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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors of The Bank of Nova Scotia



We have examined management’s assertion, included in
the accompanying Management’s Report on Assessment of Compliance with SEC Regulation AB Servicing Criteria, that the Bank
of Nova Scotia (the “Bank”) has complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the Securities and
Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB for the eligible residential mortgages in the cover pool held by the Scotiabank Covered
Bond Guarantor Limited Partnership in relation to the Bank’s Global Registered Covered Bonds Program (the “Platform”)
as of October 31, 2013 and for the period from September 9, 2013 through October 31, 2013, excluding criteria 1122(d)(l)(ii), (iii),
(iv), 1122(d)(2)(iii) and 1122(d)(2)(vi), which management of the Bank has determined are not applicable to the activities performed
by the Bank with respect to the Platform. Management is responsible for the Bank’s compliance with the servicing criteria.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assertion about the Bank’s compliance based on our examination.

Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards
of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis,
evidence about the Bank’s compliance with the servicing criteria specified above and performing such other procedures as
we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing selected servicing activities related to the Platform,
and determining whether the Bank performed those selected activities in compliance with the servicing criteria. Furthermore, our
procedures were limited to the servicing activities performed by the Bank during the period covered by this report. Our procedures
were not designed to determine whether errors may have occurred either prior to or subsequent to our tests that may have affected
the balances or amounts calculated or reported by the Bank during the period covered by this report. We believe that our examination
provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Bank’s compliance
with the servicing criteria.

In our opinion, management’s assertion that the Bank
complied with the aforementioned servicing criteria as of October 31, 2013 and for the period from September 9, 2013 through October
31, 2013 is fairly stated, in all material respects.

With respect to applicable servicing criterion 1122(d)(2)(ii),
1122(d)(3)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and 1122(d)(4)(xv), management of the Bank has determined that there were no activities performed
during the period from September 9, 2013 through October 31, 2013 with respect to the Platform, because there were no occurrences
of events that would require the Bank to perform such activities.

/s/ KPMG LLP



Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants

Toronto, Canada
January 29, 2014