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1 NAB Equity Lending Facility Terms This document contains important information regarding the terms and conditions which will apply to your NAB Equity Lending Facility. You should read this document carefully and retain it for future reference.
2 Contents Part 1 Loan Terms 1 The Loan Terms set out the terms and conditions on which you may borrow under the facility. Part 2 Guarantee Terms 8 The Guarantee Terms set out the terms on which the guarantor guarantees your obligations under this agreement. Part 3 Mortgage Terms 10 The Mortgage Terms set out the terms on which you and the guarantor agree to mortgage the investments to us as security for your obligations under the facility and the mortgage. Part 4 CHESS Sponsorship Terms 13 The CHESS Sponsorship Terms set out the terms on which you and the guarantor appoint National Margin Services Pty Ltd to be your sponsor in CHESS. Part 5 Nominee Terms 17 The Nominee Terms set out the terms on which you and the guarantor appoint NMS Nominees Pty Ltd as your nominee to hold investments on your behalf. Part 6 Direct Debit Request Service Agreement 17 The Direct Debit Request Service Agreement applies if you request an instalment gearing arrangement or that interest be debited to a certain account. Part 7 General Terms 18 The General Terms contain provisions relevant to this agreement, including the meaning of words and how notices or other communications are to be given. Your personal information and privacy 26
3 Part 1 Loan Terms 1 Loan facility 1.1 Although you may have more than one loan under the facility, this agreement is a single credit contract covering each such loan. 1.2 You may ask us to provide you with fixed interest rate loans, or a variable interest rate loan, or a combination, up to the facility limit. We may impose limits from time to time on the amount of the facility that may be at a fixed rate (for the avoidance of doubt such a limit imposed by us will only apply to a loan entered into after we have imposed the limit). Variable rate loans 1.3 If you ask for a variable interest rate to apply to all or a portion of the facility and we agree, we offer to make you a loan of one or more advances provided that: (a) the total advances do not exceed the facility limit; and (b) the current LVR is less than the base LVR. Fixed rate loans 1.4 If you ask for a fixed interest rate to apply to all or a portion of the facility and we agree, we offer to make you a loan consisting of one advance provided that: (a) the total advances do not exceed the facility limit; and (b) the current LVR is less than the base LVR. Instalment gearing arrangements 1.5 You may also request that a loan be made in connection with an instalment gearing arrangement and if we agree, and you satisfy all our (and any fund manager s) requirements from time to time, the loan will be taken to be made in connection with an instalment gearing arrangement. Facility limit 1.6 We may review the facility limit either as a result of a request from you or if we are required by law so to do. 1.7 You must provide us with any information that we reasonably require at the time of any review. 1.8 As a consequence of a review we may decrease the facility limit or refuse your request for a facility limit increase if we consider it appropriate having regard to our lending criteria and obligations under any law (and even if to do so would result in a default event). 1.9 You must ensure that, within 5 business days of receiving notice of a reduction in the facility limit, the secured liabilities are less than the facility limit If you do not comply with your obligations under clause 1.9 then, without limiting our rights under the mortgage terms in part 3, you and each guarantor will be taken to have requested the attorney appointed under clause 13 to take all steps we deem necessary to ensure that the secured liabilities are less than the facility limit. 2 Procedure for drawing, the role of cash management accounts, and instalment gearing Drawing variable rate advances 2.1 If you have a loan to which a variable interest rate applies, and you want us to make you an advance in respect of that loan, you or your authorised representative or authorised broker must tell us: (a) when you want the advance; and (b) the amount that you require; and (c) where and to whom the money is to be paid. If you want us to make the advance on the day of your request, you must tell us these things by no later than 12 noon on that day. Cash management accounts 2.2 You authorise us to open a cash management account in your name. The cash management account will be used, among other things: (a) to receive fixed rate advances from us pending an application to acquire investments; and (b) to receive the net proceeds from the disposal of investments acquired with a fixed rate loan during the fixed rate period referred to in clause 8; and (c) to debit fixed rate interest under clause 8.4; and (d) to receive and hold any cash collateral you provide, including any provided as contemplated by clause 11.2 (c) following the making of a margin call request. 2.3 The operation of your cash management account will be governed by the terms and conditions for that account, which we will provide separately to you. 2.4 If this is a joint facility, you authorise us to open cash management accounts in the name of any one or more of you if we deem it appropriate. We will do this if investments which are not owned by all of you jointly are to be provided as part of the secured property for the joint facility. Each such cash management account will be used, among other things, to receive and hold the net proceeds from the disposal of investments which are owned by the person in whose name the account is held. 2.5 You may withdraw money from your cash management account at any time by written request to us (which must be in a letter physically signed by you and posted or faxed to us), provided that: (a) the current LVR both before and after any withdrawal is less than the base LVR; and (b) no default event subsists (before the withdrawal) or would occur or be likely to occur (after the withdrawal). 1
4 Advances under an instalment gearing arrangement 2.6 If you have requested, and we have agreed to provide, an instalment gearing arrangement, we will make advances to you monthly. These advances are the loan component of instalments under the arrangement. All amounts advanced under an instalment gearing arrangement, together with your initial equity contribution (if cash) and monthly equity contributions must be used for the acquisition of approved managed fund investments, and for no other purpose. 2.7 The availability of an instalment gearing arrangement is subject to us agreeing with you: (a) the month in which monthly instalments will commence (ie after the initial instalment); (b) the amount of the initial equity contribution; (c) the amount of the initial advance; (d) the amount of the loan component of each monthly instalment; (e) the amount of each monthly equity contribution, and to you giving us authority to direct debit an account you nominate for your initial equity contribution (unless you provide the initial equity contribution in another manner we may agree) and each of your monthly equity contributions. 2.8 If you give us 14 business days notice in writing (which must be in a letter physically signed by you and posted or faxed to us), you may change the instalment gearing arrangement in any of the following ways: (a) you may increase the amount of the instalments, in which case the amount of your monthly equity contributions must be increased so as to preserve the same ratio between the loan component of instalments and your monthly equity contributions; and (b) you may reduce or suspend your monthly equity contributions and have us continue to make advances in the agreed amount to acquire approved managed fund investments (for one month or, with our prior agreement, more than one) provided that this does not cause the current LVR to be equal to or greater than the base LVR; and (c) you may ask that we reduce, suspend or cease the instalments; and (d) if your secured liabilities exceed the instalment gearing limit, you may elect to stop the instalments once the total of all loan balances under this facility equals or exceeds the instalment gearing limit. If you want to change the instalment gearing arrangement in any other way (including in a way that changes the ratio between the loan component of instalments and your monthly equity contributions), you must obtain our consent first. 2.9 During the period when instalments are suspended or have ceased for any reason, you are not required to make monthly equity contributions. You should notify us if you nevertheless want to continue to make monthly equity contributions to acquire approved managed fund investments without drawing a loan component. Conditions to making each advance 2.10 In relation to all loans (ie whether under an instalment gearing arrangement or otherwise), we are not required to make you an advance if: (a) a default event has occurred in relation to you or a guarantor; or (b) the advance would cause the secured liabilities to exceed the facility limit or would give us the right to make a margin call under clause 11; or (c) the current LVR is equal to or greater than the base LVR or if the advance would result in the current LVR becoming equal to or greater than the base LVR; or (d) you request an advance of less than a minimum amount we determine (which may change from time to time); or (e) you request that part of an advance under an instalment gearing arrangement be invested in a certain type of approved managed fund investment and the amount of that part of the advance is less than a minimum amount we determine (which may change from time to time); or (f) we have not received any document or information we reasonably require, in a form satisfactory to us (including, where you are an individual, any document or other information that we may require to satisfy ourselves that the advance will not be used for a Code Purpose); or (g) we have asked you to repay the secured liabilities under clause 10.4; or (h) you are an individual and we have determined that this paragraph applies to that advance, and we are not satisfied that the advance will not be used for a Code Purpose We may, in our absolute discretion where the law so permits, make an advance to you to acquire investments that would cause the secured liabilities to exceed the facility limit. If we do so you acknowledge that: (a) your facility limit is increased to the amount of the secured liabilities after we have made the advance; and (b) we will review your facility limit in accordance with clauses 1.6 to 1.10 and as a consequence of such review we may decrease your facility limit which would require you take steps to ensure that the secured liabilities are less than the decreased facility limit. 2
5 3 Purchasing investments with loan funds 3.1 Advances that we make to you under the facility (except under an instalment gearing arrangement) must be used to purchase investments or for other business or investment purposes as agreed by us. 3.2 Advances made to you under an instalment gearing arrangement must be used to purchase approved managed fund investments only. 3.3 You must provide us with any documents or information that we require as evidence of your intention to acquire investments as contemplated by clause 3.1 or clause 3.2. (For example, a confirmation to acquire shares or a completed application form to acquire managed fund investments). 3.4 On request we will provide you with a list of approved investments. That list may also appear on the website. We may remove an investment from the approved list at any time, without having to give you prior notice. We will give you notice that an investment has been removed from the approved investment list as soon as practicable after the investment is removed. 3.5 If you purchase investments which are CHESS-eligible investments, you must purchase them in your name. 3.6 Unless we agree otherwise, investments that are not CHESSeligible investments must be registered in the name of Nominees as your nominee. 3.7 We may change the security ratio used to calculate the security value of an investment at any time without prior notice to you (including by reducing the security ratio of an investment to zero) as we determine necessary having regard to a range of factors including: (a) changes or anticipated changes in the market value of the investment; (b) our internal risk assessment policies. This may result in a margin call. 3.8 We will give you notice of any change in the security ratio used to calculate the security value of an investment as soon as practicable after the change. 4 Splitting a loan You may ask us to split a loan into further loans, or to change the features of existing loans, within the facility. After any initial split, you may ask us to change the split by creating further loans or consolidating loans. If we agree to your request, we treat each loan separately for various purposes under the facility and you authorise us to open a loan account for each loan. Economic costs and other charges may become payable under clause 9.10 as a result of actions taken under this clause. 5 Calculation of interest 5.1 You agree to pay us interest at the applicable interest rate on each loan advanced to you, calculated daily from (and including) the date the loan is advanced. We may also charge interest on unpaid interest, fees, charges and any other amount owing in connection with this agreement from (and including) the date that relevant amount becomes payable. 5.2 We may debit any interest to: (a) your variable interest rate loan account, if a variable interest rate applies to all or a portion of your facility and if to do so would not cause the secured liabilities to exceed the facility limit; or (b) your cash management account, if a fixed interest rate applies to all of your facility; or (c) an account acceptable to us which may include one for which you have provided us with a direct debit request. 5.3 If we: (a) do not, in accordance with clause 5.2, debit your loan account because to do so would cause the secured liabilities to exceed the facility limit or debit your cash management account or other account we have agreed; or (b) do debit your loan account and upon doing so the secured liabilities exceed the facility limit, the amount of the interest is immediately due and payable by you and failure to pay will be a default event. 5.4 If the secured liabilities exceed the facility limit, we may charge you default interest on the amount by which the secured liabilities exceed the facility limit. You must also pay us default interest on any amount you fail to pay on the due date (including, the amount of any margin call which is not satisfied in accordance with clause 11). 5.5 Information on current interest rates and charges is available from us on request. This information may also appear on our website. 6 Changing interest rate options 6.1 You may request us to change the interest rate features applying to a loan or a portion of a loan. This request must be in writing (which must be a letter physically signed by you and posted or faxed to us). We are not obliged to agree to a request. 6.2 If you change the interest rate features applying to all or a portion of a loan from a fixed interest rate to a variable interest rate during the fixed rate period you may have to pay an economic cost and other charges under clause
6 7 Variable interest rate loans 7.1 If you have a loan to which a variable interest rate applies, we may change the interest rate at any time. The reasons why we may change the variable interest rate include (but are not limited to) changes to the cost or risk of providing the loan to you. We will notify you in writing or by newspaper advertisement, on or before the date of any change in the variable interest rate. 7.2 If a change to the variable interest rate is not acceptable to you, and you give us notice within 5 days of being notified of the change that you intend to repay the loan in accordance with clause 10.1, we will not apply the variable interest rate as so changed to the loan (although you must pay interest at the previous rate until the loan is repaid). Interest payable in arrears 7.3 If you have a loan to which a variable interest rate applies, you must pay interest incurred on that loan monthly in arrears. Interest must be paid to us as we direct by one of the methods in clause 5.2(a) or (c), on the last business day of each month or on any other business day we decide and of which we give you notice. 7.4 We may debit accrued variable rate interest to your loan account on a certain day but not debit your nominated account under the direct debit request service agreement in relation to that interest until a later date. If that happens, interest will accrue for the relevant period on the interest debited to your loan account. Request for capitalisation of interest 7.5 You may ask us to advance you the amount of accrued variable rate interest when due. If we agree, we will debit the amount of accrued variable rate interest to your variable interest rate loan account and that amount will accrue interest. Effect of debiting interest to loan account 7.6 Debiting an amount to your loan account may result in a margin call, or it may result in your facility limit being exceeded. In either case, our rights in relation to those events are unaffected by the fact that we have agreed to debit the relevant amount to the loan account. 8 Fixed interest rate loans 8.1 During a fixed rate period the interest rate on a loan to which a fixed interest rate applies remains fixed. What happens at the end of the fixed rate period? 8.2 Unless you have asked us on or before the last day of the fixed rate period to fix the interest rate for a further period (which, if we agree, will be at the then applicable rate for the requested period), at the end of the fixed rate period, the interest rate on a fixed rate loan automatically converts to the variable interest rate current at that time. Fixed rate interest payable annually in advance 8.3 If you have a loan to which a fixed interest rate applies, you may ask us to accept payment of the fixed rate interest annually in advance. If we agree to accept that payment, and you repay or are required by us to repay the loan early, we will refund part of the prepaid interest proportionate to the unexpired period in respect of which the interest has been prepaid, but you must pay us our economic costs and other charges calculated in accordance with clause We may deduct these costs and charges from the interest refund (but you must still pay them if they exceed the refund amount). Fixed rate interest payable in arrears 8.4 If you have a loan to which a fixed interest rate applies, and you do not pay interest annually in advance, you must pay us interest incurred on that loan monthly and in arrears. Interest must be paid to us as we direct by one of the methods in clause 5.2(b) or (c), on the last business day of each month or on any other business day we decide and of which we give you notice. 8.5 We may debit accrued fixed rate interest to your cash management account or (if you also have a variable rate loan) your variable interest rate loan account on a certain day but not debit your nominated account under the direct debit request service agreement in relation to that interest until a later date. If that happens, interest will accrue for the relevant period on the interest debited to your cash management account or variable interest rate loan account. Request for capitalisation of interest 8.6 You may ask us to advance you the amount of fixed rate interest when due. If we agree, we will debit the amount of fixed interest to your fixed rate loan account. Effect of debiting interest to cash management account or loan account 8.7 Debiting an amount to your cash management account or loan account under clause 8.4 may result in a margin call. Our rights in relation to those events are unaffected by the fact that we have agreed to debit the relevant amount to the cash management account or variable interest rate loan account. 9 Fees and charges 9.1 You agree to pay: (a) all fees, charges payable in connection with this agreement and described in the PDS and Application Form; and (b) any other amount owing to us in connection with this agreement including those that you must pay to us, NMS and Nominees. 4
7 9.2 We may require you to pay any enforcement expenses incurred in enforcing this agreement or a security interest as well as any economic cost and other amounts you may be charged under clause You must pay or reimburse us for any charges relating to dishonoured, declined or rejected debits or payments. 9.4 We may debit any fees, costs or charges under clause 9.1, clause 9.2, clause 9.3 or clause 9.7 to: (a) your variable interest rate loan account, if a variable interest rate applies to all or a portion of your facility and if to do so would not cause the secured liabilities to exceed the facility limit; (b) your cash management account, if a fixed interest rate applies to all of your facility; or (c) an account acceptable to us for which you have provided us with a direct debit request. We will give you two business days notice of any amounts to be debited under this clause If we do not debit your loan account, or cash management account or other account we have agreed, in accordance with clause 9.4, you must reimburse us, NMS and Nominees within five business days of receiving a request from us for any costs, fees and charges incurred on your behalf in accordance with the terms of this agreement. 9.6 Your liabilities under this clause 9 include stamp duty, registration or other fees and charges associated with CHESS. We can ask you to pay, and you are obliged to pay, these costs and charges within five business days of receiving a request from us. 9.7 You acknowledge that NMS may charge us a fee in connection with this agreement and you agree to reimburse us for the amount of that fee. 9.8 On giving you at least 30 days notice in writing we may impose any new fee, vary the amount of a fee, vary the frequency of interest and fee charging or the basis of the calculation and charging of fees or interest. This does not apply in connection with: (a) the direct debit request service agreement, in respect of which see Part 6; or (b) changes to government fees and charges. 9.9 Notice of changes to government fees and charges will be given by newspaper advertisement, in writing or electronically as soon as practicable after, but no later than three months after, the change takes effect. Economic costs on prepayments 9.10 If you have a loan to which a fixed interest rate applies and: (a) (regardless of whether you have paid fixed rate interest in advance) you prepay, or are required by us to repay, all or part of that loan before the end of the fixed rate period; or (b) (regardless of whether you have paid fixed rate interest in advance) you ask us to change the fixed interest rate to a variable interest rate, before the end of the fixed rate period, we may charge you an economic cost. An economic cost is a reasonable estimate of our loss (if any), calculated by us, representing the difference between our cost of funds for the relevant amount at the start of the fixed rate period over the fixed rate period and our cost of funds for the relevant amount at the date of prepayment over the remainder of the fixed rate period. The amount of this difference is then discounted back to its net present value at a rate determined by us as equivalent to our cost of funds at the date of prepayment. The economic cost is due and payable on the date of prepayment. If asked, we will notify you of our estimate of the economic cost before the day it is due and payable. If you prepay or are required by us to repay all or part of a loan to which a fixed interest rate applies before the end of the fixed rate period, then as well as paying us our economic costs, you agree to indemnify us from and against any liability or loss arising from, and any costs, charges and expenses incurred in connection with, that prepayment or repayment. Before repayment of a fixed rate loan, or converting a fixed rate loan to a variable rate, it would be advisable for you to ask us to indicate what the economic cost (if any) and any other costs might be (but they are payable even if you do not ask us to indicate those costs). 10 Repayments Repayment at your election 10.1 Subject to clause 9.8, you may repay the whole or part of the secured liabilities at any time by giving us five business days notice. Compulsory repayment on default event 10.2 If a default event occurs and we require you to do so, you must repay (all or part of) the secured liabilities and all other monies owing by you within two business days after notice is given by us to you It is a default event if: (a) you or a guarantor fail to perform or observe any obligation under this agreement in a material respect, including an obligation to pay an amount on time; (b) you do not pay interest, fees or other amounts due under clause 9; (c) the secured liabilities exceed the facility limit;. (d) you or a guarantor become insolvent, (or in the case of a natural person) die or become of unsound mind or subject to any legal disability or incapacity; (e) any provision of this agreement or any security created by you or any guarantor is or becomes void, voidable or defective; 5
8 6 (f) you or any guarantor without our prior written consent purports or attempts to create any security interest over any secured property in favour of anyone other than us; (g) a margin call is not satisfied in accordance with clause 11; or (h) any other event occurs which in our opinion may materially affect your or the guarantor s ability to meet your or their obligations under this agreement. Repayment at our election 10.4 Despite clause 10.2, and even if no default event has occurred, we may ask you to repay the secured liabilities at any time by giving you five business days notice To avoid doubt, if this is a joint facility, each of you is liable for the entire secured liabilities. Each of you agrees to pay us any amounts which any of the others does not pay on time or in accordance with any arrangement under which it is expressed to be owing, as at the time we demand that you pay them to us. As a separate undertaking, each of you unconditionally and irrevocably indemnifies us against, and you must pay us for the loss we suffer if the facility is unenforceable solely because of, the death, insolvency or incapacity of, or any act or omission by, or other circumstances affecting, any of the others If this is a joint facility, except to the extent any of you have a right conferred by the Code of Banking Practice, none of you can otherwise withdraw from, end or limit the facility Your rights in respect of a joint facility as conferred by the Code of Banking Practice include the right to terminate your liability with respect to future advances or financial accommodation to be made under the facility, by giving us written notice. If you give us written notice to this effect, we may choose not to provide further advances under the facility. 11 Margin calls 11.1 We may (and will where required to do so by law) make a margin call if, at the relevant time, the current LVR is equal to or greater than the margin call LVR at that time. This may occur in any number of ways, including movement in the value of any item of secured property, us changing the security ratio attributed to any item of secured property (which may include where we reduce the security ratio to zero), us changing the buffer, and/or us removing an investment from the list of approved investments. We may change the buffer at any time. The reasons why we may change the buffer include (but are not limited to) changes to our view of the market risk of providing the loan to you and taking security over approved investments. We will notify you in writing or by newspaper advertisement, on or before the date of any change in the buffer If we make a margin call, we will take reasonable steps to notify you and ask you to do any of the following (as you choose) by the margin call deadline: (a) except in relation to fixed rate loans, repay some or all of the secured liabilities; (b) provide us with security over additional approved investments; (c) provide cash collateral in a cash management account, in any case, so that the current LVR is less than the base LVR. In our sole discretion we may agree to an arrangement that may, but need not include any of (a), (b) or (c), so that the current LVR is less than the margin call LVR We will not be liable to you or any guarantor for any loss that you or the guarantor incur because of any failure to make a margin call as soon as we are entitled to, or at all If you do not satisfy a margin call by the margin call deadline (regardless of whether you have actually received the margin call), or we have been unable to contact you to give you a margin call (having taken reasonable steps to do so), you and the guarantor (if any) will be taken to have requested your attorney appointed under clause 13 to take all steps they deem necessary to dispose of any secured property that we choose in our absolute discretion and apply the net proceeds of disposal in accordance with clause 11.2(a) or (c) (as we deem appropriate, acting reasonably) The attorney, acting reasonably, may dispose of more of the secured property than that required to satisfy the margin call The secured property may be disposed of together with other property of the same type belonging to other clients and the disposal proceeds of the combined disposals allocated in the proportion which the number of your or the guarantor s (as the case may be) investments disposed bears to the total number of investments disposed of the same type If the attorney disposes of secured property, under this clause 11, the attorney will take all reasonable care to dispose of the secured property for: (a) if, when it is sold it has a market value, not less than that market value; or (b) otherwise, the best price that is reasonably obtainable, having regard to the circumstances existing when secured property is sold The margin call deadline means the following (unless we specify a later time in writing): (a) if, at or around the time a margin call is to be made, at least 95% by market value of the secured property comprises approved managed fund investments (as determined by us in our discretion), 2.00 p.m. on the fifth business day after the margin call is made; and (b) in all other cases, 2.00 p.m. on the business day after the margin call is made We do not need to give notice of a default event or a notice to the guarantor in order to exercise our rights under this clause 11.
9 12 Representations, warranties and covenants 12.1 If you are a trustee, you represent and warrant to us that: (a) you are the only trustee of the trust; (b) no action has to your knowledge, having made due enquiry, been taken or proposed to remove you as trustee of the trust; (c) the copies of the trust deed and other documents relating to the trust provided to us disclose all the terms of the trust; (d) the trust deed will not be amended or altered without our prior consent; (e) you will not relinquish your trusteeship without our prior consent; (f) you have power under the trust deed to enter into and observe your obligations under this agreement and you enter into this agreement in your capacity as trustee of the trust; (g) you are not, and never have been, in default under the trust deed; (h) our rights under this agreement rank in priority to the interests of the beneficiaries of the trust; and (i) you have carefully considered the purpose of this agreement and consider that entry into this agreement is for the benefit of the beneficiaries and the terms of this agreement are fair and reasonable. Each representation and warranty is taken to be repeated on each date on which we provide a loan If you are a trustee, you agree: (a) at our request and at your own expense: (i) to execute and cause your successors to execute documents and do everything else necessary or appropriate to bind yourself and your successors under this agreement; and (ii) to use your best endeavours to cause relevant third parties to do likewise to bind every person intended to be bound under this agreement; (b) to observe your obligations as trustee of the trust; (c) not, without our consent, to do anything which: (i) effects or facilitates the retirement, removal or replacement of yourself as trustee of the trust; or (ii) could restrict your right of indemnity from the trust fund in respect of obligations incurred as trustee under this agreement; or (iii) could restrict or impair your ability to observe its obligations under this agreement; or (iv) effects or facilitates the termination of the trust; or (v) effects or facilitates the variation of the trust deed; or (vi) effects or facilitates the resettlement of the trust fund; or (vii) could result in the trust fund being mixed with other property; and (d) to notify us immediately if any representation or warranty made or taken to be made in connection with this agreement is found to be incorrect or misleading when made or taken to be made. 13 Power of attorney In this clause 13, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them You (and, if there are more than one of you, each of you severally) appoint us and our authorised officers and agents as your attorneys. If we ask, you must formally approve anything an attorney does under clause 13.2 (including in writing). You may not revoke these appointments until all the secured property is released from this agreement An attorney may do any act or thing and execute, sign or deliver any document which an attorney reasonably considers necessary or desirable for the purpose of: (a) doing anything which you may authorise an attorney to do or request an attorney to do (including a request you are taken to have made under clause 11.4) in connection with the secured property (including executing a deed, disposing of or otherwise dealing with the secured property or directing Nominees and NMS to do so, starting, conducting and defending legal proceedings, applying the proceeds or dealing with the secured property to repay all or part of the secured liabilities, or sending messages or communications by which secured property can be disposed of); and (b) delegating their powers (including this power and the power to revoke a delegation); and (c) exercising their powers even if this involves a conflict of duty or if they have a personal interest in doing so; and (d) exercising their powers regardless of whether a default event has occurred Neither we nor an attorney are liable for any loss or penalty incurred by you as a result of: (a) any delay by an attorney in exercising their powers; or (b) an attorney not exercising their powers, except if caused by our fraud or gross negligence You indemnify each attorney against any reasonable loss or costs they suffer or incur in exercising powers under this power of attorney. We may debit any such loss or cost to: (a) your variable interest rate loan account, if a variable interest rate applies to all or a portion of your facility and if to do so would not cause the secured liabilities to exceed the facility limit; (b) your cash management account, if a fixed interest rate applies to all of your facility; or 7
10 8 (c) an account acceptable to us for which you have provided us with a direct debit request. We will give you two business days prior notice of any amounts to be debited under this clause If we do not debit your loan account, or cash management account or other account we have agreed, in accordance with clause 13.4, you must pay us within two business days of receiving a request from us the amount of any loss or cost referred to in clause Rights of set-off over your cash management account 14.1 If a cash management account has been opened in your name for use in connection with the facility, as security for your obligations you agree to give us rights of set-off against that account. If this is a joint facility, each of you agree to give us those rights in relation to each relevant cash management account This means that we may set off any amount due by you to us against the credit balance in the cash management account if a default event has occurred. We may do this without prior notice to you but we will give you notice as soon as practicable after exercising our rights under this clause. Part 2 Guarantee Terms This Part only applies if a person is a guarantor, either as an original party to this agreement or by virtue of a Guarantor Accession Deed Poll. 15 Reason for giving a guarantee 15.1 The guarantor gives us this guarantee in return for us, at the guarantor s request, entering into, or continuing, the facility with the client By signing this agreement, the guarantor incurs certain obligations. The guarantor also gives us rights concerning the secured property. However, the maximum amount we can recover from the guarantor is described in clause Guarantee 16.1 The guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to guarantee the obligations of the client under this agreement The guarantor guarantees that the client will pay us when they become due for payment under this agreement all the amounts which may be payable now or in the future under this agreement or otherwise are guarantor s secured liabilities Subject to clause 23, the guarantor s secured liabilities can increase at any time without the guarantor s consent. We are not obliged to tell the guarantor if the amount increases or otherwise changes. However, you may, by written notice to us, limit the amount or nature of the liabilities guaranteed under this Guarantee in the circumstances set out in section 28.9 of the Code of Banking Practice where that Code applies to you and this guarantee The guarantor agrees to pay us, within two business days from when we demand payment, any amounts which the client does not pay on time or in accordance with any arrangement under which it is expressed to be owing, as at the time we demand that the guarantor pay them to us The guarantor agrees to pay or reimburse us, within two business days from when we demand payment, for all fees in connection with the guarantee, including those payable to us, NMS or Nominees and any fee NMS or Nominees may charge us. We may require the guarantor to pay within two business days from when we demand payment any enforcement expenses incurred in enforcing the guarantee The guarantor must reimburse, within two business days from when we demand payment, us, NMS and Nominees for any costs, fees and charges incurred on the guarantor s behalf in accordance with the terms of the guarantee The guarantor s liabilities under clauses 16.5 and 16.6 include stamp duty, registration or other fees and charges associated with CHESS On giving the guarantor at least 30 days notice in writing we may impose any new fee, vary the amount of a fee, vary the frequency of interest and fee charging or the basis of the calculation and charging of interest, in each case in relation to the guarantee Except to the extent the guarantor has a right conferred by the Code of Banking Practice, the guarantor cannot otherwise withdraw from, end or limit the guarantee. 17 Related indemnity As a separate undertaking, the guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably indemnifies us against, and the guarantor must pay us for, the loss we suffer if this agreement is unenforceable solely because of the client s death, insolvency or incapacity or any act or omission by, or other circumstances affecting, the client. 18 The guarantor gives up certain rights 18.1 As long as the guarantor or the client has any liability to us for any reason, the guarantor may not, without our prior written consent: (a) recover any amount in competition with us against the client or any co-guarantor in an insolvency, under any right of contribution or indemnity, or in any other way; or (b) claim the benefit, or seek the transfer, of any security, guarantee or indemnity from the client or any co-guarantor; or (c) take over any of our rights as creditor; or (d) require us to resort to any security or our rights before or when we resort to the guarantor.
11 18.2 The guarantor waives in our favour any right the guarantor has against us, any co-guarantor or any other person, or their estates or assets which would reduce the guarantor s liability to us or the amount we can recover from the guarantor or any of them. 19 Payments need not reduce specific parts of guarantor s liability 19.1 The guarantor agrees that we can treat payments received by us under the facility or the guarantee in any way permitted by this agreement We may place and keep in a suspense account any payments we receive from the guarantor under this agreement and appropriate them at our discretion (acting in a commercially reasonable manner). 20 Acknowledgments by guarantor The guarantor acknowledges that: (a) all the terms and conditions of the guarantee are set out in this agreement and related documents we have seen and approved; and (b) in deciding to enter into the guarantee the only statements by us which the guarantor took into account are those contained in this document and related documents we have seen and approved, and the guarantor did not rely on any other statement, document or promise made by us or on our behalf; and (c) no other statement, document or promise can affect the operation of the guarantee (other than by any accompanying acknowledgment concerning existing securities and in any related documents we have seen and approved); and (d) no provision can be varied or waived by us except by written notice from us; and (e) the guarantor is responsible for making, and for continuing to make, the guarantor s own investigation of the creditworthiness, financial position and honesty of the client and any other person who is a co-guarantor. 21 Guarantor is bound despite certain matters 21.1 The guarantor is liable to us even if any intended co-guarantor never is or ceases to be liable for any amounts payable under this agreement for any reason The guarantor is fully liable under this agreement both together with any one or more co-guarantors as well as separately The guarantor s liabilities under this agreement are not affected by anything that might otherwise affect them at law or in equity including: (a) the death, mental or physical disability, legal incapacity, or insolvency of the guarantor, a co-guarantor or any other person; or (b) the fact that we give up, release in whole or in part, vary or exchange, or fail to obtain, perfect, register or realise, or deal in any other way with any security, guarantee or indemnity or negotiable instrument; or (c) the fact that we grant time or any other concession to or compound or compromise with, or do or omit to do anything which affects the guarantor s obligations or the obligations of a co-guarantor or any other person to us or to the guarantor; or (d) the fact that we vary, increase, assign, end or replace the facility. We will provide the guarantor with notice if we vary, increase, assign, end or replace the facility The guarantee continues to cover liabilities incurred after the guarantor s death or disability or if the guarantor becomes insolvent A payment by any person will not be taken as discharging any amounts the guarantor owes us to the extent that any part of the payment is claimed later to be void or voidable or a preference for any reasons. The guarantor will continue to be liable as guarantor for such part The guarantee is a continuing security and extends to all of the guarantor s secured liabilities. 22 Guarantor s cash management account 22.1 If the guarantor wishes to provide us with cash collateral, the guarantor authorises us to open a cash management account in the guarantor s name. If there is more than one guarantor each guarantor authorises us to open a separate cash management account in their name The cash management account will be used to receive and hold: (a) the net proceeds from the disposal of the guarantor s secured property; and (b) any other funds the guarantor wishes to deposit by way of cash collateral A guarantor may withdraw money from that guarantor s cash management account by written request to us (which must be in a letter physically signed by that guarantor and posted or faxed to us), provided that at that time: (a) we have not made a margin call which remains unsatisfied; and (b) the current LVR both before and after any withdrawal is less than the base LVR; and (c) no default event subsists (before the withdrawal) or would occur or be likely to occur (after the withdrawal) If a cash management account has been opened for a guarantor as security for the guarantor s obligations, the guarantor gives us rights, at any time and from time to time, to set off any amount due by the guarantor to us against 9
12 the credit balance in that account. If there is more than one guarantor, each guarantor agrees to give us these rights in relation to each relevant cash management account. We may do this without notice to the guarantor The operation of the guarantor s cash management account will be governed by the terms and conditions for that account, which we will provide separately to the guarantor. 23 Limit of guarantee 23.1 The guarantee is a security for the whole of the secured liabilities. However, the amount payable by the guarantor is limited to the sum of: (a) the facility limit; plus (b) all other amounts payable under clause 16; plus (c) all other amounts payable under clause 17; plus (d) all other amounts payable for breach of an obligation owed by any guarantor (other than an obligation to pay money) under the guarantee; plus (e) all other amounts forming part of the guarantor s secured liabilities Clause 23.1 does not limit the amount we can claim from a guarantor under the guarantee, but it limits the amount ultimately recoverable from a guarantor. Part 3 Mortgage Terms 24 Agreement to mortgage By client 24.1 You agree to mortgage, and do mortgage, to us as security for the payment of the secured liabilities: (a) all future investments held in the name of, or on behalf of, any one or more or all of you, automatically and immediately that they become future investments; (b) all new rights, automatically and immediately that they are acquired by or on behalf of any one or more or all of you; and (c) the credit balance held in each cash management account In enforcing our security under this agreement, we are entitled to resort to any secured property we hold from any one or more or all of you In respect of those secured liabilities which are loans, this mortgage is limited to the security limit. By guarantor 24.4 The guarantor agrees to mortgage, and does mortgage, to us as security for the payment of the guarantor s secured liabilities: (a) all future investments held in the name of, or on behalf of, the guarantor automatically and immediately that they become future investments; (b) all new rights, automatically and immediately that they are acquired by the guarantor; and (c) the credit balance held in each cash management account in the name of the guarantor In enforcing our security under this agreement, we are entitled to resort to any secured property we hold from the guarantor In respect of those guarantor s secured liabilities which are loans, this mortgage is limited to the security limit. Registration 24.7 We may, at your expense, apply for any registration, or give any notification, in connection with a security interest created under this agreement. 25 Power of sale In this clause 25, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them If a default event occurs, we may, in addition to any other powers conferred on us by this agreement, do all or any of the following: (a) dispose of all or any of the secured property either separately or together with other property of the same type belonging to other clients or their guarantors, in our absolute discretion and do all acts and things that we consider necessary to complete the disposal of the secured property; (b) demand and recover all of the proceeds from the secured property by action or otherwise in your name or our name to the full extent of the estate or interest which you could dispose of; (c) make any arrangement or compromise which we consider expedient in our interests; or (d) bring or defend any action, suit or legal proceedings in your name or otherwise, for all or any of the above purposes We may allocate the disposal proceeds of combined disposals under clause 25.1(a) according to the proportion which the number of investments comprised in the secured property sold on your behalf bears to the overall number of investments of the same type in the combined disposal. 26 Investments In this clause 26, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them In relation to any investments: (a) where a sponsorship agreement is required by us, you must at all times be a party to such an agreement which is in a form that is acceptable to us, covering those investments; 10
13 (b) you must promptly inform us when any investments included in the secured property are, or are proposed to be, converted into CHESS-eligible investments and at our request enter into a sponsorship agreement in respect of those investments.; and (c) if any CHESS-eligible investments subject to this agreement are replaced with investments that are not CHESS-eligible investments, you must ensure the relevant certificates are deposited immediately with us You must deposit with us or cause to be deposited with us by giving an irrevocable direction to any company, broker, share register or other person specified by us: (a) any documents or certificates evidencing title in relation to secured property, future investments or new rights; and (b) any transfers that we request. 27 Obligations in relation to secured property In this clause 27, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them The client must ensure that a default event under this agreement does not occur. The guarantor must ensure that it is not in default under the guarantee. You must also carry out on time all of your obligations including obligations to pay the secured liabilities or the guarantor s secured liabilities (as the case may be). Your obligations under this agreement continue even if we release the secured property from this agreement You may request us to release the secured property from this agreement when there is no amount owing in respect of secured liabilities or guarantor s secured liabilities. However, even if the secured liabilities or the guarantor s secured liabilities are paid, the secured property remains mortgaged to us until we actually release it from this agreement. We will act reasonably in releasing the secured property The client is liable for all of the client s obligations under this agreement both separately on their own and jointly with any one or more other persons named in this agreement as client. The guarantor is liable for all of the guarantor s obligations under this agreement both separately on their own and jointly with any one or more other persons named in this agreement as guarantor We may at any time require that secured property held in your name be transferred into the name of Nominees as your nominee to allow us to perfect or register this mortgage or enforce our rights under this agreement or protect the value of, or protect our interest in, the secured property or to otherwise improve our position in relation to the secured property. You authorise your attorney appointed under clause 13 to execute all documents and do all other things necessary to effect any such transfer We may require NMS to transfer any secured property held in a participant sponsored holding in your name into a participant sponsored holding of Nominees as your nominee to allow us to perfect or register this mortgage or enforce our rights under this agreement or protect the value of, or protect our interest in, the secured property or to otherwise improve our position in relation to the secured property. 28 Restrictions on dealing with the secured property In this clause 28, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them You must not, without our consent: (a) dispose of, deal with or part with the possession of any interest in the secured property; or (b) create or allow to come into existence any security interest which affects the secured property in favour of anyone other than us; or (c) convert any CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property to investments which are not CHESS-eligible investments; or (d) in relation to any CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property, change the controlling participant, shareholder name or shareholder address; or (e) abandon, settle, compromise or discontinue or become nonsuited in respect of any proceedings against any person (other than us) in respect of any of your rights in connection with the secured property; or (f) waive any of your rights or release any person from their obligations in connection with the secured property You must do anything we reasonably require in connection with the secured property including obtaining consents, signing and producing documents, producing receipts, getting documents completed and signed and paying any duties, taxes and other imposts to allow us to perfect or register any security interest created under this agreement or enforce our rights under this agreement or protect the value of, or perfect our interest in, or to otherwise improve our position in relation to the secured property You must do anything we reasonably consider necessary for the purpose of: (a) providing more effective security over the secured property (or any other property you are required to mortgage under this agreement) for the payment of the secured liabilities or the guarantor s secured liabilities (as the case may be) including: (i) if it is possible under CHESS for the secured property to be subject to a reserved subposition or similar restriction in our favour or for our benefit you must execute any further documents that we ask you to so as to make the secured property subject to such a subposition or similar restriction; and 11
14 (ii) if for any reason any CHESS-eligible investment that forms part of the secured property becomes an investment that is not a CHESS-eligible investment you must procure that all certificates issued in respect of those investments are deposited with us or a person nominated by us; and (iii) if the controlling participant under the sponsorship agreement becomes unable or ineligible to continue to perform its obligations under the sponsorship agreement or the controlling participant resigns, you must enter into a sponsorship agreement on terms, and with another person, both reasonably acceptable to us; (b) ensuring that any security interest created under this agreement is enforceable, perfected or otherwise effective; (c) ensuring that we have control (as that term is defined under the PPSA) of each item of secured property at all times; (d) enabling us to apply for any registration, or give any notification, in connection with any security interest created under this agreement so that the security interest has the priority we require; or (e) enabling us to exercise our rights in connection with the secured property; or (f) enabling us to register the power of attorney described in clause 13 or a similar power; or (g) showing whether you are complying with this agreement You must: (a) provide to us immediately after becoming aware of new rights, particulars and documentary evidence of new rights; (b) pay all instalments, calls or other moneys payable in respect of the secured property if we determine that it is reasonably necessary to protect the value of the secured property. If funds are not provided, we may, at our discretion, pay or authorise and direct the nominee to take up such calls, instalments and other amounts as may be necessary and that payment will form part of the secured liabilities; (c) take up new rights if we ask you to (but you may decline to take up new rights for which you have a present or future obligation to make a payment to acquire the new right or in connection with that new right); (d) assist us in exercising any power of sale or disposal that we have in respect of the secured property; and (e) without limiting anything in clause 28.1, enter into a priority agreement in a form acceptable to us if you create or allow to exist any security interest over the secured property in favour of anyone other than us without our consent. If you do not do any of these things, then without limiting any other rights we may have, we need not advance to you any further funds under this agreement. 29 Preservation of our rights In this clause 29, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them. This agreement does not merge with or adversely affect and is not adversely affected by any of the following: (a) another security or right or remedy to which we are entitled; or (b) a judgment or order which we obtain against you in respect of any amount owed to us by you. 30 Priority amount In this clause 30, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them. For the purposes only of fixing priorities in accordance with section 282 of the Corporations Act between this mortgage and any other security interest given by you and without affecting any of your obligations under this agreement, the prospective liabilities secured by this mortgage include, without limitation, (a) in respect of the client, the prospective liabilities comprising loans made under this agreement, interest and other amounts payable under this agreement and enforcement costs incurred in connection with this agreement to a maximum of the security limit; and (b) in respect of the guarantor, the prospective liabilities comprising the guarantor s obligations to guarantee the repayment of all loans made under the facility, and payment when due of all interest and other amounts payable under the facility and enforcement expenses incurred in connection with the facility or the guarantee to a maximum of the security limit. 12
15 Part 4 CHESS Sponsorship Terms Explanation of CHESS Sponsorship Terms The CHESS Sponsorship Terms set out the terms on which National Margin Services Pty Ltd will sponsor your investments which are able to be held in CHESS. CHESS is a system of electronic registration of shareholders in listed companies. Under CHESS there are no share certificates and transfers are effected electronically. Only persons admitted as participants have access to CHESS. For you to have your investments registered on CHESS you must have your shareholding sponsored by a participant. The CHESS Sponsorship Terms contain special provisions to better protect National Australia Bank Limited as mortgagee of the investments. In particular, National Margin Services Pty Ltd will only transfer or otherwise deal with the investments at the direction of National Australia Bank Limited or with its consent. The CHESS Sponsorship Terms also contain the standard sponsorship provisions required by the settlement rules of ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Ltd (one of the bodies responsible for the operation of CHESS). These include: a statement that the regulatory regime that applies to the participant is set out in the Corporations Act and the Settlement Rules of ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Ltd. Accordingly, the participant is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Ltd; a statement that if the participant breaches the sponsorship agreement, you may refer that breach to any regulatory body, including ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Ltd; a statement that you may lodge a complaint against the participant with any appropriate regulatory authority or other body, including ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Ltd and the Financial Ombudsman Service; the participant s obligations to give effect to your withdrawal instructions and not to initiate any transfer or conversion without the authority of National Australia Bank Limited; a statement that in some circumstances the participant may change your sponsor by giving you 20 business days notice. You may terminate the CHESS Sponsorship Terms on receipt of such a notice; satisfy that claim will depend on its financial circumstances. In certain circumstances you may make a claim on the ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Ltd; a statement of your right to remove your investments from the CHESS subregister or from the control of the participant if the participant is suspended from participation in CHESS; each party s rights to terminate the CHESS Sponsorship Terms; and a statement outlining the procedures which are put in place in respect of the investments which are held in CHESS if you die or become bankrupt. If you have any queries about the CHESS Sponsorship Terms, or you do not fully understand any of the terms, please contact National Margin Services Pty Ltd on before you sign the application form. In this Part 4, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them. 31 Appointment of NMS as your sponsor 31.1 You appoint NMS, and NMS agrees, to be your sponsoring participant for the participant sponsored holdings that have the Holder Identification Number(s) listed in the HIN Schedule on the CHESS Sponsorship Terms Subject to clauses 36 and 39, the appointment of NMS as your sponsor under clause 31.1 is irrevocable until we notify you otherwise in writing. 32 Authority of NMS 32.1 NMS may: (a) do anything necessary to register the CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property as a participant sponsored holding with NMS as the controlling participant; (b) on our instructions, do everything necessary to transfer and register the CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property; and (c) do anything that is necessary or convenient for the purpose of acting as controlling participant in relation to the CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property. For example if the settlement rules require that any of the CHESS-eligible investments be converted from a participant sponsored holding (for example, because the issuer will no longer have uncertificated holdings) NMS will initiate the conversion as required by the settlement rules. a statement that if you make a claim for compensation against the participant, the ability of the participant to 13
16 32.2 NMS will not initiate any transfer or conversion of CHESS-eligible investments into or out of your participant sponsored holding, or comply with any other instruction you give in relation to the secured property, without our express authority NMS is under no duty to enquire whether we may validly give any consent or instruction NMS may refuse to take action in relation to the CHESSeligible investments sponsored by it unless NMS is satisfied that to do so: (a) will not affect our security interest; (b) will not cause or result in a default event; (c) will not give rise to a margin call Subject to clauses 32.3 and 32.4, NMS will initiate any action necessary to give effect to a request by you to withdraw your CHESS-eligible investments from sponsorship by NMS, within two business days of the date of the request NMS may dispose of secured property in accordance with our instructions where we are acting as your attorney under clause 13. Without limiting this authorisation, NMS will act on our instructions in sending any messages or communications by which secured property can be disposed of. 33 Your rights Exchange Traded Options 33.1 You may ask us to permit you to lodge, with ACH, CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property, as cover for written positions in the Australian Options Market If we agree under clause 33.1 to allow you to lodge CHESS-eligible investments with ACH you must execute additional documentation, and enter into further arrangements, satisfactory to us. The additional documentation will be in addition to and may amend the CHESS Sponsorship Terms, and will comprise part of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms We may charge (and you agree to pay) fees in relation to any arrangement under clauses 33.1 and Complaint procedures 33.4 If you wish to lodge a complaint against NMS you may refer that complaint to any appropriate regulatory authority or other body, including ASTC and the Financial Ombudsman Service If NMS breaches any of the provisions of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms, you may refer that breach to any regulatory authority, including ASTC. Compensation arrangements 33.6 In accordance with the settlement rules, NMS has lodged a sponsorship bond with ASTC You may apply in writing to ASTC for compensation under the sponsorship bond if: (a) NMS breaches a provision of the settlement rules; and (b) you suffer loss, damage, costs or expense as a result of that breach; and (c) there is no real prospect of you obtaining adequate compensation other than by making an application to ASTC An application for compensation to ASTC must be made: (a) within the time specified in a notice published by ASTC advertising for claims; or (b) if no notice is published, within 6 months of you becoming aware that you suffered or incurred any loss, damage, cost or expense; or (c) any later date that ASTC allows You are not entitled to make a claim on the National Guarantee Fund for compensation If you make a claim for compensation against NMS, the ability of NMS to satisfy that claim will depend on NMS s financial circumstances. 34 Your responsibilities and acknowledgements Explanation of the effect of these Terms 34.1 You acknowledge that: (a) NMS provided you with an explanation of the effect of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms; (b) you have read and understood the CHESS Sponsorship Terms and NMS s explanation of the effect of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms; (c) you have sought appropriate advice if you have any queries. Copy of CHESS Sponsorship Terms 34.2 By signing the Application Form, you are taken to have expressly instructed NMS not to provide you with an executed copy of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms (although you reserve the right to make a request in writing to NMS for an executed copy at any time). NMS must be controlling participant 34.3 If any of the CHESS-eligible investments that form, or that are proposed to form, part of the secured property, are held in a participant sponsored holding and a person other than NMS is the controlling participant, you must take all steps necessary to effect a change in the controlling participant so that NMS becomes the controlling participant in relation to those CHESS-eligible investments. 14
17 Supply of information 34.4 You agree to supply all information and supporting documentation that is reasonably required by NMS to permit NMS to comply with the registration requirements under the settlement rules If any information that you have previously supplied changes, you must notify NMS of the change (and supply any necessary supporting documentation) as soon as possible You authorise NMS to obtain statements of the CHESSeligible investments that form part of the secured property and other information in relation to your CHESS-eligible investments from ASTC on your request, or at such times as NMS reasonably thinks necessary. Subpositions 34.7 If, in accordance with this agreement or our instructions, NMS initiates any action which has the effect of creating a subposition over any CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property, your right to transfer, convert or otherwise deal with those CHESS-eligible investments is restricted in accordance with the terms of the settlement rules relating to subpositions If we reasonably determine that under the settlement rules a subposition may be used to protect our security interest, on our request you must do all things to cause those CHESS-eligible investments that we identify, to be reserved in a subposition on the terms (if any) we specify Neither NMS nor you may initiate any action which has the effect of reserving or releasing CHESS-eligible investments in or out of a subposition without our prior consent, unless the settlement rules require NMS or you to initiate that action. Section 9 transfers If NMS effects a transfer under section 9 of the settlement rules then: (a) you may not assert or claim against ASTC or the relevant issuer that the transfer was not effected by NMS or that NMS was not authorised to effect the transfer; and (b) you have no claim arising out of the transfer against the National Guarantee Fund. 35 Death or bankruptcy 35.1 If you die or become bankrupt a holder record lock will be applied to your CHESS-eligible investments that are sponsored by NMS unless your legally appointed representative removes your CHESS-eligible investments from the CHESS Subregister If you die, the CHESS Sponsorship Terms will remain in operation, in respect of the legally appointed representative authorised to administer your estate, for a period of up to three calendar months after the removal of the holder record lock (unless your legally appointed representative removes the CHESS-eligible investments from the CHESS Subregister) If a joint participant sponsored holder dies, all CHESS-eligible investments sponsored by NMS under the joint holder record will be transferred into new holdings under a new holder record in the name of the survivors (the CHESS Sponsorship Terms remain valid for the new holdings under the new holder record) If a joint participant sponsored holder becomes bankrupt, NMS may: (a) establish a new holder record in the name of the bankrupt, transfer the interest of the bankrupt into the new holdings under the new holder record and request that ASTC apply a holder record lock to all holdings under that holder record (unless the bankrupt s legally appointed representative removes the CHESS-eligible investments from the CHESS Subregister); and (b) establish a new holder record in the name of the remaining joint participant sponsored holders and transfer the interest of the remaining joint participant sponsored holders into the new holdings under the new holder record. 36 Suspension of NMS 36.1 If NMS is suspended from the settlement facility, then subject to NMS s liquidator, receiver, administrator or trustee asserting an interest in the CHESS-eligible investments controlled by NMS: (a) you may, within twenty business days of ASTC giving NMS notice of its suspension, give notice to ASTC requesting that ASTC remove any CHESS-eligible investments that are sponsored by NMS from either (i) the CHESS Subregister; or (ii) NMS s control to the control of another participant in the settlement facility; or (b) if you do not give the request specified in clause 36.1(a), then ASTC may change your sponsor and you will be taken to have entered into a new sponsorship agreement with that sponsor on the CHESS Sponsorship Terms. 37 Change of sponsor 37.1 NMS may give you notice of its intention to change the participant that sponsors your CHESS-eligible investments in CHESS You are under no obligation to agree to a change of sponsor and you may, within twenty business days of receiving a notice from NMS under clause 37.1, terminate the CHESS Sponsorship Terms in accordance with clause 39.1(d) If you do not terminate the CHESS Sponsorship Terms: (a) your new sponsor will send you a notice confirming that they consent to act as your sponsor; and (b) NMS s rights under the CHESS Sponsorship Terms will be novated to the new sponsor on the date you receive a notice under clause 37.3(a). 15
18 37.4 If you continue to use the facility after receiving a notice under clause 37.3(a) you will be taken to have consented to the novation of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms The CHESS Sponsorship Terms continue for the benefit of NMS in respect of any rights and obligations accruing before notice is given under clause 37.3(a) To the extent that any law or provision of any agreement makes the novation in clause 37.3(b) not binding or effective, the CHESS Sponsorship Terms continue for NMS s benefit until such time as the novation is effective Nothing in this clause 37, prevents the completion of transfers or conversions by NMS where the obligation to complete those transfers or conversions arose before notice was given under clause 37.3(a) and the CHESS Sponsorship Terms will continue to apply to the completion of those transfers or conversions, notwithstanding the novation of the CHESS Sponsorship Terms to the new sponsor. 38 Indemnity 38.1 You indemnify NMS and us against any liability or loss arising from, and any costs, charges and expenses incurred in connection with NMS properly carrying out its duties or exercising its powers as controlling participant in relation to the CHESS-eligible investments or from carrying out any direction given by you or us. This is a continuing indemnity and it is not necessary for NMS or us to incur any expense or make any payment before enforcing it. The indemnity under this clause is reduced proportionally to the extent that we have acted fraudulently or with gross negligence and caused or contributed to foreseeable liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses. 39 Termination 39.1 The CHESS Sponsorship Terms terminate immediately: (a) by notice in writing from either you or NMS to the other; (b) if NMS becomes insolvent; (c) if NMS is suspended from the settlement facility or its rights under the settlement facility are terminated; or (d) if NMS gives you notice under clause 37.1, by you instructing NMS to transfer the CHESS-eligible investments sponsored by NMS from your participant sponsored holding If the CHESS Sponsorship Terms terminate under clause 39.1 you must, at our request, immediately enter into a sponsorship agreement in relation to the CHESS-eligible investments that form part of the secured property on terms and with a controlling participant acceptable to us You may terminate the CHESS Sponsorship Terms in relation to any CHESS-eligible investments when we specify in writing that we no longer rely on the mortgage of those CHESSeligible investments as security. 40 Variation 40.1 If any of the provisions in the CHESS Sponsorship Terms are inconsistent with the provisions in the market rules, the clearing rules or the settlement rules, NMS may, by giving you not less than seven business days written notice, vary the CHESS Sponsorship Terms to the extent which, in NMS s reasonable opinion, is necessary to remove any inconsistency. 41 General rights and obligations 41.1 The sponsorship agreement in the CHESS Sponsorship Terms replaces any prior sponsorship agreement between you and NMS, without affecting any rights or obligations that accrued under that prior agreement The CHESS Sponsorship Terms are subject to the market rules, the clearing rules and the settlement rules. You may not take any action that will prevent or impede NMS from complying with its obligations under the market rules, the clearing rules or the settlement rules NMS is: (a) an ASTC General Settlement Participant; and (b) a wholly owned subsidiary of National Australia Bank Limited NMS is not an Authorised Deposit Taking Institution and its obligations do not represent deposits or other liabilities of National Australia Bank Limited. National Australia Bank does not guarantee the obligations or performance of NMS or the services it offers Neither ASX nor its subsidiaries and controlled entities have any responsibility for supervising or regulating the relationship between you and NMS other than in relation to the settlement rules relating to sponsorship agreements The regulatory regime that applies to NMS is set out in the Corporations Act. Accordingly, NMS is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Information as to NMS s status may be obtained from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. In addition, the regulatory regime established by the settlement rules applies to NMS. Accordingly, NMS is regulated by ASTC. 16
19 Part 5 Nominee Terms In this Part 5, you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them. 42 Appointment (and replacement) of nominee 42.1 Subject to clause 42.3, you appoint Nominees to hold on your behalf: (a) secured property which is not CHESS-eligible investments; (b) secured property which was held in a participant sponsored holding but was transferred to Nominees under clause 27.4 or 27.5 or was converted to another mode of holding (whether required by us or the settlement rules) The appointment will continue until we transfer the secured property into your name where we consider it necessary or this agreement terminates You expressly authorise your attorney appointed under clause 13, at any time we request it, to replace the nominee appointed under clause 42.1 by terminating on your behalf that appointment and instead appointing another person to act in that capacity, and the expression Nominees in this agreement is interpreted accordingly. You authorise your attorney to do all things the attorney deems necessary or desirable on your behalf to effect that replacement, including directing the transfer of any secured property held by the terminated nominee to the new nominee. We will notify you in writing after this has occurred. 43 Indemnity to Nominee You agree to indemnify Nominees against all liabilities or loss whatsoever which Nominees may suffer or incur except if caused by the fraud or gross negligence of Nominees. 44 Authority to mortgage and dispose 44.1 You authorise Nominees to mortgage on terms we specify in our favour all interests in future investments and new rights which are held by Nominees, to secure the secured liabilities You authorise Nominees to pay the proceeds of disposal of any secured property held on your behalf towards satisfaction of secured liabilities or by way of deposit into a cash management account, as we direct You authorise Nominees to dispose of secured property in accordance with our instructions where we are acting as your attorney under clause 13. Without limiting this authorisation, Nominees will act on our instructions in sending any messages or communications by which secured property can be disposed of. Part 6 Direct Debit Request Service Agreement 45 Debiting your account 45.1 By signing a direct debit request, you have authorised us to arrange for funds to be debited from your account. You should refer to the direct debit request and this direct debit request service agreement for the terms of the arrangement between us and you We will only arrange for funds to be debited from your account as authorised in the direct debit request If the debit day falls on a day that is not a business day, we may direct your financial institution to debit your account on the following business day. If you are unsure about which day your account has or will be debited you should ask your financial institution. 46 Changes by us to direct debits We may vary any details of the direct debit request service agreement or a direct debit request at any time by giving you at least 14 days written notice. To avoid doubt, clause 64 does not apply in relation to the direct debit request service agreement. 47 Changes by you to direct debits 47.1 Subject to clause 47.2 and 47.3, you may change the arrangements under a direct debit request by contacting us on (Client Service Representative(s) Margin Lending Unit) If you wish to stop or defer a debit payment you must notify us or your financial institution in writing (which must be in a letter physically signed by you and posted or faxed to us or your financial institution) at least 14 days before the next debit day. If you first notify your financial institution, please promptly let us know You may also cancel your authority for us to debit your account at any time by giving us or your financial institution 14 days notice in writing (which must be in a letter physically signed by you and posted or faxed to us or your financial institution) before the next debit day. If you first notify your financial institution, please promptly let us know. 48 Your obligations regarding direct debits 48.1 It is your responsibility to ensure that there are sufficient clear funds available in your account to allow a debit payment to be made in accordance with the direct debit request You should check your account statement to verify the amounts debited from your account. 17
20 49 Disputes about direct debits 49.1 If you believe that there has been an error in debiting your account, you should notify us directly on and confirm that notice in writing (which must be in a letter physically signed by you and posted or faxed to us) with us as soon as possible so that we can resolve your query more quickly If we conclude as a result of our investigations that your account has been incorrectly debited we will respond to your query by arranging for your financial institution to adjust your account (including interest and charges) accordingly. We will also notify you in writing of the amount by which your account has been adjusted If we conclude as a result of our investigations that your account has not been incorrectly debited we will respond to your query by providing you with reasons and any evidence for this finding Any queries you may have about an error made in debiting your account should be directed to us so that we can attempt to resolve the matter between us and you. If we cannot resolve the matter you can still refer it to your financial institution which will obtain details from you of the disputed transaction and may lodge a claim on your behalf. 50 Accounts for direct debits You should check: (a) with your financial institution whether direct debiting is available from your account as direct debiting is not available on all accounts offered by financial institutions; (b) your account details which you have provided to us are correct by checking them against a recent account statement; and (c) with your financial institution before completing the direct debit request if you have any queries about how to complete the direct debit request. 51 Confidentiality around direct debits 51.1 We will keep any information (including your account details) in your direct debit request confidential. We will make reasonable efforts to keep any such information that we have about you secure and to ensure that any of our employees or agents who have access to information about you do not make any unauthorised use, modification, reproduction or disclosure of that information. 52 Notices regarding direct debits 52.1 If you wish to notify us in writing about anything relating to this direct debit request service agreement, you should write to: NAB Equity Lending GPO Box 5350 MELBOURNE VIC We will notify you by sending a notice in the ordinary post to the address you have given us in the direct debit request Unless proven otherwise, any notice will be deemed to have been received two business days after it is posted. Part 7 General Terms In this Part 7 (except for clause 65), you and related terms mean the client and, if there is a guarantor, each guarantor, and applies separately in respect of each and every one of them. 53 Code of Banking Practice 53.1 We have adopted the Code of Banking Practice and relevant provisions of the Code apply to this agreement if: (a) you are a client, and an individual or small business customer (as defined by the Code); and (b) you are a guarantor and an individual, and the client is an individual or a small business customer (as defined by the Code) You can obtain from us upon request: (a) information on current interest rates and fees; (b) general descriptive information concerning our banking services, including: account opening procedures; our obligations regarding the confidentiality of your information; complaint handling procedures; bank cheques; the advisability of you informing us promptly when you are in financial difficulty; the advisability of you reading the terms and conditions applying to each banking service we provide to you; (c) general descriptive information about: the identification requirements of the Financial Transactions Reports Act 1988; the options available to you under the tax file legislation; and (d) a copy of the Code of Banking Practice. 18