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Service Providers
7.6 Service Provider Registration
5. The Principal and Association must receive the Corporation’s written or
e-mail confirmation of the registration before the Principal and Association
or any of its Sponsored Affiliates receives Program Service from an ISO
or Type II TPP or any of their Service Providers or Merchants receive
Program Service from a DSE and before the ISO or Type II TPP commences
performing such Program Service or represents itself to any person as
authorized to provide such Program Service on behalf of the Principal and
Association or any of its Sponsored Affiliates. In its sole discretion, the
Corporation may approve or may reject any application for the registration
of a Service Provider.
6. To maintain the registration of a Service Provider, the Customer must submit
such information and material as may be required by the Corporation from
time to time, including but not limited to a copy of the Program Service
Agreement, if applicable. The renewal fee then in effect is debited from
the Customer via MCBS. In its sole discretion, the Corporation may decline
to renew the registration of a Service Provider.
If the Customer terminates an ISO or Type II TPP, the Customer must notify
the Corporation or its SPRF of the termination date and of the reasons for
the termination. This notification must be received by the Corporation or its
SPRF within one week of the decision to terminate. In its sole discretion, the
Corporation may require a Customer to terminate a Service Provider at any time.
7.6.1.1 SDP Program Noncompliance
Each Principal and Association that has registered or proposed the registration
of a Type II TPP to provide Program Service for it and/or for one or more of
its Sponsored Affiliates must promptly notify each of its Merchants and other
person that directly or indirectly may benefit from or otherwise be impacted, as
the case may be, by the Program Service if the registered or proposed TPP is not
or will not be fully compliant with SDP Program requirements applicable to it
as a TPP by and after the date performance of the Program Service commences.
Such notification must include, with respect to the registered or proposed TPP.
1. The name and address of the TPP,
2. A description of the Program Service to be or being provided by the TPP,
3. A description of SDP Program requirements the TPP is not compliant with;
and
4. A specific date by which the TPP will become fully compliant with
applicable SDP Program requirements, or, in the alternative, the date by
which the TPP will cease providing Program Service.
The application of a DSE will not be approved until such time as the DSE
becomes fully compliant with SDP Program requirements.
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MasterCard Rules • 12 December 2012 7-15