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other Paying Agent, the Redenomination Agent, the Consolidation Agent and the Registration
Agent or the Calculation Agent(s) and to appoint additional or other Paying Agents, provided that
the Issuer shall at all times maintain (i) a Fiscal Agent, (ii) one or more Calculation Agent(s) where
the Conditions so require, (iii) a Redenomination Agent and a Consolidation Agent where the
Conditions so require, (iv) Paying Agents having specified offices in at least two major European
cities, including in the case of Notes admitted to trading on a Regulated Market and so long as the
rules of, or applicable to, the relevant Regulated Market so require, in such other city where the
Notes are admitted to trading (including Paris so long as the Notes are listed and admitted to trading
on Euronext Paris) (v) in the case of Materialised Notes, a Paying Agent with a specified office in a
European Union Member State (which may be any of the Paying Agents referred to in (iv) above)
that will not be obliged to withhold or deduct tax pursuant to European Council Directive
2003/48/EC of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments, or any
other European Union Directive implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of
26-27 November 2000 on the taxation of savings income, or any law implementing or complying
with, or introduced in order to conform to, such Directive, (vi) in the case of Dematerialised Notes,
in fully registered form, a Registration Agent and (vii) such other agents as may be required by any
other Regulated Market on which the Notes may be admitted to trading.
In addition, the Issuer shall forthwith appoint a Paying Agent in New York City in respect of any
Materialised Bearer Notes denominated in U.S. Dollars in the circumstances described in
paragraph (c) above.
On a redenomination of the Notes of any Series pursuant to Condition 1(d) with a view to
consolidating such Notes with one or more other Series of Notes, in accordance with Condition 13,
the Issuer shall ensure that the same entity shall be appointed as both Redenomination Agent and
Consolidation Agent in respect of both such Notes and such other Series of Notes to be so
consolidated with such Notes.
Notice of any such change or any change of any specified office shall promptly be given to the
Noteholders in accordance with Condition 14.
(f) Unmatured Coupons and Receipts and unexchanged Talons:
(i) Unless Materialised Bearer Notes provide that the relative Coupons are to become void
upon the due date for redemption of those Notes, Materialised Bearer Notes should be
surrendered for payment together with all unmatured Coupons (if any) relating thereto,
failing which an amount equal to the face value of each missing unmatured Coupon
(together, where applicable, with the amount of any Arrears of Interest corresponding
to such Coupon) (or, in the case of payment not being made in full, that proportion of
the amount of such missing unmatured Coupon (together, where applicable, with the
amount of any Arrears of Interest corresponding to such Coupon) that the sum of
principal so paid bears to the total principal due) shall be deducted from the Final
Redemption Amount, Amortised Nominal Amount, Early Redemption Amount or
Optional Redemption Amount, as the case may be, due for payment. Any amount so
deducted shall be paid in the manner mentioned above against surrender of such
missing Coupon within a period of 10 years from the Relevant Date for the payment of
such principal (whether or not such Coupon has become void pursuant to Condition
10).
(ii) If Materialised Bearer Notes so provide, upon the due date for redemption of any such
Materialised Bearer Note, unmatured Coupons relating to such Note (whether or not
attached) shall become void and no payment shall be made in respect of them.
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