Note and, in the case of Registered Notes, solely in the person whose name is entered in the register of holders of such Notes as the holder of the Global Note in accordance with and subject to its terms (and the expressions Noteholder , holder of Notes and related expressions shall be construed accordingly);

 

Official List has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 103 of the FSMA;

 

Outstanding means, in relation to the Notes of all or any Series, all the Notes (or all the Notes of that or those Series) issued other than (a) those which have been redeemed in full in accordance with this Agreement or the Note Agency Agreement or the Conditions, (b) those in respect of which the date for redemption (whether in respect of the whole principal amount or the final instalment (when redeemable in instalments)) in accordance with the Conditions has occurred and the redemption moneys therefor (including all interest (if any) accrued thereon to the date for such redemption and any interest (if any) payable under the Conditions after such date) have been duly paid to the Agent as provided herein or (in the case of Registered Notes) to the Registrar or the Transfer Agent (and, where appropriate, notice has been given to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 16) and remain available for payment against presentation of Notes, (c) those Notes which have become void under Condition 8, (d) those Notes which have been purchased or otherwise acquired and cancelled as provided in Condition 6 and those which have been purchased or otherwise acquired and are being held by the relevant Issuer for subsequent resale or reissuance as provided in Condition 6 during the time so held, (e) those mutilated or defaced Notes which have been surrendered in exchange for replacement Notes pursuant to Condition 10, (f) (for the purposes only of determining how many Notes are outstanding and without prejudice to their status for any other purpose) those Notes alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed and in respect of which replacement Notes have been issued pursuant to Condition 10 and (g) Temporary Global Notes to the extent that they shall have been duly exchanged in whole for Permanent Global Notes or Definitive Notes and Permanent Global Notes or Registered Global Notes to the extent that they shall have been duly exchanged in whole for Definitive Notes, in each case pursuant to their respective provisions;

 

Permanent Global Note means a permanent global Bearer Note in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-2 hereto (or in such other form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser(s))

 

 

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comprising some or all of the Notes of the same Series, issued or to be issued by the relevant Issuer either in exchange for the whole or part of a Temporary Global Note issued in respect of the Notes of the same Tranche or initially representing the Notes;

 

Procedures Memorandum means the non-binding Operating and Administrative Procedures Memorandum set out in Appendix D hereto as amended or varied from time to time, in respect of any Tranche, by agreement between the relevant Issuer and the Purchaser of such Tranche with the approval in writing of the Agent.

 

Programme means the Euro Medium Term Note Programme provided for by the Programme Agreement;

 

Programme Agreement means the Amended and Restated Programme Agreement dated 17 September 2010 between the Issuers and the Programme Dealers concerning the purchase of Notes to be issued by any Issuer;

 

Prospectus means the Prospectus relating to the Programme as revised, supplemented, amended or updated from time to time in accordance with Clause 5.2 of the Programme Agreement, including any documents which are from time to time incorporated therein by reference but excluding all information incorporated by reference in any such documents and excluding any information or statement otherwise included in any such documents which is or might be considered to be forward looking and excluding any excluded information as may be defined in the Prospectus, including, in relation to each Tranche of Notes, the applicable Final Terms relating to such Tranche;

 

Prospectus Directive means Directive 2003/71/EC;

 

Prospectus Rules means in the case of Notes which are, or are to be, listed on the London Stock Exchange, the prospectus rules made under the FSMA;

 

Purchaser means any Dealer or any third party other than a dealer (as defined in Section 2(12) of the Securities Act), who agrees to purchase Notes pursuant to the Programme Agreement and references to a relevant Purchaser shall, in relation to any Note, be references to the Purchaser with whom the relevant Issuer has agreed the issue and purchase of such Note;

 

Receipt has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Conditions;

 

Redenomination Date means in the case of interest bearing Notes, any date for payment of interest under the Notes or in the case of Zero Coupon Notes, any date, in each case specified by the relevant Issuer in the notice given to Noteholders pursuant to Clause 30 and which falls on or after the start of the third stage of European economic and monetary union pursuant to the Treaty, or if the country of the Specified Currency is not one of the countries then participating in such third stage, which falls on or after such later date as it does so participate and which falls before the date on which the Specified Currency ceases to be a sub-division of the euro;

 

Registered Global Note means a Global Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Schedule 1 to the Note Agency Agreement (or in such other form as may be agreed between TCCI, the Registrar and the relevant Purchaser(s));

 

Registered Note means a Note in registered form issued or to be issued by TCCI;

 

 

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Registrar means, in relation to any Series of Registered Notes, Royal Bank of Canada as Registrar under the Note Agency Agreement and any successor registrar appointed by TCCI in accordance with such Note Agency Agreement;

 

Relevant Account Holder means any account holder with the Relevant Clearing System which has Underlying Notes (as defined in the definition of “Global Bearer Note”) credited to its securities account from time to time;

 

Relevant Clearing System means one or more Clearing Systems;

 

Relevant Time means the time at which a Global Note becomes void in the circumstances which are specified in that Global Note;

 

Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933 of the United States, as amended;

 

Series means each original issue of Notes together with any further issues expressed to form a single series with the original issue and the terms of which (save for the Issue Date, the amount and date of the first payment of interest thereon and/or the Issue Price (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms)) are identical (including Maturity Date, Interest Basis, Redemption/Payment Basis and Interest Payment Dates (if any) (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) and whether or not the Notes are admitted to trading); and the expressions Notes of the relevant Series and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;

 

Specified Currency means the currency (which expression shall include euro and other currency units) in which Notes are denominated and, in the case of Dual Currency Notes, the currency or currencies in which payment in respect of the Notes is to be made;

 

Stock Exchange means the London   Stock Exchange or any other or further stock exchange(s) on which any Notes may from time to time be listed or admitted to trading, as the case may be; and references in this Agreement to the relevant Stock Exchange shall, in relation to any Notes, be references to the Stock Exchange on which such Notes are from time to time, or are intended to be, listed or admitted to trading;

 

Talon has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Conditions;

 

TARGET2 system means the Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET2) system or any successor thereto;

 

Temporary Global Note means a temporary global Bearer Note being in the form or substantially in the form set out in Appendix B-1 hereto (or in such other form as may be agreed between the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the relevant Purchaser(s)) comprising some or all of the Notes of the same Series issued or to be issued by the relevant Issuer pursuant to the Programme Agreement or any other agreement between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Purchaser(s);

 

Tranche means all Notes of the same Series with the same Issue Date;

 

Transfer Agent means in relation to any Series of Registered Notes, Royal Bank of Canada, London branch as transfer agent and paying agent under the Note Agency Agreement and any successor transfer agent and paying agent appointed by TCCI in accordance with the Note Agency Agreement;

 

 

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Treaty means the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as amended;

 

UK Listing Authority means the name by which the Financial Services Authority is known being the body appointed under FSMA as “competent authority” to decide on the admission of securities to the Official List; and

 

U.S.$ and U.S. dollar mean the lawful currency for the time being of the United States.

 

 

(2)

Terms and expressions (including the definitions of currencies or composite currencies) defined in the Conditions or Appendices hereto or used in the applicable Final Terms shall have the same meanings in this Agreement, except where the context requires otherwise.

 

 

(3)

All references in this Agreement to the provisions of any statute shall be deemed to be references to that statute as from time to time modified, extended, amended or re-enacted.

 

 

(4)

Any references to Notes shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include any Temporary Global Notes, Permanent Global Notes, Registered Global Notes and Definitive Notes.

 

 

(5)

All references in this Agreement to an agreement, instrument or other document (including this Agreement, the Programme Agreement, the Note Agency Agreement, any Series of Notes and any Conditions appertaining thereto) shall be construed as a reference to that agreement, instrument or document as may be amended, modified, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time.

 

 

(6)

Words denoting the singular number only shall include the plural number also and vice versa ; words denoting the masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender also; and words denoting persons only shall include firms and corporations and vice versa .

 

 

(7)

Any references herein to Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg shall, whenever the context so permits, except in relation to New Global Notes or Registered Notes intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem eligibility (being the new safekeeping structure (NSS)), be deemed to include a reference to any additional or alternative clearance system approved by the relevant Issuer, the relevant Purchaser(s) and either (in the case of Bearer Notes) the Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Transfer Agent and (in the case of Notes issued by TMF, TCCI or TFA which form a single Series with Notes issued by TMF, TCCI or TFA, as the case may be, prior to 28 September 2007) the Trustee and, in the case of Notes admitted to the Official List and admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market, the UK Listing Authority.

 

 

(8)

All references in this Agreement to a Directive include any relevant implementing measure of each Member State which has implemented such Directive.

 

 

(9)

As used herein, in relation to any Notes which are to have a “listing” or be “listed” (i) on the London Stock Exchange, listing or listed shall be

 

 

 

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construed to mean that such Notes have been admitted to the Official List in accordance with the listing rules of the UK Listing Authority and admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market and (ii) on any other Stock Exchange in a jurisdiction within the European Economic Area, listing and listed shall be construed to mean that the Notes have been admitted to trading on a market within that jurisdiction which is a regulated market for the purposes of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Directive 2004/39/EC).

 

 

(10)

Unless the contrary indication appears, a reference to the records of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg shall be to the records that each of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg holds for its customers which reflect the amount of such customer’s interests in the Notes.

 

 

(11)

In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a document is a reference to that document as amended from time to time.

 

 

(12)

For the purposes of this Agreement, the Notes of each Series shall form a separate series of Notes and accordingly, the provisions of this Agreement shall apply mutatis mutandis separately and independently to the Notes of each Series and in such provisions the expressions Notes , Noteholders , Receipts , Receiptholders , Coupons , Couponholders , Talons and Talonholders shall be construed accordingly.

 

2.           APPOINTMENT OF AGENT AND PAYING AGENTS

 

 

(1)

The Agent is hereby appointed in a several capacity as agent of each of the Issuers, to act as issuing and principal paying agent, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set out below, for the purposes of, inter alia :

 

 

(a)

completing, authenticating and delivering Temporary Global Notes and Permanent Global Notes and authenticating (if required) and delivering Definitive Bearer Notes;

 

 

(b)

giving effectuation instructions in respect of each Global Note which is a Eurosystem-eligible Note;

 

 

(c)

exchanging Temporary Global Notes for Permanent Global Notes or Definitive Bearer Notes, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of the Temporary Global Notes and, in respect of any such exchange (i) making all notations on Global Notes which are CGNs as required by their terms and (ii) instructing Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records in respect of all Global Notes which are New Global Notes;

 

 

(d)

exchanging Permanent Global Notes for Definitive Bearer Notes in accordance with the terms of the Permanent Global Notes and, in respect of any such exchange (i) making all notations on Permanent Global Notes which are CGNs as required by their terms and (ii) instructing Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records in respect of all Permanent Global Notes which are New Global Notes;

 

 

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(e)

paying sums due on Temporary Global Notes, Permanent Global Notes and Definitive Bearer Notes, Receipts and Coupons in accordance with the terms of such Notes and (i) making all notations on Global Notes which are CGNs as required by their terms and (ii) instructing Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records in respect of all Global Notes which are New Global Notes;

 

 

(f)

unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, determining the interest and/or other amounts payable in respect of the Notes in accordance with the Conditions;

 

 

(g)

arranging on behalf of the relevant Issuer for notices to be communicated to the Noteholders and the relevant Stock Exchanges;

 

 

(h)

ensuring that all necessary action is taken to comply with the periodic reporting and notification requirements of the Ministry of Finance of Japan (including any monthly reports or such other reports as may be required) and other applicable Japanese authorities, or any other competent authority of any relevant currency with respect to the Notes to be issued under the Programme;

 

 

(i)

receiving notice from Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency relating to the certificates of non-U.S. beneficial ownership of Bearer Notes;

 

 

(j)

upon certification by the participating Dealer or Dealers to the Agent that the distribution with respect to a particular Tranche of Bearer Notes has been completed, determining and certifying to Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or such other applicable clearing agency the applicable Exchange Date;

 

 

(k)

performing all other obligations and duties imposed upon it by the Conditions and this Agreement.

 

 

(l)

Any of the duties and obligations of the Agent in its capacity of issuing and principal paying agent set forth in Subclauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) may, with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party, provided such third party’s performance is subject to the overall supervision and control of the Agent.

 

 

(2)

Each Paying Agent is hereby appointed in a several capacity as paying agent of each of the Issuers, and each Paying Agent agrees to act in a several capacity as paying agent of each of the Issuers, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set out below, for the purposes of paying sums due on Notes, Receipts and Coupons and performing all other obligations and duties imposed upon it by the Conditions and this Agreement.

 

 

(3)

In relation to each issue of Eurosystem-eligible Notes, each relevant Issuer hereby authorises and instructs the Agent to elect Euroclear as common safekeeper.  From time to time, each such Issuer and the Agent may agree to vary this election.  Each such Issuer acknowledges that any such election is subject to the right of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to jointly

 

 

 

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determine that the other shall act as common safekeeper in relation to any such issue and agrees that no liability shall attach to the Agent in respect of any such election made by it.

 

 

(4)

Where the Agent delivers any authenticated Global Note to a common safekeeper for effectuation using electronic means, it is authorised and instructed to destroy the Global Note retained by it following its receipt of confirmation from the common safekeeper that the relevant Global Note has been effectuated.

 

3.           ISSUE OF TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTES

 

 

(1)

Subject to Subclause 3(2), following receipt of the applicable Final Terms signed by the relevant Issuer with respect of an issue of Notes in accordance with the provisions of the Procedures Memorandum set out in Appendix D hereto (as from time to time varied, with the prior approval of the Agent, by the relevant Issuer and the relevant Purchaser or Purchasers of the Notes of such issue), the Agent will take the steps required of the Agent in the Procedures Memorandum.  For this purpose the Agent is authorised on behalf of the relevant Issuer:

 

 

(a)

to prepare a Temporary Global Note or Temporary Global Notes containing the relevant Conditions and to complete, in accordance with such Final Terms, the necessary details on such Temporary Global Note(s) and attach a copy of the applicable Final Terms to such Temporary Global Note;

 

 

(b)

to authenticate such Temporary Global Note(s);

 

 

(c)

if the Temporary Global Note(s) is/are a CGN, to deliver such Temporary Global Note(s) (i) to the specified common depositary of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency as is specified in the applicable Final Terms against receipt from such common depositary of confirmation that such common depositary is holding the Temporary Global Note(s) in safe custody for the account of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or such other applicable clearing agency and to instruct Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency (as the case may be) to credit the Notes represented by such Temporary Global Notes(s), unless otherwise agreed in writing between the Agent and the relevant Issuer, to the Agent’s distribution account, or (ii) as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the Agent;

 

 

(d)

if the Temporary Global Note(s) is/are a New Global Note, to deliver such Temporary Global Note(s) to the specified common safekeeper of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg against receipt from such common safekeeper of confirmation that such common safekeeper is holding the Temporary Global Note(s) in safe custody for the account of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg and, in the case of a Temporary Global Note which is a Eurosystem-eligible Note, to instruct the common safekeeper to effectuate the same; and

 

 

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(e)

if the Temporary Global Note(s) is/are a New Global Note, to instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make the appropriate entries in their records to reflect the initial outstanding aggregate nominal amount of the relevant Tranche of Notes.

 

 

(2)

The Agent shall only be required to perform its obligations under Subclause 3(1) if it holds a master Temporary Global Note duly executed by a person or persons authorised to execute the same on behalf of the relevant Issuer, which may be used by the Agent for the purpose of preparing Temporary Global Note(s) in accordance with Subclause 3(1)(a).

 

 

(3)

The Agent shall provide Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency with the notifications, instructions or other information to be given by the Agent to Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency.

 

 

(4)

Any of the duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 3 may, with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party, provided such third party’s performance is subject to the overall supervision and control of the Agent.

 

4.           ISSUE OF PERMANENT GLOBAL NOTES

 

 

(1)

Subject to Subclause 4(2), upon the occurrence of any event which pursuant to the terms of a Temporary Global Note requires the issue of a Permanent Global Note, the Agent shall issue a Permanent Global Note in accordance with the terms of the Temporary Global Note.  For this purpose the Agent is authorised on behalf of the relevant Issuer:

 

 

(a)

in the case of the first Tranche of any Series of Notes, to prepare a Permanent Global Note containing the relevant Conditions and to complete, in accordance with the terms of the Temporary Global Note, the necessary details on such Permanent Global Note and attach a copy of the applicable Final Terms to such Permanent Global Note;

 

 

(b)

in the case of the first Tranche of any Series of Notes, to authenticate such Permanent Global Note;

 

 

(c)

in the case of the first Tranche of any Series of Notes (i) where the Temporary Global Note is a CGN and is being held by a common depositary as aforesaid, to deliver such Permanent Global Note to the specified common depositary that is holding the Temporary Global Note for the time being on behalf of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency as is specified in the applicable Final Terms in exchange for such Temporary Global Note or, in the case of a partial exchange, after noting the details of such exchange in the appropriate spaces on both the Temporary Global Note and the Permanent Global Note, and in either case against receipt from the common depositary of confirmation that such common depositary is holding the Permanent Global Note in safe custody for the account of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing

 

 

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agency (as the case may be); or (ii) where the Temporary Global Note is a CGN and is not being held by a common depositary, as otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the Agent;

 

 

(d)

in the case of the first Tranche of any Series of Notes where the Temporary Global Note is a New Global Note, to deliver such Permanent Global Note to the specified common safekeeper that is holding the Temporary Global Note representing the Tranche for the time being on behalf of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg in exchange for such Temporary Global Note against receipt from the common safekeeper of confirmation that such common safekeeper is holding the Permanent Global Note in safe custody for the account of Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg, and, in the case of a Permanent Global Note which is a Eurosystem-eligible Note, to instruct the common safekeeper to effectuate the same and to hold it on behalf of the relevant Issuer pending its exchange for the Temporary Global Note;

 

 

(e)

in the case of a subsequent Tranche of any Series of Notes if the Permanent Global Note is a CGN, to attach a copy of the applicable Final Terms to the Permanent Global Note applicable to the relevant Series and to enter details of any exchange in whole or part as stated above; and

 

 

(f)

in the case of a subsequent Tranche of any Series of Notes if the Permanent Global Note is a New Global Note, to deliver the applicable Final Terms to the specified common safekeeper for attachment to the Permanent Global Note applicable to the relevant Series.

 

 

(2)

The Agent shall only be required to perform its obligations under Subclause 4(l) if it holds a master Permanent Global Note duly executed by a person or persons authorised to execute the same on behalf of the relevant Issuer, which may be used by the Agent for the purpose of preparing Permanent Global Notes in accordance with Subclause 4(1)(a).

 

 

(3)

The Agent shall provide Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency with the notifications, instructions or other information to be given by the Agent to Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency.

 

 

(4)

Any of the duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 4 may, with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party, provided such third party’s performance is subject to the overall supervision and control of the Agent.

 

5.           ISSUE OF DEFINITIVE BEARER NOTES

 

 

(1)

The Agent shall deliver the relevant Definitive Bearer Note(s) in accordance with the terms of the relevant Temporary Global Note or the relevant Permanent Global Note where such Temporary Global Note or Permanent Global Note (as the case may be) is to be exchanged for one or more

 

 

 

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Definitive Bearer Note(s).  For this purpose, the Agent is hereby authorised on behalf of the relevant Issuer:

 

 

(a)

to authenticate or arrange for authentication on its behalf (if so instructed by the relevant Issuer) of such Definitive Bearer Note(s); and

 

 

(b)

to deliver such Definitive Bearer Note(s) to or to the order of Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency as is specified in the applicable Final Terms either in exchange for such Global Note or, in the case of a partial exchange, if it is a CGN, on entering details of any partial exchange of the Global Note in the relevant space in Schedule Two of such Global Note, or, if it is a New Global Note, on Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg making the appropriate entries in their records to reflect such exchange; provided that the Agent shall only permit a partial exchange of Notes represented by a Permanent Global Note for Definitive Bearer Notes if the Notes which continue to be represented by such Permanent Global Note are regarded as fungible by Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and/or such other applicable clearing agency with the Definitive Bearer Notes issued in partial exchange therefor.

 

The Agent shall notify the relevant Issuer forthwith upon receipt of a request for issue of Definitive Bearer Note(s) in accordance with the provisions of a Global Note (and the aggregate nominal amount of such Temporary Global Note or Permanent Global Note, as the case may be, to be exchanged in connection therewith).

 

 

(2)

The relevant Issuer undertakes to deliver to the Agent, pursuant to a request for the issue of Definitive Bearer Notes under the terms of the relevant Global Note, sufficient numbers of executed Definitive Bearer Notes to enable the Agent to comply with its obligations under this Clause 5.

 

 

(3)

Any of the duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 5 may, with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party, provided such third party’s performance is subject to the overall supervision and control of the Agent.

 

6.           EXCHANGES

 

Upon any exchange of all or a portion of an interest in a Temporary Global Note for an interest in a Permanent Global Note or for Definitive Bearer Notes or upon any exchange of all or a portion of an interest in a Permanent Global Note for Definitive Bearer Notes, the Agent shall (i) procure that the relevant Global Note shall, if it is a CGN, be endorsed to reflect the reduction of, or increase in (as the case may be), its nominal amount by the aggregate nominal amount so exchanged and, where applicable, the Permanent Global Note shall be endorsed by or on behalf of the Agent to reflect the increase in its nominal amount as a result of any exchange for an interest in the Temporary Global Note or (ii) in the case of any Global Note which is a New Global Note, instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records to reflect such exchange. Until exchanged in full, the holder of an interest in any Global Note shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits as

 

 

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the holder of Definitive Bearer Notes, Receipts and Coupons authenticated and delivered hereunder, subject as set out in the Conditions and the relevant Global Note.  The Agent is hereby authorised on behalf of the relevant Issuer and instructed (a) in the case of any Global Note which is a CGN, to endorse or to arrange for the endorsement of the relevant Global Note to reflect the reduction in the nominal amount represented thereby by the amount so exchanged and, if appropriate, to endorse the Permanent Global Note to reflect any increase in the nominal amount represented by it and, in either case, to sign in the relevant space on the relevant Global Note recording such exchange and reduction or increase; (b) in the case of any Global Note which is a New Global Note, to instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records to reflect such exchange; and (c) in the case of a total exchange, to cancel or arrange for the cancellation of the relevant Global Note.  Any of the duties and obligations of the Agent set forth in this Clause 6 may, with the consent of the relevant Issuer, be delegated by the Agent with respect to a particular Series of Notes to a third party, provided such third party’s performance is subject to the overall supervision and control of the Agent.

 

7.           TERMS OF ISSUE

 

 

(1)

The Agent shall cause all Temporary Global Notes, Permanent Global Notes and Definitive Bearer Notes delivered to and held by it under this Agreement to be maintained in safe custody and shall ensure that such Notes are issued only in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the relevant Global Note and Conditions.

 

 

(2)

Subject to the procedures set out in the Procedures Memorandum, for the purposes of Subclause 7(1) the Agent is entitled to treat a telephone or facsimile communication from a person purporting to be (and who the Agent, after making reasonable investigation, believes in good faith to be) the authorised representative of the relevant Issuer named in the list referred to in, or notified pursuant to, Subclause 19(7) as sufficient instructions and authority of the relevant Issuer for the Agent to act in accordance with Subclause 7(1).

 

 

(3)

In the event that a person who has signed on behalf of any Issuer a master Temporary Global Note, a master Permanent Global Note or Definitive Bearer Notes not yet issued but held by the Agent in accordance with Subclause 7(1) ceases to be authorised as described in Subclause 19(7), the Agent shall (unless the relevant Issuer gives notice to the Agent that Notes signed by that person do not constitute valid and binding obligations of the relevant Issuer or otherwise until replacements have been provided to the Agent) continue to have authority to issue any such Notes, and the relevant Issuer hereby warrants to the Agent that such Notes shall, unless notified as aforesaid, be valid and binding obligations of the relevant Issuer.  Promptly upon such person ceasing to be authorised, the relevant Issuer shall provide the Agent with replacement master Temporary Global Notes, master Permanent Global Notes and (if applicable) Definitive Bearer Notes and the Agent shall cancel and destroy the master Temporary Global Notes, master Permanent Global Notes and (if applicable) Definitive Bearer Notes held by it which are signed by such person and shall provide to the relevant Issuer a confirmation of destruction in respect thereof specifying the Notes so cancelled and destroyed.

 

 

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(4)

Unless otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the Agent, each Note credited to the Agent’s distribution account with Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg (or, in the case of Notes in CGN form, such other applicable clearing agency) following the delivery of a Temporary Global Note or Permanent Global Note, as the case may be, to a common depositary or, as the case may be, a common safekeeper pursuant to Subclause 3(1)(c), 3(1)(d), 4(1)(c) or 4(1)(d), respectively, shall be held to the order of the relevant Issuer.  The Agent shall procure that the nominal amount of Notes which the relevant Purchaser has agreed to purchase is:

 

 

(a)

debited from the Agent’s distribution account; and

 

 

(b)

credited to the securities account of such Purchaser with Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg or, in the case of Notes in CGN form, such other clearing agency (as specified in the Letter from Lead Manager/Dealer as provided for in Annex C to the Procedures Memorandum set forth in Appendix D hereto), in each case only upon receipt by the Agent on behalf of the relevant Issuer of the purchase price due from the relevant Purchaser in respect of such Notes.

 

 

(5)

Unless otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the Agent, if on the relevant Issue Date a Purchaser does not pay the full purchase price due from it in respect of any Note (the Defaulted Note ) and, as a result, the Defaulted Note remains in the Agent’s distribution account with Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg (or, in the case of Notes in CGN form, such other applicable clearing agency) after such Issue Date, the Agent will continue to hold the Defaulted Note to the order of the relevant Issuer.  The Agent shall notify the relevant Issuer forthwith of the failure of the Purchaser to pay the full purchase price due from it in respect of any Defaulted Note and, subsequently, shall notify the relevant Issuer forthwith upon receipt from the Purchaser of the full purchase price in respect of such Defaulted Note.

 

 

(6)

Unless otherwise agreed in writing between the relevant Issuer and the Agent, if the Agent pays an amount (the Advance ) to the relevant Issuer on the basis that a payment (the Payment ) will be received from a Purchaser and if the Payment is not received by the Agent on the date the Agent pays the relevant Issuer, the Agent shall notify the relevant Issuer by facsimile that the Payment has not been received and the relevant Issuer shall repay to the Agent the Advance and shall pay interest on the Advance (or the unreimbursed portion thereof) from (and including) the date such Advance is made to (but excluding) the earlier of repayment of the Advance and receipt by the Agent of the Payment (at a rate quoted at that time by the Agent as its cost of funding the Advance provided that evidence of the basis of such rate is given to the relevant Issuer).

 

 

(7)

In the event of an issue of Notes that are listed on a Stock Exchange, the Agent will promptly, and in any event prior to the Issue Date in respect of such issue, send the applicable Final Terms to the relevant Stock Exchange.

 

 

(8)

Execution in facsimile of any Notes and any photostatic copying or other duplication of the master Temporary Global Note or the master Permanent Global Note (in unauthenticated form, but executed manually on behalf of the

 

 

 

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relevant Issuer as stated above) shall be binding upon the relevant Issuer in the same manner as if such Notes were signed manually by such signatories.

 

8.           PAYMENTS

 

 

(1)

The Agent shall advise the relevant Issuer, no later than ten Business Days (as defined in Subclause 8(2)) immediately preceding the date on which any payment is to be made to the Agent pursuant to this Subclause 8(1), of the payment amount, value date and payment instructions and the relevant Issuer shall on each date on which any payment in respect of any Bearer Notes becomes due, transfer to an account specified by the Agent not later than (unless otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent) the Payment Time such amount in the relevant currency as shall be sufficient for the purposes of such payment in funds settled through such payment system as the Agent and the relevant Issuer may agree.  As used in this Subclause 8(1), the term Payment Time means (unless otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent) 2:00 p.m. local time in the principal financial centre of the country of the currency in which the payment falls is to be made (which in the case of payment of euro is London). Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Final Terms, the principal financial centre of any country for the purposes of this Subclause 8(1) shall be as provided in the ISDA Definitions on the Issue Date of such Series of Bearer Notes (except if the Specified Currency is Australian dollars or New Zealand dollars the principal financial centre shall be Sydney or Auckland, respectively).

 

 

(2)

The relevant Issuer shall ensure that, no later than the third Business Day immediately preceding the date on which any payment is to be made to the Agent pursuant to Subclause 8(1), the Agent shall receive a confirmation from the relevant Issuer that such payment will be made.  For the purposes of this Clause 8, Business Day has the meaning given to it in Condition 4(b).

 

 

(3)

The Agent shall ensure that payments of both principal and interest in respect of Temporary Global Notes will be made only to the extent that certificates of non-U.S. beneficial ownership as required by U.S. Treasury regulations have been received from Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg in accordance with the terms thereof. The Agent shall retain each such certification on behalf of the relevant Issuer, for four calendar years following the year in which the certification is received.

 

 

(4)

The Agent shall pay interest on the Notes only outside the United States and its possessions, within the meaning of United States Treasury regulation section 1.163-5(c)(2)(v).  No interest on Notes issued by TMCC shall be paid into an account maintained by the payee in the United States or mailed to an address in the United States unless otherwise permitted in the Conditions.

 

 

(5)

Subject to the Agent being satisfied in its sole discretion that payment will be duly made as provided in Subclause 8(1), the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent shall pay or cause to be paid all amounts due in respect of the Bearer Notes on behalf of the relevant Issuer in the manner provided in the Conditions.  If any payment provided for in Subclause 8(1) is made late but otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent and each Paying Agent shall nevertheless make payments in respect of the Bearer Notes as aforesaid following receipt by it of such payment.

 

 

 

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(6)

If for any reason the Agent considers in its sole discretion that the amounts to be received by the Agent pursuant to Subclause 8(1) will be, or the amounts actually received by it pursuant thereto are, insufficient to satisfy all claims in respect of all payments then falling due in respect of the Bearer Notes, the Agent shall then forthwith notify the relevant Issuer of such insufficiency and, until such time as the Agent has received the full amount of all such payments, neither the Agent nor any Paying Agent shall be obliged to pay any such claims.

 

 

(7)

Without prejudice to Subclauses 8(5) and 8(6), if the Agent pays any amounts to the holders of Bearer Notes, Receipts or Coupons or to any Paying Agent at a time when it has not received payment in full in respect of the relevant Bearer Notes in accordance with Subclause 8(1) (the excess of the amounts so paid over the amounts so received being the Shortfall ), the relevant Issuer shall, in addition to paying amounts due under Subclause 8(1), pay to the Agent on demand interest (at a rate which represents the Agent’s actual overnight cost of funding the Shortfall as evidenced to the relevant Issuer by the provision of details of the calculation of the cost of funding) on the Shortfall (or the unreimbursed portion thereof) from (and including) the date such Shortfall is paid by the Agent to the holders of the Bearer Notes, Receipts or Coupons or to any Paying Agent to (but excluding) the date of receipt in full by the Agent of the Shortfall.  The Agent shall notify the relevant Issuer by facsimile as soon as practicable, it being understood that the relevant Issuer shall have the right to make such payment subsequently with good value as of such Business Day.

 

 

(8)

The Agent shall on demand promptly reimburse each Paying Agent for payments in respect of Bearer Notes properly made by such Paying Agent in accordance with this Agreement and the Conditions unless the Agent has notified the Paying Agent, prior to the opening of business in the location of the office of the Paying Agent through which payment in respect of the Bearer Notes can be made on the due date of a payment in respect of the Bearer Notes, that the Agent does not expect to receive sufficient funds to make payment of all amounts falling due in respect of such Bearer Notes.

 

 

(9)

Whilst any Bearer Notes are represented by Temporary Global Notes or Permanent Global Notes, all payments due in respect of such Notes shall be made to, or to the order of, the holder of the Global Notes, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Global Notes.  On the occasion of any such payment, (i) in the case of a CGN, the Paying Agent to which the Global Note was presented for the purpose of making such payment shall cause the relevant Schedule to the Global Notes to be annotated so as to evidence the amounts and dates of such payments of principal and/or interest as applicable or (ii) in the case of any Global Note which is a New Global Note, the Agent shall instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records to reflect such payment.

 

 

(10)

If the amount of principal and/or interest then due for payment is not paid in full (otherwise than by reason of a deduction required by law to be made therefrom), (i) the Paying Agent to which a Temporary Global Note or Permanent Global Note is presented for the purpose of making such payment shall, unless the Note is a New Global Note, make a record of such shortfall on the relevant Schedule to the Global Note and such record shall, in the

 

 

 

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absence of manifest error, be prima facie evidence that the payment in question has not to that extent been made or (ii) in the case of any Global Note which is a New Global Note, the Agent shall instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records to reflect such shortfall in payment.

 

9.

DETERMINATIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS IN RESPECT OF NOTES

 

 

(1)

The Agent shall make all such determinations and calculations (howsoever described) as it is required to do under the Conditions, all subject to and in accordance with the Conditions provided that certain calculations with respect to any Series of Notes may be made by an agent (the Calculation Agent ) appointed by the relevant Issuer and acceptable to the Agent.  The Agent may decline to act in the capacity described above in relation to a particular Series of Notes if (i) the Agent does not have the capacity to determine the rate of interest or redemption amount or any other calculation to be made in relation to such Series of Notes and (ii) such decision to decline is notified to the relevant Issuer by the Agent as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by the Agent of the terms of such Series of Notes and, in any event, prior to the issue of such Series of Notes.

 

 

(2)

The Agent shall not be responsible to any Issuer or to any third party (except in the event of negligence, wilful default or bad faith) as a result of the Agent having acted on any quotation given by any Reference Bank (as referred to in Condition 4(b)(iv)(E)) which subsequently may be found to be incorrect.

 

 

(3)

The Agent shall promptly notify (and confirm in writing to) the relevant Issuer, the other Paying Agents, (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Transfer Agent and (in respect of a Series of Notes listed on a Stock Exchange) the relevant Stock Exchange (or other relevant authority) of, inter alia , each Rate of Interest, Interest Amount and Interest Payment Date and all other amounts, rates and dates which it is obliged to determine or calculate under the Conditions as soon as practicable after the determination thereof (and in any event no later than the tenth Business Day (as defined in Clause 8) immediately preceding the date on which any payment is to be made to the Agent pursuant to Subclause 8(1)) and of any subsequent amendment thereto pursuant to the Conditions.

 

 

(4)

The Agent shall use its best endeavours to cause each Rate of Interest, Interest Amount and Interest Payment Date and all other amounts, rates and dates which it is obliged to determine or calculate under the Conditions (or which is provided to the Agent by any other Calculation Agent appointed by the relevant Issuer as provided in Subclause 9(1)) to be published as required in accordance with the Conditions as soon as possible after their determination or calculation.

 

 

(5)

If the Agent does not at any material time for any reason determine and/or calculate and/or publish the Rate of Interest, Interest Amount and/or Interest Payment Date in respect of any Interest Period or any other amount, rate or date as provided in this Clause 9, it shall forthwith notify the relevant Issuer, the other Paying Agents, (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Transfer Agent of such fact.

 

 

 

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(6)

The Agent shall provide to the Dealer or Dealers with respect to any Series of Notes certification as to the completion of distribution of such Series of Notes.

 

 

(7)

For purposes of monitoring the aggregate nominal amount of Notes (as “Notes” is defined in the Programme Agreement) issued and outstanding (as “outstanding” is defined in the Programme Agreement) under the Programme, the Agent shall determine the euro equivalent of the nominal amount of each issue of Notes (as “Notes” is defined in the Programme Agreement) denominated in a Specified Currency, other than euros as follows:

 

 

(a)

the EUR equivalent of Notes denominated in a Specified Currency other than EUR shall be determined by the Agent as of 2:30 p.m. London time on the Issue Date for such Notes (save in the case of Notes issued prior to 28 September 2007 by TMCC under its U.S.$30,000,000,000 Euro Medium-Term Note Program which remain outstanding where the EUR equivalent of such Notes denominated in a Specified Currency other than EUR was determined by the Agent as of 2.30 p.m. London time on 28 September 2007) by reference to the spot rate displayed on a page on the relevant Reuters service or Dow Jones Markets Limited or such other service as is agreed between the Agent and the relevant Issuer from time to time;

 

 

(b)

the EUR equivalent of Dual Currency Notes and Index Linked Notes shall be determined in the manner specified above in paragraph (a) by reference to the original nominal amount of such Notes;

 

 

(c)

the EUR equivalent of Zero Coupon Notes and other Notes issued at a discount shall be determined in the manner specified above in paragraph (a) by reference to the net proceeds received by the relevant Issuer for the particular issue; and

 

 

(d)

the EUR equivalent of Partly Paid Notes shall be the nominal amount of such Notes regardless of the amount of purchase moneys paid up on such Notes.

 

The Agent shall promptly notify the relevant Issuer of each determination made as aforesaid.

 

 

(8)

Without prejudice to Subclause 9(7), determinations with regard to Index Linked Notes and Dual Currency Notes shall otherwise be made by the Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms in the manner specified in the applicable Final Terms.  Unless otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the relevant Purchaser or Purchasers of such Notes, such determinations shall be made on the basis of a Calculation Agency Agreement substantially in the form of Appendix C hereto.

 

10.           NOTICE OF ANY WITHHOLDING OR DEDUCTION

 

If any Issuer is, in respect of any payments, compelled to withhold or deduct any amount for or on account of taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges as specifically contemplated under the Conditions, such Issuer shall give notice thereof

 

 

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to the Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement to make such withholding or deduction and shall give to the Agent such information as it shall require to enable it to comply with such requirement.

 

11.

DUTIES OF THE AGENT IN CONNECTION WITH EARLY REDEMPTION

 

 

(1)

If the relevant Issuer decides to redeem any Notes for the time being outstanding prior to their Maturity Date in accordance with the Conditions, the relevant Issuer shall give notice of such decision to the Agent not less than five days before the date of the notice required to be given to the holders of the Notes under the Conditions or such shorter period that is acceptable to the Agent.

 

 

(2)

If only some of the Notes of the same Series are to be redeemed on such date the Agent shall make the required drawing in accordance with the Conditions but shall give the relevant Issuer reasonable notice of the time and place proposed for such drawing and the relevant Issuer shall be entitled to send representatives to attend such drawing.

 

 

(3)

The Agent shall publish the notice required in connection with any such redemption and shall at the same time also publish a separate list of serial numbers of any Notes previously drawn and not presented for redemption.  Such notice shall specify the date fixed for redemption, the redemption amount, the manner in which redemption will be effected and, in the case of a partial redemption, the serial numbers of the Notes to be redeemed.  Such notice will be published in accordance with the Conditions.

 

12.           PUBLICATION OF NOTICES

 

On behalf of and at the request and expense of the relevant Issuer, the Agent shall cause to be published all notices required to be given by the relevant Issuer in accordance with the Conditions.  Forthwith upon the receipt by the Agent of a demand or notice from any Noteholder in accordance with the Conditions, the Agent shall forward a copy thereof to the relevant Issuer.

 

13.

CANCELLATION, RESALE AND REISSUANCE OF NOTES, RECEIPTS, COUPONS AND TALONS

 

 

(1)

All Notes which are redeemed, all Global Notes which are exchanged in full, all Receipts or Coupons which are paid and all Talons which are exchanged shall be cancelled by the Agent or Paying Agent by which they are redeemed, paid or exchanged.  In addition, all Notes which are purchased or otherwise acquired pursuant to the Conditions by the relevant Issuer, together (in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes) with all unmatured Receipts, Coupons or Talons (if any) attached thereto or purchased therewith, may, at the option of the relevant Issuer where the Issuer is TMF, TFA or TMCC, either be (i) resold or reissued, or held by the relevant Issuer for subsequent resale or reissuance, or (ii) cancelled in which event such Notes, Receipts and Coupons may not be resold or reissued.  Where the Issuer is TCCI, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, such Notes shall be surrendered (in the case of Bearer Notes) to any Paying Agent or in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar or Transfer Agent for cancellation.  Where any Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons are purchased and cancelled, resold or reissued, or held by the relevant Issuer for subsequent resale or reissuance,

 

 

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as aforesaid, the relevant Issuer shall procure that all relevant details are promptly given to the Agent and that all Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons so cancelled are delivered to the Agent.

 

 

(2)

Upon the written request of the relevant Issuer, a certificate stating:

 

 

(a)

the aggregate nominal amount of Notes which have been redeemed and the aggregate amount paid in respect thereof;

 

 

(b)

the number of Notes cancelled together (in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes) with details of all unmatured Receipts, Coupons or Talons (if any) attached thereto or delivered therewith;

 

 

(c)

the aggregate amount paid in respect of interest on the Notes;

 

 

(d)

the total number by maturity date of Receipts, Coupons and Talons so cancelled; and

 

 

(e)

in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes, the serial numbers of such Notes,

 

shall be given to the relevant Issuer by the Agent as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 30 days after the date of such repayment or, as the case may be, payment or exchange.

 

 

(3)

Subject to being duly notified in due time, the Agent shall give a certificate to the relevant Issuer, within three months of the date of purchase and cancellation or purchase and subsequent resale or reissuance of Notes as aforesaid, stating:

 

 

(a)

the nominal amount of Notes so purchased and cancelled, resold or reissued;

 

 

(b)

in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes, the serial numbers of such Notes; and

 

 

(c)

the total number by maturity date of the Receipts, Coupons and Talons (if any) appertaining thereto and surrendered therewith or attached thereto.

 

 

(4)

The Agent shall destroy all cancelled Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons (unless otherwise instructed by the relevant Issuer) and, forthwith upon destruction and following the written request of the relevant Issuer, furnish the relevant Issuer with a certificate of the serial numbers of the Notes (in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes) and the number by maturity date of Receipts, Coupons and Talons so destroyed.

 

 

(5)

Without prejudice to the obligations of the Agent pursuant to Subclause 13(2), the Agent shall keep a full and complete record of all Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons (other than serial numbers of Coupons, except those which have been replaced pursuant to Condition 10) and of all redeemed, cancelled or replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons (in the case of Definitive Bearer Notes, with details of all unmatured Receipts, Coupons or Talons (if any) attached thereto or delivered therewith) including those issued

 

 

 

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in substitution for mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons and of all Notes, Receipts, Coupons or Talons which have been resold or reissued.  The Agent shall at all reasonable times make such record available to the relevant Issuer and any person authorised by the relevant Issuer for inspection and for the taking of copies thereof or extracts therefrom.

 

 

(6)

All records and certificates made or given pursuant to this Clause 13 and Clause 14 shall make a distinction between Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons of each Series.

 

 

(7)

The Agent is authorised by the relevant Issuer and instructed (a) in the case of any Global Note which is a CGN, to endorse or to arrange for the endorsement of the relevant Global Note to reflect the reduction in the nominal amount represented by it by the amount so redeemed or purchased and cancelled and (b) in the case of any Global Note which is a New Global Note, to instruct Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg to make appropriate entries in their records to reflect such redemption or purchase and cancellation, as the case may be; provided, that, in the case of a purchase or cancellation, the relevant Issuer has notified the Agent of the same in accordance with Subclause 13(1).

 

14.

ISSUE OF REPLACEMENT NOTES, RECEIPTS, COUPONS AND TALONS

 

 

(1)

The Issuers will cause a sufficient quantity of additional forms of Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons to be available, upon request, to the Agent at its specified office for the purpose of issuing replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons as provided below.

 

 

(2)

The Agent will, subject to and in accordance with the Conditions and the following provisions of this Clause 14, cause to be delivered any replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons which the relevant Issuer may determine to issue in place of Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons which have been lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or destroyed.

 

 

(3)

In the case of a mutilated or defaced Note, the Agent shall ensure that (unless otherwise covered by such indemnity as the relevant Issuer may require) any replacement Note will only have attached to it Receipts, Coupons and Talons corresponding to those (if any) attached to the mutilated or defaced Note which is presented for replacement.

 

 

(4)

The Agent shall not issue any replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon unless and until the applicant therefor shall have:

 

 

(a)

paid such reasonable costs as may be incurred in connection therewith;

 

 

(b)

furnished it with such evidence (including evidence as to the serial number of such Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon) and indemnity or other security (which may include a bank guarantee and/or security) or otherwise as the relevant Issuer and the Agent may reasonably require; and

 

 

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(c)

in the case of any mutilated or defaced Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon, surrendered the same to the Agent.

 

 

(5)

The Agent shall cancel any mutilated or defaced Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons in respect of which replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons have been issued pursuant to this Clause 14 and shall furnish the relevant Issuer with a certificate stating the serial numbers of the Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons so cancelled and, unless otherwise instructed by the relevant Issuer in writing, shall destroy such cancelled Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons and furnish the relevant Issuer with a destruction certificate containing the information specified in Subclause 13(4).

 

 

(6)

The Agent shall, on issuing any replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon, forthwith inform the relevant Issuer and the Paying Agents of the serial number of such replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon issued and (if known) of the serial number of the Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon in place of which such replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon has been issued.  Whenever replacement Receipts, Coupons or Talons are issued pursuant to the provisions of this Clause 14, the Agent shall also notify the Paying Agents of the maturity dates of the lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or destroyed Receipts, Coupons or Talons and of the replacement Receipts, Coupons or Talons issued.

 

 

(7)

The Agent shall keep a full and complete record of all replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons issued and shall make such record available at all reasonable times to the relevant Issuer and any persons authorised by the relevant Issuer for inspection and for the taking of copies thereof or extracts therefrom.

 

 

(8)

Whenever any Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon for which a replacement Note, Receipt, Coupon or Talon has been issued and in respect of which the serial number is known is presented to the Agent or any of the Paying Agents for payment, the Agent or, as the case may be, the relevant Paying Agent shall immediately send notice thereof to the relevant Issuer and the Agent.

 

 

(9)

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing in this Clause 14, no issue of replacement Notes, Receipts, Coupons and Talons shall be made or delivered in the United States.

 

15.

COPIES OF THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH FINAL TERMS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION

 

The Agent and the Paying Agents shall, for as long as any Note remains outstanding, hold copies of this Agreement, the Credit Support Agreements, the constitutional documents of each Issuer, TFS and the Parent, the Prospectus dated the date hereof and any supplement to or replacement thereof produced from time to time, the forms of the temporary global, permanent global and definitive Notes and each applicable Final Terms in relation to a Series of listed Notes or Notes offered to the public in the European Economic Area, available for inspection.  In addition, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall hold and shall make available, free of charge, at their specified offices copies of the latest annual and any interim reports of the relevant Issuer and the Parent; provided, however, that if a Paying Agent acts as a Paying Agent for only some of the Series of Notes issued under the Programme, such Paying Agent need

 

 

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only hold the applicable Final Terms for the Series of Notes for which it acts as Paying Agent (and any documents specified in the applicable Final Terms) and the other documents referenced in this Clause 15 shall be obtained by Noteholders from the Agent or from Paying Agents that act as Paying Agents for all Series of Notes issued under the Programme.  For this purpose, the Issuers shall furnish the Agent and the Paying Agents with sufficient copies of the documents they are required to hold.

 

16.

COMMISSIONS AND EXPENSES

 

 

(1)

The Issuers severally agree to pay to the Agent such fees and commissions as the Issuers and the Agent may separately agree in respect of the services of the Agent and the Paying Agents hereunder together with any out-of-pocket expenses (including legal, printing, postage, tax, cable and advertising expenses required in connection with the Notes issued hereunder) properly incurred by the Agent and the Paying Agents in connection with their said services.

 

 

(2)

The Agent shall make payment of the fees and commissions due hereunder to the Paying Agents and shall reimburse their expenses promptly after the receipt of the relevant moneys from the Issuers.  None of the Issuers shall be responsible for any such payment or reimbursement by the Agent to the Paying Agents.

 

17.           INDEMNITY

 

 

(1)

The Issuers shall severally indemnify the Agent and each of the Paying Agents against any direct losses, liabilities, costs, claims, actions, demands or expenses (including, but not limited to, all reasonable costs, charges and expenses paid or incurred in disputing or defending any of the foregoing but excluding loss of profits) which it may incur or which may be made against the Agent or any Paying Agent as a result of or in connection with its appointment by the Issuers or the exercise of its powers and duties hereunder except such as may result from its own wilful default, negligence or bad faith or that of its officers, directors or employees or the breach by it of the terms of this Agreement.  Such indemnity shall survive the termination or expiry of this Agreement.

 

 

(2)

The Agent and the Paying Agents shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted hereunder except for their own wilful default, negligence or bad faith or that of their respective officers, directors or employees or the breach by any of them of the terms of this Agreement. Neither the Agent nor any Paying Agent shall be liable for any consequential loss (being loss of business, goodwill, opportunity or profit) suffered by any Issuer.

 

 

(3)

Neither the Agent nor any of the Paying Agents shall be responsible for the acts or failure to act of any other of them and each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall severally indemnify each Issuer against any loss, liability, cost, claim, action, demand or expense (including, but not limited to, all reasonable costs, legal fees, charges and expenses paid or incurred in disputing or defending any of the foregoing) which any Issuer may incur or which may be made against it as a result of the breach by the Agent or such Paying Agents of the terms of this Agreement or its wilful default, negligence

 

 

 

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or bad faith or that of its officers, directors or employees.  Such indemnity shall survive the termination or expiry of this Agreement.

 

18.           REPAYMENT BY THE AGENT

 

The Agent shall, forthwith on demand, upon the relevant Issuer being discharged from its obligation to make payments in respect of any Notes under the relevant Conditions, and provided that there is no outstanding, bona fide and proper claim in respect of any such payments, pay to the relevant Issuer sums equivalent to any amounts paid to it by the relevant Issuer in respect of such Notes.

 

19.           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, 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.

 

 

(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.

 

 

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(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.

 

20.           COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES

 

A copy of all communications relating to the subject matter of this Agreement between any Issuer and any holders of Notes, Receipts or Coupons and any of the Paying Agents shall be sent to the Agent by the relevant Paying Agent and the Agent shall forthwith promptly deliver a copy of any such communication to the relevant Issuer.

 

21.           CHANGES IN AGENT AND PAYING AGENTS

 

 

(1)

Each Issuer agrees that, until no Note is outstanding or until moneys for the payment of all amounts in respect of all outstanding Notes have been made available to the Agent and have been returned to the relevant Issuer as provided herein (whichever is the later):

 

 

(a)

so long as any Notes are admitted to trading or listed on any Stock Exchange or other relevant authority, there will at all times be a Paying Agent with a specified office in such place as may be required

 

 

 

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by the rules and regulations of the relevant Stock Exchange or other relevant authority;

 

 

(b)

there will at all times be an Agent; and

 

 

(c)

there will at all times be a Paying Agent in a Member State of the European Union that will not be obliged to withhold or deduct tax pursuant to the European Council Directive 2003/48/EC or any law implementing or complying with or introduced to conform to, such Directive.

 

In addition, the Issuers shall appoint a Paying Agent having a specified office in the United States only in the circumstances described in the final paragraph of Condition 5(d).  Any variation, termination, appointment or change shall only take effect (other than in the case of insolvency, when it shall be of immediate effect) after not less than 30 nor more than 45 days prior notice thereof shall have been given to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 16.

 

 

(2)

The Agent may (subject as provided in Subclause 21(4)) at any time resign as Agent by giving written notice to the Issuers of such intention on its part, specifying the date on which its desired resignation shall become effective; provided that such date shall never be less than three months after the receipt of such notice by the Issuers unless the Issuers agree to accept less notice.

 

 

(3)

The Agent may (subject as provided in Subclause 21(4)) be removed at any time by the filing with it of an instrument in writing signed on behalf of the Issuers specifying such removal and the date when it shall become effective.

 

 

(4)

Any resignation under Subclause 21(2) or removal under Subclause 21(3) shall only take effect upon the appointment by the Issuers of a successor Agent and (other than in cases of insolvency of the Agent) on the expiry of the notice to be given under Clause 23.  If, by the day falling 10 days before the expiry of any notice under Subclause 21(2), the Issuers have not appointed a successor Agent, then the Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of the Issuers, to appoint as a successor Agent in its place such reputable financial institution of good standing as it may reasonably determine to be capable of performing the duties of the Agent hereunder.

 

 

(5)

In case at any time the Agent and/or any Paying Agent resigns, or is removed, or becomes incapable of action or is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or files a voluntary petition in bankruptcy or makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors or consents to the appointment of an administrator, liquidator or administrative or other receiver of all or a substantial part of its property, or if an administrator, liquidator or administrative or other receiver of it or all or a substantial part of its property is appointed, or it admits in writing its inability to pay or meet its debts as they become due, or if an order of any court is entered approving any petition filed by or against it under the provisions of any applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law or if any officer takes charge or control of it or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, administration or liquidation, a successor Agent and/or Paying Agent may be appointed by the Issuers by an instrument in writing filed with the successor Agent and/or Paying Agent.  Upon the appointment as aforesaid of a successor Agent and/or Paying Agent

 

 

 

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and acceptance by the latter of such appointment and (other than in the case of insolvency of the Agent and/or Paying Agent when it shall be of immediate effect) upon expiry of the notice to be given under Clause 23, the Agent and/or Paying Agent so superseded shall cease to be an Agent and/or a Paying Agent hereunder.

 

 

(6)

Subject to Subclause 21(1), the Issuers may, after prior consultation with the Agent, terminate the appointment of any of the other Paying Agents at any time and/or appoint one or more further Paying Agents located outside the United States (either for all Notes issued under the Programme or with respect to a particular Series of Notes) by giving to the Agent, and to the relevant Paying Agent, at least 45 days’ notice in writing to that effect, or such lesser notice as is agreed to by the Agent, the Issuers and the relevant Paying Agent; and any Issuer may, in respect of a particular Series of Notes only, appoint one or more further Paying Agents which appointment shall take effect on the date of such appointment.

 

 

(7)

Subject to Subclause 21(1), all or any of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) may resign their respective appointments hereunder at any time by giving the Issuers and the Agent at least 45 days’ written notice to that effect.

 

 

(8)

Upon its resignation or removal becoming effective, the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent:

 

 

(a)

shall, in the case of the Agent, forthwith transfer all moneys held by it hereunder and the records referred to in Subclauses 13(5) and 14(7) to the successor Agent hereunder; and

 

 

(b)

shall be entitled to the payment by the Issuers of its commissions and fees for the services theretofore rendered hereunder in accordance with the terms of Clause 16 and to the reimbursement of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including legal fees and together with any applicable value added tax or similar tax thereon) incurred in connection therewith.

 

 

(9)

Upon its appointment becoming effective, a successor Agent and any new Paying Agent shall, without further act, deed or conveyance, become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trust, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as Agent or (as the case may be) a Paying Agent hereunder.

 

 

(10)

In the case of any Series of Notes to be issued by TCCI in registered form TCCI has appointed a registrar, transfer agent and paying agent pursuant to the Note Agency Agreement.

 

22.           MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION

 

Any corporation into which the Agent or any Paying Agent may be merged, or any corporation with which the Agent or any of the Paying Agents may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Agent or any of the Paying Agents shall be a party, or any corporation to which the Agent or any of the Paying Agents shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially all the assets of the Agent or any Paying Agent shall, on the date when such merger, consolidation or transfer becomes effective and to the extent permitted by any

 

 

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applicable laws, become the successor Agent or, as the case may be, Paying Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto, unless otherwise required by the Issuers, and after the said effective date all references in this Agreement to the Agent or, as the case may be, such Paying Agent shall be deemed to be references to such corporation.  Written notice of any such merger, consolidation or transfer shall forthwith be given to the Issuers by the relevant Agent or Paying Agent.

 

23.           NOTIFICATIONS

 

Following receipt of notice of resignation from the Agent or any Paying Agent and forthwith upon appointing a successor Agent or, as the case may be, further or other Paying Agents for any Series of Notes outstanding prior to the date of such appointment or on giving notice to terminate the appointment of any Agent or, as the case may be, Paying Agent, the relevant Issuer shall give or cause to be given not more than 45 days’ nor less than 30 days’ notice thereof to any Noteholders affected by such termination or appointment in accordance with the Conditions.

 

24.           CHANGE OF SPECIFIED OFFICE

 

The specified office of the Agent shall be One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AL.  If the Agent or any Paying Agent determines to change its specified office, it shall give to the Issuers and (if applicable) the Agent written notice of such determination giving the address of the new specified office which shall be in the same city and stating the date on which such change is to take effect, which shall not be less than 45 days thereafter.  The Agent (on behalf of the Issuers) shall within 15 days of receipt of such notice (unless the appointment of the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, is to terminate pursuant to Clause 21 on or prior to the date of such change) give or cause to be given not more than 45 days’ nor less than 30 days’ notice thereof to the Noteholders in accordance with the Conditions; provided, however, that if a Paying Agent acts as Paying Agent for only some of the Series of Notes under the Programme, notice need be given only to holders of the Notes of those Series in relation to which the Paying Agent acts as Paying Agent.

 

25.           NOTICES

 

 

(1)

Any notice or communication given hereunder shall be sufficiently given or served:

 

 

(a)

if delivered in person to the relevant address specified on the signature pages hereof (or to such other address as is specified in writing and delivered to the relevant parties to this Agreement) and, if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered at time of receipt; or

 

 

(b)

if sent by facsimile to the relevant number specified on the signature pages hereof (or to such other facsimile number as is specified in writing and delivered to the relevant parties to this Agreement) and, if so sent, shall be deemed to have been delivered upon transmission provided such transmission is confirmed when an acknowledgment of receipt is received.

 

 

(2)

A copy of any notice served in accordance with Subclause 25(1) shall be given to the Parent and TFS at:

 

 

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Toyota Motor Corporation

Nagoya Office

7-1, Meieki 4-chome

Nakamura-ku

Nagoya City

Aichi Prefecture 450-8711

Japan

 

Telephone:                      052 552 0721

Telefax:                                052 552 3745

Attention:                      Group Manager of Affiliated Companies Finance Division

 

Toyota Financial Services Corporation

Nagoya Lucent Tower

6-1, Ushijima-cho

Nishi-ku

Nagoya City

Aichi Prefecture 451-6015

Japan

 

Telephone:                      052 217 2414

Telefax:                                052 587 7931

Attention:                      Group Vice President of Risk Management

 

26.           TAXES AND STAMP DUTIES

 

The Issuers agree to pay any and all stamp and other documentary taxes or duties (other than any interest or penalties arising as a result of a failure by any other person to account promptly to the relevant authorities for any such duties or taxes after such person shall have received from the relevant Issuer the full amount payable in respect thereof) which may be payable in connection with the execution, delivery, performance and enforcement of this Agreement.

 

27.           CURRENCY INDEMNITY

 

If, under any applicable law and whether pursuant to a judgment being made or registered against any Issuer or in the liquidation, insolvency or analogous process of any Issuer or for any other reason, any payment under or in connection with this Agreement is made or is to be satisfied in a currency (the other currency ) other than that in which the relevant payment is expressed to be due (the required currency ) under this Agreement, then, to the extent that the payment (when converted into the required currency at the rate of exchange on the date of payment or, if it is not practicable for the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent to purchase the required currency with the other currency on the date of payment, at the rate of exchange as soon thereafter as it is practicable for it to do so or, in the case of a liquidation, insolvency or analogous process at the rate of exchange on the latest date permitted by applicable law for the determination of liabilities in such liquidation, insolvency or analogous process) actually received by the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent falls short of the amount due under the terms of this Agreement, such Issuer undertakes that it shall, as a separate and independent obligation, indemnify and hold harmless the Agent and the relevant Paying Agent against the amount of such shortfall.  For the purpose of this Clause 27, rate of exchange means the rate at which the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent is able on the London foreign exchange market on the relevant

 

 

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date to purchase the required currency with the other currency and shall take into account any premium and other costs of exchange.

 

28.           AMENDMENTS: MEETINGS OF HOLDERS

 

 

(1)

Provisions for meetings of holders of Registered Notes and amendment of the Note Agency Agreement are set out in the Note Agency Agreement.  This Clause 28 applies to Bearer Notes and any reference in this Clause 28 to “Notes” is to Bearer Notes.

 

 

(2)

This Agreement, the Notes and any Receipts and Coupons attached to the Notes may be amended by the Issuers or the relevant Issuer, as the case may be, and the Agent, without the consent of the holder of any Note, Receipt or Coupon (a) for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing, correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained herein or therein, or to evidence the succession of another corporation to the relevant Issuer as provided in Condition 13 or provide for substitution of the relevant Issuer as provided in Condition 14, (b) to make any further modifications of the terms of this Agreement necessary or desirable to allow for the issuance of any additional Notes (which modifications shall not be materially adverse to holders of outstanding Notes), or (c) in any manner which the Issuers or the relevant Issuer, as the case may be, and the Agent may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Notes, Receipts and Coupons.  In addition, with the written consent of holders of a majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected thereby, or by resolution adopted by the holders of a majority in aggregate nominal amount of Notes then outstanding present or represented at a meeting of the holders of the Notes affected thereby at which a quorum is present (provided that such resolution shall be approved by the holders of not less than 25 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of Notes then outstanding affected thereby), this Agreement or the terms and conditions of the Notes, Receipts and Coupons may be modified or amended by the parties hereto or thereto, and future compliance and past defaults waived, in each case as provided in Conditions 9 and 15 and subject to the limitations therein provided (including that no such agreement shall, without the consent or the affirmative vote of the holder of each Note affected thereby, (i) change the stated maturity of the principal of or any instalment of interest on any Note, (ii) reduce the nominal amount of or interest on any Note, (iii) change the obligation of the Issuer to pay Additional Amounts as provided in Condition 7, (iv) reduce the percentage in nominal amount of outstanding Notes the consent of the holders of which is necessary to modify or amend this Agreement or the terms and conditions of the Notes or to waive any future compliance or past default, or (v) reduce the percentage in nominal amount of outstanding Notes the consent of the holders of which is required at any meeting of holders of Notes at which a resolution is adopted).

 

 

(3)

A meeting of holders of Notes may be called by the holders of at least 10 per cent. in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes of the relevant Series at any time and from time to time to make, give or take any request, demand, authorisation, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Agreement or the Notes to be made, given or taken by holders of Notes.

 

 

(4)

The Agent may at any time call a meeting of holders of Notes of any Series for any purpose specified in Subclause 28(2) to be held at such time and at

 

 

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such place in the City of New York or in London, as the Agent and the relevant Issuer shall determine.  Notice of every meeting of holders of Notes, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given by the Agent to the relevant Issuer and to the holders of the Notes, in the same manner as provided in Condition 16, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.  In the case at any time the relevant Issuer or the holders of at least 10 per cent. in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes shall have requested the Agent to call a meeting of the holders to take any action authorised in Subclause 28(2), by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Agent shall not have given notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the relevant Issuer, or the holders of Notes in the amount above-specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place in the City of New York or London for such meeting and may call such meeting by giving notice thereof as provided in this Subclause 28(4).

 

 

(5)

To be entitled to vote at any meeting of holders of Notes, a person shall be a holder of outstanding Notes at the time of such meeting, or a person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for such holder.

 

 

(6)

The quorum at any meeting called to adopt a resolution will be persons holding or representing a majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected thereby. In the absence of a quorum, within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting.  In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.  Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Subclause 28(4) except that such notice need be given not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened.  Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage of the nominal amount of the outstanding Notes which shall constitute a quorum.

 

The quorum at any adjourned meeting will be one or more persons holding or representing 25 per cent. in aggregate nominal amount of such Notes then outstanding affected thereby. Any meeting of holders of Notes at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by vote of a majority in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes represented at the meeting, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.  At a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid, any resolution and all matters shall be effectively passed and decided if passed or decided by the persons entitled to vote a majority in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes represented and voting at such meeting, provided that such amount approving such resolution shall be not less than 25 per cent. in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes.

 

 

(7)

Any modifications, amendments or waivers under this Clause 28 to this Agreement or to the terms and conditions of the Notes, Receipts and Coupons

 

 

 

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will be conclusive and binding on all holders of Notes, Receipts and Coupons, whether or not they have given such consent or were present at any meeting, and whether or not notation of such modifications, amendments or waivers is made upon the Notes, Receipts and Coupons.  It shall not be necessary for the consent of the holders of Notes under Condition 15 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.

 

 

(8)

Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any amendment under this Clause 28 to this Agreement, the Notes, Receipts or Coupons may bear a notation in form approved by the Agent as to any matter provided for in such amendment to this Agreement. New Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Agent and the relevant Issuer, to any modification contained in any such amendment may be prepared by the relevant Issuer, authenticated by the Agent and delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding affected thereby.

 

 

(9)

The Agent may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of holders of Notes in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.  The Agent shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the relevant Issuer or holders of Notes as provided above, in which case the relevant Issuer or the holders of Notes calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman.  A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the persons entitled to vote a majority in nominal amount of the outstanding Notes represented at the meeting.  The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a holder of Notes or proxy.  A record, at least in triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of holders of Notes shall be prepared, and one such copy shall be delivered to the relevant Issuer and another to the Agent to be preserved by the Agent.

 

29.           CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT

 

A form of calculation agency agreement is set out in Appendix C hereto.  Where the Conditions require functions to be carried out by a Calculation Agent other than the Agent, the relevant Issuer may execute such an agreement or an agreement in such other form as such Issuer and the Calculation Agent may agree.

 

30.           REDENOMINATION AND EXCHANGE

 

 

(1)

Redenomination

 

Where redenomination ( Redenomination ) is specified in the applicable Final Terms as being applicable, and unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, the relevant Issuer may, without the consent of any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder, on giving prior notice to Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar and at least 30 days’ prior notice to Noteholders as provided in Condition 16, designate a Redenomination Date.  With effect from the

 

 

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Redenomination Date, notwithstanding the other provisions of the Conditions:

 

 

(a)

the Notes and Receipts shall (unless already so provided by mandatory provisions of applicable law) be deemed to be redenominated in euro in the denomination of euro 0.01 with a nominal amount for each Note and Receipt equal to the nominal amount of the Note or Receipt in the original Specified Currency, converted into euro at the Established Rate, and the Specified Currency shall be deemed to be Euro; provided that, if the relevant Issuer determines, after consultation with the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar, that the then market practice in respect of the redenomination into euro of internationally offered securities is different from the provisions specified above in this Subclause 30(1)(a) or in the applicable Final Terms, such provisions shall be deemed to be amended so as to comply with such market practice and the relevant Issuer shall promptly notify the Noteholders, the stock exchange (if any) on which the Notes may be listed and the Agent and Paying Agent(s) or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar of such deemed amendments;

 

 

(b)

if Definitive Notes are required to be issued after the Redenomination Date, they shall be issued at the expense of the relevant Issuer in the denominations of euro 1,000, euro 10,000 and euro 100,000 and (but only to the extent of any remaining amounts less than euro 1,000 or such smaller denominations as the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar may approve) euro 0.01 and such other denominations as the relevant Issuer, after consultation with the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar, shall determine and notify to Noteholders;

 

 

(c)

if Definitive Notes have been issued, all unmatured Coupons and Receipts denominated in the original Specified Currency (whether or not attached to the Notes) will become void and no payments will be made in respect of them with effect from the date on which the relevant Issuer gives notice (the Exchange Notice ) that Euro-denominated Notes, Receipts and Coupons are available for exchange (provided that such securities are so available).  New certificates in respect of Euro-denominated Notes, Receipts and Coupons will be issued in exchange for Notes, Receipts and Coupons in the original Specified Currency in such manner as the relevant Issuer, after consultation with the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar, may specify and shall be notified to Noteholders in the Exchange Notice.  No Exchange Notice may be given less than 15 days prior to any date for payment of principal or interest on the Notes;

 

 

(d)

after the Redenomination Date, all payments in respect of the Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons (other than, unless the Redenomination Date is on or after such date as the original Specified Currency ceases to be a subdivision of the euro, payments of interest in respect of periods commencing before the Redenomination Date) will be made solely in euro as though references in the Notes, the Receipts and the

 

 

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Coupons to the Specified Currency were to euro.  Such payments will be made in euro by credit or transfer to a euro account (or any other account to which euro may be credited or transferred) specified by the payee or by cheque; provided, however, that a cheque may not be delivered to an address in, and an amount may not be transferred to an account at a bank located in, the United States of America or its possessions except as provided in Condition 5(d);

 

 

(e)

after the Redenomination Date, Business Day in relation to any sum payable in euro shall mean a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London and a day on which the TARGET2 system is open.  After the Redenomination Date, Payment Day shall mean (A) a Business Day as defined herein and (B) a day on which commercial banks are open for general business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in the relevant place of presentation;

 

 

(f)

if Definitive Notes have been issued, after the Redenomination Date, the amount of interest due in respect of Notes will be calculated by reference to the aggregate nominal amount of Notes presented (or, as the case may be, in respect of which Receipts or Coupons are presented) for payment by the relevant holder and the amount of such payment shall be rounded down to the nearest euro 0.01.  If the Notes are in global form, after the Redenomination Date, the amount of interest due in respect of Notes represented by the Global Note will be calculated by reference to the aggregate nominal amount of such Notes and the amount of such payment shall be rounded down to the nearest euro 0.01; and

 

 

(g)

the applicable Final Terms will specify any relevant changes to the provisions relating to interest, including without limitation, any change to the applicable Day Count Fraction and Business Day Convention.

 

 

(2)

Exchange

 

Where exchange ( Exchange ) is specified in the applicable Final Terms as being applicable, and unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, the relevant Issuer may, without the consent of any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder, on giving prior notice to Euroclear, Clearstream, Luxembourg and the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar and at least 30 days’ prior notice to the Noteholders as provided in Condition 16, elect that, with effect from the Redenomination Date specified in the notice, the Notes shall be exchangeable for Notes expressed to be denominated in euro in accordance with such arrangements as the relevant Issuer may decide, after consultation with the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar, and as may be specified in the notice, including arrangements under which Receipts and Coupons (which expression shall for this purpose include Coupons to be issued on an exchange of matured Talons) unmatured at the date so specified become void.

 

 

 

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(3)

Amendments and Modifications

 

The applicable Final Terms in relation to any Notes may specify other terms and conditions which shall, to the extent so specified or to the extent inconsistent with the provisions herein, replace or modify the provisions for the purpose of such Notes.  In addition, the relevant Issuer and the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar may make any changes, without the consent of, but with notification to (in accordance with Condition 16 and this Clause 30), any Noteholder, Receiptholder or Couponholder, to this Agreement necessary to implement the provisions of Condition 18 and this Clause 30.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Clause 30, if the relevant Issuer determines, after consultation with the Agent or, in the case of Registered Notes, the Registrar, that the then market practice in respect of the redenomination into euro of internationally offered securities or euro-denominated internationally offered securities is different from that specified in this Clause 30, the relevant Issuer may (but shall not be required to) amend the provisions of this Clause 30 and any provision of the Conditions, as applicable, so as to comply with such market practice, and the relevant Issuer shall promptly notify Noteholders, the stock exchange (if any) on which the Notes may be listed, the Paying Agents and the Agent or, in the case of the Registered Notes, the Registrar of such deemed amendments.  Such changes will not take effect until after they have been notified to Noteholders in accordance with Condition 16 and this Clause 30.

 

31.           DEED POLL

 

 

(1)

If any Global Bearer Note becomes void in accordance with its terms, the relevant Issuer covenants with each Relevant Account Holder (other than any Relevant Account Holder which is an account holder of any other Relevant Clearing System) that each Relevant Account Holder shall automatically acquire at the Relevant Time, without the need for any further action on behalf of any person, against the relevant Issuer all those rights which the Relevant Account Holder would have had if at the Relevant Time it held and beneficially owned executed and authenticated Definitive Bearer Notes in respect of each Underlying Note (as defined in the definition of “Global Bearer Note”) represented by the Global Bearer Note which the Relevant Account Holder has credited to its securities account with the Relevant Clearing System at the Relevant Time.  The relevant Issuer’s obligation under this Clause 31 shall be a separate and independent obligation by reference to each Underlying Note which a Relevant Account Holder has credited to its securities account with the Relevant Clearing System and the relevant Issuer agrees that a Relevant Account Holder may assign its rights under this Clause 31 in whole or in part.

 

 

(2)

The records of the Relevant Clearing System shall be conclusive evidence of the identity of the Relevant Account Holders and the number of Underlying Notes credited to the securities account of each Relevant Account Holder. For these purposes a statement issued by the Relevant Clearing System stating:

 

 

(a)

the name of the Relevant Account Holder to which the statement is issued; and

 

 

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(b)

the aggregate nominal amount of Underlying Notes credited to the securities account of the Relevant Account Holder as at the opening of business on the first day following the Relevant Time on which the Relevant Clearing System is open for business,

 

shall be conclusive evidence of the records of the Relevant Clearing System at the Relevant Time.

 

 

(3)

In the event of a dispute, the determination of the Relevant Time by the Relevant Clearing System shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final and conclusive for all purposes in connection with the Relevant Account Holders with securities accounts with the Relevant Clearing System.

 

 

(4)

The relevant Issuer undertakes in favour of each Relevant Account Holder that, in relation to any payment to be made by it under this Clause 31, it will comply with the provisions of Condition 7 to the extent that they apply to any payments in respect of Underlying Notes as if those provisions had been set out in full in this Clause 31.

 

 

(5)

The relevant Issuer will pay any stamp and other duties and taxes, including interest and penalties, payable on or in connection with the execution of this Agreement and any action taken by any Relevant Account Holder to enforce the provisions of this Clause 31.

 

 

(6)

This Clause 31 and Clause 34 shall take effect as a Deed Poll for the benefit of the Relevant Account Holders from time to time.  This Agreement shall be deposited with and held by the common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg (being at that date of this Agreement the Agent) until all the obligations of each Issuer under this Clause 31 have been discharged in full.

 

 

(7)

Each Issuer acknowledges the right of every Relevant Account Holder to the production of, and the right of every Relevant Account Holder to obtain (upon payment of a reasonable charge) a copy of, this Agreement, and further acknowledges and covenants that the obligations binding upon it contained in this Clause 31 are owed to, and shall be for the account of, each and every Relevant Account Holder, and that each Relevant Account Holder shall be entitled severally to enforce those obligations against the relevant Issuer.

 

32.           DESCRIPTIVE HEADINGS

 

The descriptive headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit the provisions hereof.

 

33.           CONTRACTS (RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) ACT 1999

 

Save for Clause 31, this Agreement confers no right on a person who is not a party to this Agreement by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this Agreement, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.

 

 

 

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34.           GOVERNING LAW

 

 

(1)

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England.

 

 

(2)

Each Issuer hereby irrevocably agrees for the exclusive benefit of the Agent, the Paying Agents and the Relevant Account Holders that the courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute relating to any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) and that accordingly any suit, action or proceedings (together referred to as Proceedings ) arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including any Proceedings relating to any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) may be brought in such courts.  Each Issuer hereby irrevocably waives any objection which it may have to the laying of the venue of any Proceedings in any such courts and any claim that any such Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum and hereby further irrevocably agrees that a judgment in any Proceedings brought in the English courts shall be conclusive and binding upon each Issuer and may be enforced in the courts of any other jurisdiction.  Nothing contained herein shall limit any right to take Proceedings against any Issuer in any other court of competent jurisdiction, nor shall the taking of Proceedings in one or more jurisdictions preclude the taking of Proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.  Each Issuer hereby appoints Toyota Financial Services (UK) PLC of Great Burgh, Burgh Heath, Epsom, Surrey KT18 5UZ as its agent for service of process and agrees that, in the event of Toyota Financial Services (UK) PLC ceasing so to act or ceasing to be registered in England, it will appoint another person as its agent for service of process in England in respect of any Proceedings.

 

 

(3)

If TMF is represented by an attorney or attorneys in connection with the signing and/or execution and/or delivery of this Agreement or any agreement, deed or document referred to herein or made pursuant hereto and the relevant power or powers of attorney is or are expressed to be governed by the laws of the Netherlands, it is hereby expressly acknowledged and accepted by the other parties hereto that such laws shall govern the existence and extent of such attorney's or attorneys' authority and the effects of the exercise thereof.

 

35.           COUNTERPARTS

 

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by each party on separate counterparts.  Each counterpart is an original, but all counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.  Delivery of a counterpart of this Agreement by e-mail attachment or telecopy shall be an effective mode of delivery.

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , TMF, TCCI, TFA and TMCC have executed this Agreement as a deed, and the Agent has executed this Agreement, as of the date first above written.

 

The Issuers

 

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

)

 

by Takahisa Iizuka

)      TAKAHISA IIZUKA

 

being duly authorised attorney of

)

 

TOYOTA MOTOR FINANCE

)

 

(NETHERLANDS) B.V. with the

)

 

intention that this instrument takes effect

)

 

as TMF’s deed in the presence of:

)

 

 

MINORU NISHIYAMA

 

 

TOYOTA MOTOR FINANCE (NETHERLANDS) B.V.

Atrium, Strawinskylaan 3105

1077 ZX Amsterdam

The Netherlands

 

Telephone:

31 20 502 5310

Telefax:

31 20 502 5319

Attention:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

)

 

by Richard Nelson

)      RICHARD NELSON

 

being duly authorised attorney of

)

 

TOYOTA CREDIT CANADA INC.

)

 

with the intention that this instrument takes

)

 

effect as TCCI’s deed in the presence of:

)

 

 

PAUL FOSTER

 

 

TOYOTA CREDIT CANADA INC.

80 Micro Court, Suite 200

Markham

Ontario L3R 9Z5

Canada

 

Telephone:

905 513 8200

Telefax:

905 513 8335

Attention:

President

 

 

 

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SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

)

 

by Richard Nelson

)      RICHARD NELSON

 

being duly authorised attorney of

)

 

TOYOTA FINANCE AUSTRALIA

)

 

LIMITED with the intention that this

)

 

instrument takes effect as TFA’s deed

)

 

in the presence of:

)     Signed under Power of Attorney

 

 

      dated 14 September 2010

 

PAUL FOSTER

 

 

TOYOTA FINANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Level 9, 207 Pacific Highway

St Leonards NSW 2065

Australia

 

Telephone:

61 2 9430 0000

Telefax:

61 2 9430 0913

Attention:

Treasurer

 

 

 

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

)

 

by the undersigned being duly

)

 

authorised on behalf of

)

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT

)

 

CORPORATION with the intention that

)

 

this instrument takes effect as TMCC’s

)

 

deed

)

 

 

 

 

GEORGE BORST

 

By:

 

 

Name:

George Borst

 

Title:

President & CEO

 

 

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

19001 South Western Avenue, EF12

Torrance

California 90501

USA

 

Telephone:

(310) 468-4001

Telefax:

(310) 468-6194

Attention:

Group Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Global Treasurer

 

 

 

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The Agent

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

One Canada Square

Canary Wharf

London E14 5AL

 

Telephone:

+44 (0) 207 964 8768/4875

Telefax:

+44 (0) 207 964 2536

Attention:

Corporate Trust Administration

 

 

MICHAEL LEE

 

By:

 

 

Name:

Michael Lee

 

Title:

Senior Associate

 

 


 

 

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APPENDIX A

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES

 

This Note is one of a Series (as defined below) of Notes issued subject to, and with the benefit of, an amended and restated Agency Agreement dated 17 September 2010 (the “ Agency Agreement ”) and made between Toyota Motor Finance (Netherlands) B.V., Toyota Credit Canada Inc., Toyota Finance Australia Limited and Toyota Motor Credit Corporation as Issuers and The Bank of New York Mellon, as the issuing agent and (unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms) principal paying agent and (unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms) as calculation agent (the “ Agent ”, which expression shall include any successor agent or other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms and the “ Paying Agent ”, which expression shall include any additional or successor paying agents).  Notes in registered form issued by Toyota Credit Canada Inc. (“ Registered Notes ”) are also issued subject to, and with the benefit of, an amended and restated Note Agency Agreement dated 17 September 2010 (the “ Note Agency Agreement ”) and made between Toyota Credit Canada Inc. as Issuer, Royal Bank of Canada as registrar and transfer agent (the “ Registrar ”, which expression shall include any successor registrar) and Royal Bank of Canada, London branch as transfer agent and paying agent (the “ Transfer Agent ”, which expression shall include any additional or successor transfer agent or paying agent appointed for Registered Notes).

 

References in these Terms and Conditions to the “ Notes ” shall be references to the Notes of this Series and shall mean (i) in relation to any Notes represented by a global Note, units of the lowest Specified Denomination in the Specified Currency of the relevant Notes, (ii) definitive Notes issued in exchange (or part exchange) for a temporary or permanent global Note or global registered Note and (iii) any global Note.

 

Interest bearing definitive Notes in bearer form will (unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms) have interest coupons (“ Coupons ”) and, if indicated in the applicable Final Terms, talons for further Coupons (“ Talons ”) attached on issue. Any reference herein to Coupons or coupons shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include a reference to Talons. Definitive Notes repayable in instalments have receipts (“ Receipts ”) for the payment of the instalments of principal (other than the final instalment) attached on issue.

 

The Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons have the benefit of certain Credit Support Agreements governed by Japanese law, one between Toyota Motor Corporation (the “ Parent ”) and Toyota Financial Services Corporation (“ TFS ”) dated 14 July 2000 as supplemented by a Supplemental Credit Support Agreement dated 14 July 2000 and a Supplemental Credit Support Agreement No. 2 dated 2 October 2000 (collectively, the “ TMC Credit Support Agreement ”) and others between TFS and each of Toyota Motor Finance (Netherlands) B.V., Toyota Credit Canada Inc. and Toyota Finance Australia Limited dated 7 August 2000 and Toyota Motor Credit Corporation dated 1 October 2000 (each a “ Credit Support Agreement ” and together with the TMC Credit Support Agreement the “ Credit Support Agreements ”).  The Credit Support Agreements do not constitute a direct or indirect guarantee by the Parent or TFS of the Notes.  The Parent’s obligations under its Credit Support Agreement and the obligations of TFS under its Credit Support Agreements, rank pari passu with its direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and unsecured debt obligations.

 

The Final Terms applicable to the Notes is attached hereto or endorsed hereon and supplements these Terms and Conditions and may specify other terms and conditions which shall, to the extent so specified or to the extent inconsistent with these Terms and Conditions, replace or modify these Terms and Conditions for the purposes of the Notes. References

 

 

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herein to the “ applicable Final Terms ” shall mean the Final Terms attached hereto or endorsed hereon.

 

As used herein, “ Series ” means each original issue of Notes together with any further issues expressed to form a single series with the original issue and the terms of which (save for the Issue Date, the amount and the date of the first payment of interest thereon and/or the Issue Price (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms)) are identical (including the Maturity Date, Interest Basis, Redemption/Payment Basis and Interest Payment Dates (if any) and whether or not the Notes are admitted to trading) and expressions “ Notes of the relevant Series ” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly. As used herein, “ Tranche ” means all Notes of the same Series with the same Issue Date and Interest Commencement Date (if applicable).

 

Copies of the Agency Agreement (which contains the form of the Final Terms), the Prospectus dated 17 September 2010, the Credit Support Agreements and (if the Notes are offered to the public in a Member State of the European Union, Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein or admitted to trading on a regulated market within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive) the Final Terms applicable to the Notes are available free of charge and available for inspection at the specified offices of the Agent.  Copies of the Note Agency Agreement (if the Notes are Registered Notes) are available free of charge and available for inspection by the holders of Registered Notes at the specified offices of the Registrar and the Transfer Agent. The holders of the Notes (the “ Noteholders ”), which expression shall, in relation to any Notes represented by a global Note, be construed as provided in Condition 1, the holder of the Coupons (the “ Couponholders ”) and holders of Receipts (the “ Receiptholders ”) are deemed to have notice of the Agency Agreement and the applicable Final Terms, which are binding on them.  The holders of Registered Notes are deemed to have notice of the Note Agency Agreement, which is binding on them.

 

Words and expressions defined in the Agency Agreement or (if the Note is a Registered Note) in the Note Agency Agreement or used in the applicable Final Terms shall have the same meanings where used in these Terms and Conditions unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise stated. In the event of inconsistency between the Agency Agreement, (if the Note is a Registered Note) the Note Agency Agreement or the applicable Final Terms, the applicable Final Terms will prevail.

 

1.           Form, Denomination and Title

 

The Notes may be issued in bearer form (“ Bearer Notes ”) or, in respect of Notes issued by Toyota Credit Canada Inc., in bearer or registered form as set out in the applicable Final Terms and, in the case of definitive Bearer Notes, serially numbered, in the Specified Currency (or Specified Currencies in the case of Dual Currency Notes) and in the Specified Denomination(s), all as specified in the applicable Final Terms.

 

Bearer Notes may not be exchanged for Registered Notes and vice versa .

 

The Note may be a Note bearing interest on a fixed rate basis (“ Fixed Rate Note ”), a Note bearing interest on a floating rate basis (“ Floating Rate Note ”), a Note issued on a non-interest bearing basis (“ Zero Coupon Note ”), a Note with respect to which interest is calculated by reference to an index, index basket and/or a formula (“ Index Linked Interest Note ”), a Note with respect to which interest is calculated by reference to certain parameters (“ Range Accrual Note ”) or any combination of the foregoing, depending upon the interest basis specified in the applicable Final Terms. The Note may be a Note with respect to which principal is calculated by reference to an index or index basket and/or a formula (“ Index Linked Redemption Note ”), a Note redeemable in instalments (“ Instalment Note ”), a Note with respect

 

 

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to which principal and/or interest is payable in one or more Specified Currencies other than the Specified Currency in which it is denominated (“ Dual Currency Note ”), a Note which is issued on a partly paid basis (“ Partly Paid Note ”) or a combination of any of the foregoing, depending upon the redemption or payment basis shown in the applicable Final Terms (and where appropriate in the context, “ Index Linked Interest Notes ” and “ Index Linked Redemption Notes ” are referred to collectively as “ Index Linked Notes ”).

 

Bearer Notes in definitive form are issued with Coupons attached, unless they are Zero Coupon Notes in which case references to interest (other than interest due after the Maturity Date), Coupons and Couponholders in these Terms and Conditions are not applicable.  Wherever Dual Currency Notes or Index Linked Notes are issued to bear interest on a fixed or floating rate basis or on a non-interest bearing basis, the provisions in these Terms and Conditions relating to Fixed Rate Notes, Floating Rate Notes and Zero Coupon Notes, respectively, shall, where the context so permits, apply to such Dual Currency Notes or Index Linked Notes.

 

Subject as set out below, title to Bearer Notes, Receipts and Coupons will pass by delivery. The holder of each Coupon or Receipt, whether or not such Coupon or Receipt is attached to a Note, in his capacity as such, shall be subject to and bound by all the provisions contained in the relevant Note. Subject as set out below, the Issuer and any Paying Agent may deem and treat the bearer of any Bearer Note, Receipt or Coupon as the absolute owner thereof (whether or not overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, including any notice of ownership or writing thereon or notice of any previous loss or theft thereof) for all purposes but, in the case of any global Bearer Note, without prejudice to the provisions set out in the next succeeding paragraph.

 

For so long as any of the Notes is represented by a global Note, each person who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“ Euroclear ”) or of Clearstream Banking, société anonyme (“ Clearstream, Luxembourg ”) or any other agreed clearing system as the holder of a particular nominal amount of such Notes (other than a clearing agency (including Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg) that is itself an account holder of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg or any other agreed clearing system (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg or any other agreed clearing system as to the nominal amount of Notes standing to the account of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error or proven error)) shall be treated by the Issuer, the Agent and any other Paying Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Transfer Agent as the holder of such nominal amount of such Notes for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal (including premium (if any)) or interest on the Notes, for which purpose the bearer of the relevant global Bearer Note or registered holder of the registered global Note shall be treated by the Issuer, the Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such Notes in accordance with and subject to the terms of the relevant global Note (and the expressions “ Noteholder ” and “ 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 or of Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be.

 

Title to Registered Notes issued by Toyota Credit Canada Inc. passes on due endorsement in the relevant register which Toyota Credit Canada Inc. shall procure to be kept by the Registrar. Subject as set out above, except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by law, the registered holder of any Registered Note shall be deemed to be and may be treated as the absolute owner of such Registered Note for all purposes, whether or not such Registered Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any

 

 

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notice of ownership, theft or loss thereof or any writing thereon made by anyone and no person shall be liable for so treating such registered holder (and the expressions “ Noteholder ” and “ holder of Notes ” and related expressions shall be construed accordingly).

 

Provisions relating to the transfer of Registered Notes are set out in the relevant Registered Note and the Note Agency Agreement.

 

Any reference herein to Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg shall, whenever the context so permits, except in relation to Bearer Notes in new global note (“ NGN ”) form or Registered Notes intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem eligibility (being the new safekeeping structure (“ NSS ”) and hereinafter referred to as “ held under the NSS ”), be deemed to include a reference to any additional or alternative clearing system approved by the Issuer, the Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and the Transfer Agent and, in the case of Notes admitted to the Official List and admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market, the UK Listing Authority.

 

If the Specified Currency of the Note is a currency of one of the Member States of the European Union which has not adopted the euro, and if specified in the applicable Final Terms, the Note shall permit redenomination and exchange (as referred to in Condition 18 below or in such other manner as set forth in the applicable Final Terms) at the option of the Issuer.

 

2.           Status of the Notes and the Credit Support Agreements

 

The Notes and any relevant Receipts and Coupons are direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and (subject to the provisions of Condition 3) unsecured obligations of the Issuer and rank pari passu and rateably without any preference among themselves and (save for certain obligations required to be preferred by law) equally with all other unsecured obligations (other than subordinated obligations, if any) of the Issuer from time to time outstanding. The Notes, the Receipts and the Coupons have the benefit of the Credit Support Agreements.

 

3.           Negative Pledge

 

The Notes will be subject to this Condition 3 only if this Condition 3 is specified to be applicable in the applicable Final Terms.  So long as any of the Notes remains outstanding (as defined in Condition 15) the Issuer will not create or permit to be outstanding any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or other charge (each a “ Security Interest ”) (other than a Permitted Security Interest (as defined below)) for the benefit of the holders of any Relevant Indebtedness (as defined below) on the whole or any part of its property or assets, present or future, to secure any Relevant Indebtedness issued or expressly guaranteed by the Issuer or in respect of which the Issuer has given any indemnity without in any such case at the same time according to the Notes the same security as is granted or is outstanding in respect of such Relevant Indebtedness or such guarantee or indemnity or such other security as shall be approved by the written consent of holders of a majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected thereby, or by resolution adopted by the holders of a majority in aggregate nominal amount of the Notes then outstanding present or represented at a meeting of the holders of the Notes affected thereby at which a quorum is present, as provided in the Agency Agreement; provided, however, that such covenant will not apply to Security Interests securing outstanding Relevant Indebtedness which does not in the aggregate at any one time exceed 20 per cent. of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets (as defined below) of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries (if any). For the purposes of this Condition 3:

 

 

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Consolidated Net Tangible Assets ” means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortised debt discount and expense and other like intangibles of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries (or, where the Issuer has no consolidated subsidiaries, of the Issuer), all as set forth on the most recent balance sheet of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries (or, where the Issuer has no consolidated subsidiaries, the most recent balance sheet of the Issuer) prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as practised in the jurisdiction of the Issuer’s incorporation;

 

Relevant Indebtedness ” shall mean any indebtedness in the form of or represented by bonds, notes, debentures or other securities which have a final maturity of more than a year from the date of their creation and which are admitted to trading on one or more stock exchanges;

 

Permitted Security Interest ” shall mean:

 

(i)

any Security Interest arising by operation of law or any right of set-off;

 

(ii)

any Security Interest granted by the Parent in favour of a TMC subsidiary (as defined below) (while such beneficiary remains a TMC subsidiary) or by one TMC subsidiary in favour of another TMC subsidiary (while such beneficiary remains a TMC subsidiary);

 

(iii)

any Security Interest created in connection with, or pursuant to, a limited-recourse financing, securitisation or other like arrangement where the payment obligations in respect of the indebtedness secured by the relevant Security Interest are to be discharged from the revenues generated by assets over which such Security Interest is created (including, without limitation, receivables); and

 

TMC subsidiary ” means any of the Parent’s subsidiaries consolidated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

 

4.           Interest

 

(a)            Interest on Fixed Rate Notes and Business Day Convention for Notes other than Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Notes

 

Each Fixed Rate Note bears interest from (and including) the Interest Commencement Date which is specified in the applicable Final Terms (or the Issue Date, if no Interest Commencement Date is separately specified) to (but excluding) the Maturity Date specified in the applicable Final Terms at the rate(s) per annum equal to the Fixed Rate(s) of Interest so specified payable in arrear on the Interest Payment Date(s) in each year and on the Maturity Date so specified if it does not fall on an Interest Payment Date.

 

If the Notes are in definitive form, except as provided in the applicable Final Terms, or if the applicable Final Terms specify that a Fixed Coupon Amount or Broken Amount(s) shall apply in the case of Notes represented by a global Note, the amount of interest payable on each Interest Payment Date in respect of the Fixed Interest Period ending on (but excluding) such date will amount to the Fixed Coupon Amount as specified in the applicable Final Terms. Payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date will, if so specified in the applicable Final Terms, amount to the Broken Amount(s) so specified.

 

As used in these Terms and Conditions, “ Fixed Interest Period ” means the period from (and including) an Interest Payment Date (or the Interest Commencement Date or the

 

 

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Issue Date, as the case may be) to (but excluding) the next (or first) Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date.

 

Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, the “ Following Business Day Convention ” will apply to the payment of all Fixed Rate Notes, meaning that if the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date would otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day (as defined in Condition 4(b)(i) below), the related payment of principal or interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date such payment was due. If the “ Modified Following Business Day Convention ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms for any Fixed Rate Note, it shall mean that if the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date would otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day (as defined in Condition 4(b)(i) below), the related payment of principal or interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date such payment was due unless it would thereby fall into the next calendar month in which event the full amount of payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day as if made on the day such payment was due. Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, the amount of interest due shall not be changed if payment is made on a day other than an Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date as a result of the application of a Business Day Convention specified above or other Business Day Convention specified in the applicable Final Terms.

 

Except in the case of (i) Notes in definitive form where a Fixed Coupon Amount or a Broken Amount is specified in the applicable Final Terms or (ii) Notes represented by a global Note where the applicable Final Terms specify that a Fixed Coupon Amount or Broken Amount(s) shall apply, interest shall be calculated in respect of any period (including any period ending other than on an Interest Payment Date (which for this purpose shall not include a period where a payment is made on a day other than an Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date as a result of the application of a Business Day Convention as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms)) by applying the Fixed Rate of Interest to:

 

(A)

in the case of Fixed Rate Notes which are represented by a global Note, the aggregate outstanding nominal amount of the Fixed Rate Notes represented by such global Note (or, if they are Partly Paid Notes, the aggregate of the amount paid up); or

 

(B)

in the case of Fixed Rate Notes in definitive form, the Calculation Amount,

 

and, in each case, multiplying such sum by the applicable Fixed Day Count Fraction or other Day Count Fraction specified in the applicable Final Terms, and rounding the resultant figure to the nearest sub-unit of the relevant Specified Currency, half of any such sub-unit being rounded upwards or otherwise in accordance with applicable market convention.  Where the Specified Denomination of a Fixed Rate Note in definitive form is a multiple of the Calculation Amount, the amount of interest payable in respect of such Fixed Rate Note shall be the product of the amount (determined in the manner provided above) for the Calculation Amount and the amount by which the Calculation Amount is multiplied to reach the Specified Denomination, without any further rounding.

 

In these Terms and Conditions, “ Fixed Day Count Fraction ” means (unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms):

 

 

(i)

if “ Actual/Actual (ICMA) ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms:

 

 

(A)

in the case of Notes where the number of days in the relevant period from (and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable)

 

 

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to (but excluding) the relevant payment date (the “ Accrual Period ”) is equal to or shorter than the Determination Period (as defined below) during which the Accrual Period ends, the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by the product of (1) the number of days in such Determination Period and (2) the number of Determination Dates (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) that would occur in one calendar year assuming interest was to be payable in respect of the whole of that year; or

 

 

(B)

in the case of Notes where the Accrual Period is longer than the Determination Period during which the Accrual Period ends, the sum of:

 

 

(1)

the number of days in such Accrual Period falling in the Determination Period in which the Accrual Period begins divided by the product of (x) the number of days in such Determination Period and (y) the number of Determination Dates (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) that would occur in one calendar year assuming interest was to be payable in respect of the whole of that year; and

 

 

(2)

the number of days in such Accrual Period falling in the next Determination Period divided by the product of (x) the number of days in such Determination Period and (y) the number of Determination Dates (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) that would occur in one calendar year assuming interest was to be payable in respect of the whole of that year; and

 

 

(ii)

if “ Actual/Actual (ISDA) ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the relevant period from (and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but excluding) the next scheduled Interest Payment Date divided by 365 (or, if any portion of that period falls in a leap year, the sum of (x) the actual number of days in that portion of the period falling in a leap year divided by 366; and (y) the actual number of days in that portion of the period falling in a non-leap year divided by 365); and

 

 

(iii)

if “ 30/360 ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the relevant period from (and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but excluding) the next scheduled Interest Payment Date (such number of days being calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day months) divided by 360 and, in the case of an incomplete month, the number of days elapsed; and

 

 

(iv)

if “ Actual/360 ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the relevant period from (and including) the most recent Interest Payment Date (or, if none, the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but excluding) the next scheduled Interest Payment Date divided by 360.

 

 

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In these Terms and Conditions:

 

Determination Period ” means the period from (and including) a Determination Date (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) to (but excluding) the next Determination Date (including, where either the Interest Commencement Date or the final Interest Payment Date is not a Determination Date, the period commencing on the first Determination Date prior to, and ending on the first Determination Date falling after, such date); and

 

sub-unit ” means, with respect to any currency other than euro, the lowest amount of such currency that is available as legal tender in the country of such currency and, with respect to euro, means one cent.

 

(b)            Interest on Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Interest Notes

 

 

(i)

Interest Payment Dates

 

Each Floating Rate Note and Index Linked Interest Note bears interest from (and including) the Interest Commencement Date specified in the applicable Final Terms (or the Issue Date, if no Interest Commencement Date is separately specified) and, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, at the rate equal to the Rate of Interest payable in arrear on the Maturity Date and on either: (1) the Specified Interest Payment Date(s) (each, together with the Maturity Date, an “ Interest Payment Date ”) in each year specified in the applicable Final Terms; or (2) if no Specified Interest Payment Date(s) is/are specified in the applicable Final Terms, each date (each such date, together with the Maturity Date, an “ Interest Payment Date ”) which falls the number of months or other period specified as the Specified Period in the applicable Final Terms after the preceding Interest Payment Date or, in the case of the first Interest Payment Date, after the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable. Such interest will be payable in respect of each Interest Period.  As used in these Terms and Conditions, “ Interest Period ” means the period from (and including) an Interest Payment Date (or the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date, as applicable) to (but excluding) the next (or first) Interest Payment Date).

 

If a Business Day Convention is specified in the applicable Final Terms and (x) if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which an Interest Payment Date should occur or (y) if any Interest Payment Date would otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day (as defined below), then, if the Business Day Convention specified is:

 

 

(A)

in any case where Specified Periods are specified in accordance with Condition 4(b)(i)(2) above, the Floating Rate Convention, such Interest Payment Date (i) in the case of (x) above, shall be the last day that is a Business Day in the relevant month and the provisions of (2) below in this sub-paragraph (A) shall apply mutatis mutandis or (ii) in the case of (y) above, shall be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day unless it would thereby fall into the next calendar month, in which event (1) such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day and (2) each subsequent Interest Payment Date shall be the last Business Day in the month which falls in the Specified Period after the preceding applicable Interest Payment Date occurred; or

 

 

(B)

the Following Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day; or

 

 

(C)

the Modified Following Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next day which is a Business Day unless it

 

 

 

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would thereby fall into the next calendar month, in which event such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day; or

 

 

(D)

the Preceding Business Day Convention, such Interest Payment Date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day.

 

In these Terms and Conditions, “ Business Day ” means (unless otherwise stated in the applicable Final Terms) a day which is both:

 

 

(1)

a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general business (including dealing in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London and any other Applicable Business Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms; and

 

 

(2)

either (1) in relation to any sum payable in a Specified Currency other than euro, a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in the principal financial centre of the country of the relevant Specified Currency (if other than London and any other Applicable Business Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms), or (2) in relation to any sum payable in euro, a day on which the TARGET2 System is open. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Final Terms, the principal financial centre of any country for the purpose of these Terms and Conditions shall be as provided in the 2006 ISDA Definitions (as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.) as supplemented, amended and updated as of the first Issue Date of the Notes of the relevant Series (the “ ISDA Definitions ”) (except if the Specified Currency is Australian dollars or New Zealand dollars the principal financial centre shall be Sydney or Auckland, respectively). In these Terms and Conditions, “ TARGET2 System ” means the Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET2) System or any successor thereto.

 

 

(ii)

Rate of Interest

 

The Rate of Interest payable from time to time in respect of the Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Interest Notes will be determined in the manner specified in the applicable Final Terms.

 

 

(iii)

ISDA Determination

 

(A)           Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, where ISDA Determination is specified in the applicable Final Terms as the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest Period will be the relevant ISDA Rate plus or minus (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any) as determined by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms). For the purposes of this sub-paragraph (iii) unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, “ ISDA Rate plus or minus (as indicated in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any) ” for an Interest Period means a rate equal to the Floating Rate that would be determined under an interest rate swap transaction under the terms of an agreement (regardless of any event of default or termination event thereunder) incorporating the ISDA Definitions with the holder of the relevant Note and under which:

 

 

 

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(1)

the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be determined is the “ Floating Rate Option ” as specified in the applicable Final Terms;

 

 

(2)

the Issuer is the “ Floating Rate Payer ”;

 

 

(3)

the Agent or other person specified in the applicable Final Terms is the “ Calculation Agent ”;

 

 

(4)

the Interest Commencement Date is the “ Effective Date ”;

 

 

(5)

the Aggregate Nominal Amount of Notes is the “ Notional Amount ”;

 

 

(6)

the relevant Interest Period is the “ Designated Maturity ” as specified in the applicable Final Terms;

 

 

(7)

the Interest Payment Dates are the “ Floating Rate Payer Payment Dates ”;

 

 

(8)

the Margin is the “ Spread ”;

 

 

(9)

the relevant Reset Date is either (i) if the applicable Floating Rate Option is based on the London inter-bank offered rate (“ LIBOR ”) or on the Euro-zone inter-bank offered rate (“ EURIBOR ”) for a currency, the first day of that Interest Period or (ii) in any other case, as specified in the applicable Final Terms; and

 

 

(10)

all other terms are as specified in the applicable Final Terms.

 

(B)           When Condition 4(b)(iii)(A) applies, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms with respect to each relevant Interest Payment Date:

 

 

(1)

the amount of interest determined for such Interest Payment Date shall be the Interest Amount for the relevant Interest Period for the purposes of these Terms and Conditions as though calculated under Condition 4(b)(vi) below; and

 

 

(2)

(i) “ Floating Rate ”, “ Floating Rate Option ”, “ Floating Rate Payer ”, “ Effective Date ”, “ Notional Amount ”, “ Floating Rate Payer Payment Dates ”, “ Spread ”, “ Calculation Agent ”, “ Designated Maturity ” and “ Reset Date ” have the meanings given to those terms in the ISDA Definitions; and (ii) “ Euro-zone ” means the region comprised of Member States of the European Union that adopt the single currency in accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as amended (the “ Treaty ”).

 

 

(iv)

Screen Rate Determination

 

Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, where Screen Rate Determination is specified in the applicable Final Terms as the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest Period will, subject as provided below, be either:

 

 

(x)

the offered quotation; or

 

 

(y)

the arithmetic mean (rounded, if necessary, to the fifth decimal place with 0.000005 being rounded upwards) of the offered quotations,

 

 

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(expressed as a percentage rate per annum), for the Reference Rate (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) for deposits in the Specified Currency for that Interest Period which appears or appear, as the case may be, on the Relevant Screen Page (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) as at 11:00 a.m. (London time, in the case of LIBOR, or Brussels time, in the case of EURIBOR) on the Interest Determination Date (as defined below) in question plus or minus (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any), all as determined by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms). Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, if five or more of such offered quotations are available on the Relevant Screen Page, the highest (or, if there is more than one such highest quotation, one only of such quotations) and the lowest (or, if there is more than one such lowest quotation, one only of such quotations) shall be disregarded by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) for the purpose of determining the arithmetic mean (rounded as provided above) of such offered quotations. In addition:

 

(A)           unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms if, in the case of (x) above, no such rate appears or, in the case of (y) above, fewer than two of such offered rates appear at such time or if the offered rate or rates which appears or appear, as the case may be, as at such time do not apply to a period of a duration equal to the relevant Interest Period, the Rate of Interest for such Interest Period shall, subject as provided below and except as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, be the arithmetic mean (rounded, if necessary, to the fifth decimal place with 0.000005 being rounded upwards) of the offered quotations (expressed as a percentage rate per annum), of which the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) is advised by all Reference Banks (as defined below) as at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Interest Determination Date plus or minus (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any), all as determined by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms);

 

(B)           except as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, if on any Interest Determination Date to which Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) applies two or three only of the Reference Banks advise the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) of such offered quotations, the Rate of Interest for the next Interest Period shall, subject as provided below, be determined as in Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) on the basis of the rates of those Reference Banks advising such offered quotations;

 

(C)           except as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, if on any Interest Determination Date to which Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) applies one only or none of the Reference Banks advises the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) of such rates, the Rate of Interest for the next Interest Period shall, subject as provided below and except as otherwise indicated in the applicable Final Terms, be whichever is the higher of:

 

 

(1)

the Rate of Interest in effect for the last preceding Interest Period to which Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) shall have applied (plus or minus (as specified in the applicable Final Terms), where a different Margin is to be applied to the next Interest Period than that which applied to the last preceding Interest Period, the Margin relating to the next Interest Period in place of the Margin relating to the last preceding Interest Period); or

 

 

(2)

the reserve interest rate (the “ Reserve Interest Rate ”) which shall be the rate per annum which the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) determines to be either (x) the arithmetic mean (rounded, if necessary, to the fifth decimal place with 0.000005 being rounded upwards) of the lending rates for the Specified Currency which banks selected

 

 

 

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by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) in the principal financial centre of the country of the Specified Currency (which, if Australian dollars, shall be Sydney, if New Zealand dollars, shall be Auckland and if euro, shall be London, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms) are quoting on the relevant Interest Determination Date for the next Interest Period to the Reference Banks or those of them (being at least two in number) to which such quotations are, in the opinion of the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms), being so made plus or minus (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any), or (y) in the event that the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) can determine no such arithmetic mean, the lowest lending rate for the Specified Currency which banks selected by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) in the principal financial centre of the country of the Specified Currency (which, if Australian dollars, shall be Sydney, if New Zealand dollars, shall be Auckland and if euro, shall be London, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms) are quoting on such Interest Determination Date to leading European banks for the next Interest Period plus or minus (as specified in the applicable Final Terms) the Margin (if any), provided that if the banks selected as aforesaid by the Agent (or such other Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) are not quoting as mentioned above, the Rate of Interest shall be the Rate of Interest specified in (1) above;

 

(D)           the expression “ Relevant Screen Page ” means such page, whatever its designation, on which the Reference Rate that is for the time being displayed on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service or Dow Jones Markets Limited or other such service, as specified in the applicable Final Terms;

 

(E)           unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, the Reference Banks will be the principal London offices of The Bank of New York Mellon, National Westminster Bank PLC, UBS Limited and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Limited. The Issuer shall procure that, so long as any Floating Rate Note or Index Linked Interest Note to which Condition 4(b)(iv)(A) is applicable remains outstanding, in the case of any bank being unable or unwilling to continue to act as a Reference Bank, the Issuer shall specify the London office of some other leading bank engaged in the eurodollar market to act as such in its place;

 

(F)           the expression “ Interest Determination Date ” means, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, (x) other than in the case of Condition 4(b)(iv)(A), with respect to Notes denominated in any Specified Currency other than Sterling or euro, the second Banking Day in London prior to the commencement of the relevant Interest Period and, in the case of Condition 4(b)(iv)(A), the second Banking Day in the principal financial centre of the country of the Specified Currency (which, if Australian dollars, shall be Sydney, if New Zealand dollars, shall be Auckland and if euro, shall be London) prior to the commencement of the relevant Interest Period; (y) with respect to Notes denominated in Sterling, the first Banking Day in London of the relevant Interest Period; and (z) with respect to Notes denominated in euro, the second day on which the TARGET2 system is open prior to the commencement of the relevant Interest Period.

 

(G)           the expression “ Banking Day ” means, in respect of any place, any day on which commercial banks are open for general business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in that place or, as the case may be, as indicated in the applicable Final Terms; and

 

 

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(H)           if the Reference Rate from time to time in respect of Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes is specified in the applicable Final Terms as being other than LIBOR or EURIBOR, any additional provisions relevant in determining the Rate of Interest in respect of such Notes will be set forth in the applicable Final Terms.

 

 

(v)

Minimum and/or Maximum Rate of Interest

 

If the applicable Final Terms specifies a Minimum Rate of Interest/Interest Amount for any Interest Period, then in no event shall the Rate of Interest/Interest Amount for such Interest Period be less than such Minimum Rate of Interest/Interest Amount. If the applicable Final Terms specifies a Maximum Rate of Interest/Interest Amount for any Interest Period, then in no event shall the Rate of Interest/Interest Amount for such Interest Period be greater than such Maximum Rate of Interest/Interest Amount.

 

 

(vi)

Determination of Rate of Interest and Calculation of Interest Amounts

 

The Agent (or, if the Agent is not the Calculation Agent, the Calculation Agent specified in the applicable Final Terms) will, on or as soon as practicable after each time at which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, determine the Rate of Interest (subject to any Minimum or Maximum Rate of Interest/Interest Amount specified in the applicable Final Terms) and calculate the amount of interest (the “ Interest Amount ”) payable on the Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes, in each case, for the relevant Interest Period, by applying the Rate of Interest to:

 

 

(A)

subject to paragraph (C) below, in the case of Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes which are represented by a global Note, the aggregate outstanding nominal amount of the Notes represented by such global Note (or, if they are Partly Paid Notes, the aggregate amount paid up);

 

 

(B)

in the case of Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes in definitive form, the Calculation Amount; or

 

 

(C)

in the case of Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes which are represented by a global Note and the applicable Final Terms indicates that the Rate of Interest shall be applied to the Calculation Amount, the Calculation Amount,

 

and, in each case, multiplying such sum by the applicable Day Count Fraction, as specified in the applicable Final Terms, and rounding the resultant figure to the nearest sub-unit of the relevant Specified Currency, half of any such sub-unit being rounded upwards or otherwise in accordance with applicable market convention or as specified in the applicable Final Terms.  Where the Specified Denomination of a Floating Rate Note or an Index Linked Interest Note in the case of paragraph (B) or (C) above is a multiple of the Calculation Amount, the Interest Amount payable in respect of such Floating Rate Note or Index Linked Interest Note shall be the product of the amount (determined in the manner provided above) for the Calculation Amount and the amount by which the Calculation Amount is multiplied to reach the Specified Denomination, without further rounding.

 

Day Count Fraction ” means, unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, in respect of the calculation of an amount of interest for any Interest Period:

 

 

(A)

if “ Actual/Actual (ISDA) ” or “ Actual/Actual ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 365 (or, if any portion of that Interest Period falls in a leap year, the sum of (A)

 

 

 

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the actual number of days in that portion of the Interest Period falling in a leap year divided by 366 and (B) the actual number of days in that portion of the Interest Period falling in a non-leap year divided by 365);

 

 

(B)

if “ Actual/365 (Fixed) ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 365;

 

 

(C)

if “ Actual/360 ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the actual number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360;

 

 

(D)

if “ 30/360 ”, “ 360/360 ” or “Bond Basis” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360, calculated on a formula basis as follows:

 

Day Count Fraction = [p56a.jpg]

 

where:

 

Y 1 ” is the year, expressed as a number, in which the first day of the Interest Period falls;

 

Y 2 ” is the year, expressed as a number, in which the day immediately following the last day of the Interest Period falls;

 

M 1 ” is the calendar month, expressed as a number, in which the first day of the Interest Period falls;

 

M 2 ” is the calendar month, expressed as a number, in which the day immediately following the last day of the Interest Period falls;

 

D 1 ” is the first calendar day, expressed as a number, of the Interest Period, unless such number is 31, in which case D 1 will be 30; and

 

D 2 ” is the calendar day, expressed as a number, immediately following the last day included in the Interest Period, unless such number would be 31 and D 1 is greater than 29, in which case D 2 will be 30;

 

 

(E)

if “ 30E/360 ” or “ Eurobond Basis ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360, calculated on a formula basis as follows:

 

Day Count Fraction = [p56b.jpg]

 

where:

 

Y 1 ” is the year, expressed as a number, in which the first day of the Interest Period falls;

 

Y 2 ” is the year, expressed as a number, in which the day immediately following the last day of the Interest Period falls;

 

 

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M 1 ” is the calendar month, expressed as a number, in which the first day of the Interest Period falls;

 

M 2 ” is the calendar month, expressed as a number, in which the day immediately following the last day of the Interest Period falls;

 

D 1 ” is the first calendar day, expressed as a number, of the Interest Period, unless such number would be 31, in which case D 1 will be 30; and

 

D 2 ” is the calendar day, expressed as a number, immediately following the last day included in the Interest Period, unless such number would be 31, in which case D 2 will be 30;

 

 

(F)

if “ 30E/360 (ISDA) ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the Interest Period divided by 360, calculated on a formula basis as follows:

 

Day Count Fraction = [p57.jpg]

 

where:

 

Y 1 ” is the year, expressed as a number, in which the first day of the Interest Period falls;

 

Y 2 ” is the year, expressed as a number, in which the day immediately following the last day of the Interest Period falls;

 

M 1 ” is the calendar month, expressed as a number, in which the first day of the Interest Period falls;

 

M 2 ” is the calendar month, expressed as a number, in which the day immediately following the last day of the Interest Period falls;

 

D 1 ” is the first calendar day, expressed as a number, of the Interest Period, unless (i) that day is the last day of February or (ii) such number would be 31, in which case D 1 will be 30; and

 

D 2 ” is the calendar day, expressed as a number, immediately following the last day included in the Interest Period, unless (i) that day is the last day of February but not the Maturity Date or (ii) such number would be 31, in which case D 2 will be 30; and

 

 

(G)

if “ Actual/365 (Sterling) ” is specified in the applicable Final Terms, the number of days in the Interest Period divided by 365 or, in the case of an Interest Payment Date falling in a leap year, 366.

 

 

(vii)

Notification of Rate of Interest and Interest Amount

 

The Agent will cause the Rate of Interest and each Interest Amount for each Interest Period and the relevant Interest Payment Date to be notified to the Issuer, the Registrar and the Transfer Agent (in the case of Registered Notes) and any stock exchange or other relevant authority on which the relevant Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes are for the

 

 

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time being admitted to trading and listed and will cause notice of the same to be published or given in accordance with Condition 16 as soon as possible after their determination but in no event later than the fourth London Business Day after their determination. Each Interest Amount and Interest Payment Date so notified may subsequently be amended (or appropriate alternative arrangements made by way of adjustment) without publication as aforesaid or prior notice in the event of an extension or shortening of the Interest Period in accordance with the provisions hereof. Any such amendment will be promptly notified to each stock exchange or other relevant authority on which the relevant Floating Rate Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes are for the time being admitted to trading and listed. For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression “ London Business Day ” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks and foreign exchange markets are open for general business in London.

 

 

(viii)

Certificates to be Final

 

All certificates, communications, opinions, determinations, calculations, quotations and decisions given, expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of the provisions of this paragraph (b), whether by the Agent or other Calculation Agent, shall (in the absence of wilful default, bad faith, manifest error or proven error) be binding on the Issuer, the Agent, the Calculation Agent, any other Paying Agent and all Noteholders, Receiptholders and Couponholders and (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar and Transfer Agent and (in the absence of wilful default or bad faith) no liability to the Issuer, the Noteholders, the Receiptholders or the Couponholders shall attach to the Agent or the Calculation Agent in connection with the exercise or non-exercise by either of them of their powers, duties and discretions pursuant to such provisions.

 

 

(ix)

Indexed Linked Interest Notes

 

In the case of Index Linked Notes where the rate of interest is to be determined by reference to the Index and or the Formula, the rate of interest shall be determined in accordance with the Index and/or the Formula and in the manner specified in the applicable Final Terms. The date on which the interest rate is to be determined (the “ Interest Determination Date ”) shall be as set forth in the applicable Final Terms.

 

(c)            Index Linked Notes and Dual Currency Notes

 

In the case of Index Linked Notes or Dual Currency Notes, if the Rate of Interest or Interest Amount cannot be determined by reference to an index and/or a formula or, as the case may be, an exchange rate, such Rate of Interest or Interest Amount payable shall be determined in the manner specified in the applicable Final Terms. The date on which the valuation of the Index is to be determined or the date on which any Formula or other variable or Rate of Exchange is to be determined under any Index Linked Notes or Dual Currency Notes (the “ Determination Date ”) shall be as set forth in the applicable Final Terms. If the applicable Final Terms specify a Minimum Final Redemption Amount then in no event shall the Final Redemption Amount be less than such Minimum Final Redemption Amount. If the applicable Final Terms specify a Maximum Final Redemption Amount then in no event shall the Final Redemption Amount exceed such Maximum Final Redemption Amount.

 

(d)            Zero Coupon Notes

 

When a Zero Coupon Note becomes due and repayable prior to the Maturity Date and is not paid when due, the amount due and repayable shall be the Amortised Face Amount of such Note as determined in accordance with Condition 6(f)(iii). As from the Maturity Date,

 

 

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any overdue principal of such Note shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Accrual Yield set forth in the applicable Final Terms.

 

(e)            Partly Paid Notes

 

The Issuer may issue Notes where the issue price is payable in more than one instalment and which therefore remain partly paid (“ Partly Paid Notes ”). In the case of Partly Paid Notes (other than Partly Paid Notes which are Zero Coupon Notes), interest will accrue as aforesaid on the paid up nominal amount of such Notes and otherwise as specified in the applicable Final Terms.

 

(f)            Accrual of Interest

 

Each Note (or in the case of the redemption of part only of a Note, that part only of such Note to be redeemed) will cease to bear interest (if any) from the date of its redemption unless payment of principal is improperly withheld or refused. In such event, interest will continue to accrue at the rate of interest then applicable or at such other rate as may be specified in the applicable Final Terms until whichever is the earlier of (i) the day on which all sums due in respect of such Note up to that day are received by or on behalf of the holder of such Note; and (ii) the day on which the Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar or the Transfer Agent has notified the holder thereof (either in accordance with Condition 16 or individually) of receipt of all sums due in respect thereof up to that date.

 

5.           Payments

 

(a)            Method of Payment

 

Subject as provided below:

 

 

(i)

payments in a Specified Currency other than euro will be made by credit or transfer to an account in the relevant Specified Currency (which, in the case of a payment in Japanese Yen to a non-resident of Japan, shall be a non-resident account) maintained by the payee with, or at the option of the payee by a cheque in such Specified Currency drawn on, a bank in the principal financial centre of the country of such Specified Currency (which, if the Specified Currency is Australian dollars or New Zealand dollars shall be Sydney or Auckland, respectively), unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms; and

 

 

(ii)

payments in euro will be made by credit or transfer to a euro account (or any other account to which euro may be credited or transferred) specified by the payee or, at the option of the payee, by a euro cheque.

 

Notwithstanding the above provisions of this Condition 5(a), a cheque may not be delivered to an address in, and an amount may not be transferred to an account at a bank located in, the United States of America or its possessions by any office or agency of the Issuer, the Agent or any Paying Agent or (in the case of Registered Notes) the Registrar or Transfer Agent except as provided in Condition 5(d). Payments will be subject in all cases to any fiscal or other laws and regulations applicable thereto in the place of payment, but (unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms) without prejudice to the provisions of Condition 7.

 

 

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(b)            Presentation of Notes, Receipts and Coupons – Bearer Notes

 

This Condition 5(b) applies to Bearer Notes.

 

Payments of principal in respect of definitive Notes will (subject as provided below) be made in the Specified Currency in the manner provided in paragraph (a) above against presentation and surrender (or, in the case of part payment of a sum due only, endorsement) of definitive Notes and payments of interest in respect of the definitive Notes will (subject as provided below) be made in the Specified Currency in the manner provided in paragraph (a) above against presentation and surrender (or, in the case of part payment of a sum due only, endorsement) of Coupons, in each case at the specified office of any Paying Agent outside the United States which expression, used herein, means the United States of America (including the States and the District of Columbia, its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction).

 

In the case of definitive Notes, payments of instalments of principal (if any), other than the final instalment, will (subject as provided below) be made in the manner provided in paragraph (a) against presentation and surrender (or, in the case of part payment of a sum due only, endorsement) of the relevant Receipt. Each Receipt must be presented for payment of the relevant instalment together with the definitive Note to which it appertains. If any definitive Note is redeemed or becomes repayable prior to the stated Maturity Date, principal will be payable in the manner provided in paragraph (a) on presentation and surrender of such definitive Note together with all unmatured Receipts appertaining thereto. Receipts presented without the definitive Note to which they appertain and unmatured Receipts do not constitute valid obligations of the Issuer. Upon the date on which any definitive Note becomes due and repayable, unmatured Receipts (if any) relating thereto (whether or not attached) shall become void and no payment shall be made in respect thereof.

 

Upon the date on which any Fixed Rate Notes in definitive form (other than Dual Currency Interest Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes) become due and repayable, such Notes should be presented for payment together with all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto (which expression shall for this purpose include Coupons falling to be issued on exchange of matured Talons), failing which the amount of any missing unmatured Coupon (or, in the case of payment not being made in full, the same proportion of the aggregate amount of such missing unmatured Coupon as the sum so paid bears to the sum due) will be deducted from the sum due for payment. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, each amount of principal so deducted will be paid in the manner mentioned above against surrender of the relative missing Coupon at any time before the expiry of five years after the Relevant Date (as defined in Condition 8) in respect of such principal (whether or not such Coupon would otherwise have become void under Condition 8) or, if later, five years from the date on which such Coupon would otherwise have become due. Upon any Fixed Rate Note becoming due and repayable prior to its Maturity Date, all unmatured Talons (if any) appertaining thereto will become void and no further Coupons will be issued in respect thereof.

 

Upon the date on which any Floating Rate Note, Dual Currency Interest Note or Index Linked Interest Note in definitive form becomes due and repayable, unmatured Coupons and Talons (if any) relating thereto (whether or not attached) shall become void and no payment or, as the case may be, exchange for further Coupons shall be made in respect thereof.

 

If the due date for redemption of any definitive Note is not an Interest Payment Date, interest (if any) accrued in respect of such Note from (and including) the preceding Interest

 

 

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Payment Date or, as the case may be, the Interest Commencement Date or Issue Date (as applicable) shall be payable only against surrender of the relevant definitive Note.

 

Payments of principal and interest (if any) in respect of Notes represented by any global Note will (subject as provided below) be made in the manner specified above in relation to definitive Notes or otherwise in the manner specified in the relevant global Note, where applicable against presentation or surrender, as the case may be, of such global Note, if the global Note is not issued in NGN form or held under the NSS, at the specified office of any Paying Agent located outside the United States except as provided below. A record of each payment made, distinguishing between any payment of principal and any payment of interest, will be made on such global Note either by the Paying Agent to which it was presented or in the records of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg, as applicable.

 

(c)            Presentation and Surrender of Notes – Registered Notes

 

Provisions in relation to payments of principal and interest in respect of Registered Notes will be set out in the relevant registered global Note or definitive Registered Note and as otherwise set out in these Terms and Conditions.

 

(d)            Global Notes

 

The holder of a global Note shall be the only person entitled to receive payments in respect of Notes represented by such global Note and the Issuer will be discharged by payment to, or to the order of, the holder of such global Note in respect of each amount so paid. Each of the persons shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular nominal amount of Notes represented by such global Note must look solely to Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be, for the holder’s share of each payment so made by the Issuer to, or to the order of, the holder of such global Note. No person other than the holder of such global Note shall have any claim against the Issuer in respect of any payments due on the global Note.

 

Interest on the Notes is payable only outside the United States and its possessions, within the meaning of United States Treasury regulation section 1.163-5(c)(1)(ii)(A).  No interest on the Notes shall be paid into an account maintained by the payee in the United States or mailed to an address in the United States unless the payee is described in United States Treasury regulation sections 1.163-5(c)(2)(v)(B)(1) or (2).

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, payments of interest in respect of global Notes will be made at the specified office of a Paying Agent in the United States (which expression, as used herein, means the United States of America (including the States and the District of Columbia, its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction)) if:

 

 

(i)

the Issuer has appointed Paying Agents with specified offices outside the United States with the reasonable expectation that such Paying Agents would be able to make payments at such specified offices outside the United States of the full amount owing in respect of the Notes in the manner provided above when due;

 

 

(ii)

payment of the full amount owing in respect of the Notes at such specified offices outside the United States is illegal or effectively precluded by the imposition of exchange controls or other similar restrictions on the full payment or receipt of interest; and

 

 

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(iii)

such payment is then permitted under United States law without involving, in the opinion of the Issuer, adverse tax consequences to the Issuer.

 

(e)            Payment Day

 

Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, if the due date for payment of any amount in respect of any Note, Receipt or Coupon is not a Payment Day, the holder thereof shall not be entitled to payment until the next following Payment Day in the relevant place and shall not be entitled to further interest or other payment in respect of such delay. For these purposes, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Final Terms, “ Payment Day ” means any day which is both:

 

 

(i)

a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general business (including dealing in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in:

 

 

(A)

the relevant place of presentation (if presentation is required);

 

 

(B)

London; and

 

 

(C)

any additional Applicable Business Centre specified in the applicable Final Terms; and

 

 

(ii)

either (1) in relation to any sum payable in a Specified Currency other than euro, a day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general business (including dealing in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in the principal financial centre of the country of the relevant Specified Currency (if other than the place of presentation (if presentation is required), London and any Applicable Business Centre and which if the Specified Currency is Australian dollars or New Zealand dollars shall be Sydney or Auckland, respectively) or (2) in relation to any sum payable in euro, a day on which the TARGET2 System is open.

 

(f)            Conversion into euro

 

Unless specified otherwise in the applicable Final Terms, if the Issuer is due to make a payment in a currency (the “ original currency ”) other than euro in respect of any Note, Coupon or Receipt and the original currency is not available on the foreign exchange markets due to the imposition of exchange controls, the original currency’s replacement or disuse or other circumstances beyond the Issuer’s control, the Issuer will be entitled to satisfy its obligations in respect of such payment by making payment in euro on the basis of the spot exchange rate (the “ Euro FX Rate ”) at which the original currency is offered in exchange for euro in the London foreign exchange market (or, at the option of the Issuer or its designated Calculation Agent, in the foreign exchange market of any other financial


 
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