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This Condition 4 shall not apply to Subordinated <strong>Note</strong>s.<br />

5 Interest and other Calculations<br />

(a) Definitions: In these Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires, the following defined terms<br />

shall have the meanings set out below:<br />

"Benchmark" means the reference rates set out in the applicable Final <strong>Term</strong>s among<br />

EURIBOR, LIBOR, CDOR and CMS (or, in the event of the disappearance of the relevant<br />

rate, any reference rate which is substituted for or is the successor of the relevant reference<br />

rate).<br />

"Business Day" means:<br />

(i) in the case of <strong>Euro</strong>, a day on which the Trans <strong>Euro</strong>pean Automated Real Time Gross<br />

Settlement Express Transfer (known as TARGET 2) or any successor thereto (the<br />

"TARGET 2 System") is operating (a "TARGET 2 Business Day") and/or;<br />

(ii) in the case of a specified currency other than <strong>Euro</strong>, a day (other than a Saturday or<br />

Sunday) on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in<br />

the principal financial centre for that currency and/or;<br />

(iii) in the case of a specified currency and/or one or more business centre(s) specified in<br />

the relevant Final <strong>Term</strong>s (the "Business Centre(s)"), a day (other than a Saturday or a<br />

Sunday) on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in<br />

such currency in the Business Centre(s) or, if no currency is indicated, generally in<br />

each of the Business Centres so specified.<br />

"Day Count Fraction" means, in respect of the calculation of an amount of interest on any<br />

<strong>Note</strong> for any period of time (<strong>from</strong> and including the first day of such period to but<br />

excluding the last) (whether or not constituting an Interest Period or an Interest Accrual<br />

Period, the "Calculation Period"):<br />

(i) if "Actual/Actual", "Actual/Actual-ISDA", "Act/Act", "Act/Act-ISDA" or<br />

"Actual/365-FBF" is specified in the relevant Final <strong>Term</strong>s, the actual number of days<br />

in the Calculation Period divided by 365 (or, if any portion of that Calculation Period<br />

falls in a leap year, the sum of (A) the actual number of days in that portion of the<br />

Calculation Period falling in a leap year divided by 366 and (B) the actual number of<br />

days in that portion of the Calculation Period falling in a non-leap year divided by 365)<br />

(ii) if "Actual/Actual-FBF" is specified in the relevant Final <strong>Term</strong>s, the fraction whose<br />

numerator is the actual number of days elapsed during such period and whose<br />

denominator is 365 (or 366 if 29 February falls within the Calculation Period). If the<br />

Calculation Period is of a duration of more than one (1) year, the basis shall be<br />

calculated as follows:<br />

(x) the number of complete years shall be counted back <strong>from</strong> the last day of<br />

the Calculation Period; and<br />

(y) this number shall be increased by the fraction for the relevant period<br />

calculated as set out in the first paragraph of this definition<br />

(iii) if "Actual/Actual-ICMA" or "Act/Act-ICMA" is specified in the relevant Final<br />

<strong>Term</strong>s:<br />

A. if the Calculation Period is equal to or shorter than the Determination Period<br />

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