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MARGIN LOAN. Terms and Conditions. EFFECTIVE DATE 29 August PDF
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1 MARGIN LOAN Terms and Conditions EFFECTIVE DATE 29 August 2014
2 Important information. Margin Lending facilities are provided by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ABN AFSL and administered by its wholly owned but non-guaranteed subsidiary Commonwealth Securities Limited ABN AFSL (CommSec), a Participant of the ASX Group and Chi-X Australia. The information contained in this document does not take into account the investment objectives, financial situation and needs of any particular individual. Because of that, you should assess with the help of legal, financial and taxation advice, whether the information is appropriate in light of your own circumstances before acting on it. Information on taxation is based on current laws and their interpretation. No warranty or guarantee is given by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia or its subsidiaries for the repayment of capital invested or the payment of income with respect to any investment listed as an accepted security. Only investors who fully understand the risks associated with gearing into investments should apply. All applications for a CommSec Margin Loan are subject to the Commonwealth Bank s credit approval process. Fees and charges apply. Please obtain and consider the product disclosure statement (PDS), available from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN AFSL ) as the product issuer, at the website listed on the back cover or by calling CommSec on the phone number listed on the back cover before making any decision about the product.
3 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 1 TERMS AND CONDITIONS The Terms and Conditions are made up of the following sections: 1 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS These are the Terms and Conditions upon which Commonwealth Bank of Australia makes a Margin Loan available and on which Commonwealth Bank of Australia accepts offers to provide security for a Margin Loan. Margin Loan is a product of Commonwealth Bank of Australia ABN AFSL administered by its wholly owned but non- Guaranteed subsidiary Commonwealth Securities Limited ABN ( CommSec ) a Participant of the ASX Group and Chi-X Australia, and an Australian Financial Services Licensee, Number PRIVACY INFORMATION AND AUTHORISATION Information about our policies on the collection and handling of personal information, including the use you authorise us to make of your personal information when you apply for a Margin Loan. LOAN DIRECT DEBIT / DIRECT CREDIT REQUEST SERVICE AGREEMENT These are the Terms and Conditions upon which CommSec provides direct debit arrangements for the Bank Account you nominate for settlement of transactions relating to your Margin Loan. These Terms and Conditions must be read in conjunction with your rights and obligations as set out in: the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Electronic Banking Terms and Conditions; the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Privacy Policy; the Code of Banking Practice; and all applicable laws and regulations. Copies of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Electronic Banking Terms and Conditions and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Privacy Policy are available from us upon request, or through the Commonwealth Bank of Australia s website at
4 2 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS SECTION 1 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS These are the Terms and Conditions on which we make Margin Loan ( Loan ) available and on which we accept offers to provide security for a Loan. We refer to them collectively as the Terms and Conditions. The Terms and Conditions may change or be amended from time to time. We will provide you with an updated copy of the Terms and Conditions no later than the day any such changes or amendments come into effect. If we make a change that is not acceptable to you, you can cancel the Loan by repaying it. Depending on these Terms and Conditions an Early Repayment Adjustment and fees and charges may be payable. The current version of these Terms and Conditions is available on request to us, or through the website listed on the back cover. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE MADE UP OF: Part 1 General Provisions; Part 2 Loan Agreement; Part 3 Mortgage; Part 4 Sponsorship Agreement; and Part 5 Nominee Agreement which appear under those headings in this booklet. In the event of any inconsistency with other material in this booklet, or in the application form, the Terms and Conditions will prevail. If you are an individual or a small business (as defined in the Code of Banking Practice) and you obtain a Loan then the relevant provisions of the Code of Banking Practice apply to your Loan. A small business is defined in the Code of Banking Practice as a business having less than 100 full time (or equivalent) people if the business is or includes the manufacture of goods, or in any other case, less than 20 full time (or equivalent) people. We have published a booklet called The Better Banking Book, which may be obtained by telephoning us on (between 8 am and 6 pm, Monday to Friday) or from any of our branches. The Better Banking Book contains useful information on a range of banking matters including the rights and obligations that arise out of the banker and customer relationship, account opening procedures, our obligations regarding confidentiality of your information, complaint handling procedures, Bank cheques, the advisability of you informing us promptly when you are in financial difficulty and the advisability of you reading the terms and conditions applying to any banking service provided to you or which you are interested in. Please obtain a copy and take time to read it. Part 1 General Provisions 1. DEFINITIONS In these Terms and Conditions: Adviser means: the person who you nominate as your adviser or agent in your Application Form or from time to time by Notice to us; and any person (including but not limited to a dealer group) for which the person referred to in the preceding paragraph is an authorised representative from time to time; Approved Deposit Account means any deposit account that we approve in writing and which is opened with us to secure obligations under any of the Terms and Conditions; ASIC means Australian Securities and Investments Commission; ASX Clear means ASX Clear Pty Limited ABN and its successors (previously known as Australian Clearing House Pty Limited); ASX Settlement means the ASX Settlement Pty Limited ABN and its successors (previously known as Australian Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Limited); ASX means ASX Limited ABN and its successors; Authorised Officer means each of our officers and each officer of CommSec whose title, in both cases, is or includes the word manager or the word executive ; Bank Account means the bank account, building society account or credit union account you nominate on the Direct Debit/Direct Credit Request form;
5 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 3 Base LVR means Portfolio Lending Value divided by Portfolio Market Value (disregarding any Financial Product with a Lending Ratio of 0%) and expressed as a percentage; Borrower(s) is how we refer to the applicant for a Loan and whose application is accepted by us; Buffer means a percentage relating to the difference between Base LVR and Margin Call LVR as determined by us from time to time and notified by being placed by us on our Online Banking System; Business Day(s) means each day on which we are open for business in Sydney; CHESS Participant Sponsored Holding means an uncertificated holding of Financial Products on a subregister for that class of Financial Products maintained by ASX Settlement; CHESS Settlement Facility means the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System operated by ASX Settlement; CommSec means Commonwealth Securities Limited ABN ; Current LVR means the Loan Balance divided by the Portfolio Market Value (disregarding any Financial Product with a Lending Ratio of 0%) and expressed as a percentage; Default Event means any Default Event set out in clause 15 of the Loan Agreement; Early Repayment Adjustment means the adjustment we make in accordance with clause 13 of the Loan Agreement when the Borrower repays a Loan for which we agreed to a fixed Interest Rate and terminates that Loan (or part of it) early; Electronic Notice means any communication made by you to us, or by us to you that is: primarily conducted using electronic means; and, made in accordance with, or in connection with, anything anticipated by the Terms and Conditions or the Online Banking System, and it includes any and all information that you lodge through or we display on the Online Banking System from time to time that relates to your Loan and Loan Account; Enforcement Event means any Enforcement Event set out in clause 8 of the Mortgage; Equity Contribution means the cash or Financial Products that you contribute at or prior to the first Loan we make, you contribute monthly thereafter or you contribute as requested by us to reduce the Current LVR; Financial Product means: a share or unit in the capital of a corporation; an instalment receipt; a unit in any trust; any debenture, debenture stock, bonds, notes, convertible notes, units, warrants or other Financial Products created, issued or granted by any corporation, government, unincorporated body or other person; options to purchase, subscribe for or acquire any of the securities mentioned above; cash held in an account (including an Approved Deposit Account) to secure your obligations under any of the Terms and Conditions; any interest in a Financial Product; such other kind of Financial Product or interest in a Financial Product as we may from time to time agree to accept; Guarantee means the guarantee referred to in the application form and given to us in return for approval of the Loan; Guarantor means any person whose offer we accept to guarantee the Borrower s obligations under the Loan Agreement; Insolvent or in insolvency means a person is insolvent or an insolvent under administration or has a controller appointed (each as defined under the Corporations Act), in receivership, in receivership and management, in liquidation, in provisional liquidation, under administration, wound up, subject to any arrangement, assignment or composition, protected from any creditors under any statute, dissolved (other than to carry out a reconstruction while solvent) or otherwise unable to pay debts when they fall due; Interest Rate means the interest rate we charge on the Loan Account; Issuer means the entity which issues the relevant Financial Products whether in its own right or as trustee; Lending Ratio means the percentage of the Market Value of a particular Financial Product that we are prepared to lend against and may vary depending on how the Financial Product is held; Lending Value means the amount we are prepared to lend against a particular Financial Product calculated by multiplying its Market Value by its Lending Ratio; Loan means the amount drawn by the Borrower under these Terms and Conditions; Loan Account means the account or accounts we keep in the Borrower s name, to which we debit the amount of any Loan and other liability of the Borrower under these Terms and Conditions; Loan Agreement means the Loan Agreement in Part 2 of these Terms and Conditions created when we accept the Borrower s application for a Loan;
6 4 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS Loan Balance means at any time, the balance of the Loan Account at that time; Loan Limit means the amount, as approved from time to time, that we are prepared to lend to the Borrower under this Loan; Margin Call means the circumstances described in clause 10(a) of the Loan Agreement; Margin Call LVR means the Base LVR plus the Buffer; Market Operator means a holder of an Australian Market License who operates as per ASIC Market Integrity Rules; Market Value means: for Financial Products which are listed on the stock market, the last sale price; and for unlisted Financial Products, the redemption price for the Financial Products and in the absence of a redemption price such value that we decide in our discretion reasonably exercised; where the Financial Product is cash, the amount of that cash; Maximum Gearing Level means the lower of the Maximum Gearing Ratio and the Margin Call LVR; Maximum Gearing Ratio means the maximum level of gearing we will allow, expressed as a percentage against your Portfolio (disregarding any Financial Product with a Lending Ratio of 0%), as determined by us from time to time and notified by being placed by us on our Online Banking System; Mortgage means the Mortgage in Part 3 of these Terms and Conditions supporting the obligations of the Borrower and which is created when we accept the Borrower s application for a Loan or a third party Mortgagor s offer to give a Mortgage; Mortgaged Property means any or all of the Financial Products which are secured by the Mortgage and includes: any Financial Products we accept as Mortgaged Property under clause 2 of the Mortgage; any Financial Products the Borrower purchases using wholly or partly a drawing on the Loan Account; all rights and privileges (including rights issues, bonus shares, dividends and profits under a dividend reinvestment plan) accruing as a result of having an interest in those Financial Products; and all money payable or to become payable to the Mortgagor under or by virtue or in respect of those Financial Products; Mortgagor means any person who gives us the Mortgage; Nominee means State Nominees Limited ABN ; Nominee Financial Products means the Financial Products held by the Nominee as a result of a transfer to the Nominee or an acquisition by the Nominee under clause 2 of the Part 5 Nominee Agreement; Notice means an Electronic Notice and a Written Notice; Notice of Margin Call means a Notice from us to you or your Adviser which notifies you that your Loan is in Margin Call; Online Banking System means any of the Online Banking Systems and related services (whether provided to you through electronic means or otherwise) we make available to you as part of your Loan, whether through the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, one of its subsidiaries, or agents, and their associated websites and other digital channels; our means belonging to us; Participant Sponsored Holding means a CHESS Participant Sponsored Holding which: belongs to a Mortgagor; is Mortgaged Property; and CommSec sponsors under the Part 4 Sponsorship Agreement; Portfolio means collectively the Financial Products which we have accepted as Mortgaged Property; Portfolio Gearing Ratio means Loan Balance (plus any unsettled transactions) divided by Portfolio Market Value and expressed as a percentage; Portfolio Lending Value means the amount calculated in accordance with clause 6(a) of the Loan Agreement comprising the Lending Value of all Financial Products; Portfolio Market Value means the total of the Market Value of all Financial Products which we have accepted as Mortgaged Property; PPS Act means the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth); Proscribed Person means a person who appears to us either (a) to be a Proscribed Person or entity under the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (Cth); (b) to be in breach of the laws of any jurisdiction relating to money laundering or counter-terrorism; (c) to appear in a list of persons with whom dealings are proscribed by the government or a regulatory authority of any jurisdiction; or (d) act on behalf, or for the benefit of, a person listed in subclauses (a) (c); Regular Loan Advance means each periodic advance that we make to you under the Terms and Conditions; Rules means the ASX Settlement Operating Rules as in force from time to time; Secured Moneys means any money payable by the Borrower under the Terms and Conditions; Security Interest means and includes an interest arising under a Mortgage, charge, pledge or other encumbrance of any nature and
7 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 5 an interest arising from any reservation of title; Sub-position means a facility in the CHESS Settlement Facility by which: activity in relation to Financial Products held in a CHESS Participant Sponsored Holding may be restricted; and access to those Financial Products for limited purposes may be given to a CHESS participant other than the controlling participant; Unused Borrowing Capacity means, subject to the Loan Limit, the amount of the Portfolio Lending Value less the sum of the Loan Balance and any drawings which have been requested but not yet debited to your Loan Account; we, us or Bank mean Commonwealth Bank of Australia ABN , our successors and anyone we assign our rights to, and in Section 2 includes our agents; Withdrawal Instructions means instructions for withdrawal of Financial Products from a Participant Sponsored Holding and includes instructions: for the conversion of Financial Products in the Participant Sponsored Holding to any other mode of holding; to initiate a change of sponsorship for the Financial Products; to endorse or initiate an off market transfer of Financial Products; or to accept a takeover offer for the Financial Products on your behalf; Written Notice means any physical, paper based communication in legible form, delivered by you to us, or by us to you in that form that is: conducted using written means; and, made in accordance with, or in connection with, anything anticipated by the Terms and Conditions; you means: in these Part 1 General Provisions, any person who agrees to be bound by any of the Terms and Conditions; in the Part 2 Loan Agreement, the Borrower; in the Part 3 Mortgage, Part 4 Sponsorship Agreement and Part 5 Nominee Agreement, the person who gives us the Mortgage; and in Section 2, includes individual Borrowers and Guarantors, and any person who holds office in an entity which is a Borrower or Guarantor; and in each case, that person s executors and administrators and, in the case of a corporation, its successors and assigns; your means belonging to you. 2. INTERPRETATION The Terms and Conditions must be interpreted according to the following rules: when more than one person enters into any of the Terms and Conditions the obligations of those persons will be joint and several; words indicating the singular number include the plural number and vice versa; words indicating persons include bodies corporate; and the words including or for example and similar words or expressions when introducing an example do not limit the meaning of the words, to which the example relates, to that example or examples of a similar kind. 3. NOTICES (a) Unless otherwise provided for in the Terms and Conditions, all Notices given by you to us, or by us to you (or to third parties, where required), may be given by: a Written Notice; or subject to paragraphs (b) and (d) below, an Electronic Notice, but will only be effective if made, or made and received, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. (b) Despite paragraph (a), we will continue to give you certain Notices (selected by us from time to time) as Written Notices until such time as you make the positive election set out in paragraph (c). (c) Unless prohibited by legislation, and subject to paragraph (d) below, you may make a positive election in respect of certain Notices we specify from time to time to be sent by us, by giving a Notice to us, stating your election for us to send specified Notices to you, or that we have your authority to provide you with those specified Notices by means of: electronic communication to or from your nominated electronic address (for example, address or SMS number); or making an Electronic Notice or Electronic Notices solely available to you or us via the Online Banking System, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Electronic Banking Terms and Conditions. (d) Where Electronic Notices to us have been permitted by us and an election has been made by you to send specified Notices as Electronic Notices to us, we may give you a subsequent
8 6 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) Written Notice that states that you must provide some or all of the specified Notices as Written Notices rather than as Electronic Notices from a specified date, and you must take the steps necessary to ensure that all such specified Notices from that date are given as Written Notices. If you elect to receive certain Notices specified in paragraph (b) as Electronic Notices, by providing us with the positive election described in paragraph (c), you have the right at any time to: vary your nominated electronic address (for example, address or SMS number); or revoke your election to receive those specified Notices as Electronic Notices, by a further Electronic Notice to us. Where we have provided, or are treated as having provided, a Notice to you we will, upon your request and where we are required to do so under the Code of Banking Practice, provide a paper copy of that Notice or Notices to you within the timeframe set out in the Code of Banking Practice. Subject to this clause 3, you may give us, or we may give you, a Notice by making that Notice available on the Online Banking System, provided that the Notice is: set out or made available (whether in blank, partially completed, or in full) on or through the Online Banking System; and capable of being transmitted to us or to you using the existing technology and systems incorporated in the Online Banking System, and that Notice, where it is sent by you to us, will be received by us at the time that you receive via the Online Banking System a confirmation message stating that the Notice has been submitted and has been received by the Online Banking System. Regardless of whether you have made an election under paragraph (c) or (d) above, and regardless of whether that election remains in effect or not, you may send us a Written Notice at any time, and we may send you a Written Notice at any time. You may allow third parties to view particular Electronic Notices, and information on your Loan and Loan Account through the Online Banking System, on the terms set out in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Electronic Banking Terms and Conditions by giving us a Notice to this effect. We will comply at all times with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Privacy Policy should you give such an authorisation (unless to do so would put us in breach of law). We may send copies of a Notice (or parts of a Notice) to certain third party organisations for the purpose of verifying details (k) or carrying out any activity set out in that Notice. In doing so, we will comply at all times with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Privacy Policy. Unless we provide you with a Notice to the contrary (including, without limitation, providing that Notice on the Online Banking System), each Notice given by you to us or by us to you in respect of: the positive election described in paragraph (c); a Direct Debit/Direct Credit request; a refinance request; a request for broker to broker transfer; the appointment of an Adviser; or a Loan closure and repayment, must be given as a Written Notice, despite anything to the contrary in these Terms and Conditions. (i) You agree to receiving, and we may send, Loan statements electronically via to your nominated address or by being made available via the Online Banking System. 4. GIVING OF NOTICES (a) Notices take effect from the time they are received unless a later time is specified in them, or unless otherwise specifically provided for in the Terms and Conditions. (b) If Notices are sent by post, they are taken to be received on the day they would be received in the ordinary course of post. (c) If Notices are sent by a facsimile machine which produces a transmission report, they are taken to be received at the time shown in a transmission report which indicates that the whole facsimile transmission was sent. (d) If Notices are sent electronically (including via the Online Banking System), unless otherwise provided for in the Terms and Conditions, they are taken to be received at the time that they are transmitted by the sender. 5. CHANGES TO YOUR PERSONAL OR BANKING DETAILS (a) If any of your personal details change or are updated (such as your name, address, contact number, or address) you must, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days of that change or update occurring, provide us with a Notice detailing those changes. We will update your details on our systems (including our Online Banking System) based on the information you provide in this Notice, and from this time we will rely on this information when providing you with Notices or when we need to contact you. You are responsible for
9 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 7 (b) ensuring your personal details are correct and up to date. Only you, or your joint account holder (if applicable) may change or update your personal details. (c) If you provide us with an Electronic Notice of changes or updates to your personal details using the Online Banking System, you consent to us validating particular details (for example, your postal address) with third parties for the purpose of verifying and confirming that those details are correct. We will only provide those details to these third parties in accordance with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Privacy Policy. (d) If you modify any user-modifiable option on the Online Banking System, this constitutes an Electronic Notice to us of your intention to make this change, and we will rely and act on such modifications without taking any further steps to confirm or verify these modifications unless required to do so by law or as required by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Electronic Banking Terms and Conditions. 6. JOINT ACCOUNT HOLDERS POWER OF ATTORNEY (a) In this clause, you means each joint account holder separately, and applies to each of those joint account holders. (b) You irrevocably appoint each other joint account holder to be your attorney, in connection with the Terms and Conditions, with the powers to do anything that you are able to do under these Terms and Conditions, including power to deal with the Loan, the Loan Account, and any of the Mortgaged Property. If we require, you must approve any act that your attorney does in connection with these Terms and Conditions, the Loan, the Loan Account, and the Mortgaged Property by giving us a Notice to this effect in writing prior to that act occurring. (c) Unless we give you a Written Notice to the contrary, and despite the width of the power of attorney granted under paragraph (b), you acknowledge that we are not obliged to accept from you certain Notices (as determined by us from time to time) submitted to us in your capacity as attorney appointed under this clause 6 unless that Notice has been signed by any and all joint account holders. (d) You fully indemnify each of your attorneys appointed under this clause against any loss or damage they incur when acting in strict accordance with the powers granted to that attorney under this power of attorney, and you release us absolutely from all liability for acting upon any instruction given by your attorney in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. 7. OUR CONSENT Whenever you ask for our consent we may, provided we act reasonably, give or refuse our consent as we consider appropriate. We may impose reasonable conditions on the giving of our consent. 8. TRUSTEE PROVISIONS If you enter into any of the Terms and Conditions as a trustee: (a) You acknowledge that the relevant Terms and Conditions bind you personally and in your capacity as trustee of the trust (b) Conditions If you are a trustee you must: be the sole trustee of the trust or if there is more than one trustee, be all the trustees of the trust have the power under the trust deed to enter into and observe your obligations under the Terms and Conditions enter into the Terms and Conditions in your personal capacity and in your capacity as trustee of the trust and for the benefit of the beneficiaries of the trust have all the authorisations required to sign the Terms and Conditions and perform your obligations have a right to be fully indemnified for all your obligations under the Terms and Conditions out of the property you hold on trust. You also confirm that: the trust is validly constituted and has not been terminated there is either: - no conflict of interest affecting you as trustee (or your related parties or directors) which prevents you from entering into or performing your obligations under the Terms and Conditions; or - the trust deed permits you to enter into and perform your obligations under the Terms and Conditions despite any conflict of interest that may affect you (or your related parties or directors) the trust fund is big enough to satisfy your right of indemnity the trust is not in default under the trust deed and no action has been taken or proposed to terminate the trust you have complied with your trust obligations (as have any directors or officers if the trustee is a corporation) you have taken every necessary action to authorise you to execute the Terms and Conditions and perform your obligations under the Terms and Conditions
10 8 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS (c) (d) (e) executing the Terms and Conditions is not a breach of trust on your part our rights under the Terms and Conditions have priority over the interest of the beneficiaries of the trust the trust is validly constituted and has not been terminated none of the current unit holders or beneficiaries are Superannuation Funds What you agree to do Where requested by us, you agree to provide correct and complete copies of the trust deed and any other documents that disclose all the terms of the trust, When you sign the Terms and Conditions as a trustee, you agree to: - at our request, exercise or hold for us your right of indemnity from the trust fund and the beneficiaries in order to pay us any money owed under the Terms and Conditions - observe and perform your obligations as trustee of the trust - cause any successor trustee to abide by these Terms and Conditions. What you agree not to do Without our consent you will not do anything to: retire or be removed or replaced as trustee of the trust or allow additional trustees of the trust to be appointed terminate the trust, vary the trust deed or re-settle the trust fund or determine a vesting date limit your right of indemnity from the trust fund for obligations under the Terms and Conditions. Continuance of conditions and agreements You acknowledge that: we rely on these conditions and agreements being true each time the Loan is used you repeat these conditions and agreements every time you request a Credit Limit increase these conditions and agreements also apply to any Guarantor. 9. CHANGE IN YOUR CONSTITUTION, NAME OR STYLE Where you are a partnership, firm, committee, trustee or unincorporated body or any of the Secured Moneys are advanced on or are otherwise owing or payable on a joint account your obligations under the Terms and Conditions remain effective and binding despite any change in your constitution, name or style. 10. AUTHORITIES YOU GIVE US (a) You authorise us to act on any of your Notices (and if there is more than one of you, on the Notices of any one or more of you), the Notices of the person who appears to be your Adviser or the Notices of anyone you authorise in a Written Notice to us to act on your behalf. We will act on the Notices given to us by any person you authorise in writing until you give us a Written Notice not to do so. (b) If you are a company and there is more than one director, we may act on the Notices of any one or more directors. (c) You authorise us to act on Notices sent to us from time to time in accordance with Clause 3, or in writing or by telephone, facsimile transmission, telex, cable or other electronic means permitted under the Terms and Conditions. 11. OBLIGATIONS ARE NOT AFFECTED BY UNAUTHORISED INSTRUCTIONS (a) Subject to clause 14 in Part 2 of these Terms and Conditions, if we have exercised due care, your obligations are not affected or limited by: any falsity, inaccuracy, insufficiency or forgery of or in any Notices given to us; or our failure to enquire whether any Notice has been transmitted or received accurately or has been given or sent by an unauthorised person. (b) If we act or continue to act on the basis of your Notices, you agree as follows: (i) All risks of unauthorised Notices or fraud lie with you and are not to be borne by us. (ii) You agree to indemnify us and hold us harmless against: A. any and all claims which you or any third party may have against us for any damage, loss, cost or expense which you or that third party may suffer or incur (whether directly or indirectly and whether foreseeable or not); and B. any damage, loss, cost or expense which we may suffer or incur (whether directly or indirectly and whether foreseeable or not), as a result of or in connection with: us acting upon any Notices purporting to be from you, your Adviser or your employee (whether made in accordance with Clause 3 or by telephone,
11 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 9 facsimile, telex, cable or other electronic means permitted by the Terms and Conditions); or us not acting upon any Notices purporting to be from you, your Adviser or your employee (whether made in accordance with Clause 3 or in writing or by telephone, facsimile, telex, cable or other electronic means permitted by the Terms and Conditions) where we (in our subjective determination) consider or suspect that such Notices have been communicated to us fraudulently, mistakenly or without authority, or contain material omissions or errors. Nothing in this clause will be construed as requiring us to make enquiries as to the genuineness or validity of a Notice. (iii) The indemnity contained in this clause is subject to us acting only upon Notices from persons purporting to be you or persons authorised by you from time to time by giving a Written Notice to us. For the purposes of this clause a person will be deemed to be a person authorised by you if you have held out that person to us as a person authorised by you and have not given us a Written Notice that such person has ceased to be authorised. 12. VARIATION (a) We may reduce or increase the Interest Rate from time to time except during the period in which the Interest Rate for a Loan or a portion of a Loan is fixed. We will advertise any reduction or increase in the Interest Rate, as well as the introduction of any new government charge or the variation in any existing government charge which affects you, by national media or give you a Written Notice no later than the day on which the change takes effect. At any time, you can ask us to state the then current Interest Rate or any other Interest Rate we charge on the Loan. (b) You may from time to time and at any time request that we fix the Interest Rate by providing us with a Written Notice in the form set out on the Online Banking System. We are not obliged to accept this Notice using any other means of delivery, including as an Electronic Notice. We will provide you with a Notice stating the outcome of your request within a reasonable time period. (c) On giving you at least 30 days Written Notice, we may: impose any new fee; vary the amount of any fee; vary the interest and fee charging cycles; (d) (e) (f) vary the basis of calculating and charging of interest; and/ or vary any Interest Rate or default Interest Rate margin. From time to time and at any time, we may increase, decrease, add to, delete or otherwise vary our Lending Ratios on any of the Mortgaged Property without providing you with a Notice. We may from time to time change any of the Terms and Conditions to: (i) add change or remove any concessions or benefits; (ii) adopt or implement any legal requirement, decision, recommendation, regulatory guidance or standard of any court, tribunal, ombudsman service or regulator; (iii) accommodate changes in the needs or requirements of our customers, such as new product features or services; (iv) correct errors, inconsistencies, inadvertent omissions, inaccuracies or ambiguities; (v) bring us into line with our competitors, industry or market practice or best practice in Australia or overseas; or (vi) reflect changes in technology or our processes including our computer systems. Each of the changes in paragraphs (i) to (vi) is a separate right and this clause is to be read as if such change was a separately expressed right. Without limiting our rights under paragraphs (i) to (vi), we may from time to time change any of the Terms and Conditions for reasons other than the ones mentioned above (e.g. due to unforeseen events). We may notify you of any such changes to the Terms and Conditions by national media or by giving a Written Notice no later than the day the change or changes take effect. Note If we make a change that is not acceptable to you, you can cancel the Loan by repaying it. Depending on these Terms and Conditions an Early Repayment Adjustment and fees and charges may be payable. 13. EXERCISE OF RIGHTS (a) Provided we act reasonably we may exercise any right, remedy or power in any way we consider appropriate in our sole and absolute discretion. If we do not exercise a right, remedy or power fully or at a given time, we can still exercise it later. (b) We are not liable for any loss caused by the exercise or attempted exercise of, failure to exercise, or delay in exercising, a right or remedy.
12 10 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 14. NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR MISSED OPPORTUNITIES (a) (b) You acknowledge that we are not responsible for missed market opportunities, or any loss or losses you suffer or incur as a consequence of those missed market opportunities, during the time it takes us to follow our internal procedures or take any action or do anything provided for or in connection with the Terms and Conditions, for example, and without limitation: processing a Notice we receive from you or you receive from us; transferring your funds from one of your accounts to another of your accounts in accordance with the Terms and Conditions; determining whether a Margin Call has occurred or the resolution of a Margin Call (including any failure to give a Notice to you of a Margin Call); or where you have requested an increase in your Loan Limit. You acknowledge and accept that there may be delays in applying debits or credits to your Loan Account, which may affect your ability to place further orders. You agree to contact us immediately should you wish to trade using the proceeds. 15. PAYMENTS UNDER THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (a) After the payment of unpaid fees and charges and interest, we may apply the money we receive under the Terms and Conditions towards payment of any amount then due and payable by you in the order we reasonably determine. (b) All payments by you under the Terms and Conditions must be made in Australian dollars without deduction or set-off. (c) Unless there is a specific provision to the contrary in the Terms and Conditions regarding payment of an amount owing to us, you must pay that amount on demand. (d) If your liability under the Terms and Conditions is merged in any judgment or order, you will pay interest on the amount owing under that judgment or order at the higher of the rate at which default interest is charged under clause 9 of the Loan Agreement and the Interest Rate charged on the court order. 16. ASSIGNMENT (a) You can assign your rights under the Terms and Conditions only with our prior written consent, which we will not unreasonably withhold. (b) We may assign or otherwise deal with our rights under the Terms and Conditions in any way we consider appropriate (c) free from any equities, set-off or cross claim which you could otherwise set up. You authorise us to disclose to any assignee or potential assignee (including any employee, agent or contractor engaged by that assignee or potential assignee) any information relating to you, the Loan, the Mortgage, the Mortgaged Property and the Guarantee that we reasonably consider appropriate in the circumstances. 17. CONTINUING RIGHTS (a) Under law, a trustee in bankruptcy or a liquidator or administrator might demand the refund of a payment we receive pursuant to the Terms and Conditions. To the extent we are obliged to make a refund or we agree to do so, we may treat the original payment as if it had not been made. We are then entitled to our rights against you under the Terms and Conditions as if the payment had never been made. (b) Each indemnity you give under the Terms and Conditions is a continuing obligation which survives termination of any other obligation you owe us under the Terms and Conditions. 18. COMMISSION We may pay: a commission to any Adviser or other financial intermediary who introduces you to us; and CommSec their fees and costs relating to administration. 19. TELEPHONE RECORDING You authorise us to record any telephone conversation between you (including your agents and employees) and us with or without an audible tone warning device. 20. GOVERNING LAW The laws of New South Wales govern the Terms and Conditions and the parties irrevocably and unconditionally submit themselves to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State (and courts of appeal from them) and (subject to your right to refer a matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service) waive any right they have to object to an action being brought in those courts, to claim that the action has been brought in an inconvenient forum or to claim that those courts do not have jurisdiction. 21. ADVISER (a) If you nominate an Adviser, then by nominating them you appoint that Adviser as your attorney and agent and empower your Adviser to do anything which you are entitled to do under or pursuant to the Terms and Conditions, including but
13 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS 11 (b) not limited to: giving and receiving Notices (including Notices of Margin Call); transacting; giving instructions. You agree that you are bound by your Adviser s acts pursuant to this clause 21. Part 2 Loan Agreement 1. DRAWINGS ON THE LOAN ACCOUNT (a) Subject to the Loan Agreement, you may draw on your Loan Account up to the Loan Limit which we approve (and may vary) from time to time. We will tell you the initial Loan Limit when we tell you that we have accepted your application for a Loan. (b) You can request a drawing on your Loan Account by giving us a Notice telling us: the amount you wish to draw; when you want the drawing paid; and the person to whom you want the drawing paid for the purpose of acquiring Financial Products. Once you make a request under this paragraph (b) it is irrevocable. (c) You must not take any action with respect to your Loan Account, including request a drawing, until such time as you have provided us with: each and every Mortgaged Property to our satisfaction and we have given you a Notice confirming that we are so satisfied; and/or Financial Products which we accept to be Mortgaged Property in accordance with the Mortgage; and/or you have deposited an adequate amount in an Approved Deposit Account. (d) We can fund a drawing on the same Business Day as your request if your request is made before 11 am, or otherwise on the first Business Day after you request the drawing, provided that: you are not subject to a Margin Call in accordance with clause 10 (whether this has been notified to you by us or not); and you are not in breach of your Loan Limit; and we are satisfied that you have satisfied all of our internal requirements (as notified to you by us from time to time) with respect to the drawing to our satisfaction. (e) We fund each drawing on your Loan Account by electronic transfer or by issuing a cheque as you choose. You cannot withdraw cash from your Loan Account and cannot direct payment to a third party except for the purpose of acquiring Financial Products. (f) We record each drawing on your Loan Account by debiting the Loan Account at the time we make the electronic transfer or issue the cheque for the drawing. (g) If you are a joint account holder with respect to your Loan Account, you may only give us a Written Notice requesting an increase to your Loan Limit, despite any forms of Notices provided on the Online Banking System. (h) If you have requested a drawing under this Loan but for any reason the transaction remains unsettled or for any other reason the funds have not actually been debited to your Loan Account then, for the purpose of determining your Unused Borrowing Capacity, the amount of the requested drawing will be deemed to have been debited to your Loan Account. If such a drawing is no longer required then, upon receiving a Notice from you to that effect, the amount of the drawing will be regarded as Unused Borrowing Capacity. (i) If you do not draw an amount from the Loan Account within six months of the date we open the Loan Account, we may regard the Loan as lapsed and any Financial Products that you and the third party Mortgagor (if applicable) have lodged as security will be released at your cost (if applicable). (j) The Loan is provided on a continuing basis subject to our right to require repayment and/or terminate in accord with the Terms and Conditions. (k) We are not liable for any loss you may suffer because the prices of any Financial Products you plan to buy rise, or they cease to be available, during the time we take to lend you the money or forward any commitments on your behalf. (l) You may draw on the Loan Account only if you give or have given us Financial Products which we accept to be Mortgaged Property in accordance with the Mortgage and/or you have deposited an adequate amount in an Approved Deposit Account. (m) Any Notice given by you to us requesting a drawing, transfer, increase in Loan Limit, or any other change or dealing to your Loan Account that is permitted under the Terms and Conditions that is received by us after 3:00pm Sydney time on a Business Day, or at any time on a non-business Day, will (where applicable) be immediately updated and displayed on the Online Banking System, but may not be executed and confirmed by our internal banking systems until 3:00pm
14 12 LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS on the next Business Day. Until the time of execution and confirmation by us of such a Notice, you acknowledge that any updated details provided on the Online Banking System in connection with your Notice are for your information purposes only, and that you will not rely on details shown or reflected on the Online Banking System until we have executed and confirmed your Notice by 3:00pm on the next Business Day, unless we give you a Notice to the contrary. 2. TRANSFERS OF DRAWINGS You may transfer your drawings from time to time to any account you nominate by giving us a Notice to this effect. Provided that the Notice is acceptable to us, we will carry out your requested transfer and provide you with a Notice showing your updated account details. We will also provide you with a Notice at least every six months from the date of your Loan Agreement giving a summary of all transfers you have made or which have been made to you. 3. WHEN WE DO NOT HAVE TO COMPLY WITH YOUR REQUEST FOR A DRAWING We do not have to comply with your Notice for a drawing on your Loan Account if, despite any previous agreement by us to comply with your Notice, at the time of your Notice or the time at which we would otherwise have made the drawing: you request to draw less than $500; a Guarantor (if any) has given us a Notice in writing limiting the Guarantor s liability under the Guarantee; the sum of the amount you wish to draw and the outstanding Loan Balance exceeds the Loan Limit; the sum of the amount you wish to draw, the Loan Balance and any unsettled transactions would exceed the sum of your current Portfolio Lending Value and the Lending Value of the Financial Products which are to be acquired with the drawing; you or a Mortgagor have not complied with any of the Terms and Conditions; or any Default Event or Enforcement Event has occurred and is continuing. 4. YOUR UNDERTAKING AND REPRESENTATION (a) Where you are an individual you undertake to use the Loan wholly or predominantly for business or investment purposes (excluding residential property investment purposes) (b) You undertake to provide to us, upon request, a Notice containing details of any and all financial information in relation to you, your business, property, management, (c) (d) operations, financial condition and prospects as we may reasonably request. You represent, on each occasion that you draw an amount from your Loan Account, that you are not Insolvent and, if you are an individual, that you are not an undischarged bankrupt and have not assigned your estate or entered into any arrangement or composition for the benefit of your creditors. You agree and undertake to actively monitor your Current LVR and to manage your Loan Account and Mortgaged Property to maintain your Current LVR at a level that you, acting reasonably, believe protects your interests. 5. APPROVED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT By way of security for the obligations you owe us under the Terms and Conditions, you agree to give us rights of set-off against the Approved Deposit Account. So long as any of the Secured Moneys remain unpaid you acknowledge that we are not required to repay moneys standing to the credit of the Approved Deposit Account and undertake not to attempt to assign your property in the money standing to the credit of the Approved Deposit Account and/or any interest accruing on that money. 6. PORTFOLIO LENDING VALUE (a) From time to time we will determine your Portfolio Lending Value as: the amount we are willing to lend against the Mortgaged Property (calculated by adding the Lending Values of all the Financial Products in your Portfolio that we, at our complete discretion, accept as Financial Products for the purpose of determining your Portfolio Lending Value); (b) Your Portfolio Lending Value may change at any time without us providing you with any Notice depending on: any change in stock market prices and/or redemption prices for the Financial Products in your Portfolio; any change in the Lending Ratios we set on the Financial Products in your Portfolio; and/or any change in the products we accept from time to time as Financial Products for the purpose of paragraph (a). (c) Lending Ratios vary between Financial Products comprising the Mortgaged Property. We may vary our Lending Ratios at any time without giving you a Notice to this effect. (d) We will give you a Notice or Notices containing a list of our then current Lending Ratios on accepted Financial Products and our then accepted Financial Products, and which will tell you the Loan Balance of your Loan Account, Portfolio Lending
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