### Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (Hong Kong Consolidation) Ordinance 《Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (香港合併)條例》

5. Trust property and wills
(1) Any property vested or deemed to be vested in Corporate Business Bank by virtue of this Ordinance which immediately before the appointed day was held by a consolidating bank in Hong Kong, whether alone or jointly with any other person, as trustee or custodian trustee of any trust deed, settlement, covenant, agreement or will (whether originally so appointed or not, and whether appointed under hand or seal, or by order of any court or otherwise), or as executor of the will, or administrator of the estate, of a deceased person or as judicial trustee appointed by order of any court, or in any other fiduciary capacity, shall, on and from the appointed day, be held by Corporate Business Bank alone or, as the case may be, jointly with such other person, in the same capacity upon the trusts, and with and subject to the powers, provisions and liabilities, applicable thereto respectively.
(2) Any existing instrument or order of any court under or by virtue of which any property became vested in a consolidating bank in Hong Kong in any such fiduciary capacity as is referred to in subsection (1) (including in the case of a will any grant of probate thereof), and any provision in such instrument or order, or any existing contract or arrangement, for the payment to, or retention by, a consolidating bank in Hong Kong of remuneration for its services in any such fiduciary capacity, shall, on and from the appointed day, be construed and have effect, so far as the context permits, as if for any reference therein to the consolidating bank in Hong Kong other than a reference (however worded and whether express or implied) to terms and conditions of, or to a scale of fees of, the consolidating bank in Hong Kong, there were substituted a reference to Corporate Business Bank provided always that this subsection shall not prevent Corporate Business Bank from varying the remuneration or scale of fees payable in accordance with the terms of the relevant instrument or order.
(3) Any will made before the appointed day which has not been proved in Hong Kong before the appointed day, and any will made on or after the appointed day, being a will which appoints a consolidating bank in Hong Kong to be an executor, trustee or recipient of any property as trustee, shall, on and from the appointed day, be construed and have effect as if for any reference therein to such bank as such executor, trustee or recipient or otherwise in connection with such appointment, not being a reference (however worded and whether express or implied) to terms and conditions of, or to a scale of fees of, such bank, there were substituted a reference to Corporate Business Bank.
(4) No testamentary gift shall be adeemed by reason only of the operation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance.

### Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (Hong Kong Consolidation) Ordinance 《Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (香港合併)條例》

7. Contracts of employment
(1) Section 6(a) shall apply to a contract for the employment of any person by a consolidating bank in Hong Kong and employment with a consolidating bank in Hong Kong and Corporate Business Bank under any such contract shall be deemed for all purposes to be a single continuing employment.
(2) No director or auditor of a consolidating bank shall by virtue only of this Ordinance become a director or auditor, as the case may be, of Corporate Business Bank.

8. Pensions, provident funds and gratuity benefits
(1) The deeds and rules constituting or relating to the pension fund schemes and the provident fund schemes established in Hong Kong in respect of the employees of the consolidating banks in Hong Kong and the gratuity benefits payable by the consolidating banks in Hong Kong shall, on and from the appointed day, be construed and have effect, so far as the context permits, as if for any reference therein to the consolidating banks in Hong Kong there were substituted a reference to Corporate Business Bank.
(2) No officer or employee of a consolidating bank in Hong Kong who becomes or is deemed to become an officer or employee of Corporate Business Bank by virtue of this Ordinance shall, by virtue only of this Ordinance, be entitled to participate in any pension fund schemes or provident fund schemes of or gratuity benefits payable by Corporate Business Bank, and no existing officer or employee of Corporate Business Bank shall, by virtue only of this Ordinance, be entitled to participate in any pension fund schemes or provident fund schemes established in Hong Kong in respect of the employees of the consolidating banks in Hong Kong or any gratuity benefits payable by the consolidating banks in Hong Kong.

9. Waiver of prohibition of merger
(1) Any provision contained in any contract or document to which any of the consolidating banks or Corporate Business Bank or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party and which prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting the transactions referred to in this Ordinance, including but not limited to the transfer and vesting or deemed transfer and vesting of the consolidating branches in Corporate Business Bank shall be deemed by this Ordinance to have been waived.
(2) Any provision contained in any contract or document to the effect that a breach of contract or a default shall occur or be deemed to occur as a result of the transactions referred to in this Ordinance, including but not limited to the transfer and vesting or deemed transfer and vesting of the consolidating branches in Corporate Business Bank, and to which any of the consolidating banks or Corporate Business Bank or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party shall be deemed by this Ordinance to have been waived.

### Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (Hong Kong Consolidation) Ordinance 《Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (香港合併)條例》

10. Evidence: books and documents
(1) All books and other documents which would, before the appointed day, have been evidence in respect of any matter for or against a consolidating bank in Hong Kong shall be admissible in evidence in respect of the same matter for or against Corporate Business Bank from and after the appointed day.
(2) In this section, documents (文件) has the same meaning as in section 46 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8).

11. Part III of Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8)
(1) On and from the appointed day, Part III of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8) shall apply to the banker’s records of the consolidating banks in Hong Kong vested or deemed to be vested in Corporate Business Bank by virtue of this Ordinance, and to entries made in those records before the appointed day, as if such records were the records of Corporate Business Bank.
(2) For the purposes of section 20 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8), banker’s records which are deemed to have become the banker’s records of Corporate Business Bank by virtue of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been the ordinary banker’s records of Corporate Business Bank at the time of the making of any entry therein which purports to have been made before the appointed day, and any such entry shall be deemed to have been made in the usual and ordinary course of business.
(3) For the purposes of sections 40 and 41 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8), documents previously in the custody or control of the consolidating banks in Hong Kong shall by virtue of this Ordinance be deemed to be documents previously in the custody or control of Corporate Business Bank.
(4) In this section, banker’s records (銀行紀錄) shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8).